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The Best (and Worse) of DBZ in 2002 14/1/03
What to Expect from the Dragonball Z World in 2003 16/1/03
DBZ at The Expo 2003 21/4/03
Series Preview: Dragonball GT 16/7/03
GOHAN EXTREME 3000 SUMMER SERIES
#1 Dragonball Z in 2003 The Year in Review (Part One) 26/12/03
#2 Dragonball Z in 2003 The Year in Review (Part Two) 28/12/03
December 29th 2003
Welcome everyone and welcome to the third of the Gohan Extreme 3000 Summer Series of feature articles. I hope they haven't been that boring for you so far. Check out the top of this page for any articles you may have missed in the summer series or the four related articles. In the last article I explored the many thing that happened this year and so now its time to ask ourselves what will happen next year but first I thought it would be fun first though to look at my predictions for 2003 to see how accurate I was...
REALITY CHECK
Heres the predictions I made in January as to what would happen this year. Lets see if I was right...
1. New Dragonball Z on TV and Video/DVD - Both on TV and on video/DVD it will be the last episodes of Dragonball Z. There are a total of 276 episodes of DBZ and on TV3 222 have screened so far while on video and DVD so far there has been 247 with another six coming January 24). The rest of the episodes will screen this year!
Yes indeed the final episodes were released on video on DVD and on TV3 with the exception of the inamous episode skip which saw 16 very important episodes lost forever.
2. More Armageddon Expo's - The two more Armageddon Pulp Culture Expo's this year in Auckland in Wellington will be filled with DBZ and in April the Auckland one will have the voice of Goku and King Kai, Sean Schemmel, will be there signing autographs. There will also be a CCG tournament, kamehameha contest and a screening of the yet to be released DBZ movie seven.
Yes there were two more Armageddons and the Auckland one rocked from my experience there while the Wellington one (with Vegeta's voice actor Chris Sabat there) was apparently awesome as well! The Kamhameha contest rocked as did the screening of DBZ Movie 7 and sneak preview even of Dragonball GT!
3. New Babidi Saga CCG - The recent World Games CCG was awesome and the Babidi saga featuring the new Majin personalities should be all the more better
Yes and not only was the Babidi saga released but the Majin Buu, Fusion and Kid Buu sagas were as well!
4. Goku Goes Super Saiyan and Intro to Piccolo in Graphic Novels - I don't know about all of you but personally I am greatly enjoying reading the DB and DBZ graphic novels and this year they will only get better as in DBZ volume 11 (released around March ) Goku goes super saiyan for the first time! Also later in the year is the defeat of Frieza and the introduction to Trunks. In Dragonball volume 11 (unknown release date) Goku battles a equally powerful Tien in the World Tournament final while later in the year Krillin dies and Piccolo appears! Coincidence? I think not!
Volumes eleven, twelve and thirteen of Dragonball Z were released and went up to the awakening of Androids 17 and 18 while Dragonball released volumes eleven and twelve. Shockingly the monthly versions were cancelled and the graphic novels this year were released in a smaller format.
5. New Dragonball Z Movie - The seventh Dragonball Z movie Super Android 13 reveals three more of Dr Gero's evil androids which the three super saiyans (Goku, Future Trunks and Vegeta) battle all at the same time!
Not only was the awesome Dragonball Z movie 7 released but Movie 8 introducing the legendary super saiyan himself, Broly was released as well!
6. New Dragonball Z Toys - With Jakks taking over production from the bankrupt Irwin toys it will be interesting to see what they release
Jakks did indeed release several cool DBZ toys but none were released in New Zealand
The next few things I said might happen, will likely happen or might not happen in New Zealand (at least not in 2003)
7. Dragonball on Video in New Zealand - It didn't happen in 2002 but the prequel series to Dragonball Z, Dragonball, may be released this year (I emailed the people at Manga but they haven't replied yet). Dragonball Z fans will be amazed to see Goku as a kid and friends in DBZ enemies in DBZ such as Yamcha, Puar, Oolong, Tien, Chaozu and Piccolo!
The Dragonball movie path to power was indeed relased in New Zealand in December but other than that no Dragonball releases came out. Guess we'll have to wait till April of 2004.
8. Dragonball GT Revealed - in the USA the first of a possible two season Dragonball GT (the sequel series to Dragonball Z) will be released on video and before the end of the year New Zealand might see it too!
Dragonball GT was indeed released in both the USA and New Zealand and the series began screening Fridays at 6.30pm in the USA in October.
9. More Dragonball Z Video Games - With the great success of the DBZ games last year it wouldn't be suprise to see more releases including games for the GameCube and PC as well as more releases for Gameboy Advance and Playstation 2 and perhaps sequels to The Legacy of Goku and Budokai!
How right can you be! Both The Legacy of Goku and Dragonball Z Budokai had sequels released this year as well as other DBZ video games Ultimate Battle 22 for PS-One and Dragonball Z Taiketsu for Gameboy Advanced and the original Budokai was released for the Gamecube. Only the PC didn't see a Dragonball release.
10. Possible Release of Live Action DBZ Movie - When the live action DBZ movie was announced in March 2002 they said the movie be released either late this year or sometime in 2004 so theres still a chance it could be released this year but considering the lack of any info it seems unlikely at this moment but the power of the dragon may prove me wrong!
Well the power of the dragon was in fact wrong and there was still not concrete evidence that this movie will EVER come out. Sure there was the truckload fo rumors and the page on IMDB but no real info was released. If there is no info relased next year the movie is definitely over...
So thats how my predictions for this year went. I especially like how I predicted the sequels to Budokai and The Legacy of Goku but how will my predicitons for next year go? Find out tommorow as Gohan2k (me) struts his stuff!
All releases are on Video and DVD unless stated
DBZ Series 3 Part 1 (DVD)
-January 15th 2004 (conf)-
DBZ Movies 4-6 Boxset (DVD)
DBGT Vol 5 Ramifications
DBGT Vol 6 Preparation
-January 22nd 2004-
DBGT Vol 7 Annihalation
DBGT Vol 8 Salvation
-February 2004?-
DBGT Vol 9 Calculations
DBGT Vol 10 Revelations
DBZ Series 3 Part 2 (DVD)
-March 2004?-
DB Pt 1 Saga of Goku (DVD)
DB Pt 2 Tournament (DVD)
-April 2004?-
Viz Graphic Novels
Dragonball Z Volume 14
-January 2003 (USA)-
Dragonball Volume 14
-February 2004 (USA)-
Dragonball Z Volume 15
-March 2004 (USA)
Score CCG
DBZ Kid Buu saga
-Coming Soon!-
Gameboy Advance
Dragonball Z: Taiketsu
-Out Now! -
Nintendo GameCube
Dragonball Z: Budokai
-Out Soon! -
Dates Last updated 27/12/03
All release dates are New Zealand releases unless stated
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