[Kiwami]

Isn't the card giving away the release date too? It says May on there. So either a Web-Exclusive since we've seen May's retail releases already or this will be a surprise announcement of sorts because the pre-order drop for those is still a week away. I'm more inclined to believe it's the later, hero upgrades are usually a retail thing.

The figure looks great by the way, but I don't think I need it. I rather wait and see how the Jelly Riders turn out. The designs aren't the biggest hit IMO but clear plastic is always hella sexy on figures.

EDIT: I found this:

It's definitely a May release, don't know if it's retail or exclusive though.

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Originally Posted by Blade Fang

So they still not yet announce other Best Match Forms Figuarts? I hope other Best Match Forms (GorillaMond, HawkGatling, NinninComic, etc) will be released too in future.

I think it's safe to say that they'll never do these. They had several of Ghost's alternate forms on display as prototypes and never released anything outside of Musashi.

For Ex-Aid they didn't bother with showing prototypes at all, they never did any LV3 forms and instead went with the much easier LV5 stuff. (Although technically, I think we've seen a LV3 Genm in that crazy God Kuroto Dan display? But they didn't do any of the heroes is my point).

The fact that we haven't seen anything from Build so far and them already being on Rabbit Tank Sparkling is pretty telling that they probably don't plan on releasing any of the regular Build Change forms.

I assume these kinds of releases simply fell out of style, Gaim was the last show where the popularity was so big that people bought everything, but even then alternate forms were easy to find on the aftermarket. With Drive it became more extreme, you can still find Type Wild in-stock at some retailers today.

With Ghost, they didn't even bother releasing the planned prototypes since not even the main heroes sold well, and after that I assume they reworked their model and just don't do those early alternate forms at all anymore.

They seem to focus on basic forms, secondary Riders and upgrades nowadays. Which are generally the best sellers anyways, and if not then well, at least they only have a handful of figures out clogging shelves instead of a whole lineup.