FUNimation Dragon Box Z #1 (In-Hands) Discussion

Li'l Lemmy · Post by **Li'l Lemmy** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:12 am

Hujio wrote:
Li'l Lemmy wrote:Quick question for someone with the set in hand and a working slimline PS2: Will the discs play in that system? It's my intention to suggest this purchase to a friend of mine, but the only feasible DVD player in his possession is that particular system . . . and I sold mine to upgrade to PS3, so I can't check. ^_^
I popped these bad boys in for ya, and yes, they do work on a PS2 slim. I personally think they look a little better on a stand-alone DVD player, but if the PS2 slim is all they have, then it should be good enough.

Thank you sooooooo much. While I do strongly recommend that he invest in some sort of conventional player, I'd hoped to be certain that the discs would play at all in what he has before telling him to put the money into this release.

MajinVejitaXV wrote:I will say this: The DragonBox Slim appears to employ some form of copy protection that a few devices might not like. I'll go more in depth in the review of the box.

-Corey

Hence why I put my question out there in the first place. I don't know what devices you're specifically referring to, but I know that the PS2 can be finicky about what it wants to play.

~Da Lemmy

Post by **VegettoEX** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:03 am

Smooth Criminal wrote:This thread is fucking long. I give up trying to follow this shit.

Can someone PM me when a proper JP/US Dragonbox comparison has been compiled?

I'm not diving through the 40-ish pages I haven't been keeping tabs on. The point of topic is changing every 5 or so posts. This is ridiculous.

Well, yeah. What you're looking for is a review. Why are you following a discussion thread when you're looking for a static review...?

Needless to say, all the regular parties are working on stuff.

SSJSteve · Post by **SSJSteve** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:56 am

MRDA wrote:
SSJSteve wrote:
LaRésistance wrote:My box shipped from Right Stuff on November 5th and I haven't received it yet. Are there European fans that have already gotten their box ?
My Dragon Box got shipped out on the 6th of November from AxelMusic, and I'm still waiting for it! Hopefully it will be here tomorrow.
Did it turn up today?

Nope, and I'm starting to get annoyed now

. I just sent AxelMusic an e-mail asking them what's going on.

xzero · Post by **xzero** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:16 am

Mine arrived from Target yesterday, and my dad just dropped it off for me. I watched the second episode to get a feel for it (I'm going to plow through the whole thing over the next week or so as I make flash cards for studying for my upcoming finals).

Just a couple of thoughts:

Wow. This thing is fucking brilliant. It's the best Dragonball Z product we've ever gotten. Everything from the quality of the box (the same outer box used on the James Bond collections a few years back) to the quality of the book and disc holder is incredible. I don't really have any gripes about the Japanese version, and I like the fact that the proper opening and closing are used.

I, however, am a dub fan, so let me speak as a dub fan for a moment. What we have here is the dub that we already got on the Season Sets. I was really hoping for a bit of a redub, at least of a few lines, but as we have known for a while, the dub was really just tacked on, so not much effort went into it. If you like Nathan Johnson's or Bruce Faulconer's scores, they are, of course, not present. Seasons 1 and 2 have pretty good dubs, with the Namek episodes being a real highlight. I'm not holding my breath about them getting Sean and Linda back in the recording studio to fix the Freeza arc, and this is a potential problem for what will probably be sets 2-4 (Freeza, Androids, and pre-Cell Games Cell). The original voices simply worked better with the dub music than they do with the Japanese score, which tends to convey different emotions.

Mild ambivalence aside, older dub fans should definitely get this set. Besides the video games' dubs, this is probably the best we're going to get in terms of a dub for the show, and this release should certainly be supported to show Funimation that older fans support quality releases of this nature.

Bottom line, not that it needs to be said, pick up a copy of the Dragonbox. It'll probably have a relatively limited run in America, and you can take heed that you own a wonderful release like this. I imagine that besides hardcore fans, these boxes won't sell very well, so I would anticipate limited production numbers for them. Get a copy, sit back, and watch Dragon Ball Z the way it actually (really) was meant to be seen.

MRDA · Post by **MRDA** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:16 pm

SSJSteve wrote:
MRDA wrote:
SSJSteve wrote: My Dragon Box got shipped out on the 6th of November from AxelMusic, and I'm still waiting for it! Hopefully it will be here tomorrow.
Did it turn up today?
Nope, and I'm starting to get annoyd now . I just sent AxelMusic an e-mail asking them what's going on.

I reckon it'll turn up within the next few days. I ordered mine on the 7th: if they're only counting weekdays as "working days", tomorrow would make it the maximum nine days.

I actually hoped to get this last weekend. Bollocks to that, I guess!

On a related-yet-different note, I'm wondering, all of a sudden, if the removal of R2 coding on the discs is a foretaste of good news for UK DBZ fans: could the set see release here? The mind boggles...

kenshiro87 · Post by **kenshiro87** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:22 pm

SSJSteve wrote:
MRDA wrote:
SSJSteve wrote: My Dragon Box got shipped out on the 6th of November from AxelMusic, and I'm still waiting for it! Hopefully it will be here tomorrow.
Did it turn up today?
Nope, and I'm starting to get annoyd now . I just sent AxelMusic an e-mail asking them what's going on.

