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Fezz posted:Charlie Brown looking motherfuckers. I was this close to attaching a picture of charlie brown to my post. Maybe that's the main reason I dislike it? The visual similarity? I don't hate Chuck, though. Maybe it's the huge white vest over the solid color suit?
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I know it's supposed to be the teeth of the Ginga/Galacta-beasts but it absolutely does not read like that.
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Aug 29, 2018 01:08
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Coq au Nandos posted:Great of them to link it in the tweet. Several different links in the replies including one by the original tweeter, it's not particularly hard to find.
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Aug 29, 2018 01:17
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Oh man that master Morpher rules
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Aug 29, 2018 01:23
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And now my alarm for tomorrow morning is 5-4-1.
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Aug 29, 2018 01:31
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That was a really good episode! Good story economy, legit surprising moments I never in a million years thought I'd see the falconzord, good action and fun lore building. The existence of something called a master Morpher is brilliant and basically explains away all past and present plotholes with episodes like this.
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Aug 29, 2018 01:35
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Funky Valentine posted:I wonder if Power Rangers would've taken off like it did if we started on something like Liveman or Jetman. Power Rangers success is like 60% green ranger arc 20% dinosaurs 10% suits look rad 10% Ron wasserman Might need a little bit of a tweak but like uhh Really the green ranger poo poo is the main culprit for success
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Aug 29, 2018 01:40
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:That was a really good episode! Good story economy, legit surprising moments I never in a million years thought I'd see the falconzord, good action and fun lore building. The existence of something called a master Morpher is brilliant and basically explains away all past and present plotholes with episodes like this. and in a good nod to Boom They called Tommy's son JJ for the upcoming Soul of the Dragon book
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Aug 29, 2018 01:43
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As popular as the Green Ranger was, the show was a massive success long before he showed up. I still remember how hard it was just to find any PR merchandise on store shelves as a kid.
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Aug 29, 2018 01:52
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The show was absolutely popular before the Green Ranger, but it did propel the show into the stratosphere for sure.
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Aug 29, 2018 01:59
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That was an awesome anniversary episode. Maybe I’ll start caring about Ninja Steele again? Also I am glad that Tommy/Kat not confirmed. I choose to believe that Zedd was annoyed about the Machine Empire and zapped Kimberly’s letter to make it into a “Dear John” letter because Lord Zedd was petty af. Did Trent really not do or say anything out of the suit? That was kinda funny. Even Rocky got a couple lines. Edit: Also I need that Master Morpher in my life. Hasbros get on that! Morby fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Aug 29, 2018 02:52
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I haven't followed Power Rangers since SPD, beyond the Boom! comics because those are very good, but I had to check Youtube for the Master Morpher thing and that was super neat. I hope he does have his Turbo powers in there too even if he didn't show them, just for completion's sake.
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Aug 29, 2018 03:23
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I would legit buy two Master Morphers if they were ~$100. One to play with and one to display would be awesome.
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Aug 29, 2018 03:25
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Is there any way to watch the special aside from on tv? Does it go up on a website tomorrow or anything?
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Aug 29, 2018 03:34
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Morby posted:I would legit buy two Master Morphers if they were ~$100. One to play with and one to display would be awesome. The fact that they opted to use the original Morpher design leads me to believe that Hasbro probably has plans to use the Legacy Morpher and repaint/resticker it.
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JT Smiley posted:As popular as the Green Ranger was, the show was a massive success long before he showed up. I still remember how hard it was just to find any PR merchandise on store shelves as a kid. Oh, man. And you think toy scalping can be bad today. (It can, but still.)
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Aug 29, 2018 03:45
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Also when the gently caress did Wes start getting played by Rob Lowe
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Aug 29, 2018 03:51
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Dawgstar posted:Oh, man. And you think toy scalping can be bad today. (It can, but still.) Today's kids will never know what it's like to have their parents get into a fist fight in the middle of Toysrus just so their kid can have an awesome Christmas.
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Aug 29, 2018 05:03
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LividLiquid posted:Is there any way to watch the special aside from on tv? Does it go up on a website tomorrow or anything? Can you imagine what it must be like to be Tommy Oliver, going to the gym daily and practicing your martial arts and just working on all those motions? Episode was so much better than Megaforce, my god Still could've really used the breathing room of a 2-parter, though. There was a lot of stuff really packed into 22 minutes there.
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I am disappointed that a lot of the Rangers were there and didn’t do/say much, but compromises had to be made to fit into a 22 min time slot I’m sure. It’s probably why they couldn’t have more than one Ranger per season and couldn’t rep every single one (in addition to the show still not being union and, therefore, the actors probably spent more than they made to film). It was also successful in the sense that it sold me a toy. I want that morpher. I didn’t give a gently caress about the bike in Forever Red, but I need that morpher. Legendary Battle was severely disappointing, but this was really fun and made 0 sense and I am ok with that. Also maybe I’ll care about Ninja Steel again? Or at least these two episodes in this arc of Ninja Steel? I have been really out of the loop with this season.
