[Den-O]

I really don't feel the initial shortages were intentional. We've seen the sales numbers. Kamen Rider toy sales increased literally 392% this year. They couldn't have had any idea whatsoever that would happen. Blaming them for the scarcity is pointless.

The fact that several figures have wound up as Bandai Premium Exclusives tells me they didn't expect to sell the initial waves of figures this well. And the only way they could get the non-main riders out was to do the exclusive treatment after the fact. They weren't prepared for this. I would speculate they had no plans to produce riders like Bravo, Knuckle, etc originally.