Series: Dragon Ball Z
Company: Toycom
Year: 1999
Size: 9.5 cm
Main distribution: America / Europe
Barcode: 693904231009
Back in the 90s finger skateboards were all the rage. Toycom must have decided to combine the 2 hottest things of now and make a line of Dragonball Z mini skateboards, officially licensed. 8 different skateboards were made.
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Series: Dragon Ball Z
Company: MGA entertainment
Year: 1999
Size: 8.5 cm
Main distribution: America / Europe
Barcode: 035051243007 (Piccolo)
These are little figures on a magnetic base in a tube keychain. The magnet causes them to float.
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Series: Dragonball / Dragon Ball Z
Company: AB Groupe (Re-released by KidzBiz, Giochi Preziosi, Mattel and Irwin Toy)
Year: 1996, 2000
Size: 3~7cm / 2″
Main distribution: Europe, America
These figurines, also known as the “Super Guerriers” (Super Warriors) or 2″ figures, were made by the AB Groupe. AB Groupe (now Mediawan Thematics) is a French broadcasting group, and the distributor of the Dragon Ball merchandise for European and Canadian markets. They made the English dub for the Dragon Ball Z movies in the Netherlands (based of their French dub), with awkward changes like Piccolo being “Big Green” and the Saiyans “Space Warriors”. As terrible as that dub was, their toys were one of the first you could get in Europe. Here you’ll find the mini figures of them. They made 186 different ones, which later got re-releases under KidzBiz, Giochi Preziosi and Irwin Toy.
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Series: Dragonball GT
Company: Giochi Preziosi
Year: 2001
Size: 4 cm
Main distribution: Italy / Europe
This is a line of small toys that came in chocolate eggs, similar to the famous Kinder Egg Surprise.
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Series: Dragon Ball Kai
Company: Bandai
Year: Nov, 2009
Barcode: 4543112587893
Size: +/- 6 cm
Main distribution: Japan
This was a set of 6 figures on ball chains that light up and came in blind boxes, made by Bandai.
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Series: Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Naruto (crossover)
Company: Bandai
Year: 2008
Size: +/- 5.5cm
Main distribution: Japan
This is a very special collaboration between Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Naruto to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Weekly Shōnen Jump. The 3 animes are the biggest and most popular and are also called the DON of anime. This blind box set is called 3×3, as it’s 3 animes, with 3 characters. Each of the 3 character figures slots together to create a semicircle, and there is a 4th bigger figure on a semicircle to go behind it, creating a full circle scene of the show.
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Series: Dragonball Z / Dragonball GT / Dragonball Kai
Company: Bandai
Size: +/- 6 cm
Main distribution: Japan
This a series of chibi Dragonball characters made by Bandai. They are about 3 heads tall rather than 2. They all come on a black base which has the character’s name on it. Deformation relates to the chibi nature of the figures, as chibi is also often called SD or Super Deformed. These came in blind boxes so it would be a surprise which one you would get.
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Series: Dragon Ball
Company: Giochi Preziosi / AB Groupe
Year: 2003?
Size: 4 cm
Main distribution: Europe
These are a set of bobbleheads made by Giochi Preziosi and distributed by AB Groupe. They came under The Legend is Here packaging, that KidzBiz used in the UK.
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Series: Dragonball / Dragonball Z / Dragonball GT / Dragonball Kai / Dragonball Super / Dragonball Heroes
Company: Bandai
Release: 1995+
Size: various
Main distribution: Japan / Europe
The HG series is a series of Gashapon sets of small Dragonball figures. Most you had to build as they came in pieces. HG stands for ‘High Grade’. They came out of a Gashapon machine in a capsule, although some come in boxes I believe. They were made by Bandai, and later redistributed by AB Groupe in Europe, where they were called Maxi Collection. Several series were made resulting in over 300+ figures including colour variants, and is still ongoing now. What’s cool about these is is that they are in scale with one another.
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Series: Dragonball / Dragonball Z
Company: Bandai
Release: October, 2004
Size: +/- 5 cm
Main distribution: Japan
This is a series made by Bandai called the “Mini Figure Selection Plus”. 2 series of 6 figures were made. These came in blind bags. They are great 3D representations of Akira Toriyama’s art.
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