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Help: looking for... 1980s Dragon Ball 'Harmony Gold' dub.

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Hi there,

So a bunch of people over at Daizenshuu EX are trying to find materials for this dub to send back to Harmony Gold. For those not in the know, before Funimation dubbed the original Dragonball in 1996 Harmony Gold attempted to do a dub in 1989 or 90.

All the names were changed to things like Zero and Leena instead of Goku and Bulma. It aired maybe once or twice on a couple stations in the US. Philly 57 is the only confirmed airing: http://twistygadget.com/stuff/db/feature.png

One incomplete tape of this dub has surfaced. It is a compilation movie, and it is missing a bunch of audio. There are also around 5 TV episodes that aired which have never surfaced anywhere.

A big problem with the Daizenshuu EX people is they aren’t branching out elsewhere looking for materials. I’ve researched this dub extensively in my spare time, and right now I’m looking for anything new that I can find.

I know this place is a big nexus of awesome and people here collect old VHS tapes and other things. I’m hoping someone here might have recordings of this, or may know someone to ask about it in general. Even names of old cartoon collectors to inquire with would be extremely helpful… or a point in the right direction. 😃

Thanks for your time! Here are a couple clips of what has surfaced… someone posted them over there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOnRAPjuPM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvY7RCuj3g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsV-0kqP4Mk

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Daizex annoys me.  They ran off some guy who had the rare "Big Green" dub of Blood Rubies.

The rip I have of the movie lacks the beginning of the Makafushigi daibouken part; the rest is intact.  I think I got it off YT - couple of my friends over at ARM have been looking for more material too.

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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I know there's a user who has reconstructed Movie 1 himself using the dragonbox footage, I think it was Ashura.

Anyway, that guy they ran off was way too god damn sensitive and should have just distributed it by PM anyway.

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The rip that's floating around, which is Movie 1 + 3, comes from I think a Betamax. It's actually all one movie... The middle part of the movie is missing (the introduction with Pilaf and Crane Master from Movie 3). That is the biggest missing part, though there's more missing to it later on.

bkev; Yeah, that version is apparently good, but they've been posting in that thread too. They're missing the very beginning and the very first part of the 3rd movie as mentioned...

Molly: ARM?

I'm assuming the rip you guys have is similar to the above one? This is the one I have, and I think the only one floating around.

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I think I had the Big Green dub of Movie 1 on my home computer, I grabbed it before the guy went crazy.  I'm at college right now so I can't check.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Bkev; While that's not what I'm looking for at all, if you could check that when you go home that would be awesome. :)

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It's two files.  From what I heard, the opening scene from Makafushigi daibouken (where the Crane Hermit menaces Pilaf, Shu and Mai with Tao-paipai) wasn't dubbed in the first place, but there's still a bit missing from the beginning.  Didn't look like Beta though, it looked like VHS.

"ARM" is a small group of people on my IRC network, mostly me, who do dub-over-raw, raw-over-dub, and similar reconstructions.

As for the Big Green thing - only the first 30 minutes (including commercials) were uploaded before the Daizex guys scared him straight and apparently he zotted everything he had. :(

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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Yes... the 2 files are from a single airing. And that single airing was edited into one complete movie. The guy who recorded it just missed the middle part and started to record the second movie late.

There's further reason to believe the scene where Tsurusennin manacing Pilaf was dubbed as linking footage between Legend of Shenlong/Curse of the Blood Rubies and Mystical Adventure.

There's a Latin American (I think) dub based upon Harmony Gold's dub (including leftover Harmony Gold foley and everything) that is almost identical to what exists of the Harmony Gold stuff. The scene with Pilaf and gang is in there, and the LA dub talks about Gurumes' defeat... something which isn't in the original (obviously). There is a complete copy of this LA dub that exists, along with the two above files. 

From that, we know which scenes were cut completely and which are missing from the TV broadcast. The scene with Pilaf is one of those, along with a short scene of Bulma as well as the very very beginning of Legend of Shenlong.

I have the two files that exist. Hopefully what I'm trying to find is someone who lived around Philadelphia who may have recorded this and still has it or the other episodes. :)

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I have been looking for these dubs for years with no luck.  Could not seem to find any official releases i guess bootlegs of the tv broadcasts are the only option and no one seems to have them.

 

I am also looking for the Macek Compilation movie dub of Nadia, that is on laserdisc but have found no versions of the DVD fan or official that have it.

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I know this thread is old, but I just wanted to post that I was able to find a copy of the first episode of the Harmony Gold dub. It is now uploaded to the Internet Archive. I won’t post the link here, but a simple search should find it. Enjoy, guys! Very obscure and weird, too.