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One Piece Merchandise

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[edit] Growth and Success

In Japan, One Piece can be considered a stable product line and, in overall, most sold merchandises receive good sales. The most common manufacturer of One Piece toylines is Banpresto and most goods are manufactured in China and/or Taiwan where both labour and manufacturing costs are cheap. Because of interest in selling in Korea, many One Piece products carry the Korean One Piece Logo over the normal Japanese logo, which features a black flag behind the normal One Piece logo. Outside of Japan, most products are imported from Japan, either by subcontracted companies or directly by manufacturers themselves.

Arguably, due to the failure of One Piece in America and lack of promotion from 4Kids, related merchandises do not get any success there. Toylines that do make it to high street retailers are often seen in "bargain bins". Related products are also absent from many toyline stock catalogs, when other anime toylines such as those derived from Bleach or Naruto series are found in great numbers.

One Piece toylines have also failed to become a success in the UK, more so than in America. In the UK, related products are seldom seen being stocked in shops. Most fans seeking One Piece merchandises have to seek out specialist shops, buy them from conventions or self-import them from online sources.

Since FUNimation took over the series, and with the release of their dubbed version, a whole new range of merchandises is due out shortly, as promotion for the series. It still remains unknown how successful their efforts will be.

It is possible that FUNimation has given the merchandise license to Toynami, a company who's currently releasing US duplicates of Excellent Model's Bleach PVC figure line. They're believed to hold the license due to a One Piece product they've revealed at the 2008 Toy Fair, book-ends. [1]

[edit] Companies Producing Merchandise

Several companies produce toys and other related merchandises, as such as mirrors, school furniture, video games or food.

2 of the main companies releasing One Piece products are Bandai and Banpresto, wellknown in Japan to produce toys for every acclaimed Shonen Jump titles. Nevertheless, the most acclaimed One Piece toyline is the Portrait of Pirates series, produced by Megahouse, a company specialized in producing figures.

A number of figurines were produced by Mattel, a toy making company that is based in China. Due to safety problems with a number of product lines produced by the company, on 14th August 2007 a number of toys were recalled. Amongst the recalled products were 345,000 Batman and "One Piece" action figures. [2]

[edit] Books

[edit] Novels

[edit] Colorwalks

[edit] Data Books

[edit] Manga

  • regular volumes a.k.a. tankōbon
For the manga chapters and volumes , see Chapters and Volumes‎.

[edit] Figurines

Bandai and Banpresto have released and are still releasing a lot of figure series related to One Piece. Bandai began to release merchandises in 2000, right after the broadcast of the anime as it acquires the rights on the anime version, and since never failed to flood the market with One Piece goodies.

Generally speaking, Bandai is focused on small to mid-size figures, sold with candies (the famous Ramune), while Banpresto produces mid to big size figures that can be caught in various UFO Catcher. Apart from those 2 companies, there's also Megahouse, which releases big size / high quality figures under the Portrait of Pirates brandline.

Size ranges: small = 3 to 7 cm tall, mid = 10 to 17 cm tall, big = 22+ cm tall.

[edit] Faithful figures

Most of the released figures are made to reproduced manga or anime style version of characters, respecting coloring and scaling.

[edit] Banpresto

[edit] Bandai

[edit] Misc.

[edit] SD figures

SD stands for Super Deformed. These are mini-figures of about 5 cm tall, with big heads but little bodies. Most are produced by Bandai.

[edit] Gashapon

Gashapon are toys embedded inside capsules that can be taken out from a vending machine by turning a crank in front of it.

[edit] Keyrings/Keychains

[edit] Cellphone Straps

[edit] Calendar/Posters

[edit] Plushies

Note : Due to the number of plushies produced reguarding the series, only the notable plushies (I.e. ones produced as one-offs or in a collection) are listed below.

[edit] CDs

[edit] Video Games

[edit] Games released in Japan

[edit] WonderSwan

[edit] WonderSwan Color

[edit] Game Boy Color

[edit] Game Boy Advance

[edit] DS

[edit] PlayStation

[edit] GameCube

[edit] PlayStation 2

[edit] GameCube and PlayStation 2

[edit] Wii

[edit] Games released in North America

[edit] Game Boy Advance

[edit] GameCube and PlayStation 2

[edit] Wii

[edit] Games released in Europe

[edit] PlayStation 2

  • Shonen Jump's One Piece: Grand Battle! In the UK this was a Virgin Megastores exclusive game and was on sale for a limited time only. Released September 30, 2005.
  • One Piece: Grand Adventure was released in Europe the 20 October 2006. In the UK, although a release date was issued for the game, the game was not actually available for purchase in store outside of imports or second-hand.


