My Probleam with Sentai Figuarts
 

ok i havent started getting them yet but this been bugging me for so long now. i want to get sentai figuarts but i want the hole team the thing i hate bout getting the hole team is most of the rest are exclusives does any one else think they should make a hole sentai team as non exclusive and have the monsters and foot shoilders as exclusive.

post your thought below

One word. Akibaranger.

Interestingly they did it with Akibarangers where the entire team is mass released and the bad guy is an exclusive. I think the problem is that a normal Sentai team has lot more member, and since most kids identify with the leader more, that makes the rest more expendable. You do have to remember though, that for Japanese residents order stuff from Tamashii Web Shop is not a big deal, it is only for the customers overseas, which technically isn't even supposed to happen, because you can only order via a middleman or proxy buyer.

Its annoying, but given that Gokai Blue/Green/Silver didn't seem to sell all that well I can't really blame Bandai. Another problem I'd imagine there would be if they were all mass release is that they'd clog up a lot of release space, (5-6 months if they were released consecutively). That's all well and good if you want a specific team, but then that alienates everyone who doesn't want to complete said team by putting off other ones.

You underestimate Bandai's love of our money. Do you know the rest of the team are usually exclusives? Because they know we'll buy them. Oh, we'll bitch. But we'll buy them.

This sums it up really well. The US market and how "hard" it is for us to get web exclusives doesn't play in. Seeing people bitch about exclusives gets kind of old when there's any number of middlemen (like Sentai Tamashii) to hook you up with these things. The prices may be inflated a bit when they're exclusive releases but again, if you lived in Japan, it doesn't matter much at all. As long as it's a team that not currently airing I completely understand why half or more have to be exclusive. Same can be said of the old Showa Riders.

The big reason I see is market flooding. If they release an entire team, then entire teams will be taking up all the shelf space on the market.
For example, if they decided to mass release Go-Onger, then that'd be, like, 8 months straight of JUST Go-Onger Figuarts. Adding in that only Red ever seems to turn in a decent profit in the mass market, and you just set yourself up for disaster just so that the FEW (Note: Few.) collectors who desire to have an entire team for cheap (For lack of a better word) can be happy.

I would kill for a complete Go-Onger team :(

Sentai Figuarts just don't sell that well to be honest. Even the reds don't make that much money for Bandai. There just isn't much interest in Sentai Figuarts as there is in others so naturally Bandai's only choice is to release figures as exclusives. It's a shame but there just isn't enough demand for full Sentai teams to be released at retail. Akibaranger was an exception but Tamashii Nations went all out on Akibaranger, not to mention that Akibaranger was a show catered to adults and older teenagers.

This stopped bugging me a while ago. Because I understand the reasoning behind it. And if I really want to complete a certain team, it's worth it to me even if the exclusives don't come with extra accessories. In any case it's still better than paying after market prices on exclusive. Those can be RIDICULOUS.

I missed out on a $75 ShinkenGreen(used, but only for display) a couple weeks ago. Made me sad. The next cheapest one I found was on ebay for $123 shipped.