Dragon Ball Super - Toys and Roleplay - Bandai of America

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  1. Shin Densetsu

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    Is it already in stores?
     
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    Yeah I've seen it at a few Gamestops. I will say though it technically isn't Goku from his fight against Frieza, since the belt is wrong (it's literally Ultra Instinct Goku with a new head). The only times I can think of where he looks like this are the end of the fights against Android 13 and Metal Cooler.

    But I'm pretty sure they were going for the Frieza fight. God forbid we get a new belt or something.
     
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    He doesn't look bad at all. Pretty bad I'm not able to buy from Gamespot. I don't see Gogeta SS on Walgreens website, well I suppose the regular version will be on Amazon eventually.

    Man, it is getting harder to explain to my wife the different power levels, they are not just the same molds with different color hair :D 
     
  5. BlueAngel_Bolt

    BlueAngel_Bolt I'M REALLY FEELING IT

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    Not my picture but apparently SSJ Gogeta is starting to hit Walgreens stores
     

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    I think i'm just going to pick up Krillin and Gohan from these new waves.

    I really want an Ultra Instinct Omen Goku but i'm not feeling this https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-...rds=dragon+stars+series&qid=1571771455&sr=8-6

    When i think of that i think of more calm face rather than screeming. And i would rather he have the blue shirt on.

    Maybe they'll tweak it to make one like that and make it another exclusive?
     
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    Holy crap, Bandai really seems to be ready to pump out a ton of these next year. BBTS just put up preorders for wave 16! We still don't even have 13!

    This one is a v2 Blue Vegeta... and BARDOCK AND COOLER! I'm definitely getting Cooler.
     
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    Cooler and Bardock are musts for me.
     
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    Saw these at a Walgreens last night.
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    They had 5 or 6.
     
  11. Shin Densetsu

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    I'd seen those new 5" Dragon Ball Evolve(the figures that look like a cheaper version of Figuarts) at a seasonal calendar store at the mall for $13. Today I saw them at Walmart(in the games section) for $10. Reasonable BUTTTTTT....

    They're all the same height! Wasn't Broly in the Super movie supposed to be big as fuck? The Evolve Goku figure is the same height as Evolve Broly and Goku's face is bigger! Meanwhile Vegeta is the same height as both too. Can't wait for SS3 Gotenks to be just as big as Broly despite being KID SIZED! Wtf... honestly if not for the inaccurate scaling the figures actually look a lot better than the Dragon Stars figures... but that scaling or lack thereof sank any desire for me to pick any up.

    Reeks of some marketing genius completely disregarding the fact that fans actually take scale into account.

    Also saw the Dragon Stars UI Goku wave next to the new Evolve figures. UI Goku's hair looked like it was silver painted Playdough, cracks and all.

    Seems like with any recent Bandai line made for the domestic market, there's potential but phoned-in execution.
     
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    Hmm, Amazon updated my order of Vegeta saying they don't know when they'll get it now..

    But I do think he actually looks a lot better than Goku.
     
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    Ssj4 vegeta the knee bend suck and the waist dissasemble quite easily if you pass 180 degrees, good figure could have been great the only reason they do it is to make you buy the figuarts so sad
     

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    So I saw 1st Form Freeza, Majin Boo, and Blue Gogeta in Target yesterday and I have to say that I was quite impressed with the overall presentation of the figures. They looked really good,had a lot of paint details, and the sculpts were great too. What a vast improvement Bandai has done since their early figures. A shame they didn't treat the Power Ranger line like this when theyhad it.
     
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    entertainment earth has a black friday/cyber Monday sale on dragon stars on most waves up to movie broly, 18 and ssj3 gotenks wave. they have ssj4 vegeta, piccolo and goku wave but regular priced. free shipping on all
     
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    Argh, Amazon still hasn't fulfilled my SS4 Vegeta, and now they went and cancelled my SS4 Gogeta...
     
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    Yeah, I've bought a few of the figures in this line, and the only ones I really care for are the Androids and Freezas. They seem to be the only competently engineered figures with spot on sculpts and excellent articulation. Zamasu can't move his legs at all, and it's not the skirt piece! I removed it and his hips are just designed in a way that they can't move at all. I'll have to remove them at some point and grind away at his crotch piece some day to give the legs some clearance. Goku Black has hideous, robotic knee joints that literally disconnects his knee and has a mechanical looking joint separating them!

    My SSGSS/SSB Vegeta also sucks terribly. His hips are super restricted as well, and just moving them at all scores the plastic terribly I had to sand the legs back down and now I need to use a rotary tool to grind and smooth away at the restrictive and sharp waist part! These are issues that should have been fixed in the design process, but either they were too incompetent, or were doing so just to not compete with the Figuarts line and to avoid having people importing them to Japan.

    I did buy the GameStop battle damaged Goku, and it's decent, but what's a Goku figure that can't do his iconic poses (Kamehameha, or any decent fighting pose)? He can't bend his knees very much (and the knee joints are uglier than the 1.0 Figuarts version's), and the hips, while not worst, can't bend very far at all. These are $20-25 and they don't even really compare to Marvel Legends' engineering. There are also so many loose joints on a lot of the figures in this line.

    The Gogeta is pretty good though. I like the tan skin and its shading, which matches Shintani's design sheets from the Broly film, and the articulation on the legs is actually pretty decent this time. Too bad he towers over Goku and Vegeta, and is almost as large as the Figure-rise figures. Don't know what happened there. I've also seen that the new SS4 Vegeta is as tall as their SS4 Goku.

    I'll probably still get others like Gotenks and Buu (which looks better than the Figure-rise version), as well as Coola (who hopefully will be along the lines of their Freezas) but otherwise I think I'll stick with the Figure-rise line. Their Bardock looks much better too, with the Dragon Stars one having ridiculously long shins. At least 17, 18 and the Freezas being taller than their Figuarts versions puts them in a better scale with the Figure-rise ones (and Figure-rise Freeza is pretty ugly anyway).
     
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    One of those cases when after the initial disapointment, you realized it is not bad hahaha completely agree with you bro i suspect they do it for not making competition with figuarts
     

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