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Megaforce seems to think that kids are retarded. In the episode before last, Noah's whole confidence problem was solved in a whopping four minutes. Compare to MMPR where the Problem of The Day would arise right away at the start of the episode and Rita would send a loosely related monster, fighting/extrapolation in the second act, then resolution in the third, moral of the day, Bulk and Skull get owned somehow, roll credits. I yearn for the glory days of In Space and Lost Galaxy again. Apparently the threat of cancellation really gets a writer's poo poo together.
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Zaggitz posted:Ima be real sad if Tommy doesn't come back again for the next Dino themed Ranger show in a few years. A little while before Megaforce started, a LOT of his facebook fans were rallying for Saban to give him a cameo when they get to the Gokaiger season, or possibly even make him GokaiSilver. Personally, I'd probably poo poo a brick if he became GokaiSilver.
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I think it should also be pointed out that Akibaranger is actually geared for adult fans, so there's often quite a few dirty jokes (The main villainess in the first season is a former porn star) and references made to old sentai tropes.
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Feb 26, 2013 23:06
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All this talk just reminds me of my incredibly low expectations for the possible English adaptation of GoBusters, so it's impossible to be disappointed by whatever they do.
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Feb 27, 2013 02:31
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Edit: Fun Fact: It is a violation of FCC regulations for advertisements for Power Rangers merchandise to air during Power Rangers, because that would make the show an infomercial under the law. Another fun fact: The Japanese commercials for sentai shows are always for the toys, DVDs, or upcoming movie. But Japanese commercial breaks are also like a minute long and only take place in the middle and the end of the show, so it's not like they can cram a lot in there anyways.
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Feb 27, 2013 04:10
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Agent Rush posted:Is it just me, or did Troy use Jake's real name when they were first talking to Jordan? No, you heard right. I also noticed it.
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Feb 27, 2013 04:24
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Pasteurized Milk posted:Didn't they literally do that a couple of seasons ago? Yup, Operation Overdrive's red ranger was a secret robot or some poo poo. I didn't really watch the show.
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Feb 28, 2013 02:47
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Pinwiz11 posted:I do hope that Saban can take the show off of Nick once they finish the contract through Gokaiger. I can't imagine Go-Busters lasting two years, and there's enough story there that they could turn it into something interesting if they could do a 30-40 episode season... Where would the show go? It's options are already limited since there's so few channels geared toward kids, and even fewer with budgets that could sustain the series to begin with. Plus, I'm starting to think that a lot of GoBuster's footage wouldn't be useable since so little of it took place in vague outdoor locations. Then you also have to take in account the fact that they never used stock footage for anything outside of Megazord combinations, so you can't pull the ol' stock footage morph-location change switcharoo. You also have the Buddyroids to deal with, since they are part of the Buster Machine cockpits and Powered Custom (which every fight in the last 1/3rd of the series involves), and Stag Buster doesn't act human at all. Furthermore, there's also several scenes involving their individual weakpoints. GoBusters will be a very expensive series to Americanize, I guarantee it. And, I don't know if this is a factor or not, Red, Blue, and Yellow all used actual hand to hand combat techniques instead of the flashy martial arts you normally see. So on more than one occasion I can actually recall one of them running their blade across a grunt's neck to destroy it. Beyond all that, you still have to make up a whole plotline because there's no way Nickelodeon these days would let them get away with a story nearly as dark and depressing as GoBusters' was. If I had my way, I'd say save some money and dub the whole thing out. It's not so "Japanese" that you'd need to take a bunch of liberties with the script anyways. You could probably get away with a nearly 1:1 conversion.
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Feb 28, 2013 05:15
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mikeycp posted:There are definitely Gosei Knight toys in stores already. I can't find the MMPR morpher anywhere though. That's because they were a limited run TRU exclusive during the month of February. You can pre-order them on the website for when they come out in May. Right now, I'm debating whether I want to get a Legacy Megazord or not since I have an MMPR Megazord already.
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Mar 4, 2013 01:51
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404GoonNotFound posted:I got the one from the HD season reissue, isn't that pretty much the same thing as the forthcoming one but with different paint apps? No, it's the same mold but it's chock full of diecast now.
