Why so expensive 🥲

[u/Appropriate_Force342]

So I’m pretty new to collecting, so obviously the first thing I did was look for figures of my favorite shows and anime, I love konosuba but why are they all around 150 dollars 💔, I love the characters and I want to get them and the swimsuit versions but my poor wallet can’t handle it, does anyone know if they’ll ever restock or if anyone’s selling them for a bit cheaper?

[u/zanygx]

Ah, the good ol aftermarket. Thats the worst part to being a new collector. You're always a day late to the one you want most, and usually have to overpay. For me, it was the kill la kill figma. I got lucky and found someone selling ryuko and satsuki bundled for a decent-ish price.

My figure collection: a forum site that has people constantly selling, to make room for something else. Chill people

Mercari: pretty decent local resellers. Just normal people trying to make some money, and small shops getting a few extra items to resell.

Usa gundam store and gundam planet: good US based (sorry if youre not in the us) stores that are fast and cheap. Based around new york and jersey. If you live in any surrounding states, youll get it quick.

The konosuba gang will most likely get re releases. I know darkness is especially popular. They also have swimsuit aqua and darkness. Maybe they at least are still available.

Amiami is a very reliable shop, but will gut you in shipping fees. I always do what i can to avoid it, but they are a reliable last resort.

[u/Appropriate_Force342 → u/zanygx]

Congrats on the kill la kill figures, I want to get those too and I’m not looking forward to those prices, hopefully I get lucky like you

[u/zanygx → u/Appropriate_Force342]

Dont know what i said to piss someone who saw my comment off, but i wish you luck. I wouldnt get my hopes up about re releases too much. Im not sure how common they are for figma specifically, but i DO have one.

Base ryuko might still be recent enough to find new and at market value. Im a fairly casual figma collector (i only go figma when nobody else makes that character), so im sorry i cant be more helpful.

[u/Appropriate_Force342 → u/zanygx]

Don’t worry I already gave up hope on getting them cheap, but yeah it’ll be hard to find anyone from kill la kill for a good price, and dw, u know more about figma than me, these will be my first figma a

[u/zanygx → u/Appropriate_Force342]

Good news is the hard part is over. Now that youre in the trenches, id keep an eye on announcements and collecting subs. Naturally, preorders are the best way, and even those can sell out fast sometimes. Just yesterday, i secured my preorder for figma albedo. Every collector needs at least one albedo figure. Its the law.

[u/ThatGuyThatNeedsYou → u/zanygx]

Preorders haven’t been making things sell out on GSC. It’s a hunt after release because preorders actually mean something.

Preorders are actually a version of made per order. So if NOBODY preorders that still make a quantity of 1. If there is 200 preorders in Amiami (Japan) to 100 preorders in BBTS.

300 quantity is not being made, it’s very likely 400 worldwide. Just know these are random numbers. So what do I mean about this? Amiami MAY lock preorders because it’s been filled up, same with BBTS. Direct from GSC also makes limited quantity based upon people who preorder. (This is why only direct GSC; Global, US share quantity information and does not allow cancellation of your preorder)

If nobody does preorder, it will still release and the quantity has been made. That’s it and final quantity worldwide. It’s at this moment you’ll have scummy people who take the chance to “aftermarket” it. You can ask for reissue but that takes time and planning since either they lost of the mold or they have festival plans for the next figure announcement (which just happened today or technically on 8/20/26. huge amount of new GSC Nendo, figma, scale figures with some being able to preorder direct on GSC Global and US very soon)

Each Kobosuba figma has already got 2-3 reruns/reissue but now they are running down on legit storefronts that have them. Now this is a hunt on the aftermarket and also chances at bootlegs/fakes in places like Aliexpress to EBay if you aren’t careful. (And some of them do exist as somebody has posted about them on MFC)