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Sadly, you just know they're gonna just repackage the Blue Bricks at like double their previous retail price.
Yeah, and what do you wanna bet that they're gonna be the exact same discs from back in 2009/2010 with the same set of FUNimation trailers that were on the BB's?MasenkoHA wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:07 pmSadly, you just know they're gonna just repackage the Blue Bricks at like double their previous retail price.
Speaking of which, I expect we should be hearing something later in December or early January? There was about 6 months between GT's re-release and Z's season blu-rays re-release so we should be getting something from OG Dragon Ball by February.
An import of AB Groupe's Blu-rays would be ideal, but I have no faith in Crunchyroll based on their track record.
Most definitely. You feel more connected to the show/movie by looking at the box, reading the synopsis on the back and putting the disc into a player. I have nothing against streaming for checking out new stuff but when I'm rewatching stuff I love nothing beats the experience of my aforementioned ritual and popping in a disc. And of course you'll never lose access once you take care of your DVDs and Blu-Rays.
To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Crunchyroll doesn't re-release original Dragon Ball at all, even for rebranding purposes. Funimation never re-released it once after the blue bricks, but they put out GT The Complete Series. I know 20 discs would be a bit much for one release but they could have re-released it in two collections of 10 discs like Madman did.
I also considered that as a possibility, that they're not gonna bother re-releasing original Dragon Ball and just decide that fans can subscribe to their streaming service or Hulu if they want to watch it again.Dragon Ball Ireland wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 4:10 am [
To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Crunchyroll doesn't re-release original Dragon Ball at all, even for rebranding purposes. Funimation never re-released it once after the blue bricks, but they put out GT The Complete Series. I know 20 discs would be a bit much for one release but they could have re-released it in two collections of 10 discs like Madman did.
Original Dragon Ball just always seems to be forgotten, especially in North America.
I would love if Crunchyroll would adopt the mentality of "Fuck it, let's just license the best masters from other countries." Like, there's gotta be a strong amount of people wanting the AB Groupe remasters in the US by now. If they just spend the money, they'd save time, money, & energy just using them instead of trying their own hand at it, especially if they'd just put the boneheads who did the last 2 Z remasters on the job. DB was remastered into HD with good AI upscaling & got the broadcast audio finally on a home media release. It's about time we get a GOOD remaster of 1 of these shows for once rather than a mid or subpar one that FUNi tries to gaslight everyone into thinking is good.MasenkoHA wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:07 pm Sadly, you just know they're gonna just repackage the Blue Bricks at like double their previous retail price.
Speaking of which, I expect we should be hearing something later in December or early January? There was about 6 months between GT's re-release and Z's season blu-rays re-release so we should be getting something from OG Dragon Ball by February.
An import of AB Groupe's Blu-rays would be ideal, but I have no faith in Crunchyroll based on their track record.
Well, I may not be the best person to pontificate about this, but despite the release of these very American Dragon Boxes, perhaps FUNimation (and maybe even some other companies, US-based or not) STILL, almost approaching 2024, think of us as some kind of "fringe" or "minority" fans? I mean, perhaps we are lucky we even got these domestic DBoxes in the first place, and never forget that they never released the other DBoxes in the USA (we never got OG DB, GT or the Movies in DBox format/footage) to this day.Scsigs wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:08 am I've gotten the rest of the Z Dragon Boxes I needed because I'm frustrated at not having at least a decent way to watch the original cut of Z. It's so endlessly frustrating that the Dragon Ball franchise is constantly shown so much disrespect by the people that own it.
By the way, congrats for the collection! Those look very nice indeed!
See, here's the thing. I remember (I think) Geekdom101 or someone saying that that FUNi had been wanting to license the Dragon Box masters for a while due to the good word of mouth people spread about them back in the 2000s. However, Toei wouldn't budge for the longest time until 2009 when they finally relented. In the meantime, we got the various DVD & VHS releases up until then. I'm very certain that if Toei gave them the DBox masters, they would've just used those rather than made dumb decisions like the Orange Bricks. Whether they would've just done standard DVD releases or did the US DBoxes, who can say, but that's the story there.Ssj3Engels wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 3:24 am Well, I may not be the best person to pontificate about this, but despite the release of these very American Dragon Boxes, perhaps FUNimation (and maybe even some other companies, US-based or not) STILL, almost approaching 2024, think of us as some kind of "fringe" or "minority" fans? I mean, perhaps we are lucky we even got these domestic DBoxes in the first place, and never forget that they never released the other DBoxes in the USA (we never got OG DB, GT or the Movies in DBox format/footage) to this day.
Heck, I remember that back then, we did not even get the few extras that the Japaneses Z DBoxes had, such as the Bardock/Trunks Specials. That was fucking criminal. We got only the NEP for GT episode 1 (which doesn't even count anyway, since it was part of the DBox Z footage itself).
Bottom line is, FUNi gave us only the barest they could, which was actually good considering that we had been "disrespected" for the past 15 years or so, but at least the Z TV Specials should have been included, IMO.
To sum up all of that, then: my guess is that, despite this community alone having 14.000+ members, these numbers do not represent the average DB "fandom", and FUNi and probably even other companies around the world still don't "cater" to us properly.
Sadly...
Thanks!Ssj3Engels wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 3:33 am By the way, congrats for the collection! Those look very nice indeed!
That is one sexy set.Dragon Ball Ireland wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2023 12:43 pm Super Complete Series standard edition arrived.Granted I already own all of Super but between the Black Friday price and partial refund I'll have only paid about €30 for this when all is said and done.Spoiler:
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