Where are you getting these Facebook posts from? When I go to their FB page I see nothing.
In other news, YAY!
I expect they will dump a pile of returned statues on the doorstep of the factory and raise an eyebrow at the supervisor, asking them kindly to "try again" if they ever want to be paid by Yamato in future :P
So there's still hope for the original design being mass-produced! Awesome! Now I don't have to hunt down a prototype.
(Oh and I'm glad someone else mentioned that there are zero pictures of the statue on the Yamato website - all I ever see is the concept art picture, so when people said they had changed the images to match the retail version I was really confused.)