^ yeah that's why when i saw one a while back turn up on thomann, i jumped on it... one of those "now or never" things. :D
EDIT: regarding the original question, i would probably try to hold out for an MIJ tokai (or other MIJ copy). If you know that's what you want, you might as well get a good one.
Though I think gibson might be releasing one (maybe it's the two pickup special- don't want to get your hopes up), might be worth waiting for that too to see what it's like, as there seems to be a backlog on pretty much all tokais that aren't LP standard copies or fender copies at the moment... :?