[TADA] Dragon Ball movies (1987 - 1995) Malaysian-English Dubbed; Movies 2 & 3 (Dragon Ball) and Movies 1 - 13 (Dragon Ball Z)

TADA-ima~

In the mid-late 90s trying to capitalise on the succ(ess) of Dragon Ball in their country of Malaysia a company named Speedy Video Distributors Sdn. Bhd. (The latter two words, “Sendirian Berhad” meaning “Private Limited”), decided to release the spin-off movies of the franchise dubbed in English through their retail stores nation-wide. The release of these movies, while sanctioned by T.A.E./A.I. (presumably Toei Animation Europe), were poorly-dubbed with masters allegedly coming from Mexico, Saban getting a cut of 25% for every movie sale, and English-speaking employees themselves providing the voice acting for the movie.

Basically, shady stuff - and only in 2012 did footage of these dubs come to light.

These movies would eventually see a compilation release consisting two volumes (contained in a DVD sized box despite the contents being a VCD folder) which The Apollo Dub Archive was lucky enough to obtain. Their VCD covers - or at least a portion of all of them - are on the box as are a list of the movies included, which the latter goes as follows:

(Volume 1)

-The Legend of Shenron -Sleeping Beauty In Devil Castle -Mystical Adventure -Dragon Ball Z -The Strongest Guy In The World -Super Battle In The World -Super Saiya, Songoku -The Strongest Rivals -Fight ! 10 Billion Power Warriors

(Volume 2)

-Super Battle of 3 Super Saiyas -The Burning Battle -Super Guy in the Galaxy -Dangerous Rivals -Attack! Super Warriors -Rival Fusion -Explosion of Dragon Punch -The Way of The Strongest

All of these movies were ripped straight from our VCDs in DAT format, meaning that “Dangerous Rivals” - which supposedly had audio/video syncing problems ten minutes in - can now be seen how it’s supposed to.

Of these, however, one was not dubbed by Speedy - that is, “The Legend of Shenron” which simply uses a dub produced by BLT. The movies “Sleeping Beauty in Devil Castle”, “Attack! Super Warriors” and “Explosion of Dragon Punch” were never uploaded on the Internet until we got a hold of this compilation release and released it through our website.

Enjoy these releases for what you can! I don’t know much about Dragon Ball, but I do know these movies are a gold mine for drinking games and comedic video compilations. Do also check out our website for more obscure/lost English dub releases and join our Discord server to catch up on our releases.

-Moyai