A thread on 5ch featured a photo of someone who reportedly spent ¥600,000 on a single figure of a popular character. Since the standard version — which looks nearly identical — typically sells for around ¥10,000, early reactions were full of shock, with comments like “It’s just a different color and it costs ¥600,000? That’s a total rip-off.” But as the thread went on, it came out that this particular piece was an ultra-limited item given to just 22 winners of a convenience-store promotion, and opinions shifted toward “If only 22 exist in the whole world, that actually makes sense.”
I sold the regular version of this before for like ¥10,000…
and this one's just a slightly different color but costs ¥600,000?
11AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:08
It's not worth that much
12AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:09
Toku-san?! (slang for diehard tokusatsu/hero-show fans — implying this is their territory)
14AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:09
And it's used too?!
15AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:09
Limited editions do jump in price, but this is just a rip-off
16AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:09
Can't believe someone actually bought this
17AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:10
Well, if the buyer's happy with it, I guess that's fine
19AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:10
I came here expecting some giant life-sized figure
21AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:10
And it's just a regular-scale figure on top of that?
26AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:12
Even figure collectors probably can't wrap their heads around this one
30AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:13
Is this basically a donation to keep Suruga-ya afloat? (a used-goods chain rumored to be struggling financially)
38AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:14
Suruga-ya opens up even "new" stock to check its condition, so all their used items are already unsealed anyway
and they're charging this much for it? That's insane
52AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:17
Looked it up — it's a limited figure only 22 winners ever got
https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/515096/
57AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:18
If there are only 22 in the whole world, ¥600,000 kind of checks out
58AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:20
If it's really limited to 22 units, I sort of get it
still wouldn't buy one myself though
59AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:23
Guessing if you just let it sit like a watch, the value goes up (total guess)
65AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:30
Oh, it's the Lawson Kashima limited figure — might be the first time I've actually seen the real thing
85AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:55
No way I'd ever buy a used figure
even if they'd checked it under a blacklight, still a hard pass
87AnonymousOct 12, 2026 00:58
Hard to tell where the value's even supposed to be coming from
89AnonymousOct 12, 2026 01:02
The most I've ever spent is around ¥50,000, and that was on a garage kit
92AnonymousOct 12, 2026 01:16
No matter how you slice it, this thing's only worth a few thousand yen
93AnonymousOct 12, 2026 01:18
There's a ¥500,000 difference just because the color's different?
The original's probably selling somewhere for like ¥500
100AnonymousOct 12, 2026 01:32
Re: #93
Checked Mercari — the regular unopened version goes for about ¥20,000
that's a ¥580,000 difference
96AnonymousOct 12, 2026 01:21
Also, what's with this butt-flaunting mirror shot?! Is that just standard practice in the figure world now…
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The figure at the center of this story is a limited item only obtainable through a lottery tied to a convenience-store collaboration, so its supply is nothing like a standard mass-produced figure’s. Mass-produced figures can be restocked to meet demand, which tends to keep even used prices stable in the ¥10,000–20,000 range. But non-sale items limited to just 22 lottery winners have had production cut off entirely, so once someone wants one badly enough, whatever price a reseller names effectively becomes the market rate. Through the whole thread, two views stayed in tension: discomfort with the price (“it’s absurd to charge this much for just a different color”) and respect for scarcity (“if there are only 22 in the world, that makes sense”). The fact that used figures are, by nature, always already unsealed is also cited as a factor driving the price up.
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