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

MarcFBR · Post by **MarcFBR** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:13 am

There are like a dozen things wrong from multiple people on this page thus far but since I'm in bed, I'll just focus on one (typing on my phone and all.)

SSj_Rambo wrote:Yeah, you need software to do that for you

That isn't actually true if you have the proper setup, it just happens most people don't.

G'night everybody.

'Wheel of Morality spins in gocs brain'

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:01 am

.:PoetikaL:. wrote:
sangofe wrote:Seems like I have to re-ask my question:

sangofe wrote:A question for the owners; are the menus the same for all discs in the set, or do they change with each disc?
The menus are the same as follows:

Contains the 3 options of playing all, set-up and episode selection.
The scouter with the 9000 reference in it :p

Differences on each disc:

So far all I seen is the image of the background is matched within the scouter, which are scenes from the corresponding disc. All images are different on each.

Awesome. The thing I did not like about the Japanese Dragonbox was that there was only one video for the main, and the submenu, for all the discs in the box. This almost makes me wanna order it, especially because of the translated dragonbook

Jon Jon · Post by **Jon Jon** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:02 am

The one thing that makes me sad about this box set is that there are no Japanese commercials and what not like from the Toei released Dragon Boxes.

Granted, I'm sure Funimation could not have done this due to whatever issues, but still

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penguintruth · Post by **penguintruth** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:51 am

Jon Jon wrote:The one thing that makes me sad about this box set is that there are no Japanese commercials and what not like from the Toei released Dragon Boxes.

Granted, I'm sure Funimation could not have done this due to whatever issues, but still .

Aren't there six more sets after this? Give them time.

Jon Jon · Post by **Jon Jon** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:56 am

penguintruth wrote:
Jon Jon wrote:The one thing that makes me sad about this box set is that there are no Japanese commercials and what not like from the Toei released Dragon Boxes.

Granted, I'm sure Funimation could not have done this due to whatever issues, but still .
Aren't there six more sets after this? Give them time.

Well, yeah.

But I figure we'd get at least SOMETHING

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Hao_Kaiser · Post by **Hao_Kaiser** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:30 am

Jon Jon wrote:
penguintruth wrote:
Jon Jon wrote:The one thing that makes me sad about this box set is that there are no Japanese commercials and what not like from the Toei released Dragon Boxes.

Granted, I'm sure Funimation could not have done this due to whatever issues, but still .
Aren't there six more sets after this? Give them time.
Well, yeah.

But I figure we'd get at least SOMETHING .

You mean, aside from the DragonBox footage we've been bitching about not having for the past bajillion years? Or the book that FUNi absolutely didn't have to translate and produce?

Hearing about all you guys getting your RightStuf economy shipments makes me sad, since mine didn't come in the mail yesterday.

And since I pre-ordered before I was actually in college, I had the set shipped to my house rather than my dorm, meaning I won't get to have fun with the rest of you until next Friday at the earliest. :/

Jon Jon · Post by **Jon Jon** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:46 am

Hao_Kaiser wrote:
Jon Jon wrote:
penguintruth wrote: Aren't there six more sets after this? Give them time.
Well, yeah.

But I figure we'd get at least SOMETHING .
You mean, aside from the DragonBox footage we've been bitching about not having for the past bajillion years? Or the book that FUNi absolutely didn't have to translate and produce?

Hearing about all you guys getting your RightStuf economy shipments makes me sad, since mine didn't come in the mail yesterday.

And since I pre-ordered before I was actually in college, I had the set shipped to my house rather than my dorm, meaning I won't get to have fun with the rest of you until next Friday at the earliest. :/

You make it seem like I'm asking for too much. It was on the Japanese release, so outside of Toei not wanting it on our release, I don't see why it couldn't have been on ours.

It's not like I'm asking for something that wasn't included in the Japanese release...

EDIT: Yeah, I worded that weird initially XD

xzero · Post by **xzero** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:19 am

Hao_Kaiser wrote:Hearing about all you guys getting your RightStuf economy shipments makes me sad, since mine didn't come in the mail yesterday.

And since I pre-ordered before I was actually in college, I had the set shipped to my house rather than my dorm, meaning I won't get to have fun with the rest of you until next Friday at the earliest. :/

I just ordered it from Target for about $50. It says that it will ship to arrive on or around Friday. I decided to ship it to my parents' house because I don't have any place for it to be placed if it happens to be raining whenever it arrives (no porch, mailbox too small). They live about an hour and a half away, so if it happens to arrive on Friday or Saturday, I might just have to convince them to come out and visit me for a bit next weekend...

Jon Jon · Post by **Jon Jon** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:29 am

xzero wrote:
Hao_Kaiser wrote:Hearing about all you guys getting your RightStuf economy shipments makes me sad, since mine didn't come in the mail yesterday.

And since I pre-ordered before I was actually in college, I had the set shipped to my house rather than my dorm, meaning I won't get to have fun with the rest of you until next Friday at the earliest. :/
I just ordered it from Target for about $50. It says that it will ship to arrive on or around Friday. I decided to ship it to my parents' house because I don't have any place for it to be placed if it happens to be raining whenever it arrives (no porch, mailbox too small). They live about an hour and a half away, so if it happens to arrive on Friday or Saturday, I might just have to convince them to come out and visit me for a bit next weekend...

