The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Mon Dec 21, 2015 12:16 am

FUNimation's finally climbing up the ladder, I see.
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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by FoolsGil » Mon Dec 21, 2015 12:51 am

I kind of want a Ford Focus now.

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by WittyUsername » Mon Dec 21, 2015 3:39 am

Wow...that was pretty amazing.

On another note, I could have sworn I heard Nadolny's voice at the very end of the video though but upon repeated viewings, it sounds like it was Clinkenbeard after all.

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by Polyphase Avatron » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:53 am

Too bad we can't get flying cars like in Dragonball though...
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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:35 am

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I...just...what even is this world. :lol:
Yeah this is the type of thing that you would see it back in 1997-2001 during the prime days of DBZ.
I dunno, I'd have found it pretty unbelievable then even.

I mean, as far as I know, we've never - never - had Dragon Ball used to advertise something here that wasn't at least already related to the series in some way. We had toy ads, game ads, ads for Shonen Jump, etc., but a completely-unrelated-otherwise vehicle? That's the kind of thing that happens rarely enough for US made shows. I would never in my wildest dreams have expected something like this to ever even come to someone's mind, much less be made.
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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:26 pm

WittyUsername wrote:Wow...that was pretty amazing.

On another note, I could have sworn I heard Nadolny's voice at the very end of the video though but upon repeated viewings, it sounds like it was Clinkenbeard after all.
Yeah, it seems it is Colleen doing a Nadolny impression I guess? Which is odd since they have the Japanese music in the background.


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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by LuckyCat » Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:33 pm

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Which is odd since they have the Japanese music in the background.
Is that a Kikuchi track? I don't remember it being used in Z. I thought it was generic music Sony provided because well, frankly Sony seems to be a big part of this ad too.

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:46 pm

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Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Which is odd since they have the Japanese music in the background.
Is that a Kikuchi track? I don't remember it being used in Z. I thought it was generic music Sony provided because well, frankly Sony seems to be a big part of this ad too.
Well confession time I haven't seen Z with the Japanese music so I assumed I just assumed it was, that makes more sense now.

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Mon Dec 21, 2015 4:24 pm

I'm far from an expert on this kind of thing, but as far as I could tell, the music is something they cooked up for the commercial. It certainly doesn't sound familiar to me at any rate.

Has Kenisu3000 seen the ad yet? He'd probably be the most likely to recognize it if it is from a previous Japanese source.
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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by SSJ God Gogeta » Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:04 pm

It seems they released another one.
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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by Chuquita » Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:39 pm

SSJ God Gogeta wrote:It seems they released another one.
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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by precita » Sun Dec 27, 2015 11:01 pm

Was that Faulconer dub music in that ad?

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by dbgtFO » Mon Dec 28, 2015 2:10 am

It's not available outside US apparently...

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by NitroEX » Mon Dec 28, 2015 2:12 am

dbgtFO wrote:It's not available outside US apparently...
I just downloaded the video to watch it.

Kind of disappointing in comparison to the last one honestly. Not sure I approve of this if it becomes a common thing, especially if they're just recycling old animation from the series.

With a company like Ford you'd at least expect them to afford animators for a commercial.

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by G1Ravage » Mon Dec 28, 2015 5:10 am

Now all we need is Tullece in a Taurus commercial.

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Mon Dec 28, 2015 9:09 pm

I no longer know how I ever lived in a world without Dragon Ball vehicle advertisement. This is clearly one of the greatest things to come out of the franchise since it's inception.
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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by sangofe » Thu Dec 31, 2015 6:52 am

SSJ God Gogeta wrote:It seems they released another one.
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Can someone upload it somewhere else? It's blocked for me here in Norway.

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by Lord Beerus » Thu Dec 31, 2015 10:05 am

Here's the advert for all to see.

I hope we get more shit like this. :P

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Re: The Dragon Ball Ford Focus ad on YouTube

Post by LuckyCat » Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:56 am

precita wrote:Was that Faulconer dub music in that ad?
It sounds like it, but it's really just a synthesized piano hitting two or three notes so anyone could've composed it. I think it's funny Sony isn't mentioned in this commercial, and suddenly the music quality drops. :P

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