JP Sonic Blue Bumble and Exo-suit Chama

[griffin]

Another unusual and super-rare exclusive has appeared with little warning.

A Japanese rockband called "Bump of Chicken" (I'm guessing something was lost in the translation) had solicited a redeco Transformers toy from TakaraTomy as one of their exclusive promotional items for their concert tour.

The toy is a light blue redeco of the Titans Return Bumblebee and Exosuit Spike, packaged in a bright pink box. A number of official images can be seen here - and some in-hand images can be seen here.

As you can tell, it has been released already, and with only 2 days notice.
It looks like there might have been an actual 2-day promo event for this concert tour, somewhere in Japan, and these sorts of exclusives must have been sold there, because the website listing didn't appear to have any way of buying it from the website.
There was a claim that it was possible to buy it from their website, but it involved a registration process with a subscription fee, and they would only ship to Japanese residents using a credit card with a Japanese billing address.

Surprisingly, it was suggested that they apparently did sell out during the two days they were available, so either there mustn't have been too many of them made, or there were a lot of band fans who bought up everything that had their name on it.

(someone claimed that it was being sold for 4,000yen (about AU$55) - which compares to about AU$20 for the original Titans Return Bumblebee toy... and it will no doubt be found on ebay and in collectable stores for 5-10 times that already inflated price)

[Raider]

Hey mate Y4k is more like A$55. Just got back from Japan and missed being able to get this by 1 day

[griffin]

Ah yeah, I had doubled the yen when working it out but forgot to halve the result.