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Eugh, sorry for the double post, but I didn't feel editing it into the previous post was the best way to have it seen. I was reading about how both Walter Jones and David Yost have declared they will not have anything to do with Super Megaforce and I noticed this at the end of the article.Huffington Post posted:
The kayfabe is thick here. A whole bunch of real people "and Robo Knight"
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# ? May 25, 2013 03:41 |
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JT Smiley posted:The Zyurangers were all poorly developed, because the show spent more time focusing on the random kids than the actual heroes. As far as I can tell, Geki was an idiot, Mei was a girl who had dress up powers, Boi was a ninja, and the other two are just there. Oh and the megazord is alive and a total rear end in a top hat. The original attempt to adapt Super Sentai was using Jetman iirc. But on MMPR, how do you feel about Super Sentai's lack of Battlizers? I though Toei wanted to sell plastic? One of those quirky "regional incentives"? I would love to see for instance The Shinkengers receive GoShinken forms as a "legendary upgrade". Hell there are Power Ranger only villains as well.
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# ? May 25, 2013 05:14 |
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gyrobot posted:The original attempt to adapt Super Sentai was using Jetman iirc. Though I do wish that Jetman had been the basis for Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, because oh my god imagine how people checking out Jetman out of nostalgia for Power Rangers would react to that series. Edit: I think Battleizers are made because they want to have PR-original in-suit footage, and pay for the cost of it by having it be done mainly with PR-exclusive toys. The PR-exclusive villains (who are always actors with their faces exposed rather than stuntmen in suits, Zedd being the obvious exception) are often done because the production team decides to diverge from the story of the Sentai they're adapting in some way. These two things often intersect. Any time past the Upgrade Point of the season where there's a fight with a PR=exclusive villain, you bet your poo poo that the Battleizer is getting used. SpiderHyphenMan fucked around with this message at 07:27 on May 25, 2013 |
# ? May 25, 2013 07:16 |
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gyrobot posted:The original attempt to adapt Super Sentai was using Jetman iirc. Nah, it was Bioman. http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Bio-Man They filmed a pilot, but it didn't go to series. So Zyuranger was the third try at an adaptation—just the first one that stuck. I would have loved to have seen a Jetman Power Rangers series, though... anything is better with Jetman.
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# ? May 25, 2013 07:35 |
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toomanyninjas posted:Nah, it was Bioman. That's pretty interesting. Did the Bioman pilot ever get shown? A quick youtube search doesn't turn up anything.
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# ? May 25, 2013 09:25 |
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Nope, we didn't even know of it until a year ago when someone trawled through the LA Times online archive and read a short blurb about it in the upcoming shows section. Apparently it would have been a straight dub instead of a remake. This also explains why Saban had those Bioman clips in the MMPR pilot (which did leak.)
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# ? May 25, 2013 13:03 |
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Soooo.... JDF has some pretty interesting photos up on his facebook page this morning. We all knew he would be in Super Megaforce anyway, but he's rockin' the Dragon Shield finally.
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# ? May 25, 2013 13:29 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Soooo.... JDF has some pretty interesting photos up on his facebook page this morning. Crosspostin' He'll probably post more. Didn't they just start filming the cameo roles today?
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# ? May 25, 2013 17:52 |
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In space cast members.
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# ? May 25, 2013 17:58 |
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SpazmasterX posted:
I wonder what's up with all those people with strange hoods in the back. The red Operation Overdrive guy looks... old.
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# ? May 25, 2013 19:23 |
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Fred is on posted:I wonder what's up with all those people with strange hoods in the back. The red Operation Overdrive guy looks... old. Those are the suit actors. They're probably doing some checks before actually filming. I think JDF just likes striking a pose when he's in suit, or he knew the picture was being taken.
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# ? May 25, 2013 19:26 |
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Here's another filming pic someone posted over in the Toku thread. Good god Carter got old, hahaDr Tran posted:If you think Wes looks old
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# ? May 27, 2013 15:26 |
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I find it really awkward how they interest-checked 60 Rangers from 20 years of the franchise, picked ten of the lot, and then chose multiple actors from the same shows. Two from Samurai, two from Lightspeed, two from In Space, two from Lost Galaxy? Plus Wes from Time Force, and Tommy from Every Season Ever with the inaccurate helmet . What the gently caress, man. At least Gokaiger had the excuse of many older actors being retired, or in some rare cases dead, and they still managed to get a dude from nearly every series by the end. (Shouji aged poorly, perhaps he should have sat it out.)
