Oh I don't intend to!

No, those are place holder pages. They'll be up in the next 5-10 minutes.

4pm Japanese time is 2am EST.

Well, I guess I missed the AmiAmi pre-order. no biggy, I thought, I'll go to HobbySearch. It's 500 yen more there. Which I guess isn't a lot. But I'm guessing, as a regular release, this one will be cheaper on Mandarake, at least for a little while. I got all the others cheaper there, except Gai, dangit. Why must he continue to elude me?!

Mandarake's a good bet. And it'll be at Amazon for a while probably too. Amazon's price shipped will be about the same as HobbySearch + shipping.

Wow, that went fast on AmiAmi (and I missed it since I had to wake up early today...), but won't they put up more? For example, I remember D-Arts Mewtwo selling out on AmiAmi at least 3 or 4 times, and each time he went back up for sale, so won't the same thing happen here?

I missed out on it at first and got a restock two hours later. Copy the page link and get an account at figinstock.com. They'll restock at least a couple more times.

FigInStock is great, that's how I was able to catch Magnugiga and Genocider at relatively good prices, while still in stock.

However, with Gai, the only two times it's sent me an email for him, he's already been sold out. at 9000 and 10000 yen. :(

I've not really tried it with AmiAmi, I'll give it a shot.

Gai's just plain scarce. I don't envy you your quest.

Why not get the Figma? It's not a perfect substitute, but it's a better alternative at this point.

That's what I did for Gai/Thrust. I got him for around $15 including SAL shipping. He was supposedly used but when I got it the box was sealed and all that plastic paper was in between his joints, so that's nice. I also got Figma Spear (argh, can't remember his other name) because I don't really care about the character and he still looks good next to Figuarts Axe/Tiger. Will probably also get a few of the other cheaper Figma Riders too.