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Originally Posted by Sentai Tamashii

Interestingly they did it with Akibarangers where the entire team is mass released and the bad guy is an exclusive. I think the problem is that a normal Sentai team has lot more member, and since most kids identify with the leader more, that makes the rest more expendable. You do have to remember though, that for Japanese residents order stuff from Tamashii Web Shop is not a big deal, it is only for the customers overseas, which technically isn't even supposed to happen, because you can only order via a middleman or proxy buyer.

This sums it up really well. The US market and how "hard" it is for us to get web exclusives doesn't play in. Seeing people bitch about exclusives gets kind of old when there's any number of middlemen (like Sentai Tamashii) to hook you up with these things. The prices may be inflated a bit when they're exclusive releases but again, if you lived in Japan, it doesn't matter much at all. As long as it's a team that not currently airing I completely understand why half or more have to be exclusive. Same can be said of the old Showa Riders.