Nice. I would really like to check one of those stores out myself. I have at least been trying to work something out with someone in Japan to help me get stuff from the Pretty Stores that I could sell on the website.
I hope so. I am concerned that it might constrict her legs even more since it is a bit more form fitting. In the stock photos you don't see her legs too far apart in any of the pictures.
are you planning on getting more of her (and flora!) in stock? i can't find them anywhere without an insane markup rate. twinkle hasn't even been out for a month...😔
valerie m. Unfortunately other than Beat and Echo we have not been able to sell these on our website because Bandai has made them web exclusives. We are also paying the mark-up when we buy these just to do the review and to have one for my personal collection. The way it works is they are placed for pre-order on the Bandai Premium website, and once the pre-order period ends they only print that many units and ship them out on release date to those who ordered. They refuse to ship outside of Japan and are aware of forwarding services like Tenso and will not ship to those either. The only way to buy them is to actually have a person in Japan buy it for you and charge you a mark-up. It certainly costs less to pay someone to pre-order the figure for you vs buying one after it's already been released because at that point they are scarce with only so many units in existence.
oh yikes!! 😬 i had no idea that's how they were releasing the precure figuarts. has bandai said at all why they've chosen to go this route as opposed to a standard release? oh well...time to really start saving up, i guess...
valerie m. I think unfortunately the reason is they weren't selling as many units in stores as they were hoping but wanted to still offer them so they just did it by pre-order only to avoid having excess units sitting on shelves. They just announced Cure Bloom with Michiru a few days ago and it ended up costing me about $140 USD including shipping. They can definitely get expensive.
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Hell yeaaah Kira Kira Precure A La Mode merchandise! I'm going to be in Japan in March and am so excited to hit up the Pretty Cure Pretty Store.
Nice. I would really like to check one of those stores out myself. I have at least been trying to work something out with someone in Japan to help me get stuff from the Pretty Stores that I could sell on the website.
ohh my gosh she is so beautiful Steve
I feel like cure mermaid will have less trouble with the legs since her skirt is thinner and have no poofy clothing inside
I hope so. I am concerned that it might constrict her legs even more since it is a bit more form fitting. In the stock photos you don't see her legs too far apart in any of the pictures.
finally Cure Twinkle!!!!!
cant wait for cure mermaid and cure scarlet :)
Hopefully they announce Scarlet soon and not a year later like they did with Muse and Ace.
Wow this one is fast, thanks for your effort!
are you planning on getting more of her (and flora!) in stock? i can't find them anywhere without an insane markup rate. twinkle hasn't even been out for a month...😔
valerie m. Unfortunately other than Beat and Echo we have not been able to sell these on our website because Bandai has made them web exclusives. We are also paying the mark-up when we buy these just to do the review and to have one for my personal collection.
The way it works is they are placed for pre-order on the Bandai Premium website, and once the pre-order period ends they only print that many units and ship them out on release date to those who ordered.
They refuse to ship outside of Japan and are aware of forwarding services like Tenso and will not ship to those either. The only way to buy them is to actually have a person in Japan buy it for you and charge you a mark-up.
It certainly costs less to pay someone to pre-order the figure for you vs buying one after it's already been released because at that point they are scarce with only so many units in existence.
oh yikes!! 😬 i had no idea that's how they were releasing the precure figuarts. has bandai said at all why they've chosen to go this route as opposed to a standard release? oh well...time to really start saving up, i guess...
valerie m. I think unfortunately the reason is they weren't selling as many units in stores as they were hoping but wanted to still offer them so they just did it by pre-order only to avoid having excess units sitting on shelves. They just announced Cure Bloom with Michiru a few days ago and it ended up costing me about $140 USD including shipping. They can definitely get expensive.