S.H.FiguArts Dragonball Z figures!!!

[Bee Vee]

Just kidding, that's just a little mock up I did

Murrca *** yeah!!

 

[ergocomics]

To yamcha fans: ignore this if you can't stand harsh opinions.
Uh... What story in Z? He dies, makes comments and transports people. And then dies again. Way back in dragonball... yamcha was already a ****ing loser, quite literally. Beyond the very first saga of DB, he's done absolutely nothing useful and won not a single relevant battle without help. He was the first real enemy goku encountered and Yamcha should've been ditched ever since bulma broke up with him in DB. Tien and Krillin, they're the ones worthy of Roshi's training. Yamcha's a desert bandit punk who had nothing to do with his life so he just tagged along. And he's done nothing useful in terms of fighting since. Goku defeates Yamcha in early DB and after that he's not been able to touch any one. Krillin and Tien are real die hards, and krillin deserved his large role in DBZ as Goku's best friend. Tien was the third strongest of DB after piccolo and goku. Tien would edge out krillin, he's too diehard, krillin is a smart fighter, but if you've seen the db tien vs goku fight you know Tien is a ****ING DIE HARD. In fact, he was in a way the true MMA rival of Goku as he was mentored at first by Roshi's evil adversary. But as we all know Tien switched allegiances because he wasn't truly as evil as his mentor demanded of him. Also, not that I knew originally, but Tien's attack to stop cell is from dragonball, and goku's move to power up a kamehameha and then move and fire it from a different angle (in the cell games) is something krillin originally came up with in DB. Tien and Krillin are great fighters and have proven their battle worth in even both series. Yamcha is a loser, he can shove his wolf fang fist up his ass. He's completely irrelevant if it comes to battles. He should've given up fighting after the first few DB sagas, he's an irrelevant character and when Bulma said she broke up with him after kid Goku comes back to the city to visit Bulma in early DB, we should've never heard from him again.

He's a simple case of a writer having issues letting go of characters, when he should've in this case.

Never said he was any kind of epic character bro. I'm no Yamcha lover. I just love the full cast and the roles they fill. I just appreciate his existence and struggle. Again, he can't keep up. But why should that matter. He's still one of the 3 strongest humans on earth. Besides. Do you not like a diverse cast? That's what I never understood about all the hate. I actually LOVE that there's a character like him in the family. I guess I can't really expect anything more from a fandom that literally only watches it because it's "THE action cartoon" epicness that happened.

 

[ergocomics]

And as far as these figures go, I cannot wait until I have all three humans standing together as the loyal friends and followers.

 

[RKenshinH]

Me too but how much time we need to spect? to get yamcha and tenshinhan

 

[timone317]

had to come back and post...this is just great to see. It isn't a perfect match but it's good enough for me.

 

[blood]

Me too but how much time we need to spect? to get yamcha and tenshinhan

 

[tinlunlau]

Looks like someone found a solution to Gohan's face.

shf

 

[RKenshinH]

This guys must been released!

 

[RKenshinH]

Goku (Freezer Saga) *_* i want him *_*
Gohan (Cell Games) i have it
Vegeta (Buu Saga) i want him *_*
Krilin (Cell saga) i have it
Yamcha (Cell saga) i want him *_*
Picollo i hathem all! *_*

 

[crisis]

Mustached Vegeta is prolly his best look in all of Dragon Ball. There's no debating this.

 

[crisis]

Found this on instagram, pretty cool

 

[Psycho]

Found this on instagram, pretty cool

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Yeah looks good just his top is cut a little to low for that Look.

 

[Psycho]

Some DBZ customs I found:

 

[Silrian]

Never said he was any kind of epic character bro. I'm no Yamcha lover. I just love the full cast and the roles they fill. I just appreciate his existence and struggle. Again, he can't keep up. But why should that matter. He's still one of the 3 strongest humans on earth. Besides. Do you not like a diverse cast? That's what I never understood about all the hate. I actually LOVE that there's a character like him in the family. I guess I can't really expect anything more from a fandom that literally only watches it because it's "THE action cartoon" epicness that happened.

