Goku collectors wonder what fate awaits their beautiful sons after a severe storm hits the massive One Apus container ship potentially lose more than $ 200 million in cargo in the Pacific Ocean northwest of Hawaii late last month.
The ship was hit by a massive storm on November 30, according to Reuters, sparked a swell that caused it to roll over and displace more than 1,800 of its containers. Safely back in the port of Japan, the ship’s cargo looks like one giant collapsed Jenga set. Fortunately no one on board was seriously injured.
The same cannot be said of the Gokus and other action figures that were apparently on board at the time. Fans will love the extremely rare Figuarts Ultra Instinct Sign transformation from Dragon Ball ZThe Premium Bandai store’s Goku received an email earlier this year announcing yesterday that their sold-out collectibles were traveling on the One Apus and would arrive at least long after their previous December delivery dates.
“The container ship carrying Bandai products was hit by a severe storm and lost many containers near Hawaii,” Premium Bandai wrote in an email to customers with Kotaku by Goku enthusiast Kevin Snow. “The ship is in the port of Kobe, Japan, for damage investigation. It takes from a few weeks to more than a month. We are currently waiting for the container status from the authority, and we will publish any shipping information as soon as it is available. (The company did not immediately respond to a request from Kotaku for comment.)
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The Ultra Instinct Sign Goku Figures, which were priced at $ 60 each when pre-orders went up in the summer, were originally intended to be exclusive conventions, but had to be sold online after events were canceled due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Many are now listed more than twice as often on Ebay and other reseller sites.
“They all sold out in 15 minutes (I got one in that order), which understandably pissed people off,” Snow said. Kotaku in an email. “It comes from the popular ‘Figuarts’ line and many collectors of that line are completists, including myself. So Bandai opened up a new pre-order period for the Gokus that lasted about a week and basically sold them on a ‘made-to-order’ basis. Once the pre-order window ended, no more Gokus. “
According to Snow, the first batch of pre-orders shipped just fine, but the ‘made-to-order’ batch was the one that came on the One Apus, leaving many collectors to just wait and hope their orders survived and are undamaged. . Figures from Android 17, 18 and the US release of Kid Gohan were apparently also on board at the time of the accident.
“[H]ope we can get a response as to what their plan is if the Gohans were lost, ”wrote a collector on the action figure forum TheFwoosh. “People joke about this kind of thing all the time, and the fact that it actually happened is worthless,” wrote another on the action figures subreddit.
Some collectors are now frantically trying to buy duplicates of the figures that are still available, such as Kid Gohan, in case their worst fears are realized. However, for those looking to complete their Figuarts set with Ultra Instinct Sign Goku, that’s not an option unless Bandai decides to make another batch to order.