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Originally Posted by Den-O

The point is that North American buyers are not exclusively Power Rangers only fans. Alot of us keep up with Sentai and tokusatsu in general as well. In fact Bluefin caters to this by releasing such things as Showa Kamen Riders or Red hawk and Black Condor, or Ultra-Acts, or Super Robot Chogokins, etc. So saying something like "most american audiences don't even care" is just flat out wrong. The audience or viewership of Power Rangers as a program literally doesn't matter here. It's about collectors buying a high end collectors item.

Parents don't go to their local comic shop and spend $40 on these things for their kids. Look at the sales of Shinken Gold & Red at TRU as all the proof you need that the broad consumer market here doesn't support that line. Speicalty shops, online retailers, and collectors however do. And while I recognize, as I've said numerous times, why Bluefin can't release certain things here (like accessories pertaining to Akibaranger) that doesn't change the fact that I'm not buying a figure altered from it's original release like that.

I want the figure, I don't care if a "crappy accessory" or an "extra piece" is all that's missing. I'm a collector. I want the figure as it's supposed to be. Not a second release with less accessories, that after tacked on import fees for Bluefin winds up being more expensive than just buying it through an online retailer like Amiami.

I'm a sentai fan and I still know crap all about Akibaranger. I don't get this weird association in this thread that you cant have one without the other. And as such, that is why I don't think the figure is 'the way it is supposed to be' because one version has an extra, and completely irrelevant accessory. If it was different hands, weapons or general items that related to the character themselves from their series then I'd understand and I'd be pissed as well but it's just a chest piece from another series.