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[edit] Page Notes

  • DX stands for 'Deluxe' and is often used to describe the merchandise as "above" average quality and are normally only found in UFO Catcher games.
  • This is not a window shop, all One Piece merchandise is listed for informational reasons and not purchasing reasons. Please do not direct link to on-line shopping websites.
  • Information written here is based primary on descriptions and info released on the merchandise and may not reflect the actual product described.

[edit] References

  1. ↑ [1].
  2. ↑ Mattel recalling more Chinese-made toys.


Merchandise
Books
Novels: Logue Town Novel
Colorwalks: Colorwalk 1 | Colorwalk 2 | Colorwalk 3/Lion
Data Books: One Piece Red Data Book | One Piece Blue Data Book | One Piece Yellow Data Book | One Piece: Rainbow
Misc.: One Piece Animation Logbook | One Piece Rainbow! Official Animation Guide Book | Grand Paper Adventure | One Piece 10th Treasures | One Piece Log Books
Figurines
Faithful figures / Banpresto: One Piece Figure & Bank | One Piece DX Figure | One Piece Kumitate Shiki DX | Ichiban Kuji One Piece | One Piece Chopper Kumitate Shiki Figure | One Piece Big Chopper Figure | One Piece Kumitate Shiki Figure Collection | One Piece World Collectable Figure
Faithful figures / Bandai: One Piece Collection | One Piece Adventure | One Piece Magnetic Model, Magnetic Model 2 | From TV Animation One Piece Super Model Soul | One Piece Styling Figures | One Piece Locations Trading Figures | One Piece Grand Line Jewelry Girls Collection
Fithful figures / Misc.: Portrait of Pirates | One Piece Block Figures | One Piece Motion Figure box
SD figures: Get Together One Piece | Gum Gum no Gumi | DX Going Merry Go | One Piece Thumb Size Model Collection Box | One Piece Chibi Kore | One Piece World | One Piece Figure Collection | One Piece Theater | Dragon Ball x One Piece Dream Fusion | Dragon Ball x One Piece x Naruto Unrivaled 3x3 Figure | One Piece Cool~! The Dream Pirate Boat Thousand Sunny Go, DX version | One Piece Anime Heroes
Gashapon: From TV Animation One Piece Gashapon Grand Battle | One Piece Diorama World | From TV Animation One Piece Real Collection | One Piece Gashapon | One Piece VS Figure Gashapon / One Piece Battle | One Piece Full Color R Gashapon
Plushies
Plushies:
Misc.
Other:
Video Games
Japanese Releases
WonderSwan : Become the Pirate King!
WonderSwan Colour: Legend of the Rainbow Island | Treasure Wars | Grand Battle Swan Colosseum | Treasure Wars 2 Welcome to Buggyland | Chopper's Big Adventure
Game Boy Color: Birth of Luffy's Dream Pirate Crew! | Grand Line Dream Adventure Log
Game Boy Advance: Big Secret Treasure of the Seven Phantom Islands | Aim! The King of Berry | Going Baseball - Baseball of One Piece | Dragon Dream!
DS: Jump Super Stars | Jump Ultimate Stars | Gear Spirit
PlayStation: Set Sail Pirate Crew! | Grand Battle! | Grand Battle! 2 | Ocean's Dream! - Oceans of Dreams
PlayStation 2: Round the Land! - Land Land! | Fighting for One Piece | Grand Battle! 3 | Grand Battle! Rush | Pirates Carnival | Battle Stadium D.O.N
GameCube: Treasure Battle! | |Grand Battle! 3 | Grand Battle! Rush | Pirates Carnival | Battle Stadium D.O.N
Wii: Unlimited Adventure | Unlimited Cruise
English Releases
Game Boy Advance: One Piece
GameCube: Shonen Jump's One Piece: Grand Battle! | One Piece: Grand Adventure | One Piece: Pirates' Carnival
Playstation 2: Shonen Jump's One Piece: Grand Battle! | One Piece: Grand Adventure | One Piece: Pirates' Carnival
Wii: Unlimited Adventure
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