5 total forms excluding movies exclusive forms?
Base, Elek, Fire, Magnet and Cosmic. Unless I've missed a rumour.
I don't understand the appeal of the S.I.C. series toys. They're some of the ugliest things I've ever seen.
I've got a number of the SIC KTs. Sometimes the styling works, sometimes it doesn't. Faiz looks quite cool with a more "robotic" suit. Agito's works quite well. But I don't think the restyle of Den-O Sword Form works. I'm quite "meh" about Hibiki and Blade's new looks too. However, I got the Garo Figuart and found it seemed really plain compared to when I picture the Garo suit in my mind. Bought Zero and Kiba in SIC KT form and they are both lovely. Then I bought Dan and while it looks lovely you really can't move the joints at all. Overall the GARO figures come across quite well (notably the Makaikado toyline for the latest series has taken on the SIC styling). Also, I'm not a fan of the Kamen Rider ZX suit at all; it's possibly my least favourite rider costume. But I think the SIC restyle looks amazing, so he's just arrived in the post today :anime: But the Kamen Rider SICs are generally quite hit and miss, so I'd always say it's a line where you pick up the odd figure you really like the look of rather than ever collect them generally. Especially with the older ones, which were explicitly based upon some of the manga rather than the shows, and depicted them more as humanoid insects than people in armour.
Not sure how the price differences are.
The SIC KTs tend to be about 1000 to 1500 yen, but they're only about 2/3 the size of a Figuart. The full SICs cost 3000-3500 yen on clearance, but can be over 4500 yen and there are a lot of 2-packs in the 5000-5500 range. Based purely on ZX, the only one I own (and one of the cheaper ones), they're slightly taller and stockier than an Ultra Act (or at least Ultraman Zero and Belial, the only two Ultra Acts I own) and ZX has metal legs like Figuarts used to do. But I don't know if that's standard for SICs or not, and I know a lot of them have major gimmicks, such as Decade coming with extra armour to convert him from standard form to complete form, and the W ones are able to completely disassemble the armour to combine the figures for the non-standard forms like Cyclone Metal. So apart from being bigger, you tend to be paying for a lot of extras and diecast too.
