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Dragonball Z Movie?
New Movie

" The Official Dragon Ball Z site (dragonballz.com) had this to say, about the upcoming DBZ Movie:

"The heroes from your favorite series are headed to the big screen. 20th Century FOX announced the acquisition of feature film rights to the DragonBall property, and is planning for its studio division, FOX 2000, to develop a live action movie based on the property. This is very exciting news for Dragon Ball Z fans.

FUNimation Vice President and Producer Daniel Cocanougher had this to say: FUNimation is very excited to be working with FOX in their production of a live-action Dragon Ball Z Feature Film. FOX plans to place this movie on a fast-track production schedule, and may have a movie released as production schedule, and may have a movie released as early as Fall 2003 or Summer 2004. FOX is an excellent movie studio, producing such huge hits as X-Men and Star Wars, among many others. They feel that this project will not end with one movie, but will become a major, multi-picture franchise like Star Wars. Clearly, this is a remarkable upward turning point for the Dragon Ball Z property. It will also be very interesting for all Dragon Ball Z fans to try to predict the names of the stars, the director and producers, and the storyline that will be used." To the right here is a promo banner for the movie".
~Jackie Chan is indeed likely to star in the live-action DBZ movie. Filming should begin soon. Jackie Chan is also ready to premier his new movie titled "The Medallion".
Source: Dragonballz.com
Date: 07/15/02

DBZ movie #8

Dragonball Z Movie #8: Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan will be released 08/26/2003.

New DBZ Video game.. .
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"Dragonball Z Budokai 2 will be released in December 2003. Budokai 2 will include the original 23 characters and plus 11 new characters, bringing the total playable character number to 34. The 11 chracters are Goten, Young Trunks, Teen Gohan, Videl, Majin Vegeta, Supreme Kai, Dabura, Android 20, and 3 forms of Buu.

At Mr. Popo's shop, the player can also buy fusions so that two characters can be combined to form a new character as a skill. Also, old Budokai PS2 data can be used in Budokai 2 so that old breakthroughs, skills, and such will transfer. There will also be new moves available for each of the Budokai 1 characters.

Dragon mode is one of the other additions to Budokai 2 where the player will play through a quest in single player mode. The object of the game is video game pic.

to gather a team of fighters to search for the seven dragon balls before the computer controlled fighters do. This mode is definitely going to take come practice to get figure out what fighter or team will bring victory."
Source: DBZ on PS2.com
Date: 07/04/03

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Dragonball Z: Taiketsu ...

"Dragonball Z: Taiketsu" is coming this November, and is being developed by Atari for the Game Boy Advance."Dragonball Z: Taiketsu" will challenge players to fight in several animated environments such as Master Roshi's Island and Orange Star City, and a long slection of favorite characters who are featured in all the sagas of Dragonball Z.

"New CarDs"
The new Cell Saga expansion for the DBZ Collectible Card G Card

ame are here. This expansion contains 200 cards and includes new Starter Decks and Booster Packs. FUNimation has exclusively captured an awesome card in this new saga. The card is called "Trunks Thinking", is a P8 card (extremely powerful), and is one card DBZ CCG players will want to get their hands on. Only 7,500 of these cards exist. Above is a picture of the card.

Dragonball AF is Real!!!!
DragonBall Af is a new Dragon Ball series being developed in Japan right at this moment. The series is supposed to be called "Dragon Ball AF" and the AF is supposed to stand for 1. After Future, 2. Alternate Future, 3. Another Future most likely (1). I looked up more information about this

situation from much larger more in depth sites and I found out several things. Dragonball AF is not a freaking hoax, or a idea by Akira Toriyama made awhile ago which never flew, its real trust me. Its being developed by a company named "Studio Tomita" and will be shown in Japan at the end of 2003's fourth quater or winter.
In Dragon Ball AF Raditz comes back as a Super Saiya-jin level 3, Freiza and Kooler fuse, Cell absorbs Android 8, Goku goes Super Saiya-jin level 5 and then 6 also goku learns how to fuse with 3 people. If this show is not a hit in Japan, there is not going to be a chance that it's going to come to North America. Just remember how Dragonball GT was denied and called a hoax. (05/0703: Dragonball AF is not real, I wrote this up inorder to grab the attention of DBZ fans and increase web traffic, So quit e-mailing me and writing in my guestbook about it. But the idea is interesting....lol)

Toys
Toy

Series 20, the newest Dragon Ball Z line of 5.5 inch action figures from Irwin, are now available. Goku, Great Saiyaman, Majin Vegeta, Spopovich, and Super Saiyan Teen Gohan are all included in the line. These figures look so good they are bound to go quickly. Go to Zstore.com or ToyWiz.com to pick up your set today!

