American Teaser Poster
Apr 27th, 2008
Slashfilm found the first American teaser poster for DragonBall! It’s almost exactly like the Japanese teaser poster we posted earlier today, only the text is written in English.
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Apr 27th, 2008
Slashfilm found the first American teaser poster for DragonBall! It’s almost exactly like the Japanese teaser poster we posted earlier today, only the text is written in English.
- Removed by request of studio -
is this the american version of the japan teaser poster>?
Oh now that I look at it….it does kinda look cheap….BUT IT’S STILL AWESOME!!!!!!!
how can this be real it looks so fake
WHhoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Thank YOu God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This poster looks alwsomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
yo corey you think this is a real teaser bro?
It’s real…
Yes I am so glad to see the Dragonball in the sky!!!! Does this mean there will be flying???? This movie is going to Rock!!!! This has to be the best teasor poster by far…. Way better then I expected!!
@Matthew: Uhm Yeah Matthew!!!! You can look at it and tell it’s the real thing. Plus Adam would have some doubts!! This is defiantly the real thing dude. It’ to cinematic to be made by a fan. I think this poster looks alwsome dude
I am so happy, because we got a orange Dragonball you guys!!!! No dragon pearl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Corey - I guess your right…teasers dont matter much to me but in this case its different…if the teaser poster is ready that means they are closer to releasing promotional material for the movie!!!!!….so i hope yall are right cuz if its fake i will be let down…know what i mean?
@http://www.myspace.com/coreywilson10: Ohh come on are you guys serious? I mean it looks okay but not good enough to be official…. Besides was this one taken in Japan? Why can’t they just release us with something official and say, here it’s actually OFFICAL this time damn you arrogant fanboys, but I’m still grateful if this is real anyway, I just don’t want to complain so I won’t
ive seen a couple of posters on youtube that were fan made and look pretty real but were fake. this is a better quality pic but i still hope its a fake.
haha sean im with you this looks so phony…but i have faith in adam and he says its real but id still like some fox varification …or some shit
tagline is really what makes me think its a fake….”legend comes to life” just seems like a really intense fan WOULD say something like that about this movie
Notice how the American version doesn’t say “April 2009.”
yeah what does that mean?
It’s real guys!!!!
Hey Adam do you think this picture was taken at a movie theater???? It looks like it?
New poll
Well, seems like it’s legit, then! It’s a cool teaser poster, I suppose. My only fan-gripe is that it would’ve been cool if they took a leaf outta the original manga, which stated that the dragonballs didn’t have actual painted on lil stars, but had the essence of various stars or whatever in them. Hmm.
Oh, well. BRING ON THE PROMOTIONAL MACHINE, FOX!
@Adam: Why do you have so much faith in it? And I’ll come clean, I think it’s real, but I’m hoping to God it isn’t. It’s not what it needs to be, this phony picture looks so, well phony!!! It seems more realistic cause it seems like it was taken in Japan, and looks to be taken in a theatre, and why would someone go through the trouble to make two of them, which are pretty detailed and creative. I dunno, but it’s too cheap for a real poster, aww damn, and I said I wouldn’t complain…
the japan one looks real..but it looks like someone took similarities from the japan teaser and created a mock american version….just my opinion if you think im wrong just quote the Dude and say “Well thats like your opinion…man” yeah dude totally looks like its taken at a theater…which is tight
true sean but i think the japan one is very real and the american one is fan made haha like i just posted
@Matthew: Which is weird, because a looonnngg while ago, I remember seeing a poorly made fan poster with that EXACT phrase on it. In fact, there’s a live action DB movie club on deviantART which also has had that phrase on their layout-thing for months now. Um. Did Fox steal it or something? XD Or maybe that phrase was originally from the reallllyyy old 2000-ish DBZ poster that debuted on Funi’s (I think it was Funi’s) official DBZ site thing? And Fox decided to keep it? Dunno.
@Adam: I had to give it pretty good, couldn’t help myself. I thought fanmade or not it deserved it.
Aww I almost didn’t say hi to Corey, what’s up man? It’s good to have you back, where you been?
Moi : Thanks For reminding me of that cuzz i saw that myself…good question..oh and another reason i think the american one is fan made…look at the writing at the top its not parallel to the other writing in the poster
@Matthew: Are you serious? Gives me more thought of it being fake.
Wait scratch that i think im wrong about the parallel thing…just looks that way
Sean: what do you mean?
The text on the japanese version is slanted the exact same way. It’s just the way the poster is designed.
And there’s very little chance this is fake. If it is, it’s the best fake ever.
dukemon22: no man you got me all wrong i just simply think that the japan teaser is real and that the american one is a mock of it and that we are going to get a different teaser poster.
not saying it can’t be a fake, but, to go to the trouble of photoshopping in the reflection of a movie theatre hallway to make a fake is a bit much, don’t you think?
