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Post by Ascat on Mar 13, 2021 18:39:42 GMT -6
lol cell dragon stars is pretty good though. its arguably better than figuarts
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Post by tabuuforteakugun on Mar 13, 2021 21:35:42 GMT -6
Love the way the Final Form Frieza is posed. It woulda looked better with open hands, but still, good job!
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Post by Branjita on Mar 15, 2021 8:47:47 GMT -6
Whenever I see Dragon Stars Krillin in a group photo, I feel like he collected the dragonballs and wished to be taller  |
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Post by mogen on Mar 19, 2021 14:51:41 GMT -6
Man I really wish Dragon stars would fix their crappy legs, i want to say for a $20-25 figure that they were decent but the legs are just so trash. The top half are good figures even with out having waist articulation, but the legs just end up killing all the good will, the 1.0 vegeta might have been the best but they have just taken steps backwards ever since.
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Post by Branjita on Mar 19, 2021 15:04:41 GMT -6
mogen I don't own tons of them, but I really felt Janemba was hindered by his leg articulation a lot. It's a real shame, because the arms are great. The figures need ankles that can rotate sideways so they can stand with their legs spread at different distances and still be flat-footed on the ground.
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Post by mogen on Mar 19, 2021 15:15:46 GMT -6
mogen I don't own tons of them, but I really felt Janemba was hindered by his leg articulation a lot. It's a real shame, because the arms are great. The figures need ankles that can rotate sideways so they can stand with their legs spread at different distances and still be flat-footed on the ground. Cell, Cooler, and Janemba are probly the 3 best they have made and all three basically have no leg movement sadly. I really want them to keep the line alive but alomst every time i buy one i half hate it. Whats worse is its all way what seems like an easy fix, just picture if they gave them hip joints more like marvel legends with a thigh swivel like the bisep swivel that would free the legs up 1000% i beleive. |
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Post by crisis on Mar 25, 2021 17:18:48 GMT -6
I just received First Form Frieza. Pretty damn good, although I have other plans for it. It won’t remain Frieza for that much longer
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Post by derelictbadger on Apr 2, 2021 9:01:15 GMT -6
http://instagram.com/p/CM-Uk5YhPBY Looks like the dragon stars Broly is a good size for a base form S.H Figuarts Broly if a head swap works. Might also work for 5 inch scale. |
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Post by solubletoast on Apr 2, 2021 13:15:49 GMT -6
A reviewer on YouTube showed off the SH figuarts base head on the new Dragon Stars body and it looks good front on. Needs blu-tac to hold it on though.
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Post by Branjita on Apr 19, 2021 10:14:02 GMT -6
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Post by TDC on Apr 22, 2021 22:05:08 GMT -6
Branjita See while I give props to TDC for the effort he goes into making those charts, I would have to disagree on the depiction of DBS Broly. If we take a look back to the height chart for Movie 8, we can see exactly where Goku should line up next to both forms of Broly. The top of Goku's head lines up with the midpoint of Broly's shoulder. For both forms, Goku's eyes should be in line with Broly's abs. However if we go by how TDC depicts DBS Broly, Wrath/SSJ would have to be the same size as the original Movie 8 Legendary Super Saiyan, which means his depiction of Full Power Broly is actually larger than the original Broly despite what you're saying as the opposite. Another thing I'd like to point to is the video game FighterZ. There was a mod video a while back that showed how Gogeta scales to Wrath and Full Power Broly in the background. Stumbled back here after a Google search, and I know the specific post is old, but I feel the need to remind everyone that these sheets are not for the main franchise. They're for a fan project and really shouldn't be used as evidence of anything, TBH. In this specific instance though, there's a little flaw in your assessment of how I handled things. Goku's adult height is 175 cm, and the imperial equivalent is where I've placed the top of his skull sans hair. I typically go for art depictions on my charts rather than stated heights for most characters, because ones like kid Goten and Trunks make absolutely zero sense (they're nowhere close to being over 4 feet as children in art). So Goku is one of the very few official heights I use because I base everything around him. It's a good starting point. In a rare turn events, Super Broli's jolly green giant form was also given an official height of 3 meters in promotional material. It's pretty close to general scale of the characters, so I used it. That's where I placed the top of his skull as well. The rest of the drawing is constructed around that with a relatively proper human body frame in mind. So I didn't care at all where Goku came up to on the character in comparison to any art or