What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Sshadow5001 » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:45 am

Raithos wrote:Got a double whammy today with my Legend of Saiyan volume 1, and Figuarts ZERO Luffy too :D
The legend of Saiyan figures are highly detailed for the small size and I like the colours used. I deem the Trunks the best from Volume 1.

Angolz really needs to step up their game and not ship my boxes in such a damaged state :/. Other than that great buys all around.
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That is the exact Luffy figure i'm getting soon. may I ask about the quality of the figure?
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by TheLegendary117 » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:47 am

Ok, I got these just this last week. :mrgreen:
These 2 collectibles are from the most recent ichiban set, Perfect Cell and SS Vegeta. They came NIB, I took them out because I love the ichiban pieces.
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Then I got these 2 Megahouse pieces from a 2004 series. They are awesome pieces. The boxes have seen better days but the pieces are in perfect condition.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Sshadow5001 » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:51 am

TheLegendary117 wrote: Front of Boxes
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Back of box and top of box
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I have the Kid Goku figure from that set (because the other 2 were out of stock :( )
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by TheLegendary117 » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:54 am

Where did you buy the Kid Goku piece and how much was it? I'd love to pick it up to have the full set.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Sshadow5001 » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:06 pm

TheLegendary117 wrote:Where did you buy the Kid Goku piece and how much was it? I'd love to pick it up to have the full set
I got it off of Playasia a few years ago (when I was stupid with my cash)
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Post by TheLegendary117 » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:11 pm

Dang, ok. I'll just have to keep my eyes peeled. Thanks!
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Raithos » Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:52 pm

Sshadow5001 wrote: That is the exact Luffy figure i'm getting soon. may I ask about the quality of the figure?
The quality is spectacular, I'm really pleased to start off my small One Piece collection with this figure, paint job and everything are all top notch. It's like a really well detailed giant gashapon.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Raithos » Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:00 pm

Holy crap.
One right after the other... HSCF Volume 7 arrived today.
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Post by kingvegito » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:43 pm

Dragon box the movies GET!

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Great Saiyaman I » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:47 pm

I got the DG Saiyan Legend figures. Unfortunately, I did not get Tullece because he was ten dollars more everywhere I looked, so I decided to save some money. Sad, cause Tullece looks cool...
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Raithos » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:49 pm

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Alright so I just got home and opened up my new HSCF Volume 7 (Kai numbering) from Banpresto. My first thoughts when I opened them up were "these are small". I love these don't get me wrong but there a few issues I'll point out.
These figures are really small compared to previous HSCF releases. When I stack them up against my HSCF SSJ3 Vegeta and SSJ3 Broly they look puny,granted the Broly is thicker and more muscular than the other characters but even so the new set just looks really small in general. The limbs and torso are small in my opinion. Also paint application to the Androids' faces is not 100% complete... the 17 passes the test but for 18 they simply painted her eyes on but didn't really fill in her scleras fully, not a major problem but it still bothered me a tiny bit. Other than that the paint applications and colour pallets are wonderful. Nice bright vibrant colours really bring the figures into existence, and they are all highly detailed and very well done. Another nifty thing they did with the Future Gohan was to make his left arm detachable. (This is cool since these are static figures with fixed poses. I found this subtle homage to the TV series special a nice extra treat. (going back to when Future Gohan lost a limb defending from the Androids).
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by ssjtrunks51 » Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:39 pm

Could you post pictures of them next to some other HSCF so we can see how small they are, exactly?

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Raithos » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:21 pm

ssjtrunks51 wrote:Could you post pictures of them next to some other HSCF so we can see how small they are, exactly?
Good idea, just about to do that.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Great Saiyaman I » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:41 pm

18 looks really lowspec for a highspec figure. However, Gohan's detachable arm is awesome.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Raithos » Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:10 am

Well she can't be bulging with muscles right? I think her detail is fine for the character and size. There's about as much detail in this figure as there is in her Pichi Pichi Gal version, except for her boots. The boots are much more high spec on the DX figure vs. the actual HSCF.
I can do a comparison of that too if you'd like but back to the HSCF size:

SSJ3 Broly @ 14cm, Trunks @ 11.5 cm, and Future Gohan @ just under 12cm. The Trunks and Gohan don't look THAT BAD when compared to the SSJ3 Broly in terms of the size of their body frames. I think Gohan is the closest one to being in normal scale to the other HSCF lines.
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Here you can see the SSJ3 Broly stacked up with the Androids, the SSJ3 is 14.5 cm tall and the Androids are 10.5 cm tall. The bodies are also stick thin compared to Broly, now I understand Broly is a big guy, but regular HSCF can stack up to him decently I believe. The Androids just look TOO thin. It may not show too clearly here but once you get them in person you'll see it for yourself.
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Hmm, I should have done full on side shots here, anyway you can see that the Androids again are paper thin compared to the SSJ3 Broly. Again comparing them to such a big figure is a bit biased so I'll them to SSJ3 Vegeta who is more of a normal size.
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The SSJ3 Vegeta is 13 cm, and the Androids are 10.5cm. Even with arms folded the SSJ3 figure is still larger in body frame than the androids. Pay particular attention to the legs and you can see how Vegeta's legs compare to the Androids, to me the Androids look thin in comparison. I don't know, they could have made the Androids frames a tad larger in my opinion, just to fit in with the rest of the line. Or maybe the Androids were done this way to set them apart from other releases signifying the importance of them or what not. But even in the previous release of Imperfect Cell, SSJ Gohan, Android 19, and Android 20 (Dr Gero), those figures are on par with the SSJ3 Broly. Even the Kid Gohan would be big when paired against the Androids. I would show you but I don't have those figures yet :P.
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Here we can see Future Trunks with Vegeta in SSJ3, the Trunks clocks in at 11.5cm and the SSJ3 Vegeta 13cm. Again the Trunks just looks a tad smaller to me, I'm not saying its a bad difference or anything, but it's a noticeable change from the size of the rest of the HSCF figures. I threw in Digital Grade SSJ Super Trunks to show how even a mini Gashapon is almost up to Trunks' shoulders! The SSJ Trunks is 8.5 (just about 9) cm.
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All in all the figures are an amazing buy I definitely recommend them as they will become super rare and expensive as time passes. To me the Androids just looked a little on the small side. I didn't think they were that small in the series, but I guess they were? I don't know. Banpresto could have made their frames a bit larger in my opinion but still very nice figures indeed.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Codarik » Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:34 am

I recently bought one of the old Ultimate Uncut Edition dvds. I've always wanted to own at least one of them and now I do, it's called "Vol. 5 - Goku held hostage".

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Sketch » Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:20 am

My most recent Dragon Ball purchase I guess would be Dragon Box 1. Which I ended up buying after I bought 2, 3 and 4 (just shortly after 4).

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Tyro » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:13 am

Just bought myself DragonBall Curse of the Blood Rubies on DVD. Now I can finally toss that old, edited VHS copy. :D

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Zephyr » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:52 pm

Just used my financial aid for college to order Dragon Box 2-4 while they're still available. :lol:

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by SonGokuGT » Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:00 pm

Picked up another Daizenshuu 3 at Book-off... $9 with original Shenron Times!

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