[Kurona]

Revi and Seihou Ultraman for me. Perfect-looking figures really

[Shin Henshin]

Oh I got plenty.

Ark-Zero for being an extremely detailed yet perfectly functional figure with some great accessories.

Black Sun for fantastic sculpting and articulation.

Evil for its simple but striking form change ability.

SS Ultraman for just being an overall perfect Ultraman figure.

Zero-Two for being a beautiful-looking piece.

Zenkaizer and Zenkaizer Black for rolling a lot of these other figure's positives together on-top of being an extremely strong return of Super Sentai to SHFs.

[DreamSword]

For Toku SHFs specifically?

Easy. Seihou OOO Sagozo.

Do not question my methods.

[Rabbitman]

Lots of “Oh yeah! That one is good too!” being said by me while reading these posts.

[ShiShiLeo]

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Anyone feel like coming up with their favorite SHF releases from this year? I took a pic of my favorites.

Wow it looks like I didn't pick up any SHF that were released this year.

I did grab some older ones recently, Espada and Sevenger. Both are lovely!

Still waiting on my pre-order for the Double Fuuto release, and unfortunately SHF Don Momotaro got lost in the mail.

[Henshinmorph917]

For stuff that released this year that I own:

For me Jeanne, Demons, and although he's a rerelease but 10th Anniversary Seihou Decade...I can't stop looking at them all and want to pose them in different ways in my head

Honorable mention because I've been waiting so long for him to be confirmed for release goes to Build Genius

Revi and Vice as well are fun to mess with and look dynamic in addition to the accessories shared between each release of the Revice line

Past stuff released that I got this year:

Kamen Rider Calibur is a straight beauty to look at that purple just pops and balances well

Kamen Rider Rogue is fun to pose and mess around with as well and happy to have the base form Team Build Riders

Honorable mentions to the Saber Riders I picked up this year Espada, Slash, and Buster pretty much imo all figuarts from the Saber line look great and stand out on their own but when displayed together really make me appreciate having them

[Kiwami]

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Anyone feel like coming up with their favorite SHF releases from this year?

Seihou Ultraman, Demons, Ark-Zero and Zenkaizer for me.

We had lots of amazing releases this year so cherry picking is hard, but I figured I'd choose one of each franchise I'm collecting. Or two

Kamen Rider Demons looks flawless, superb sculpting, molding and paint. It's a huge presence on the shelf just standing there.

Seihou Ultraman is equally awesome in sculpt and molding, but just holding and articulating him is even more fun. Getting him into the Specium Beam pose was so cool. Plus, the scan of Bin Furuya worked so well, the left hand molded in his signature curve for the beam pose is so cool. This one gets minus points for a fuzzy paintjob though. Too many points on the figure where the transition between the silver and red is just bad, and some sprinkles of paint where they shouldn't have been. The "regular" retail Ultraman figures I've got recently did this way better, and some had to balance three colors, so there's no excuse for this one to suck at it.

Ark-Zero was my most recent addition and won me over instantly, it's awesome, with lots of cool accessories to boot. This is also my mental stepping stone for the future Ark-One which I'm super excited for, and since this is the base for that I'm happy it turned out so well.

Sentai Figuarts coming back is huge, I got two, both are great, but I like Zenkaizer's design more. It's so good. Also, the sculpted folds on his pants and boots are awesome!

Definitely excited for 2023, I have lots of cool things pre-ordered already; the Geats-line especially is shaping up to be quite fantastic.

[Henshinmorph917]

I'm definitely happy about the return of Sentai figuarts and both Zenkaiser and Don Momotaro look great and seeing you guys photos of them everytime definitely makes me want to make them priority on my list.

Hopefully their prices stay low going into 2023 but I for sure have plans to get Gokai Red and Twokaiser. Don Murasame being our first purple figuart release feels like a must have

[Kiwami]

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Hopefully their prices stay low going into 2023

I see them in-stock frequently so they shouldn't be too hard to grab in the near future.

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but I for sure have plans to get Gokai Red and Twokaiser. Don Murasame being our first purple figuart release feels like a must have

I haven't watched Gokaiger but I think I will go for Gokai Red anyways. It looks really good.

Twokaiser I'm passing on, but Don Murasame is tempting.

[Henshinmorph917]

Yikes you haven't watched Gokaiger...imo I found it very entertaining and the characters enjoyable...I just felt the series took itself serious and was a welcomed change of pace or execution for Super Sentai that I hadn't seen before because I haven't watched all prior Sentai seasons in full to know if they had before.

I guess what I'm trying to say is the series has a good balance of seriousness and comedy

I attribute the series and the figuarts for helping me transition from Power Rangers to Super Sentai in terms of viewing preference now. I'd recommend giving the first episode a watch because it definitely set the tone for the series