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Re: Dragon Ball Super related Merchandise and Figures (OP Updated 04/05/18).

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Wed May 23, 2018 6:50 am

ArchedThunder wrote:Kinda surprised those two movie Gokus aren't coming earlier than December.
Hopefully the movie line for WCF does pretty much everybody, like they did for F. Hopefully we also get stuff like the DXF line for F that covered lots of characters, basing them off of their Toriyama art for the poses.
I wonder if part of the reason WCF is kinda meh right now is because they are focusing on getting a lot of sculpts ready for December, more than a usual series.
Well find out June 1st what exactly they have in store for the movie when December solicits go up (if they go up)...the DXF line hasn't had a main release since October 17 (not counting the UI special last month) so I'm kinda worried what they'll use for the main figure line for movies. Hope it isn't like RF where they originally solicited "2015 theatrical DXF" only to change it to the smaller scale Chozousyu "The Figure Collection" Series. DXF line is far from perfect but for a main series of releases for the movie they'll be perfect.

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Post by Super Saiyan Swagger » Wed May 23, 2018 6:55 am

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:
Super Saiyan Swagger wrote:I really want to get a UI Goku figure but I don't know where to look. Usually I'd go on Madman.com.au but their Dragon Ball merch hasn't updated in a while. Any suggestions?
While searching for FES 8 I did come across this site the other day and it looks Aus based:
https://www.jtoys.com.au/?s=Dragon+ball ... pe=product

Could be something to look into? Assuming those prices are in AUD and shipping isn't too bad they seem decent.

Other than I am not sure for Aus folks, maybe eBay? Though sellers tend to mark up prices a lot on there.
Thanks for that! I went and preordered the one with UI Goku flying forward with his fist out. I haven't bought a Dragon Ball figure since that behemoth SSJ Goku that came with the Xenoverse 2 collector's edition. So I thought if I'm gonna start buying figures again I'll begin with UI Goku.

That new Goku figure based on Shintani's design for the upcoming film looks so nice. Definitely going to pick that one up when I get the chance.

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Post by ArchedThunder » Wed May 23, 2018 9:44 am

Well we finally got a shirtless Jiren.
Still no Blue Evolved Vegeta or GoD Toppo...
Soooo many Gokus...
God I hope when the movie merch roles around they stop ignoring other characters.

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ArchedThunder wrote:God I hope when the movie merch roles around they stop ignoring other characters.
I'm still waiting for a cool Hit figure. I would buy that in a heartbeat.

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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Wed May 23, 2018 10:29 am

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ArchedThunder wrote:God I hope when the movie merch roles around they stop ignoring other characters.
I'm still waiting for a cool Hit figure. I would buy that in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately Hit got hit (pun intended :P) by the fact DBS wasn't marketed properly until after Trunks arc late 2016. Banpresto stopped their regular prize figure line of Chozousyu's with Champa (only new character) others being movie re-releases under the DBS brand, early 2016 just when U6 arc was heating up just so they could concentrate on their Z RoS and crappy Z Dramatic Showcase releases.

2017 we got the WCF's for U6 arc... In which Hit was under ratio'd, and then 2018 ToP Hit got an expensive Premium Bandai Exclusice Mini figure and that's the best Hit got from Japan.

The whole marketing of DBS has been a massive mess, from crappy promo artisit doing a majority of the art for general general merchandise, then Banpresto/Bandai not marketing DBS until after the Trunks arc with U.S arc looming they had to sacrifice the U6 arc. 2017 on paper should have been a good year but the quality of releases were poor, and then 2018 when they finally get their shit togther DBS ends on TV you cannot make it up.

Then of course Bandai wasting DBS branding with basically everything and anything not DBS related... This ToP set sums them up.

It's been a very frustrating few years indeed. Bandai September gashapon solicits goes up soon...wonder what they'll waste with the DBS brand (I swear there also better be know more damn re-releases that's another bad habbit of theirs). Each new UDM set starting from #31 they are gonna include a Ginyu Force member.. Nobody asked for that at all. Just why that's one space taken each new set already now.

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Re: Dragon Ball Super related Merchandise and Figures (OP Updated 04/05/18).

Post by Super Saiyan Swagger » Wed May 23, 2018 10:43 am

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Unfortunately Hit got hit (pun intended :P) by the fact DBS wasn't marketed properly until after Trunks arc late 2016. Banpresto stopped their regular prize figure line of Chozousyu's with Champa (only new character) others being movie re-releases under the DBS brand, early 2016 just when U6 arc was heating up just so they could concentrate on their Z RoS and crappy Z Dramatic Showcase releases.

