Dragonball Shirts, Jackets, etc

Jackal puFF · Post by **Jackal puFF** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:23 pm

Does anyone know where to find dbz clothing?

SonEric84 · Post by **SonEric84** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:26 pm

I'm pretty sure someone recently posted a link to a site with plenty. Sorry, it escapes me right now. Anyone else?

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:48 pm

Chinatown, if you have one. They iron on the image of your choice.

Can shirts be considered bootlegs?

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:56 pm

bkev wrote:Chinatown, if you have one. They iron on the image of your choice.

Can shirts be considered bootlegs?

Yes, they can. Any unlicensed Dragonball product (this goes for other properties, too) is technically a bootleg. How bootlegging is dealt with varies between companies.

An example would be Mirage Inc. They own the rights to the Ninja Turtles. When they're alerted to bootleg clothes and such, if the profit the bootlegger is making is "small potatoes" they usually don't go after the bootlegger. But, if someone's making a boatload of bootleg action figures to be sold in a bunch of different stores then they usually take action.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:06 pm

DBZ t-shirts are still pretty widely available in America

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:22 pm

I saw some in a German super market in my town once.

Hitman Hart · Post by **Hitman Hart** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:57 pm

I saw a fair amount of shirts at Anime Boston and there's usually some in the small anime store not to far from here. I'd say look around. Funimation probably also has some on the Z Store

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:04 am

Yeah, one thing I'm going to keep a sharper eye out for at Otakon this year is DB clothing. I've been really hankering for a hoodie or t-shirt or something.

Brakus · Post by **Brakus** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:22 am

Around the beginning of the year, I was at Hot Topic. I noticed among the anime tee shirts, there was one with a nice collage. I took a closer look, and I went -- OMG I know these guys! It's a black tee shirt with a nice collage of people. Piccolo, Perfect Cell, Trunks, Kid Buu, Freeza, Vegeta, Gohan, and Goku in the front in the Kamehameha pose.

Yeah, I got the shirt - I think it's the newest one I've seen in a long time. I'm sure other shirts that were released years ago still exist, but they're extremely rare these days.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:29 am

I've been thinking about getting that one. I wish they'd come out with some more new shirts and I wish I'd gotten some of the really cool ones I used to see 'back in the day' at high school. I do have a nice group of dbz shirts (from back in the semi-day) somewhere in my room though.

bardock013 · Post by **bardock013** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:35 am

Brakus wrote:Around the beginning of the year, I was at Hot Topic. I noticed among the anime tee shirts, there was one with a nice collage. I took a closer look, and I went -- OMG I know these guys! It's a black tee shirt with a nice collage of people. Piccolo, Perfect Cell, Trunks, Kid Buu, Freeza, Vegeta, Gohan, and Goku in the front in the Kamehameha pose.

Yeah, I got the shirt - I think it's the newest one I've seen in a long time. I'm sure other shirts that were released years ago still exist, but they're extremely rare these days.

Nice! I got the same exact one. Here in AZ though, I don't see any DBZ shirts or any other apparel anymore. (except in Hot Topic, where I got that one you described.)

Jackal puFF · Post by **Jackal puFF** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:15 am

The one at hot topic, is this the one?

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/ ... 6940354544

BrollysKin · Post by **BrollysKin** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:21 am

I wore a lot of DBZ clothes back in junior high/beginning of highschool. I kind of grew out of that fashion as for some reason the opposite sex didn't take to kindly to it. I mainly wear some of the older ones for when I work loading package cars.

I still have some of the nicer 40 dollar shirts they had in the Z store a few years back that I sometimes break out for lounging purposes. I like the football jersey quite a bit.

But if I could find some more adult styled clothing that didn't just have pictures of a dozen characters on them I would certainly pick them up. Maybe a Capsule Corp logo or something...

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:27 pm

bardock013 wrote: Nice! I got the same exact one. Here in AZ though, I don't see any DBZ shirts or any other apparel anymore. (except in Hot Topic, where I got that one you described.)

The only anime shirts I ever see at Hot Topic are Naruto and Bleach ones

DemonKingPiccolo · Post by **DemonKingPiccolo** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:34 pm

I've seen only one DBZ shirt at Hot Topic, I was going to buy it, but I decided against it.

It's kinda obvious sometimes that none of these people who actually design the shirts know anything about DBZ, they just know that a fanbase exists so there's room for possible profit. Because even though this shirt that I saw was a group shot of a bunch of DBZ characters, the time period that these characters were from was inconsistent. Goku was from the later Saiyan saga, Gohan was in his Saiyan armor from the Freeza saga, and of course Vegeta was from the Android/ Cell saga. Other characters were scattered about from different time periods.

I can understand if the shirt features a single character and a "time line" of their progression through the series, but not a bunch of different characters in a single shot from the different points in the series. Maybe I'm just picky, but that's just weird.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:49 pm

You think that's bad, there's one GT t-shirt that says "TRUNKS" in big letters with various pictures of him in the background, but the big, colored-in shot in the foreground is of SSj GT Gohan. :/

Kid Trunks · Post by **Kid Trunks** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:58 pm

I'd love a nice simple Dragonball T-shirt. Maybe just a Goku smiley face on the front or something, I dunno. I don't need a whole bunch of characters from different sagas squeezed onto it.

DemonKingPiccolo · Post by **DemonKingPiccolo** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:03 am

I agree Kid Trunks. I also wouldn't mind a shirt with a goofy looking Goku head on it.

The only issue is that Dragon Ball has been pumped up to be an action cartoon based on fighting, when if you actually look at the subtlties of it, it isn't: It's a goofy action packed adventure with the primary action being fighting.

Even the really serious battles in the manga have a comedic aspect to them.

bardock013 · Post by **bardock013** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:27 am

Jackal puFF wrote:The one at hot topic, is this the one?

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/ ... 6940354544

Yep. That's the one.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:11 am

DemonKingPiccolo wrote:I can understand if the shirt features a single character and a "time line" of their progression through the series, but not a bunch of different characters in a single shot from the different points in the series. Maybe I'm just picky, but that's just weird.

I don't mind it if it's including Freeza, Cell and Buu in the same shirt too. Cause then there's a harmony. Gohan and Freeza, Trunks and Cell, Vegeta and Buu, with Goku in his unchanging Gi in the foreground. It's, like, complete.

*makes circle motions with fingers*

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