[Tony_Bacala]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

It really makes me mad that they haven't reissued SS Vegeta yet. They need to hurry up so I can have a SS display since it doesn't seem like they are going to give us a regular Gohan any time soon.

Oh, and they need to reissue SS3 Goku.

BTW, here is a seller with them. I just bought a set (although, I hope these aren't bootlegs):

Dragon Ball 1th Generation Set of 7pcs PVC Figure Toy Furnishing Keychain New | eBay

Yep, those are the ones. I am not sure of official status either, but the Dragonballs worked so I went for it.

SS3 Goku is up:

[Tiberius]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

It really makes me mad that they haven't reissued SS Vegeta yet. They need to hurry up so I can have a SS display since it doesn't seem like they are going to give us a regular Gohan any time soon.

Oh, and they need to reissue SS3 Goku.

BTW, here is a seller with them. I just bought a set (although, I hope these aren't bootlegs):

Dragon Ball 1th Generation Set of 7pcs PVC Figure Toy Furnishing Keychain New | eBay

Just buy a bootleg Vegeta for the time being. From pics he looks fine and can hold you off until a legit one gets reissued then you got a spare Saiyan armour body for trunks, or something.

[Dragasses]

I know 0% about DBZ, but the figures look well done, and I've been super enjoying the photo galleries.

thanks tony.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Tiberius

Just buy a bootleg Vegeta for the time being. From pics he looks fine and can hold you off until a legit one gets reissued then you got a spare Saiyan armour body for trunks, or something.

No, I cannot do that. One, I do not intentionally support bootlegs. Two, it would also be wrong of me to support bootlegs when I have friends that work for Funimation.

[Tiberius]

Thought Funamation would only give a damn about bootleg dvds. But okays, to each his own.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Tiberius

Thought Funamation would only give a damn about bootleg dvds. But okays, to each his own.

Oh god no, they care.

One of our anime conventions got sued by Funimation because they were selling bootlegs in the dealer's room. The Funimation rep informed the heads of the convention this 10 times and they did absolutely nothing. It turned out that the table belonged to the guy in charge of the convention.

[Dr Kain]

Nice Trunks pictures. I really don't understand why they packaged him with SS and regular styles and no one else.

[Tony_Bacala]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Nice Trunks pictures. I really don't understand why they packaged him with SS and regular styles and no one else.

Thanks!

Yeah, me either. I am happy that they did, but it is odd given the rest of the line, before and after.

Hopefully they do another in Saiyan armor with better SS hair, or Jacketless to mimic the last eps of the Cell Saga when he returns home.

[Tiberius]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Oh god no, they care.

One of our anime conventions got sued by Funimation because they were selling bootlegs in the dealer's room. The Funimation rep informed the heads of the convention this 10 times and they did absolutely nothing. It turned out that the table belonged to the guy in charge of the convention.

It's one of those strange things. Like a company could reissue said bootlegged thing, and put a stop to the nonsense. Like in the case of Vegeta, if I didn't have the real one, I'd get the bootleg one to hold me over. Now, I know it isn't Bandais fault that SSJ Vegeta goes for a shit ton of money [along with First App Vegeta] but they need to watch that kind of stuff to at least reissue those kind of figures to put a big dent in the bootleg thing. As I said, it's all very strange.

[Tony_Bacala]

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Originally Posted by Tiberius

It's one of those strange things. Like a company could reissue said bootlegged thing, and put a stop to the nonsense. Like in the case of Vegeta, if I didn't have the real one, I'd get the bootleg one to hold me over. Now, I know it isn't Bandais fault that SSJ Vegeta goes for a shit ton of money [along with First App Vegeta] but they need to watch that kind of stuff to at least reissue those kind of figures to put a big dent in the bootleg thing. As I said, it's all very strange.

I think there's a weird thing with them and their Tamashii Nations web exclusives too. Kickback and the guys over at Tokunation explained it to me at SDCC but I dunno if I fully remember. Like, if it's a Japanese web store only exclusive, it can be released here as a general release. If it's a Japan wide release, it's limited here. Or something.

And, not reprinting those that are Japan store exclusives is a thing, I think.

Now, that mid range of releases in the line went to Japan web exclusive status because they were not selling at mass retail there. The US Market is doing much better for them. So if that's all the case, then it's possible their own rules won't allow reprinting those expensive pieces.

Hopefully someone with more Tamashii / Bluefin knowledge can clarify all that.

[Dr Kain]

If it is MonsterArts, Dragonball, or Sailor Moon related, Bluefin has all rights to release everything. They can release Sentai Figuarts as long as Saban has no objection to it. On the other hand, they can NOT release anything Kamen Rider related that is a web exclusive in Japan. Also, they were denied the license of Gaim, possibly because of its high demand in Japan and they only produced enough for the Japanese market. They can not release any thing else Toku, such as SPace Sheriffs and Metal Heroes (like B-Fighter) regardless of its release in Japan because there is no US market for those items.

[Tiberius]

Oh man, that SDCC Gohan is waaay better than normal release. Glad I got it.

[Tony_Bacala]

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Originally Posted by Tiberius

Oh man, that SDCC Gohan is waaay better than normal release. Glad I got it.

And if you ever need to put a down payment on a car, you can do that too then .

J/K, but it is one of the pricier ones now. Trunks, SDCC Goku, this guy. Killer right now.

[Tiberius]

I got SDCC Gohan, SSJ Vegeta, Trunks and SSJ3 Goku. Out of my "going for a dumb amount of money these days" figures.

HOWEVER, that god damn clip that came with Goku to clip the energy effects on his flight stand broke.

*plays mini violin"

[Dr Kain]

Wait, there was more than one Gohan? I only knew of the SDCC one.

[Tiberius]

Like Piccolo, they have their Manga colors.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Tiberius

Like Piccolo, they have their Manga colors.

Yeah, but what I'm saiyan is that I did not even know a Gohan came out outside of the SDCC one.

Nice Cell pictures btw.

[Tiberius]

[Tiberius]

Awesome Vegeta pics. Been wanting him for a long, long time. Now he is fetching stupid prices. Sigh

[Tony_Bacala]

And, updated!

Last of the galleries went up over the weekend, new Jump Off start page and first post updated with galleries and links.

To cap off this run, here's a couple group shots that were hard as shit for me to get done.




Click for big versions.

Hope you guys enjoyed the ride! Now, bring on Android 17, I saw some in hand shots of him today, so he's out somewhere.

[Dr Kain]

Wow, so then outside of alternate versions, I have every character released so far.

[Tiberius]

Shit I am missing quite a bit...

Those being Both 1st Vegetas
Both SSJ Gokus
SDCC Piccolo
Manga Gohan

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Tiberius

Shit I am missing quite a bit...

Those being Both 1st Vegetas
Both SSJ Gokus
SDCC Piccolo
Manga Gohan

Yeah, but those are variants of characters.

I don't have Manga Gohan, but I have Gohan. I don't have SS3 Goku, but I Have Goku (and tomorrow SS Goku arrives). I don't have SS Vegeta, but I have Vegeta.

[Tony_Bacala]

That's how I was collecting for a while. One of each character was good enough. Then I had to get normal Vegeta even tho I had SS. And normal Goku even tho I had SDCC SS Goku. And then I got SDCC Vegeta this year. And then I said F it I'm getting them all.

[Tiberius]

That was my mistake Tony, I said "one for each character is good enough for me"

HOW GOD DAMN DUMB I WAS. Now I never miss out. 1st App Vegeta... my biggest regret.