Dragon Ball Z: Pendulum Room
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| Release Date |
27 January 1998 (VHS) 1 June 1999 (DVD) |
| Catalog Number |
PIVA-1333D (VHS) PIDA-1333V (DVD) |
| Contents | |
| Primary Content |
FUNimation English Dub Episodes 11-13 |
| Bonus Material | None |
| Disc Information | |
| Layers | Single-Layered |
| Disk Space | 3.36 GB / 4.63 GB |
| Region Coding | Region 1 |
| Country | USA |
| Company | FUNimation |
| Authoring | Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P. |
Dragon Ball Z: Pendulum Room is a VHS and DVD release compiling episodes 11-13 from FUNimation's original edited English dub of the Dragon Ball Z television series, first aired in 1996 and 1997 via broadcast syndication. The home video was released on VHS in 1998, with a DVD version following in 1999.
Following the individual release, Pendulum Room was included as the fourth volume in a box set release called Dragon Ball Z: The Saiyan Conflict, containing the first eight volumes of the Pioneer VHS and DVD releases.
Versions of these episodes from Pendulum Room were later collected in the "Dragon Ball Z: Rock the Dragon DVD Box Set Collector's Edition" set from FUNimation, released in August 2013 spanning nine DVDs,[1] collected the entire 53-episode run of the syndication broadcast, plus broadcast versions of the first three films.
Primary Content
Short synopses for every episode are included on the back of the home releases boxes; these are presented in the table exactly as they were written.
| # | FUNimation Title/US Air Date | Summary | Original Episodes | |
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Showdown in the Past 15 November 1996 |
Earth's warriors, Krillin, Tien, Chiaotzu, and Yamcha, are training at Kami's lookout, but get frustrated at the speed of their training. Kami's assistant, Mr. Popo, instructs them to know themselves to become stronger and to learn about to their enemy to defeat it. Mr. Popo sends their spirits to the virtual reality of the Pendulum Room, where the warriors experience the overwhelming power of the average Saiyan. Then they learn the terrible reality that the two Saiyans who are approaching Earth are twice as strong! | Dragon Ball Z Episode - Dragon Ball Z Episode - |
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The End of Snake Way 03 January 1997 |
Gohan is continuing his training under Piccolo. One night, Gohan suddenly transforms to a giant ape again and attacks Piccolo! Piccolo discovers that a moon image is projected from Goku's old Saiyan space pod and Piccolo must destroy the pod before Gohan destroys him! Meanwhile, Goku finally reaches King Kai's small planet at the end of Snake Way. There, Goku finds that he must train in the gravity of the planet that is ten times strong than Earth's! | Dragon Ball Z Episode - Dragon Ball Z Episode - |
| 13 |  |
A Fight Against Gravity... Catch Bubbles! 10 January 1997 |
After Goku passes King Kai's test to make King Kai laugh, the training begins! Goku's first task is to catch King Kai's pet monkey, Bubbles, in a gravity ten times strong than Earth's. King Kai tells Goku that the Planet Vegeta, the Saiyans' homeworld, had the same gravity as his place and that the two Saiyans that are on the way to Earth are even stronger than King Kai himself! This fact reinforces Goku's determination to train even harder to defeat them. | Dragon Ball Z Episode - Dragon Ball Z Episode - |
The product was released edited in an English-dub-only format on VHS and DVD, and is presented with a single audio track on both formats:
- 2.0 stereo sound English dub (FUNimation/Vancouver-based cast) with a replacement musical score (music by Shuki Levy)
Pendulum Room includes one set of opening and ending themes surrounding the content of the three episodes, of which run as a sort of "feature-length" presentation with episode recaps and previews removed between episodes. A preview for Episode 14 plays after the ending theme.
On DVD, the video stream is encoded as interlaced (480i), with black side borders of a varying number of pixels on the left and right, and sometimes on the top as well. No bonus material or trailers are included.
The main DVD menu features artwork from the box cover, accompanied by the Main Title "Rock the Dragon" track produced by Shuki Levy.
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External Links
Notes
References
- ↑ "FUNimation To Release Original Broadcast DBZ English Dub" (01 June 2013). Kanzenshuu. Retrieved: 06 February 2020.
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