2017 we got the WCF's for U6 arc... In which Hit was under ratio'd, and then 2018 ToP Hit got an expensive Premium Bandai Exclusice Mini figure and that's the best Hit got from Japan.
At this point the best thing I can hope for is that Hit plays a prominent role in this upcoming movie which leads to him getting a figure. He’s such a fan favourite character that a figure would be a no brainer.

Hell, it doesn’t even have to be a prominent role. Rob Lucci showed up in One Piece Film Gold for like a minute and he got a bunch of figures when that movie was coming out. :lol:

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Post by majinwarman » Wed May 23, 2018 11:23 am

Super Saiyan Swagger wrote:
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Unfortunately Hit got hit (pun intended :P) by the fact DBS wasn't marketed properly until after Trunks arc late 2016. Banpresto stopped their regular prize figure line of Chozousyu's with Champa (only new character) others being movie re-releases under the DBS brand, early 2016 just when U6 arc was heating up just so they could concentrate on their Z RoS and crappy Z Dramatic Showcase releases.

2017 we got the WCF's for U6 arc... In which Hit was under ratio'd, and then 2018 ToP Hit got an expensive Premium Bandai Exclusice Mini figure and that's the best Hit got from Japan.
At this point the best thing I can hope for is that Hit plays a prominent role in this upcoming movie which leads to him getting a figure. He’s such a fan favourite character that a figure would be a no brainer.

Hell, it doesn’t even have to be a prominent role. Rob Lucci showed up in One Piece Film Gold for like a minute and he got a bunch of figures when that movie was coming out. :lol:
I think they will more figures for Hit in the near future.
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Post by Nafno » Wed May 23, 2018 11:24 am

Thanks mute_proxy .

The fact that Hit doesn't have a proper figure is beyond belief for me. I am even tempted to buy that articulated action figure I can see in toy shops. It is not a big deal, but given the lack of proper figures...

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0270/ ... 1508797148

BTW, my nephew loved Freezer and 17 during this arc, and seeing that Nº17 figures are not in the horizon, could you recommend me a good (preferably Golden) Freezer figure? I was considering Banpresto DXF, but the pose is kind of boring, and the Colosseum, that I can't find and fear that might be too expensive and/or bootleg.

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Nafno wrote:Thanks mute_proxy .

The fact that Hit doesn't have a proper figure is beyond belief for me. I am even tempted to buy that articulated action figure I can see in toy shops. It is not a big deal, but given the lack of proper figures...

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0270/ ... 1508797148

BTW, my nephew loved Freezer and 17 during this arc, and seeing that Nº17 figures are not in the horizon, could you recommend me a good (preferably Golden) Freezer figure? I was considering Banpresto DXF, but the pose is kind of boring, and the Colosseum, that I can't find and fear that might be too expensive and/or bootleg.
Freeza is a tough one ever since the end of 2015 they've basically stopped caring about him and thus a lot of his stuff is now expensive. By Colosseum I assume you mean this one? If so then your fears are warranted, it's gone up in price and there are a lot of fakes out there of it. Tbh it's not worth the price now as it's on the smaller scale at 8cm.

They only thing they did with Angel Freeza was a WCF. That's probably your best bet tbh.

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Post by Nafno » Wed May 23, 2018 11:58 am

Thanks, I might go for it.

I didn't know the colosseum one was 8 cm, it looked bigger.

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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Wed May 23, 2018 12:14 pm

Nafno wrote:Thanks, I might go for it.

I didn't know the colosseum one was 8 cm, it looked bigger.
Yeah it did:
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The winning SS battle damaged Goku in the corner was 21cm so I dunno why they made these specials so small SSGSS Goku was only about 13cm too I think.

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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Thu May 24, 2018 6:40 am

Blood of Saiyans SSGSSKK Goku out today:
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Love the colouring on the gi!

And that's a wrap for May! Decent month all things considered. Next month is a big un begins almost immediately, 2nd June History of Son Goku IBK starts!

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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Fri May 25, 2018 1:52 pm

OP UPDATED- Changelog:
[spoiler].Added separate movie section at the start of the OP
.Updated FES WCF/WCD
.Cleaned up UDM also added separate "THE BEST" and "V JUMP" re-releases.[/spoiler]

Plans for the rest of the year on pre-order that I can't cancel-
BWFC SPECIAL, MATCH MAKERS Goku & Freeza, Grandista UI Goku

On pre-order that I can cancel:
FES 7 SS4 Gogeta, SS4 SMSP

Will pre-order- UI FES for Sept, Oct, BoS Z SPECIAL Goku (massive improvement over the shitty one from last year) & WCD Vol 2 and then that is it until movie stuff will no doubt try and get WCFs but preying they aren't under ratio'd and hopefully we have a line of regular prize figures.

