[Kiryu]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Meteor

Is Dragon Ranger potentially the New ShinkenRed? The Sentai figuart that they gave away as a sample with boxes of Tide.

Given how popular the Green Ranger is? I highly doubt it.

[Kamen Rider Meteor]

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Originally Posted by Kiryu

Given how popular the Green Ranger is? I highly doubt it.

I just meant in the sense that everybody has one.

[PkmnMstr]

My Dragonranger only just shipped last night via SAL, so I've got some time to wait. All you EMS people suck.

[Kamen Rider Meteor]

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Originally Posted by PkmnMstr

My Dragonranger only just shipped last night via SAL, so I've got some time to wait. All you EMS people suck.

Yeah , you've met and bought toys for the guy that played the dude, who's action figure I'm ems'ing to me. On multiple occasions! Still no pity here.

[PkmnMstr]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Meteor

Yeah , you've met and bought toys for the guy that played the dude, who's action figure I'm ems'ing to me. On multiple occasions! Still no pity here.

Fair point. I'll probably have mine signed whenever he comes back from all the cons. Heh.

[WhiteRanger]

right my dragon ranger decade fury form rerlease and super akiba red and blastoise all been shipped to day unresistered sal and i just need to wait 2 weeks and the week is well review review review video recordings

[SPLIT LIP]

I am in love with this.



All my adult collecting life I'm been looking for the perfect action figure for me. Not what I like the most, just what feels to me like a perfect acton figure. This is not it, but it is very, very close.



Everything about it screams refinement. I only have two other Figuarts, but those feel like prototypes to Ryuki's final product.



Like his hands. W's hands are a nightmare to swap and he coems with a pisspoor selection, Sieg's hands almost too slick to get a decent grip on, plus have W's selection problem, but otherwise swap fine. These hands have plenty of grip and swap like a breeze. Plus they give you every one you'll need. The materials overall are also much better. He feels solid and makes my other two Figuarts feel kind of cheap.



The paintwork is exceptional bar a few small, I dare say microscopic, areas of slop. The paint itself is gorgeous. Matte Black and Red complemented by shiny silver while Dragredder and the dragvisor gets shiney everything. Looks great, and the only colour faux pas I see is the joints on Dragredder being Ryuki's light-maroon. Hardly a deal breaker and I can see why they weren't painted.



I don't think anyone's unaware of his amazing accesory count. The little advent cars are sweet. Plastic, printed, rounded edges, they're really nice. And they fit in the dragvisor enough to get the pliers out.



Ryuki's posability is perfect. No crazy triple joints where not needed, no dumb new-age hipster hips. Basic, practical action figure joints made more visually attractive. Everything gets free, rational range of movement except the biceps which are a bit tight on mine. It feels like maybe the black shoulder piece is causing tension. They move, just kind of scarily.



Ryuki is something I thought all but absent in high-end Japanese toys: practicality. Nothing is overdone, nothing is needlessly complex. There's nothing that feels like more could be accomplished with one less joint. It makes sense. The most redundant thing about him is the need to swap the plaugs on his body... which I completely agree with because if they were regular ports the paint would either scrape or they'd be cheap-looking holes. This way they look great and barely effect functionality.



"The difference is in our refinement." Sieg once said. Well, he's certainly not wrong. Also I noticed Ryuki's a bit short... but he's shorter in the show (next to everyone else I mean) and W's supposed to be a tall dude I think. Sieg towers over him, but then he really should have his head higher than everyone else.



SEE WHAT I MEAN ABOUT THOSE STUPID HIPS! Yeah I don't know why Ryuki would ever have to kneel unless he found a rabbit or a puppy or something, but at least he can. And he can sit! Like a normal human being, his legs go forward and he can sit. Look at those two other chumps. They have to cross their legs in weird ways. People keep saying those hips with the drop-down joint offer more posability like high kicks. Bullshit. They only drop down to make up for the inability to achive basic poses, and they don't do a good job of it.

[Matrixbeast]

I'm glad you're loving Ryuki. He's seriously one of my favorite Figuarts. He comes with all his accessories, he's gorgeous, and the simple inclusion of his cards as separate pieces was something I didn't expect (To put in perspective, Diend (And I presume Decade) came with a cardboard sheet with cards you had to cut out yourself).

Also taking into account Dragredder, who is large enough for them to have released as a complete separate piece, just makes Ryuki all the better. The Ryuki Figuarts really feel like some of the best.

So, has Ryuki sold you on getting a Zolda Figuart, or are you gonna try to hunt for the Torque Figma?

[SPLIT LIP]

Oh I'm getting Figuarts Zolda no question. I don't know when, but I will. I'm not going for the Figmas, they're just too toy-like, and seeing how not toy-like Ryuki is even at this scale, I dunno if I can settle. Especially on a character and design I like so much.

BTW, I forgot to mention, but under the knight-style eye bit, there's red eyes obviously, but also a compound eye effect! Just nuts. Nutso. Nutso crazy the detail on this boy.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by PkmnMstr

My Dragonranger only just shipped last night via SAL, so I've got some time to wait. All you EMS people suck.

Yeah, well so far, I am not impressed. I pad 1500Y for EMS whereas if I had gotten it from Mandarake, I would have paid 1400-1800Y for DHL and they would have delivered it on Friday and had it in my hands no later than 11:30AM. It is Monday at 12:42PM and I am still waiting for my damn figure from the post office. And I have no idea if it will be coming with the regular mail man (which means I won't have it until after 4) or if it will be coming by someone else. Either way, yes, I am very impatient.