DragonBall: The Movies - Single DVD Dissection.

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DragonBall: The Movies - Single DVD Dissection.

Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:01 pm

So for no real reason at all I decided to pre-order the first two "DragonBall: The Movies" DVD's. Today, when I got home from work I found them sitting in my hallway. I haven't done a dissection like this in a while. I really scanned the shit outta these DVD's. Anyways we will get right into it...

First thing you will notice is the cover art for the first movie is not the usuall one we've been seeing. But no worries, that thing is just a card you can remove showing the real cover underneith. Its pretty cool card though, its one of those things you move around to see different images.

Also the covers seem to have a splash of glitter on them. Its kind of a nice touch.

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These DVD's come with a little movie poster card... Well I guess its not really the movie poster, I suppose its more like promotional art from that movie...

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The covers unfolded...

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When you turn those over it has somthing called a "Character Album". Pretty cool. FUNimation are you taking notes? Bah it's way to late for that now anyways.

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The backs...

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And no, the side bars do not form a picture.

It seems this menu screen might be on every disc. It was on disc 1 and 2 so...

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These disc have the original trailers (not shown in the movie below) and also some new ones made to promote these single discs. It also has some promo's for other DragonBall (series) single disc....

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You can see the new trailer for "The Dead Zone" (dub name, I know) in the clip below. I love how this guy says "DragonBall! The MOooooOoooOovies!" Since I don't have a ripper, I just cammed it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG3b6OEHVbI

I don't think Iam going to keep this trailer movie up for long, being its cammed it just seems a little odd. Maybe after 4 or 5 weeks I'll take it down. Anyways I think this same DragonBall The Mooooo... trailer can be seen on... some... official website... Iam pretty sure Herms knows what site it is...
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Post by Hujio » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:13 pm

Those cards just show other promotional posters that were used for their respective movies. Geez, everything for DragonBall gets packaged so well in Japan. Oh, and you mean this site... http://www.toei-video.co.jp/DVD/sp21/dr ... e/mov.html

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Post by SSj_Rambo » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:15 pm

Very good dissection, thank you very, very much for the hard work. I'll look into it a little deeper next time I get a chance, my parents are getting home soon and they don't like seeing me looking at anything Dragonball related. :cry:
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Post by SonEric84 » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:22 pm

I wish I could afford these, the packaging along is awesome.
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Post by Conan the SSJ » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:34 pm

Very awesome, Tanook! Sexier packaging and menus than I realized.
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Post by Herms » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:35 pm

Very neat packaging. Are those red smears supposed to be blood? They really look like it. Kind of gives the whole thing a gruesome vibe.
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Post by Kunzait_83 » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:55 pm

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Post by SSj_Rambo » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:24 pm

Could you possibly post a scan of the holographic cover card that went over the cover in the first DVD?
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Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:27 pm

Sure, but you really can't see much. :?

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Post by LeprikanGT » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:47 am

Look at those pictures, they are beautiful; B-E-A-Utiful...all America gets with own new Movie dvds is One picture on the front of the tin case. I rather like how in depth the little leaflets are and the inside parts of the cases.
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Post by Krycek7o2 » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:28 pm

I hate you! You made me buy the first volume last night, even though I OWN the DragonBox - The Movies! I want this for my collection! 8)
Luckily I got one of the last of the first pressings.
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Post by Castor Troy » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:55 pm

I sold my movies dragonbox over a year ago and will probably pick these up since they're more economically efficient. :)
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Post by DaemonCorps » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:51 pm

Wow, with all the nice artwork and doodads included in the cover alone, I don't think I'd mind if I found that they didn't include the disc at all. Well not really, but still, that is some nice effort on Toei's (I'm assuming) part. Add "at least one of any DB R2 release" to the stuff I've gotta pick up when I've got the money to do so.
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Post by Raki » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:03 pm

Since these movies actually has decent extras, I might buy the one for Movie 12.
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Post by Vegeta1984 » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:16 pm

awesome I know these are R2 DVDs but will they work on an computer? And were can I get these???
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Post by SSj_Rambo » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:35 pm

Vegeta1984 wrote:awesome I know these are R2 DVDs but will they work on an computer? And were can I get these???
Most (if not all) disc drives for computers can change between regions so that you can play foreign DVD's, but they come with a limit of 5 region changes, and the preset region counts. So the smartest thing to do is buy a cheap 20$ disc drive and use it solely for R2 DVD's.

I'm not very aware of all of the places you can buys these discs, but I know that a lot of the members here are, so I'm sure they'll help you out there. :wink:
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Post by Krycek7o2 » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:21 pm

SSj_Rambo wrote:
Vegeta1984 wrote:awesome I know these are R2 DVDs but will they work on an computer? And were can I get these???
Most (if not all) disc drives for computers can change between regions so that you can play foreign DVD's, but they come with a limit of 5 region changes, and the preset region counts. So the smartest thing to do is buy a cheap 20$ disc drive and use it solely for R2 DVD's.

I'm not very aware of all of the places you can buys these discs, but I know that a lot of the members here are, so I'm sure they'll help you out there. :wink:
Its easier than you think :wink:
You can just buy AnyDVD to make your PC Drive region free. Or enter a code on your DVD player to make it region free.
I've done both of these methods.

Curious, but do all the Singles contain so many pamphlets?
I already bought all the dragonboxes, but I would like to buy the first dvd of all the singles for my collection.
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Post by bkev » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:28 pm

VLC is your friend... not the best movie player in itself, but if ya gotta go region-free, ya gotta have VLC.
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Post by SSj_Rambo » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:25 am

bkev wrote:VLC is your friend... not the best movie player in itself, but if ya gotta go region-free, ya gotta have VLC.
Doesn't your disc drive also have to be set for the appropirate region to be able to play a foreign DVD's with VLC?
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Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:28 pm

Doesn't your disc drive also have to be set for the appropirate region to be able to play a foreign DVD's with VLC?
No, I don't think so. When I got these DVD's I just downloaded VLC and it played fine. :?
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