[TheRaizin]

Huh. I don't recall Saber and Blades combined costing you 10,000 yen. I got both for 80$.

Gaim was indeed the best value in SHF, but it's also probably what ultimately scared Bandai from deciding what is retail and what becomes webshop. The retails were the four main guys, and two of Gaim's forms. Now, it may just be because of time, but four out of six of those figures are still widely available, many of the other riders in the P-Bandai shop are also going for cheap.

Bandai saw that as probably a bad thing and got scared. Evident with Drive when Tridoron, Formula, and KR Chaser were P-Bandai when I would've thought at least two out of those three had a right in being retail. Ghost (mostly Necrom) got the shortest end of the stick.

Build to Zero-One were the worst, obviously. Now, I shudder at the thought of Espada being P-Bandai (which he totally is) and the rest of SOL.