:O! Their price on it is amazing. I'm surprised.

.:PoetikaL:. · Post by **.:PoetikaL:.** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:04 pm

What's interesting is that I actually managed to grab the .VOB without DVDdeccrypter. I know of the program fondly, which takes me back copying Akira... but anyways it wasn't the correct file, because it was the dub of the fight. So to make things a bit easier, I'll find it using decrypter, find it, and upload it. Give me about an hour

DBZfan29 · Post by **DBZfan29** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:20 pm

Jon Jon wrote:
Hao_Kaiser wrote:
Jon Jon wrote: Well, yeah.

But I figure we'd get at least SOMETHING .
You mean, aside from the DragonBox footage we've been bitching about not having for the past bajillion years? Or the book that FUNi absolutely didn't have to translate and produce?

Hearing about all you guys getting your RightStuf economy shipments makes me sad, since mine didn't come in the mail yesterday.

And since I pre-ordered before I was actually in college, I had the set shipped to my house rather than my dorm, meaning I won't get to have fun with the rest of you until next Friday at the earliest. :/
You make it seem like I'm asking for too much. It was on the Japanese release, so outside of Toei not wanting it on our release, I don't see why it couldn't have been on ours.

It's not like I'm asking for something that wasn't included in the Japanese release...

EDIT: Yeah, I worded that weird initially XD

I've said it countless of times, but people seem to be offended by it. The American Dragon Boxes will probably not contain all the extras from the original set. We might get non-credit opening and ending animations and the two TV specials (released separately, I assume). I can't imagine us getting Japanese commericials if we aren't buying a Japanese release. That sounds weird, but what I mean is that if anything, we'd get some American commercials (but I don't FUNimation will take the time to do that). Then there's the OVA, which hasn't been dubbed yet, but since the previews weren't dubbed either - we might be in luck!

... And I really hope nobody complains that FUNimation didn't get a "Dragon Box" remastered version of the OVA, since that's not even on the original set...

LeprikanGT · Post by **LeprikanGT** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:45 pm

I'm not really upset we don't get the OVA on the Dbox...but I would like to see it in English at some point.

Or another new gen game made like that with something completely new with a new villian and all that, on top of the Jump special, which I'm still waitin for an English release on.

Smooth Criminal · Post by **Smooth Criminal** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:58 pm

When was it confirmed that the OVA won't be on the boxset?

TheSonofKakarrot · Post by **TheSonofKakarrot** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:02 pm

Can someone answer this quetion:

If I order these today, will they actually ship early or will I have to wait until the 17th since I did not pre order.

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:06 pm

linkdude20002001 · Post by **linkdude20002001** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:09 pm

MagicBox wrote:
linkdude20002001 wrote:That sucks. People who choose to watch the dub won't know what the title of each episode is.
Just want to clear this up real quick. Not sure why people are saying otherwise, but there are two completely different subtitle tracks. I spot-checked the dub to be positive. The two sub tracks are:

- The translation of the Japanese version.
- Subs that translate song lyrics, title cards, and signs for dubbies.

There's no transcript of the dub or anything like that, but you guys will at least know what the signs say and all that. And in case anyone was still wondering (even though it's been stated many times already), only the Japanese video is used. Title cards, openings/endings, whatever you can think of, it's all the Japanese version. Not a shred of English credits come in until the credit scroll at the end of each disc.

Finally! Thank you MagicBox! ^_^

Tweaker · Post by **Tweaker** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:14 pm

Dunno about the rest of you, but from what I've read and seen of this release so far, it's perfect! I'm a little peeved that the audio quality isn't 100% on par with the Japanese Dragon Box, but apparently it's respectable enough... which is what we wanted, right?

I kind of just read the first page and jumped to the last one here because this topic will likely engorge to twice the size it is now when I post it... but are there people complaining about the set? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be what everyone has been asking for and more! Yeah, maybe it won't have all of the limited run extras of the original box(es), but those kind of extras were something you'd only get if you grabbed the boxes within the span of their original run anyway. For all intents and purposes, they were limited-run collectors items and if they aren't included it's not the end of the world. Though having a real scouter would be badass.

I'm interested in whether or not there's going to be a Dragon Ball-based Dragon Box, myself! I'd love to have a fully translated Dragon Book for the original series.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:18 pm

Most people who have made any complaints so far, myself included, has admitted that whatever problem existed was really not a big deal.

Tweaker · Post by **Tweaker** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:19 pm

Gotcha.

I'm excited about this, really! Throughout my entire stint on this forum I have seen dozens of complaints about the original DVD releases, and the Dragon Box seems to have fixed literally all of these. It's pretty surreal to see it actually happen, you know? Really cool stuff.

KillerCory · Post by **KillerCory** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:26 pm

For anyone late to the party.

I posted some audio clips on pages 17 and 20 of this topic.

I'm not sure how it sounds to the original Dragonboxes (which someone would post them)

But compared to the season sets I think it is an improvement.