[RamenRider]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Yeah, Bandai in the last two or three years has really gone to the shitter in my book.

Your "book" is a broken record which always plays the same old song, and is effectively titled "Tamashii sucks because they don’t cater to my specific demands".

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They're always doing the same characters over. Iron Man, Godzilla, Rey/Kylo/Troopers, Goku, Vegeta, etc.

Except when they're not but we're ignoring that, as always, right?

Also, oh no: A company dares to do what works and prints them money. The horror!

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

They started to do a really great job with their Ultraman line and then they had to go and sabotage that and stop doing monsters/aliens.

They started to do a really great job with their Ultraman line in late 2017, when they finally began making new-age Ultraman stuff, aka the characters which are still relevant today and don’t feed off of blind nostalgia. Said nostalgia being pointless now that they already used the big anniversary to do a good number of classic aliens and monsters.

By the way, classic Black King came out two months ago, so how have they stopped doing monsters?

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Then you have other lines where they can't even be bothered to release the full main cast such as with TMNT, Lupin III, Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, etc.

Gee, I wonder why. Probably because this stuff just doesn’t sell well enough to support a full lineup for each? Nah, can’t possibly be that, Tamashii is just evil and mean.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

They also haven't done a Kamen Rider villain in several years

Ohma Zi-O came out like last week, Evol is out in November. They made a dozen Genm and a Para-DX.

Those aren’t villains? Oh wait, you mean the Showa-stuff right? Which obviously didn’t sell and they canned the plans of doing more because people weren't interested? No, once again, evil company being mean, there can't possibly be a reasonable explanation for this.

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and the last time they did a ranger from Sentai was in 2014.

Yeah guess what, because they sold absolutely terrible. Because Sentai as a franchise is currently on the verge of dying. Each iteration is slowly doing worse, LuPat was at an all-time low, now they're busting out the dinosaur-theme again in a desperate attempt to stay afloat.

But hey, let’s make collector-oriented figures of these again and let people buy the same 6 figures with different headsculpts, what could possibly go wrong?