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The Scultures BIG Series are the resulting products from Banpresto’s Figure Colosseum Budokai Tenkaichi Contest. In the contest, Japans best sculptors go head to head, creating new Dragonball Statues. Voting is conducted in Japan and the winner is crowned King of the Tenkaichi. The winner of Figure Colosseum 6 looks…surprisingly calm about it. While some takes on Super Saiyan 3 Goku have him enraged in the middle of battle, sculptor Yoshinori Ito opted to capture his more dignified side. His hair may be wild, but Goku looks entirely in control.

The Scultures BIG Series are the resulting products from Banpresto’s Figure Colosseum Budokai Tenkaichi Contest. In the contest, Japans best sculptors go head to head, creating new Dragonball Statues. Voting is conducted in Japan and the winner is crowned King of the Tenkaichi. Goku looks ready to pummel someone in this third place winner of Figure Colosseum 6! Sculptor VAROQ worked to establish a balance between the tension in Goku’s fingers and his face, working on those two aspects of the figure simultaneously! At the same time, he wanted to give the figure a sense of flow and worked to make Goku’s hair seem softer and more mobile. This contrast makes the figure feel more alive, vaulting it into third place.

The Scultures BIG Series are the resulting products from Banpresto’s Figure Colosseum Budokai Tenkaichi Contest. In the contest, Japans best sculptors go head to head, creating new Dragonball Statues. Voting is conducted in Japan and the winner is crowned King of the Tenkaichi. The fourth place winner of Figure Colosseum 6 approaches things from a new perspective — it’s a figure designed to be viewed from the side! Here Super Saiyan 3 Goku floats, encircled by his hair. The figure’s profile is true to Toriyama’s style, with a stuck out nose, curved forehead, and tucked-in chin. As cool as this figure looks, I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of that upcoming Kamehameha!

The Scultures BIG Series are the resulting products from Banpresto’s Figure Colosseum Budokai Tenkaichi Contest. In the contest, Japans best sculptors go head to head, creating new Dragonball Statues. Voting is conducted in Japan and the winner is crowned King of the Tenkaichi. This Figure Colosseum finalist stands tall, calm, and intimidating. Sculptor Ren Kato’s goal here was to achieve Akira Toriyama’s signature of soft, gentle lines in aggressive settings. The colors here may be simple, but Kato brings a lot of textures to the table. Just look at the leathery look of Goku’s boots!

The Scultures BIG Series are the resulting products from Banpresto’s Figure Colosseum Budokai Tenkaichi Contest. In the contest, Japans best sculptors go head to head, creating new Dragonball Statues. Voting is conducted in Japan and the winner is crowned King of the Tenkaichi. One of the two winners of Figure Colosseum 5 portrays Goku at the end of his vicious battle with Frieza. Getting the figure to match the manga perfectly required a great deal of work from sculptor Hiroyuki Nakazawa, due to Goku’s battered muscles and tattered gi. Far from making Goku look weak, however, this battle damage just adds to the ferocity of Goku’s pose here.