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ArchedThunder wrote:Kinda surprised those two movie Gokus aren't coming earlier than December.
Hopefully the movie line for WCF does pretty much everybody, like they did for F. Hopefully we also get stuff like the DXF line for F that covered lots of characters, basing them off of their Toriyama art for the poses.
I wonder if part of the reason WCF is kinda meh right now is because they are focusing on getting a lot of sculpts ready for December, more than a usual series.
I wanted to touch up on this, this is undoubtedly the case Mr.Nakazawa handles the WCFs (and I'd assume the WCDs too) and he also handles all the movie stuff (he did for BoG and "F") plus no FES scheduled for November so it definitely seems that way. All sculpts are done pretty far in advance (prototypes that is) Varoq sculpted his UI Goku 7/8 months before release for example. So all the movie stuff has probably all been sculpted by the start of this year.
Also the movie WCF are going to be a set of 6 (some people were worried that since WCD went to 4 that this maybe the case for future regular WCFs) and the December one is labelled as vol.1 implying further volumes hopefully just 1 month apart.

If I were guess for Vol.1= Base Goku, Base Vegeta, Beerus, Whis, Piccolo & Villain and then subsequent volumes being forms and other characters. Hopefully some of the now "cuter" girls get added to the WCFs.

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Post by Zen Yabuki » Fri May 25, 2018 6:04 pm

I'm surprised Jiren got as many figures as he did. Not too many, but more than I expected.

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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Fri May 25, 2018 9:26 pm

Zen Yabuki wrote:I'm surprised Jiren got as many figures as he did. Not too many, but more than I expected.
Bandai loved him, Banpresto not so much. Before the October special Jiren stuff wasn't selling too hot but after the special he just spiked up in popularity, his vs ~¥6000 SSGSS Goku P-Bandai set got a second shipment by Bandai which was unprecedented to say the least.

Only thing missing was a regular scale prize figure from Banpresto. All these UI figures without a scaled Jiren to go with.

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Post by Zen Yabuki » Sat May 26, 2018 11:05 am

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:
Zen Yabuki wrote:I'm surprised Jiren got as many figures as he did. Not too many, but more than I expected.
Bandai loved him, Banpresto not so much. Before the October special Jiren stuff wasn't selling too hot but after the special he just spiked up in popularity, his vs ~¥6000 SSGSS Goku P-Bandai set got a second shipment by Bandai which was unprecedented to say the least.

Only thing missing was a regular scale prize figure from Banpresto. All these UI figures without a scaled Jiren to go with.
It's impressive, but I also guess expected too. Especially with that Antagonist Poll that had JIren at third.

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Post by ArchedThunder » Sun May 27, 2018 10:19 am

Yeah, Jiren not getting any 5+ inch figures yet is weird, especially when the western Dragon Stars set getting a Jiren figure really soon.
Hit missing any at least makes somewhat sense, as much as it's dumb because he's a fan favorite, due to when he debuted and what they ended up doing with merch at that point.

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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sun May 27, 2018 9:05 pm

Sculptor talk.

Suzuki tweeted that he (as expected) is sculpting the November KMH x10 SS4 Goku:
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Confirmation that Urota sculpted the DB Match Makers:
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What a year for the Japanese sculptors! Literally the all of their best work came this year! Roundup:

Nakazawa (versatile sculptor) absolute beast and f**king legend so many sculpts and quality never drops!
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Assumed sculpted:

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Varoq (primarily focuses on making figures seen at various different angles):
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Yamashita:
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Suzuki (move sculpt specialist):
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Urota:
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BWFC 2018 competition starts this year and sculptors will be split 3:3 Japanese and overseas again. As usual each sculptor can pick from these characters/forms (they might add some new ones) but free to pick pose and clothes:
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Post by ArchedThunder » Mon May 28, 2018 9:30 am

What a boring list of characters for BWFC.

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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Mon May 28, 2018 10:21 am

ArchedThunder wrote:What a boring list of characters for BWFC.
Aye. But what's even worse is there isn't a limit so if all sculptors wanted the same character they all could. Last year we had 2 Goku's and 2 Future Trunks. Seems a waste since figures of them two will always get made. No doubt this year will have a boring line up too, especially since 3 westerners again can see them picking Trunks, Cell arc Gohan etc.

However the winner of the BWFC since 2015 gets to sculpt a special figure no limitations on anything, if there is a new form they get dibs on that.

2015:
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2016:
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2017:
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2018:
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2016&17 one's complete waste since both characters in the regular line up choice, bah. I don't get it why pick them for the special when they could have been picked for the regular?

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