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Originally Posted by goldblade6

This is great and all, but can you seriously tell me that this character will sell better or is more deserving of a Figuarts than countless other Super Sentai options? Ugh..... What is up with the total abandonment of any Super Sentai releases? Get with it Figuarts!

Considering Metal Hero & Sentai releases have nothing to do with each other I don't see what you're getting at. Sentai releases have sold well enough but a majority of Sentai releases became exclusives over time because the franchise didn't do great at retail the last few years.

On the flip side no Metal Hero has EVER been a retail release, but the sales numbers for recent Metal Hero exclusives have been incredibly encouraging. Enough that Bandai sees an actual market for it at retail that simply doesn't exist for sentai figuarts in the same way. This release is in direction correlation with how collectors are spending their money. The numbers don't lie. That's why this figure is happening.

The western market demands sentai figuarts because of power rangers far more than the Japanese market, which is the one that determines what gets made in the first place. Too often people lament the fact that some release they don't deem "deserving" enough has "taken" the spot of what could have been a sentai release. But that simply isn't how it works.