Lol at the sea part.

Ug.....Goseiger.

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Terrible.

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And it looks about as wooden as what I've seen in Samurai.

I really miss when Disney ran the show.

Go Go Megaforce?

And never watching this shit if I can help it.

Like how they now incorporate the original theme into all the songs.

Power Rangers wooden? When were they not wooden?

Disney era. Not like I watch this regularly but there is a noticeable difference in direction.

That's just childhood nostalgia. The acting has always been pretty bad.

The Disney seasons were only a few years ago. I'm not talking about Ed Norton caliber stuff here, but Samurai is much more wooden and cheesy than Disney's run.

i like the helmets...thats about it

Anyone else think the new Black Ranger looks like a Dustin Diamond wannabe?

Red Rangers Take On New York:

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JR Smith with a look that said "I'd rather be anywhere else on the planet than here."

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Yes Kyouryuger....the only Sentai series I know of where the red is COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE! I mean it was a good plan to be eaten by your Zord but holy shit dude...seriously.

Also I love the zord fight was happening while the main battle was going on. They learned a lot from how they did it with Go-Busters. Just awesome stuff.

With Saban acting like an ass since he got PR back, I may need to start following the original line.

Available on amazon now for those that don't know

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Wow.

Is anyone else bothered by how big and clunky the new morphers are? I always liked it better when they were something you could fit in your pocket.

Eh, they've been cellphones for so long it's whatever.

They're japanese ok? That's all I can explain it. The next morpher is a whole lot better.

The one after that...is a weapon

GOSEI CHANGE

The 'Pirate Rangers' will be the Super Mega Force suits. The ability to use old teams' suits and powers will also carry over.

Oh thank god.

Wonder if we'll get the Mobrites.

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Now available on Amazon.

Poke > Digi

Your room...go to it.

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They've been out for ages now, the only episodes missing are Beauty and the Beach from the first box, Princess vs. Princess and The Purr-fect Hero from the second box, and of course The Legend Of Dratini, Electric Soldier Porygon as these two were never aired though The Legend Of Dratini was bought and dubbed but never aired because Ash had a gun pointed to his face.

Gonna put this here. Gonna freak out now.

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HEY TJ'S THERE!

Oddly enough, not as Turbo Red.

.....Nerds.

Someone had to do it.

Yeah I noticed they went with In Space for TJ for some reason.

Or maybe that's not TJ....I'm confused.

Isn't that the original green ranger from season 1? He still looks pretty bad ass.

That's TJ. They got Andross back as well, so I'm guessing they had enough of the Space cast went with that.

He also confirmed that will use his White Ranger powers as well.

What about Zeo Red or Dino Black powers?

No dice. He did do the Zeo Red thing for the 10 year episode.

And he did green, white and red during Dino Thunder.

I liked that dream sequence. About as 'deep' as PR can get.

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Love that he finally got his wish and got to wear the good quality Dragon Shield. Only took 20yrs.

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Just heard about the return of some of the old Power Rangers, bit disappointing they couldn't get some of the original cast in.

Curiosly i seen some messages about David Yost which i was unaware of. Feel so sorry for the guy, disgusting what he had to put up with.

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Yeah it was messed up.

Met David Yost (Billy) and Waletr Jones (Zack) yesterday. David was a super nice guy who made sure to know me and my bro's names when he shook our hand. I told him Zack was my fave and Billy was my bro's fave so this was kinda a big deal for us having them sharing tables. My bro said Billy should have been the Gold Ranger, and I mentioned Billy's still on Aquatar anyway. Walter liked my black ranger shirt and guessed I was his fave. He hasn't seemed to age a day.

One of the surprises for us was Babara Goodson (Rita) being there, just sitting at a table nobody around her. Me and my bro went to her and my bro joked about her doing the intro phrase ("After 10,000 years...") to let everybody know she's here. She did it and people flipped out, now her table got a line.

JDF (Tommy) had a line I just didn't wanna contend with. I saw him from afar. Maybe next year.

