[Kamen Rider Lucha]

Wondering if y'all can help me understand something.

I was in Japan for most of February, and obviously, I did the required shopping trips to Akihabara and Den Den Town. I had a long list of Figuarts I wanted, and I knew I'd find a lot of great, pre-owned/discounted options.

Toward the top of that list was a Geats, but for some reason, the Geats were scarce. The preowned ones I was able to find were being sold at, or far above, retail price. He was the only main rider that I couldn't find for a good price. I ended up getting one, but it was only $5 cheaper than buying a new, US release of the figure off Amazon.

I thought the scarcity was because Geats was the most recent series, so maybe there hadn't been a lot of sell-backs yet. BUT, I'm looking at a lot of these same retailers' online shops, and there are already a bunch of preowned Gotchard Figuarts on sale for wayyy below retail. And still no Geats!

Is there a story behind this? Did they scale back production for the Geats line? Is the show so popular that no one wants to resell what they've bought? Why the heck was he so hard to find?