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Originally Posted by Ninjinister

They'd better give us more VS dammit.

Shodo evolves, so VS may end eventually, but X will continue, and then when X ends, it'll be when something else picks up its slot.

More monsters will come, but it'll be specific to big name ones and less monster of the week types. Like Chalice's monster form(and the recolor variant of the movie one) and Takumi's orphenoch form should be on the list of soon-ish, same to Smart Lady. And we may see eventually some others that are re-occurring bad guys like the ones in W. Or Lucky Clover from Faiz. So mostly stuff that has big presences. But more will come eventually.

One of the other things though with Shodo, to offset the complete new molds, there are plans to try and re-use molds in different ways when possible, as well as maintain a way to get troop builders out sporadically. That was one of the reasons we got the Kabuto Riot Trooper, so we may get the Faiz autoTroopers too. So cost recouping through mold re-usage takes priority when possible to help pay for the new molds for others. This is why we see shocker riders so rapidly too, and also why we got so many variations of the henchmen. Easy troop builder mold re-usage.

On Riders though, they can't keep too many side by side rider lines going at the same time, as it bites too much into the budget for each, but the shodo standard was essentially built on a cost cut version of MRS, because MRS became too pricey to keep going. Shodo is the mainstay line to replace it.

But also gotta keep that budget balanced so it doesn't fold like MRS had to.

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Originally Posted by Ninjinister

Did you hear something about that happening, or is that just wishful thinking/speculation? I'd be glad to finally get some gals in the set... but I kinda really want Piccolo and some Android/Cell saga stuff really bad too.

Supposed to and will are two different things, but one of the areas that pushes Shodo along has implied as such because of how big of a fan they are of them. Bulma was unknown though (She'd be wishful thinking but should get made too!). And they are supposed to cover more of Super in general, which by extension means covering various classic Z too since many make cameos in Super anyway. IIRC, Cell & kid Buu were the only exceptions there, but right now I think they've switched focus to prepping for movie hype stuff. Haven't heard much on the Dragonball side since Vegetto. But I know BOJ does want to keep it going. They were doing some older stuff for a bit, then are supposed to switch to tournament of power stuff(select ones), and then not sure what's after. The end goal is to eventually cover every big fan fave though.