How to get these elusive Japanese figures

Hello,

It's all in the title, how do you order the Japanese models from Kitan, Colorata and others ? Do you directly order on the brands website ? Or do you buy them second hand via members here or ebay ?
I'd really like to add more of these figures to my collection but don't really know where to start.
I hope it was not already discussed, if so, sorry for the double thread.

I order from Brett, he is a member here on STS. Brett can order anything from the new sets releasing these moths to older sets and individual animals. Note that the costs can be high, but he is always cheaper than the actions on the Japanese Yahoo bids.

You yourself can search on E-Bay for animals, but most prices are very hight including shipping.
Or you must be lucky and find trades here on STS

Hope this helps

I've been wondering the same thing! Who is Brett?

I also order from Brett (@brettnj).

Brett is a US forum member who has cultivated contacts in Japan to help get better deals on figures. :) he has a good rep.

A lot of us ask Brett :) and i think we all only good experiences with his service :)

AND if you get on Brett's mailing list, you get mails with all kinds of news, deals and rare stoff on net-auctions in Japanese, which would otherwise never be possible to desipher .

Yes, I also recommend Brett

Thank you all for the input !

I bought mine on Ebay [ from Japan],  some of theme offerd free shipping [delivery take a while] , and some i pay 8 euro's , [delivery is very quick...]

I'm not familiar with Brett, but he sounds like a great guy! Since I'm also a Godzilla collector, a collector friend of mine named Mike Johnson does US Collectors a service by obtaining exclusive items.

Otherwise, I have a registered Tenso and Buyee account so I can make purchases off of Amazon Japan and Yahoo Japan. Despite paying some minor fees and overseas shipping, I still save money with the dollar to yen value ratios at the moment! Most shipments by EMS appear on my doorstep within a week too. Never had any issues and they are packaged nicely.

Hope this info also helps.