Ocean Studios' "Dragon Ball Kai" Dub Turns 16; Still Unreleased

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

With no disrespect meant, Lee is openly promoting himself as having played Frieza for the dub that never came out, because it's an incredibly popular character that he can make money off of selling autographs for. It's not a sign of the fans talking about the Lost Ocean Kai Dub or more openly demanding that it be released as a product. I've done enough conventions, and even shared enough characters with other actors across different media, to understand that it's literally just a marketing thing of capitalizing off of a character that you voiced at one point. This is not an indication of anything.

Yes, Ocean owns the rights to the Kai Dub. I don't know for sure who the final decision makers are on whether or not it would ever be allowed to see the light of day, but at this point, I honestly wouldn't blame Crunchy or Toei For actively not wanting it to be released. Because from a business standpoint, it's needless brand confusion over a product they're barely promoting anymore. And we, the (at best) two or three-digit number of people who want to see this dub for the sake of a novelty, are NOT enough of a money-making market to justify it being released.

I might be going to Vancouver early next year; I'll try to see if I can get in touch with the contact I had and see about maybe visiting the studio. I'm not getting my hopes up I'll even be allowed to see it.

Ask if they have a working DAR with the original DBZ sessions

Ocean confirmed to a fan 6 years ago they still had everything they ever recorded for Dragon Ball right back to the Saban days, including the original stems, recording sessions, etc. From what I understand its all on digibeta so it would be quite easy to put everything on disc, sadly Crunchyroll aren't interested.

[Scsigs]

Ocean confirmed to a fan 6 years ago they still had everything they ever recorded for Dragon Ball right back to the Saban days, including the original stems, recording sessions, etc. From what I understand its all on digibeta so it would be quite easy to put everything on disc, sadly Crunchyroll aren't interested.

And, why would they be? No offense to Ocean dub fans, but Toei & Crunchyroll view the FUNi Texas dubs as the official dubs that they focus on with that cast being the official English dub cast. Especially when the Ocean cast are either unknown or not cared about by a lot of the English-speaking fandom nowadays, they have no reason to go to Ocean, have them dig out their archives, & send them everything to use when they already have uncut English dubs that a lot of fans pay money for.