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Kaboom
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by Kaboom » Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:32 am
Finally got my hands on DragonBall VizBig #5 today:
Check out the size of that sucker.
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by Herms » Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:38 am
So that's 4 volumes, and Viz's volume 16 already has an extre 3 chapters. Wow. Though I almost wish they'd thrown in volume 12, so that it'd be all of both the Daimao and 23rd TB arcs in a single volume. That'd just be the coolest thing ever.
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by SSJ2bardock » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:15 am
You've gotten some use out of your Z volume 1 I can see.
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by Kaboom » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:15 am
Herms wrote:So that's 4 volumes, and Viz's volume 16 already has an extre 3 chapters. Wow.
... And I read the entire thing over the course of a few hours.

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by Herms » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:18 am
So how many pages does that come out to, anyway?
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by SSJ Helldog » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:23 am
The only thing that sucks about the VizBig releases (besides, arguably, the weight of each individual volume) is that the spine art sucks.
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by JulieYBM » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:26 am
Personally, I love having one of those big 'n heavy books in my hand. Espicially dropping one of them.

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by Kaboom » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:38 am
Herms wrote:So how many pages does that come out to, anyway?
768 altogether, including the contents, title page gallery, and so forth.
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by SuperSaiyan3Goku » Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:26 am
I would of gotten the first VizBig volume of Dragonball from Borders yesterday, but I bought Volumes 15-17 of Z instead. Oh well. I'm happy with my Manga!

Next quest: Buy the Super: Broly and Super Hero Blurays, also Daima whenever that releases in the states. Also the Super Manga!
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by sailorspazz » Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:31 am
Velasa wrote:Sailorspazz, would you be able to take pictures of the little figures that come with that playset kinda thing? Like you mentioned Karin but I can't see him, so I'm curious if anyone else cool is hiding in there ^^
Karin is inside his tower in the above picture, so he's there, but just hard to see. I'll bring everyone down to the Tenkaichi Budoukai ring so they're all easy to see:
Battle royale between Kamesennin, Krillin, and....Karin?
Something I forgot to mention about the Panorama World set that makes it infinitely more awesome....the pieces can also be folded up into a Dragonball. I haven't tried it, since I wanted to display all of the figures, but
click here to see a link to an eBay auction that shows the folded up version.
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by Son Sebbe » Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:33 pm
Herms wrote:So that's 4 volumes, and Viz's volume 16 already has an extre 3 chapters. Wow. Though I almost wish they'd thrown in volume 12, so that it'd be all of both the Daimao and 23rd TB arcs in a single volume. That'd just be the coolest thing ever.
It'd brake your arms if you read it to the end. But still pretty cool!
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by Velasa » Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:31 pm
Ohmygodthey'readoreable

Thanks for the pic.
That is such a damn sweet toy, I need an excuse to buy myself one.
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by RoarkVegeta » Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:20 pm
I still have my 2. Maybe I'll get #5.
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by JamieDBZFan1995 » Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:39 pm
Got Dragonball volume 1 from Forbidden Planet yesterday, they seem to have almost the entire Manga there but for £6 it's going to take me some time to get them all sadly.

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by Velasa » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:56 am
That one actually looks like a pretty sweet custom, niice. Sucks you couldn't get it though.
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by Zeroplus » Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:43 am
Velasa wrote:
That one actually looks like a pretty sweet custom, niice. Sucks you couldn't get it though.
Hum, it doesn't say it's a custom. I thought I had seen it somewhere before. But at $50+ I'm not buying it, and the other fig at $80+ fuck that.
EDIT: Found a boxed pic of the figure.

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by MCDaveG » Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:56 am
Bought 42 volumes of Dragon Ball and 28 of Saint Seiya original Japanese manga for 3200 Kč (cca. 180 dollars) at Japashop.
Will send some photo after remove it all from box. It was heavy as hell, because I don't have car yet, so I transported it from one side of the city to another with help of subway in huge box....
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by Velasa » Sun Sep 27, 2009 2:23 pm
Well I guess he isn't a custom o_O That's kinda cooler because you'll be able to find him again at some point. I never thought there would be that many toys of Bardock.
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by Kibosuru412 » Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:25 pm
Bah! This site is making me broke! See what everyone has bought or collected, I just purchased this week (I'll show pictures once I receive them):
-Dragon Box the Movies (I bought this because I wanted the scouters only to find out that there are auctions without the DVDs)
-Dragon Box GT Radar ONLY and Dragon Box Movies Scouter (no DVDs)
-Dragon Box Vol.1 and 2 Goku and Piccolo figures (no DVDs)
-Dragon Box Diorama (no DVDs)
-3 boxes of DBZ data carddass premium card set vol.2
-Mr. Popo's shenron prototype
Things I'm still considering or may get a little later:
-Dragonball Panorama World Figure set
-Dragonball Kai vol.1 + box 1 blu-ray
-Complete set of 34 Kanzenban manga