S.H. Figuarts Imperialdramon Fighter Mode Announced!

Now THIS is what I call news. In what I personally find to be the most exciting announcement so far this year, Bandai has released images of their upcoming S.H. Figuarts Imperialdramon Fighter Mode figure. While many of you may remember that the previous Digimon releases were in the D-Arts line, Bandai has been slowly moving towards merging D-Arts with Figuarts, with other examples being their upcoming Mario and Lucario Figuarts releases.

The figure looks absolutly spectacular, and from what I understand, it seems like it will be released in July, with a retail price of around 6,800 yen. I know for sure that I will be the first in line for this guy once it goes up for pre-order (and I'll try to keep you guys updated whenever that happens too).

One of the most important things to me that this shows is that Bandai hasn't given up on releasing new high-quality figures of Digimon characters. We've been getting the re-releases of Wargreymon and Omnimon recently, and the new release of MetalGarurumon, but I had expected that those would be the last we saw - but now, here's Imperialdramon! I can only hope that this figure goes over well enough to warrant more new figures (and more frequent releases) of new Digimon Figuarts.

Check out the picture below for the full gallery released by Bandai:

D-Arts Mega Man Zero

In even more exciting news today, it's been officially confirmed that the next D-Arts figures is that of Zero from the GBA Mega Man Zero games! A release like this is very exciting to me personally, as I grew up playing those games (in addition to all of the other X games too). I have the Kotobukiya model kit of him from a few years back, but still haven't had the chance to build it. Hopefully I'll get him built soon and I'll be able to do a comparison between the two someday.

I'd love to see him come with lots of accesories, or at least more than just his sword and gun. I'd love to see the energy whip weapon, and the alternate energy blades he used in the third or fourth game.