Lord Beerus wrote:I apologize if my initial response to this development seemed so brazen, but I can't wrap my head around this.
Why would they pimp out toys in stores around the United Kingdom for a show that has had zero exposure on TV? It just comes across as a cynical cash grab, like, "Hey, have you vaguely heard of Dragon Ball? Well... buy these Dragon Ball Super toys! They are basically the same thing!" Ugh. Regardless of what people may think about Dragon Ball, or about Super, or about how large the fandom may be in the United Kingdom, at least have the fucking courtesy to air some episodes of the damn show for the toys that are advertised with the fucking title and logo of the show in them. And on top of this, they have the damn nerve to charge up to £24 for these poorly produced toys? Get the bloody hell out of my face with that bollocks. Fans of Dragon Ball in the UK, and especially those of Super, deserve better than this nonsense. I'm so fucking pissed off by this bullshit.
I totally and completely agree with you. I'm 37, and in my 30+ years of watching television, have never, ever, known a toyline based on a show be released here in the UK that the show in question isn't currently available in English language in this country.
Toei commissioned Bandai to produce these toys using the
Super branding, and the fact it has now become blatantly obvious we have no chance of being able to watch the show dubbed, in our own language on TV because of reasons we all know already, it is absolutely ridiculous that Toei/Bandai think it is ok to distribute this line here, and charge an extortionate amount for it.
It is shameful, as we all know these toys would never have been produced in the first place if it wasn't for
Super, so, like your post mentioned above, they are saying - "hey, you've heard of DBZ, right? buy these toys for a new show which you can only watch subbed on crunchyroll", Belgium, who also have no way of watching the show in French or German (unless they get that dub when it starts) have also got these toys.
They clearly have no shame.... UK fans deserve better, Toei EU won't give us Subbed One Piece, so we have zero chance of getting this streamed on funinow, either.
A pathetic attempt at a cashgrab - I hope the sales are poor, as that will serve them right for being greedy.