Favorite spaceship?
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Favorite spaceship?
I don't believe this topic has been done before. What is your favorite spaceship in the Dragonball franchise?
Some options include:
- Saiyan space pod
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- Freeza Force mothership
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Namekian spaceship:
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Capsule Corporation spaceship (reverse engineered from Saiyan space pod):
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Angels' Cube:
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Babidi's Spaceship:
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Grand Tour spaceship:
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Paragus' Spaceship:
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Of course there are many others.
Some options include:
- Saiyan space pod
[spoiler][/spoiler]
- Freeza Force mothership
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Namekian spaceship:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Capsule Corporation spaceship (reverse engineered from Saiyan space pod):
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Angels' Cube:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Babidi's Spaceship:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Grand Tour spaceship:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Paragus' Spaceship:
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Of course there are many others.
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Re: Favorite spaceship?
I always thought Freeza's ship was cool because it's "legs" allow it to land in uneven terrain.
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I don't think any of them is especially outstanding but if i had to pick one i'd probably pick classic saiyan pod or GT's octopus ship.
Frieza's spaceship is also pretty good and iconic.
Frieza's spaceship is also pretty good and iconic.
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Babidi's spaceship is by far greatest spaceship I've known
There are various levels for fighters/champions of respective realms. There's even special training/meditation room. Pretty sure there are a ton of other facilities as well
I'd say Frieza's Spaceship is dope as well. Its quite advanced with medication chamber, lab, fighter's lobby etc
Gotta say I like Capsule Corp's Spaceship purely for its training 100G ~ 450G properties
In fact, I like just about all of dem lol
There are various levels for fighters/champions of respective realms. There's even special training/meditation room. Pretty sure there are a ton of other facilities as well
I'd say Frieza's Spaceship is dope as well. Its quite advanced with medication chamber, lab, fighter's lobby etc
Gotta say I like Capsule Corp's Spaceship purely for its training 100G ~ 450G properties
In fact, I like just about all of dem lol
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None, not even Frieza's ship these days, in fact my number 1 belongs to another galactic overlord put's it to shame.
The Special Class-1 Astro Combatant Ship - Desura II
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The final boss flagship of Abelt Dessler, Supreme Ruler of The Great Garmillas Empire.
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This guy was conquering space long befor Frieza was a thought in toriyama's head. The original psychotic galactic overlord.
The Special Class-1 Astro Combatant Ship - Desura II
[spoiler][/spoiler]
The final boss flagship of Abelt Dessler, Supreme Ruler of The Great Garmillas Empire.
[spoiler][/spoiler]
This guy was conquering space long befor Frieza was a thought in toriyama's head. The original psychotic galactic overlord.
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The space ship of Dragon Ball Z movie 4:
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... reminds me of this Pokemon:
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... reminds me of this Pokemon:
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The only one I'm really a fan of is the GT spaceship. The others are fine, but none of them strike me as stand-out spaceship designs like the Enterprise or the Imperial Star Destroyer. In fact, I'm not sure any of these are even close to Toriyama's best vehicle designs. Oh, and I'm sorry, but the Angel Cube is just pathetic.
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The Angel Cube design wise is of course nothing much, but I'd like to think that's the point.KinguKurimuzon wrote:Oh, and I'm sorry, but the Angel Cube is just pathetic.
Humans of the lower realm have to rely on advanced, complicated technology and smart design choices to achieve results that godly beings can accomplish easily with their divine magic, thus the vast discrepancy in the designs of their spacecrafts.
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I get it, Toriyama likes to show powerful characters and objects as looking weaker than you'd expect. It's why Zeno, Kid Buu, and Freeza's final form look the way they do. But with the Angel ship, I'm sure you could accomplish that with a design a bit more interesting than a literal cube that probably took about 30 seconds to draw.dbgtFO wrote:The Angel Cube design wise is of course nothing much, but I'd like to think that's the point.KinguKurimuzon wrote:Oh, and I'm sorry, but the Angel Cube is just pathetic.
Humans of the lower realm have to rely on advanced, complicated technology and smart design choices to achieve results that godly beings can accomplish easily with their divine magic, thus the vast discrepancy in the designs of their spacecrafts.
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None of the spaceships are particularly outstanding, although the Capsule Corp ship is neat for having a simple design and being large enough to live in. The worst is GT's weird insectoid octopus design, but funnily enough I also happen to like it the most from an interior design perspective. It has a sweet gaming room, and I really admire the viewing dome at the top that's used for a scene or two in the early episodes.