Awesome. She only did voice-work on the show, so she wasn't going to be recognized for how she looks unless somebody met her at another convention. I loved Walter Jones on Power Rangers, Space Cases and that episode of Buffy he was in.

Pretty sad how David was treated. Never knew it was producers who bullied him for being gay. Did he say some of the cast was doing it to? Sort of explains why Red Ranger Jason was off the show early too?

Saw an article on IGN about the top 25 episodes of the original series. Been re-watching a few of them here and there.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/...ngers-episodes

Might just be because Turbo wasn't as popular as In Space. Going with the most popular even though he wasn't the leader in it.

Could be they film in New Zealand and they are supposed to be playing Americans. Or it's just an strange interpretation because they are in a Japanese inspired show that they have to be wooden like anime-voice overs are.

I don't recall David mentioning cast members being in on it, though who's to say he just doesn't wanna put anybody on blast since they have their own fan followings. It's also worth noting he rarely shows up in big group reunion stuff at conventions. He seemed chill with Walter, though. And of course it wasn't something I wanted to bring up. I did tell Walter if I gotta write a true reunion TV movie special I'd do it for free.

I misheard what he said. When he was talking about the other cast I listened to it again and he said that they were questioned about what he was. What a bunch of jerks. Not only harassing David but also pressuring the other cast to "rat him out."

Karen Ashley (Aisha) says some of those producers are still there today.

Which is a problem because the ones that made the franchise popular are not. The one's who are the issue are and well...we see what we get.

Really disappointed in Megaforce

Is it bad? Or did you expect too much from how good your memories are of the original series?

No it's bad. Samurai was also bad. And for scale, know that I'm not using nostalgia unfairly - I consider SPD and especially DinoThunder pretty good for modern PR. Ninja Storm was also great. So I'm not on some 'anything not Mighty Morphin sux' or 'the show was ass after I grew up'. I'm being fair here.

Since Saban got the show back the product has been very wooden and insultingly cheesy even for PR standards. It's not one of those 'we just don't get it, it's for kids' things. They can surely do better as Disney did a few years ago.

Wooden and Cheesy is part of the charm of the series. If they try to make it too seriously then it's not Power Rangers. That was one of the criques of the first movie when they had that security guy die (the one who touched the hand) and other references to death.

Although Saban sees the series only as a vehicle to sell toys. Disney might not have had that same toy selling drive or it wasn't selling toys anymore and Disney cancelled it. Or it probably cost to much to produce it the way you guys liked it and didn't meet the bottom line of toy sales.

I wouldn't expect Disney-level production on a series not produced by Disney though. I think you are setting your standards too high even though you deny it. Although I did the same thing with Enterprise. Right now I'd take a crappy show like that if it meant new Star Trek.

Nobody died in the first movie.

I'm not asking for PR to be more serious. In fact I just stated how I liked other seasons that were still cheesy and obviously kids shows. I'm saying the show's been especially wooden and cheesy since Saban got it back.

And Shadow makes a good allusion that many of the writers from better seasons left, and each season is out to sell merch - so that's not really an excuse for the quality. It's like how MANY people here find WWE's current PG/Cena-era quality lacking and they're not gonna accept 'Well Vince is trying to sell merch' as an excuse. You can be more mainstream without having plots with gaping plotholes and illogical events.

To me it's simply not an excuse. Young Justice and other cartoons go after the very same demographic as PR, and they can be fairly epic. I can watch an entire episode of SPD or DinoThunder and not feel like a complete jackass, but Samurai makes me legit cringe in the same way I would watching 5mins of one of those after school specials and local PSAs.

Did they ever mention who married Skull to create Spike? I will assume it was Kimberly until they say differently. I ask here because "Who was skull's wife" turned up some really disturbing things on a "Something" search.

Ugh I never thought I'd hear anybody say they "want" Enterprise in any context. I salute your bravery and pity your desperation.

