Word certainly appears to have spread among both sellers and buyers about the potential scarcity value of this first batch, and accordingly Ebay and AliEx retailers are suddenly asking ridiculous prices for the few they now have remaining in stock.
Same goes for the new ANT female figures, low stock levels of those seemingly everywhere (and that's without any confirmation of if they're censored or not).
It could also be a case of companies manufacturing smaller batches of new figures until they've fully gauged the effect of the new censorship regime, I guess.