>>6125223I think a perfect example of this would be Master Asia, he was shown years ago when the S.H. Figuarts line was still new(2009?) but since Domon didn't sell well, they postponed/cancelled his release but they still "updated" Master Asia's prototype whenever they have a chance to display him. He then became notorious/infamous in the toy collector world for being the unreleased from the east(a pun from undefeated from the east), and I think because of this, collectors spammed messages/tweets/etc to Bluefin/Bandai for them to release him. Come the 20th anniversary of G Gundam, Bandai then released him along with a new prototype of Casual Domon but Master Asia shelfwarmed so bad that I've seen him being discounted for 70%(or more?)
CCS or particulary Sakura herself is "knoe" done right and If I remember correctly, the knoe threads originated from one anon on toy who would post this picture of Sakura with a misspelled word know during figma's early years. When she was announced fans were delighted since CCS is still popular up to now and merch from that series is quite scarce and because of this. the figma of her(OP version) made it into Hobbysearch's top 15 sales ranking for 2015:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/blog/1512292The fgma OP version I think is still selling well upto(for 2 years) now since I heven't seen it being marked down to 50% off like what happened to Madoka.
Knoe threads works for some reason, I think a variation of this is "Yuno who needs a figma"(Yuno from Hidamari sketch) and lo and behold, she too got a figma.
Bless you Knoe anon for wishing a figma of Sakura, all your spamming didn't go to waste! and I'm happy that we are still getting figmas from that series.
