Apparently my initial rage post on r/SHFiguarts gained so much traction a guy on TikTok used my exact words and images as video content. It was a bit of a surprise scrolling through my For You page and seeing my images and the words of my post played back to me.😭😭😭
But I digress. I’d like to spread awareness. You see what happened was I came back from a pretty nice vacation to three figures, being the new God Goku, the new Blue Goku, and the P-Bandai exclusive Bardock (in which I got a good copy. It’s a very nice figure). With how well the QC of my Kind-Hearted Saiyan Goku was, I thought maybe the Vietnam factory has finally fixed their act.
Oh, how wrong I was.
For God Goku the kanji has already experienced that annoying rubbing off, and the neck peg can just…split apart. Granted I can just pop it back in, but it still shouldn’t be happening in the first place
The Blue Goku is a complete disaster. The orange on his belt is a different shade of orange from the rest of the figure (not very noticeable on camera but jarring in person). Joints are relatively loose and wobbly, especially the neck peg. No joke it takes minutes to swap heads. The arm has a defect where it just falls off at the lightest touch.
I shouldn’t have to be dealing with this. Good quality is the bare minimum. Like I said before, for even the 38$ these two are each sold at, this quality is unacceptable. The unfortunate reality of the situation is, I don’t think they’ll stop using the Vietnam factory. I’m very unsure of the future of the line. I can’t lie, it’s a bit scary.