[Tokumonkey]

My Shinkocchou Seihou Wizard showed up today, and I'm so relieved! My biggest concern was that the Wizard Rings would have the same problem as the Gaia Memories from W: prone to falling out. The fit for both the hands and the ring-holder is nice and snug; I'm not at all concerned about losing them.

If there's a concern there, it's just that you need to use more than a little force to get a ring into place; I hope the pegs aren't prone to breakage. Since they're amazingly tiny, it's a little bit of a challenge to get the ring to face in the right direction on the first try. I hope I don't accidentally rub paint off the things. Neither has happened, so perhaps my worried aren't justified.

The robe is better than I hoped. It takes some careful fiddling to get it to look just so, but once you do so, the effect is worth it. The only thing that doesn't work super-well about it is obtaining a pose in which the robe's front hangs straight down. You can kinda-sorta fake it, but poses involving motion look terrific, whereas static poses just look okay (or, compared to the original Figuarts Wizard, phenomenal.)

I'm seriously impressed by this thing. Not only does the hand on the WizarDriver rotate, the switches also slide up and down so you can correctly reproduce how the Driver looks in each position. It's a tiny detail, and they took the time to perfect it.

The wildest unexpected feature? Your Wizard Effects Set isn't rendered completely obsolete. The hands of the new Wizard fit the sword and gun from that set, meaning the flame-bullet, water-slash, and "connect, please" effects are all still totally relevant. (I didn't think to check the fit of the Kick Strike part; I expect that's less likely to still be compatible.)

I thought W was the epitome of Shinkocchou Seihou design, then decided it was Decade. Now, I'm feeling it's pretty clearly Wizard. Bring on Kiva...!