I got mine shipped over from SE Asia. Australian Customs held it Melbourne for a while before sending it over to W.A. I had to go to the Perth CBD (a good half hour trip going one way) to get some forms from the gun licencing centre. Had to wait a few days for the application to clear before I could pick the item up at the customs office in Fremantle (50 minutes one way). I brought the wrong form when I went to Freo the first time so had to make another trip the next day.


I'm sure they did some background check when I got the applications, plus I'm probably now registered as owning a "replica firearm" on the state's list or something like that. Never got told anything about safe storage or needing membership to a collector's club. It just stands on the shelf, ready for anyone to steal and try a rob a bank - if they can work out how to transform it.


If you wanted to avoid this situation, you could possibly tell customs to open the box so they can see that there is no gun inside (it's boxed in robot mode) Unless you wanted it mint, I'd recommend to potential buyers that they get the seller to remove the toy from the box and just have it shipped over in robot form with the acessories (As stated above, it's in robot mode already so it's not like they have to waste an hour trying to transform the thing out of gun mode - and yes, it can literally take an hour to transform it if you're no looking at the instrucitons). The box can be folded up and sent over seperately, or if you really want, the plastic insert could be included with it (though I imagine postage would be a bit more for that - possibly as much as if it still had the toy inside). Hopefully Aussie customs don't require you to obtain a licence for boxes with pictures of oversized, transforming, fake, plastic guns, but you never know...