Now bring on a Black Henkei one to go with this. I can dream can't I.

 

Now up for preorder on bbts:

Japanese Transformers Animated - Hyper Hobby Exclusive Black Rodimus - Transformers Animated Japanese Figures

 

$74.99? i can dig it.

 

So, right now $75 is the starting point. And since BBTS (as much as I love 'em) always tend to markup stuff heavily, it will, most likely, be less from the other usual sources. Told you $200 was crazy talk.  

 

Probably won't be TOO horrible. Unfortunately, unless Hyper Hobby chooses to announce the pricing prior to releasing the magazine, there's no way for us to know (and therefore no way for me to price it properly for sale). I really hate to list it on a guess at the price, I'd much rather price it accurately from the start.

 

Is this figure still coming out or has it been canceled?

 

I knew that it had to coming out without doubts... also robotkingdom listed it

robotkingdom.com -- Online Toys Company

 

It's still coming. Just be patient.

 

Just checking, becasue they said it was due on in March and they canceled the other Wave of Japanese animated transforers that had thundercracker in it.

 

A Voyager Thundercracker never had plans of being released in Japan. No Animated figures have been canceled there.

Randy

 

As a test for doing this sort of thing, I ordered this way back when from a Japanese shop, tokuma-ec.com, to ship through a 3rd party shipper to the USA. Just got the following e-mail this morning from them:

Which Google translates as:

If all goes well, the cost should work out to about 1/2 of what BBTS is asking. Fingers crossed  
I read no Japanese so this was kind of fun to order using the cool tools available on the intertubes.

 

Wooo I got the same email waiting for me in my inbox.

 

The shipping and commission charges are not listed in that email. Once they are added I suspect the cost will be significantly closer to BBTS preorder price.

 

Landed at Tenso and is on its way. After all is said and done, I have paid a total of about ¥5,000. That puts me about $15 under BBTS. This probably isn't quite worth it since BBTS's customer service is top notch.

I'm not sure about any extra shipping or commission charges. I paid for this way back in November, ¥3,000. As I said, this is an experiment so I fully expect anything to happen  

 

Except for the Mini-EZs.  

 

"Burakkurodimasu" made me laugh. I so love how Google translator does that. So phonetically spelled in a Japanese accent!

 

Yeah I forgot all about those. I had wondered if they were ever released.

 

ブラックロディマス literally is pronounced "Burakkurodimasu"