Dragon Ball Figures UK: The Villains Are the Interesting Part
Most guides to Dragon Ball figures UK open with Goku. Ours does not, because that is not what the current range is.
Of the 29 Dragon Ball figures we carry, the ones commanding the highest prices are almost all antagonists: Dodoria and Zarbon, Zarbon again, Recoome, Frieza twice over, Cell and Super Buu. The main Goku and Vegeta waves have been made and remade for fifteen years. The supporting cast has not, and that is where the range is right now.
The two things to understand before you buy
1. Height and price are unrelated in this line
This catches people out constantly. In our range right now:
- King Gomah — 7.5cm, £65.99
- Cell (First Form) — 17cm, £59.99
The 7.5cm figure costs six pounds more than the one more than twice its height. That is not a mistake. The Dragon Ball Daima figures are small because the characters are small in that series, and they carry the same sculpting and articulation work as a full-size release. You are paying for the engineering, not the plastic.
So check the height on the listing rather than assuming from the price, especially across Daima and Z.
2. Multi-figure sets are where the value is
The most expensive thing in the range is Dodoria & Zarbon at £125.99 — but that is two 16cm figures in one box, which puts it near the normal single-figure price each. Frieza First Form with his pod at £67.99 works the same way: an 11cm figure plus a 10cm hover pod that most collectors would otherwise never get.
Pairs like these are also the releases least likely to be remade, because they are expensive to tool for a smaller audience.
Who is actually worth reserving
If you are building a Frieza saga shelf — which is what the current range is really set up for — the pieces that matter are Zarbon True Power at £82.99, Recoome at £70.99 for the Ginyu Force, and the Frieza forms. Those are the characters that complete a scene rather than adding another Goku to a row of Gokus.
For anyone starting from nothing, Super Buu at £54.99 is 19cm — the tallest thing in the range for the money, and instantly recognisable to anyone who watched the Buu saga.
Daima is a different range wearing the same name
Dragon Ball Daima shrank the cast, and the figures follow. Ours run from 7.5cm to 14.5cm where the Z figures run to 20cm — and the prices do not drop to match.
- Super Saiyan Son Goku (Mini) — 7.5cm, £30.99
- Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta (Mini) — 9cm, £56.99
- Super Saiyan 4 Son Goku (Mini) — 8cm, £60.98
Three figures, none over 9cm, and a £30 spread between them. The difference is the hair and the effect work — an SSJ3 or SSJ4 sculpt is a great deal more tooling than a base-form one, and that is what you are paying for. If you are buying a Daima figure as a gift, read the character name carefully, because “mini Goku” covers three very different prices.
What arrives soonest
If you would rather not wait until 2027, six Dragon Ball figures are due at the end of September 2026 — Zarbon True Power, King Gomah and the three Daima minis, alongside Piccolo (Super Hero) at £29.99, which is the cheapest way into the Figuarts line in this franchise.
Stock and timing
28 of the 29 are buyable, but nearly all are pre-orders with arrival dates spread across late 2026 and 2027. That is how Bandai runs this line: figures are announced early, allocation is set, and what does not get reserved does not get made again on the same terms.
Pre-orders here cost £0 today — nothing leaves your account until the figure is confirmed in stock.
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