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# ? May 27, 2013 15:38 |
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Gokaiger had the advantage of a presumably larger budget and more importantly being in a small country where everyone at most is a few train rides or a short plain ride away.
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# ? May 27, 2013 15:45 |
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They could at least try to get the guys from New Zealand. They could get a lot of the late season actors.
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# ? May 27, 2013 15:51 |
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Liar Lyre posted:They could at least try to get the guys from New Zealand. They could get a lot of the late season actors. I'm not sure if they can since I'm assuming Saban hired non-union as usual and Disney hires union.
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# ? May 27, 2013 15:58 |
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Tae posted:I'm not sure if they can since I'm assuming Saban hired non-union as usual and Disney hires union. Surely there's some way around that, especially for a one-off like an anniversary special.
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# ? May 27, 2013 16:19 |
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jivjov posted:Surely there's some way around that, especially for a one-off like an anniversary special. I suspect the assorted unions don't have a "anniversary special" clause, but I might be wrong. I bet most people have seen this, but one time I randomly stumbled upon a series of youtube videos at a PR convention, with the guys who played Bulk and Skull in the original series. A lot of funny stories about the production, and Jason Narvy discussing his opinion on the true nation of Shakespearean soliloquies is something I never thought I'd see: The whole playlist, including ones I haven't watched
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# ? May 31, 2013 04:37 |
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MisterBibs posted:I suspect the assorted unions don't have a "anniversary special" clause, but I might be wrong. Oh I know there isn't a special clause, but since its a one-off, I would think that everyone involved could sit down and negotiate out a one-time thing.
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# ? May 31, 2013 04:39 |
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MisterBibs posted:Jason Narvy discussing his opinion on the true nation of Shakespearean soliloquies is something I never thought I'd see: I believe you mean Professor Jason Narvy, Ph.D.
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# ? May 31, 2013 06:02 |
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Jason Frank is actually a cool dude, he was in attendance for my first professional MMA bout a couple of years ago. Great dude, pretty mediocre fighter. Also, am I correct in my belief that the Green and White Ranger film used in the American shows was from another Sentai series entirely removed from the one the American version was based on?
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 12:12 |
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The Green ranger was the 6th ranger from Zyuranger, the show Mighty Morphin was based on. The White ranger was from Dairanger. That suit and the Zords got used in the later seasons of Mighty Morphin, but the rest of the team kept the Zyuranger suits.
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 12:39 |
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Green Ranger was Dragonranger from Zyuranger, which was the show the first season of MMPR was based off. White Ranger was Kibaranger from Dairanger, which is where the Thunderzords in the second season came from. Kibaranger was a ten-year-old boy. e: I provided a picture, suck it
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 12:43 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Kibaranger was a ten-year-old boy. And that is why Tommy-as-White-Ranger was so hyper and jumped around a lot. The sentai footage was of a character who was 10 years old but got to fight in an adult-sized body. (You'll note that they reused the "kid becomes adult sized" thing for Justin, the Blue Turbo Ranger)
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 12:46 |
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I can only assume they kept the Zyuranger suits for so long because Daigo's suit is green and they didn't want to confuse kids when Zack's black outfit changed colours and no one else did. And then they skipped Kakuranger, which did have a black costume and no green, finally changing costumes in Zeo which did not have black but had green instead Their insistance on a continuity between seasons hosed them over hard for splicing random things together and hoping it came out coherantly, when Sentai mostly just shrugs and goes "totally new universe" every year, with some notable exceptions. Also, Shouji is the best Dairanger and those costumes are pretty cool. And the Gouma generals are amazing, being themed after fasteners
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 13:02 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:And then they skipped Kakuranger, which did have a black costume and no green And no Pink. And only 5 costumes.
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 13:08 |
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Uh, Ninjaman, hello? They could have just upgraded Alpha 5 into a whole new robot!
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 13:15 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Uh, Ninjaman, hello? They could have just upgraded Alpha 5 into a whole new robot! Where would the 6th ranger go then? Would he just merge with Alpha?
