How did you start your collection?

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:14 pm

How did you start your Dragonball collection? I bought the first volume of the manga, The first UU DVD, and the Saga of Goku. Which have all been sold because of my parents refusing Dragonball in my house...

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:18 pm

The first two Dragon Ball VHS tapes I bought (yeah thats how crazy I am, my collection pre dates DVDs) were "Dragon Ball Z volume 8: Showdown" (Its the bulk of the ocean dub Goku Vs. Vegeta), and DBZ Movie 3, "The Tree of Might".

After this I backfilled to the VHS volume 1, went forward and finished my VHS censored dub only VHS collection. I then bought Captain Ginyu: Assault and Double Cross on VHS the second they came out, and bought the dub only VHS tapes through Goku's Super Saiyan transformation. I later bought the two Trunks VHS tapes because I'm a total Trunks fanboy. I later sold the season 3 and trunks VHS tapes to a pawn shop when the first DVDs hit (Ginyu set) and bought those. The rest, as they say, is history.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:34 pm

I bought one Dragon Ball VHS tape when I was 12 or 13. I got it at a used games and movies store. I watched the show on Cartoon Network and I saw "Uncut" on the cover, expecting some extreme violence and boobies. All I got were a few glimpses of nipples on Roshi's porno. But it was awesome.

I didn't start collecting again until I bought Dragon Ball Z Season 1. Then it snowballed. Now I own 8 Z Season sets, 2 GT sets, all the Double Features, and 4 video games for various consoles.

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:34 pm

I think I began with the second Ginyû tape, uncut. I was nine then and we had all been waiting months for new DBZ. I had no clue what I was getting into. The blood...the sheer fact that everything was new and I had no clue what was going on because I skipped three episodes.

It was euphorific, if that's a word.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:37 pm

I bought the single "comic-style" releases in Spain of the Piccolo Daimaoh Arc while I was there one summer many, many years ago. May Aunt even bought me a Super Battle Collection Goku, the one from the end of DBZ. I got back to the States and bought up the monthly Viz Comics releases and the Pioneer DVD's.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:40 pm

I believe it was a Red Ribbon saga VHS tape for Dragonball. It's snowballed since then.

MajinVejitaXV · Post by **MajinVejitaXV** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:46 pm

Hm...I bought "Death of a Prince" on VHS from Another Universe back in 1999 or so. Then, I purchased Arrival on VHS for nostalgia's sake some months later. I also snagged Ultimate Battle 22 and remember playing it while being simultaneously happy and mortified.

Skip forward a couple of years and I bought the Trunks DVDs. Then the Ginyu discs, the Android discs, a couple of Freeza discs, the two specials, a few movies, a couple of Boo discs...and then I stopped. I got to that "wow, this is a lot of money for not a lot of material...and the quality doesn't seem that great..." point.

March 2003 I got the first DragonBox, and I just went from there. I bought all the Kanzenban in 2004 around the time the DB DragonBox came in. All the Daizenshuu in 2006. All the other guidebooks in '07, etc.

So, that's how I started my collection. 3 seperate times. Jeez, I've spent too much money on this show... ;p

-Corey

chibi_goten · Post by **chibi_goten** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:13 pm

Ultimate Battle 22. Then I bought the ''Let That Child Alone'' dub on VHS that was released in the UK, then a complete collection of boot legs, then lots of legitimate things from Amazon and Play.

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:44 pm

MajinVejitaXV wrote:Jeez, I've spent too much money on this show... ;p

-Corey

Yeah. Each day I think "Wow, I have spent WAAAAAY too much money on this series."

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:58 pm

Daburcor · Post by **Daburcor** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:06 pm

These are how I started my collection.

SuperSaiyan3Goku · Post by **SuperSaiyan3Goku** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:23 pm

My first volume of the Manga: I actually bought Volume 1 of Dragonball Z from my Grade School's Scholastic paper that we got every month.

My first figures: Getting the old gray Burger King figures (I still have Goku, Gohan, and a Freeza split in half

)

My first tape: I bought a few tapes in my day, but this one was the strangest. Back in, oh, 2000-2003, me and my parents were at an Acme store, and I saw Dragonball Z: The World's Strongest on a shelf. They bought it for me, and when I looked on the back of the box, and it said, clear as day, "English Subtitles".

This MUST mean that it was in another Language! So, I went home, popped the tape in my VCR, and, low and behold, it was none other than the Japanese version of the movie!

That must be my coolest DBZ memory, because it was the first time I'd ever see ANYTHING of Dragonball in Japanese! Sure, I had no clue what was going on, but it had Subtitles, so I couldn't complain. The subtitles probably weren't real, but whatever.

