Post by digitalspace on Feb 15, 2023 13:51:54 GMT -5
This is really interesting. I suppose if you're buying the re-release, there is no way to get a double fin funnel set. The first release should've included the fin funnels; it came across as a money grab when they released it separately and then advertised you could double up the sets.
While I agree that the Fin Funnels should have probably been included my suspicion is not that it was a money grab but they were worried the market wouldn't support a price point of the set including the funnels. Hence why they made it optional.
They obviously realized this wasn't the case and released the Sazabi essentially complete, also the re-release having the funnels included 100% aligns with the new Sazabi release of having a complete set with a bonus option set (like the Londo Bell Engineer set for the Nu).
You're probably right. Still, you would think Bandai would know their market pretty well by this point, but that's obviously not the case. The Sazabi release was (at least in my mind) worse than the Nu. I was able to get the Nu, but the Sazabi was a complete disaster trying to preorder it. I even had two friends lining up for sales lotteries in Japan.
