Category: Dragon Ball

In here you’ll find various merchandise of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and Dragonball Super.

Dragonball Z Secret Saiyan Warriors – Irwin Toy

Dragonball Z Secret Saiyan Warriors by Irwin Toy

Series: Dragon Ball Z

Company: Irwin Toy

Year: 2001-2002

Size:  +/- 10-14 cm

Main distribution: America / Europe

Barcode: 069545453153 (Majin Buu)

Irwin Toy was a Canadian distributor and manufacturer of toys. They started off by re-releasing Dragonball Z Action Figures of Bandai and AB Groupe, bringing these toys to America, before making their own Dragonball Z Action Figures. Alongside these Action Figures more elaborated toys were created, like these Secret Saiyan Warriors.

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Dragonball Z Striking Z Fighters – Irwin Toy

Dragonball Z Striking Z Fighters by Irwin Toy

Series: Dragon Ball Z

Company: Irwin Toy

Year: 2001-2002

Size:  +/- 12 cm

Main distribution: America / Europe

Irwin Toy was a Canadian distributor and manufacturer of toys. They started off by re-releasing Dragonball Z Action Figures of Bandai and AB Groupe, bringing these toys to America, before making their own Dragonball Z Action Figures. Alongside these Action Figures more elaborated toys were created, like these Striking Z Fighters. “Z Fighters” are what the Dragonball Z characters are called. The figures “strike” the board with their toy action, hence the name.

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Dragonball Z Blasting Energy Action Figures – Irwin Toy

Dragonball Z Blasting Energy Action Figures by Irwin Toy

Series: Dragon Ball Z

Company: Irwin Toy

Year: 2000

Size:  +/- 10~14 cm

Main distribution: America / Europe

Irwin Toy was a Canadian distributor and manufacturer of toys. They started off by re-releasing Dragonball Z Action Figures of Bandai and AB Groupe, bringing these toys to America, before making their own Dragonball Z Action Figures. Alongside these Action Figures more elaborated toys were created, like these Blasting Energy Action Figures.

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Dragonball Z Full Color R – Bandai

Dragonball Z Full Color R by Bandai

Series: Dragon Ball Z

Company: Bandai

Year: 2004

Size:  +/- 4.5~5.5 cm including base

Main distribution: Japan / Europe

Full Color R is a series of Gashapon sets of small figures on a transparant black base with a logo / symbol. They came out of a Gashapon machine in a capsule. Several IPs were done in this style, including Dragonball Z, Naruto, One Piece and Capcom All Stars. They were made by Bandai, and some were later redistributed by AB Groupe in Europe, where they were rebranded as some collection. Here you will find the Dragonball Z ones. 5 parts were made of 10 figures, resulting in 50 figures total.

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Dragonball Z Mini Skateboard – Toycom

Dragonball Z Mini Skateboard by Toycom

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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Dragonball Z Magnetic Keychain – MGA entertainment

Dragonball Z Magnetic Keychain by MGA entertainment

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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Dragonball Z Super Guerriers – AB Groupe

Dragonball Z Super Guerriers by AB Groupe

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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