I already assumed that trying to adapt Goseiger into Power Rangers was gonna have some issues. I expected that. Goseiger is one of the weakest Sentais in the franchise. It's not bad but it's not good. But to try and tie Goseiger in with Gokaiger? Gokaiger the sentai about pirates using the previous super sentai's powers? The only reason they're taking on the season's bad guys is not to save the world or anything but because they're there? Come on. And then, have the balls to only contact 10 previous Rangers and not any of the really popular ones and then treat them like they're being done a favor and not paying them what they're worth?

As for Samurai, I liked it better when it was Shinkenger. If you're gonna carbon copy something, just dub over the original footage and call it a series.

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No idea who Skull married.

Interesting

i went through episodes of PR early today, randomly hopping through an episode from various teams.

SPD is probably the best post-Mighty Morphin cast in my eyes. The characters were perfectly cast and Z is the hottest female ranger (and I get a vibe that they actually played her as 'sexy' which is fairly unprecedented for the franchise). Torrie of Ninja Storm is a close second in the sexy category.

I was motivated by the recent convo and I stand by Disney simply doing it better than what Saban's putting out now. SPD, Jungle Fury, and DinoThunder were legit.

Of the Disney Power Rangers series, top three would be RPM, Dinothunder, and SPD. No doubt about any of that.

I haven't seen RPM but you'll get no argument from me about DT and SPD.

RPM is just plain gold. It takes a very not serious sentai, Go-onger, and makes it into this post-apocalyptic series where a bad guy, won. Yeah. It starts up with the bad guys winning. It's awesome and I encourage you to watch it if you haven't. Blows Samurai and Megaforce out of the fucking water.

With the release of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers through Lost Galaxy combined from Timelife, or both box sets separately from Amazon, we now have the release date for the next box set(which at this point doesn't have a cover) which is set for December 5th, will supposedly contain all the remaining season from Lightspeed Rescue through the first have of Mega Force.

Shout Factory's site however posted this which will be released at the same time.

The Power Rangers Legacy:

The First 20 Years


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This limited-edition collectible Red Ranger helmet contains...

• Every episode from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to Power Rangers Megaforce
• 98 DVDs including 6 DVDs spotlighting hours of bonus content and brand-new featurettes
• Over 270 hours of action-packed entertainment

I'm not sure how I feel about that helmet being the case, it won't fit properly on a movie shelf.

The Megaforce finale was one of the worst things I ever seen. Kinda hilarious, at least.

Trying to flow Goseiger into Gokaiger is just asking for trouble.

Saw the first episode of Megaforce on netflix the other day. Marked out a little bit for the Zedd industrial fan and one of the characters being named Ernie out of respect for the dead actor from MMPR.

Wasn't really interested in continuing besides cute Pink and Yellow Rangers just like last season.

Yeah the chicks are certainly hotter but I miss the days when they actually kicked ass out of costume. The actors of the new Saban era lack charisma all around really. Very boring by-the-numbers Red Rangers.

I did lol at the first male gaze shot in Megaforce's first episode with the pink one. Or was it the yellow one, I dunno.

Guy seems to either not know about Billy's torment of being gay and harrased or ignores and focuses his departure on greed (pay cut.)

Not a fan of these kinds of rumors when the original actors were more than transparent about the good and bad of working on PR. Making up or spreading misinformation isn't necessary at all. There's some real life juicy stuff; like Jason (Tommy) and Austin (Jason)'s real life on-set beef. And Saban being an asshole.

And greed? They were on the biggest show on Earth and got paid less than my fucking father.

Well when you then get to Megaforce, the biggest and quite possibly best anniversary of the series and you get....12 past rangers to show up. And that's the one's who you paid. The rest, who asked to do cameos, where told to pay their own way to New Zealand. This is not a cast-friendly production team.

Yeah while I will check out the big 20 episode, it's a bummer that a) they insulted the past rangers with a low ball deal and b) it really should have been a miniseries - a 'Crisis' level PR event where somebody from each team appeared (maybe even have some Sentai versions show up).

