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Hi people,
some of you may love dragon ball, many of you may despise it. But, most of you probably don’t know that there are two dubs of DBGT. One with the American FUNimation cast and a disgusting score by Mark Menza, and one performed by a studio called Blue Water (aired in Canada and the UK). Is it valid to preserve the second, as that has never been released on DVD or VHS? This is a much better dub, albeit with expected TV edits.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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IMHO? Yes

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There are several full episodes divided into parts on youtube, but there is no definitive source I've found in .avi or any other format of them. Typical quality is that of VHS (the masters weren't that good to begin with, and then those were taped by fans.)
I hope to find a collection of all 64, if not video (copyright, how you annoy me) than in ac3 or mp3 so someone could make a quality DVD with that dub.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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If it ever gets re-run on YTV in Canada, maybe you could ask someone up there to tape it for you. There are a few Canadian anime fans that frequent places like ToonZone.

When there's a dub in the future of a program that's Canadian-exclusive, it would probably be best to ask someone to tape it when it's still airing.
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animebuff said:

If it ever gets re-run on YTV in Canada, maybe you could ask someone up there to tape it for you. There are a few Canadian anime fans that frequent places like ToonZone.

When there's a dub in the future of a program that's Canadian-exclusive, it would probably be best to ask someone to tape it when it's still airing.

Best I got out of a similar thing was the first episode of that dub from a YTV broadcast but that was all.
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It seems the three DB's are out of rotation (Z does saturdays in the US). If GT does another run, hopefully someone can catch it.

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Just to voice my opinion here. I understand that many people don't like Dragon Ball (in any/all its incarnations). I'm a fan. I like a lot of anime but oddly enough, DBGT is one of the earliest I got into when I first started watching fansubs. I will always have a strange connection with it - I love it for nostalgic reasons and hate it at the same time (for plot and design mostly).

In any case, a while after watching all 64 episodes and the TV special via fansubs, I started to watch it in English. I had seen Funimation's dub of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z by this point and knew that what I was watching was produced by another studio - but I didn't care. I could see my beloved GT in English.

So, to bring this rambling to the point: I was watching downloaded Real Media (possibly RMVB) files of around 40-60MB each. They were the AB Groupe produced dub that aired in the UK and Canada, featuring the Ocean Group Studio's "Blue Water" voice cast.

Unfortunately I have since lost these episodes in many transitions from CD-R to DVD-R to external hard drives for storage of media. I've been trying to locate them recently through various Dragon Ball message boards to no avail. However, at least you know they're out there somewhere. I know the site I originally downloaded them from but they've since been replaced with the Funimation dub eps.

My dream DVD set would feature the remastered (read: actually remastered, none of Funimation's faux-remastered crap) video from the DragonBox singles (I am buying the GT singles as they are released. They look great. On top of having the best video I'd want to have the audio options as Japanese, Blue Water dub and the Funimation dub. If Funimation end up doing remastered "bricks" for GT then I'd include their likely "English dub with Japanese music" option as well.

I'll finish up this overly long post by reiterating: I'd love to see these preserved. If we can find copies of the episodes that'd be great. I doubt we'd be allowed to put the HQ video with them. Too close to an official release I'd think - it would be classed as a custom DVD I suppose, thus not allowed to share here. Perhaps just a torrent of all 64 eps in whatever format they're found in would be enough.

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