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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

A small Mandarake order (in volume, if not in value), alongside a couple plastic robot toys.

-Seihou Hibiki, because he's a grail and I had some okay money things happen.
-SHODO Kuuga and Kabuto, because I just started displaying my SHODOs and I'm trying to fill out their ranks.
-Kingdom Warpath, because I'm largely a G1 collector (not for nostalgia, I just like vehicle modes).
-Kingdom Cheetor, because I'd like to sample the new Beast Wars guys, even if I never watched Beast Wars and really dislike beast modes.
-Kamen Rider Specter and Kamen Rider Necrom, because... honestly, because it's KickHopper's fault.

So, previously, I had a rule for buying Figuarts. Main Riders only, and just their base suits. (Also, I can't take them out of the package and display them until I finish watching their series.) I'd get RabbitTank for Build, for example, and that's the only figure I'd get from that series. No power-ups, no villains, and no secondaries.

And then KickHopper came along, that glorious failure of a fraud, and all promises to myself got broken.

I'm watching Kabuto, KickHopper gets introduced, and immediately I'm like, I can make an exception for Kamen Rider What If That Sigh People Did When They Want You To Ask Them What's Wrong Was A Man. I start scouring sites for good condition KickHoppers, no dice, but then I start envisioning my eventual figure display: all mains, plus one jerk-off motion of a character from Kabuto. That'd look insane. Am I really going to make an exception for KickHopper, when I've been depriving myself of secondaries I've loved for way longer? I'm going to pick up KickHopper (and likely PunchHopper), but pass on Necrom, on Lazer, on Cross-Z's rerelease? That sounds crazy.

So, to better accommodate KickHopper into my collection (should I find a non-busted one), I've amended my rules. Mains and secondaries only, no power-ups or villains. (However! If a villain joins the heroes in a form, I'll get that one. Like, yes to Rogue, and yes to Zombie Gamer X-0.) And I decided to inaugurate my collection of secondaries (topical!) with Specter and Necrom, for two reasons. First, I really like those suits. I know folks don't all love that series, and I've heard these figures aren't that great, but I like these boys and I like their suits. (Necrom more than Specter, if I'm being honest.) The other reason was that I was already getting Hibiki, and I could add on the two Ghost secondaries without the bill being too high. They were reasonably priced! Probably because no one likes them!

tl:dr I liked a terrible Kabuto character so much I started buying Figuarts from other shows. I'm a Figuarts guy now. It's going to be some year!

I'm being serious when I say be careful, Figuarts is an easy whole to fall down. They're pretty addicting, but the costs can add up fast, even when you get them on good deals. I had to to scale back my SHF collection a bit after realizing I was spending way too much on them.