They must be getting mixed up with the Hasbro release, as the JP version would never be that cheap. If it really is TakaraTomy releasing another production run at almost half their first batch, it's gonna upset a lot of people who bought one of the first ones.

And it's not like they'd be dropping the price to compete with the Hasbro version, as they've never done that with other MPs that had second runs... and it is a different market anyway, so isn't affected by what Hasbro releases.