Looks like shipping is 2000 yen. It's pretty pricey for shipping, but I guess if we want to show support to the site then I won't mind dropping $20 on it. At least it will be pretty fast though. I've been wanting Tamashii Web Shop to sell internationally for years now and I finally got it.

My body is ready. My wallet, however, is not. :lol Make sure you guys fill out the survey and tell them that you want toku stuff! I'm so excited!

In what way do you think? Bluefin still handles importation of all the Tamashii retail releases, merchandise from other Japanese companies, and are soon extending into their own unique ventures. If you mean as the source of all exclusives for North America, maybe but doubtful as some franchises will still have licensing to consider that could mean some exclusives got cut off from the North American market entirely, and I don't see with this deal being common knowledge on both sides that it would be part of a larger plan to kill the Bluefin-Bandai partnership.

I don't expect a perfect 1:1 distribution between the Japanese and North American shops, but so far I have noticed that both the Hong Kong and Taiwanese shops have had no issue with selling Kamen Rider merchandise (Taiwan's missing a lot of Figuarts for some reason though, opting to go with SIC, CSM and the exclusive Arms Change among other things). We can speculate, but there's not really enough information this early on to know what can and can't be offered, besides One Piece Figuarts Zero.

What designated area?

Star Wars is more likely than not one of the properties that won't be able to ship here, due to existing licensing with Hasbro.

That's a decent price for EMS, considering it's flat-rate per order. More than one figure in a single order and shipping speed can more than make up for lack of alternate methods.

Could this North American web shop lead to NA exclusive figures made exclusive to the North America market that can only bought on the NA Tamashii Webshop? For example, S.H Figuarts Zord Zedd or Mortal Kombat S.H Figuarts since they are figures based on things non existent in Japan and only in North America. If Japan can have their own exclusives, so why not North America :D.

YES, I don't fully know what all this will entail, but so far it sounds like it's gona be good!

I think that's jumping ahead way too much, considering we don't even know what they will and won't be able to sell yet. Even though they're doing this, I don't think this means that North American buying power is strong enough to create an exclusive solely available to this webshop vs the main one.

Sssshhhhh! *whispering* Let us dream.

Wow, this is a HUGE step forward! Think we'll see some American exclusive stuff on there? That would eventually make it to the Japanese store of course.

I don't know if we will ever see American exclusive stuff; I think they would still need to go through Bluefin with all of that.