Bandai’s Godzilla X Evangelion cross promotion line takes a turn for the bizarre with their latest piece: a vinyl figure depicting a strange fusion amalgamation of Eva Unit 1 in his Awakening Form with bits of Godzilla attached to his body.
Eva Unit 1 G Awakening Form commands a hefty cost at 32,400 yen before middleman fees and shipping but stands at a massive 38 cm x 36cm, the vinyl figure will be released in January 2017, released as a Premium Bandai exclusive.
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While SDCC raged on this past weekend, Premium Bandai released the perfect piece to accompany the recently released CSM Faiz Gear: The CSM Accel Watch!
The CSM Accel Watch will come with a removable Mission Memory which can be inserted into the Faiz Gear for some lights and sounds. In addition, a countdown timer is shown displayed via an LED gimmick.
On top of that, the Accel Watch is capable of playing two songs from Faiz’s soundtrack much like the DecaDriver!
All this can be yours for 6,999 yen shipping out in March 2017.
Just a few days ago, Bandai teased the release of high end props from the Ultraman franchise that will be coming down the pipe line, we now have official images of the first two offerings of what is now being called the Ultra Replica line, which will be released via Premium Bandai.
First off, we have the Ultra Replica Beta Capsule of the first Ultraman it will be joined by Ultraman Tiga’s Spark Lens, both pieces will come with distinct display bases.
Pre orders will simultaneously begin on July 8th and will ship out sometime November 2016. Both pieces will cost 7800 yen before middleman fees and over seas shipping.
Following up on their reveal at this weeks’ Tokyo Toy Show we now have full official images for the next Premium Shift Car Set from Premium Bandai!
This next exclusive 2 pack will feature the DX Shift Hearttron & DX Shift Ride Crosser from the upcoming Kamen Rider Mach/Kamen Rider Heart V-Cinema! The pair are incredibly unique Shift Cars, Hearttron is based on Shift Tridoron while Ride Crosser seems to be a mostly original tooling. Both look fantastic and feature interactions with the Drive Driver & Mach Driver respectively.
Shift Hearttron & Ride Crosser will ONLY be available as pack ins with the Drive Saga Kamen Rider Mach/Heart deluxe Blu-Ray set. The set itself retails for 14,040 yen. Get with your preferred middleman to secure this set today!
It’s not over Kyoryuger fans. Premium Bandai revealed today at the Tokyo Toy Show an upcoming release of a diecast metal Zyudenchi set from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger.
The set features Zyudenchi 1 through 23, the Topaspino Zyudenchi, as well as the +1 Zyudenchi. Orders open up June 17th and will run you a hefty price tag of 15,000 Yen (roughly $140 and change).
Continuing on with the Kamen Rider W theme of Converge, two new Premium Bandai sets have gone up for pre order.
First, we have the Converge Kamen Rider W Max Edition a set that contains Cyclone Joker, Heat Metal, Luna Trigger and a separation gimmick which allows them to be combined into any of Double’s 9 alternate combinations.
The second one is the FFR set, which contains Cyclone Cyclone and Joker Joker from W X Decade Movie Taisen, though the pictures don’t indicate if this set retains the half change gimmick.
Either way, both sets will be released in September, the W Max Edition will retail for 6,480 yen while the FFR W set will be slightly cheaper at 1,899 yen.
Gattai, Dino Mission!
While this might not be the 2 foot tall Megazord seen at an SDCC many, many years ago this is still pretty close none the less, with Premium Bandai having opened up pre orders for the Gigantic Series Daizyujin.
Unlike the Jumbo Megazord however, the Gigantic Series Daizyujin doesn’t appear to have any combination gimmick along with limited articulation but stands at a massive 40cms tall. Gigantic Series Daizyujin also commands a massive price tag, retailing for 24,800 yen before any additional middleman fees and overseas shipping.
Another month has come & gone and so we have a number of toy galleries and in depth reviews by our Photo & Content staff to round-up once again! Though all the products we reviewed this past month were released in the last 3 or 4 years, the content they covered spanned decades. A selection of Ranger Keys took us down the path of Metal Heroes from 1982 all the way to 2012, the Legacy line gave us a one-two punch throwback to 1994 & 1995, and we caught up with some much needed gallery 2.0’s a recent and often overlooked sentai.
As always you’ll find below links to this months gallery/reviews. We look forward to bringing you even more content this month!
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Legacy Thunder Megazord
Legacy Black Megazord
Legacy Falconzord
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger
DX ZyuOh King & Cube Kirin
Metal Heroes
Ranger Key Set Metal Hero Edition
Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters
S.H. Figuarts Blue Buster
S.H. Figuarts Gorisaki Banana
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Once again diving back into Kamen Rider Kabuto, with Bandai having announced the repainted Complete Selection Modification Dark Kabuto Zecter.
From what we know of it, it seems like the Dark Kabuto Zecter will be sold exclusively at the Parco Museum in Tokyo as part of some sort of Kamen Rider themed exhibition, made avalaible April 21st 2016 with a price tag of 12,960 yen.
Hot off the heels of the recently announced Kamen Rider Amazons film project, Premium Bandai just launched a pre order page for a new DX Amazon Driver, based on the very same one seen being used by Amazon Omega.
More details about the piece will be released April 1st 2016 when pre orders will begin. For now, all we know is that it will cost 8,100 yen and will ship out in August 2016.