Release Date: August 2019 RRP: 6600 yen There aren't many S.H. Figuarts out of the 100+ I own that I can honestly say I outright hate, but S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider OOO TaToBa Combo is definitely one of them. Between the poor ankles, gummy plastic and just general cheapness of the figure it ranks pretty highly as one of my least favourite entries in the line (second only perhaps to the dreaded Kamen Rider ZX ). So imagine my joy when Bandai Tamashii Nations annouced the base form of Kamen Rider OOO's titular Rider would be the next character receive the prestigious S.H. Figuarts –Shinkocchou Seihou- treatment – hot on the heels of Kamen Rider Wizard's equally needed glow-up and the long awaited arrival of Kamen Rider Kiva . But on top of delivering the usual high quality the line usually strives for, S.H. Figuarts –Shinkocchou Seihou- Kamen Rider OOO TaToBa Combo also comes with a few other surprises up its sleeves – teasing more articulation than ever before a...

It's fair to say I got into the S.H. Figuarts line rather late. This year the Bandai action figure line is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and so considering I only really got into the line around the time Gokai Red was released I have a lot of catching up to do. Luckily Bandai have chosen to make things a little easier but offering a number of reissue Heisei era Kamen Riders over the next few months to coincide with their "Rider on Stage" campaign in celebration of the anniversary. The Kamen Rider OOO TaToBa combo was originally released back in February 2011. With all the colours on OOO's body, it was probably a good call by Bandai to make the box white and use the black/red/yellow/green more sparingly. The white background makes the colours pop a lot more along the sides of the box, and the chest symbol looks great printed on the bottom of the plastic window. The back is a bit plainer, but still keeps the "OOO" circles motif intac...

When making a television series which makes most of its money from toy sales, what are the first themes that come to mind? Why, greed and desire of course! Ironic as it may seem, this was the core of Kamen Rider OOO , the 21st Kamen Rider series and successor to Kamen Rider W . The 2010-2011 series ran for a total of 48 episodes, and the character was featured in three feature films during its tenure before returning during Fourze's run in Movie Wars Megamax . When medal-based monsters the Greeed awaken from their 800 year slumber, the proceed to wreak havoc on the world by creating monsters named Yummies from humans that spawn from the desires of their hosts and carry them out to create cell medals which the Greeed feed upon. However one Greeed, Ankh's, awakening doesn't go as smoothly and he wakes up as a disembodied arm. He presents a mysterious belt to the happy-go-lucky traveller Eiji Hino, providing him with medals to fight the monsters as Kamen Rider OOO. Bu...