But a straight up rerelease for a US only run? No changes to packaging or anything either? I just cant see that happening for the Gokai girls. The guys maybe, but then, what about the Darins?

He said there wasn't going to be a US run. I think the ship has sailed for Bluefin releasing the Gokaigers... Too bad for those that don't have the Gokai girls yet, because "yikes" at those prices! I think I got my two for 7000Y each last year.

Thats what Im saying, how do tamashii web items get rereleases? Unless someone found a stock of them. I might just not be getting it here, but I dont know.

Those dang prices for those two are what makes my Gokai SHF collection incomplete. Red and Blue would be easy, if I could ever find them.

Who said?

In rare cases, Bandai simply decides to offer another run. It happens rarely, but it does. Most commonly, this is with certain Tamashii event figures, when they're not merely leftovers offered via lottery but actual preorders instead. The TaJaDol Effects set is one case where a normal Tamashii Web release simply got a second run outright. So did Blade King Form, to help meet some of the demand for the figure.

The difference there is that although those items received another run, they remained exclusive to Tamashii Web. A straight reissue of an exclusive that is also no longer an exclusive is unlikely. So, any hypothetical reissue of the female Gokaigers would at least be cheaper than secondary market prices but still cost a bit more than the boys due to the necessity of a middleman.

Why Bandai would waste time reissuing Gokai Blue and Green, poor selling figures that they were and the signal that anyone not a red would be exclusive, is beyond me. I'd need a source more reliable than some guy at Image Anime to believe this (not that I'm in the market for SHF Gokaigers).

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That's all I have to say about that...

The guy from Image Anime that MetroPoliceGray was talking to.

I don't really keep track of BlueFin because I've no huge interest in them, but have they ever released something so far after release date in Japan as it'd be for a US Gokaiger release?

I highly doubt Bluefin would have them on display at conventions if they weren't planning on doing something with them.

Just cause something's on display doesn't mean plans can't change afterwards. We've only seen the Gokaiger figuarts on display at SDCC last year. That's it.

I'd say if we don't see them again at SDCC this year then it'd be safe to say the Super Megaforce releases are scrapped.

Tell that to all those Ranger Keys. Displays are often not reflective of what actually happens. Bluefin seems to specialize in hyping up things that aren't happening.

And this wasn't the first time the Gokaigers have been displayed, is it? I really don't think they're coming. Eitherway, they've been awfully quiet about it since SDCC and Bluefin aren't exactly quiet, they love hyping up releases that are even just in the talking stage of (like shieldless MMPR Green and Armored MMPR Black). If a US Gokaiger release was happening, I'm sure they'd be talking about it often.

Anyway, what's everyone's experience with Mandarake Umeda? Its been 4 days and no Order Confirmation, I even replied and asked for it personally after 3 Days like they advised... Really don't want to miss out on the cheap Yellow Buster and Gorisaki I nabbed!

In other news, I was playing with Black Condor last night and was therefore reminded what an epic figure he and Red Hawk are. I swear, the Jetman are the pinnacle of Figuarts releases; beautiful sculpts, awesome articulation and generous and well thought out accessories. It is a travesty that we don't have White Swan, Yellow Owl and Blue Swallow yet. I swear I'd sacrifice any and every upcoming Figuarts release both announced and unannounced to get those three on my shelf. Bandai could charge me anything, just give me those darn Jetman!