[Kiryu]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

I just don't understand your anger. Or anyone's for that matter. Gold Drive isn't keeping Tridoron from happening, or even changing his release venue so don't infer that. Gold Drive is an incredibly easy repaint that requires no new molding at all to release. Tridoron is a mostly new sculpt with a ton of brand new accessories and it's the final form of a rider from a show that ended nearly a year ago, it was never not going to be an exclusive.

But it is an exclusive. Which only means it's marginally more difficult to get than a retail release. Oh wait, no it isn't. Retail releases require you to fight at specific and often inconvenient times to pre-order something through a retailer who may or may not have provided enough stock to cover all those interested.

With exclusives you just order through the middleman and done. They are a little more expensive initially, but the ease of obtaining them greatly outweighs that in my opinion. I just don't see why people throw a tantrum when they find out a figure is going to be exclusive rather than retail, frankly it just isn't a big deal.

THIS

Guys, web exclusives are NOT all that difficult to get ahold of these days, especially now that we have sites like Mandarake.

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Originally Posted by Electric Turahk

And I just don't understand why you feel the necessity to swoop in and defend the practice every single time this happens and belittle everyone disagreeing with you as just being cranky children. Honestly more tired of seeing that predictable response than the predictable complaints. Meanwhile, people not wanting to pay more for something they see of equivalent value makes complete sense to me.

Added up, if you want more than the occasional exclusive, that increase really starts matters to people. It's great that you don't see it as a big deal to keep paying more and more for the things you want and can apparently still afford it, but damnit, to some it just is. That shouldn't be hard to see and understand.

It more so has to do with the fact that this disscussion takes place EVERY time a new batch of web exclusives go up.

Honestly, it's just as annoying as people complaining about the lack of Figuarts Kiva.

Web exclusives get thrown up based on the popularity of the said character, that's all there is too it.

Fact is: it's far easier for Bandai to release a pre existing mould as a mass retail release than it is a compltely new design like Type Trideron, especially this late after Drive.