Missed out on Wild Tiger figure? Hope’s not lost, he’s getting a reprint and rerelease on October 15th. Thanks to PJA for the heads up.
(So sorely tempted myself to go for it, but then I look at my preorder list and sigh… Besides, the Figuarts Zeros are my priority.)
Tamashii Nation 2011 site has some Tiger & Bunny items as exlusives only available at the event. The blue and purple see-through Sky High superdeformed figures are items given away with the tickets; blue ones when you buy your ticket in advance through e+ and purple ones with tickets bought at the event.
In addition to the Sky High figures, there is also event exclusive, commemorative Deformeister Rubber Collection charm set with Tiger’s crapsuit & Bunny plushie. I’m guessing that “crapsuit” is now an official name for Tiger’s original blue suit since the official tweet announcing them also used it.
And Go Inoue (aka. Go-chan aka. the Real-Life Keith) mentioned on his Twitter that he would like to get those straps too, and that Director Satou was the one to design Tiger’s crapsuit and Mr. Legend’s hero suit. (He also said that Satou is probably grinning widely every time he sees “crapsuit” written somewhere.)
S.H. Figuarts Rock Bison and the Deformeister rubber charm set went up for preorder today. As expected, Amiami was crashing so I’m not exactly sure how fast he sold out there. Hobby Search sold out its stock of Rock Bison within minutes. The charm set is still available at CDJapan and Amiami. HLJ has order stop on both charms and Rock Bison but it’s possible the orders may still be opened. CDJapan and many other stores haven’t listed the figure yet, so it’s entirely possible to still score a preorder.
(We feel for poor Go Inoue who missed the preorder again, we hope he’ll manage to snatch one from somewhere. Well what do you know, he managed to emerge victorious with a preorder! He’ll be an inspiration to me when the figures that I’m gunning for are available.)
Also, the Tiger & Bunny headphones that were only listed at Animate before are now available in Hobby Search, CDJapan and probably also in other stores so check where you usually order your merchandise from. Price seems to be around 3,700 JPY in most places.
The official Twitter announced that there’ll be a special one hour long broadcast of Kenjiro Tsuda’s (Fire Emblem’s VA) radio show on Ustream after episode 20 of Tiger & Bunny has finished airing on August 13th. The co-host is Yuuki Fujiwara (and I think there will probably be guests but they haven’t been announced yet). More information in Japanese here.
And it should be noted that the next three episodes may air 10 minutes late if the sports broadcast on MBS goes overtime. In that case Ustream airing will be delayed too.
Tiger & Bunny’s executive producer Masayuki Ozaki was a guest at Otakon this weekend. ANN has coverage on his appearances at Sunrise industry panel and world’s first Tiger & Bunny panel.
Points of interest include new merchandise: Bunny plushie from episode 5, Rock Bison’s belt, Kotetsu’s hat (already announced earlier), Keith and Ivan’s jackets, Kotetsu’s watch, and figures of all heroes (already announced at Tamashii Festival). Namco Bandai is also making a video game based on the anime.
(Speaking of merchandise, apparently Rock Bison figure by S.H. Figuarts is coming up for preorders on August 1st, so those who want it, be ready!)
Shueisha put out a notice today that due to the “flood of preorders” (their exact wording) for the Masakazu Katsura illustration book + Wild Tiger figure they had to set a deadline. Any orders made after July 22, 18:00 JST will not be accepted. And that point of time has passed already, so if you managed to order it, congrats.
We’re actually not sure what’s going on anymore. I’ve never been into a series where the merchandise sells this quickly. I didn’t expect the book+figure set to go so fast because it was a bit on the expensive side. And I really wanted to preorder this myself, too, but the price with shipping was just too high for my current financial situation.
Update: Not sure how legit this is, but Go Inoue tweeted some stuff that sounded like they were going to make the book+figure sets to order, but they were getting more orders than they expected and that’s why the deadline was set. Take this with a grain of salt, we have no further confirmation.
Update August 22: The artbook + figure set release date has been pushed back to February 10, 2012.
The rubber charm set that was on display at the Tamashii Festival was added to the Tiger & Bunny lineup at the Tamashii website. Release date and price aren’t determined yet. The set has eight charms, 6 cm tall.
Summarized TL from the description on the product page: Kotetsu, Barnaby, Karina, Ivan and Paolin are doing the same poses as on the BD Limited Edition jackets. (Paolin’s design was still in progress so they used photos of the sketches by Masakazu Katsura as the base for her charm.) Keith and Yuri are doing their poses from the 2nd OP stills. And then there’s Doc Saito as the highlight of the set!
(Personally, I’m dying to get the Bunny one, that pout is too cute.)
This is Sternbild 