Also have to give a shoutout to the Saiyan pods for having a catch-landing system most likely to be given the "Thought Up By An Eight Year Old" award: GIANT PILLOW!
Also have to give a shoutout to the Saiyan pods for having a catch-landing system most likely to be given the "Thought Up By An Eight Year Old" award: GIANT PILLOW!
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I think the Saiyan Space Pod, while simplistic in design, is fairly iconic.KinguKurimuzon wrote:The only one I'm really a fan of is the GT spaceship. The others are fine, but none of them strike me as stand-out spaceship designs like the Enterprise or the Imperial Star Destroyer. In fact, I'm not sure any of these are even close to Toriyama's best vehicle designs. Oh, and I'm sorry, but the Angel Cube is just pathetic.
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They are iconic but I think it's hard to classify them as a spaceship. They're more like space cabinets...Polyphase Avatron wrote:I think the Saiyan Space Pod, while simplistic in design, is fairly iconic.KinguKurimuzon wrote:The only one I'm really a fan of is the GT spaceship. The others are fine, but none of them strike me as stand-out spaceship designs like the Enterprise or the Imperial Star Destroyer. In fact, I'm not sure any of these are even close to Toriyama's best vehicle designs. Oh, and I'm sorry, but the Angel Cube is just pathetic.
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The angel cube may even be an occultic/religious reference. You see heavenly or extra-terrestrial cubes in lots of films. Transformers being a fairly famous example, but there was the trinity cubes in the Justice League film recently, Avengers, Thor, the data cube in the film Prometheus, and the sci-fi film 2036 that just released in June this year, to name a few others.KinguKurimuzon wrote:The only one I'm really a fan of is the GT spaceship. The others are fine, but none of them strike me as stand-out spaceship designs like the Enterprise or the Imperial Star Destroyer. In fact, I'm not sure any of these are even close to Toriyama's best vehicle designs. Oh, and I'm sorry, but the Angel Cube is just pathetic.
So, the cube actually makes a lot of sense when the divine use it in Dragon Ball, as it exists within real-world myth and religion. If this is a reference to that, then the idea is more interesting and deep than you might think, despite the design.
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You mean like the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation?Attitudefan wrote:The angel cube may even be an occultic/religious reference. You see heavenly or extra-terrestrial cubes in lots of films. Transformers being a fairly famous example, but there was the trinity cubes in the Justice League film recently, Avengers, Thor, the data cube in the film Prometheus, and the sci-fi film 2036 that just released in June this year, to name a few others.KinguKurimuzon wrote:The only one I'm really a fan of is the GT spaceship. The others are fine, but none of them strike me as stand-out spaceship designs like the Enterprise or the Imperial Star Destroyer. In fact, I'm not sure any of these are even close to Toriyama's best vehicle designs. Oh, and I'm sorry, but the Angel Cube is just pathetic.
So, the cube actually makes a lot of sense when the divine use it in Dragon Ball, as it exists within real-world myth and religion. If this is a reference to that, then the idea is more interesting and deep than you might think, despite the design.
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Yes, something akin to that. That would be one example of this. I could go over it more, but it would be way off topic.Polyphase Avatron wrote:You mean like the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation?Attitudefan wrote:The angel cube may even be an occultic/religious reference. You see heavenly or extra-terrestrial cubes in lots of films. Transformers being a fairly famous example, but there was the trinity cubes in the Justice League film recently, Avengers, Thor, the data cube in the film Prometheus, and the sci-fi film 2036 that just released in June this year, to name a few others.KinguKurimuzon wrote:The only one I'm really a fan of is the GT spaceship. The others are fine, but none of them strike me as stand-out spaceship designs like the Enterprise or the Imperial Star Destroyer. In fact, I'm not sure any of these are even close to Toriyama's best vehicle designs. Oh, and I'm sorry, but the Angel Cube is just pathetic.
So, the cube actually makes a lot of sense when the divine use it in Dragon Ball, as it exists within real-world myth and religion. If this is a reference to that, then the idea is more interesting and deep than you might think, despite the design.
EDIT: For those interested, look into Metatron's Cube.
My favourite art style (and animation) outside Toriyama who worked on Dragon Ball: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, Masaki Satō, Minoru Maeda, Takeo Ide, Hisashi Eguchi, Katsumi Aoshima, Tomekichi Takeuchi, Masahiro Shimanuki, Kazuya Hisada