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S.H. Figuarts Best Selection Ultraman

I went ahead and picked up the Figuarts Best Selection Ultraman figure. It was released in June 2020 and is a low price of $33 - $35. It's basically the same figure as the standard release Ultraman, only it comes with less accessories and, therefore, has the lower price tag. This figure comes with only an alternate red color timer and 3 sets of hands (fists, open palm and flat). It has no other effect parts or accessories. It also has the same articulation as the standard Showa Ultraman body. Nothing too wild but good enough for all the desired action poses. One cool thing is that the wrist peg is the same size as the other Ultraman releases, so you can inter-change the extra hands, including the Specium Beam hand that comes with the Type A figure, the Ultra Slash that comes with the Mefilas figure, and even the dead eyes head that came with Ultraman Zoffy. So if you have any of those others, then you'll be able to use those parts for this figure. The difference between this fi...

Ultraman Z

Tsuburaya's newest series in the long running Ultraman franchise is Ultraman Z. I've watched the first 12 episodes and I can say that I really like it, almost immediately from the first few minutes.  At the opening of the first episode, Ultraman Zero and his disciple (Ultraman Z) are battling a monster named Genegarg in space. Ultraman Zero gets sucked into a black hole, but not before he gives Z 3 ultra crystals and a transformation device known as the Z Riser and tells him to follow the monster to Earth. While there, Z bonds with STORAGE member Haruki Natsukawa during the fight against Genegarg and Haruki becomes the human host of Ultraman Z. Together, they defeat the space shark, but soon enough, various other monsters appear, including a mysterious being that's using devil splinters recovered from the kaiju to create more monsters and spread chaos throughout the city. STORAGE (Special Tactical Operations Regimenta...