[bluesparrow]

That's a great price.

Also did everyone here not watch that cool interview one of the staff from this site did with a Tamashii Nations employee last year? They explained about the exclusives. Some franchises like DBZ, MonsterArts, and (some) D-Arts are much more popular in the US, so the decision to make them is based on US sales.

In those cases, Bandai is making them for the US market first, and the Japanese market second. With those lines, it's not a case of Bluefin negotiating for some of the exclusive stock, but a case that without the US interest those figures wouldn't be made at all, even as Japanese exclusives. The DBZ SHF bombed in Japan. But since they're now making them for the US market, they might as well offer them as exclusives to the few Japanese collectors who want them.

It's the reverse for Kamen Rider. Since there is no Kamen Rider media presence in the US, Bandai is skeptical about the appeal of KR merchandise in the US. Bluefin WANTS to be able to release the exclusives, but they are not allowed to. We're lucky we even get the standard releases.