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Dragonballs in Harry Potter

Post by songohan619 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:16 pm

Is "Dragon Balls" from Harry Potter a reference to Dragonball?
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Re: Dragonballs in Harry Potter

Post by dragondyle » Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:25 pm

I don't believe so, they are totally different. I think in Harry Potter, it's a little more litteral.
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Post by Kingdom Heartless » Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:31 am

I don't think so either. It sounded funny, though.
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Post by KakaR0T » Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:58 am

Wouldn't surprise me. Even the name "Harry Potter" was a rip off from the movie "Troll"
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Re: Dragonballs in Harry Potter

Post by Tzigi » Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:40 am

songohan619 wrote:Is "Dragon Balls" from Harry Potter a reference to Dragonball?
Don't think so, but, on an interesting side note, in Tanya Grotter - a russian series of books that was supposed to be a HP plagiarism (actually only the first and parts of the second book - out of 13 - really are a plagiarism, others definately aren't) - there's a game called драконбол (the transliteration would be drakonbol - as though fonetically writing DragonBall). драконбол is more or less the equivalent of quidditch - it is also played in the air, but the majority of characters don't fly on brooms but on an asortment of crazy stuff - the main character, Tanya, flies on a Double-Bass, some other character on a vacuum-cleaner etc... Also there are no balls (contrary to the name), but there are, if I remember correctly, 5 magical swords that a team has to throw into the mouth of opposing team's dragon (yes, there are dragons) in order to win. I assure you, it's better than it sounds :)
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Re: Dragonballs in Harry Potter

Post by Gaffer Tape » Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:20 am

Wait, what? It's been a few years since I've read the books, and I haven't seen any of the movies since Order of the Phoenix, but where the heck are there Dragon Balls in Harry Potter?
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Re: Dragonballs in Harry Potter

Post by Eire » Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:24 am

A kind of not very ambitious joke
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Re: Dragonballs in Harry Potter

Post by Gaffer Tape » Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:26 am

Oh, so it was just in the movie. That explains why I'd never heard of it.
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Re: Dragonballs in Harry Potter

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:59 pm

Ah yes, I remember my friend turning round and nudging me with a grin on his face when we heard it in the cinema.
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Re: Dragonballs in Harry Potter

Post by dragondyle » Tue May 01, 2012 11:53 pm

Gaffer Tape wrote:Oh, so it was just in the movie. That explains why I'd never heard of it.
Also, being the movie right after the one you last saw doesn't help, lol.

But why they decided to throw this in there is beyond me. I guess Harry Potter didn't have enough ball jokes.
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Re: Dragonballs in Harry Potter

Post by Akumaito Beam » Wed May 02, 2012 6:35 pm

dragondyle wrote: But why they decided to throw this in there is beyond me.
Because (as Eire put it) not very ambitious jokes are those movie's forte.
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