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Just unveiled. http://bakaneko.way-nifty.com/revoltech/ Kaiyodo are really expanding the line in a big way. Yamaguchi, 2G, Fraulein, Fist of the North, Assemble Borg and now Street Fighter.

Just got my pre-order in for the Reactive Armor Ingram. Looks like my decision to wait and miss out on the first movie version paid off. It looks like the cage display has been sacrificed and in return you get the reactive armor, newer design Unit 2 head and Unit 3 head and parts with additional ECM deployed head for the same price as the first release. I just hope CM's Corp don't screw collectors over by doing something silly like removing the electronics or anything like that. The pilot figurines and shot gun are also not shown in the stock photos so I hope they are not omitted in the final product.

SPEC is a totally different animal from the regular SOC series. Firstly, SPEC has less die-cast (only the ankles, feet, most of the leg armor and pectoral portion of the chest armor), the armor is removable and they are, imo, the most articulated EVA figures around, even more so than Revoltech EVAs. They're about 7 inches tall so thay're larger than regular SOC EVAs and have more accurate details and colors. I think the weapons included about covers all the weapons used by EVA-02 in the TV series save for the pallet rifle so I think it's a pretty good selection. The reason I prefer the Rebuild SPECs over the TV version is that the armor and arms have been resculpted to be more refined and streamlined. Rebuild SPEC EVA-01 was an improvement in design over the TV SPEC EVA-01 (especially the new "sexy" prog knife design and deployment system) so I'm willing to wait for Rebuild SPEC EVA-02 and pass on this one.

1st post. Here you go. Might be better to wait and see how the Rebuild EVA-02 SPEC turns out before jumping on this one. Rebuild EVA-01 SPEC was much better than the TV version imho even though it had less accessories.