Any news on Dragon Boxes for DB and GT?

[Kaboom]

I wouldn't hold your breath for releases that may never happen. Unlike most of the Z ones, the GT and DB Season Sets are fine, quality releases. I don't think it's wise to miss out on a good thing because of mere speculation that something better might someday maybe perhaps come at one point whenever.

[Gaffer Tape]

If it's all the same to you, I'll continue to vote with my wallet and hold my breath.

*passes out*

[Brad Redfield]

Patience is the keyword here.

If they never come out with Dragon Boxes for the rest of the franchise, the season sets will be much cheaper by then.

So I can afford to wait it out.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

I wouldn't hold your breath for releases that may never happen. Unlike most of the Z ones, the GT and DB Season Sets are fine, quality releases. I don't think it's wise to miss out on a good thing because of mere speculation that something better might someday maybe perhaps come at one point whenever.

Exactly, that's why I've bought the GT Season Sets. Besides, it's just GT, why would you want to spend more money on it?

[Gaffer Tape]

I wouldn't hold your breath for releases that may never happen. Unlike most of the Z ones, the GT and DB Season Sets are fine, quality releases. I don't think it's wise to miss out on a good thing because of mere speculation that something better might someday maybe perhaps come at one point whenever.

Exactly, that's why I've bought the GT Season Sets. Besides, it's just GT, why would you want to spend more money on it?

You're right. People should just pick up used copies of the singles for cheap. Spend less money and get a more complete product than the season sets.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

You're right. People should just pick up used copies of the singles for cheap. Spend less money and get a more complete product than the season sets.

I think buying the 2 Season sets would be cheaper than buying the 4 singles boxsets.

[Gaffer Tape]

Maybe. Maybe not. I'm sure you could find someone selling off their old singles on eBay on the cheap in order to fund their purchase of the season sets. I could be wrong, but I doubt this is a case of out-of-print DVDs appreciating in value.

[Namek'jin Ryu]

I could really care less if DB and/or DBGT get a DBox release seeing as I've already got the whole uncut series for the both of them. DBZ on the other hand is a different story.

You see, I was one of the idiots suckered into buying the Ultimate Uncuts that FUNimation cancelled halfway through, which pretty much killed any passion I had left for the series, so thankfully I never even touched the Orange Brick sets. However, when the DBoxes were announced I felt like a little schoolgirl because I was estatic and the passion I had lost seemed to come soaring back. So far I've only got the DBox 1, but will buy 2 when I find it for a relatively cheap price, along with the rest as they're released.

[OutlawTorn]

In the end, its not FUNimation to blame, but people for simply not caring. People undoubtedly got what they paid for. If the Dragon Box fails in America, its because people don't care to buy a higher priced Dragon Ball product, when they can get the same amount of episodes for a cheaper price.

The thing is, the Dragon Boxes aren't that much more expensive than the DBZ season sets and most of the Dragon Boxes will contain significantly more episodes than the individual season sets (25 episodes at the lowest count on the season sets versus 42 for the Dragon Boxes) and superior picture quality make the Dragon Boxes an incredible deal.

Take this example. If they split the GT Dragon Box into two boxes (Episodes 1-34/35-64), the Dragon Box would go for 50-60, but the season sets go for 25-30. Which one will people buy more?

I doubt GT would be split into two boxes as they would simply be a near identical release with better picture and different packaging. GT is short enough that it could conceivably be released as a single box.

I personally don't believe we will be seeing the Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball GT Dragon Boxes in America.

I've, personally, never seen the logic of people thinking that just because the DBZ Dragon Boxes are being released that the Dragon Ball and GT boxes must be following them. Do I think it is an impossibility? No, but the expectation makes about as much sense as the whole "Nimoy is in Trek XI so Shatner must be in it as well" nonsense prior to Trek XI's release.

[Kaboom]

GT is short enough that it could conceivably be released as a single box.

