[Kamen Rider Die]

Oh, man! I'm so excited this thread exists!

One of the few bright spots of the quarantine has been time to get through my Figure-Rise backlog. I'd done a Build kit a year ago, and had been buying other kits with zero time to put them together. Now:





All caught up! (Now I've just got a half-dozen Furai Transformer kits to work on...)

I really like these kits. They only take about 90 minutes to put together, they look great with the molded plastic and stickers (and can obviously look way better with paint and markers), and the price is dirt-cheap for the quality you get. The poseability is on par with Figuarts for a fraction of the price. And, skill level-wise, they're pretty forgiving. I'm not the most dextrous person alive, and I'm usually pretty happy with the results of these figs.

Some thoughts!

If you're looking to get started, I'd recommend any of the Double kits. There aren't a ton of stickers, and the construction is pretty basic. It's a great tutorial on how these kits operate. Plus, they're still easy enough to find.

I really did not enjoy the Kabuto kit. It's a lot more flexible ABS plastic in the joints, which can be a chore to get wedged into the sockets. If any piece of the kit isn't completely in place, you're going to have problems, and most of my ABS experience is that it doesn't want to be completely in place. I also found the looping stickers on the arms to be a hassle.

Ex-Aid, despite all of the black stickers on the torso and legs, that thing was a delight to put together. Real satisfying experience.

The Zi-O and Geiz kits are pretty straight-forward, but the black decals on the mask are both a super-important detail that looks good, and an anxiety-inducing nightmare to apply. Weirdly complex, at least for me.

Those I all did fairly recently, so they're fresh in my mind, and I don't really remember my experience with Build. It... must've been good? I mean, I bought another seven kits (and ordered more that haven't arrived), so I guess I had a good time with it?

These kits are really great. I'm glad to have a place to talk about them! Thanks, Kurona!