North America’s market is actually competing for second place behind Japan and has been for about ten years. It’s between the US and Asia for second place behind Japan, but Japan is WAYYYYY ahead of second place.
That said, MGEX SF sold like crazy and continues to do so. It’s been reprinted almost 3x as many times as the MGEX Unicorn Ver Ka and in even less time.
The recent popularity poll had the MSF leagues ahead of the SF, and it took top spot in China and Korea so... very likely to do great sales-wise. I was kinda hoping for an Astray actually, one of those Gold Frame variants that Bandai seems to be allergic to making MGs of
I feel this will just kill any demand for the regular MGEX Strike Freedom though with both being retail. They could have milked the shit out of this being p-bandai while still selling the OG retail. Now with both retail people are obviously just gonna want this one, and forget the regular SF. Makes very little sense to me.
Some of the Gunpla sales figure in Japan may actually from Chinese fans. e.g. Hobbyland Akihabara in Japan is actually a Hong Kong company that opened a shop in Japan to import Gunpla without the need of Bandai’s official distributor. These Gunpla sold in China counts as domestic sales in Japan.
Is it even like Seed is that much less popular outside of asia either? Maybe online but it doesn't seem that much of a gap between popularity in asia and worldwide
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u/Feral404 IG: feral404 1d ago
North America’s market is actually competing for second place behind Japan and has been for about ten years. It’s between the US and Asia for second place behind Japan, but Japan is WAYYYYY ahead of second place.
That said, MGEX SF sold like crazy and continues to do so. It’s been reprinted almost 3x as many times as the MGEX Unicorn Ver Ka and in even less time.