"Frieza - Fall Of A Tyrant" DVD

Drabaz · Post by **Drabaz** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:39 pm

This is somthing I never got around to asking. If anybody owns Funimations "Frieza - Fall Of A Tyrant" DVD, can you please check and see if the main menu looks like this:

I ask because this is the only DVD in the Freeza saga out of the 10 that looks like this. The other 9 main menu's look like this:

I'de really appreciate it if anybody could look for me. I'm hoping my copy isn't a bootleg.

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:49 pm

*checks*

Yep, you got a boot.... unless they changed the menu on a later issue. Which I doubt.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:52 pm

Kodoshin wrote:*checks*

Yep, you got a boot.... unless they changed the menu on a later issue. Which I doubt.

Yeah, seconded. I just checked my copy, and the menu is the second one.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:59 pm

Those are awesome menus on the FUNi singles though...

Drabaz · Post by **Drabaz** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:30 pm

Darn it Ebay! Thanks for checking everybody.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:52 pm

Well different Region DVDs have different menus. You sure that's not just a foreign DVD?

Post by **desirecampbell** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:31 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:Well different Region DVDs have different menus. You sure that's not just a foreign DVD?

I thought of that too, scan the jacket, that'll tell us all we need to know.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:40 pm

Maybe you have a reprint?

SSj Gogito · Post by **SSj Gogito** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:44 pm

mines differant than both of those, mine is a Madman Aus release

Mayuri Furiza Kurotsuchi · Post by **Mayuri Furiza Kurotsuchi** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:45 pm

Castor Troy wrote:Maybe you have a reprint?

I heard they changed the menus and a few subtitle mistakes on newer prints, so that could be a possibility.

Drabaz · Post by **Drabaz** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:55 am

I don't have a scanner I can use right now, but I took pictures. Don't know if they're good enough though.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:05 am

That looks bit for bit like my copy, so I guess you have one of those reprints?

shotkeeper · Post by **shotkeeper** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:21 am

To be honest:P, I liked the bootleg version more.

Kula · Post by **Kula** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:45 am

I doubt that it's a bootleg. My disc also has the same menu (the top one).

Is there any way to tell the difference between the originals and reprints? I have all 10 Freeza discs. Discs 2-8 have a transparent kind of printing on the disc, whereas discs 1, 9 & 10 have a non transparent printing.

I actually got discs 2-8 together and 1, 9 & 10 in a separate ebay auction. Perhaps the seller had purchased the reprints?

Edit: I just checked the menus on 'The Summoning (1)' and 'Namek's End (10)' (non transparent DVDs). The Summoning has a menu similar to the first one, whereas Namek's End has the second 'cgi' one.

Post by **desirecampbell** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:46 am

Drabaz wrote:I don't have a scanner I can use right now, but I took pictures. Don't know if they're good enough though.
-snip-

Hmmm. Looks legit. Assuming the disc itself if pressed (as opposed to just some burned copy) I would have to think it's simply just a different release.

shotkeeper wrote:To be honest:P, I liked the bootleg version more.

Yeah, they're both crappy, but at least the first shot didn't try to impress me with lame cgi.

Vegard Aune · Post by **Vegard Aune** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:03 am

If you check the DVD-guide on the main site, it mentions that FUNi did a re-release of the Freeza-saga with fixed episode-navigation, reinserted eyecatchers, openings and endings surrounding each episode and stuff like that, but they never actually announced that they did them. That's what that is. So it's an official release, just newer than the other ones you have. I have one of those as well.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:37 pm

I recall the Buu dvds had a similar dvd structure with the same "Dragonball Z" text.

Drabaz · Post by **Drabaz** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:40 pm

Kula wrote:I doubt that it's a bootleg. My disc also has the same menu (the top one).

Is there any way to tell the difference between the originals and reprints? I have all 10 Freeza discs. Discs 2-8 have a transparent kind of printing on the disc, whereas discs 1, 9 & 10 have a non transparent printing.

-snip-

I actually got discs 2-8 together and 1, 9 & 10 in a separate ebay auction. Perhaps the seller had purchased the reprints?

Edit: I just checked the menus on 'The Summoning (1)' and 'Namek's End (10)' (non transparent DVDs). The Summoning has a menu similar to the first one, whereas Namek's End has the second 'cgi' one.

Interesting. All my discs but the "Fall of the Tyrant" DVD are transparent like your second picture. And just incase anybody is wondering, I got the Freeza DVD's in the same auction from ebay.