Unison Dream (IG16), the newest Z/X -Zillions of Enemy X- set, ships in Japan on October 22, 2026. There is no official Canadian or North American release of any kind, which is the honest starting point for any Canadian collector hoping to get it.
Until recently, the simple answer for a solo collector was to order direct from a Japanese retailer like miyabihobby.com and wait. That answer got more complicated in late 2025.
Miyabihobby briefly restricted direct export to private customers, steering new orders toward registered-importer terms. That change, and what has happened to it since, still shapes how a Canadian collector should plan an order today.
Here is the actual current state of that policy, the other import routes worth comparing, and what to realistically budget in cost and time.
Z/X has never had an English-language release or an authorized distributor anywhere in North America. Every copy that reaches Canada arrives through an import route of some kind, not a licensed local channel.
That means there is no local MSRP conversion, no regional pre-order system, and no guaranteed restock schedule. Every purchase runs through a Japan-based retailer, a dedicated import shop, or a reseller.
In a notice posted December 27, 2025, miyabihobby announced that orders placed from October 1, 2025 onward would need international-shipping-account details, effectively pushing private customers toward terms built for registered importers rather than individuals.
By January 10, 2026, the same policy page had been retitled to the resumption of shipments to individual destinations. The company's own current FAQ confirms private collectors can order again without a FedEx or DHL account, with import duties and taxes now folded directly into the listed price.
Because duties are baked into the sticker price rather than billed separately, a box can list above its original Japanese MSRP once you see the converted total. Miyabihobby's own notice states this plainly rather than burying it in a separate shipping line.
A buyer who happens to have access to a business FedEx or DHL account can request the pre-duty price instead, though that option is not realistic for most individual collectors placing a one-off order.
Dedicated TCG import shops that already carry prior Ignition-era Z/X boxes, and general Japan proxy-shipping forwarders, are both real alternatives to ordering from miyabihobby directly. Comparing landed cost across two or three of these before committing is worth the extra few minutes.
Secondary listings on sites like eBay are a third option, and they tend to widen once a set is a few weeks past its Japanese street date and more sealed stock starts circulating outside Japan.
IG16's confirmed Japanese pricing is a 6,600 yen manufacturer-suggested price for a 10-pack box. Once duties, any forwarding fee, and international shipping are added, a landed cost somewhere in the 55 to 70 Canadian dollar range per box is a reasonable planning estimate, not a guaranteed number.
Shipping from Japan typically runs one to three weeks depending on the carrier and whether a forwarder consolidates your order with other purchases. Building that lead time into your planning matters more for a release with no local pre-order system than it would for a same-day domestic launch.
Exact landed pricing for IG16 specifically through any single retailer, and whether miyabihobby's reopened individual-shipping terms stay unchanged through the IG16 release window, are both still open questions as of this writing. Policy pages like this one have already changed twice in under a year.
Treat any one retailer's listed price or shipping term as a snapshot rather than a locked-in number until you are actually placing the order. Once a sealed import box finally lands, sorting new pulls straight into a 9-pocket binder keeps a growing Z/X collection organized instead of loose in the shipping box.
No, there is no official English-language or North American release of any kind.
Yes, as of its January 2026 policy update, private collectors can order again with duties included in the listed price.
Yes, starting October 2025 it pushed new orders toward registered-importer terms before reopening to individuals.
Likely yes, since import duties are now folded into the listed price rather than billed separately.
Roughly one to three weeks, depending on the carrier and whether a forwarder is used.
A box that took weeks and real money to land deserves proper storage the day it arrives, not a spot in a loose stack. EVORETRO's plastic deck box is a simple way to keep an imported box's contents organized once you start sorting pulls.
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