The way Dragonball is slanted makes it seem that the text above is not parallel with it. and plus the way the picture is tilted it just made me think for a second that the poster was fake….but about the american version does anyone notice the coming soon posters in the backround? to the left and right of the dragonball?
7 YEaRS OF WaITING PaYS OFF!!!! WOOO!!!!!
that’s what I’m talking about, this seems like the part of the movie theatre with all the posters on the wall, when you’re heading into the theatres.
The poster itself, or rather, the camera, seems to be on a slant. That’s was messing up the text. It looks like the poster is not quite straight in the case, or the poster it’s a “wrap-around” case.
and hey yeah i could be very wrong and the american one is official which i like, i hope im wrong cuzz my thing is i don’t care about the hair of the characters, the costumes, or teaser posters etc. i care about this movie and cant wait to see it!! love DBZ and DB…and what this really means if teaser posters are coming out now is A. We are going to get a teaser soon!! and B. Promotional material will be out sooner than we all expected. im pumped about this even more than when the leaked photos from Movieland came out.
amen to that. I’m hoping for a teaser trailer with X-Files 2 (It makes the most sense, Ironman and Speed Racer are a little early)
@Matthew: I mean about that old fanmade poster thing, the one that had the exact same title, I was just wondering was it real?
im feeling more and more its real but i must personally say its a bad poster.teaser or not.this is by far the worst thing fox has done next to destroying adams site.
@Sean: will you please give it a rest. i mean yes, the poster is not great,. it is good, whether it is fan made or not and i happen to like it.
oh and i am not mad or angry.
@Tegan: LOL okay, at least your not angry.
I told you guys it was real, some of u guys doubted me.
” if you read between the lines youll know who I am “
What’s that thing in the reflection. Hmm I have a feeling this might be an elaborate prank… looks like someone just took a picture of a computer screen. The words aren’t parallel. Did they ever mention who took this picture… or WHERE it was taken?
Oh and to those who think that the first teaser posters are the best looking ones….
transformers : http://latefilm.com/images/transformers_teaser_poster.jpg
Batman :http://www.flickr.com/photos/wasteofspace/2087906319/
Speed Racer : http://www.flickr.com/photos/markefilm/2361892710/
yeah these posters , specially the first ones are not suppose to be the very best in the world, they are only there so people would know that thers a movie comming with that title. Until they have a trailer, then they start bringing out the kick ass posters. So people plz, stop with the ” this poster sucks ” crap, its anoying.
Im pretty sure its real guys…. buttttttt i think this might be one of many early teaser posters before the official release date was set..notise it doesnt say anything about april..just 2009..
but two things you need to notise is that ONE-whats that black line under the A in the wording dragonball?
and TWO someone would have to had takin this picture side ways,notise the date? im not aware of any cameras that show the date lined up on the side like that..
other than that im pretty sure its real, it looks real, i dont know how much more real you could get, and remember its just a teaser.
i take back what i said about the date…i realized the person who took the pic could have taken it sideways to get the whole span of the picture from top to bottom…even though it doesnt show the bottom
That thing in the left hand corner looks like a reflection, maybe another poster in the theater? Kinda resmbles The Dark Knight poster, maybe it’s Speed Racer? I dunn, but I hope we’ll get some more information on this poster soon.
the reflection on the leftside is the movie poster to prom night…..
I just posted this at dragonballmovieblog.net,
If you look real close at the lightning it looks like the dragons outline.
I outlined what I’m talking about here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7577173@N02/2448332190/
@unleaded: You’re right.
I didn’t notice it at first until my brother drew it out. but yeah…….looks to me like a dragon
@victor: this poster should have been way better if its real. even if its just a teaser.so im going to say this poster sucks even though it kills me say because im a huge fan. but im not going to turn into a fanboy and say its awsome just because its dragonball.
sean : yeah Moi was right i remember seeing a poster made by a dbfan that had the same tagline..but regardless this poster has me convinced now its real which means all my theories will come true and im pumped yall. wow i cant beleive promotion is starting this soon good for you fox good for you
one thing i have to say is the tagline is laughable common neow
hey adam dont know if your reading but since the posters are O- fficial now, do you know anything about anymore promotional material coming out soon?
@Maches:
Dude, thats freakin awesome, i would have never noticed that.
question when the dragon gets summoned in the cartoon doesnt the eternal dragon like come down in a bolt of lightning…like in the poster?
im sorry but this has to be fake it looks so bad, and to the guys saying it looks too professional to be fan made cummon its terrible! I know tons of people who can do better than that, if this is real I have very low hopes for this movie
and that is one of the most cheap ass generic logos I have ever had the misfortune of seeing….sigh
also wheres the legal notes and fox logo???
