Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

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Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by nato25 » Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:00 am

Surprised no one is talking about this, it seems Dragon Ball has reached the points where it's acclaimed enough to get it's own official version of Monopoly.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2 ... ou-can-buy

Now the reason I bring this up is I really don't like how they used characters for the locations. Dragon Ball has so many iconic locations it just seems dumb to make them characters. Even worse some of the characters included are awful choices, as it seems to only be based on the cell error we get the cell games announced, ms piza and hercules two cronies who embarrased themselves at the cell games... why...

I was wondering what locations you guys would put in each spot in place of the characters. Surely Dragon Ball has enough to fill the Monopoly board.

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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:20 am

Yeah my excitement was drained when I saw what the board etc will be. Cell arc era also makes no sense and why not Super since that is getting a big merchandise push. Just odd.

Tsume is making a board game for the UK so I am looking more forward to that tbh.
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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by ABED » Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:41 am

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Yeah my excitement was drained when I saw what the board etc will be. Cell arc era also makes no sense and why not Super since that is getting a big merchandise push. Just odd.

Tsume is making a baord game for the UK so I am looking more forward to that tbh.
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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by TheUltimateNinja » Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:19 am

That's pretty dumb, why Cell?

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Post by Theophrastus » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:19 pm

Using characters for the spaces feels pretty silly, but I'm not sure there are enough unique locations that anyone actually gives a crap about to actually fill out a whole Monopoly board. Most of DB Earth is uninhabited wasteland.

Like...there's Mt. Frypan, Goku's home (Mt. Paozu), Grandpa Gohan's home, that village Oolong terrorized, that town the Rabbit gang terrorized, West/North/South/East City, Papaya Island, the island #19 and #20 attacked, Ginger Town, Planet Namek, Planet Yardrat, Kaiou's world, the Supreme Kai world, whichever # Freeza Planet it was that Vegeta healed up on, Planet Arlia (filler), Fake Namek (filler), Babidi's spaceship, Karin Tower, Kami's lookout, the Room of Spirit and Time...uh...

Not a very exciting list.

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Post by simtek34 » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:42 pm

Theophrastus wrote: whichever # Freeza Planet it was that Vegeta healed up on.
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Post by Hellspawn28 » Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:43 pm

They are still using Hercule instead of Mr. Satan. Why?!
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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by floofychan333 » Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:02 pm

I thought this was just a fan made thing at first but I'm glad it's real. Hope they sell it in Canada, because if they do (which they probably won't) I'll buy it when I get a job.
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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by nato25 » Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:49 pm

floofychan333 wrote:I thought this was just a fan made thing at first but I'm glad it's real. Hope they sell it in Canada, because if they do (which they probably won't) I'll buy it when I get a job.
Yeah its official.

I think the series has enough locations people would recognise. These things are made for the fans anyway.

- Mt Paozu (Grandpa gohans house)
- Capsule Corp
- World tournament arena
- Orange star high school
- west city
- yunzabit heights
- planet namek
- Freeza's spaceship
- cell games arena
- north kais planet
- snake way
- king yenmas palace
- beerus planet
- muscle tower
- the lookout
- room of spirit and time
- son family home
- babidis ship
- hell
- shenron
- porunga (the dragons could be the last two spaces)

If you're doing super could do zen-ohs palace, zunos palace. If you do GT have a couple more locations as well.

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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by nato25 » Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:50 pm

nato25 wrote:
floofychan333 wrote:I thought this was just a fan made thing at first but I'm glad it's real. Hope they sell it in Canada, because if they do (which they probably won't) I'll buy it when I get a job.
Yeah its official.

I think the series has enough locations people would recognise. These things are made for the fans anyway.

- Mt Paozu (Grandpa gohans house)
- Capsule Corp
- World tournament arena
- Orange star high school
- west city
- yunzabit heights
- planet namek
- Freeza's spaceship
- cell games arena
- north kais planet
- snake way
- king yenmas palace
- beerus planet
- muscle tower
- the lookout
- room of spirit and time
- korins tower
- son family home
- babidis ship
- hell
- shenron
- porunga (the dragons could be the last two spaces)

I think that covers enough spaces. For the utilities and stations i dont really know.

If you're doing super could do zen-ohs palace, zunos palace. If you do GT have a couple more locations as well.

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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by jjgp1112 » Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:58 pm

Why are you guys surprised it's based on the Cell saga? The Cell saga's always been the most popular among Western fans.
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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by nato25 » Sun Mar 12, 2017 5:04 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:Why are you guys surprised it's based on the Cell saga? The Cell saga's always been the most popular among Western fans.
Just because it really limits what you can do and why we get people like piza and satans goons. But i definitely understand what youre saying id agree with you cell saga is most popular although frieza would be a close second.

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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by SqueakyBoots » Sun Mar 12, 2017 6:33 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:Why are you guys surprised it's based on the Cell saga? The Cell saga's always been the most popular among Western fans.
What if it were based on the entire series as whole and not just one arc?

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Post by Gyt Kaliba » Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:49 am

I'd definitely be interested in picking this up, but yeah, gotta echo the disappointment in some of the choices made for it. This could look a lot better than it does.
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Post by coola » Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:10 pm

Yeah, when they made Dragon Ball Chess, there were some...bizarre choices as well :)
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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by Theophrastus » Mon Mar 13, 2017 6:22 pm

...Why is Jeice riding what appears to be a hover bike? Did they do that solely because they wanted the "knight" pieces to be riding something?

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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by ChronoTwigger » Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:32 pm

I think a system like "Talisman" could fit better than Monopoly, truly out of context.

They used characters instead of locations 'caue hey, it's a DB product, kid wants to see the characters.
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Post by LordCrumb » Mon Mar 13, 2017 11:41 pm

"Go to Jail" should have been "Go to Hell".

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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:44 am

LordCrumb wrote:"Go to Jail" should have been "Go to Hell".
Satan is censored to the H word so they would probably would have gone with HFIL.

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Re: Official Dragon Ball Monopoly Announced

Post by floofychan333 » Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:23 pm

coola wrote:Yeah, when they made Dragon Ball Chess, there were some...bizarre choices as well :)
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