Imagination Works Goku: Details Revealed

It wasn’t too long ago that Tamashii Nations first teases their upcoming “Imagination Works” line. A line that would fuse silicon, with other techniques in order to better hide the seams and joints of the figure. The line was touted to be 1/9 scale, resulting in this particular Son Goku release to be about 180mm.

Tamashii Nations took to Instagram to reveal more photos and details of this upcoming Son Goku release, including the accessory pieces and the release date.

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As teased back in May we are proud to bring you a brand new 1/9 scale (Approx. 20cm) figure line, IMAGINATION WORKS! First up is Son Goku from the Dragonball series. Featuring not only exchangeable face parts, but hair parts for 2 different forms and exchangeable eye parts allowing you to change Goku’s line of sight. Also with Increased clothing detail, a wide range of movement and silicon parts to conceal arm joints. Do not miss out on this high quality figure! . . IMAGINATION WORKS SON GOKU ■Scheduled Release: October 2020 ■Size: 180 mm #dragonball #goku #imaginationworks #tamashiinations

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..and there you have it. Son Goku will come with interchangeable face parts, hair parts and eye parts. Additionally, the figure has been given a hard release window for October, 2020. More so, this figure is set to retail for 11000JPY / $100~.

I’m pretty impressed with the eye accessories. I could explain why, but this little infographic I found says it better than I ever could:

Imagination Works Son Goku Eye Accessories

As we has discussed in previous posts about this release, the idea of the figure having silicon in its composition leaves me feeling weary. There have been other figures in Dragon Ball figure history that attempted to fuse silicon and rubber materials with the figure; which looked great.. for a little while. Unfortunately, these figures had a tendency for the silicon parts to decay over time. Leaving one ugly result.

For more information on this, visit this thread on the RAH Medicom Goku figure at DragonBallFigures.com

Time will tell how well these figures age. Do you plan to buy this release? We’d love to hear from you in the comments. I hope everyone is doing well!

shinra25
June 4, 2020 at 6:31 PM

This is suppose to cost 11000 yen so around 100 bucks, they should include all the heads for that price…
- Majin Rob
  June 4, 2020 at 7:39 PM
  
  Agreed. Updated the post to reflect that new information and more.
  - shinra25
    June 10, 2020 at 5:22 PM
    
    Wow this is already sold out at BBTS, wonder how many they actually sold??
    - Majin Rob
      June 10, 2020 at 5:41 PM
      
      I’m wondering how many people are genuinely interested in it, compared to how many are buying it because they’re worried of missing the boat; like they may have with the early SH Figuarts releases.
      - shinra25
        June 10, 2020 at 10:36 PM
        
        That too…but i didnt think this would be that limited, especially at that price…

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