S.H. Figuarts PORUNGA & DENDE Dragon Ball Z Action Figure Review 

I think for $300 this thing should grant at least one wish.

Figuarts Zero is the ideal way to go with shenron and porunga instead of being action figures. It’s not like we’re gonna be posing them in action battle poses 😂

For $300, he better grant wishes.

Oh man, barely halfway through February and we already know whos taking the #1 spot on the Worst of 2023 list. See you again in December, Porunga.

You know it's good when it's 30 minutes review! 👍

1. Anybody who buys figuarts for kids, are nuts. 2. I think this was for die hard fans and even I can see them being disappointed in this. And 3. I take it that this is a top contender for worst figure of 2023 or at least making the top 10?

Looks like an xl McDonald’s toy

What makes me laugh is that Gohan kid era is like 1/3 of the cost of this guy

Lol this is not worth $300. How in the world is this more expensive than the original shenron and great ape Vegeta?

Oozaru vegeta was like $200. And he's awesome. One of the best figuarts ever

imagine if purunga actually makes your wish come true.. that would make that 300$ purchase all worth it 🤣🤣🤣

The first entry to the 2023 worst figures video lol

If i had a dollar for every time Anthony said "Why??" I STILL wouldn't have enough money to get this figure xDDDD

So this is in my BBTS pile of loot….after this review I’m real tempted to just get $300 back in store credit and probably be set for this whole year of preorders. Always appreciate you Anthony.

Should’ve put the rotating base on his hands

The collectible world is being hijacked by corporate greed and many people are falling for it. The spring on the abdomen is laughably useless. Great review as always! Thanks!

The glowing problem seems to be a QC problem, since mine glow perfectly under light and I see some RU-vidr reviewing this toy, their dragon ball did glow up nicely. But I am disappointed for why don’t they make the base of the dragon glow too, since it’s a transparent plastic

I see they decided to go with the Mcdonald’s Happy meal look. That’s very gracious of them. That Dende makes it a definite must get for me but also because I only exist in this world for the sole purpose of throwing my hard earned cash at Bandai so they could fund their future ventures. I am being sarcastic of course.

This is by far THE BEST REVIEW! Extremely entertaining! Especially when it's a review of a toy I do not have budget for.

The price for this thing is such a joke. There are plenty of kid's toys that are this huge and are articulated and play sounds but they don't cost $300! This is a COLLECTABLE for ADULTS. For three hundred dollars it should have tons of perfectly applied paint and shading but it has NONE. For three hundred dollars the little Dende figure should be completely articulated! For three hundred dollars it should have English voice options! For THREE HUNDRED dollars it should actually grant wishes! Good lord!!

LMAO, I love how this figure is driving Anthony crazy! 🤣Also this figure looks like it belongs to Dragon Stars collection, not SHF...

Just started to think of older charecters like Dende and realized that the pilaf gang wasn't forgotten in super but launch was forever forgotten

The abs button was probably original for a light up eye feature but then they decided not to do it or something kinda like an older transformer or megazord, I can't remember which one it was but I remember seeing a review where the Japanese release had a light up feature then the English release did not and the battery compartment and button were still part of the sculpt just not functional lol.

I have a bootleg Ichiban Kuji Porunga and Shenron off of ebay that does what I need it to and is larger than figuarts ( The shenron especially), both were $50 each.

The shoulder joint stop is there to protect us. Abby further and Porunga would be unstoppable

It looks like a five points of articulation oversized toys they sell at target for kids

I knew this character when I was a kid Watching this show. I don’t think I would have wanted this character then or now. Before even watching this review you can tell this is a statue and not an action figure. For $300 you can buy so many other figures.

A shame - I was on the fence on this but happy to jump off after seeing this. I' like to get the Dende figure if they would release him in a future, more affordable and more articulated release. Heck, I can take the dragonballs that came with each figure and customize an LED base to light them up worlds better than Bandai has done.

Even Darwin seemed embarrassed to be in this video

Missed opportunity to say " I wish my 300 bucks back"

Is it worth it for $200? Like Porunga design and was putting this in buy it if it goes on clearance which happens to some figuarts db come Black Friday.

I think I would have preferred a better articulated Dende and then a nice quality A3 poster of Porunga in the distance on Namek. This way you could have it in the back of your Namek display and the scaling would look better because he's off in the distance and it would have been a lot cheaper. Or for those who really do want an action figure just make it not suck! For the price I reckon the yellow light at his base should be vibrantly glowing, LEDs below the dragon balls would look so much better. Put a bluetooth speaker in it with a dedicated app that can replay the scene with Dende making the wishes and can also play music from the Japanese and English animes. Play Rock the Dragon!

