Dragon Ball is an anime that has been widely disseminated across every nook and corner of the globe. It has vastly contributed to making Japanese culture and manga intensely popular in other parts of the world.
Dragon Ball franchise is one of the most successful franchises consisting of anime sequels, films, video games, and merchandise.
The latest addition to the franchise, Dragon Ball Super also gained popularity contrary to its criticized animation.
Dragon Ball Super has introduced multiple new transformations, brought back forgotten characters, canonized Broly and Gogeta.
All these new or revamped addition of transformations and characters has led to an increase in merchandise.
Bandai’s Tamashii Nations line of collectibles announced preorders for its range of San Diego Comic-Con’s “Comic-Con@Home” would go on sale at 6 pm PST. The list of collectibles included action figures of the Dragon Ball franchise.
Tamashii Nations’ official Twitter account then announced that pre-orders are open.
Only 8 minutes after the limited edition collectibles went on for sale, Tamashii Nations’ official Twitter account reported that its site was experiencing an outage.
Bandai’s Tamashii Nations thanked its patrons for their patience and assured fans that the problem was being worked on.
An hour after the notice about the outage was made and the store pages for the figures were down, PREMIUM BANDAI USA informed its patrons that the issue had been resolved.
Bandai claimed that the problem arose due to unusually high demand and traffic to the website that caused difficulties in accessing the site and led to an out of stock notice.
Although the outage has been fixed, this goes to show the popularity of the franchise that caused this issue only 8 minutes after the merchandise went on sale.
About Dragon Ball Super
Dragon Ball Super came into serialization in June 2015, edited and illustrated by Akira Toriyama and his protege Toyotaru, respectively.
Dragon Ball Super takes the DB universe to another level by introducing the long asleep God of Destruction, Beerus.
Beerus initially decides to decimate Earth but postpones his plans when discovering the fantastic food he had never eaten and hopes to fight Super Saiyajin God one day.
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