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Apparently there COULD be an extended cut of the episode floating around somewhere. Mateo linked me something quite nice https://www.facebook.com/PowerRangersNow/videos/1901172409952571/UzpfSTI2OTI0MTIwMzE4ODY3NzpWSzoxOTAxMTcyNDA5OTUyNTcx/ That just gently caress I love this dumb thing so much
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Burkion posted:Apparently there COULD be an extended cut of the episode floating around somewhere. it's also on youtube I have discovered in case people don;t want to watch it on facebook. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2gzf-5yQRo mateo360 fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Aug 29, 2018 06:03
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mateo360 posted:it's also on youtube I have discovered in case people don;t want to watch it on facebook. I’m sorry I just There was a broken visor scene And they cut it?!
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Potsticker posted:The show was absolutely popular before the Green Ranger, but it did propel the show into the stratosphere for sure. It was a month and change between the debut and that
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I haven't seen the full episode, but I have to wonder if the Master Morpher will come into play in BM.
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Aug 29, 2018 07:14
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mateo360 posted:it's also on youtube I have discovered in case people don;t want to watch it on facebook. I need to pirate this episode ASAP. 
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Finished the finale of Shattered Grid, and if any of this surprises you I have a few bridges to sell you: Our heroes defeat Drakkon, due to part to a not-really-dead Tommy kicking his rear end and reminding him that the real reason why he's the only Evil Tommy in the multiverse is that he doesn't have friends. Then our heroes use a MacGuffin to reset the entire multiverse where none of it ever happened, with the standard comic book hint that Things Will Never Be The Same.
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Aug 29, 2018 09:17
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Count me in among the crowd of people interested in knowing how to watch this. I looked at the usual “pay to watch this tv show” sources such as Amazon and iTunes and it’s not there. I suppose it’ll be on YouTube in parts pretty soon.
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Aug 29, 2018 09:56
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Hot hot Tommy on Tommy action. Very nice. I'm now legitimately interested in context for that whole thing.
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Aug 29, 2018 10:56
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So the Master Morpher is essentially a Gokaiger Mobirate?
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Aug 29, 2018 12:27
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Raserys posted:So the Master Morpher is essentially a Gokaiger Mobirate? It's more limited in that Tommy can only use his own powers (except Turbo's, apparently) but at the same time he doesn't need to depower anyone for it since those powers are his to begin with.
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I think he could use turbo but wasn't gonna do that when he's just a football field away from TJ, because he's classy.
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:I think he could use turbo but wasn't gonna do that when he's just a football field away from TJ, because he's classy. Shouldn't Rocky, TJ and Kat have had them too?
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Gemma:Hi, I'm from a world where there's only one surviving city, the rest was destroyed by machines Ninja Steel: Oh... Ok, welcome. Koda: Hi, I from world where dinosaur no ever go extinct NS: Oh my god I want to go to your world!
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How do Zeo and Turbo powers even coexist? Weren't the Zeo Crystals used as the Turbo source, or am I misremembering?Coq au Nandos posted:Shouldn't Rocky, TJ and Kat have had them too? Look, Rocky can walk again. He's thankful just to still be a Ranger.
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Aug 29, 2018 13:55
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The Zeo Blue powers were lost to unbreak his leg. His leg's unbreakening repaired the MMPR Red morpher.
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I think it's generally accepted now that all Morphin powers come from the Morphin grid, how those powers manifest depends on how you accessed them. Zordon probably took the Zeo Crystal when he left and hid it somewhere, knowing that Dark Spectre was getting ready to make his move. That's likely why he had the rangers switch over to turbo powers. He never tells anyone any of this poo poo. And if he didn't take it, it would probably belong to Divatox. I say the Zeo Crystal likely powered their zords, new weapons they created, and the power chamber, but it was just the ranger powers themselves came from the grid, with the crystal bring advanced enough technology to access it. After having it long enough Zordon, Alpha, and Billy were able to create their own technology for morphin, as opposed to having to find a magical artifact for the same. He may have shared this data with Nasada or Captain Mitchell. Tommy and Hayley eventually worked this out themselves and he has probably gone around giving his friends backup morphers, saving his ultimate invention, the master Morpher, for himself.
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I was a little sad LightSpeed and SPD weren’t represented. I get why, but I love those seasons. Then again, seeing Gemma again was so worth it.
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It took until getting to the Moon Landing Rangers, but the main MMPR comic finally clicked for me.
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Read the Shattered Grid finale. It’s loaded with lots of nods to famous comic superheroes and other big events in those comics, it does feel very heavily focused on Tommy being more awesome than everyone, and you get this feeling of “he hosed up the entire franchise just to achieve THAT?” In a lot of ways, Drakkon’s end goal is pretty similar to some Sentai villains, and it’s not inappropriate. It’s just... wildly reverential to DC Comics in particular in how it gets there. As someone that rode the Drakkon-is-Zedd train very hard, I’m sort of okay with getting nothing on that. All the usual bite the bullet consequences of a comic playing too aggressively with its own lore are invoked, including the universe trying to digest out of place people and events by changing them. I still think a page of a ranger’s skin being ripped off with energy while their armor fused onto them would be an amazing visual, but I also kind of didn’t want one of the show’s best villains being made Another Evil Tommy even though I was eager to accept it. It was an okay issue, but if you’re an MMPR fan and not a fan of the superhero comics industry in general then #30 will be the peak of the story for you. Because this is very much a comics writer ending a big comics event in the accepted comics industry style, and not really Power Rangers as you know it. When I saw Drakkon owned a dojo and who the instructor was, I felt like I had entered JDF’s mind. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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