Hey Meteor, have you been to Anime Pavilion's store in Fairfax, VA? I was wondering if it's worth the trip. You live slightly closer to it than I do, so I thought there might be a chance you have. They have some SHF on their site(nothing rare IIRC) but I get the impression they don't put everything on their site, they go to a lot of cons.

BTW thanks for the review of Muteki, I jumped on their remaining Shadow Moon just now.

I didnt know they existed until now. But now that I know , I may have to road trip out there. I'm glad I could help out with you getting a Shadow Moon.

man i need a shadow moon 2 complete my black serise of figuarts due to the fact i have black and black rx and it to expnsive on ebay and amszon .co.uk

Buahaha! I finally got a DX Beat Chaser/ Gouram! Just scored one on Mandarake for 3500 yen. I'm sure that at this point we'll never get a Figuarts release of this bike so I'll take this one :D

This is a pretty stupid question, but with Mandarake are the items all used or new? I keep hearing "I got X cheap on Mandarake" and kind of want to get in on that since I'm ballin' on a budget...

They're used in that they're all pre-owned, but most of the SHFs I've purchased haven't even been opened, and those few that have been actually used, are still in excellent condition.

How much do they usually charge for EMS shipping for 1 Figuart in the regular thin box?

Thats not really how it works. They dont ship them in those flat brown shippers boxes if thats what you're talking about. They use their own boxes of varying size depending on how big the item is. For one Figuart the box is probably gonna be 6X6X8 roughly. And since the shipping is based on weight its rough to determine. You can usually estimate about 1500 yen shipping for one figuart.

When I said thin box I meant just a regular Figuart - for weight purposes, since Ryuki is obviously heavier then say Decade. I'm eyeing that 1500 Yen Dekared... would that translate to around 40 dollars shipped?

That sounds about right. $45 just to be safe.