Dat Absurd Price Tag....

Can anyone tell me off hand what the chances are CStoys would combine orders if I make another one today? I already ordered the Kiwi/Mango Arms set which I did as a rapid buy it now but I'm thinking of getting a few more lock seeds through them.

And hey more annoying questions, anyone know what lockseeds are in Capsule Toy set #9?

Can't help you with CSToys as I've only ordered from them once but with regards to Capsule Toy set 09, this might be it:

http://www.bandai-asia.com/newsite/p...gid=2&tid=4055

Luckily I didn't really want any LED versions, all of the rider locks are still in stock now, so even if I hadn't ordered at activation, I would've gotten it.

There's lots of hints at it on the site. For starters the "New Arrivals" tab coupled with the big yellow countdown right above it.

They activate new items every Sunday at 8pm JST. They'll usually have one or two videos on YouTube showing what items they got in. Usually uploaded in the Thursday-Saturday range. If you follow their ustream channel, you can watch the unboxings live. Alternatively, you can just sign up for their newsletter which tells you what they will be activating and how many of each item.

An important thing to note is that if you're looking for Candy Toy or Gashapon items, they're usually not included in the big shipment videos because they haven't got them in yet. Those usually arrive on Saturday and they will do demos which are live on ustream and then uploaded to YouTube.

They can ship them in the same box for you, but you'll still pay shipping cost twice. They don't have a dynamic way of combining shipping like other places.

And Set 9 is Blade/Kiva. Set 8 is Kabuto/Momotaros.

Because anybody who hasn't ordered from the site before is supposed to know what the countdown freaking means. On the listing for the item itself, it said nowhere "coming soon" or "in stock soon" (like AmiAmi does now). Just "out of stock" at the time (and again now since it legitimately is). So you expect me to take it as meaning anything else?

Yeah I don't do streams. Nor does this sound like a particularly exciting one to watch anyways. Don't think I should have to watch a video to see what they actually have in stock either... I can understand the courtesy of it, but it seems like an incredible waste to me if I'm only waiting for one thing.

So the newsletter would be better but since they apparently don't know what candy toy or gashapon items they'll get (since literally all I want is the Kiva Lock Seed), what's the point in that too (for my purposes)?

The countdown is labeled "Next Sunday Activation"

CSToys is a small store. They can't run things like AmiAmi or other larger sites.

You can usually count on them getting the gashapon/candy toy sets on time. Or even a week late(as is the case of Gash set 08) the numbers for gashapon are always the same. They come in sets of 50. 45 regulars and 5 LED. Adjusted to 44 and 4 because of the ones they use for demo/display.
Candy tends to vary. Sometimes they'll get more, sometimes they'll get less.
If you don't want to hassle with any of this, I woudn't mind helping you out with info if you want anything in the future.

Also, there's not really a point in checking, because Gash/Candy don't get restocked. You're only bet now is to check Mandarake. Will probably be in the 1500-2000 range if/when you find one.

If they don't restock those (why??), then there's not any point left for me right now. :/ Thanks for the offer though.

It's simply because the gashapon/candy stuff only sees one production run. Nearly all of them end up in machines. Or stores for candy toy. Once they're gone, they're gone. They don't see continued production like the gimmick line/DX stuff does.

There are other stores that offer gashapon, but usually at higher prices and not nearly as easy to deal with.

Alright... so what should I enter on Mandarake for Lock Seeds...

ロックシード

:)