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Post by captaindinobot on May 30, 2014 0:13:35 GMT -6
I'm going with Irwin Toys, because they kept releasing new things every wave, Jakks kept reselling and repackaging the same figures.
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Post by Namekian Dragon on May 30, 2014 17:15:15 GMT -6
On top of that the main reason I am going with Irwin is because to me, they are the Pioneer of DBZ figures in America. Irwin brought us some of the Japanese SBC figures repackaged available to the American consumers. Irwin made it possible for me to have DBZ figures as a kid in the first place. Irwin gave us characters we would have never seen if not for them. The paved the way for Jakks. and I will never forget the Magic and nostalgic feeling which wormed my heart "Irwin, We Remember when we were kids" and "as seen on toonami" These are my sentiments exactly, just worded a lot better. I much preferred the SBC repackaged Irwin figures over their later releases.
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Post by limitablefawn17 on Apr 7, 2015 21:13:22 GMT -6
Irwin certainly made more, and although at the beginning they were very low quality while Jakks were the high quality ones Irwin got their act together (desperately trying not to go bankrupt) and made really high quality figures really cheap, also NOSTALGIA GOGGLES
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Post by armymanis on Apr 10, 2015 15:49:04 GMT -6
My favorite is Irwin. They are really easy to collect for. Some of the vehicles they made are harder to find/get. Most I paid for a vehicle was $400 CIB for Trunks time machine. I would highly suggest getting the Irwin vehicles now before they disappear.
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Post by Ketchup on Apr 11, 2015 8:45:16 GMT -6
On Jakk's Movie Collection pieces, they were just revamped and reused sculpts from Irwin's IF Labs line.
The sculpt that was originally released by IF Labs for their series 1 Battle Damaged SSj Goku got reused by Jakks several times for their lines, give or take a few tweaks to clothing and such. However, I do like the character variation of Jakks, but their figures in general weren't as good in my opinion.
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Post by thesupernamekian on Aug 16, 2017 12:24:08 GMT -6
One of the biggest selling points of the Irwin figures was the variety of characters as they made characters like Raditz, Kame-Sennin, Yajirobe, and many other characters like Butta and Jheese which very few companies (even to this day) have made articulated figures of. And while the articulation on the Irwin figures was never the best, I think a combination of characters available and sculpt work more than made up for it.
Jakks Pacific, while an alright company, really only ever released endless versions of the most marketable characters (almost always made out of parts from previous figures, mind you) and rereleases of Irwin figures.
You buy Jakks Pacific figures for articulation and Irwin figures for everything else.
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