Toonami Digital Arsenal: Original Dragonball Commercials

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:13 pm

I know this site has been around for a while but no one seems to have brought it up on this forum so I thought I'd put up a link for those who haven't heard about it and let everyone post their thoughts.

Toonami Digital Arsenal is an awesome fansite that offers us videos of original Toonami commercials for our favorite cartoons, including over 100 Dragonball/Z/GT commercials! The Quality is usually not too good but it's still fun to watch them, and bring back those good 'ol memories. The videos play with Quicktime but you can use VLC media player too. There are even some nice extra's throughout the DB/DBZ/GT sections such as Japanese openings and Endings, video game commercials, Dr. Slump promo, and more.

Dragonball
Dragonball Z
Dragonball GT

Here are my favorite commercials:

DBZ-Short Season 6 Promo
DBZ-The Saga that Changed it All
DBZ-Double DB/DBZ
DBZ-Longest Running Toonami Show
DBZ-Yet Another Season 4
DBZ-Uncut Promo

I'd love to hear your thoughts and see your favorites!

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:21 pm

The best commercials were always the ones for the first three movies. Especially with the movie guy narrating and the random opening of shouting from the Japanese version of The World's Strongest Man.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:30 pm

I love how Toonami used to call DBZ "the best action cartoon of all time", and now they're calling Naruto that.

StarrDust · Post by **StarrDust** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:44 pm

Man, I never realized how many intros Dragonball Z had. I probably stopped watching sometime around the Buu saga. And oh man! The Burger King toys! *cringe* I remember scrambling to turn off the TV whenever that commercial came on.

Thanks for the link. This is really interesting.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:45 pm

Sun_Wukong wrote:I love how Toonami used to call DBZ "the best action cartoon of all time", and now they're calling Naruto that.

For Toonami, Naruto is the new DBZ.

djkalteraphine · Post by **djkalteraphine** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:57 pm

Sun_Wukong wrote:I love how Toonami used to call DBZ "the best action cartoon of all time", and now they're calling Naruto that.

Naruto may be the best succession of flash-backs of all time, but certainly not action. The lack of action in most Naruto episodes is almost astounding. And this is coming from someone who sat through the Freeza saga a few times.

I do like Naruto, though, even if I've fallen behind since the name change.

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:02 pm

Sun_Wukong wrote:I love how Toonami used to call DBZ "the best action cartoon of all time", and now they're calling Naruto that.

And then when Gintama or HunterXHunter gets shown on there they'll drop Naruto and proclaim that one the best. Big deal. No point in complaining about it over and over.

chibi_goten · Post by **chibi_goten** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:11 pm

Cool!

I live in England, and they didn't show that many adverts over here, it'll be fun to look through them. We did however get a kind of amv advert, which was scenes from the Buu saga from oh, Super Buu and Gotenks, to Dabura and Kid Buu. I can't remember it so well now, but back in high school I found it amazing! It was done to the Foo Fighters track, ''All my life'' and put together really well, perhaps i'll find it amongst the links.

Did any of you guys see it too? It may actually have been on CNX though.

Zuhalter2000 · Post by **Zuhalter2000** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:12 pm

Sweet site; Thank you!

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:50 pm

Zuhalter2000 wrote:Sweet site; Thank you!

Your welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Anonymous Friend · Post by **Anonymous Friend** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:03 pm

FUNi should work something out with Cartoon Network to get some of these as bonus material in the releases.

Actually anything at all would be great. Trailers for other releases do not count as extras.

xzero · Post by **xzero** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:18 pm

^^ Agreed. I watched seasons 3 and 4 on Toonami (1 & 2 on another channel, the rest on DVD), and those old intros really bring back memories for me.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:36 am

Kendamu wrote:
Sun_Wukong wrote:I love how Toonami used to call DBZ "the best action cartoon of all time", and now they're calling Naruto that.
For Toonami, Naruto is the new DBZ.

Just without it being on 5 days a week. If Naruto had DBZ's level of exposure, it would be even bigger in the US.

If Bandai can get old Adult Swim/Toonami promos for its DVDs, then Funi should be able to get these. I love those old promos.

Thanos6 · Post by **Thanos6** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:18 am

I have the season 4 intro memorized from watching it so many times in college.

Snail · Post by **Snail** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:05 am

Wow! Really great site. Ah...time to sit back and relax.

DemonKingPiccolo · Post by **DemonKingPiccolo** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:22 pm

I'm so pissed that they replaced DB and DBZ with Naruto and other things.

They said that if we keep watching, they'll keep showing.

We should sue for false advertising.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:35 pm

I've loved this site for years! They're doing a great service to us nerds that need a nostalgic boost from time to time!

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:03 pm

My favorite is the Season 4 intro. Just so much nostalgia.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:21 pm

When I was introduced to the show via Funi's dub, I used to watch it on an Australian program called "Cheez tv", I never once saw a commercial promoting the show here.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:29 pm

I love this website... check out Toonami "Broken Promises - Dreams", one of their best mini-amv type things. It's under middle toonami, and you search "dreams". Mostly Outlaw Star and Gundam, but I recall some DBZ in there.