The December wave of Figuarts is now up for pre-order at HLJ :)

https://hlj.com/product/BANN09507
https://hlj.com/product/BANN15176
https://hlj.com/product/BANN19189

I forgot about preorders (again) and went to bed. Luckily everything was still available at AmiAmi. I expected more demand for some of the releases.

I was afraid that some people might've forgotten considering the morning pre-orders go up this thread usually has a few replies from fellow collectors sharing what they pre-ordered, but it was a bit empty in here this time :lol

Glad you could get everything you wanted, I secured Takeshi Hongo, Rider 1 and Ultraman Orb!

Thanks! Thanks for the post, too. I forgot to mention it but if it hadn't been for your post I'd have not gone to see if they were still up. Glad you got what you were aiming for, too! Swap out the awful head sculpt Wonder Woman for Ultraman Orb and we got basically the same list. :D

Yay, nothing I need to get that Bluefin won't release this time around.

HLJ is taking preorders for Hongo and Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider 1 again.

Got my Sigma last night. He is awesome! Love the paint work on him and he's fun to pose (although the neck on mine is rather loose).

On an odd note, noticed on the shipping label from Nippon Yasan that they grossly over-exaggerated the content value of the package. Been a while since I ordered from them, but never really noticed it before. It was at least 3 times the actual price of the figure... No problems here, but that would be an issue for some in other countries right? If so, that's really low of them and gotta suck. :/

No real issue, what usually happens is if the value declared on the package is low enough they don't bother charging the taxes but if the value is high and there's no bill attached then they want you to come and pick up the package yourself, with the actual bill of what you paid, which they use to calculate your taxes.

So it's either low enough that you don't pay anything whatsoever and if it's too high you have the bill of what you actually paid, they can't charge you based on what some dude wrote on the label. I can only speak for Europe of course, who knows what's going on in other parts of the world import-wise.

It's still a bit weird that they do that, possibly just a human error when they wrote the value down.

Yeah, can't say I've ever had it raised. Usually they put it as like 1000-2000 yen, and that's on Masterpiece Transformers as well.

Ultraman Orb Origin and Origin The First will be released on August 11th, so Tamashii posted a blog with some sweet pictures as well as shots of the packaging:

http://blog.livedoor.jp/shfiguarts/a...067031025.html

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

http://i.imgur.com/WgB9j0t.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/W4rbRoQ.jpg

Argh, cannot wait. And my Orb Origin will have to sit a week in my private warehouse too... :(