
Organic USA is the company that has been distributing the Kaiyodo Revoltech line of figures in the U.S. I just got this email from them today:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Good-day,
We would like to take the time to inform you that Organic Hobby, Inc will no longer be importing Kaiyodo’s product lines Revoltech, Fraulein, etc…, effective immediately. We would like to extend our sincerest apologies for all inconveniences that this might have caused your company/establishment. In addition, we would like to say that we feel terribly sorry about the non-release (cancellation) of the following items you pre-ordered:
1- Fraulein Revoltech #010 – Yoko.
2- Fraulein Revoltech #011 - Haruka.
3- Revoltech #062 - Tengen Toppa Gurren Langann.
4- Revoltech #063 - Ricky.
Please make a note of the changes (above) and make the necessary adjustments in your system.
This is quite a big shock because I have no idea what is going to happen to the Revoltech figures in the U.S. I know that Organic supplied all the other U.S. distributors with the Revoltech figures, so I’m not sure what will happen now. Also, we have most of the above figures on pre-order on our store and am not sure if these will be available now or not.
I just contacted Organic and got a response back as to why these figures were canceled. It turns out that Kaiyodo has been making some huge demands for minimum orders. Apparently they have been requiring orders of 30,000 pieces for each Revoltech figure. With minium order quantities like that I can’t blame Organic because there is no way they’d be able to sell that many units of each figure in the U.S., especially with the current state of the economy.
I’m hoping that one of the other U.S. distributors will pickup the Revoltech distribution, but if Kaiyodo maintains the same minimum order, the outlook might be quite dismal and we may not see Revoltech figures in the U.S. for some time.
UPDATE
We have just gotten word that another distributor will be distributing these in the U.S., but at slightly higher prices. We don’t have pricing information yet, but as soon as we do, the affected Revoltech figures will be re-solicited.