I like the features like sound, I don't have to mimic their voices when I play with them, I guess everyone play with his figures, I do with my marvel universe sentinel.

There was 100% some kind of obligation to make this figure.

I'm wondering what was worse this or the 3a master chief?

Pfft, call yourself a nerd. Doesn’t even remember when Dende bounced all 7 dragon balls off Porunga’s massive abbs to defeat Freiza.

😂the execution on the jokes are just perfect

At least 300 dollars paid for a hilarious review

Are you still planning to sell alternate heads for the Amazon 3 pack venom?

For $300 I could buy two masterpiece transformers instead😂

Got a good laugh out of that instruction manual. Cannot believe it's real.

Thanks for this revieuw i saw it in a store nearby and was thinking of picking this up thinking the dragonballs would properly light up to have something nice as a small lightsource, but man the fact that the soundclip has to play and the fact that you can get more light out of electrocuting a potato, makes this a pass, a real shame that they just couldnt give us a proper light feature. I guesse ill have a look at the other figurenese there, i bought an omnimon mercifull mode figure last time there and i am very happy about that one but this one looks like a pass even tho at first sight it looked nice, but that is what the box is supposed to do. Edit: so i ended up buying for alot of money but basicly the money i was gonna spend on that parunga i spend on a cloud + bike figurene which was about the same price i think even cheaper and that one is waaaaay more posebel and that bike is really heavy too and it rides and is posebel as well (i just think clouds face is done a bit weird, but i like that his clothes are made out of this rubbery susbtance) the other figurenese i bought were a majin buu charging up his vanishing ball, a small dr robotnik figurene and a really pricy dark magician figurene that is a pretty big size. It just baffels me that the Parunga is in the same price range as that cloud figurene and you get soo much more for that one.

looks like a $50 figure, honestly would just rather get a statue that has better paint and sculpt. no real point of articulation he has like 2 poses in the anime

I got mine and yeah the box size was absurd. The base thing was very jarring when I seen it was shown because what were we collecting 2 SETS of dragon balls for? They should've done it where it's set up the same but have little lights in the pits so the dragon balls we have can shine or whatever. I wish it would have english lines too or something because fuck that shit is $300! Dende I didn't really care for like cool I have him but I wasn't really asking for him personally. Porunga himself seems like they didn't plan it out properly but they had a deadline so they rushed him out while making stupid decisions the whole way through. A cool set piece but they were crazy for this one, i'm curious how he sold overall because I don't see even most collector's shelling out for that

"CNN might get mad at me..." Ha!

Porunga & Lil' Green huh? XD

As for the question....I'm a serious collector but even as a teen, my dad spent a lot on those old Halo figures and instead of playing, I would display them. As for price in general, Bandi is releasing King Mecha-gidorah at almost $300. This is the same figure they released like 7 years ago at like $160, and it arguably came with more unique accessories (actual figures you could display instead of swappable parts you can't). While I hate light up gimmicks for figures, I do love them on statues that you can flip a switch. For figures, you have to usually move them, messing up your display just to look a light for 5 minutes, then turn it off again. Not worth the extra money.

I usually buy every sh figuarts dragon ball release (not counting exclusives, and specially region exclusives like that NYCC Broly) but damn I had to pass on this one, it's basically a big statue, I couldn't care less about the electronics, and here in Mexico it wasn't even that expensive, I was just a little bit more than great ape, like $250.00 dollars if I'm not mistaken

why make him posable? should've made him a statue and a posable dende

I'd prefer an Ali express porunga statue with more detail and half the price.

Like damn, you can get a Titan Class Transformer between $130-$250 and those offer more play factor and size. That $300 really went to the electronics...that don't even work.

This is why Anthony is my favorite toy reviewer

Ok so for the question of the day I'm like a combination of the both I'm a kid collecter. (More teen than kid I'm 12)

A lot of the other reviews on this weren't willing to show us or share their thoughts on some of the dirty. Lol'd @ the voice and "lighting" stuff. Thanks for the review.

this almost would have been worth it, if they just shaded the terrain and the body on porunga, even then its still a bit expensive ...But as it stands it feels like a complete rip off

It's a scam. Lack of shading and lights. Better go with a $200 Shenron statue which is fully shaded and has lights. I forgot the company making it.

Magic eight ball Slayed hahaha thanks Anthony!!

I can’t believe how bad this is! 😂 The wish aspect is really something. Thanks for the awesome review Anthony❣️❣️💯❤️

boy oh boy what on earth were they thinking here? this is a $300 fisher price toy you’d get to keep the kids quiet and occupied. now if this thing granted real wishes, i wouldn’t question the price at all

$300 is the living wage in my country bruh

Are you going to pre-order beast Gohan?

