It's just my humble opinion, but I feel that the Guitar Village guy is the Village Idiot!
I have contacted the U.K. distributor for Tokai guitars at his music store through an e-mail, and simply and pleasantly asked what his discount price was for an LS85Q with the true Gibson headstock. My reply from him was rude, pompous and self-serving. He said that Tokais are worth the list price and he didn't give discounts. This jerk had the guitar listed at a premium price, about $300 above full retail price at least. The customer was not only paying for the guitar, he was paying for the shipping, the import duty, and a profit on top of that as well, in addition to the retail profit, which is the difference between what the dealer paid Tokai for the guitars and what he would sell it for to the public at full retail.
After seeing these clowns with their wise-*** attitudes, I went directly to Japan and bought an LS85Q from a Japanese retailer of the guitars made just for the Japanese market. Not only was I given a discount, but I got a new Tokai at a lower price then the ebay used ones.
By the by, all new Tokai Les Paul Love Rocks with a model number under the LS200 have laminated tops. This means that the flamed tops are Sycamore laminated to a rock maple core, and the quilted tops are quilted maple laminated to a rock maple core.
The LS200, LS220Q and LS 320 are the only Tokai models with solid maple tops non laminated and figured.
The LS75 Tokai has a solid maple top BUT that guitar has no figure on it and the maple used for that top although solid, is usually made from maple grown in hotter climates where the trees grow faster. Hence the yearly grain lines are farther apart then the high-end models where the grain lines are closer together indicating that the trees used for these tops were grown in a cold climate. Actually, the high-end Tokai guitars use Eastern North American hard rock maple tops, which are figured.
While the quilted top laminated LS85Q uses a veneer, that wood comes from the west coast of North America and is called "broadleaf maple".
The sycamore, to be flamed, must also be grown in a colder climate...probably North America as well.
Those of you in the U.K. that are looking for correct Gibson headstock shaped Tokais might best be served by finding a Japanese dealer and ordering it yourself, direct. You will still have to pay the shipping, import duty, etc., but at least you will get the discount up front which will save you some money and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that U.K. dealers who like to charge premium prices for their Tokais did not get more of your hard-earned money then you had to spend to get just what you want! Let these pompous, self-effacing misers with bad attitudes eat their stock and have to sit on it. They may eventually come around to your way of thinking and show you some respect. And if not, well, you'll still have the Tokai you wanted without having to pay more then list price, or suffering their insults and attitudes!