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And how many of the artists exhibiting become big and popular, and more importantly stay consistently that big and popular? How many go home with much less than the big and popular ones?

Also, though not a coomer model, Kon has been and is ultra popular, but the sales were very low, according to the modeller. Or at least the usage far exceeds the purchases. It's 3000 JPY, I wonder how much money they actually made.

But even if they made a lot of money, they'd still be making the models to make money and you buying them would go towards that, allowing them to generate a fanbase and produce more models with similar or greater sale numbers, as you say - which is something you tend to want when you buy a model.