Ftr none of this was a personal response to you Ergo, hope you know that.

DBZ has a few great characters arcs and contrary to some people's belief it's not just a shallow 'get even stronger' fest, I agree with you there. However, Yamcha is NOT one of 'm (I disagree with you there). He has no development whatsoever in dbz except 'okay... nevermind, I'll quit pretending'. When a saibaman killed him, his relevancy as a fighter permanently ended. I wouldn't say I hate the character (no joke), I dislike keeping irrelevant characters in any spotlight. If anything, the only relevance he has is just so there's a z fighter that can die at the beginning of stuff. And even THAT relevancy he loses in the Buu era. All he does is inflate the rest to me. THAT I hate.

If anything I wish Yamcha had been made stronger and given more relevancy (!), actually do give him a character arc that pays of to the story, let him do relevant things, but he can't, he's just... there... Why? Because it's completely clear yamcha is just a simple desert bandit that functioned as a funny first antagonist to goku and bulma. He's nearly the same idiot as he was at the beginning of dbz except that he isn't a jerk (the arc of pretty much every dbz protagonist except goku and gohan). I am fine with yamcha being there, I don't per definition hate the character at all, but as far as I'm concerned he has no business standing among the other z fighters, he has no real char arc in DBZ (he does in DB, not Z). He has absolutely no relevance and in the buu saga we see his ultimate fate: to just pretty much become oolong nr 2. His relevancy as a non-fighter ended when Bulma broke up with him. He has no worth to me as a z fighter nor as a non-fighting character. So that's why I'm buying Tien if he's made, but not Yamcha. (And I facepalm for ever thinking they were a duo.) I'm not spending a freakin cent on that dude.

But granted this is a general issue I have with db as a franchise and I've had it ever since the buu saga developed: beyond goku and vegeta, everyone else just keeps getting less relevant. I really dislike that. Everyone's being yamcha'd. Now basically anyone can just pack up if they're not a saiyan god. That's a huge writing issue I have and Yamcha is just the OG example of it.

Toriyama or anyone else really needs to come up with stories that don't involve one big even more powerful threat, because at this stage it renders everybody but goku and vegeta pretty much useless.

I would love to see an enemy that actuall brings a full force (maybe thats frieza in rof, havent seen it yet) that's GLOBAL. That has enemies of a lot of strength ranges so we can see yamcha put on his robe and protect civilians and actually own some of these ****ers. Same for krillin tien etc. If THAT happens I will root for yamcha. I don't actually hate him at all. I just find him utterly irrelevant and ignorable because of how the franchise develops.

 

[Silrian]

Those are some cool customs. That metallic gohan is pretty sick but wish they'd painted every non-skin part.

 

[crisis]

Wow those customs are all amazing, but that battle-damaged SS Goku is damn near flawless.

 

[ergocomics]

Ftr none of this was a personal response to you Ergo, hope you know that.

DBZ has a few great characters arcs and contrary to some people's belief it's not just a shallow 'get even stronger' fest, I agree with you there. However, Yamcha is NOT one of 'm (I disagree with you there). He has no development whatsoever in dbz except 'okay... nevermind, I'll quit pretending'. When a saibaman killed him, his relevancy as a fighter permanently ended. I wouldn't say I hate the character (no joke), I dislike keeping irrelevant characters in any spotlight. If anything, the only relevance he has is just so there's a z fighter that can die at the beginning of stuff. And even THAT relevancy he loses in the Buu era. All he does is inflate the rest to me. THAT I hate.

If anything I wish Yamcha had been made stronger and given more relevancy (!), actually do give him a character arc that pays of to the story, let him do relevant things, but he can't, he's just... there... Why? Because it's completely clear yamcha is just a simple desert bandit that functioned as a funny first antagonist to goku and bulma. He's nearly the same idiot as he was at the beginning of dbz except that he isn't a jerk (the arc of pretty much every dbz protagonist except goku and gohan). I am fine with yamcha being there, I don't per definition hate the character at all, but as far as I'm concerned he has no business standing among the other z fighters, he has no real char arc in DBZ (he does in DB, not Z). He has absolutely no relevance and in the buu saga we see his ultimate fate: to just pretty much become oolong nr 2. His relevancy as a non-fighter ended when Bulma broke up with him. He has no worth to me as a z fighter nor as a non-fighting character. So that's why I'm buying Tien if he's made, but not Yamcha. (And I facepalm for ever thinking they were a duo.) I'm not spending a freakin cent on that dude.

