The Lineup Reaches Back to Turtle School Training
Nui Pin is a badge line from Bandai Namco Nui, the Bandai Namco subsidiary that handles plush goods. It sells through shop Nui on Japan's Premium Bandai site. The badges are soft appliqué patches with a safety pin sewn onto the back, so they go straight onto a bag strap or a jacket lapel without a keyring or a strap loop. Earlier Nui Pin sets have covered Sanrio characters and the Ultraman series. Dragon Ball gets 12.
Japanese anime news site Anime Anime led its write-up with Goku and Krillin on milk delivery. That scene is not from a fight or a transformation. It comes from Master Roshi's Turtle School training, where Roshi put both boys to work hauling milk bottles across open country before he would teach them anything resembling martial arts. Toei Animation's own episode list files it as episode 17 of the 1986 TV anime, titled 「命がけ！牛乳はいたつ」, roughly "Life on the Line: Milk Delivery."
Puar and Pilaf are in the lineup as well. Puar is Yamcha's shapeshifting cat companion, and Pilaf is the pint-sized emperor who was chasing the Dragon Balls back when nobody in the cast could destroy a planet. Both come from the series' first arc, not the Super era.
Random Singles or the Complete Box
A single random badge is ¥1,100 (about $7). The complete box with all 12 designs is ¥13,200 (about $84). Twelve singles add up to exactly ¥13,200, so the box costs nothing extra and rules out duplicates.
Bandai's product notes are blunt about the alternative: buyers cannot choose which random single they get, Bandai will not exchange or return an unwanted type, it replaces defective items only with the identical item, and even 12 singles may not cover all 12 designs. The badges run roughly 4 to 8 cm tall, 4.5 to 7.5 cm wide and 1.5 cm deep, so the larger ones are closer to palm-sized than to a lapel pin.
Four Decades In, With a New Series Days Away
Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball started in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1984 and reached TV in 1986, then kept going through Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Super. The 2022 film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero took the No. 1 opening weekend in Japan and also debuted at No. 1 in the United States. October 2024 brought Dragon Ball DAIMA, a 20-episode original series with Toriyama credited on original concept, story and character design.
The franchise's next series arrives this month. Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is an "enhanced version" of Dragon Ball Super, with a large volume of new and redrawn cuts and a restructured story. It starts on the Fuji TV network this fall.
Looking Ahead
Preorders for Nui Pin Dragon Ball run until 11 p.m. JST on October 25, 2026, with shipping expected around March 2027, per Anime Anime. Bandai lists the set on the Japanese Premium Bandai store only. Premium Bandai's overseas storefronts have not listed it, so buyers outside Japan will need a forwarding service.
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus premieres October 11, 2026 at 11:15 p.m. JST on Fuji TV and its affiliates, according to the official Dragon Ball site. Anime News Network reports that Netflix begins streaming the series in the United States on October 17, with selected territories getting it on October 14. In Japan, Prime Video and the local streaming service U-NEXT carry each episode 30 minutes after broadcast. No Crunchyroll pickup has been announced for the enhanced version, even though the original Dragon Ball Super ran there.
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