I bought a few used tapes from a VHS/DVD/Game rental store in my town back in the day, the whole Babidi saga, the final Imperfect Cell tape, the first Perfect Cell tape, 2 Cell Games tapes, the History of Trunks special, 2 Great Saiyaman tapes, also a Ginyu tape, but I don't remember where I got the Ginyu one.

My first DVD: Way back in 2003, I picked up Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan from Wal-Mart, I think it was. Yeah, most likely Wal-Mart. After that, my DVD collection has snowballed to me getting a few old DVD box sets, (Pre-Remastered) 7 of the Remastered sets, and 12 of the movies on DVD.

I have spent way too much moolah on this series, and it's not gonna end till I have the entire series in Manga and DVD form!

Eddie · Post by **Eddie** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:46 pm

I was 11 when I began my obsession with DBZ, so I don't really remember. I think it may have been the Deadzone VHS, though.

Kid Trunks · Post by **Kid Trunks** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:10 pm

2 unofficial Dragonball guide books were my first purchases, which I still have. Although techincally my mother bought them for me. And then Budokai 1. There just wasn't (and still isn't) much Dragonball merchandise where I live.

sailorspazz · Post by **sailorspazz** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:40 pm

I'm pretty sure my first Dragonball related purchase was the manga....as in, the entire manga series, in Japanese. Not all at once, but over the period of a few months. It's hard to remember the details without reference, so I'll just quote myself from a excerpt from my no-longer-updated-but-still-alive website:

sailorspazz, in approximately the year 2000 wrote:Holy shit, this is a long ass series...and I actually had the money to collect the whole thing over a period of about five months ^_^ I usually went into Kinokuniya once a month and bought them seven at a time, but the last time I just went for it and bought the fourteen I needed to complete the series ^_^ Anyway, these are all really cool...Now, I just need more of the anime...

Heh, that comment about "needing more of the anime" is pretty irrelevant now....once the new Dragonball set comes out, I'll have pretty much everything! (well, I guess I'll still be missing DB movie 1....unless they decide to put that out, too.)

ssjcj · Post by **ssjcj** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:40 pm

I bought a few action figures from Argos. Then I lost interest in the series for about 3 years and got back into by getting the remastered DBZ season 1.

Optimus · Post by **Optimus** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:47 pm

I started with some tapes I still have, figures which I do not own any more, and some of Beckett's DBZ magazine issues.

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:49 pm

My collection really started with a bike ride to Walmart, where I picked up DBZ season 4. Really, you could say my collection began a few years back when my brother began receiving Dragonball tankoubon volumes from his then-enthusiastic-fried, which have basically transferred over to my loving hands. I've picked up little things here and there, either as gifts from friends, friend's friends in Japan, occasional stuff that catches my eye in stores, etc., but my collection is really just starting to explode, not that I'm in control of my own ebay account and am getting into Yahoo Auctions Japan.

RoarkVegeta wrote:Which have all been sold because of my parents refusing Dragonball in my house...

Hmm, why do they refuse it? My parents have never been all to enthusiastic about me liking Dragonball (let alone spending money on it), but they seem to have come to accept it, and never really took any opposition towards it. Anyway, I feel bad for you, and sorta-kinda-almost know how it feels. My condolences.

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:00 pm

SSj_Rambo wrote:
RoarkVegeta wrote:Which have all been sold because of my parents refusing Dragonball in my house...
Hmm, why do they refuse it? My parents have never been all to enthusiastic about me liking Dragonball (let alone spending money on it), but they seem to have come to accept it, and never really took any opposition towards it. Anyway, I feel bad for you, and sorta-kinda-almost know how it feels. My condolences.

Lately, (and mostly because of her new boyfriend) my mom has been saying I'm too old for Dragonball. And they threw out all my DVDs. But they were fools... Like that's gonna stop me from liking it? >_> So I bought more.

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:06 pm

RoarkVegeta wrote:
SSj_Rambo wrote:
RoarkVegeta wrote:Which have all been sold because of my parents refusing Dragonball in my house...
Hmm, why do they refuse it? My parents have never been all to enthusiastic about me liking Dragonball (let alone spending money on it), but they seem to have come to accept it, and never really took any opposition towards it. Anyway, I feel bad for you, and sorta-kinda-almost know how it feels. My condolences.
Lately, (and mostly because of her new boyfriend) my mom has been saying I'm too old for Dragonball. And they threw out all my DVDs. But they were fools... Like that's gonna stop me from liking it? >_> So I bought more.

Sounds to me like they're too young to have kids. >__>

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