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Originally Posted by ShiShiLeo

The candy toy stuff is incredibly hard to sell outside of Japan. The margins are super thin compared to figures and statues. They were really designed to be impulse buy and promotional stuff with inherent collectability (blind boxes, chase figures, sold as box sets etc) - all things that don't translate well when being brought over as import toys.

That being said, they've gotten so good now and many view them as outright collector's pieces which can sometimes be more rare than a Figure or DX toy. I hope Bandai can figure something out because the candy toy division is doing some amazing thigs right now.

Bluefin's Team Rider has started venturing into SO-DO and SHODO. I really hope they can work out a profitable way to make candy toy stuff more available in the West.