A big THANK YOU for everyone putting up information about these wonderful things

What places were good for pre-orders last year? Did Hobby-Genki carry them? I've seen listings on their website for the 2020 and 2021 exclusives but I don't know if those were pre-orders at first or if they got stock after the fact

They do have, but you may have to pay premium for them and even so, it will be sold out in minutes if not seconds.

This is your experience I take it? :(

For this year's exclusive, particularly ichigo, that's what I am expecting.

Btw, I kind of remember the price for last years' exclusive on HobbyGenki is double of the retail price.

I think it will depend on how they handle it. In 2020 they had "public" days during which everyone could order the event exclusives on PB; I remember easily getting Shining Hopper from a middleman.

2021 though, they first announced public days but then later cancelled them and everyone who wanted the exclusives needed to be a club member. Needless to say, middleman listings were scarce and expensive.

I feel like I have seen new condition hellrising hopper for $100-$125 from resellers. Pretty expensive, but not, like, unattainably expensive.

I did not see any preorder links for any of the tamashii convention exclusive figuarts from last year. However, they all made their way to mandarake eventually, so you have options if you don’t mind getting a preowned one. It might end up being the same with this wave, or at least some of the ones from this wave. (Nobody talking about Evil Trigger, so hopefully that will be easy for a dirt grub like me to get. And zenkaizer black. That’s the other one I want).

It's Original Colours #1 I want, and that's the one I specifically think will be very expensive on the aftermarket... Sakurajima was also Tamashii Nations exclusive and that goes for something like 20,000 yen now. Even the normal retail release of #1 goes for 12,000

It looks like aside from Jack Revice later, you either have to be a club member or get a lottery sale

https://i.imgur.com/wmZD1Ak.png

Best of luck on that. At least you are preparing early.