Game Accessories out now:
Limited Edition Controller for PS2

Battle Controller

Arcade Stick for PS2

PS2 Starter Kit

~You can buy these products at the Zstore.com ~

Dragonball GT making its comeback...

When the summer of 1995 came to a end, one of the greatest anime ever ended too, Dragonball Z. Many people didn't want it to end though, especially the companies. Dragonball had been such a great merchandise hit, marketing things such as t-shirts, posters, video games and etc. So with pressure from companies and agencies a new program was made to fill Dragonball Z's place, Dragonball GT. This time though Toriyama (the creator) was only an artistic consultant and had no direct control over the series, so he got booted (damn).
So on Februrary 7, 1996 Dragonball GT began. What did people think of it? To be honest most people did not like it. You may wonder why. The main reason was because they had fallen in love with the fighting style in DBZ, but when DBGT was created, the first episodes were full of comedy with fighting. Around the Spring of 1996 Akira Toriyama in an interview joked about bringing back DBZ if DBGT didn't do as well as it was supossed to. A group of people though, who hated the show, took seriously and were extremely happy that DBGT may be ending soon. Of course the truth was found out and DBGT went on. What would happen to DBGT? Well, finally the show began to go back to being a fighting anime and this began to get people a little more interested into the show. The effort though was to little to late. The show was originally going to end around April 1997, but DB Final Bout by "Sony Playstation" had not come out, yet. So the producers were forced to extend the show a little bit longer, but the day finally came and DBGT ended. On November 19, 1997 DBGT aired its last episode. The last episode of DBGT amazingly though is considered to be the best epsidode they have ever seen by a lot of people. Dragonball GT was the shortest of the three series, spanning only 64 epsisodes and 1 tv special. So how could a show with the success of DB all of a sudden fail in DBGT. There are many reason's. It is almost like american DB. A lot of people are used to the origianl japanese Dragonball, but now that they watch the dubs they do not like them at all. People do not like change. Well, with DBGT came change. First off, DBGT was changed from a fighting anime into a comedy relief anime and only changed its direction after there fan base had already turned away. The absence of Akira Toriyama did not help much either. After Toriyama left, Toei took over the hiring of artists and many people did not like the new character designs. So, probably the main reason that DBGT failed was because it was to different, the people had grown used to one thing and then all of a sudden things were changed, as if they wouldn't notice.

It is my job though in the following pages to try and tell you all I know of DBGT, A series that I enjoyed and hopfully you will to. In the "DBgt" page you will find episode summaries, images, DBGT perfect file guides, and everything else I think you should know about DBGT. There is only one way I can finish off this introduction though and here it is. Before you go and watch DBGT I am going to give you this advice. Do not listen to everyone who says that DBGT stinks. Go into it with an open mind and know it will be different, if you go into it thinking that it will be a direct continuation of DBZ then you will be disappointed. Oh yeah, and by the way, enjoy!

Written 08/04/02 by The Eternal Dragon

Update:
Recently Funmation annouced the comeback of Dragonball GT. I don't know when it will be ready to air but just the fact that it is coming back is cool.

Written 02/05/03 by The Eternal Dragon

There is a Game Cube version of Dragonball Z Budokai scheduled to be released this September 28, 2003. Yes thats right: the PS2 Budokai is coming to the Game Cube this summer. It has not been officially announced yet, and there is no other information at this time. The game is available for pre-order at Electronic Boutique's site.

New Release Dates:
FUNimation has released an update of their upcoming releases through August:

Dragonball:
Dragon Ball - Piccolo Jr. Pt 1 Saga Set - 07/15/2003
Dragon Ball - Piccolo Jr. Pt 2 Saga Set - 08/19/2003

Dragonball Z:
DBZ - Majin Buu Box Set BS - 07/29/2003
DBZ - The Legendary Super Saiyan (Movie #8) - 08/26/2003

Dragonball GT:
DBGT - Baby - Ramifications - 07/15/2003
DBGT - Baby - Preparation - 07/15/2003

This page will be updated with more interesting news stories soon, but until then check out the other features on this and my other websites. If you have any useful "legit" Dragonball Z news e-mail me.

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