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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

There's been quite a few, actually. Cake, five or so Lost bottles, the Raw Rabbit bottle, Empty bottle...Ghost also had Legend Rider Eyecons around wave 5 or 6. Some of those were shared with or came first in the SG line, but they remain separate from the mainline DX series.

And, looking beyond Rider, the Kyutama series from Kyuranger was full of heaps and heaps of Gashapon and/or SG-exclusive toys from day one. In that case as with RideWatches, my guess is that the reason is simply that they have a lot of stuff to go through and starting early helps them get through all that faster.

True, Cake was unique, but primarily because it didn't have any other place, and they wanted easy access to the bottle so as to be easily paired with the Santa

And yes, I understand that GP does indeed offer unique items from time to time, but not this early. Wave 6 (or in rare cases, 5), is usually when unique items start to get released, but not usually by wave 3. Also, usually there can be one to two unique items at most in a wave (and usually it's only two further down the wave). Whereas in this case, there are already two unique items featured by wave 03, which is quite unusual.

Furthermore, while non-electronic items do tend to get more unique items in GP or SG than electronic-based items, here we have items with electronics in them (1500 yen no less), and there are already unique items. That's pretty unusual by modern Bandai standards.