Dragon Stars - (Dragon Ball Super figures released in US)

Or finishing paint jobs

mehh dont mind the BAF as long as theyre big characters that figuarts dont make ex: kale.

Kale didn't need to be a BAF.  She's about the same size as Jiren.



That's great for you, but the problem with a BAF is that it only benefits those who were gonna buy all the figures anyway.  It's a detriment on everyone else, and lot of people buying Dragon Stars are cherry picking to suppliment their figuarts and don't want it.  Just sell me the figures straight up and I'll buy them.

Well, being able to buy Berzerk Kale for $23 plus tax would be better than having to pay $60+ on ebay for her, or $142.89 (with tax) for a full set of figures, just to resell the other figures for $13 each ($78) without their BAF parts like I did. In the end, I spent approximately $65 for her, but had to do a lot of work and shipping to sell the other figures. So I can definitely say I'd love to not have to continue doing that process. However, if that prevents them from giving us other large characters, I'll be disappointed. Well... not if they are 5 inch scale because they didn't make them large enough to scale with other Dragon Stars figures...

Nah... Nah, I don't think that makes sense. I gotta agree with Bran and others about BAF. I kinda look at it this way. If what you're saying is that BAF parts are for the people who are already collecting every figure in the line, but also that people buying every figure in the line for the BAF parts helps out Bandai, let me propose a small thought experiment here. My sister the other day, she was looking at the Figure Rise SS4 Vegeta, and she was like, "I wonder why they don't do a BAF style thing and include half of SS4 Gogeta in here so then you'd have to buy SS4 Goku, you'd basically feel compelled to buy two kits when you might have only wanted one." But my mind immediately shot this down because... Well, it would of course be nice to have a way to build SS4 Gogeta, but the way that makes the most sense, is to actually sell it as a third kit. Because then, someone who only wants to buy Gogeta will just be able to buy Gogeta, and they're not losing out on a sale from someone who looks at it like, "Oh, you have to buy BOTH of them just to get him? I don't want both of them, I just want Gogeta. Nah, forget it." But anyone who really wants to pose Goku, Vegeta, and Gogeta together, they will have to buy more than just the two to do that. A Non-BAF method, I think, ensures more certain purchases, and that would be the same with simply having more figures in the line instead of BAF characters, like a straight up stand-alone figure for Kale, or Broly, etc. I think the current arrangement where people are buying all of them, reselling them, it's really messy and people end up losing a lot of money on it, as Bran said (I did the same thing for Kale), and I don't think it's a whole ton more money than they'd lose by just selling the 'BAF characters' as their own figures. Even with figure lines like Marvel Legends, I've never liked the BAF system unless it amounted to truly huge characters you couldn't get otherwise, like back in the day when you'd get a giant Sentinel out of it. If the BAF Shenron was anywhere near the size of SHF Shenron, for example, it might seem a little more worth all the mess and trouble. But... it just doesn't, to me.

Lol honestly am surprised to see it past the first two after seeing what Vegeta and Goku looked like. Wouldn't be surprised if the shenron baf helped sales because if it completely bombed I wouldn't expect anything after it. Cost money to produce, marketing and shipment.

Piccolo is worry some but I think Goku Ssj4, will carry it's weight.

BAF or not to BAF