On this page you will find out everything you need to know about the Armageddon Pulp Culture Expo. At the moment this page will mainly focus on the Auckland one but as soon as the Wellington details are announced it will also incorporate that too.
The info on this page is sourced from the official Armageddon website at www.pulpexpo.com. So why should you check out this page when all the info is on that website? Well on this page there is a Dragonball Z focus. That is to say that all the Dragonball Z related info is placed here in an easy to read format unlike on the expo site where it is all spread out over many pages
This year is the second year Dragonball Z will feature at the expo. In the first year Sean Schemmel (voices of Goku, King Kai and Nail) and Chris Sabat (voices of Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Kami and more..) appeared and gave autographs. I attended that years expo and got a total of four autographed cards and will also be going this year. Who knows you might see me there! (not that you know what I look like!) but heres what to look forward to in 2002.
The info is divided by the following sub headings
General Information - date of expo, entry cost, where is it, what time does it open/close
Dragonball Z Guest Appearances - which voice from Dragonball Z will be there and at what times
Kamehameha Contest - Info on on the contest and what you can win
Special Screenings - info on DBZ movies being screend throughout the event
CCG Tournament - click here for info on the tournament and here for a list of prizes
General Information
Dates: Friday April 12th to Sunday April 14th The expo begins on the last Friday of the school holidays April 12th and finishes on Sunday April 14th
Open/Closing times:The doors open at 10am and close at 6pm on all three days.
Entry Cost: $12 for adults and $6 for children (age 12 and under is a child)
Location: Aotea Square, Queen Street, Auckland
Dragonball Z Guest Appearences
Stephanie Nadolny (the voice of kid Gohan, kid Goku, East Kai and baby Trunks) will be at the expo signing free autographs of Dragonball Z cards.
She will be there all three days signing autographs at the following times
Friday 12th April: 11am-1pm, 3pm-4pm
Saturday 13th April: 11am-1pm, 3pm-5pm
Sunday 14th April: 11am-1pm, 3pm-5pm
Stephanie will also be judging a Kamehameha contest but I'll put the info about that in the next section.
Kamehameha Contest
On Friday 12th April at 4pm there will be a Kamehameha contest. This will be judged by the voice of Gohan, Stephanie Nadolny. You enter on the day and then do your Kamehameha and if you win you get a free Gameboy Advance! If you if don't win you can still receive a free McDonalds voucher. The kamehameha contest was apparently a highlight at the Wellington expo and had 800 people watching. There no way I will enter but I will be watching. After the contest there will be a screening of the DBZ movie Coolers Revenge but more info on that in the next section...
Special Screenings
In the expo's animation room they will be screening some Dragonball features on a 6m screen. It's a great chance to experience what the Japanese fans did. Surrounded by tonnes of DBZ fans watching DBZ! so heres what you can see in there and at what time
Dragonball Movie: Mystical Adventure - Screening sometime on Friday 12th April exact time unknown though...
Dragonball Z Movie 5: Coolers Revenge - Friday 12th April Screening right after the Kamehameha contest at about 5pm this tells the story of how Cooler comes to earth to seek revenge on Goku after the death of his brother - Cooler. This one is the fifth of nine DBZ movies and the best one of the five released in English so far (the other ones are DeadZone, The Worlds Strongest, tree of Might and Lord Slug
More info here soon!