Gonstead
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Post by Gonstead on Jun 18, 2017 21:08:36 GMT -6
Some progress maybe? I dunno. While doing a search for some DB related stuff, I came across these Virtua Fighter plush toys. Here.When compared to the Goku I'm looking for, it seems these ones may have come from the same manufacturer. They're also advertised as UFO Catcher toys, which means they were able to be grabbed in those crane game machines. This also lines up with an anon on 4chan who responded that he apparently got that same Goku toy from a crane game years ago. So we potentially may have narrowed the search down to this. Gonna keep at it if I find anything.
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Post by Gonstead on Jun 20, 2017 18:26:21 GMT -6
New progress? Details? Hopefully.
Been talking with someone who collected plushies in the 90/2000's and they don't seem to recognize it. Neither did their friend who was more into DBZ.
However, we may now have a manufacturer: Banpresto
Banpresto is apparently the main supplier of UFO Catcher toys and there's a Sailor Moon line of stuff that apparently also looks similar. They also had bendy wires in the limbs.
1995 also seems to be a significant year with the plushies discussed so far. It was the year Sailor Moon began airing in the US (August 1995), the year those Virtua Fighter plushies were released and is also the same year that Super Saiyan 3 was first revealed, specifically March 1995. Banpresto usually tends to be on the pulse when it comes to new material, so I don't think it would be too difficult to imagine that it was released in that year.
The bendy wire thing seems like it would line up with the proportions as well, especially if the material was soft enough to hold a pose of some sort.
The *only* thing that might hold this back is the aforementioned 1995 date for Sailor Moon, though I am doubtful Irwin Toys would release a SSJ3 Goku toy in that year due to DBZ not yet airing at the time (1996 was when the series first began in the US).
Details, details. The search continues!
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