With Ultraman set to celebrate his 50th birthday in July (along with the birthday of his creator Eiji Tsuburaya), many collectors speculated that this month would see the release of the S.H. Figuarts Ultraman figure previously revealed at last year’s Tamashii Nations event. And thanks to the latest set of magazine scans, we can now confirm this to be the case!
S.H. Figuarts Ultraman will be a mass release figure, retailing for 5200 yen. His accessories include a selection of effect parts, including of course his signature Specium Ray attack. In addition to this two scaled “Option Act Building Sets” will be released that month, retailing at 2700 yen each and coming in standard and damaged variants. However if both of these things take your fancy, a special Ultraman 50th Anniversary set is also being released, costing 8000 yen and including Ultraman, a special colour version of the building set AND a scaled Alien Baltan spacecraft.
As for Baltan itself? That’ll be joining the line the following month in August, retailing for 5940 yen. No word on the previously revealed Zetton figure yet, but expect that to join shortly afterward.
Stay tuned for more information on these figures in the coming week!
S.H. Figuarts celebrates Ultraman's 50th anniversary with the following in July:
S.H. Figuarts Ultraman - 5,200 yen
Option Act Building Sets - 2,700 yen each (standard and damaged versions)
Ultraman 50th Anniversary Set - 8,000 yen (Figure, special colour building set and Baltan spacecraft)
S.H. Figuarts Alien Baltan to follow in August!
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I will be picking this up. I guess I can sell my Ultra Act Ultraman 2.0 soon.
I need all of this
Kinda hoped we would get Zetton first instead of Baltan, but it's a Kaiju, so I want it.
I'm still thinking about what I should buy. I do need Ultraman and at least one version of the Option Act Building, but I don’t know if I prefer the colored version in the set or the grey version which is sold separately.
If the set is meant for one figure I might have to buy two grey versions to have Ultraman and Baltan duke it out on those sets. The do seem to be interchangeable and compatible with one another though... so maybe I get a normal and a damaged version and mix & match me a bigger set.
But Ultraman himself and Baltan are must haves. Sucks that Baltan is an August release, that means Ultraman and the building set(s) will have to sit in my private warehouse for a month.
More pics added to news story/first post!
How many times have they released Ultraman now?
If they still hesitant about releasing Kaiju cause of the various body types they have and are going with Seijins, I'm down. Might mean I could finally get an articulated Dada.
For sure want those building sets. I think the only turn off would be the SHFA scale of the figures themselves. I love that the UAs were always so massive. I'd hate for Baltan to be shorter than my already existing UAs, Ultras and Kaiju.
Eh. If these have to happen first before Ultra-Act re-starts, fine. At least they're throwing in goodies like the building sets. I'll get those at least, and probably Baltan since the previous U-A version is quite expensive at this point.
As interesting as this sounds, I have the 2.0 Ultra-Act, I don't really know that I need the figuart. The buildings are a nice touch but ultimately one I don't care about all that much. Baltan is welcome though. I never shelled out for the original release.
This Baltan is a different version, so I might still track down the UA myself. And knowing me, I'm saying I won't get this SHFA Ultraman, but I probably will. I'm sure a whore for Ultraman stuff. Wouldn't be shocked if an Ultraseven got made into a SHFA as well.
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