Retail Price: 750 Yen
Total Tickets: 80
Released Date: 20 May 2023
Ichiban Kuji: Selectable prizes for non-blinds small prizes. Double chance if your country carries this Kuji.
Series Sequel: 41st Kamen Rider Kuji, third in 2023
Recommended for: Fans of Geats and casual fans of Kamen Rider
So we continue our Kuji adventure with more Rider Kuji this year! This is the 3rd rider set but the second set to feature Geats! The previous set was really not going the way we want it to, mainly because there wasn’t any figures inside, hope things are better for this set, so let’s dive right into the set!
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Prize A (2 pieces) / Double Chance
Top Prize Appearance: Debut
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Of course we kick things off with a Kamen Rider Geats figure! Wow I can’t say how much I really like a figure being featured in a Kamen Rider set. Geats joins in the main rider gang by having his own Softvic figure! This figure stands at 29cm tall and have really nice details, if you have any Softvic figure, you know that they are all about detailing! He holds the Magnum Shooter and definitely the prize to look out for in the set! Once again so glad that we are getting figures.
This is a double chance prize as well, so do make sure you check your winnings before continuing playing!
Prize B (3 pieces)
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And we are done with figures for this set, oh my. Anyway this prize is a Jumbo illustration towel featuring the main 4 characters for Geats. We have Geats, Tycoon, Nago and Buffa, if you like this series then this is definitely for you and it’s a good prize, it’s 100cm tall so definitely good to display and it’s a design towel, so not meant to use, but with such a nice design I think you would bear to use it as a bath towel too. It’s a nice prize with nice art, won’t be upset if I pulled this.
Prize C (3 pieces)
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So if you are more of a Legend rider fans than a geats fan, you can look for this prize as this design features all the main rider starting from Kuuga! It’s a good design and defiintely one that any rider fan would appreciate! Jumbo illustration towel as well, made for design purposes, so please don’t use it, keep it dry to display this amazing artwork! It’s also 100cm long so will be value for the price that you paid for a ticket!
Prize D (18 pieces)
Design:12
Distribution: 6 x 2 pieces each. 6 x 1 piece each. Blind packs.
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Next we move onto the small prize section, we have rubber stand! It’s a unique prize because usually we have rubber charms but they given us something different! These rubber stands are cute and they actually do stand, you can simply display them as how you would display a figure. The designs focuses on Feats main 4 riders: Geats, Tycoon, Nago and Buffa as well as Legend Riders Revi, Vice, Zero One, Build, Ex Aid, Gaim, Kabuto and Ryuki. It’s a shame that it’s blinded, if not you can pick your favorite rider because all of us will have our favorites! Charm is around 6cm tall.
Prize E (30 pieces)
Design: 10
Distribution: 10 x 3 pieces each.
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Next we have our standard art board which is a classic prize for Rider Kuji! The design also varies from different series, we have 4 geats design, Revice, Zero One, Build, Ex Aid, Gaim and Ryuki, seems like those series that appeared in the charms are here too. Art is nice as usual, the art board this time round is not blinded so feel free to choose your favorite! Do check if they are available first though before playing, I mean you want to pick your favorite design as this prize is not hard to get!
Prize F (24 pieces)
Design: 8
Distribution: 8 x 3 pieces each.
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Lastly we have towels, design towels to be specific, the design part we can expect good design from rider series, they usually don’t have any too bad of a design. We have Geats/Buffa, Nago/Tycoon, Vice/LoveKov, Zero One/Ark One, W/Accel, Imagins, Faiz/Kaixa/Delta. All are nice in their way, I think these are not the prize you want to pull but if you happen to pull them your choices are not limited.
Last Prize
Prize Rating:
As always the last prize is the lighted eye version of Prize A. If you can’t pull Geats Softvic Prize A, you can opt for the lighted eye variant instead! This version is the same height and pose but comes with the lighted eye. You can look for a 8- buyout or 12- with at least B or C inside.
Grading
Big Prize
Figures and nice jumbo towel, I think at least it’s attractive for you to play.
Small Prize
Good quality for small prizes.
Last Prize
A good lighted eye Softvic figure!
Variety of Prize
I think they should have given us more variety of prizes for the towels and art board, or at least more rubber charms, I don’t know I just feel like the variety is too limited compared to previous sets.
Odds of big prizes
80 tickets and 8 big prizes, decent.
Value for Money
I am not saying the things aren’t good, it’s just decent, like you won’t have super good value in paying for a price of a ticket.
Collector’s Value
See below
Overall: B-
Conclusion
Another decent Kuji set, I think the inclusion of a figure saves it from being a disaster set like Geats No 1 set. I will address the elephant in the room, no Deform X, seriously this is a big turn off for fans, like we have all been involved with past rider Kuji to see the mini figures but we don’t get any here. I wonder how am I getting a Geats deform X, hopefully they don’t have them hard to pull or hard to get. Rider Kuji is all about the Deform X.
Odds
Let’s calculate your odds to get the following with one ticket from a fresh board!
Chance to get a top prize (A to C): 8 / 80 = 10%, average
Chance to get a figure Prize (A): 2/80 = 2.5% very bad
Recommendation
3 tickets for a chance at the figure or some nice Rider merchandise.
Collectibles?
The Real Deal:
- Prize A or Last Geats Softvic figure: I mean that’s the point of playing this set right, the Geats figure is crucial if you are collecting all the main rider’s softvic figure!
Nice to have:
- Prize B or C Jumbo Towel: The design is too nice to miss, but again focus on the real deal first, the jumbo towel is something that if you happen to see a board with good odds or you see someone selling, it’s worth considering because of the nice design!
- Prize D Rubber Charm : I am going on a bet to say that they will have more riders coming up, the designs are too random, unless they have more in the next few sets, so do collect as many as you can so you can form a complete collection when they release more! Do buy off directly from someone for your missing design since they are not that easy to get or pull.
Collect only if you don’t already have:
- NA
Skippable:
- Prize E Art Board Prize F Towels: Nice designs but just get your favorite ones, don’t need to go for all the designs as there isn’t a certain collection for those designs, it’s pretty random at this point.
Image credits:
https://1kuji.com/products/rider_geats2
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