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Blood-
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I really had no intention of ever getting involved with the Dragon Ball universe, but TRSI had the five seasons of DB supah cheap, so I went what the hey. Now I'm hoping that getting those won't make feel I *need* to have the Dragon boxes. It would kill me to know I could have gotten them cheaply at one point but now am faced with OOP prices.
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ljaesch
Posts: 299 Location: Enumclaw, WA |
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My husband and I had been talking about wanting to purchase Dragon Ball Z at the time that FUNimation announced the Blu-ray releases. We already knew we didn't want the orange bricks, so we debated between the Dragon Boxes and the Blu-rays. In the end, the Dragon Boxes won out, because seeing how few episodes were being included on the Blu-rays, we knew it would take quite a while for all of the episodes to be released in that format.
I'm happy to report that we completed our Dragon Box collection when Dragon Box Seven arrived in the mail from Amazon back on Monday. We were able to get most of the boxes from Amazon for under $40. The only exception was Dragon Box Two, because it was already gone and the copies that were being sold had what we felt to be exorbitant prices. We found Dragon Box Two for around $90 at Robert's Anime Corner Store, and ended up buying it from there. While that was still higher than we had really wanted to pay, it was the CHEAPEST price we could find. After hearing this news, it makes me glad we went the Dragon Box route and managed to get all of the boxes before too many of them had gone up to over $100 at Amazon. |
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Mr. sickVisionz
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I don't know if they can legally do it, but I wouldn't mind them jumping straight to the Majin Buu saga, restoring it, and calling in DBZ Kai and releasing it.
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Sailor S
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But just think of how lonely and incomplete your collection is going to look and feel with just the DB sets there and no DBZ! Especially when you see how nifty looking the Dragon Boxes are. They form a panoramic shot when they're all placed together! How can you resist? 
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Blood-
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... You truly are a creature of ultimate evil, aren't you?  Is this pay-back for me being instrumental in your decision to buy any premium edition that NISA puts out? Touché.
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TopGunman
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I was looking forward to getting the Majin Buu arc to follow up my Dragon Ball Z Kai Blu-rays.
And if you ask me, I think FUNi did a better job remastering DBZ than Toei did when they made Z Kai. I'd have liked them to restored Z Kai to that glory instead. |
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vgiannell5
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I wonder how long it will take for them to research various technologies before they can proceed.
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rubedo11
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Well I only managed to get the first dragonbox, so now the only options available are the orange bricks which I've never heard a good thing about, and the Buu-less, Faulconer-less kai set D: .. Frustrating.. especially considering how easy it was to pick up the entire series of yu yu hakusho on blu ray for $65
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bglassbrook
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As long as it takes for a cheaper technology (that likely won't do as good a job) to come along.
Maybe they have some friends at Paramount that could accidently mix the DBZ film in with their ST:TNG reels. |
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Blood-
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By the by, what is the lowdown on orange bricks that nobody seems to like? What's wrong with them?
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walw6pK4Alo
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They're old, so shoddy and overfiltered video quality. And I think that was also the cropped widescreen set. |
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NJ_
 Posts: 3044 Location: Wallington, NJ |
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TopGunman
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I hope FUNimation finds a cheaper way to remaster Dragon Ball Z, I really want to get the Majin Buu saga. And it's great that they're putting the American ost in them.
Did you hear that weaboos? Someone out there actually prefers the American DBZ and is WILLING to pay for it. And regarding the cropped versions. If you don't like them, then don't buy it and stop complaining. We get it, it sucks. Now they fixed that problem because of all the complaints. Quit being cheap and buy the blu-rays that doesn't have the problems that the DVD's had. That'd make them hurry up even more to get the rest of it out if sales are good. |
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NJ_
Posts: 3044 Location: Wallington, NJ |
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If you want to buy pieces of garbage then go ahead. It's your money! 
No thanks, i have my Dragon Boxes to keep me happy since it's all of Dragon Ball Z in it's full presentation (with next episode previews (& GT's) included & completely unmolested video). No point in re-buying the show when those Blu-ray sets has pretty much the same quality as the old DVD singles. |
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Blood-
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Sigh, I was afraid of this. I was really hoping the orange bricks weren't too ghastly since that would be a considerably cheaper alternative to the Dragon Boxes. I wonder what the chances of the Dragon Boxes being re-released at some point are?
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