[WhiteRanger]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Another problem I have noticed is their white parts are damn dirty, in some places even scuffed.

Well that what I got with my dragon ranger but still he perfectly fine

[ryan]

Well AmiAmi sucked a big one last night, I got the product pages for RD Deathscythe Hell and Alternative Zero to load ONCE each, hit the add to cart button, and I never got the site to work for me again for the rest of the night.

So I tried Hobby Search, and I'd get the same 500 error instead of an order confirmation, so I gave up for the night and went to bed.

Tried HS again just now, and got my order placed. Deathscythe Hell, Alternative Zero and I went ahead and grabbed Blue Spader cuz I'm a sucker.

[MST3KFan]

I am officially on board in the Mandarake appreciation bandwagon as a cool place to get Figuarts for good prices and stuff.

Ordered at the beginning of the week a DekaRed, DekaBlue, and DekaGreen from them (all from the same store of course to avoid extra shipping costs as people told me about). And the package arrived yesterday morning on EMS shipping.

It costed all together around $100, which was way cheaper than what I see DekaBlue and DekaGreen alone going for usually.

Now I just need to find a DekaYellow and DekaPink to complete the DekaRanger Figuarts. Unless they ever plan to make DekaBreak, DekaMaster, and even DekaSwan in Figuats form.

[uchihabro77]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Another problem I have noticed is their white parts are damn dirty, in some places even scuffed.

Mine are excellent, no paint scuffs or anything, not even the dirt on the white. Tyranno and Dragon are te best SHF out of all the ones I own.

[Den-O]

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Originally Posted by MST3KFan

I am officially on board in the Mandarake appreciation bandwagon as a cool place to get Figuarts for good prices and stuff.

Ordered at the beginning of the week a DekaRed, DekaBlue, and DekaGreen from them (all from the same store of course to avoid extra shipping costs as people told me about). And the package arrived yesterday morning on EMS shipping.

It costed all together around $100, which was way cheaper than what I see DekaBlue and DekaGreen alone going for usually.

Now I just need to find a DekaYellow and DekaPink to complete the DekaRanger Figuarts. Unless they ever plan to make DekaBreak, DekaMaster, and even DekaSwan in Figuats form.

If they don't make Master, Break, and Swan at least I will be a very sad collector. But I'd love to actually see Deka Gold and Bright as well.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga

Both of mine are perfect.

The only problem I had is that the first time I put Hellfried in Dragon Ranger's hands, it seems some of the gold paint rubbed onto the inside. I can't see any damage on Hellfried, but there appears to be a little bit of gold on the inside of Dragon Ranger's hands. Not a big issue, just something I noticed. Since then I've had Dragon Ranger hold Hellfried multiple times with no sign of the problem occurring again.

That's actually happened a few times. I took the Zyusouken out of DR's hands after having him playing it for a few weeks and the hands are black from where he was holding it. The flute itself has no paint issues though. Oh, but the top of TyrannoRanger's thumb has been dyed red by the top of his sword. Not sure what is going on with their hands, but maybe they are using a different set of materials for the hands?

[Sciencefriction]

I have the same problem with my Dragon Ranger. I spent about 15 minutes one afternoon trying to get the flute in the right position and the hand the holds the handle ended up with all of this gold staining on it. I gave up after that and put it away.

[Locke]

I couldn't even get Tommy to hold the flute properly without popping off the hand or positioning him in such a way that at the right angle you could trick your eyes enough to convince it was right, when in reality it couldn't be further away. You had one job Bandai, how'd you fuck that up? He can't even do his iconic pose.

[ZeoRangerV]

He CAN do it though, it just takes a bit of patience and tweaking. Myself and plenty of other members on the board have been able to pull it off.

[Locke]

Yeah but surely that isn't the point, as it's his iconic pose it shouldn't take hours of careful prodding to achieve, it should be something that naturally can be done with it. I dunno why people are so quick to defend a line, when it makes huge goofs like this.

The figure is great, minus the shoddy paint apps on mine, but I would have really liked an extra joint or a different kind of socket so I could easily drop him in and out of the pose naturally, until then the whole human movement thing is bunkem.