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[Shin Henshin]

They really will get their money's worth out of that Zero mold regardless of how aged it's getting.

BBTS put up the Dada reissue, so I locked him in there. Really glad Bandai's going back and rereleasing Ultra Kaiju after how insanely pricey most of them have gotten. Also have the Baltan reissue set up.

[Rabbitman]

I’m loving the Seijin/Kaiju rereleases. I also am really happy with the eleking they just released. Looking forward to Dada as well.

But it’s crazy they have not done Red King yet.

[MoarCrossovers]

Bit blurry to make out, but it looks like Tyrant and Black King are back on the menu.

[Rabbitman]

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Originally Posted by MoarCrossovers

Bit blurry to make out, but it looks like Tyrant and Black King are back on the menu.

Oh nice! I have been eyeing Black King on Mandarake. So this will be good. Tyrant will be a new figure too, right? As far as I know he only exists as a little guy on display at trade shows or whatever.

[Shin Henshin]

Yeah Tyrant would be all-new if true.

Definitely seems like their current plan is reissuing kaiju and aliens while giving us new additions in-between like with the recent Eleking.

[solskjaer]

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Originally Posted by Rabbitman

Ok I crunched the numbers.

In December of 2022, I ordered SHF Absolute Tartarus, and the Black Sun Battle Hopper. The total shipping for DHL was 3,290 yen.

I tried to game out how much the same shipping would be today. Unfortunately, the SHF battle hopper is out of stock on Hobby Genki, so I put SHF Absolute Tartarus, and SHF Vice and Lovkov set (another weird box like the bike) the shipping for both of these comes out to 6,390 yen. So the shipping looks like it doubled in the 9 months between the order and now. I can understand why they busted my shipping down to fedex from DHL.

I would think the best business practice is to bring this up to me prior to shipping and give me a chance to approve, but with the language barrier here, I am gonna cut them a huge amount of slack. (Mainly because it actually worked out ok for me).

I just shipped 4 figuarts for 4000 yen with DHL from Mandarake. The discrepancy between HG and Mandarke with respect to DHL shipping seems to be larger than I thought.

[Skylanderformer]

in an attempt to find a first SHF i have noticed many of them are missing good acessories. they have hands, obviously, but they seem to be missing a lot of their gimmickry? is that common or am i just looking at the wrong ones?

[MrWilliamGraham]

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Originally Posted by Skylanderformer

in an attempt to find a first SHF i have noticed many of them are missing good acessories. they have hands, obviously, but they seem to be missing a lot of their gimmickry? is that common or am i just looking at the wrong ones?

I?m unsure what you?re referring to. Are you seeing listings that have incomplete pieces?

I think if you showed us what figures you?re looking at, we could have a better idea. It has been a recent trend for some figures to not be bundled with signature accessories. For example, the sword for Zero-One is actually bundled with the Vulcan Shooting Wolf figure. Or even more egregious, the weapons for Zi-O and Geiz are bundled with the bike

[TheTakoTank]

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Originally Posted by Skylanderformer

in an attempt to find a first SHF i have noticed many of them are missing good acessories. they have hands, obviously, but they seem to be missing a lot of their gimmickry? is that common or am i just looking at the wrong ones?

Sadly accessories have really dropped off in the last 5 years or so, especially for Kamen Rider. Weapons get spread out across different releases to force you to buy all of them, and episode-specific props have all but disappeared. And sometimes when a figure is rereleased they'll have even fewer accessories.