S.H.Figuarts Marvel MCU General Thread

[ryanc_]

Definitely in for Thanos, black widow, hulk buster, and Bucky. Probably not the others, would only buy another spider man or black panther if they had unmasked heads


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[guyver1]

That Widow is a definite buy . Figurarts iron spider looks like a repaint

 

[LexiKon318]

That Black Widow looks better than the Hot Toys one!

 

[guyver1]

That Black Widow looks better than the Hot Toys one!

I like that they waxed the green vest..unless that will be a later version of her in the film

 

[user 53187]

I think it's to do with the fact that Marvel isn't as popular in Japan as it is in the U.S. (where until recently they couldn't even get their figures in), as well as the fact that the S.H. Figuarts line tends to have a much smaller output of figures anyway. I mean, look how long it took to get Hawkeye and Black Widow from Age of Ultron. Even if it's what they teased, I don't think getting the entire cast of AOU or Civil War was ever really feasible for them.

While I agree too a certain extent, I bolded things to talk about.

AoU needed 3 more figures and CW needed 6.
For Marvel being not as popular in Japan as it is in America, I point you to the Dragon Ball line, where American/international sales saved it from cancellation.
Even so they can just make every figure a Tamashii Web, like they did.

Now lets look at what they made, what they missed, and what they could have done.

AoU - Made
1. Iron Man Mk 43
2. Iron Man Mk 44 Hulkbuster
3. Iron Man Mk 45
4. Captain America
5. Thor
6. Hulk
7. Hawkeye
8. Black Widow
9. War Machine Mk 2
10. Ultron

AoU - Missed
11. Vision
12. Scarlet Witch
13. Quicksilver

AoU - How
Make Vision and give him a hand to hold Mjolnir, it's easy money, you'll see later.
Put Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in a 2 pack with a blu-ray or something, they did it with CW, Star Wars, and Godzilla.
This makes AoUs total needed line up 12 releases. 2 more releases is feasible when it's a specialty item and something they can reuse.

CW - Made
1. Iron Man Mk 46
2. Black Panther
3. War Machine Mk 3
4. Captain America
5. Ant-Man
*. Captain America and Iron Man 2 pack

CW - Missed
6. Black Widow
7. Vision
8. Winter Soldier
9. Falcon
10. Hawkeye
11. Scarlet Witch

CW - How
Vision is same figure, instead of an extra hand, give him a head beam effect. Like I said, easy money.
Falcon - they've done 2 Hulkbusters, they can do a set of wings.
Then just release the rest, AoU had 10 figures, IW already has 10 figures, CW only needs 11, and like I said Vision is the same mold. It's extremely feasible when you look at it like this. CW just needed the same amount of releases as AoU and IW with a repack. You can't tell me that it's not feasible to do a full CW line when AoU and IW have the same amount of releases as it needed.

Based off of what they have released, 10 for AoU and 10 for IW, 12 for AoU and 11 for CW(where one is a repack) is very feasible, if you have a rebuttal I'd love to hear it. I'm sorry if I sound mean, I don't have that kind of tone when I'm reading this out loud to check it. It's more informational. I'll end here, I have to go to work. I will return in around 9 hours after posting this.

As a side note, I'll talk about how to do an IW line-up in this spoiler tag, since it's not apart of this conversation but you can still check it out and see how it's feasible to make 23 figures.

Spoiler

First the characters needed as of now - Iron Man, Hulkbuster, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, War Machine, Falcon, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Bucky, Ant-Man, Wasp, Iron Spider, Black Panther, Dr Strange, Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Groot, Thanos

Using the same logic they had for Aou and IW this is how:

10 for IW

IW
1. Dr Strange
2. Star-Lord
3. Captain America
4. Iron Spider
5. Iron Man
6. Thanos
7. Black Widow
8. Black Panther
9. Bucky
10. Hulkbuster

2 for AM&tW

Ant-Man and the Wasp (assuming they don't have costume changes like Black panther and Spider-Man)
11. Ant-Man
12. Wasp

10 for A4

Avengers 4
13. Thor
14. Hulk
15. Hawkeye
16. War Machine
17. Falcon
18. Vision - same mold, add a head without the stone. This is now the third time we get the same figure with one different accessory each time, that's how you make money.
19. Scarlet Witch
20. Gamora
21. Drax
22. Rocket & 23. Groot 2 pack

 

[hbhf]

While I agree too a certain extent, I bolded things to talk about.

AoU needed 3 more figures and CW needed 6.
For Marvel being not as popular in Japan as it is in America, I point you to the Dragon Ball line, where American/international sales saved it from cancellation.

That's why I made the point about how until relatively recently, they weren't able to have a big presence for Marvel figures in the U.S. market. Doing whole teams like that probably simply wasn't financially sound. And again, while they did eventually come close to completing the AOU cast, it took quite a while due to their output. That's why I brought up the case of Hawkeye and Black Widow.

They're not alone in that regard; I don't think any other company regularly does complete team line-ups like that. The closest exception is Hot Toys, and even they missed out on Spider-Man in Civil War because of licensing restrictions.

 

[zombieshane]

So should we expect these to be released in the US by Bluefin?

 

[The Green Goblin]

So should we expect these to be released in the US by Bluefin?

I would think so. Just expect them all to include some other thing to bump up the price past $80

 

[Starfleet Captain]

With new HT prices, the SHF IW line suddenly is shockingly affordable!

“I like it here!” -Scotty

 

[chodenjipop]

I would think so. Just expect them all to include some other thing to bump up the price past $80

Yea unless the extra is a must have, there’s really no reason to go the bluefin route. I wonder though if they’re going to use the new stands as the extra. They’re about $20. The cheapest figure is about $60 so they could sell it for $80.


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[The Green Goblin]

Yea unless the extra is a must have, there’s really no reason to go the bluefin route. I wonder though if they’re going to use the new stands as the extra. They’re about $20. The cheapest figure is about $60 so they could sell it for $80.


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The only reason I went with bluefin for the Ragnarok figures was because I couldn't budget them in at the time to pay upfront for them.

 

[chodenjipop]

The only reason I went with bluefin for the Ragnarok figures was because I couldn't budget them in at the time to pay upfront for them.

Yea they were web exclusives in Japan so bluefin really was your only choice if you didn’t wanna pay up front. It sucks when they do that since I already have the lightning effect. With these though, you should be able to PO at all the Japanese import sites without paying up front. Except for black panther that is.


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[gunm]

Definitely in for Black Widow Infinity War.

 

[hbhf]

Do the web exclusives ship to the U.S.?

 

[chodenjipop]

Do the web exclusives ship to the U.S.?

You’ll have to buy it from a third party like nippon-yasan.com. These particular web exclusives are only for the Japanese market so they require a Japanese address to ship them to. What the third party sites do is basically order from tamashii and it’s shipped to them and then they ship it to you.


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[livecraig]

The infinite war wave looks promising so far.

 

[hbhf]

You’ll have to buy it from a third party like nippon-yasan.com. These particular web exclusives are only for the Japanese market so they require a Japanese address to ship them to. What the third party sites do is basically order from tamashii and it’s shipped to them and then they ship it to you.


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Thanks.

 

[dukefett]

Tamashii's instagram page is showing international releases for Black Widow (explostions), Black Panther (rocks) and Spider-Man (a stand of some sort), with those respective acccessories. So some options! I might import the others, but I'll get the US release of Black Panther. If I wait I'm sure I can probably get it cheaper on sale than doing the web exclusive.

 

[Cooler]

From Akiba Showroom in Japan.











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[Star-Crunch]

Thanos looks incredible