Or even better, a straight-up English release of the original GT Box!

[Budogenkai]

I remember when the remastered DBZ sets were coming out, and I thought that they would never release GT remastered, and lo' and behold, about a few months later there was con footage for a trailer for GT remastered season 1.

[Jon Jon]

I personally would love to see a Dragon Ball Dragon box release. My Hong Kong Dragon Ball Dragon Box I think is pretty solid for what I paid for it ($50 USD on ebay back 3 years ago), but I would liek to have an official release. Not to mention, it doesn't have those sweet next episode previews, it's more of a marathon mode on each disc. The quality could be better, but it's more than watchable.

[pjay]

Forget GT! I hope DragonBall gets a DragonBox US release here too!

Amen to that.

[Choice195]

I'm pretty sure Funimations gonna release Dragonbox , Dragonbox GT, and Dragonbox The Movies cuz if they released The Dragonbox Z it wouldnt make sense if they dont release the whole damn series of dragonball XP including the movies if only we have more extras for the dragonbox

[Corporate_Nothing]

On topic: the Green and Blue Bricks seriously aren't bad products. The only thing that irks me is the lack of previews (no biggie) and the zoomed in-footage in Dragon Ball (also no biggie, as long as it's not worse than the old releases). I'm holding off on them right now, simply because if Dragon Boxes are released, I'd rather get those. But if not, I'll have no qualms with picking up the Season Sets for cheap.

I do believe I asked this on Funi's forum a few months ago, but has anyone bothered putting up some comparison shots between the DB/GT remastered season sets and Japan's Dragon Boxes?

[TheBlackPaladin]

Seeing as though it was advertised as the 'definitive' version and the Dragon Boxes were pretty much the biggest surprise outside of Japan like ever, I think that mindset of yours is totally wrong.

That's like giving FUNimation a free pass on the debacle.

You act like they just had the Dragon Box sitting around and said, "Hey, let's give them crap instead!" In the initial con announcement of the DBox, it was mentioned how hard it was for FUNi to get the DBox from Toei and it was pretty obvious that it was a very recent acquisition when they announced it due to the lack-of-info on audio options and the misquote of the number of pages per Dragon Book.

So, up until getting the Dragonbox, the Orange Bricks were FUNi's definitive version of DBZ and was probably going to stay around for a long time as such. However, fan demand from those of us who didn't settle for the Orange Bricks eventually brought the DBox over!

Anyone who settled for less and isn't happy now is just going to have to tough it out the same way many of us who bought the more expensive Japanese version without subtitles have to tough it out.

I would also add to that that we are the ONLY country outside of Japan to get Dragon Box releases. FUNimation really went full-out with that, so it's disappointing to see that they're not selling exceptionally well.

[dragondyle]

I sold all of my steelcase movies in hopes of seeing Dragon Box The Movies be announced and almost sold the GT Season Sets for the Dragon Box version. Good thing I didn't because we don't even know if the GT Dragon Box will ever be released here. I regret selling the movies, though, and need to get them back. But right now, it's unlikely we will see Dragon Boxes of anything other than Z, but we shall see what happens in the future.

[TonyTheTiger]

I would also add to that that we are the ONLY country outside of Japan to get Dragon Box releases. FUNimation really went full-out with that, so it's disappointing to see that they're not selling exceptionally well.

Are they not? No doubt there are plenty of people who bought the Orange Bricks and refuse to double dip but I haven't heard any reports that the Dragon Boxes are flat out tanking. The only indication that they're selling less than great is that big box stores aren't stocking them on their shelves as much. But that might be for a number of reasons.

[Gaffer Tape]

I could have sworn someone (TripleRach, maybe?) posted data on the DBoxes, and that they were ranking in the top 5 in several different categories of sales.

[TonyTheTiger]

I guess it's possible that the sales of each volume are worse than the previous ones but you'd think that would be negligible since most people buying one would likely be in it for the long haul.