FUNimation and Dragon Boxes

[eledoremassis02]

I was looking at the scans of the FUNi's Dragon Box discs and noticed that the copywrite information mentions both Dragon Ball Z and GT as well (but not Dragon Ball for some reason).

This is purly theoretical, but I wonder if they licened both Z and GT Dragon Boxes' (and movies) with a plan on releasing them and then for whatever reason they didnt?


I checked my Orange Brick disc and level sets to see if they covered the same basic info and those were just for Z

[Kaboom]

As much as I'd love for Funimation to get around to a GT Dragon Box (or any new and better release of GT beyond the green bricks), I doubt they ever had it in the pipeline back then.

This GT acknowledgement on the disc and wherever else may be simply because the final episode, on the final disc, on the final set... contains the original next-episode preview for GT's premiere. So the Z Dragon Boxes as a whole technically contain a little bit of GT footage and the GT logo, and so the copyright gibberish probably had to take them into account.

As far as I can remember, the Dragon Boxes are the only Funimation release to ever contain that NEP, so the extra GT mention wouldn't be necessary on any other Z release.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Yeah, I don't think Funimation ever planned on re-releasing GT. It seems they just put out the green bricks so there could be a release on store shelves with their dub and both musical scores and call it a day. Selecta Vision will also probably release a perfectly fine GT Blu-Ray after they're done releasing Z that Funimation won't even consider importing as either Super will be back by the time it's come around or they'll find another excuse to milk Z.

It's worth noting, if you have the space, and can find them for a good deal Funimation's GT singles are the closest we'll ever get to Dragon Boxes for that series. They were made from the same masters and contain the Japanese title cards and NEPs.

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

I mean, as mentioned above in regards to GT we did sort of get a Dragon Box with the old single discs/box sets as those are more or less that. Albeit with the footage being sourced from intermediate film to tape transfers before Pony Canyon did the clean up and such later for the Dragon Box a couple years later. In comparing the two it's obviously the same source as they more or less have the same level of detail. Only thing is FUNi's version has some compression/artifacting because their encoding back in 2002/2003 wasn't exactly the best.

But yes, those and the domestic Dragon Box Z as far as the original anime run goes are the only releases to contain the complete package.

[eledoremassis02]

Yeah, I don't think Funimation ever planned on re-releasing GT. It seems they just put out the green bricks so there could be a release on store shelves with their dub and both musical scores and call it a day. Selecta Vision will also probably release a perfectly fine GT Blu-Ray after they're done releasing Z that Funimation won't even consider importing as either Super will be back by the time it's come around or they'll find another excuse to milk Z.

It's worth noting, if you have the space, and can find them for a good deal Funimation's GT singles are the closest we'll ever get to Dragon Boxes for that series. They were made from the same masters and contain the Japanese title cards and NEPs.

Oh dang, totally forgot the NEP. That actually explains it a lot! lol

I do have the GT singles (which I condensed into six disc cases) and that basically filled my need for the GT Dragon Box