Thanks to an updated front page on the Tamashii.JP site, we have our first look at a pair of upcoming Rider Machines, S.H. Figuarts V-Machine & Hardboilder!
V-Machine is a long overdue release for Kamen Rider Super-1 who’s been without his bike for several years. The Hardboilder is likely a new mold proportioned to the recently released Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider W figuart.
While neither of the item pages are active yet for these releases, this is our first official confirmation that they are on the way. We’ll update you with full official images and information once they’re available, so stay tuned!
Two riders are finally about to get their rides!
S.H. Figuarts Super-1 & V-Machine Set
S.H. Figuarts Hardboilder
No release information has been confirmed yet.
V Machine looks really cool. Hardboiler was expected to go with W-renewal, but nice to see nonetheless
Niiiiiiice! The V-Machine looks freaking gorgeous. I will definitely have to have that sucker. I wonder if the Hardboilder is simply a reissue. I kind of hope it is, I have a couple of add-ons that need bikes.
Looks like the old Hardboiler to me, and if it is it’s really weird that they release it through the Web-Shop instead of straight up reissuing it. Because with how well Double is doing pre-order wise a second run is to be expected, and it would fit well to re-release the Hardboiler then to have both the bike and the Rider in stores at the same time which is a strategy Tamashii seems to prefer based on past releases.
Even if it is an upsized and slightly tooled mold it’s still weird that this is a Web-Exclusive only. Normally popular main Rider bikes are sold at retail, but maybe they don’t want to have two versions out there. Which is kinda silly considering Shinkocchou Seihou figures are very much second versions already. Huh.
Anyways, as for the releases themselves: I couldn’t care less about bikes so none of these are of interest to me.
*sigh*
If it's a new mold appropriate to the new figure, I may have to break my general "no Rider machines" rule and pick up the Hardboilder. If it's scaled up, though, it's unlikely to be compatible with the previously-released optional back-parts. The Hardboilder may be my favorite Rider machine so far. (Well, other than the Ride Chaser.)
This is pretty neat.
Unfortunately, I don't have any interest beyond a chance at getting the renewal Double figure.
I wonder, if the Hardboilder sells well, if they will reissue more bikes in the future as SS figures are released.
Wait, did I actually for real miss a Double renewal announcement?
http://tamashii.jp/item/11407/
He's out this weekend.
Guh!
EDIT: Holy shit it looks amazing, and of course HLJ has it on "order stop."
Goddamn I take one little break from Toku...
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