Something that really drove me crazy about that interview is the fact he said the japanese market has grown and that's why the line got more attention - although he did not say it exactly in this words, but that what's I understood from him.
Dude, the japanese market probably didn't increase much, what happened in my opinion is that the majority of people outside Japan end up buying in japanese stores online, so the sales actually go up, but because we are tired of waiting 1 month + for figures to release in USA, and in Brazil the situation is even worst, next month we will have the official release of the SSGSS Goku and Golden Freeza... So it's obvious we all buy figures from Japan (and most of stores here in my country do that actually, in real big numbers...)
Don't get me wrong, probably the line got more popular in Japan but you can be sure that at least 60% of the sales increased are not because of japanese buyers...
What's wrong with these guys? I mean, they barely give us the figures we want, never listen to what we say (no matter how hard we try or the place we say it, neither facebook, nor twitter or anywhere at all), they still don't play a fair game with the figures - If they made this amazing new Armoured Super Trunks, of course they have this new sculpt, so why not releasing this Vegeta PCE edition with a updated sculpt? Even if it was with this yellow hair that majority people disliked, people would be pleased by the amazing new sculpt, people who own the older Vegeta would be okay and would buy the new one, and whoever didn't own the previous would be like "*****k the older, this one is incredible better".
Maybe they think they do the smartest choices for the business and that they are clever as all hell, but they do the japanese choices for business... Konami (in gaming general) acts the same way, they do whatever they want and don't care about people outside japan... And maybe they think that re-releasing over and over again similar figures they are having a huge load of profit, but in fact they're not.
Do not forget what they did last year in SDCC with the most wanted Goku of all time (probably only behind the SWA goku), can you guys think of any figure that would sell more than the SDCC of last year? I can think only of SWA goku and Majin Vegeta ahead of him, he would sell really well if he was a regular or even a tamashii exclusive, and look what they did!!!
This is not smart at all, look at all the other companies moves, whenever they release a SDCC, in my opinion they usually end up giving something that is either "nah I can live without that" or something that is "okay, it's cool but they have this other item that is pretty similar" - of course there are a few exceptions and sometimes the item is really great, but it's like releasing the main Naruto or the red Power Ranger or the main character in the most iconic outfit of any franchise as a exclusive of a convention.
Sorry about the long text, but I really dislike the actions of tamashii and that's why I sold almost my whole collection and kept only my favourite 3... A company that does not threat the clients/buyers the way they deserve, will not receive my money (unless it's a pretty decent figure) - that's why being a completionist is such a bad thing for the market overall... People don't buy because they like the product or because the product has high quality, people only buy it for the sake of having it, and tamashii (that isn't very smart and we all can see it at this point) goes like "hey, look! we are doing it right, just see how good these random figures sell, that's what people want, get jaco ready because he will be another success!!!"
Now the poll starts, who will be released first?
- Nipple guy;
- Yellow nameless bear;
- Freeza counterfelt;
- The saiyan kid;
- The last remaining guy of the team
OR
- Majin Vegeta;
- Nappa;
- Tien;
- Yamcha;
- A lot of the other older characters that everyone loves and ask for?
Time to gather the Super Dragon Balls guys, because even the namek Dragon Balls wouldn't gather the wish of Tamashii doing the figures we've been asking for so long!
It would have been a simple addition to the figure and an amazing accessory. Again, I would have gladly paid more for the crossed arms. Exactly! I was even thinking about that with Premium Color Super Saiyan Vegeta. All they have to do is paint the eyes facing forward. I don't believe the face was sculpted specifically to look to the right. I'll have to take a picture and photoshop the result to determine if it was or not.
