They ship most of their exclusives to the US. The only catch is that they charge a flat 2000 yen shipping rate for EMS.

Got my payment request for Zelda and Link yesterday. Just waiting to get paid first heh. But should have them next week. ^_^

Thanks for the info! I've been charged worse for shipping but I appreciate the warning.

Pictures of Figma Red with the three starters have been released:

http://i.imgur.com/MClcyRO.jpg

and Pikachu:

http://i.imgur.com/v0KTz2U.jpg

A lot more photos here: http://www.taghobby.com/archives/199140

so has nintendo shared the pokemon licese to both figma and Tamashi as tamashi doing ASh and Team Rocke.

Yeah, GoodSmile Company's had the license for a while and been making Nendoroids.

Not sure which Pikachu I want with Red but probably going with the winking one. Just kinda cute..

Apparently, Standard pikachu is Pokemon Center exclusive while the winking one is GSC Online exclusive.

Really? I thought the winking one was just an alternate head. lol. If that's the case then even better!

Edit: Read that wrong, thought standard Pikachu came with regular release. Guess I won't have a Pikachu for Red. At least SHF Ash comes with one I think.

Son of a bitch the GSC one only ships to Hong Kong, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore. I wanted that winking Pikachu. :(

Yeah, it feels odd that they'd make a mascot character a Japan only exclusive like that.

If anyone finds a middleman service to get one of the Pikachus, please do share. :/

I'm hesitating ordering the normal release in case somebody does offer it and since I'd probably go through AmiAmi don't want to deal with their cancellation crap...