[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by RamenRider

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".

You might want to pull that stick out of your ass. I have no idea why you are being a jerk.

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

Clearly you don't understand what I mean. Okay, ignoring KotM, when was the last time they did a non-Godzilla esque MonsterArt for the Godzilla series that wasn't just a repaint? ALso, how many versions of Iron Man have they done compared to say Thor or Black Widow? Also, when was the last time they released an OT Star Wars dude that wasn't a redo or repaint?

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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.

I don't even get what you mean here. What does nostalgia have to do with anything?

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

Good point. You're right here.

To be more specific then, they haven't done anything for Ultraman 66 nor Ultra Seven in over a year now.

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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.

Then they shouldn't bother doing them at all. If they can't commit to releasing figures of at least the main cast, don't do it. Now for Sailor Moon, they got most of the main cast, but they never bothered to do any villains outside of Black Lady. They even showed of Wiseman and did jackshit with him. They also didn't do the Starlights nor the Crystal version of Tuxedo Mask.

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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?

I guess I should have been more specific for Kamen Rider. I meant actual monsters, not just evil Kamen Riders.

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Oh wait, you mean the Showa-stuff right?

No, I'm talking about the Undeads, the Grongi, the Unknowns, etc. Not just Shocker minions.

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Yeah guess what, because they sold absolutely terrible. Because Sentai as a franchise is currently on the verge of dying.

That's because they couldn't commit to releasing an entire team. Who the hell wants to buy half, if that, of a ranger team? They should have just done box sets for the ranger teams, especially when all they needed to do was create two bodies, a male and a female one and the only difference between the bodies was the paint job with the helmets being the only unique sculpt.

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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.

That's because they're too busy focusing on gimmicks instead of actually evolving the show. First order of business they need to do is stop kiddifying it with silly over the top antics. Secondly, bring back the ability that monsters can actually kill people. Third, the villains need to go back to being a threat AND be characters again. Every series after Go-Busters has made their villains be nothing more than wallpaper and it is getting worse with each series. Hell, currently in Ryusoulger the MotW have no personalities, they're just mindless beasts without a presence and they aren't doing shit with Kreon and Wyzul. We don't even know how the main villain leader is yet either and we're halfway through the show.

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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?

At this point, I will never trust Bandai again with Sentai, so I don't care what they do. I'm solely supporting Hasbro now as they have already done more with the Lightning Collection in 6 months than Bandai and Tamashii have done in the last 10 years.