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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

I personally don't have contact with anyone there, no. I know they've slowed releases a bit. I've never trusted the US Tamashii site. It was always rarely updated. I tend to check Diamond Previews, and see what they're offering each month.

They were advertising that they relaunched/updated this site: https://www.tamashiinations.com/

If you go there the only 3 End Game releases are the ones I mentioned. I wouldn't have thought much of it until Hulk was added since he was just announced, he was on the US site like 2 days after the Japanese reveal, so it's as up to date as it can be and none of the other JP Endgame releases are on there.

It just looks like they've quit it, maybe after poor IW sales or something, but some weren't their best effort.

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Originally Posted by MarvelGuy85

Why not just import them from Japan anyways? You're guaranteed to get the figures you want, without ordering from the US site, at some times even better pricing. Plus don't the US sites have to import them from Japan themselves, so aren't you cutting out the middle man? You get them quicker this way. I've never had issues importing figuarts from mykombini or HLJ, etc.

As far as this figure goes, I think the likeness looks better than others. I have got out of the figuarts game tho (for now), so I will be passing on this.

I'm talking about the US releases with the effects. Those aren't imported in the way we're normally talking, they're distributed by Bluefin; official USA releases. Like how they gave Captain America the explosions, Doctor Strange the flames, Spider-Man the walls. They were all to get over the $80 threshold

Honestly I did like some of the effects, and definitely liked the Spider-Man walls. You can sometimes get good deals on the packs too on Amazon. I think I got the Doctor Strange set for $60, buying him outright would be like $55 from Japan. Also it 100% saves you on the TamashiiWeb exclusives since you're paying $70-80 for them no matter what with zero added accessories.

Plus no headache of the 1am preorder anymore either. I remember setting my alarm every time I knew a preorder was happening to get one in before they all sold out.