S.H.Figuarts Dragon ball trunk

I'm very happy because after a long wait  Bandai finally announce  that they will release Dragon Ball Trunk ,what me more excited are Bandai release Trunk in jacket ver ,This is what me and some others customer are wish for  . But the excitement won't last long where one of my customer inform me that Dragon Ball Trunk have alot of negative feedback .this is what people is complaining

1. The height of trunk is not accurate when put side by side with Goku and Vegeta
2. Difficult to stand
3.  The Super Seiyan hair colour tone  is not as good as Vegeta
4. The sword cannot put into the sword scabbard and bandai give a short sword to put it in the scabbard no play value

with this much of negative feedback i'm very worry ,Finally Dragon Ball Trunk have arrived and i really hope all those negative feedback is not true.

Sculpt and Details

     I really like the sculpting for the normal and Super saiyan head , At the back of the normal head the layer hair cutting is been sculpt beautiful. Also the fringe in front of the hair really awesome (it make out of soft plastice)

  

For the Super saiyan hair sculpting is not bad as well, The fringe is make out  of soft plastice

                                              I really like the normal head sculpting but the QC for the normal head is suck , where there have nip mark over it which turn the beautiful  normal head into ugly

 

 

                                                                  Paint Job And Articulation

  The paint job for Trunks are very dull  there are no colour gradient (tone colour) for the jacket , shirt and pants . You can see colour gradient on the face and exchangeable hand but that didn't make  Trunks look  better on the other hand Trunk face look so pale .The Colour QC also very bad where you can see specks on the figure .

 

   Bandai did some changes on Trunk body design where it look much better  and  have more movement  compare with the old dragon ball series. The old  Dragon ball neck machanism is really useless where it difficult torotate the neck and also the movement of the neck are very limit therefore  Bandai have completely the neck machanism on Trunks,  with this remove the neck look much better

 

 

             Bandai have change the shoulder joint too  where the older dragon ball series when you move the arm you can see a very ulgy joint attach to the arm machanism (can see a big hole) and you need to used the sleeve to hide (cover) it up . Bandai have redesign the arm joint for Trunks where you don't need sleeve to covery it up ,

 

A much better looking but it have some drawback where the jacket hinder the shoulder  movement

you need to press the shoulder down in order for it to move freely .

 

 

 

For the older dragon ball series the middle part of the arm can be move but for trunk Bandai have remove that as a result a better looking arm . My personal opinion by remove that part we have limited arm movement

 

 

Bandai have add in another articulation at Trunk  upper chest Which mean Trunk have more body and it turn out nicely

 

 

For the older Dragon ball series when you bent the leg  we can see the joint coming out and this is very ulgy  , For trunk Bandai have add in the knee pad to hide the joint . I really hope this knee pad apply to all new drangon ball series .

 

 

Accessory

For all the SHF that i have , Trunks are the only shf that  come with the most accessory not sure why Bandai been so generous this time ?? . trunk come with 14 exchangeable hand WOW (still couldn't believe it)  8 exchangeable face where 4 for normal trunk and 4 for super seiyan trunk WoW WoW(am i dreaming) , 1 super seiyan head ( is this real) , a sword , 1/4 sword and scabbard (speechless). I really hope others new dragon ball series will have this much of accessory that will be great . Accessory detail and paint job are  so so only (normal,plain)

 

 

 

After playing with my SHF trunk i have my point of view for those negative feed back

The height of trunk is not accurate when put side by side with Goku and Vegeta

I really don't have vegeta with me and i have surf over the internet to get some picture finally i have 1 here is my logic (my personal opinion  you maybe disagree with me is up to you to see is my logic is correct) Gohan must be shorter than Trunk , Goku must be taller than Trunk and Vegeta and trunk shorter than vegeta and not Gohan

 

 

If you look at the 2 picture i can said that the height is quite accurate

 

You guy judge is the height really that bad . As for me i really don't care about such nonsense the most important is the Quality of trunk

 

 

The Super Seiyan hair colour tone is not as good as Vegeta

 

This fully agree vegeta super seiyan hair colour tone is much better than trunks , i really wonder why Bandai don't apply that to trunk

 

 

Difficult to stand

 I really not sure is this due to batch problem , mine have no problem standing .it can stand very steady

 

The sword cannot put into the sword scabbard and bandai give a short sword to put it in the scabbard no play value

 

I really feel that this is not a major issue , reason is simple if you have this vegeta and you can swith your trunk super seiyan head to vegeta body and then make him hold the sword ,and at the same time the normal trunk have the 1/4 sword put at the scabbard , would you think this look much better (hope you can imaginewhat i trying to said). seriously this is no big deal at all .

 

Conclusion

Seriously i'm very disappoint with Trunk QC (quality)  it really suck,  with the price that i pay(RM 260 14/07/2012)  for it really not worth it at all and i have no choice but to buy it in order to complete my dragon ball collection . If you look from far it really nice but when close up it really upset you .Enjoy some of the picture i took from far