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Oh, cool! We should be back to 7 unique figures next wave then. I really get the feeling Geats is gonna need it, even without factoring in Revice catchup
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I just remembered that sodo ex-aid stage 9 had 14 boxes in its box, for some reason 6 of those boxes were hyper muteki if I'm remembering right.
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So the SO-Do reveal tonight was alright, but man does the SHODO stuff have me hyped!
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I really feel they screwed up OOO... combo change is cool, I guess, but when it makes his waist look that bad to the degree it doesn't feel like an actual improvement over even the VS figure I'm left pretty disappointed. And then for the result of the survey to only turn out two figures in the wave? For OOO? And one of them's Gatakiriba??? I really just wish they'd focused on making these figures actually look good instead of forcing in gimmicks to a line that doesn't need them and just suffers for them. We're hardly low on options for that gimmick right now anyway.
... well, at least Ghost looks good! That puts us at just Gaim and Zi-O for SHODO Heisei Riders left, right? |
The remaining reveals from last night's blog:
Ginpen in ID 2 https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0907092853.jpg SHODO XX-3 https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0908105202.jpg https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0907195255.jpg https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0907200709.jpg https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0907203055.jpg https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0907205038.jpg https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0907211337.jpg |
As of now, between SO-DO and Shodo, every main Rider has now been made and all but 3 secondary Riders have been made. Those three missing secondaries are Ibuki, Beast, and Specter. Now if you are a Shodo only collector, the missing main and secondaries are these 15: Ibuki, Gatack, Beast, Gaim, Baron, Specter, Zi-O, Geiz, Vulcan, Saber, Blades, Revice, Live, and of course Geats and Tycoon (mostly newer stuff). If you're a SO-DO only collector then there's more main and secondary Riders missing than are made.
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They week's blog is Buffa, updates to the neck and hips for Geats from Revice, yet another W Shodo-O PB set, and Shodo-11. I'll let someone else mirror the images tonight, but here's the links:
https://bandaicandy.hateblo.jp/entry/20220918_rider https://twitter.com/DaiSoDoPop/statu...95652386336769 Shown were: SO-DO Buffa Shodo-O Premium Bandai Sonozaki Family set: Terror, Taboo, Clay Doll, and Smilodon Shodo-O11: Eternal, Nasca Dopant (orange), Weather Dopant, Birth, Uva Greeed, Yummies, and finally Specter That's a lot of W monsters. |
INCREDIBLE SHODO-O wave, wow! I was waiting on Eternal and OOO villains and this did not disappoint. Was pretty shocked to see Birth there and honestly it makes up for some of my fears with how they seemed to be handling OOO in the main line. They've also confirmed more Greeed are coming; hopefully they do the main 5 at retail...
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Man Kiva and OOO are seriously lacking paint. OOO especially looks unfinished. The sculpts are top notch which I guess is more important but they couldn’t get anything on OOO’s waist?
The lineups all look great though. Can’t wait for these two sets to go up. The XX line is absolutely rocking it so far. Accel and Trial even have clear visors! |
I don't mind it on OOOs because if I'm painting a SO-DO/Shodo belt silver it must be a day ending in y (currently painting Black and Black RX's). The driver itself would also be wrong if paint because these can form change.
Kiva is much worse in the paint department. However, holding the ShodoVS in hand right now I'm noticing for all the more paint it has, it's way more sloppy than what I've seen on recent figures. Still, I do wish the red bat eyes and the green open leg eyes were painted. |
Unpainted belts are understandable for me, it's more the lines going out from the chest medal that get me. Without both those and belt paint it makes the whole waist section look bland
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Also, there was news on the next Chodo Alpha wave the other day -- Ultraman, Zetton, Glitter Trigger and Celebro-possessed Z (there is tragically no alternate normal Z head). This marks by the by the first Showa figure in Alpha and the first Kaiju. All that and a figure they're keeping secret till later -- no hints to what it is yet. Given the secrecy I think it could be Decker's final form but we'll have to wait and see
For accessories, the included effects in the boxes themselves are Ultraman's Ultra Slash, Zetton's fireball (and a stand!), Celebro Z's purple energy... thing... and Glitter Trigger's VERY large Glitter Zeperion Beam. The accessory box further adds the Glitter Blade, Zetton's beam, the Spacium Beam and a small figure of Celebro himself https://bandaicandy.hateblo.jp/entry/20220917_ultraman https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0914161858.jpg https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0912170850.jpg https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0912151522.jpg https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0912171029.jpg |
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With OOO, Kuuga and Kiva being renewals from the latter parts of SHODO-VS's line, I decided to have a look at what else was around their waves to see what we could maybe expect renewals of soon:-
- ZX - ZO - Hibiki - Decade ZX, ZO and Decade I actually see as very likely to happen soon, because they'd only require one figure and hence one box out of the entire wave. Hibiki would almost certainly have Kurenai done alongside him as the usual easy recolour that SHODO loves so much. I think, also, we could probably start expecting SHODO-X renewals soon -- we already have with BLACK and RX, and I could definitely see #1 and #2 happening soon for the Shin KR synergy. I think the pattern for the next couple waves is going to look something like OOO, Renewal and a series not yet covered (which right now I think we're just at Gaim, Zi-O, Saber and Revice? Anyone holding out for The First???). That's what the most recent wave was with OOO, Kiva and Ghost being covered. That maybe seems like a lot of waves for OOO to appear in, but if they're going that all-in on Combo Change and it won the survey, I expect they'll cover all the in-show combos except Putotyra in the main retail waves. |
So the latest sodo blog post was full of info. I'll try to recap later if no one else does.