Axelmusic is safer but very slow.... Yours will arrive sure.

SSJSteve · Post by **SSJSteve** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:23 pm

MRDA wrote:
SSJSteve wrote:
MRDA wrote: Did it turn up today?
Nope, and I'm starting to get annoyd now . I just sent AxelMusic an e-mail asking them what's going on.
I reckon it'll turn up within the next few days. I ordered mine on the 7th: if they're only counting weekdays as "working days", tomorrow would make it the maximum nine days.

I actually hoped to get this last weekend. Bollocks to that, I guess!

On a related-yet-different note, I'm wondering, all of a sudden, if the removal of R2 coding on the discs is a foretaste of good news for UK DBZ fans: could the set see release here? The mind boggles...

I really hope it does arrive tomorrow, I'll be so happy! It's strange because I'm still waiting for Dragonball Season 1 and GT Season 1 which I ordered two weeks ago.

Post by **VegettoEX** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:23 pm

Let's not get on the quote-train so much, folks! Thanks

.

linkdude20002001 · Post by **linkdude20002001** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:44 pm

Jon Jon wrote:Are you talking the original DVDs? I own the pioneer uncut movie box, would it be on those?

Yup! I think my first time ever seeing the show in Japanese must've been through that extra on Pioneer's DVD. Only Dead Zone has any cool extras like that, but even one movie is better than none.

Jon Jon · Post by **Jon Jon** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:48 pm

I'll just have to check this out when i get home!

MRDA · Post by **MRDA** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:25 pm

SSJSteve wrote:I really hope it does arrive tomorrow, I'll be so happy! It's strange because I'm still waiting for Dragonball Season 1 and GT Season 1 which I ordered two weeks ago.

Did you order those from Axel too?

disturbed001 · Post by **disturbed001** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:26 pm

VegettoEX wrote:
Smooth Criminal wrote:This thread is fucking long. I give up trying to follow this shit.

Can someone PM me when a proper JP/US Dragonbox comparison has been compiled?

I'm not diving through the 40-ish pages I haven't been keeping tabs on. The point of topic is changing every 5 or so posts. This is ridiculous.
Well, yeah. What you're looking for is a review. Why are you following a discussion thread when you're looking for a static review...?

Needless to say, all the regular parties are working on stuff.

I have to say I'm pretty darn excited for your podcast review and written review. I assume you will be putting up proper comparisons on the home page with the review. That would be sweet.

SSJSteve · Post by **SSJSteve** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:37 pm

MRDA wrote:
SSJSteve wrote:I really hope it does arrive tomorrow, I'll be so happy! It's strange because I'm still waiting for Dragonball Season 1 and GT Season 1 which I ordered two weeks ago.
Did you order those from Axel too?

Nope, I ordered them from Amazon.co.uk. I'm used to the wait with Amazon though.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:53 pm

What's the benefit of preordering online? Is there any advantage over just going to the store on the release date?

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:58 pm

Innagadadavida wrote:What's the benefit of preordering online? Is there any advantage over just going to the store on the release date?

Preorder at RightStuf and all FUNimation products will come a week or two in advance of the street date (at one point some of us got the first One Piece box set a month in advance).

Post by **VegettoEX** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:59 pm

JulieYBM wrote:
Innagadadavida wrote:What's the benefit of preordering online? Is there any advantage over just going to the store on the release date?
Preorder at RightStuf and all FUNimation products will come a week or two in advance of the street date (at one point some of us got the first One Piece box set a month in advance).

You will also typically get a discounted price. MSRP is ~$80. Best Buy in-store price at release is ~$70. Amazon and RightStuf pre-order prices were ~$50.

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:03 pm

VegettoEX wrote:
JulieYBM wrote:
Innagadadavida wrote:What's the benefit of preordering online? Is there any advantage over just going to the store on the release date?
Preorder at RightStuf and all FUNimation products will come a week or two in advance of the street date (at one point some of us got the first One Piece box set a month in advance).
You will also typically get a discounted price. MSRP is ~$80. Best Buy in-store price at release is ~$70. Amazon and RightStuf pre-order prices were ~$50.

Yeah, RS has the Box on sale for circa $47 right now (and the One Piece sets are typically circa $37).

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:14 pm

My box arrived from Amazon a few hours ago!

But one back corner of the box is a little smushed.

But everything else looks fantastic!

I have work in less than an hour though, so I probably won't get a chance to start watching til I get home...
The book is amazing though! I only got a chance to glance at it so far, but there's refreshing accuracy (Kuririn! Seiyuu being named!) in it. X3

Gonna have an actual review tomorrow. :3

Marcus Carr · Post by **Marcus Carr** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:44 pm

Current Amazon.com rankings:

#1,482 in Movies & TV

#2 in Movies & TV > Anime & Manga > Characters & Series > Dragon Ball

#3 in Movies & TV > Anime & Manga > By Studio > FUNimation Entertainment

#4 in Movies & TV > Boxed Sets > Anime

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:45 pm

Yay! Mine came in yesterday! Here are some caps from episode 28. More to come when I feel like it: