Thanks for that. I knew they were moving to a new warehouse, but that was the last I'd seen anything. Looks like I'll just move over to Toku Taku for my new preorders. I'm sick of the awful communication they've had in recent months.

I don't remember Figuarts preorders being this difficult to get. It appears AmiAmi and HLJ stopped taking preorders for the Drive and Machine Chaser Figuarts in under a day. I haven't been buying these for all that long; is this normal?

Not even a day; try seconds or minutes. It's always been that way for the Riders since I got in a few years ago.

Ami Ami and NY are Japanese sites, so you have fans pre-ordering things faster then we could do since they are in a different time zone as us. I doubt the Drive SHF will be super high on the after market like what happen with Gaim. Drive is not as popular as Gaim, so I doubt scalpers and importing fees on sites like Big Bad Toy Store will sell them for super high prices.

BBTS - usually my go-to for Figuarts - didn't solicit Drive or Chaser. (Their prices are also variable; their preorder price for the Gaim Pine/Baron Mango set is outrageous, but Gaim Kiwami Arms seemed reasonable to me.)

*looks at the Luke Skywalker figuart that is coming soon*

So what's the release date for Blue Beet again? I was wondering when NY will start shipping him out?

The payment due date isn't until the 20th from N-Y. I'd expect the 24th is a likely release date.

Bandai's site has Blue Beet's release date as the 23rd
http://p-bandai.jp/tamashiiwebshoute...em-1000090775/

That's due, in part, to Gaim Kiwami being a retail release while the two-pack is a web exclusive. Their prices on non-Bluefin web exclusives that they actually have to import has always been really pricey.

With Drive & Chaser, presumably they're not sure they can actually get any? With Bluefin unable to acquire the license for Gaim (and unable/unwilling to get the Drive license, since they're dropping toku-related Figuarts anyways), they're left importing them directly like web exclusives and they haven't always had the best of luck for non-Bluefin stuff they have to acquire themselves. For a long time any of their Showa Ultra-Act listings were taken with a grain of salt since they wouldn't always be able to fulfill them (until legal roadblocks were cleared and Bluefin could get them).