Talked about what? I know why Nippon Yasan were supposedly dropping the "pay later" option, but the fact is they didn't - at least not properly anyway. I've preordered a bunch of Tamashii web exclusives (KR Chaser, Garo, SIC Hakaider) since the issue came up and chose pay later, yet for this figure they aren't giving customers the option.

There's more to it than simply Bandai's change of policy, otherwise no exclusives at all would have the pay later option.

Didn't he say it was based on the size (price) of the order?

NY could simply be choosing not to cross that threshold for certain months (and can therefore keep the Pay Later option on some items), but will be on others (and so removed the Pay Later option on some items).

That's great. Can we get a solid reason why preorders were pulled for a bunch of stuff due out in the next few months and why people are apparently having preorders outright canceled (as is the case of Gohan, if I understand correctly)?

Yeah the thing I outlined was simply the only explanation to their behavior, as confirmed by Sentai Tamashii's middleman service it lines up. I have no idea why they're being selective about it with items now though, but there is a yen limit now on mass web exclusive monthly orders. No idea what they're doing that allows some items to still be pay later, but frankly I doubt we'll ever really know either.

Yeah, that pisses me off, especially when I preordered him on the first day. I sent them an email and they told me they did give me the option to have my order canceled or not. BULL****!!

I have a feeling it is because the release dates were completely wrong so they just decided to cancel most of it because it was too many items at one time to just delay.

Reading elsewhere that some issue between Disney and Bandai (probably Hasbro really...) is making it so no Star Wars 1:12 model kits are going to be able to be sold from Japan internationally after September 20th. So HLJ, for example, is having a sale on them right now to try and get rid of everything they have.

Can anyone verify this? It has me pretty worried about future availability of Star Wars too. :(

That really sucks if its true.

I wouldn’t be too afraid about Figuarts. Bluefin has no intent to sell those stateside, and I don't believe Disney intends to fuck with international customer with this line, since they already have plenty of figures in the US (and elsewhere) that cover the market well enough.

Model Kits is probably something they want to do again (or already announced, don't follow this topic) so they axed the sale of the Japanese ones internationally.

Also, if the SHF line had any trouble I doubt Tamashii would just announce the new "The Force Awakens" lineup. If there were trouble, we would have heard about it by now.

That's interesting. Does Hasbro make model kits?

My Gohan pre-order with Amazon is still there so knock on wood that they don't decide to cancel all of them.

On a separate note, I just got payment request from NY for the Premium Colour Vegeta. :(