[ARQ]

The magma piece is also a show exclusive, Toku Taku has some available. I was gonna get some but thought I'd just get the normal sets and paint them myself since it looks kinda easy to do haha

[H3N51N]

Well, after failing to locate them in Hero format, I've decided to spend the next however-long-it-takes to get Kamen Riders from the Heisei Era. Each a different season, each a different main color.

Kuuga: Kuuga Growing (White)
Agito: Agito Ground (Yellow)
Ryuki: Scissors (Orange)
Faiz: Delta (Black)
Blade: Blade Ace (Blue)
Hibiki: Hibiki (Violet)
Kabuto: Punch Hopper (Brown)
Den-O: Zeronos Altair (Green)
Kiva: Dark Kiva (Red)
Decade: Decade (Pink)

Hope this goes well. ^^;

[ryan]

Huh. That's an interesting idea. I have all of those, I'm rather tempted to see how they would look all together. Maybe I'll shoot a photo sometime, if I remember.

As for you getting them:
I think Growing Form Kuuga has been pretty inexpensive for a while, despite being an exclusive.

Scissors, is also an exclusive, but fairly recently, so I think it's not too bad, but I would go for this one sooner, rather than later.

Dark Kiva has been pretty rare for a while. Seems like it goes for $80-ish on Mandarake, so he's also a bit more expensive.

Most of the others shouldn't be too difficult to get. Several of them are $20-$30 on Mandarake. Punch Hopper might be more I don't remember if that's the one that was reissued in the last couple of years, so it might run you a bit more. Blade is pretty in demand, but you shouldn't have to pay much more than $40, if you're patient.

Good luck!

[Thessair]

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Dark Kiva has been pretty rare for a while. Seems like it goes for $80-ish on Mandarake, so he's also a bit more expensive.

Funny enough, Jungle put a sealed Dark Kiva up today for ¥6,480. It's the first time I've seen one in a long time.

[Kiryu]

Maaaaan, I reaaaaaally want a Figuarts of Overlord Kaito now

[Lbsammills51]

There's a Dark Kiva on AmiAmi for just under 5000 yen.

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/det...e=TOY-TOK-1031

[H3N51N]

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Originally Posted by ryan

Huh. That's an interesting idea. I have all of those, I'm rather tempted to see how they would look all together. Maybe I'll shoot a photo sometime, if I remember.

As for you getting them:
I think Growing Form Kuuga has been pretty inexpensive for a while, despite being an exclusive.

Scissors, is also an exclusive, but fairly recently, so I think it's not too bad, but I would go for this one sooner, rather than later.

Dark Kiva has been pretty rare for a while. Seems like it goes for $80-ish on Mandarake, so he's also a bit more expensive.

Most of the others shouldn't be too difficult to get. Several of them are $20-$30 on Mandarake. Punch Hopper might be more I don't remember if that's the one that was reissued in the last couple of years, so it might run you a bit more. Blade is pretty in demand, but you shouldn't have to pay much more than $40, if you're patient.

Good luck!

Thanks for that. I found out the hard way about Dark Kiva (the price listings still scare me). Though I'm so obsessive & orderly that I felt no other collection method would work with me. XD I really don't wanna have those giant shelves & display rooms stocked to the edge with numerous expensive figures, just some I can be happy with. Just curious, but what ways do you guys decide on what figures you're collecting? And why?

[ryan]

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Thanks for that. I found out the hard way about Dark Kiva (the price listings still scare me).

Those linked above are pretty good prices. If you can get the one on AmiAmi for 5000 yen, you should do so.

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Just curious, but what ways do you guys decide on what figures you're collecting? And why?

I try to limit myself to only getting figures of characters or designs I like. In some cases that works well. In others, not so much.

It quickly became apparent once I started watching Kamen Rider shows/buying Figuarts, that the threshold is very low for me to like a design or character.

So I'm pretty much collecting every Figuart from Kamen Rider Kuuga through Gaim. And I've already got a pretty large percentage of them.

Gills and Another Agito I'm pretty iffy on, at least until I watch Agito, at which time I assume I'll come to like them, but we'll see.
Hibiki is also iffy. I'm getting Hibiki so I have every main Rider, but beyond that, I'll have to see how the designs grab me as they are released, or until I watch the show.

I like having them displayed grouped by show, so you can see the common design elements within a show. Having each show on a shelf of a bookcase, you can then see the similarities/progressions of the designs between the different shows.

With other properties I'm not quite as big a fan of as I am Kamen Rider/Figuarts, I do better at limiting my tastes, only getting designs or characters I really like. But it can be hard work sometimes, to limit myself.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Just curious, but what ways do you guys decide on what figures you're collecting? And why?

I normally just get my favorite characters because I like them for multiple reasons and when I look at the figure I can remember everything I relate to, and like about the character.

Well I have some that I haven't seen yet or only movie appearances or only in the Manga. Still when you get some in a big group you don't say no.

[Dr Kain]

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Just curious, but what ways do you guys decide on what figures you're collecting? And why?

Well, I'm a completionist, so I want every rider and ranger and all of their forms.

However, I just don't have the money and space to do that right now, and since Bandai has dropped the ball on the ranger teams, I've come to the decision to only do Sentai teams that are either 100% complete from this moment forward or the members that are within my top 10 favorite series.

For riders, from now on, I'm going to go back to main forms and ultimate forms with a few exceptions depending on how much I like the series. I am not going to go overboard again like I did with Wizard only to end up being vastly disappointed with the show in the end.

Oh, but I won't touch movie riders except in special cases like Ryuki, and that is because I do want all 13 riders.