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 13:16 |
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Well, you gotta fire someone, and Haim Saban's distaste for David Yost hadn't quite hit the "screw him over constantly" phase it would hit in Zeo, so... get rid of Rocky? Then Tommy could be Red and they could have fun trying to explain away all the footage where Red's kind of an idiot and obviously not in charge. Turning the robot buddy into a Battleizer (especially if it was Ninjaman, oh god) is something they only thought of with SPD, which I thought was a weird thing to import back to Japan for the Magiranger/Dekaranger movie. Murphy was Umeko's partner, don't take that from her, Ban
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 13:26 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I can only assume they kept the Zyuranger suits for so long because Daigo's suit is green and they didn't want to confuse kids when Zack's black outfit changed colours and no one else did. And then they skipped Kakuranger, which did have a black costume and no green, finally changing costumes in Zeo which did not have black but had green instead Their insistance on a continuity between seasons hosed them over hard for splicing random things together and hoping it came out coherantly, when Sentai mostly just shrugs and goes "totally new universe" every year, with some notable exceptions. Yeah, the short version is they were running out of usable Zyuranger fight footage, but didn't want to change the characters too much, so they just started lifting Zord combat from Dairanger and Kakuranger while keeping Zyuranger suits around. They had to phase out Green though, since they didn't have much footage of him at all (in Zyuranger, Burai, the green ranger, lived in a cave and also later died mid-series, so there wasn't a whole lot of stuff they could use)
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 14:01 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I can only assume they kept the Zyuranger suits for so long because Daigo's suit is green and they didn't want to confuse kids when Zack's black outfit changed colours and no one else did. And then they skipped Kakuranger, which did have a black costume and no green, finally changing costumes in Zeo which did not have black but had green instead Their insistance on a continuity between seasons hosed them over hard for splicing random things together and hoping it came out coherantly, when Sentai mostly just shrugs and goes "totally new universe" every year, with some notable exceptions. Technically all the Kakuranger suits were used in Power Rangers. The 5 main Kakurangers became the Alien Rangers and Ninjaman became Ninjor. Larryb fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Jun 1, 2013 |
# ? Jun 1, 2013 14:13 |
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Aquatarians aren't even people, they don't count. The Morphin Grid is for humans, the way Zordon intended.
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 15:58 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I can only assume they kept the Zyuranger suits for so long because Daigo's suit is green and they didn't want to confuse kids when Zack's black outfit changed colours and no one else did. And then they skipped Kakuranger, which did have a black costume and no green, finally changing costumes in Zeo which did not have black but had green instead Their insistance on a continuity between seasons hosed them over hard for splicing random things together and hoping it came out coherantly, when Sentai mostly just shrugs and goes "totally new universe" every year, with some notable exceptions. Don't forget what a megahit MMPR was when it came out. Saban suddenly had a #1 property on their hands whose brand identity was wrapped up in the Zyuranger suits. It's easy to understand the editing nightmare later seasons became when viewed through this lens.
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# ? Jun 1, 2013 16:19 |
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I finished watching all of Dairanger tonight. I thought Dekaranger was poorly written, but Dairanger... oh my god. What the gently caress was that bullshit? Fifty episodes and Shadam was a loving clay doll the entire time? And so were Gara, Zaidos, and Emperor Gouma? What was the point of any of this?
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# ? Jun 2, 2013 03:14 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:What was the point of any of this? To sell some toys to Japanese children
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# ? Jun 2, 2013 03:41 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I thought Dekaranger was poorly written Also Dairanger is worth it for the suitless rollcall. First time it was done, still hasn't been matched. SpiderHyphenMan fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Jun 2, 2013 |
# ? Jun 2, 2013 03:53 |
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Oh? The guys at TV-Nihon are the ones who wrote Dekaranger? poo poo, I gotta give that group credit, who knew a half-dozen guys on the internet had the budget to film a tv show in Japan?
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# ? Jun 2, 2013 04:01 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Oh? The guys at TV-Nihon are the ones who wrote Dekaranger? poo poo, I gotta give that group credit, who knew a half-dozen guys on the internet had the budget to film a tv show in Japan? They probably screwed up a lot of the dialogue. You're better off watching SPD.
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# ? Jun 2, 2013 04:19 |
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Watching subs you have to realize it isn't always correct and cultural differences can come into play as well.
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# ? Jun 2, 2013 05:58 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 01:25 |
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Reading this thread has got me into a Power Rangers kick. That said, I found this old article that I remember reading before, discussing some of the behind the scenes events concerning Turbo through Time Force. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it's still interesting. Man Versus Sentai
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