[Kurona]

Both Riderman and Birth go up for pre-order tonight -- 16th December 16:00 JST! Birth releases earlier in May, Riderman releases in June.

They note however that the CLAWs attachments are a separate release on a later date

Edit: Apparently the May release for Birth was a mistake; he's June

[Henshinmorph917]

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And Buffa!

Starting to notice a pattern here -- the first Preban release for the current series now always seems to be an antagonist or rival figure. Horobi, Calibur, Evil, Buffa...

Lol translation Purple Riders that start out notoriously antangonistic or antihero trope

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Oh SHOOT!!

YES!!!

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Beautiful!!!

[Kurona]

Some more release details:-

Buffa is 8250 Yen in June 2023. He comes with the Zombie Breaker chainsaw and of course can be parts-swapped with other Geats figures -- so far that'll give you stuff like Zombie Magnum and Geats Zombie Boost.

Riderman is 8800 Yen in June 2023. As shown before he comes with an actual rope arm and a wired muffler, and has all arm attachments from the show and movies -- Power Arm, Rope Arm with Flail, Sickle and Hook; and the Drill Arm from when he rescued V3.

Birth is 8800 Yen in June 2023. Like the original he of course comes with his Birth Buster with a Burst attachment that can go on the top, bottom or front; but he also comes with pose hands replicating Date -- a thumbs up, a pointing "100 million yen" hand, and a cell medal holding hand. His alternate red-eyed head is also a lot more accurate than the original, now having a red glow at the top of the clear head

The CLAWs attachments are only a tease for now, they're to be a separate release later.

This is one of the best months in a while I think; three Preban releases in June instead of two, they're simultaneously doing Tamashii catchup and threw in a really cool surprise, and there's something for everyone from all three eras

[Kurona]

Oh, they also teased Tycoon! He's to start accepting pre-orders next month for 8250 Yen.

The fingers on Zombie's left hand are also individually moveable it seems!

[Kiwami]

Birth is a huge fuck up IMO. You're paying the same price as Riderman and what do you get? All attachments being a separate release sucks, at least one or two should've been in the box. Really feels like scummy DLC-shit here. I wanted Birth badly, Date is among my favorite secondary Riders and the figure looks excellent, but next to Riderman this feels like a rip-off.

[Kurona]

I would have preferred one or two attachments in the box, but I prefer that they're separate as a whole so you don't have to pay a lot more money if you're just wanting Birth. His pricepoint is the same as pretty much every other Seihou anyhow, and he's a much more packed release than say V3 or Agito Trinity. If you're getting the CLAWs attachments as well then you're paying the same money as if they were in the box to begin with

[MrWilliamGraham]

Buffa will also come with replacement eye and jaw piece to make it compatible with the entry mode figure

[Kurona]

That's very curious to me since I figured the jaws of each form would just be universally applicable to each figure's head. Does this mean Buffa can't use Magnum since he doesn't have a specific jaw for it?

[Kurona]

... y'know, come to think of it, Tamashii 2022's demonstration of the form change gimmick only actually showed Geats using it, huh?

Based on that and Buffa's accessories, I think we can assume going forward that this gimmick will be tailored only for Geats himself to access different forms, with everyone else only getting specific parts for their Entry forms. At the very least there seems to be no reason other Riders can't use alternate legs, but right now that just seems to mean Boost.

[Henshinmorph917]

Well adding the parts to make Buffa's entry form as well as Tycoon I guess justify that 8250 price point and maybe they're factoring in the engineering done to incorporate the parts swapping gimmick...

I get how you feel about the price of Birth and I too thought he would of came with atleast one of the attachments but since he's a renewal I guess he has be placed under that price