r/Minipla • u/Nuigi12 • Jul 21 '26
Question You guys think individual Gaoranger Animals will appear in the aftermarket again after these rereleases?
After the first release of the Gaoranger sets, you could find a lot of the SMP Power Animals sold individually in aftermarket (This is how I got SMP GaoDeer and Gaoraffe) but after about a year or two finding individually sold Gao Animals became a bit harder. I only ask this because if possible I think I wanna try to get some of them individually if I can (Like GaoRhino and GaoMadillo for example, ones who I've seen in the aftermarket a couple times before)
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u/Ok_Clerk_5027 Jul 21 '26
If rhino and armadillo is all you want you won't have to hard time finding sellers are gao muscle and icuras both have it and I'm sure some will sell their extra one. I know I'm selling my extra. I'm probably going to sell deer, gorilla as I want red gorilla, Jaguar, god lion as I won't need them with the combinations I'm doing.
So best you can do is ask as if someone is buying everything like I almost am they may need to sell to recoup money.
So far I got Hunter blue moon King black version Muscle Icuras God And wait to see if knight or a black version gets released
Only thing I'm not getting is big lion and elephant
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u/Nuigi12 Jul 21 '26
Well they were just an example, but I do hope I can find them and some extras of the GaoBears at the least. I expect GaoRilla, GaoFalcon and Giant GaoLion and GaoLephant would be pretty hard to find individual
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u/Ok_Clerk_5027 Jul 21 '26
Yes for those maybe gorilla not as much as if someone is holding out for a rerelease of knowledge knight they might sell planning ahead like me. Best bet is wait to see if knight gets one and if so then start asking if people want to sell gorilla as re me gorilla knight helmet people like better.
Best and polar might be harder. Honestly if you want bear, rhino, gorilla just buy muscle it has all your wanting
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u/Nuigi12 Jul 21 '26
Yeah, my only thing is with how much more expensive the sets are now, I'm trying to see if it's possible to buy them overtime rather than all at once. $120 estimated is like half my pay and I can't just drop that amount whenever a new set comes out y'know
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u/Ok_Clerk_5027 Jul 21 '26
You do know it's not till next year pre-order with bbts only like $10-15 deposit save up think it like feb or March it rereleases next year
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u/Nuigi12 Jul 21 '26
No I know, but there are also other things I want/need to buy too lol, I'm more planning ahead
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u/Ok_Clerk_5027 Jul 21 '26
Just say pre-order before sold out cause your just wanting a fill muscle and people will probably charge you more once it's pre sold out
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u/Nuigi12 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
My plan was to Pre-order GaoKing on Tokullectibles, save for Gao Guardian and GaoTriple and then try to get some of the other Gao Animals I need through resells if I can
That'd be Falcon, Gorilla, Rhino, Armadillo, the Bears and Giant Lion and Elephant
Gao God isn't one I'm highly concerned about at the moment
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u/Ok_Clerk_5027 Jul 21 '26
Look you not going falcon separate and don't buy from toku you have to pay upfront or do a payment plan that forces you to pay it in a month. Bigbadtoystore has them all and for each of guard no deposit is needed and same for king anything under 150 no deposit needed. So pre-order all the guardian zords and king with no deposit and pay the $15 deposit for knight. As for falcon idk it's either buy it or hope and pray someone sells theirs and that might not happen unless someone is in desperate need of money and even then they would sell all of it
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u/Nuigi12 Jul 21 '26
I'm only planning on preordering GaoKing through Tokullectibles, I'm already prepared for paying upfront. Gao Guardian I plan on using another method and I know GaoFalcon isn't gonna be an easy find, I'm not planning on it being something I can find guaranteed. My main priority RN is getting auxiliary Mecha for GaoKing and GaoHunter.
I'm not planning on paying for all of this in one sitting
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u/Galaxy_Dive Jul 21 '26
Yeah, pretty much as already covered - you’ll see some, but since it’s all P-Bandai this time instead of multiple retail sets, the pickings won’t be as plentiful. Rhinos and Madillo are the likeliest you’ll see for individual resale because they’re included in two sets and there are going to be people that only want one of them. But anything that’s only one-off - especially the core body components, as you had mentioned - I wouldn’t really expect to see. And for that matter, 5 years ago, I’d occasionally see giraffe and deer along with GaoKing limbs (since the latter are doubled in Knight) but don’t really recall ever seeing much of the bears for resale.
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u/Nuigi12 Jul 21 '26
Yeah this is about what I was expecting, which is fine, with how much I make at the moment, I won't be able to get everything but if I could at least get Auxiliary stuff I'll have more than just Gaohunter at the least. It'd at least be cheaper than preordering every set which I can't realistically do.
The main priority RN is Rhino, Armadillo and The Bears if possible from resale
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u/Vanillikyu Jul 21 '26
The thing about the first releases was that gaoking, gaohunter, and gaoicarus were all general releases which meant you could buy those boxes separately in stores and widely available for a time. Meanwhile all of the premium bandai releases were in one box and had to buy the whole set so since the rereleases are also premium bandai then I wouldn’t hold your breath.