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7070/officialteaserposterdravz6.jpg
this is my remake of it
This is probably fake, but……maybe…..xD
Hey what’s up Sean? Dude the new poster freakin rocks!! It’s the best teasor poster I’ve ever seen. Hey Sean have you ever seen the 1st teasor poster for The Dark knight and Transformers? They were pretty much Boring dude!! Read Victor comment and you’ll see! You have to remember they can’t reveal to much, because it’s supposed to be a teasor poster dude. I think they revealed alot from my perspective. They showed a orange Dragonball, they showed the dragonball in the sky, and they show the year of Dragonball. The Dragonball poster looks freakin’ amazing bro
!!!!
Hey Jc I like your remake dude!!
I can’t breath, I can’t breath!!!!
Sorry to triple post Adam, but James Marsters said there is going to be energy blasts in Dragonball. Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!! He said this at the Rift convention
Yes!!!! There will be blasts
Corey Wilson…i just did my eyes the torture of visiting your myspace profile…my God you are gay…not even super gay, but supra gay, thats like a whole new level of gay. Like ultra gay pink banana split, with magical gay fairy dust sprinkled over it, just for good messure.
guest u are right corey is super gay level 9!!!!-this is a fake piece of garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!-it has backgrounds of other posters on it and looks like someone hand drawn the poster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-corey get a job!!!!!-yep!-banana split poodle pixy dust flamin gay!!!-lol!!!
That poster looks damn cheap…are you sure this is real?!
yeah its real.. how could a fake poster be promoted in a billboard thing at the theatres next to other posters such as “prom night” visible in the reflections… also there are 2 versions japanese and english. and the lightning forms a dragon! Its gotta be pro! no doubt about it…
@Mandy: 99% sure.
the only sucky thing about it is the design of the dragonball.. my only argument is that the stars SHOULD BE RED!… like my dragonball…

and it looks too cartoonish.. it should have more definiton and form.. more 3D like.
heres my remake.. again..
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7070/officialteaserposterdravz6.jpg
You want to know what’s funny!! These dudes are calling me names? First of all I ain’t gay! I believe only a man and a women should be together. That still doesn’t give me a reason to judge people. I don’t have the power to do that. Im very sorry if I look weird to you. If you got a problem with the way I look then join the club. I use to get beat up in highschool for the way I look. I love how God made me and you should too. Im not going to change, because you want me to look a certain way. Sorry to disapoint you, but im not gay. If it gives you some pleasure or something to call me gay then I feel sorry for you, because I don’t roll like that bro. Oh yeah I almost forgot to ask my favorite moderator something. Hey Adam!!!
Robert g and our welcome guest are flamming!!
WOw!!!! That Dragonball poster rocks
@JC is Goku: Nice
Ok everyone no more flaming.
@JC is Goku: Hey wait a tic!! That is the prom night poster in the reflection. So I guess they did take a picture of that Dragonball poster at the theater. Whoaaaa Does this mean they got Dragonball poster at theaters now?? Yesssssss!! I think im going to the theater tonight to take a picture of the poster. I hope my Amc theater has one. Thanks JC!
Hmmm… this is actually pretty lame for a teaser poster. It looks fan-made. Even the title fonts don’t look right. It’s almost like someone made their own, then took a picture of it to pass it off as an official poster in a theatre somewhere. And yes, I do think a fan would go through this much trouble for a hoax. If not, this movie might be in danger of getting some terrible marketing.
Do we even know where these pictures were even taken? It seems odd that they’re distributing posters already.
And personally, I was hoping they would re-invent the look of the dragon balls for this movie. I always imagined that in live-action, the balls would retain their orange crystal look, but the stars would be replaced by glowing orbiting sprites inside the ball. The stars on the outside look too cartoonish for this.
@Chris: Just a teaser.
An after-thought…
In some early character notes, they specified that Goku’s four-star Dragonball would be changed to a three-star for this movie. If that’s the case, they wouldn’t make a poster with the four-star ball on it.
I’m 100% positive this is fan-made now.
Oh, wait. Unless that was a typo.
Meh. Still another year to go anyways. They’ve got plenty of time to restaff their marketing department.
@Chris: Casting notes are not a reliable source for detailed information on the story.
Once Stephen Chow was hired, he changed Ninjnas into Demons. Why couldn’t he change the 3-star to 4-star?
chris badass point god damnit yall i need varification on this poster everyone makes great point to why its real and fake im torn….everyone leave oreywilson alone!! i have friends who are gay big deal they dont hit on me of anything they help me with women so corey we can be bros
whats the point of making goku’s dragonball a four star..thats irrelevant to me but hey why does the poster HAVE to be the dragonball that gohan gave to goku?? it doesnt it could just be any one of the dragonballs 1 to seven stars but we need fox to comment on the posters
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@Matthew: lol, ha, ha, ha, ha…. Matthew Im only attracted to women dude so that is not the case. I actually have a huge crush on Shavon Kirskey and Emmy Rossum. I can’t wait to take a picture with them!! Shavon said I am sweet
Anways, I said what I had to say. If no one believes me I don’t care. I didn’t come here to talk about stupid stuff like that. I came here to talk about Dragonball!!!!
