Premium Bandai is NOT PREMIUM!

Why don't Premium Bandai kits feel truly premium??
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[@SixerMason]

My ire for P-Ban is when I see a unique mold, a completely original kit being P-Ban only. I was fine when it was just a colour swap and/or an extra weapon.

[@dudeenigma888]

My problem with P-Bandai is the trend lately where Bandai has been putting kits on there that should be regular releases (Altron EW, Sandrock custom, Heavy Arms custom).

[@kuznecoffjames]

The "premium" is actually a surprise! (that is, a 'premium' on your wallet)

[@kairellim5094]

My guy they literally have an advertisement that says “at Premium Bandai we deliver only the highest quality items”

[@Alvincao65]

People will really pay at least 2x the price for a Premium Bandai kit and complain they cost so much even though it’s just them getting scalped by scalpers

[@scarletrain6757]

I never hated P Bandai for the price or quality, I never viewed the word “Premium” in the name to mean much but limited exclusive. What I dislike about it, is when brand new models are released in p Bandai. I always thought having recolors or slightly different weapons was fair, but then they put the Woundwort, Mudrock, go4 go5, the Pale rider, F90, and Gundam MK V and then I started to get annoyed because these are all designs that I feel I would like if I saw them on a shelf, and would buy it if they were a retail release. I’m sure it’s all boils down to profit.

[@aero981]

Honestly very fair and sound arguments, but when the Premium Bandai USA video promotes "the highest quality" You start to see the disconnect for the average consumer. It really should just be rebranded to another name, at least in english so that this misunderstanding is cleared up (i.e., Limited Bandai or something).

[@DZMaven]

I've never felt the problem was the quality, the issue to me has been the gradual trend of P-Bandai just taking over and dominating the regular releases year after year. The recent shift to making wholly new kits as just P-Bandai is just greed, pure and simple, and indicates where the company wants to take things in the future. The MG F90 was a test and it worked wonders for P-Bandai. Despite getting reprinted a few times and with variations, it sells out every time. Also, at this point, if they're just gonna keep reprinting the F90, just make it a regular release kit.

[@guidogiuseppepasquot7853]

Premium Bandai...more like ...region locked

[@theclerksays]

My main beef with P bandai is that the JP store has got much much more stocks compared to HK or SG stores. If you notice, the stuff like metal builds and certain kits sell out in HK and SG stores in literally a few seconds, but last in the JP/US store for days or even weeks! They deserve all that hate for feeding the scalpers. They can't be bothered to fix this supply allocation problem for years, so when people buy pirated bootleg gunpla kits I don't hate them at all.

[@titan133760]

I guess "Limited Edition Bandai" doesn't sound good marketing wise

[@gilliganinja]

I think a big part of the misunderstanding is that Bluefin/P-Bandai US has been advertising P-Bandai as "premium quality items" lol

[@hilmi8636]

To me, I really like the old premium bandai way where they sell only colour variants staying true to the meaning of premium bandai in japan where it's more to limited edition rather than actually being premium. I hate it when bandai makes new mold of the whole kit to sell as premium bandai bcs it makes it hard to collect for hardcore collectors

[@Robo-kz3nr]

P-Bandai is at it's most annoying when they release a kit that was clearly meant to be retail

[@holyloli69420]

Premium

[@lordwisehammer]

It would be nice if they set up a proper distribution of anything in Europe so local sellers don't have to sell them at such ridiculous mark ups. The whole P-Bandai business model is still a horrible play on human psychology, Nintendo and Square-Enix like to pull the same bullshit as well.

[@clarksmith8830]

If lego and anime figure companies (goodsmile, max factory) can ship worldwide, but p bandai is still limited to such a few countries, you know their service sucks. Literally just an easy way for resellers and proxies to profit.

[@Phoreverman]

That change in verbiage really helped me because it always bothered me that my P-Bandai purchases have been mostly lackluster when I went in expecting something "premium." "Can't even give me a manual in color??? Where's the 'premium'???"

[@allenryan3579]

pbandai narrative gundam b-pack noped me the f out when i found out the 'gundam' is not actually included

[@andyreeves6771]

Not going to discuss the trends they’ve been making the past 2 or so years? The trend is that you can obviously tell that 60 to even 50 maybe even 65% of HG would be locked to P-Bandai if they always operated the way they are now, just look at the HG Origin kits where they locked almost all its GM releases to it while still giving us more Zakus as retail releases.