i know that this is a little bit off-topic but i just recently saw that the prices of everything in HLJ somehow got a little bit expensive,
the usual 20% discount on the figuarts are now diminished to 18%.
Just saw the same thing happened with the Medal Sets, too. I think it's an effort to recoup some of the money lost as a result of the quakes/tsunamis, and is probably applied to everything.
Yes... Robot Damashii...
These issues we keep getting with figures like ShinkenRed and tatoba seem like the result of mass manufactured figures. So it's sort of expected.
Example
When you make 50 chocolate cookies, chances are one will end up a little burnt or not formed perfectly.
Maybe that's why the other sentai figuarts are exclusive. To prevent one having bad joints.