For various little reasons I never quite got around to buying the Dragon Boxes before. With US Dragon Boxes for the rest of the franchise becoming more likely, though, I figured it was a good time to get as much of Z as I could, since a decent chunk of the series is still easy to find and I could show my support for more Dragon Boxes at the same time.
I ordered 5, 6 and 7 for starters since those were still in stock at my online store of choice. As you can see, 6 came in today, and now I can finally give my actual impressions on these things!
I can now see where people are coming from, complaining about that stupid glued-on back cover and the edges of the box getting a bit scuffed. I don't mind too much, though--as someone who orders things online all the damn time, I'm kind of used to the latter.
The main thing I noticed is that the boxes are smaller than I thought! I've seen plenty of images that *should* have given me an impression (like that big image up there that shows they're clearly shorter than the VIZbigs), but I dunno. I was a bit surprised, I expected it to be more bulky somehow.
The Dragon Book looks amazing. I honestly hadn't read about or seen what it actually looked like, only seen scans of some of the pages. I expected a flimsy, magazine sort of thing, but it's a well-made hardcover book! I'm kind of afraid to actually read it and potentially ruin it.
I haven't actually watched the box yet, but I know what the picture quality is like by now.

I am curious to see what it looks like on an actual TV, but I don't really have a functional region-free DVD player at the moment, so I'm kind of screwed watching it on my PC. Oh well.