[Repair Bay]

Just got my Japanese Red Hawk today :P

Ordered the Bluefin Black Condor, though, which I'm kind of hoping still has Japanese packaging, since I'm a bit obsessive compulsive too haha

[Snowfall]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Why can't they do AkibaRanger? No one holds the license to it in the states? Sure, I already imported them, but still, it seems like Sentai is always getting gyped over here.

However, they never bothered to do the Gokaigers either, which no one had the license for at the time.

Nevertheless, that does not excuse Bluefin for not telling us this months ago. They could have just said, "The US release will not include the AkibaRanger weapon."

Saban automatically have the rights to any new Sentai show, it's in the contract, so it doesn't matter if it hasn't been adapted yet. I have no idea how Akibaranger fits in, but I'm sure they would have brought them over, if they were able to.

It's a bit unfair to blame Saban though. They have to protect their interests, yadda, yadda, yadda.. and after Shinken Red/Gold, it's hardly surprising they don't care to release more. You can at least be sure the Zyurangers will definitely be brought over to the US though, even if they're exclusives in Japan.

[ShockerCon]

So the only reason we're not getting the Jet Winger is because Saban is indecisive about Akibaranger...
At least they managed to do pretty awesome with Black Condor.

[Crown Athlete]

I probably should have waited for this release since I don't care about the Jetwinger accessory. And I'm still waiting for mine to arrive from Japan

[TokuChris]

Shinken Red and Shinken Gold happened because it fell in a lull between major product pushes with Bandai of America. BoA got a majority of the sales from the toys, and it was out in between their own product waves, including a larger push for Samurai toys.

Was win-win, except they didn't sell hardly at all, as no parent wants to buy a $35 action figure with parts that a child would most likely eat.

[Barricade64]

Do we know the Shinkengers sold badly? I got the impression they moved fairly well.

[Den-O]

They moved VERY well in my area. To the extent that I didn't see them more than once a week on the shelves for months. They were completely gone since about February until my TRU restocked and got one assortment in last week.

[Barricade64]

They moved well in my area as well. However that's just the eye test and probably not representative of how they did as a whole. I just hope BoA will do the same for the Gokaigers, or at least Marvelous.

[bluesparrow]

It's weird, because the town I live in is fairly affluent, and I've met a number of other collectors here, and rare/quality figures go fast. Yet at the TRU here there's been like 6 Shinken Reds and 2 Shinken Golds for months and months. Meanwhile, at the TRU an hour away in a smaller, poorer town, the only remaining Figuarts are two poorly painted Reds. And that TRU is like an oasis of reasonably hard to find stuff, and it just piles up.