Sculptors: Unkown
Release dates: Vegetto June 17, Goku August 17, Vegeta October 17.
In 2017, Banpresto decided to revive their DXF line and with UI Goku out next month decided to review the SSGSS one's, sadly this entire release has never lived up to it's potential, coming in at ~18cm it was of substantial height and sadly that is where most the positives come from. 2017 was the year of the plastic hairs!
Packaging:
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[/spoiler]Nice box design the use of white looks great.
The figures:
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[/spoiler]Goku:
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[/spoiler]The worst of the three.
A very mediocre paint job on the gi, as seen here compared to FES Goku:
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[/spoiler]Barely any tonal shading here and the paint of orange looks pretty awful. The hair mould is pretty great however the choice of plastic mould for it... let's it down but I appreciate the daylight SSGSS colour. I also like the main mould for the figure but it is let down by a severe lack of detail. But I love the muscles of Goku on here.
Vegeta:
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[/spoiler]A better paintjob than Goku and slightly more detailed too. But again the hair lets the figure down the plasticness does not fit Vegeta at all, totally ruined the Grandista Vegeta too.
Vegetto:
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[/spoiler]The best of the three. Also most expensive.
Paintjob is actually done fairly fine actually, nice shades of blue on the gi and the orange is more "dirty" coloured and the hair matches the dark SSGSS as seen in the anime and less notice of the plastic too also the hair has the bangs to the right and not centrally!!! One big and smaller bang too! Perfect. Also love the face mould too captures the cokiness of Vegetto well. But I don't like the pose, the face would be better suited to the arms folded mould. Or at least have the arms less to open out.
Final thoughts and recommendation?
Sadly a release full of potential let down by lack of detail and poor paintjobs in general also the 2017 company decision to make all hair plastic was f**king stupid. But being SSGSS these aren't cheap especially the Vegetto and Goku is creeping up too, I would only recommend them if you manage to find them under 1300 yen. Vegeta gets the short end of the stick here as this is really the only viable regular prize figure for SSGSS Vegeta as the others have gone up in price.
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Goku's been through some shit alright! Speaking of the back this shot shows the damaged gi better for what I mean:
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