[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

Bikes never sell well at retail, so it's an exclusive.

Yet they release bikes at retail every year, multiple times. You're not wrong, but they still do it.

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Originally Posted by Den-O

They aren't expecting every single person who bought a W to buy this.

No, but they expect that a good deal of people might, because:

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It's W's bike, it's meant to go with the new W figuart, because it's his bike.

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But it's clearly meant to go with him, it's an update to compliment the W update.

That. And having it at retail next to the figure could persuade the ones that weren't even planning to buy it. But since it was right next to the figure on the shelf...

So why not having the bike in stores next to a figure which does incredibly well pre-order wise? And it's not like they couldn't plan this, they could've waited to the first of the next month. The bike was obviously done since I'm pretty sure the one that was displayed alongside the figure when it was first revealed is that new one.

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Originally Posted by Den-O

It's just bound to sell bad as the last several retail bikes have done.

Again, it's not that you're wrong, they do sell terrible, seems like a weird time for Tamashii to start noticing it though.

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And the point that they make sure the 2 come out at the same time is completely false. Look at the Kabuto Extender coming out 2 years after Seihou Kabuto, admittedly a reissue coincided with it though.

That's the point.

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Originally Posted by Den-O

But look at the Showa riders who only recently have been getting bikes.

Don't need to, those are a different case entirely. They’ve been doing the Web-Exclusive Showa bike two-packs with Riders for a few years now, nothing new there.

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Or take Decade, no new bike for his Seihou has been released yet, or Gattack.

http://tamashii.jp/item/11592/?wovn=en

But it exists. And since Gattack is a Web-Exclusive anyways they don't even bother releasing it in stores, why should they?

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Originally Posted by Den-O

The trend your implying exists, doesn't really.

The one you’re trying to say I’m implying doesn't, that’s true. They’re not giving every Renewal release a bike and it's not always at retail.

But, if they have a new Rider at retail and if they have a new bike ready bikes usually land in stores alongside the Riders so that the bikes sell better. That’s the only thing I’m trying to say, and this release doesn’t fit the mold is all I’m saying.

It makes perfectly sense to sell bikes through the Webshop since they don’t do well at retail. But usually new bikes who’s Riders are in stores (or can be reissued) at a similar time get their bikes released alongside them. This is how it goes every single year.