Category Figures

Jul 20 2011

Masakazu Katsura artbook up for preorders

Character designer Masakazu Katsura‘s Tiger & Bunny artbook special limited edition is up for preorders now at Rakuten, Otacute and Hobby Search. Amiami, CDJapan and Amazon.jp seem to have sold out already. It comes with a special original coloring S.H. Figuarts Wild Tiger figure.

The price might slow preorder sale a bit this time, 6800 JPY + shipping. Though chances are that it’ll be hard to get on release date if you procrastinate.

There’ll also be a regular edition without the figure but it hasn’t been made available for preorder yet.

 

Update: All preorders closed early.

Jul 15 2011

All the preorders we’ll fail to get

Our favourite Twitter personality Go Inoue‘s been tweeting photos of the upcoming Tiger & Bunny figures.

And from the official TnB Twitter:

Just thinking of trying to get preorders in makes me wail in despair. ｡･ﾟ･(ﾉД`)･ﾟ･｡ (We really really want those casual clothes versions of Kotetsu and Barnaby!!!!)

Jul 14 2011

Rock Bison figure by S.H. Figuarts (updated)

S.H. Figuarts have added another figure to their Tiger & Bunny series. Next up will be Rock Bison. The street date and price are undecided at this time.

This figure will be on display this weekend on the Tamashii Festival 2011 with Wild Tiger and Barnaby Brooks Jr. figures.

(Actually I’m a bit surprised they decided to make Rock Bison next, I was expecting Sky High or even Origami Cyclone, though Bison is very popular in  Japan. Hope this means there’ll eventually be figures of all the heroes.)

Update: Tamashii website now lists release for December, and 5000 JPY for price. (Still subject to change.)

Jul 2 2011

You may still get lucky with the figures

So who managed to snag a preorder? I sure didn’t, but it’s more due to not having the finances right now, since I’ve ordered the official books and stuff. (Also, I’m not a figure collector, I only buy figures occasionally.)

Deformeister set is still available at HLJ as a blind box set of 10. I’ve been checking other stores and seems that Toys Logic is still taking preorders not only for Deformeisters but also Wild Tiger and Barnaby. (I’ve never ordered from Toys Logic but HLJ in my experience has good service.) It’s possible there are more stores where they’re still available.

If you missed your chance on Wild Tiger and Barnaby Brooks Jr. figures this time, don’t despair. There’s still hope. Be ready to stalk the stores when the release dates near, because it’s possible that people cancel their preorders.

Jul 1 2011

Figure preorders now open (updated)

The preorders for both Barnaby Brooks Jr. by S.H. Figuarts and the Deformeister SD figure set have opened at 16:00 Japan time (which was about an hour ago as I’m writing this post). It took me 40 minutes to get through to Animate site because it was under such a heavy load that they even had to put up a notice for it.

Coincidence? I think not.

If these figures sell on preorders like the Wild Tiger figure, they’ll probably skyrocket in value once they’re finally released. Like the Limited Edition of the first BD of Tiger & Bunny – it’s now out of print everywhere I’ve checked, and I’ve seen it resold for 22,000 JPY. People have reported even higher prices, up to four times the original retail price of ~7,000 JPY. I was checking some stores yesterday and I noticed that the stocks on the LE of 2nd BD are running low in them, too.

It seems that it’s best to act fast if you want to own the LE BDs or figures, they’re flying off the shelves.

Update: Preorders have been open for 2 hours at Animate, site finally loads for me again, and both Deformeisters and Barnaby figure are marked sold out.

Update 2: Turns out Deformeisters aren’t Animate exclusives, you can find them on preorder also in other stores. For example, HLJ still has Deformeisters and Barnaby Brooks Jr. available. Amiami and Hobby Search have had them, too. (Thanks to Weslea J M for info!) I still recommend to act fast if you want to preorder, chances are that many stores will quickly run out of preorder stock.