[STEAM][PRESS]Another Secret Dragon Ball Z Connection May be Hidden in Sand Land's Musical Sandstorm Trailer

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Bandai Namco's new trailer for Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama's desert wasteland manga,

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, committed what could possibly be the most intellectual marketing song choice of 2024 by having it accompanied by the iconic 2001 dance hit, Darude's Sandstorm. While folks rightfully lost their minds at the trailer's apropos song choice, eagle-eyed Dragon Ball Z fans spotted a clue toward a Dragon Ball Z crossover.

At the end of the Sand Land Sandstorm trailer, characters Beelzebub, Thief, and Sheriff Rao are sucked into an underwater current. When the trailer fades back in, Beelzebub appears, seemingly teleported from his arid desert to the wasteland of another word. Folks in the Sand Land Sandstorm

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trailer comment section were quick to pick up how the wasteland looks an awful lot like an iconic locale from Dragon Ball Z.

While Dragon Ball Z has a slew of non-descript barren locations its warriors famously use to ****** fearsome villains (like the rocky

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), the wasteland at the end of the Sand Land trailer appears to be

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. Break Wasteland, like the aforementioned battleground of Goku and Vegeta's first ******, is significant because it served the region where Piccolo trained Gohan in the Saiyan arc.

Here's what the image in Sand Land looks like.

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And here's the environment in Dragon Ball Z, as shown in

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The biggest question on every Dragon Ball fan's mind is whether or not this stinger trailer moment is Bandai Namco teasing a crossover event with Dragon Ball Z in Sand Land to

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. While there's no official word on whether Toriyama's wasteland tale will see a collaboration of sorts with his shonen battle epic, it would be perfectly in line for Bandai Namco to host a crossover event between Toriyama's characters in Sand Land.

Toriyama's creations have a track record of making guest appearances in his more contemporry works. The most infamous anime crossover is Dr. Slump's Arale three appearances in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Super. Her first two appearances saw the android assist Goku in trouncing

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and

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in Dragon Ball. Her third guest appearnce saw

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Isaiah Colbert is a freelance writer at IGN.

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