"$300, Holy crap thats expensive!"...He says right after blowing $500 or an 8 year old SHMA Destroyah figure. I know we are in a ridiculous price hike, but Bandi is loving every second of it.

Porunga should have been $100.00 at most with LED red eyes. The base is pointless. Dende should have either been a single P Bandai release for $50.00 or in a set with Nail for $90.00.

This had to be one of the funniest reviews I have ever seen LOL

I Agree with this video mate I'm glad I didn't pick it up and sell an internal organ to grab one. Love your reviews to congratulations with 200K by the way 👍

The poor painting transition on the hands its to give you that reptile vibes lmao

thank you so much for the detailed review and you are right some shf figures are so unreasonably expensive!!!! with low quality !!

29:10 I’m just waiting to hear an AVGN quote *”WHAT WHERE THEY THINKING”*

If you never said how much this "figure" cost, I would have never guess this $80 looking toy cost $300! Shit, what a disgrace.

I love the porunga by itself for a 100 bucks

Okay I would buy it for like 100$, not 300$

Bro your review made me feel good about canceling my pre-order and saving $300. Thanks

Bro the instructions for this guy had me dying

I thought it was kinda okay but then you mentioned the price, HOLY SHIZ. Even Engine of Vengeance seems like a better deal than this lol

Oof. Parunga looks like a model kit, I actually like Dende and I was expecting a Chioatzu type deal, and the gimmick could have been cool with better lights but it's all just overly designed and trying to be clever. I usually prefer figures, even for a bigger character like this, but imports never seem to be able to execute on them like domestic companies. Diamond Select and McFarlane megafigures are usually better than this. I like the ideas going on, even the articulation choices. But they're all just don't land. I think a model kit with a matte spray and some after market LEDs could have done the same thing.

When you consider the Haslab Sentinel is only $50 more than this lol

Dende would have better as a double pack with my man, Nail. We didn't need Porunga as a figure. Should have just released this guy as a semi- articulated statue with a base for the balls we got with the namekian line. It would have made more sense to have Nail+ Dende with the last ball and then Porunga as the "storage" for the balls. This, coming from a massive Freeza fan- don't think we needed forms 2 and 3 for the last balls. Though, you know I ordered them too XD

i see darwin has a new stando

The ab spring is so Dende Can jump up and down on Porunga’s stomach while he lies down

Hi, my name is JC, and I'm an obsessive collector... Anyway thank you Anthony, other reviewers have been waaay too forgiving in their evaluation. Btw what's up with pricing in the US, here in Europe you can still get one for 219 euro (235 USD) 🤨

For 300$ it better have some god level paint, and come with ever thing a dragon ball collector would ever need,and no gimic

Luv your videos man, but i was checking other reviews and their balls (giggles) light up a lot brighter. Maybe some qc issue?

Typically I disagree with you on expensive figures, and I often feel like you look for too much out them when they're really just large showpieces like this... but this is genuinely trash. They really just needed a good looking Porunga, with a good paint job and functioning arms. If they ticked off all of those boxes I'd say it would be fine, but they didn't, they failed across the board. Then they throw in this weird gimmick, and they don't even give us a decent Dende. This should be a $90 Dragon Stars figure, if anything, not a $300 Figuarts.

Should have been a Figuarts Zero IMO. Maybe interchangeable arms or someting.

Why didnt they just have solid dragonballs and pin hole LED lights in the base? It would look great, and be functional

I can understand the thought process from them to turn this into a lights and sound thing but the execution is lacking woefully. Maybe after it gets discounted heavily because this thing won't sell at all.

I'm just going to tear out the batteries and repaint the base to match a diorama, then use the namek dragon balls that come with other figures

All of this and Lil' Green is just an accessory. What a shame

How can I get dende but by himself? I don’t wanna spend 300$

This would have been a total loss if it wasn't for the Darwin appearance at the end.

They should remake this wit omega shenron and the black star dragonballs thats be soo cool

Replace the U in Porunga for an O and search for it's meaning... you're welcome :3

I just hope Orange Piccolo doesn’t end up like this

As an adult collector gimicks are fun to dick around with when board

It's pretty clear why its $300. They anticipated very few to be interested in buying this. To compensate for the small number of units being sold, they jacked up the price.

LOL this is basically a $300 Titan Hero Tech toy

Collector tbh. It's comming sometime soon

This looks cool af like I don’t care about the articulation I just want dende and porunga

It’s Hilarious listening Porunga interrupting him

Lets make the statu articuleted and the action figure of dende a statued