[ljacone]

I wonder if we will get a Virus Monster for him to fight? Shinolba/Skorn, perhaps?

[Baltan II]

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All I want is Drago. Come on Drago!

Ultra-Act DynaDragon, SHMA Mechagodzilla, SRC Dragon Caesar.

Complete the triumvirate of robosaurs, Bandai. You know you want to.

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Originally Posted by ljacone

I wonder if we will get a Virus Monster for him to fight? Shinolba/Skorn, perhaps?

Will probably depend on how well Gridman and Thunder Gridman do and even then I expect a Tamashii Web release, but a virus, ANY virus, would do!

[goldblade6]

I don't read Japanese, so I'm a little confused by the ad. Does this figure come with a new inner body so we can use either that or the original Gridman, or are we looking at one figure that goes with the original and another with the new inner body? And two different heads? Why?

[Baltan II]

EDIT: Actually... the two different heads has left me confused on second glance. Now I'm not so certain what's going on there.

Thunder Gridman, as I speculated ages ago, does not come with a complete Gridman figure. Instead you get the red figure pictured, a mostly unpainted red body in the style of the separate Gridman figure, without hands or a head of its own. It allows you to display Thunder Gridman without having to own and use a Gridman figure, but you need to own both figures if you want the full package. It's a very smart system, reminds me exactly of the Souchaku Henshin Kabuto figures, except in this case the dummy body is fully-articulated and it's not packaged neatly in one set.

[MidoGreen]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

All I want is Drago. Come on Drago!

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Originally Posted by Banba Soukichi

+1

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Originally Posted by prfctcellrulz

+2

+3. I never saw the show, but I loved that design.

[Kiryu]

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Originally Posted by goldblade6

I don't read Japanese, so I'm a little confused by the ad. Does this figure come with a new inner body so we can use either that or the original Gridman, or are we looking at one figure that goes with the original and another with the new inner body? And two different heads? Why?

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Originally Posted by Baltan II

EDIT: Actually... the two different heads has left me confused on second glance. Now I'm not so certain what's going on there.

Thunder Gridman, as I speculated ages ago, does not come with a complete Gridman figure. Instead you get the red figure pictured, a mostly unpainted red body in the style of the separate Gridman figure, without hands or a head of its own. It allows you to display Thunder Gridman without having to own and use a Gridman figure, but you need to own both figures if you want the full package. It's a very smart system, reminds me exactly of the Souchaku Henshin Kabuto figures, except in this case the dummy body is fully-articulated and it's not packaged neatly in one set.

Maybe the bigger head is designed to fit around Gridman's head? For people that want to display it combining or something.

[Repair Bay]

Looks like it might be fully transformable. Tell me I'm not the only one seeing this.

[Baltan II]

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Originally Posted by Kiryu

Maybe the bigger head is designed to fit around Gridman's head? For people that want to display it combining or something.

That's what I said initially, but the transformation sequence shows Gridman with his necessary parts removed, and curiously that includes his head. Now it might be that Bandai's instructions are to remove the head to make the helmet easier to put on without resulting in any damage, which could make sense... especially with all the other issues Gridman's wrist joints have compared to other Ultra-Act figures.

[backlash3906]

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Originally Posted by Repair Bay

Looks like it might be fully transformable. Tell me I'm not the only one seeing this.

That's the difference between "Cool" and "MUST BUY" for me right now.

[ljacone]

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Originally Posted by Baltan II

That's what I said initially, but the transformation sequence shows Gridman with his necessary parts removed, and curiously that includes his head. Now it might be that Bandai's instructions are to remove the head to make the helmet easier to put on without resulting in any damage, which could make sense... especially with all the other issues Gridman's wrist joints have compared to other Ultra-Act figures.

Maybe the two heads are for the different joint connections? Just looking at the picture, it looks to me like the dummy Gridman has a socket in his neck, while the regular Gridman has a ball joint peg on his neck.

So, my thought is that the Thunder Gridman head for use with the dummy body has a peg for plugging into the dummy socket -- and then the one for use with the regular Gridman has a socket to be plugged into by the ball joint peg.

Does that make sense?