Lord Slug on YTV?

[Arian]

The other day, I got my hands on one of many YTV tapes that circulate around the Internet, and I saw something that didn't sit right with me:

Spoiler:

How can this be? I was to understand that all they got before the 2001 dispute was the 3 Ocean dubbed movies and the 2 FUNi dubbed TV specials.

Does anyone have some exact clarification on this?

Thanks.

[Kuwabara]

Mind uploading a clip of the promo? Do you know when the tape was recorded?

[TheBlackPaladin]

Either way, that's certainly.......interesting......artwork.

[understatement] Bit of a departure from Toriyama's style. [/understatement]

[TVfan721]

Either way, that's certainly.......interesting......artwork.

[understatement] Bit of a departure from Toriyama's style. [/understatement]

That screenshot has nothing to do with DBZ, that was one of the bumpers for YTV at the time. Everything had an alien theme.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Either way, that's certainly.......interesting......artwork.

[understatement] Bit of a departure from Toriyama's style. [/understatement]

That screenshot has nothing to do with DBZ, that was one of the bumpers for YTV at the time. Everything had an alien theme.

Ohhh, I see. I thought the YTV execs were like, "Oh, a movie featuring a slug? Let's draw some slugs of our own so we fit in!"

Your explanation definitely makes more sense.

[Arian]

Mind uploading a clip of the promo? Do you know when the tape was recorded?

Unfortunately no promos or the movie itself were recorded on this tape, just that next bumper, and it's the only one recorded.

Never the less, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBjcSoIIuv8

Oh, and the record date of that bumper is May 20, 2002.

[Robo4900]

Take a look here. You'll find most(All?) of the Z movies aired in summer 2002.

[Danfun64]

But was the dub Funi or Big Green?

Edit: Perhaps that's a dumb question, as "Lord Slug" is Funi's name for the film

Edit: so at least the first four movies and the two specials are confirmed. I'm gonna guess it's the Toonami edits for everything except Tree of Might, which used the Saban dub.

[90sDBZ]

So Canada got the Funimation movie dubs on TV following Ocean movies 1-3? And here I thought I'd remembered someone saying they'd never aired there at all. I guess we in the UK really did draw the short straw when we got the Big Green movies on Toonami.

[Arian]

Take a look here. You'll find most(All?) of the Z movies aired in summer 2002.

Well, don't get it confused. They just aired the Ocean trilogy, the 2 specials, and Lord Slug. I guess I was wrong and they got at least one movie from the post-Ocean era.

But they only aired it 3 times ever so clearly my memory of that would be fuzzy, especially considering my age at the time.

So Canada got the Funimation movie dubs on TV following Ocean movies 1-3? And here I thought I'd remembered someone saying they'd never aired there at all. I guess we in the UK really did draw the short straw when we got the Big Green movies on Toonami.

Well, that someone is right. We never got anything past Lord Slug because of the dispute or whatever it was that made YTV and FUNimation stop communicating. So we missed out on a lot. My memory was fuzzy on that, but I guess YTV did license Lord Slug before the end, what do you know?

[DBGod]

I have all the movies and specials recorded as well in my archive, including Lord Slug. I didn't realize this was news to anyone, regardless that picture saves me time so I don't have to dig up my tapes lol.

[JohnnyCashKami]

So Canada got the Funimation movie dubs on TV following Ocean movies 1-3? And here I thought I'd remembered someone saying they'd never aired there at all. I guess we in the UK really did draw the short straw when we got the Big Green movies on Toonami.

The FUNimation dub of the Z movies is pretty terrible at times (imo), so between the FUNi dub and the Big Green dub, I'd take the latter. At least with the BG dub it's comedic at the very least.

Speaking of which, I found the Trunks special dub to be pretty darn good and the voice actor of No. 17 was insanely good in a maniacal way.

[90sDBZ]

So Canada got the Funimation movie dubs on TV following Ocean movies 1-3? And here I thought I'd remembered someone saying they'd never aired there at all. I guess we in the UK really did draw the short straw when we got the Big Green movies on Toonami.

The FUNimation dub of the Z movies is pretty terrible at times (imo), so between the FUNi dub and the Big Green dub, I'd take the latter. At least with the BG dub it's comedic at the very least.

Speaking of which, I found the Trunks special dub to be pretty darn good and the voice actor of No. 17 was insanely good in a maniacal way.

Well to each his own I guess. For me the Funimation movie dubs were mostly very well done while the Big Green dubs were all around dreadful. Years later watching clips of the Big Green dub online it's easier to see the funny side of it, but back in the day when that was the only way of watching the movies in the UK it was just depressing.

[TheBlackPaladin]

So Canada got the Funimation movie dubs on TV following Ocean movies 1-3? And here I thought I'd remembered someone saying they'd never aired there at all. I guess we in the UK really did draw the short straw when we got the Big Green movies on Toonami.

The FUNimation dub of the Z movies is pretty terrible at times (imo), so between the FUNi dub and the Big Green dub, I'd take the latter. At least with the BG dub it's comedic at the very least.

Speaking of which, I found the Trunks special dub to be pretty darn good and the voice actor of No. 17 was insanely good in a maniacal way.

Well to each his own I guess. For me the Funimation movie dubs were mostly very well done while the Big Green dubs were all around dreadful. Years later watching clips of the Big Green dub online it's easier to see the funny side of it, but back in the day when that was the only way of watching the movies in the UK it was just depressing.

Ooooooohhhh right.....forgot about that last part. The only way to watch it? Yeah, that would be depressing!

[JohnnyCashKami]

Well to each his own I guess. For me the Funimation movie dubs were mostly very well done while the Big Green dubs were all around dreadful. Years later watching clips of the Big Green dub online it's easier to see the funny side of it, but back in the day when that was the only way of watching the movies in the UK it was just depressing.

Suppose you have a point but your options were and still are between a mediocre dub to a terrible dub, it's like the lesser of two evils.