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We can currently hope that they will do Rider, Sentai and Ultraman stuff on their shop. At least future Tiger & Bunny figures will be easier to buy now given that Bluefin stop importing them.

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Originally Posted by Kickback

Speculation, but this could be the beginning of the end for Bluefin. When we were told of this at NYCC it was "super duper uber secret do not share" information and we figured it could change the entire face of the import business, both for Bluefin, but also for middle-man services.

Who knows? Exciting either way.

It won't surprise me if this is true since collector stores are lucky enough to be alive today. I believe the Internet has hurt collector stores thanks to Amazon and Ebay seeing that everyone buys things online now these day. During the 80's. 90's and the early 2000's, collector stores were very common to find and you can buy Japanese imported stuff pretty easy depending where you lived. I grew up going to Japanese imported stores at my local malls as a kid and buying imported toys of Godzilla, Pokemon, Digimon, Zoids and DBZ. Compare to the 90's and the early part of the 2000's, the Internet was hardly a thing and didn't catch up to people's houses until like 2004 or 2005.

This could be view as a both good and bad thing. It will be cheaper for people now without paying so much for shipping and importing fees but collector stores could be totally dead in the next few years. Nothing beats the feel of walking into a store and seeing all cool Japanese imported stuff. That was my favorite part as a kid seeing stuff for Japanese shows, movies and video games that I never heard of and seen before.