I think we would?ve seen an announcement for a rerelease, but I believe there was other listings for the figure that went up on PB after the event, so maybe it?s those copies that started to trickle out

Sometimes though when there?s a good price like this, it could mean there?s something wrong with the item; broken or missing pieces or something really trivial like damaged box or missing instructions.

If you?re able to get it though you hit the jackpot

Don't think it's an issue with broken pieces as almost every listing for Old No. 1 on Mandarake were down to 8500-9000 ish

Yeah the listings were for unopened items so I'm hoping I'm able to secure it because it takes awhile for sold out listings to update and it was about 6 mins past the top of the hour when I noticed it. If I get an email saying it's sold out then I won't be disappointed but it was definitely a surreal moment that I kept looking to make sure I wasn't going crazy

If I had to guess, enough people now own Shin Kamen Rider and it scratches the same itch.

Source: Me. I am people.

I was able to secure my order for new original Ichigo and indeed looks like his price has dropped on Mandarake because all new listings are showing up as 9500 yen.

Whatever the reason for the drop in price don't matter to me because I'm happy to have this Ichigo soon in my collection.

For whoever else has been holding out as well for a more reasonable price I too hope you're able to get one now

Huh, time to start camping Mandarake every night again

For me shipping came out to 4500 yen via DHL and into the total cost converted to $102 and some change.

I guess Ichigo's box is not a standard size because I thought shipping was around 3000 yen still for dhl from Mandarake. I haven't bought anything from them since the end of January this year which surprised me

Battle Hopper looks very nice and the alternate head makes me want to see Bandai start including alternate head or face plates that can mimic the glowing eyes effect with future Rider releases.

Might be hard to do though but I'm happy with shfupgrade and their led heads

Just ordered this today- SHFiguarts Rider #648..