Bandai's Build Quality, Way Beyond Gundam
Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh's Egyptian God cards, Digimon, Ultraman, Naruto, Gundam, and, genuinely, Toy Story's Woody and Buzz Lightyear: that's the actual spread of Rivals Corner's Figure-rise Standard collection. This isn't a Gundam side-line with a couple of guest characters. It's Bandai applying the same posable-figure engineering across almost every franchise it can license.
Build a Figure-rise kit and the "Muscle Build System" shows up in the more advanced releases, joints engineered around actual human anatomy rather than simple ball-and-socket connections. Interchangeable expressions and hand parts let you recreate specific scenes rather than one static pose. Snap the frame together first, then layer detail parts on top. Get the joints seated properly and the figure holds genuinely dynamic action poses other lines can't manage.
Which figure earns the shelf first? Figure-rise Standard Amplified The Winged Dragon of Ra (Yu-Gi-Oh!) brings one of the game's Egyptian God cards to life at real scale, the single most-searched product in this whole collection. Figure-rise Standard Amplified Black Luster Soldier (Yu-Gi-Oh!) rounds out the Duel Monsters side of the range. Figure-rise Standard Piccolo (Renewal Package Ver.) covers the Dragon Ball Z side.
Building actual Gundam kits too? Gunpla [All] covers the wider Gundam range. New to Bandai's other model lines? Kotobukiya and Nanoblocks cover different corners of the same "beyond Gundam" space.