Custom DBZ Figuarts (Datong-Based)

They do suffer from it quite a lot, and that's the reason why I wanted to create those "sets". I'm not familiar with Transformes, but I think it does not really matter which series or trademark sells collectibles: it ends up always the same way. Just look at the ML Deadpool or Black Panther (Rocket Raccoon BAF) figures - same story.

But as you see, I'm not only complaining about the rediculously high prices. Those SH Figuarts figures are not the cheapest their release price variates from 40$ to 60$. Of course you get (mostly) high quality figures with tons of additional stuff (additional faces, hairstyles, hands, effect, accessoires, stages ...), but with DBZ figures it is not always the case.

Those fighters from DBZ have a normal form, and many Super Saiyan forms when they get yellow/blond top-spiked hair and blue eyes. So for me, it would be logical to add to the normal form figure a super saiyan head, so the hero can "turn" into his Super Saiyan mode. Instead of this, SH Figuarts produced 5 equal Gokus - all with the same body but different heads and sometimes different accessoires. 2 normal Gokus (one of them is s SDCC = San Diego Comic Con exclusive figure, it's a darker repaint of the original one with knaji prints on his clothing, an additional face and a different belt); 2 Super Saiyan Gokus which are the same figure as normal Goku but with less hands, no effects, inaccurate coloured clothes (yellow instead of orange), and a super saiyan head + faces (one of them is an SDCC again, with corrected colour for the clothes and better painted hair); and Super Saiyan 3rd stage Goku figure, which has the same body and hands like first Super Saiyan figure, but has ugly mud-orange-sand coloured clothes instead of orange, and yellow-orange sprayed skin, which also does not look good or accurate. His long and articulated Hair has an amazing sculpt und paintjob, but is too heavy for the figure to pose the hair and the figure freely. But he's sold with a stage to hold him, a unique aura effect and a halo.

Normal Goku costs now 100$+, his SDCC version 150$+, normal SSJ Verion 40$+, SDCC SSJ Verion 500$+ and the SSJ3 Version 250$+. I would have produced just additional heads with stages and effects as "additional kits" or smth. Or I would give those new figures new accessoires, like attack effects (like it's with SSJ3), so it's worth paying a new (and more expensive) figure. Still, paying more than 100$ for such a figure is insane. It was not so long ago when they produced a DBZ Super Saiyan Broly - a really big, heavy figure for sh figuarts standards (most DBZ figures rarely reach 7 inches thanks to their hair, this one is almost 9 inches tall to the tips of his hair, he's as big as a ML Face Off Hulk figure), which can be bought now for 135$+. When he was released the price was smth. about 80$, but this guy is definitely a better deal even with the new price, than all those figures I mentioned before. The 40$ Super Saiyan is an exception in this case.

I'm not familiar with dbz at all, but those figures might be suffering from scalping. It becomes very apparent when you're trying to get a certain figure.

For example, I recently got a wild hair up my ass to get one of the old Transformers Optimus Primes. Everywhere I find it for sale it's like $60+, which is nonsense. When I see it up for auction at a decent price, it gets snatched up only to reappear days (sometimes hours) later up for sale again at a higher price. It's ridiculous. Who are these people that decided to make a living artificially inflating the price of toys? Why don't they apply their motivation to something way more profitable, like flipping houses? Weirdoes.