Shodo Digimon Series 2 Figures Announced for December, Premium Bandai Special Version Pre-Order Info

[MarcFBR]

We don't even have wave 1 of the Shodo Digimon figures in hand yet and wave 2 is already going up to order!

Shodo are a series of generally nice, but very affordable, figures from Bandai featuring well known characters.

Series 2 was teased when Series 1 first went up, and just a couple months later it's already time to look at the new figures and order!

MetalGarurumon, HolyAngemon, and AtlurKabuterimon!

Each of these will be roughly 3.1 inches tall and 2.4 inches wide.

These are basic action figures with a decent level of detail and poseability, but minimal in extra frills and features to keep the cost reasonable.



Like last time, this is a Premium Bandai 'Complete Set' version. We expect standard versions to appear shortly at various retailers.

The Premium Bandai version will come with a stand for each of them with their respective associated crest on them.



In addition...

The 3 boxes will each be included in a special collectors box featuring new artwork of the 3 Digimon drawn by longtime Digimon designer Kenji Watanabe. Nice matching boxart with what Series 1 did. These are rough drawings, not the final artwork.


Each figure also comes with a piece of soda flavored gum.




A few more images of the figures before pre-order details...

Pre-orders are open at Premium Bandai for 4,950 yen. The figures ship in December. Pre-orders 'may' close early if they hit certain numbers.

Update- Pre-orders are open. Will do a new article when an easy to import from store has the non Premium Bandai version, the standard versions will be the same month.

Update- Info on pre-orders for the standard release can be found here.



Nice to see Series 2 is coming so fast, considering how nice and affordable Series 1 looked, Series 2 actually looks even better I think.


And we get a tease for Series 3...

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[Sparrow Hawk]

AtlurKabuterimon figure looks so amazing! MetalGarurumon figure is quite good even with cartoonish color painting on. HolyAngemon figure is somewhat better than Angewomon.

I think this is better than the last set. But I'm worried about Lilimon figure. Knowing the low quality toy figures, the head probably will be very average look.

I think AtlurKabuterimon figure is the best one. No flaws in this whole appearance. No signs of the joints. Perfect.

 

[BlankShell]

I’m glad they decided to keep doing the premium box versions with the stands, that makes it feel worth it. I’ll admit the last box might be the one I’m looking forward to most (Lilymon and Zudomon, c’mon!) but I’m glad it seems they’ll actually see the whole thing through, assuming I didn’t just jinx everything.

 

[DazzleDream]

I'm looking forward to series 3. Hopefully they have a nice appearance. It's such a shame that they ended the transforming digimon figure line early. At least this would give them some exposure.

 

[TakeruTakaishi]

Nice figures! I am wondering why they never make detailed figures of the digidestined... (apart from the G.E.M. statue series)

 

[arisniko1]

From what it seems, this series will give us all the Mega levels... but please, oh please give us time with MagnaAngemon. I dont even care about Seraphimon at this point. MagnaAngemon was always my favorite and part of it was how little exposure he had in the whole series that I got obsessed! The figures look great and I hope Ill be able to nab at least one of these.

 

[Mister_Bopi]

Ooh those look nice! I'll have to check those out..

 

[Unknown Neo]

Huh. ...What's the middle one between Zudomon and Lillymon? Garudamon? That's a bit of a hard shadow to figure out but that would make sense. They all look nice though.

 

[TMS]

It's Omegamon.

 

[Unknown Neo]

Oh I knew it! That was my first guess. But then I though, Ults so maybe it's that.