models, as I had the actual heights they needed to be by the time I was done. And that's that. lol (For the record, Z Broli seems have been intended as the same actual height if you compare the overall chart, but is usually drawn with abnormal body proportions (vertically challenged chest, long arms, etc). It's especially bad on that Z Movie 8 chart. So it wasn't going to line up even remotely close for comparison.) Just because content is official (anime height charts, games, or whatever), it doesn't mean they're infallible to the typical depiction either. I've amassed quite collection of concept art for the franchise, including Super, and usually have game models extracted for me to use as a reference when considering what to do with the characters on my charts. And all I have to say is that most of the time, things are consistently inconsistentonsistent...at all. For example, I scaled two of these to their shared Goku and two of them to their shared Piccolo. Some characters are close across the images, some are...not: So I'm definitely not looking to make the characters 100% accurate to what's depicted all the time. Sometimes it's simply a desire to tweak the designs, sometimes its changing proportions to a more standard body frame so other potential costumes fit the character without looking weird, or whatever. Meaning if character X looks to be about 3 heads taller than character Y, I tend to want my character X as 3 heads taller than Y. Doesn't matter to me if official art shows Y at X's abs, but on my sheet they're at the clavicle. |
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Post by Branjita on Apr 26, 2021 15:43:13 GMT -6
TDC Well, the short answer to that is: sometimes the official height charts are garbage, which is why I like it when you make your own.  You're typically more accurate than some of the official sources (particularly the terrible DB Super ones that exist... as you've shown) and a lot of the DB and DBZ ones either don't exist, or nobody who has paid for settei sheet collections has scanned them and put them online in a way that they have spread all over the internet for people like me to find. Ex: a height chart for the first Cooler movie would be epic... but I've never seen one. Like you mentioned/alluded to, I prefer to guess heights/proportions and how they relate to Goku in size via how many heads tall they are. With characters with abnormally sized heads like Frieza form 1, Neiz, Recoome, etc. it's difficult. But also, it's a heck of a lot easier finding your hard work and using it as a good rule of thumb to go by. You generally get everything really close to what I mentally picture as being correct. 
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Post by tabuuforteakugun on Apr 26, 2021 16:05:24 GMT -6
It's fun to make your own figures because you can possibly make the figure of your dreams that official merch has never made: For me, that was my removable armor King Cold. Nobody's made one.
But I do hope he gets a Dragon Stars. That'd be kinda neat.
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Post by derelictbadger on May 27, 2021 2:09:52 GMT -6
Bit of a random one for me, but I saw that amazon had a few Dragon Stars on sale and ended up buying Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta for just under £12. I'm thinking if I like this one, I might also get the other 2 Super Saiyan 4s.
I'll do a small review when it arrives. The only other Dragon Stars I own are final form Frieza (surprisingly good figure, but way oversized) and Cell (quality sculpt look-wise, just not functionally). I'm excited to find out how their humanoid figures stack up. If they're decent enough, I may end up with quite a few given the price point.
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Post by derelictbadger on May 28, 2021 2:36:43 GMT -6
 
Gogeta arrived last night (like 10 hours after I ordered it, thanks Amazon!). I'm honestly very happy with him. I'm surprised by a few things. Firstly, the upper body articulation's really good. I can just about get him in a passable arms crossed pose, which I definitely didn't expect. The leg articulation isn't as good, but it's serviceable. There's some range and the joints are a fair bit tighter than Cell's so it's not too bad. Given how inexpensive it was (the SH Figuarts Gogeta in the pic was 4 times the price), I'm starting to think it's hard to justify not buying Dragon Stars. I'm also surprised that he's only a little larger than the Figuarts. Given how large their Frieza is, I just assumed all the others would be huge. Dragon Stars have come a long way. I'm definitely sold on Dragon Stars now. I'll likely be purchasing the other Super Saiyan 4s soon and then we'll see where they go. Hopefully they continue to expand their GT selection. I could see Baby and Omega Shenron down the line at least. |
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You're typically more accurate than some of the official sources (particularly the terrible DB Super ones that exist... as you've shown) and a lot of the DB and DBZ ones either don't exist, or nobody who has paid for settei sheet collections has scanned them and put them online in a way that they have spread all over the internet for people like me to find. Ex: a height chart for the first Cooler movie would be epic... but I've never seen one. 