But granted this is a general issue I have with db as a franchise and I've had it ever since the buu saga developed: beyond goku and vegeta, everyone else just keeps getting less relevant. I really dislike that. Everyone's being yamcha'd. Now basically anyone can just pack up if they're not a saiyan god. That's a huge writing issue I have and Yamcha is just the OG example of it.

Toriyama or anyone else really needs to come up with stories that don't involve one big even more powerful threat, because at this stage it renders everybody but goku and vegeta pretty much useless.

I would love to see an enemy that actuall brings a full force (maybe thats frieza in rof, havent seen it yet) that's GLOBAL. That has enemies of a lot of strength ranges so we can see yamcha put on his robe and protect civilians and actually own some of these ****ers. Same for krillin tien etc. If THAT happens I will root for yamcha. I don't actually hate him at all. I just find him utterly irrelevant and ignorable because of how the franchise develops.

FINALLY. But you talk like a hater but actually aren't one. Maybe we should all start dropping the jokes and complain about the REAL issue. And thank you for mentioning it. But by your assessment, characters like Roshi don't amount to **** either. But I don't see anybody talking **** about him all day everyday. Because he's the epitome of just appreciating the characters existence. And I'll go as far as saying that even Vegeta hasn't ever mattered, to villains that is (we all know his character development is better than anyone else). The same thing that happened to Gohan (Ultimate Gohan getting owned) happened to Vegeta. The two side characters with the most potential to be badasses, Gohan literally has the most useful transformation EVER, and still, everything just comes down to Goku. And if Vegeta and Gohan barely matter, then anyone else is just fodder. Even Piccolo. I seriously hate watching the humans and Piccolo just standing there all the time being awestruck. MAKE THEM DO SOMETHING! BoG was a perfect example of fodder. Owned anyone with less than super saiyan 2 with chopsticks. Ugh. I liked the movie. But improving the relevancy of the lesser characters would put me over the moon. In these stories.
But let's bring this back to the subject at hand. Why do we even have any figures besides the saiyans? Why should we even care? Because they existed. We hold some memory of a time when they added to the story. They are a part of the family. I want a King Kai figuart. I want a Hercule figuart. I even want a Bulma figuart. Hell, give me a modern Bora and Upa Indian figure from dragon ball so they don't look like they have Down syndrome. Are they Z-Fighters? No. I want a Yamcha figure with interchangeable hair. BOOM.

 

[crisis]

I got nothing against Yamcha, but Silrian does bring up some good points. I agree with everything he said except for 1: him becoming useless when he was killed by the Saibaman. That's actually incorrect; he REALLY lost his status as a Z-Fighter when he was immediately owned by Dr. Gero. At least he exchanged some punches against the Saibamen, with the Androids he didn't even put up a struggle.

People would have more respect for him if he redeemed himself at some point, similar to how Tien held back Imperfect Cell. They shoulda had Yamcha do an upgraded Wolf Fang Fist against a significant enemy, even if it was just to hold them back momentarily. Tien showed that he's still willing to give his all (even up to RoF), Yamcha should be doing the same.

Tien is seriously underrated, we should've had a Figuarts of him right after Krillin was released.

 

[ergocomics]

I never agreed with the idea that a Saibaman beat him. A Saibaman had to Self Destruct to get a kill. They were all near Raditz power level and Yamcha was owning. The power difference wasn't large enough like the Chiaotzu situation.

 

[timone317]

not too sure what I think about Yamcha these days (a lot of the hate swayed my opinion, which rarely happens...even though a release with two hair parts would be cool to see) but I'd say Tien is absolutely essential and it will be a real disappointment if they don't at least make him.