New Gargamel Figs!

The arterial blood spurts out of the Dullahan's (that's what he's called, right?) neck stump is a great added touch.

 

Where is that drawing from?

 

^^just something bwana did up for the sale I think.

 

better view of the newest killer, get 'em while they're hot

 

How come nobody is talking about the new Houkai? About to take Killer out for a walk.

 

someone should stick some guts in this guy...

 

He's so etherial looking. Might just be my favorite colorway yet!

 

Nice, new release?

 

yep, and it's available from super7:

http://super7store.com/houkai-1.html

 

Damn, that's nice.

 

I don't think many people new of the release. It turned out great by the way.

 

I'm curious, are there SRp for Gargamel toys? Prices seem a bit all over the place at the retailers.

 

So did these guys go with a quickness?

 

they ended up having to be lotto'd from bwana I think

 

SARS ?

 

yea those were very limited so they never made it beyond S&RS

 

There are not. We are left to our willey nilley devices to figure it all out. My super scientific equation. Double the wholesale and then add subtract for my current mood. Example. Killers were wholesaled at 4500 yen. so that's 9,000 yen minus some dollars for good exchange rate, add a few more for paypal fees (not the ones I pay when somebody pays me, the ones Gargamel charges for the pp fees that come out of what I pay them), overseas shipping fees, the other paypal fees that are taken out when you pay me.... and I came up with $77 on those.
Which was a hard pill to swallow since the lucky bag pieces were going for half that. With lucky bags there was no way to tell how much these would actually wholesale/retail for. Now we know.

Some of the other Gargamel goodies from this batch were show exclusives. With those i get no price break. I am agreeing to purchase them at the retail show price. So again it's a mystery what to actually price them at. I looked at Mandarake and just tried to make them all way cheaper

And now I will change the prices to match the other retailers. Folks that already purchased from the gravy site will get extra treats in their boxes

That's my 2 cents from the secret underworld of S&RBS

 

Thanks for the reply and details, Bwana! My experience with Japanese toys is that there is almost no wholesale margin and that once you factor in shipping, your wholesale cost is pretty much the same as what they retail for there.

It's too bad for the Walking Killers. They are indeed a lot more expensive than the Lucky Bag ones went for, and with the crappy exchange rate right now, there's no way I can justify keeping up with my collection. Ah well, FWP I guess!

 

Gargamel just put them up on their webstore. They're ¥5,940, or us$49... The wholesale price was indeed 20% off, which indeed makes it hard for NA retailers to offer a comparable price.

 

http://blog.livedoor.jp/gargamel/archives/55406105.html - some pretty great toys there.

i sent my requests for the lottery yesterday morning and got a relatively prompt reply that i didn't win. don't know if i was too late or just unlucky. sigh.

 

Some really beautiful stuff they had.

 

for the click-thru shy:

 

I would love to have either of the 3 Cyborg Zags in the middle.