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Wah SO-DO Auto Vajin looks marvelous!
https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0921220101.jpg This is one of my favorite robot designs ever. We all saw this coming but I'm still super excited for it! |
See, when some Bandai exec yells at a Gundam writer for naming another character after a woman’s genitals they can just point to this robot from Kamen Rider and say “Look they do it too!”
I watched that whole show and did not realize that was the robot’s name. Figure looks great too! I just… I’m not mature enough to handle the name. I’m sorry. |
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I'm trilled they're taking the Arms Action Marika approach to Na-go where she has slightly different proportions, but only where it doesn't interfere with the form change gimmick.
https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664120386 https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664121149 |
She in fact only has different forearms, which was necessary due to her bangles. I'm glad that otherwise she's not being forced to have different proportions
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Yikes SO-DO prices are seriously getting out of hand! Especially those P-Bandai ones, which it seems Chronicle puts more than half of their set into.
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I'm not sure if I've said this here before, but Preban sets really take the joy out of SHODO collecting for me. Like, a big part of the appeal is that I can just hop onto manda and get one for around 200-400 yen, MAYBE 600-800 aside from some characters that have tragically shot up like Blade and Ichigo; or I can order a full set off AmiAmi and sell off the ones I don't want.
It's how cheap and easy it is, basically; how easy it is to add on to an order and just how much value I get for so little money. So it completely goes against the point for me when I see like... a set of 3 figures (with admittedly amazing paint applications and something accessories! not denying they used the budget well!) for 8000-10,000 Yen and it's a limited release? For a fair few of them it's definitely the only way some of them were getting done, for sure, but it's especially a drag to see it for more important figures like Blade King and W Xtreme and Terror. Maybe that's just my personal experience, but like... I just bought Super-1, his accessory box and Great Leader off of manda for a grand total of 1000 yen, and I can't ever imagine wanting to pay about 7-10 times that for the same amount of stuff, you know? |
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I can't lie, I'm very scared of SHODO Tajador Eternity being preban too; particularly because they'd probably see those paint applications and instantly move it there (not entirely unjustified). And that figure was kinda one of my biggest hopes from SHODO OOO haha
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He looks VERY nice! Two final forms in the wave is pretty good too
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Edit: Well, never mind. I managed to randomly figure it out. No one would ever think to look on the store page for each item. It's such a dumb place to put them. |
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This week's blog is all about the Bear Necessities.
https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664677920 So yeah, Shirowe is in ID3 and surprisingly has a different mask mold from Da-Paan. Just to be clear, Shirowe is a separate figure, not just a bonus mask. https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664678365 The Arrow buckle isn't ready yet, so they spent a lot of the blog having him "borrow" Zamonas's crossbow. https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664677920 Behold the true potential of Entry Form: OC Riders are just a head swap away. https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664677920 |
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Bandai updated the product page for DonBrothers YU-DO 2 with pictures of the complete wave. There's only 4 figures and in a first since Kyuranger, there's no henchmen.
https://www.bandai.co.jp/candy/produ...836735000.html https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664818052 https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664818052 https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664818052 https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664818052 https://www.tokunation.com/forums/at...1&d=1664818332 On another note, if you had a hard time preordering SO-DO Geats ID1, HLJ now has it in stock. https://www.hlj.com/sodo-kamen-rider...4pcs-bann83671 Also PonTV put up their video for ID1. The exhaust stickers for Boost do not look fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTXfMD4L8no |
That is... honestly pretty surprising. And a little disappointing to see no Onisister Robotaro. Though actually, I guess every figure is 2 boxes now; so 8 boxes vs YU-DO Zenkaiger 2's 9 isn't much of a difference
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That is quite a lot of stickers for the leading rider. But it does look good.