Personally I think I look like a saiyan
Please don’t bring sexual orientation into the comments. This isn’t IMDB. Anyone who is homophobic can leave the site for good.
Corey, just ignore those comments.
Sorry Adam, but I wasn’t the one who started it! I saw no one saying anything about them flamming me so I had the right to defend myself. I’ll ignore it next time, but Im sure you’ll do the same if you was in my situation at the moment. Anyways Im sorry Emperor Adam! Your doing an excellent job with the site boss
So in the words of Goku
Lets eat!!!!
It’s not bad…though i’m not a fan of the word art for “Dragonball”.
@Jnas:
Yeah I agree thats what makes it kinda look fan mad but other then that I like it!
hey adam, do you have any idea where they got “the legend comes to life”
i was just defending corey even tho hes not gay ok done with that…even tho i think some people who comment on this site should take sociology…anyway my first thoughts on the poster were “looks too fake” everyone on this site convinced me its real so its on yall im gonna rag on everyone if its fake…i still see the japan one being real and the american one just being a knock off but yall all say its real and make good points to your thoughts…i do think the japan one is better ours looks too much like a cartoon the japan one looks like a live action poster.
I think this poster awnsered alot of questions! The Dragonball Z poster 6 years ago failed to do that. I think this has to be the best teasor poster by far. It tells us so much! We know that they decided to call it “Dragonball”. We also know Dragonball will be out 2009. The question that im wondering about is what is the sequal going to be called? Dragonball: The saiyan saga or Dragonball Z???? I guess it’s not important right now….
I can’t wait to see a poster with James Marsters!!!!
Hey Matthew you should really get a gravatar bro. Gravatars rock!!!!
whats that haha
corey you really think this is a good teaser poster??? the dark knight and transformers were both about 10 times better than this and looked great, I didnt care for either of those films before i saw the posters of those but they made me think they could be cool movies….this film I care alot for but this poster makes me think bad bad bad bad things for this movie, just look at the logo!!!!!
I studied graphic design (altho i dropped out becuase I didnt think it challenged me enough) and this realy isnt very professional looking at all
and i really cant get over the logo/title treatment just looks soooooooooo bad
the title treatment of this website actually looks about 10 times better than this “official” one……..I can’t see this poster being real and if it is I might cry
spidey dude im in graphic design at Texas and my opinion is that the japan one is real and the american one is a spin off of it…were going to get a different teaser and probably more than one
superherhype.com just posted today the pictures of the international poster and us poster for db the movie…this site usually has reliable sources but they have the release date wrong dont know what to think but since that site is credible i think the posters are real.
@Matthew: Notice that they linked me too haha.
haha right on adam props finally..yeah but dude adam know of any promotional material cming out soon?
This looks very cheesy. It looks like somethin you’d see from the chinese dragonball movie.
I think you’re right - I’m in marketing myself, and I can see this being the Japanese poster. But the American one doesn’t look authentic at all. Not to mention the Dragonball and clouds look like clip art.
I really preferred the DBZ teaser poster from years back.
This pic is fake. I know someone on youtube who claims he’s made this pic. And e had that pic posted before it was posted on this site.
It’s hard to take someone seriously with no name
@(No Name Needed): Provide a source.
yeah dude shut up its real
Transformers teaser poster was just the logo of the transformers. It cant be 10 times better than this. No way.
If this does turn out to be real, then it’ll be one of the few movies I’ve seen where the production tries to keep the characters from the poster.
But once again, maybe further down the line Fox will come up with a foolish spurt of courage and decide to make one with the characters on it.
It loks okay, but as I said before I don’t think it’s fake but I hope it is; it could totally be better. And I know others agree, and if this is in fact real than we’ll definently have better ones along the way
And at least she think it’s cool, thats all that really matters to me.
@Sean: It’s most likely real. Just thought I’d post Shavon’s perspective, glad you thought it was interesting too.
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matthew if your in graphic design you cant honestly tell me you think this is good? it looks extremely amateur at best, why are you so confident its real?
Hey it’s Shavon
Wow!!!! She is soooo pretty.
Hey Shavon!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways, I really hope this is the teasor poster.
@http://www.myspace.com/coreywilson10: Well, I really hope it isn’t.
@Sean: i second that.
um most teasers are horrible this is one of the better ones so stop crying
most teasers are horrible??? really??? this one is godawful!!!!
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@spidey-dude: Yes dreadful, I’m not emotional but I’ll fuckin cry if this is the official poster. I mean really, What the hell were they thinking?