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Originally Posted by Sir Prime A Lot
$120 for Sunstreaker? Is Takara drunk? They're just reusing most of the same mould that was $60 a few years ago.
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As I understand it, the official announcement won't come until June and the MSRP along with it. Apparently, BBTS lists a made-up preorder price of an item to net some fish prior to the actual price being known and may lower the price where appropriate (unless people actually buy at the inflated made-up pre-order price - if I was a retailer, I'd be hesitant to lower it after that).
In all likelihood, this toy will retail on the Japanese sites for somewhere between 7,000 to 10,000 JPY and the preorders will offer the usual 30% discount.
Given the current strength of the yen against the CAD though, even with the 30% the Japanese retailers may not be significantly cheaper than domestic ones like those listed to the right of this page.
Be patient, the months of June (and maybe July) will be the foreign pre-order window for Sunstreaker.