Are you ready to walk the path to heaven? At Tamashi Nations, it was announced that Kamen Rider Kabuto will be receiving a new S.H.Figuarts figure re-designed from the ground up…here is our first look at that figure!
Kamen Rider Kabuto was among one of the first Heisei Riders that came out when the line was still fairly young. The fan favrioute line has certainly come along way since then, both in terms of engineering and sculpting. The figure on the left is the Renewal and the one currently in development figure on the right is the one that’s currently out on the market.
More info on this release will be revealed soon.
UPDATE:
A new scan has surfaced, show casing the accessory count of this figure the big thing is that it looks like S.H.Figuarts will start using pegs on the hands as opposed to balljointed ones, akin to what Figma uses.
October 23, 2013 @ 1:54 pm
There are benefits and disadvantages to the peg system. One, it’s not as scary to swap out hands with the pegs as it can sometimes be with the ball joints. But, if they aren’t tight enough, they can easily come out if you put an accessory that’s really heavy in the figure’s hands.
Conversely, while the current S.H.Figuarts system of ball joints in the wrist is scary to swap out at times, it does have the advantage of not allowing the hands to fall off when heavy accessories are held. Allowing for a great number of poses, even when the ball joint is loose a bit to make swapping hands less frightening.
I just hope that Bandai knows what they’re doing, as I have a Figma, and I can confirm the stories of pegs slipping out from the weight of accessories. There’s nothing but friction holding them in, and with enough abuse after a time, the friction goes away… Granted, you can fix it, but really, do you want to fix a figure after it wears out from doing what you’re supposed to do to it? Not to mention the known fix will only work for a time before it wears out again…
If the Figuarts are toys you want to leave on display most of the time now, wait’ll this comes out. Not to say this is a bad thing, but I’m the kind of guy who likes to mess around with my toys every now and then. I can’t touch my one Figma much and swap it’s hands out without worrying I’m going to make the pegs even looser, which means, when this thing comes out, you’ll want to handle it as much as a Figma, or even less than. Which, for those who only touch their figures to dust them off and never change their poses, is fine. But guys like me will be driven crazy by it for sure. To say the least, this is going to be polarizing if it isn’t already…
October 23, 2013 @ 8:44 pm
I hope S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Decade will have renewal version. Especially, his Decadriver and make it open and close