[Baltan II]

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Originally Posted by Kickback

Speculation, but this could be the beginning of the end for Bluefin.

In what way do you think? Bluefin still handles importation of all the Tamashii retail releases, merchandise from other Japanese companies, and are soon extending into their own unique ventures. If you mean as the source of all exclusives for North America, maybe but doubtful as some franchises will still have licensing to consider that could mean some exclusives got cut off from the North American market entirely, and I don't see with this deal being common knowledge on both sides that it would be part of a larger plan to kill the Bluefin-Bandai partnership.

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Originally Posted by DrillBIT

To be honest I don't think they will have the Super Sentai and Rider merchandise for this shop.
Hong Kong and Taiwan also has their own webshops, but they don't have everything from the Japanese shop.

I don't expect a perfect 1:1 distribution between the Japanese and North American shops, but so far I have noticed that both the Hong Kong and Taiwanese shops have had no issue with selling Kamen Rider merchandise (Taiwan's missing a lot of Figuarts for some reason though, opting to go with SIC, CSM and the exclusive Arms Change among other things). We can speculate, but there's not really enough information this early on to know what can and can't be offered, besides One Piece Figuarts Zero.

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Originally Posted by DrillBIT

My guess is the shop will only carry whatever is being shown and promoted in the designated area. Doraemon, One Piece, Star Wars, Hello Kitty, Disney stuff will probably be the things they are trying to sell here.

What designated area?

Star Wars is more likely than not one of the properties that won't be able to ship here, due to existing licensing with Hasbro.

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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

Looks like shipping is 2000 yen. It's pretty pricey for shipping, but I guess if we want to show support to the site then I won't mind dropping $20 on it. At least it will be pretty fast though. I've been wanting Tamashii Web Shop to sell internationally for years now and I finally got it.

That's a decent price for EMS, considering it's flat-rate per order. More than one figure in a single order and shipping speed can more than make up for lack of alternate methods.