Thanks to Jeff for sending this in. Movieland has a new shot of Justin Chatwin as Goku. 

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As a follow up to the last post about the Roadshow feature here are some scans from the July issues spread, as well as scans from an upcoming issue of V-Jump!

Roadshow:

V-Jump:

Thanks once again to dukemon and the 2ch boards!. 

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Seems like we have a lot to look forward to next month regarding Dragonball press in Japan. Both Shonen Jump and Weekly Young Jump will feature exclusive set reports (likely including some new images). Well now we have another Japanese magazine to add to that list. 

Dragonball will also be featured in the July issue of Roadshow Magazine. I’m not exactly sure what will be featured, but you can be sure I’ll have all the updates for you as they come. 

Small update: Looks like the magazine will feature a ”Sneak Peek into the Mexican Movie Set“. 

Thanks to dukemon22 via the 2ch boards. 

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I made a post about this earlier today but quickly deleted it after coming to the conclusion that it was probably a fake. But here’s the rundown:

This morning Dragonball-Live posted an image of a 3D model of a “Namekian” that may possibly be Lord Piccolo in the movie. The site made it clear that the image might be fake, but said they believed their source. 

Here is the image:

I personally have never seen this image before, but multiple people told me they’ve seen that image many times in the past and that it was without a doubt fake. 

Now it seems we have new developments from Dragonball Scooper extraordinaire, Craigdbfan. Here is what Craig has to say:

It seems like that supposed “Namekian Rendering” might hold some Truth

It all started out with a user named krnz on the IMDB Dragonball forums, where he posted a picture of a supposed “Namekian” for the Dragonball film he informed that he received this concept art from Ivy Agregan ( visual effects coordinator).

Now Ivy Agregan has supposedly e-mailed him this:

Email REPLY from Ivy -in whom i received the Namekian from-

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From: Ivy.A@ollins.com
To: italiano_amegoz@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: NAMEKIAN

Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:12:32 GMT

B. Donnelly,

I have no recallation of sending you this image, although im not saying it’s a fake.

This model was created by Alexandre Tuis in early 2006. Status is currently in Post-Production. Fox and the Dragonball Film Crew are very alert to all articles regarding DB, and won’t hesitate in deleting false/misleading information.

I hope this helps you understand, and wish you all the luck for the future.

Sincerely,
Ivy Agregan

So what do you guys think? Elaborate fake? Or early Piccolo design? I’ve e-mailed Alex Tuis and hope to get a response soon.

Alex has confirmed to me that the image is fake!

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Images courtesy of Sam Doran

DBthemovie has a HQ scan of this weeks Young Jump Dragonball spread. Click the image to make it bigger!

Translation: It took me a while (I used my old High School Japanese notes as well as google) but I’ve got somewhat of a translation. The article basically says that they’ll have an exclusive set report from Dragonball in the next issue (Shonen Jump says the same thing). The article also says something about Goku holding a Dragonball, so I take it that’s what is in his hand.

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