Dragonball Legends

Amazon has listed a new addition to the Dragonball movie merchandise collection, a Dragonball the Movie Sticker Book. View below for the full description…

Product Description
The sticker book introduces the characters from the Dragonball movie and all of their cool gadgets, offering an extremely simplified version of the Dragonball adventure. 8 pages of color stickers and 8 pages of color backgrounds!
Collect all seven Dragon Balls and you can wish for whatever you want!

Goku thought he was a normal high school student until he found out he’s actually a martial-arts whiz with all kinds of powers. Now he and his fellow teen warriors are on a quest to find all the Dragon Balls before they fall into the wrong hands. But they may already have! Goku must battle the evil Piccolo with all he’s got to save the planet Earth!

From the latest VJ scan, new information concerning the upcoming Dragonball anime short (entitled Yo! Son Goku and his friends return!) has been revealed. We also get this new image.

And thanks to Daizenshuu EX, we got a translation.

Table and Avo & Cado, opposing enemies!
You can tell that Table is a Saiyan from his tail. He’s similar to a certain person in facial features, but who…!? Also, Abo and Kado, in pursuit of Table, arrive on Earth!!

So, Table (vegeTABLE…VEGETAble) is the new Saiyan. And Avo and Cado are the new henchman. Atleast Akira Toriyama stayed true to his naming of characters.

UPDATE – FOX has reported that the statement was false and the movie is still scheduled to release in April 2009.

The following is a report from Film Junk

When it was first announced that a Dragonball movie was actually happening, a lot of people couldn’t comprehend how such an over-the-top, stylized animated series would possibly work in a live action setting. Then Stephen Chow came on board as a producer and suddenly it seemed like there might be hope. Of course, the movie was originally supposed to be ready for this summer, but Fox ended up pushing it back to April 2009. No official explanation was given, but some wondered if it might be the first sign of trouble. The fact that the movie also had no presence at the San Diego Comic Con only deepened suspicions.

This week we received word from an anonymous source that there may be some truth to this speculation after all. According to our tipster, the higher-ups at Fox are not too impressed the footage that has been shot thus far, and are seriously debating shutting the whole thing down. Now I have no idea if this is a real possibility or if the studio is just putting pressure on director James Wong to deliver, but the movie supposedly has a budget of over $100 million and I can understand them wanting to cut some losses while they still can. The thing is, if this is all true, it only makes me that much more interested to see the movie. If it it’s strange enough to scare the suits, it’s gotta be good, right? Are you looking forward to Dragonball?

I won’t be too worried about this truthfully. News has been slow as of late, a scare like this might either produce some more ‘real’ news or this story it might end up being true. So, what do you guys think about this? A publicity stunt? An actual threat? Comment.

The following videos have been added to the online Dragonball Media Player.

• The Ending of Dragonball GT – Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku
• Dragonball GT Ending 1 – Hitori Ja Nai
• Dragonball Z Ending 2 – We Were Angels
• Dragonball Z Intro 2 – We Gotta Power
• Dragonball Z Intro 1 – Cha La Head Cha La
• Dragonball Intro – Makafushigi (Mystical) Adventure

More to come!

View the new Dragonball Z/GT Videos in the DB Online Media Player!

Dragon Con 2008 starts 14 days from today. Sadly, there will be no Dragonball panel this year. However, James Marsters (role of Piccolo) will in fact be there. There is also a high possibility that he will doing an interview or two as well. So hopefully this event won’t be totally worthless. Here’s a quote from James Marsters’ Website.

Dragon*Con Private Party / Concert
Be one of the lucky few to join James at an intimate concert and dinner reception

James Marsters will be the guest of honor at a limited sit down buffet style dinner and concert Saturday, August 30, 2008. Limited to only 60 guests, the evening will consist of an acoustic guitar performance and a round robin meet and greet and mingle. Also joining James will be Torchwood’s own Gareth David Lloyd!

The complete schedule for the event will be online August 19th.

Plus, we got these anime conventions to look forward to.

- Anime Festival (August 15-17)
- Anime Evolution (August 22-24)
- MatsuriCon (August 22-24)
- AnimeFest (August 29 – September 1)
- New York Anime Festival (September 26-28)

Click here for the complete list…

On a side note, the Dragonball movie was originally set to release today before the delay.

Barnes and Noble has stated that a Dragonball junior novel is currently being written by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon. The book will be based on the upcoming Dragonball film written by Ben Ramsey and James Wong. It will be entitled “Dragon Ball : The Junior Novel” and will consist of 152 pages. It will be published by VIZ Media and has a set release date of February 2009.

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It seems promotion has started to officialy begin. First IGN posts their high quality version of promo pics and now a report that a book based on the Dragonball movie is being written. So keep a look out for official teaser trailers and probably some kind of preview for a movie based video game. Not to mention more high quality Dragonball movie promo pictures! Stay tuned.

UPDATE : Borders is showing that there are three more DB movie books aside from Dragon Ball The Novel. They are called…

- The Battle
- The Search
- The Discovery

Update 2 : Amazon has posted the basic description for the novel.

Collect all seven Dragon Balls and you can wish for whatever you want!

Goku thought he was a normal high school student until he found out he’s actually a martial-arts whiz with all kinds of powers. Now he and his fellow teen warriors are on a quest to find all the Dragon Balls before they fall into the wrong hands. But they may already have! Goku must battle the evil Piccolo with all he’s got to save the planet Earth!

All four books are available for pre-order!

IGN has recently posted high quality versions of previous released photos, including the two screenshot displayed below. Usually when a very well known company/website such as IGN begins promoting something like Dragonball means we may see a lot more promotion material fairly soon.

Ok, someone has leaked yet another version of the supposed leaked Dragonball movie trailer. It is only 4 seconds long (yet again) and appears this one may have been taken via the television. The user who captured this claims it was in Japan. If it truly is real, then that could mean the film is already being promoted in Japan. Please note that this is only rumor, and is more than likely a fake.

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Here are a few videos capturing the Dragonball Z cosplayers that attended Otakon 2008. Although they are quite corny, they are somewhat humorous.

Cosplayers powering up!?

Mr. Satan

The “Ultimate Dragonball Panel” is now open at Otakon. All updates, discussions, and news will be posted in this article.

7: 00 pm – The Dragonball panel is displayed.

Update : Sorry for the delay. The Dragonball panel is over, we will reveal the details shortly.

Update 2 : Reports from the panel have been delayed, but it seems nothing major occured. But we still have dozens of Anime Conventions to look forward to, a few of them occuring before the end of August. Will we see the Dragonball movie trailer? More than likely. But here are some reports from FUNimation during Otakon…

On Funimation’s calendar for the next month are the Season 6 “Cell Games Saga” Dragon Ball Z box. Sheehan described it as “seven minutes of uncut action” – then quickly corrected himself; of course, he meant to say “seven hundred.” September 16 will be the release date.

And if any of you cosplayers out there that attended this event would like to send in photos of your Dragonball styled costumes, go right ahead. We will display them in the soon to come ‘Fan Works’ section.