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Post by Branjita on May 14, 2020 11:11:57 GMT -6
A condensed history:
As most of you know, Bandai America came out with a line of 5 inch figures named Dragon Ball Evolve last year. They were very difficult to find at local stores, so most people had to resort to buying them online. Eventually, Walmarts started to be the best place for many people to find them locally (near the video games) while some people were successful in finding them at their Target stores (by the Power Rangers). Me, personally, I talked to a Target employee and showed her a barcode that she scanned with her device, and back when I did this, she told me not a single Target within XX amount of miles of Dallas, Texas had any, or any upcoming orders. So Target has been very, very "miss" rather than "hit and miss" for most people.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at the beginning of February 2020, at the Nuremberg Toy Fair (Nürnberger Spielwarenmesse) and London Toy Fair, Bandai Europe or Bandai UK showed off a 3-pack of the existing figures, and this was later shown at the end of February at the New York Toy Fair. I don't know what retailers actually received this, and I don't know if this also meant they were going to re-release the individual figures again as well.
Regardless, I believe Bandai did this, since so many people had a hard time even finding these figures. In the US, at least where I live, the easiest way to get Dragon Stars figures is to pre-order them from Gamestop. But to my knowledge, Gamestop does not carry DragonBall Evolve. They certainly do not have it on their website, and I've never seen one in the store I typically go to.
Looking to the future:
With that said, my contact associated with Bandai America told me months ago that the Dragon Ball Evolve line was not canceled, and would have a second wave. What is in that wave? I have no idea. My contact doesn't tell me confidential information.
I told my contact that most people on here, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have complained about how small SS Broly is. And I urged them to push Bandai to make this a 5 inch "scale" line, rather than a 5 inch line. Hopefully that happens.
I was also told by them that the pandemic has slowed/delayed production and distribution of newer items, so that's part of the reason we haven't seen any/many new products. I think those of us who pre-order Banpresto products have noticed that very clearly. I for one, pre-ordered Ichiban Kuji Yamcha, and his release was changed from March to May, and I still haven't been instructed to pay for my pre-order yet. So most things are very delayed.
Enough of that. Here's the purpose of this thread. Vote for who you would like to see in future waves of this 5 inch (or 5 inch scale) line, and I'll send a link to my contact once we've received many votes.
Note: I've only included characters from DB Super because we have plenty of other 5 inch lines to pick and choose from to fill our collections with most DBZ characters. I think it's important for this line to stay focused on Super while it is just getting started. If they want to make us movie villain characters from DBZ movies... I'm all for it! But they really need to help us collect DB Super characters since there simply aren't any officially licensed options available at all currently in 5 inch scale.
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Post by Adrenaline on May 14, 2020 15:19:01 GMT -6
Tough to choose because you know they will probably remain at 5 inches, regardless of who it is. Maybe the smaller characters would be made smaller, but I think they would continue making larger characters at 5 inches, too. Maybe that is why Magetta is missing from the poll?
I would also throw a vote in for Gine since she was in the Broly movie.
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Post by Branjita on May 15, 2020 11:00:55 GMT -6
Whoops... I forgot about Magetta... but you're right, he wouldn't be made in an acceptable size, if he was created. He's a huge character. Too big for Dragon Stars to even likely make him unfortunately. Adrenaline, do you think Magetta would have to be about the size of the Irwin Red Ribbon battlesuit robot? Or smaller? Gine would be cool. I tried my best to limit it to characters who played larger roles in the Broly movie or the TV series. I don't think they'll do minor ones yet. I did throw Yamcha and Chaozu in as the last two choices though, just because they are classic characters (but also fighters featured in the video games still). My preference is for them to finish what they started with the Broly movie characters, and then move on to the TV series. I hope they do that, because Paragus and regular (or wrath) Broly are too difficult to make as custom figures.
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Post by hono on May 15, 2020 13:24:34 GMT -6
I would love a regular Vegeta just to its body to make a saiyan armor Gohan for SHF.
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Post by ToadKart on May 15, 2020 17:56:15 GMT -6
Whoops... I forgot about Magetta... but you're right, he wouldn't be made in an acceptable size, if he was created. He's a huge character. Too big for Dragon Stars to even likely make him unfortunately. Adrenaline, do you think Magetta would have to be about the size of the Irwin Red Ribbon battlesuit robot? Or smaller? Gine would be cool. I tried my best to limit it to characters who played larger roles in the Broly movie or the TV series. I don't think they'll do minor ones yet. I did throw Yamcha and Chaozu in as the last two choices though, just because they are classic characters (but also fighters featured in the video games still). My preference is for them to finish what they started with the Broly movie characters, and then move on to the TV series. I hope they do that, because Paragus and regular (or wrath) Broly are too difficult to make as custom figures. Magetta would have been a good BAF, I wonder why they stopped doing those in the Dragon Stars line.
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Post by Branjita on May 18, 2020 10:00:17 GMT -6
ToadKart yeah, we'd need that from Dragon Stars line though, so he'd be big enough. If DB Evolve simply made "normal" size characters (characters who are normal human sizes), and we had to resort to getting Dragon Stars figures for the larger ones (as we already have been able to do... Berzerk Kale, Legendary SS Broly, DB Super: Broly SS Broly, and Cooler form 5) then that would be absolutely fine. Ideally (to me), DB Evolve needs to fill in the massive amount of regular-size characters we need for our collections... but first they need to finish off the DB Super: Broly movie by producing the characters who desperately need to be made... Paragus... regular or wrath Broly... and SSB Gogeta at minimum. It'd be nice if they also gave us a repaint of SSB Vegeta as SSG Vegeta with a different set of hands... and a SSG Goku using the same SSB Goku body, a different head, and a different set of hands. This line could be really cool if they developed it more with more characters, and the scaling was better. It's hard to get people to collect a line like this, when everything else that scales with it was made 15+ years ago.
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Post by Branjita on Jun 1, 2020 17:47:32 GMT -6
Looks like we know who is in wave 2! Feel free to change your votes if you voted for any of these three characters!
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Post by princezarbon on Jun 1, 2020 18:25:31 GMT -6
I put the votes in for this poll. If you have a poll for figuarts & dragon stars I would vote for them too; hoping that Zarbon and Dodoria are on those polls.
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Post by Branjita on Jun 24, 2020 9:50:51 GMT -6
I'll be sending the results of the poll to my contact with Bandai America next week, so if you haven't voted, vote for the 10 characters you want to see most in the next few waves of this line of figures.
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