No. The cards have different names and therefore count as different cards (therefore you can have three of each, but they don't count as each other).
No, there is no other method to summon Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon other than tributing one Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
Its biggest weakness is its summoning condition, being that you first need to summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. When you do summon it, it is also easily dealt with by non-targetting effects, like Mirror Force, Lightning Vortex, Smashing Ground, etc.
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Yes, as long as you have a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon in your Extra Deck. This is because it's effect is:Pay 5000 Life Points. Special Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Fusion Deck to the field in Attack Position.(Fusion Deck is now Extra Deck, because of Synchro Monsters)
Get three blue eyes white dragons, (all must be at lvl 2) on any game, at the very beginning, summon just those three, then keep ending your turn until your AP is completely full. Click on one of the dragons when it's your turn and select "fusion". Then they will be fused together, you will lose all three blue eyes, but you get to keep Blue eyes ultimate dragon forever!! That's right, you'll never need to fuse them again, you can just summon him.
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon - root Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon - Fusion monster utilizing 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragons Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon - Can be Special Summoned by Tributing a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon Paladin of White Dragon - Can be Tributed to Special Summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon SIN Blue-Eyes White Dragon - Alternate form of Blue-Eyes White Dragon, to be released in Duelist Pack Kaiba in April 2010.
Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon cannot be special summoned except by tributing a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. There is simply no way around it. The Hex-Sealed Fusions are 'fusion substitutes' meaning they can take the place of a fusion component for a Fusion Summon. You may use The Light and two Blue-Eyes White Dragons to summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, but apart from that, it has no way to combo with Shining Dragon at all.
No. Soul Exchange's effect is to sacrifice one of your opponents monsters for a tribute summon. Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon can only be summoned by sacrificing a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, which can be summoned by fusing 3 Blue-Eyes White Dragons with Polymerization.
you gotta get 3 of them then get the ritual card from kaiba.
Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon appears as a Super Rare card in the "World Championship Edition 3" booster pack.