But that's me.

Has that episode aired yet?

What the Legend War? No. They're saving that for the final when it opened Gokaiger. I just don't get it. Super Sentai had no issue getting past actors to repraise their roles. They even got Akaranger to do a uncostumed cameo in both the big team up movie between Gokaiger and Goseiger and at the very end of the show. BTW, watch 199 Heros: Gokaiger vs. Goseiger. That's how you do a 35 year special season.

Well the Sentai has been exclusively produced for ages. Power Rangers has been passed around two major times. Saban may not ever acknowledge the Disney era actors (even if their hero forms are in the Legend War). Just stupid stupid executive bullshit.

Jungle Fury Red Ranger is getting to write and direct an episode of Super Megaforce. One of the two I think. Now that's because he's fucking Megaforce Yellow but still....Disney era Power Ranger.

No dice, they can do better.

Here's the Super Megaforce episode listings for the first 14 out of 20 episodes. I can literally tell you where each episode of Gokaiger they pulled the footage from.

If we don't have someone awesome as their version of Basco I'm gonna be pissed.

What is with all the quarries in Disney era?

Sentai shoots a fuck ton of battles in the damn quarry.

Also a stadium.

Cheap, wide open area for wire-fu and explosions and such.

The same reason that the bad guys always attack the abandoned warehouse districts - EVIL IS DUMB!

Well this certainly happened.

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I got nothing.

Sort of wish the real cast members could do more fun stuff like that. Obviously its just 5 stuntmen.

I'd be surprised if the cast could do a cartwheel.

There was a fun news piece for Samurai where the cast did appear in costume and did some action stuff. This sticks out to me because the news anchor was in the MMPR Pink costume and looked good in it.

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Super Mega Force OP:

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That mix is pretty bad.

Super Megaforce (ugh) is just starting, but the next PR is already being shown to investors and third parties.

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This confirms that they're skipping the Sentai between the Super Mega and Dino Charge (which did look really stupid anyway so kudos).

This would be the third PR team to have a dinosaur theme, following the original Mighty Morphin and DinoThunder. In Japan, the Dino Charge crew actually teamed with their past Dino themed teams in a big special. Would be interesting to see if we do the same.

Hopefully this won't be as wooden as Samurai and Mega. Jesus.

Have yet to finish either of those seasons, maybe I'll do it when I get my Shout Factory Red Ranger Helmet.

Problem with skipping Go-Busters to do Kyoryuger is that well...Kyoryuger is redonkulously Japanese. I mean I enjoyed it but the ending man...the ending.

Would be the record that SPD is currently holding for most rangers though.

They don't really need to emulate the ending, though they seemed to have curbed creative work by adapting the source material more often now.

Go-Busters just looked off to me, more like Kamen Riders or other Toku heroes than actual Power Rangers. On the plus side, and one of the great advantages of this sort of thing, nothing's really stopping them from using Go-Buster monsters, weapons, and zords. They could remix those elements to bolster Dino Charge with a second season or whatever.

I really liked the music episode with the Heath Slater Monster but couldn't really get into the series. The Zordon-like guy (and the Robot) sounds too much like guy from Wings and SpiderMan3 (Sandman.)

I liked the Red Ranger story with the guy looking for a final opponent from the previous series. Predictable ending but still good for a kids series.

SuperMega will debut the suits the originals should have used in MMPR Season 2, what I dub the 'Thunder Ranger' suits since they would have accompanied the Thunder Zords.

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Horrible, nonsensically placed dialogue juxtaposed with totally swag action (DRUNKEN RANGER STYLE), makes me sad. :(

Yeah Dairanger is pretty sweet. Shame we never got to see any of the footage in the states.

Though I think they subbed all of Dairanger so if you want to see sweet Drunken Fist style fighting on their foot soldiers...you can.

Here's a picture of me with my Shout Factory Power Ranger series helmet, it's number 243 of 2000
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Bigger than I thought, but it is a lot of DVDs.