[Rabbitman]

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Originally Posted by Shin Henshin

If it's just the gap you're worried about, like you said you have the shoulder cover and the joint's range to cover things up. Personally don't really find it a bit deal since they're designed to be moved and positioned in ways where you can hide large gaps with some better positioning of the joint itself. Like for example, Gokai Red and V3 have very different shoulder joints, but can look totally fine once you pose them properly.

Main reason for the design changes is to get as much forward range as they can get beyond a butterfly joint. V3 has his signature pose, Gokai Red has his ability to cross his arms without swap-out parts, and Kyoryu Red's case, some of his poses have him really swinging his arms out in-front of him or crossing them over one another.

That Guts figure is notorious for the shoulder cap coming undone and the arm falling off. Also basically the entire shoulder assembly is a small little peg put into a tiny hole. A lot of force gets put on that peg when you rotate the shoulder. I worry about the durability.


Don?t know how the other shoulders worked because they never failed on me like the Guts shoulder.

[DreamSword]

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Originally Posted by Shin Henshin

If it's just the gap you're worried about, like you said you have the shoulder cover and the joint's range to cover things up.

But that's the thing though. Not only is it extra effort that wouldn't be needed if this were a more traditional shoulder, but this new method with the hallowed out shoulder cap actually results in less range that if this were a well designed shoulder wherein the joint were the shoulder itself. And butterfly joints really should not be an issue to implement on Sentai figures their their monochrome designs. Especially since it's all been done, and well, before. It's "fixing" what isn't broken, essentially.

[solskjaer]

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Originally Posted by Rabbitman

I was able to order Kyoryu Red King from Hobby Genki no problem. The site was not buggy or slow or anything for me. I was totally expecting a bloodbath.

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

It was pretty chill this time around. After I got what I wanted I checked AmiAmi and HLJ and everything was still up.

I got Red King by the way, it looks so good. My first Ultra Kaiju!

I am hesitate to preorder this guy for whatever reasons

How will the price move when it is released given the preoder is not going so well? Logically the price will drop further given the lack of interest. But if the number of preordering is relatively weak, will Bandai still do a mass production or actually reduce the number of copies produced? The price may increase if it is the latter

[Shin Henshin]

That's hard to say lately. Basically everything they put up at retail tends to stay up for preorder for a while as of late. Doesn't really say much about price-fluctuation cause even the Ultraman stuff is still up to get and historically that's usually the first to go. Only exception of all things has been the Gaia accessory set.

I think it's less lack of popularity and more supply meeting demand.

[MrWilliamGraham]

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Originally Posted by solskjaer

I am hesitate to preorder this guy for whatever reasons

How will the price move when it is released given the preoder is not going so well? Logically the price will drop further given the lack of interest. But if the number of preordering is relatively weak, will Bandai still do a mass production or actually reduce the number of copies produced? The price may increase if it is the latter

I always assumed for the retail items, the supplier has a set number of units allocated to each supplier; and then customers pre-order to secure their copy

That said, none of the Sentai figures in this current iteration go very much on the aftermarket. Even Gokai Red can be found on Mandarake for noticable less than the initial price.

[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by Shin Henshin

I think it's less lack of popularity and more supply meeting demand.

Yeah let's not forget that AmiAmi overhauled their logistics with presumably a much bigger warehouse.

Them even offering Seihous again is new, they only did lucky draw sales on the Japanese site for a while now.

So stuff staying available on AmiAmi is not really a good indicator for popularity right now as they most likely have the ability to offer more stock than before.

For us that's a good thing, let's see how it evolves.

[solskjaer]

Alright, price drops another 5% for Kyoryu red king at Hobby Genki, um....... should I wait longer?

btw, if you have already preordered it with HG, shoot them a message to ask for the additional 5% discount (495 yen) in case you care. If they haven't changed their policy, they will issue you a 495 yen coupon you can use for future purchase.