I'm tempted to wait on SO-DO releases in the chance they do a "best hits" release like we saw with Revice. |
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I think the only issue is it'd be a little boring for the gimmick of the line; since the main riders all use top halves and only Geats uses a bottom half -- the only real mix-and-matching would be giving everyone Boost. Unless it turns out Punkjack or Nago use their buckle on their legs for their main form, that'd potentially be fun... |
SHODO-XX2 just came out so I'm watching a review. The dupes are Cyclone/Joker and Zero-Two, which I think is the best choice
Of note is that there's sometimes a worry with SHODO of antennae getting kinda crushed, but W's are made much thicker and don't bend out the box! Using a picture of Cyclone/Joker here but it's the same for all three of his forms. I think in general he's one of the best looking figures retail SHODO has done so far https://i.imgur.com/dHwzqh1.png |
Yeah the antennae of my SO-DO Chronicle W came bent out of the box. Glad to see they've been upgraded here
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SO-DO doinga Rider Homework voting thing. And honeslty this just really cool like that Ridewatch Poll a few years ago during ZI-O run.
https://twitter.com/DaiSoDoPop/statu...LceM5rLHA&s=19 |
SO-DO Homework, a special wave made up of missing characters, forms, etc. voted on by fans. And that includes us this time! If the page's translation is right, looks like voting is once a day.
Here's the direct link to the Homework voting page: https://www.bandai.co.jp/candy/sodorider/vote/hw/ To vote, click the vote button under the Rider you want and it'll open a window to Twitter with your vote. You must tweet that vote for it to count. Note that 08 and 09 do not have pictures. 08 is Gamedeus Muteki and 09 is Snipe Nico. These choices get wild and I love it. Here's everything to pick from: 01 Genm Totema 02 Para-DX Knock Out Fighter 2 (Para-DX wearing a Gamer Driver) 03 AkaRider 04 AoRider 05 KiRider 06 MomoRider 07 MidoRider 08 Gamedeus Muteki (No Image) 09 Snipe Nico (No Image) 10 Guardian Down Fall Version (Metal Build's Guardian) 11 Another Kuuga 12 Another Ultimate Kuuga (That thing ) 13 Another Agito (Zi-O version) 14 Another Ryuki 15 Another Ryuga 16 Another Blade 17 Another Hibiki 18 Another Kabuto 19 Another Kiva 20 Manhole Cover 21 Another Wizard 22 Another Drive 23 Another Ghost 24 Another Zi-O II 25 Another Shinobi 26 Another Quiz 27 Another Kikai 28 Another 1/Ichigo 29 Another New 1/Ichigo 30 Another DiEnd 31 Zi-O WozArmor 32 Aqua's Time Mazine (Still no Aqua, but you can vote for his Time Mazine!) 33 Time Mazine Production Model Unit 34 Time Mazine Ora (The one with the Castle Doran power up) 35 Time Mazine Heure (the one with the Captain Ghost power up) 36 Giger 37 Realizing Hopper 38 Zero-Two Izu 39 Saber Ghost Ijinroku 40 Blades Specter Gekikou Senki 41 Kanon Specter 42 Tassel 43 Brave Dragon 44 Lion Senki 45 Lamp do Alangina 46 Jaou Dragon 47 King of Solomon 48 Blades King Lion Daisenki in lion mode 49 Legeiel Forbidden 50 Zooous Predator Yes, 20 is a manhole cover. Not Another Kiva with the manhole cover, just a manhole cover. Only SO-DO can get away with this wonderful nonsense. But that's not all! There's a second vote for what SO-DO should get reissued. Here's a direct link to the reissue voting page: https://www.bandai.co.jp/candy/sodorider/vote/saihan/ Note that these only apply to normal SO-DO. Old PB sets and anything Chronicle are not a part of this. EDIT: Interesting, you can only vote once per day on either of the polls. I voted on the Homework and it won't allow me to vote on the reissue poll now. So keep that in mind when doing these polls. |
Machine Power, Hakaiser!
https://i.imgur.com/KV27lks.jpg A couple of weeks ago, I found YU-DO Hakaiser being sold without the minipla and couldn't pass it up. When I got it, it had so many stickers that I opted to paint it myself. This was so much work. https://i.imgur.com/x7KOevY.jpg The only paint out of the box was the front of the head (which is nicely done) and the silver on the front of the chest. That's it, everything else had to be painted. https://i.imgur.com/qRyRg4w.jpg Only stickers I still used on the body are the 2 emblems and orange line between them. I even painted stuff that had no stickers like the arm guns, the entire neck area, etc. The gray I used might be a little off, but it's what I had to work with. https://i.imgur.com/rQwRSfQ.jpg I did use the stickers for the boomerang because it was somewhat hollowed out on one side and the stickers covered that. I'm still working on the Zenkai Cannon, so no closer look at it yet. https://i.imgur.com/bpjlTgA.jpg For reference, this is what it looks like before stickers/paint. https://twitter.com/aDPfcM5Qt25iftc/...35358790631424 |
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I went straight to painting it, so never used the stickers, but here's someone that did use the stickers.
https://twitter.com/Delta333God/stat...04729295175680 Doesn't look bad at all, there's just so many of them in places that probably wouldn't hold up long term. Side note, the stickers for the boomerang are surprisingly great. They wrap around the edges nicely. |
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