POST // 2014-10-24
Tamashii Web Shop Now Available Worldwide!
Bandai’s Tamashii Web Shop began offering its collectible figures to overseas customers, a change welcomed by toy collectors who had previously relied on middleman importers to buy the site’s exclusives.
At launch, the storefront was still in a testing phase. The only listed item available for pre-order was a Figuarts ZERO Tony Tony Chopper “Are You Fine?” figure from One Piece, alongside a wish-list survey asking customers to flag interest in Toku-related items for future availability.
Despite the “worldwide” framing, the service was limited at the time to residents of the United States and Canada, short of a true global rollout but still a first step away from relying on third-party importers for Tamashii exclusives.