Forum - View topicInterview: Bluefin and the World of Anime Collectibles
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crosswithyou
Posts: 2084 Location: Tokyo, Japan |
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A couple spelling corrections:
Should be Tomy Takara, I believe.
Should be S.H.Figuarts.
Haha, I'm totally in that boat. My eyes went *____* when I saw the Perfect Grade promotions I had to get it when it was first released too in order to get the extra sword which came as a first release bonus. |
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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| It's weird; I buy a lot of stuff with the name Bluefin on it, yet I hadn't really given that much thought up until now about who they are or how they became the official Gundam distributors in the US. Thanks for setting up the interview! | ||||||
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invalidname
Posts: 1026 Location: Grand Rapids, MI |
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I had noticed some really high-end anime collectibles in my local Barnes & Noble about six months ago… kind of wondered who was going to spend $75 for a master-grade Gundam model kit or $100 for a really nice Sailor Mercury figure in my little town. I'm pleasantly surprised to know that this stuff is doing pretty well.
As for retail improving… I can totally see retailers wanting to sell stuff like this that hasn't been readily available before and isn't as well suited to online purchasing. That B&N I mentioned in the first paragraph? It's maybe half books now, probably because Amazon (and Kindle) is beating them up so bad (and they're really getting killed on movies and music), with lots of space instead set aside for board games, puzzles, Funko POPs, etc. So yeah, maybe them getting into the high-end anime merch game makes sense. |
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