>>10991620This is kind of by design though
Almost all sofubi has such a tiny market, it's all super niche stuff or experimental toys by artists. For a lot of them you'd be hard pressed to find 100 people interested in buying. So yeah, they make them in batches of 10 or whatever to sell to whom they can. Lots of people that dip their toes into sofubi making never make more than their initial 1 or 2 figures because they literally can't sell them, even a few dozen of them, to recoup their costs and make it worthwhile to make more.
It does mean that when someone comes out with something awesome that demand is going to outpace supply. The guys that choose to hypebeast instead of scaling up their operation accordingly can be frustrating, but I'd say only a very small handful of sofubi makers are truly unattainable, and of those only a small amount are actually making cool toys.
