What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Nikkolas » Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:05 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote: The GT bricks are the cheapest way to acquire the series so if you don't want to spend too much then that's the way to go.
Well if there is a reasonably priced alternative, I can try that. Are you referring to the Japanese Dragon Box? If so I wouldn't be getting that because I watch my anime dubbed. It's a practicality thing because I can't see that well. But if there is another good English language release, I can try it out.

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Vegard Aune » Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:48 pm

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dbboxkaifan wrote: The GT bricks are the cheapest way to acquire the series so if you don't want to spend too much then that's the way to go.
Well if there is a reasonably priced alternative, I can try that. Are you referring to the Japanese Dragon Box? If so I wouldn't be getting that because I watch my anime dubbed. It's a practicality thing because I can't see that well. But if there is another good English language release, I can try it out.
The only alternatives would be the old long-since out-of-print singles, or yes, the Dragon Box. And while there are some pros to those old singles, (next-episode-previews, unfiltered image whereas the Green Bricks are somewhat blurred to get rid of the grain, if one is watching the Japanese version one also gets the Japanese credits and title-cards, which were omitted entirely on the Bricks) they also suffered from poor video-encoding, and did not have the option to watch the dub with the Japanese soundtrack.

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:01 pm

So, it's only slightly Dragon Ball related, but while I was browsing Amazon for something else, I noticed that the cheaper copies of a few other things I'd been needing to pick up were about to be gone, so I went ahead and did an order I hadn't been planning on just yet. And so, this little gem of a game is on it's way to me at long last. :mrgreen:

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Retan » Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:04 pm

Gyt Kaliba wrote:So, it's only slightly Dragon Ball related, but while I was browsing Amazon for something else, I noticed that the cheaper copies of a few other things I'd been needing to pick up were about to be gone, so I went ahead and did an order I hadn't been planning on just yet. And so, this little gem of a game is on it's way to me at long last. :mrgreen:

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So uh why is Goku in his SSJ3 Kid form from GT, if this is based off manga publications? :think:

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Beji » Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:27 pm

Retan wrote:So uh why is Goku in his SSJ3 Kid form from GT, if this is based off manga publications? :think:
What? That photo looks exactly like the drawing out of the complete illustrations except without the halo. Idk if that was a joke about a non-dragon ball character :?

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Retan » Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:31 pm

Now I that I look at it with my head turned your right, man I must be going blind in my old age.... :lol:

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by VICDBZ » Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:26 am

One gashapon set less to complete the collection:
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Post by dbgtFO » Fri Oct 31, 2014 4:12 pm

That's awesome!
It's nice to get a better idea of how big Trunks really would be with his muscles pumped up to their limit.

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by JEFFMAN219 » Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:20 am

Picked up season 8 on Tuesday.

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by dbboxkaifan » Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:25 am

JEFFMAN219 wrote:Picked up season 8 on Tuesday.
Is that Gohan on the bottom left? :P

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Post by TheKingOfKamehamehas » Sat Nov 01, 2014 7:51 pm

Its not Gohan :P He looks too old.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sat Nov 01, 2014 8:28 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote: On-topic: Been looking around to pre-order Xenoverse (PS4) but no real solid deal so far (there is one but the retailer hasn't confirmed if it comes with the Steelbook + DLC).
Gamestop is the cheapest I found for PS4 , £ 39.97 inc free delivery, but I am not sure weather I want to buy this day one or not.

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:38 pm

Was going to post about this yesterday after I made the order, but as I'm sure a lot of other people noticed, the site seemed to go down for a while. :P That aside, I put in an order to RightStuf to hopefully get in my girlfriend's Christmas gifts on time, but also managed to score some stuff for myself thanks to a Viz sale that was going on.

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by songohan619 » Thu Nov 06, 2014 3:52 am

DragonBoxZTheMovies wrote:Looks like someone's been to the UK. :P Yeah, Thomas the Tank Engine was my first major, obsession-level fandom for a franchise. You should check out Kirbopher's recent 'Kirblogs', he talks about TTTE rather extensively in one of them (I think it was the 'Media that use to scare you' one- or something to that effect).
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songohan619 wrote:Yup, was a huge fan, and still like it! I`m collecting the complete series DVDs just to have them all in a neat package :P
I never realised they did release it all. I mean I'd see a one-off DVD with a few random episodes now and again, didn't know they did complete series sets.
They do/did come out, but just in the UK :P The US doesn`t have any "Complete Series" DVDs, except for season 1, 2, 3 and 12, I believe.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by VICDBZ » Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:26 pm

BANDAI GASHAPON HBG
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by ChahikoDBZ » Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:06 pm

VICDBZ wrote:BANDAI GASHAPON HBG
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BANDAI GASHAPON HG PLUS 4
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Those Gashapon look amazing. I love the HBG ones. Especially that SSJ3 Gogeta. He looks intense.
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by VICDBZ » Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:33 pm

ChahikoDBZ wrote:
VICDBZ wrote:BANDAI GASHAPON HBG
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Those Gashapon look amazing. I love the HBG ones. Especially that SSJ3 Gogeta. He looks intense.
For me is the worst on these set, I prefer the normal Bardock! xD

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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Kakarot88 » Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:29 pm

A cel from September at Anime Weekend Atlanta...got it for $20 :mrgreen:
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Despite the incorrect background it was well worth $20 (the frame is just what I had lying around I still need to get it properly matted but it'll do for now)
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by Kakarot88 » Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:34 pm

Also...gave into the Kanzenshuu peer pressure and got Dragon Box One a while back...and then just had to get the others!
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Got all those bad boys for a steal on eBay (around $60 per box :mrgreen: ) I think with that my shelf is complete...well until the next big thing, I guess...
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Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?

Post by eledoremassis02 » Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:39 pm

Kakarot88 wrote:
Your collection is getting to the point where I am getting so jealous! :lol:

Great find on the cel! I was Saiyan saga cels but they're usually so expensive!

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