Boaz MyTurnASpace wrote: > There're many banpesto and similar specialty store now in HK versus the > model stores that keep closing. What do you think?
Which keep closing? The twinket stores or model stores? I haven't been back for WAY too long. Out here in US/Canada, twinkets seems to be doing much better than model kits. > strong a market as Korea. Look at the Dengeki competition or like, they're > usually available for Japan & Hong Kong, or Japan & Hong Kong & Korea. That > represents the importance of HK market for gunpla. Yeah for competitions HK definitely outperform its size. Also I am impressed that Bandai makes a lot of Japan-only special releases also officially available in HK and even makes HK-only special releases year after year. But evidently HK's loyalty is not absolute, the picky consumers abandoned Z2.0 despite the engineering improvements mentioned by Jason. > China is probably still too early a market Bandai would put its foot in, and > also it will have to worry about all the bootleg... so it must be having one > eye closed for that market. Well here tangible products are different from intellectual "product". Bootlegs may hurt DVD/music a lot, but bootleg model kits/action figures/twinkets are pretty bootleg-resistant. Actually HK is not that different from CN in terms of bootlegs, a lot of people buy bootleg DVD/CD and games, but not many people buy bootleg models. Ahh... not counting GKs... of course. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen bootleg kits in HK! Almost every single bootleg kit I've ever seen are found in New York and Toronto... > US? Ha! Well... I bet the US market for Naruto or FMA is bigger than HK market for Gundam or any other sub-genre. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