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Mar 4, 2013 02:08
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mikeycp posted:The TRU website? Yup. http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=18968306&prodFindSrc=search
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Pasteurized Milk posted:It was a bunch of cuts to people reacting to bad rock music being broadcasted around the world, but the people reacting to it were examples like African kids standing outside huts, people wearing turbans by pyramids, and people at a cafe in front of the Eiffel Tower. I'm watching it right now. They somehow transmitted the music to ancient China too. 
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Mar 10, 2013 04:36
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JT Smiley posted:The motherfucker gets snubbed at the end of the episode and doesn't even blink. That's some top tier non acting right there. No, don't you see? He's just so calm and collected.
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Apr 1, 2013 04:43
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Liar Lyre posted:What time is Megaforce on anyway? I'd probably watch it if I knew when. I think it's noon EST on Saturdays.
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Apr 7, 2013 00:36
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Zedd posted:I hope the current Sentai's robot's make a big universal clusterfuck again. Doubtful. Its gimmick and electronics don't work for large zord formations. At best you can expect to see something as lame and boring as Dino Thunder's combinations. You can't even make a megazord with all five kyoryugers' zords. You get Red with two as arms. They just introduced the sixth Kyoryuger and its' combination is simply a pair of wings ala the Ninja Falconzord. Meanwhile you STILL have two zords just standing around doing nothing. Dr Tran posted:Samurai Gigazord The Gigazord is a loving joke compared to Ha-Oh. I just wish I had the money to get all the Shinkenger zords now that I have the US release of Shinken-Oh.
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Apr 21, 2013 02:50
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Dr Tran posted:Red from Jungle Fury has been on set, so that's one Disney guy. But no one cares about red from Jungle Fury, the bastard child of the PR franchise.
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May 10, 2013 07:19
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quote:The TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC do not know who these people are. Why would they waste money trying to impress you adults, who will buy their merch regardless of how much you moan online. I don't know who would buy anything since everything besides the action figures has been cheap garbage since Operation Overdrive. The disparity between North America and Japan when it's come to megazords is a joke. Even Boukenger's tiny Daibouken was still leaps and bounds of quality over OO's cost cutting garbage. Everything since than has just been a smaller and cheaper version of the Sentai version, with everything but the most barebones features removed. No reason RPM couldn't have used GoOnger's megazords with the electronics removed, but instead they made them smaller and flattened the Engine Souls. Samurai completely changed everything around and now the Samurai Gigazord, which should be huge and awesome, is an ugly hunk of plastic. Megaforce's all "zord" combination uses a character that doesn't even exist in the show, so they had to give you these weird extra plastic bits with all the heads to do something similar to it with the toy. It's just bad, and now I probably won't miss the show anymore if Super Megaforce tanks the series.
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May 11, 2013 04:58
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RBX posted:IN OTHER SABAN IS INCOMPETENT NEWS: Gosh, I wonder if there was some way to figure all that stuff out ahead of time? quote:Due to so many requests from a number of past Rangers (as well as an overwhelming amount of requests from the fans, too!) So they didn't even entertain the idea until a bunch of old cast members actually started making phone calls. Total bullshit. You'd have to be out of your mind not to think that a large number of former cast members wouldn't jump at the opportunity to make a cameo, schedules permitting of course. Obviously you'd have some difficulty with the older cast members, but Jason David Frank and the others that routinely make the convention circuit would be all over that. poo poo, I think JDF would do it for free just for the fans. quote:then filming would take place on May 25th and 26th And this makes me wonder if cameos would only be in a couple episodes.
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Coq au Nandos posted:I'm hoping for Jason David Frank. He hasn't said anything about it on Facebook.
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GonSmithe posted:Yes he has, he posted this the other day: You're right, I guess I just missed that particular post. RBX posted:He said he'd do appearances for free. Seems like the guy really loves his Power Rangers. I think a lot of his success in life comes from his history as a ranger, and he really respects his fans for it.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Sign up for his Power Rangers Boot Camp, then. Or go to one of the seven conventions he attends a month! Oh yeah, he's constantly on the convention circuit. I think he posts his schedule around the start of the year, so you can plan in advance.
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May 13, 2013 15:34
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jivjov posted:Oh I know he's not a hard guy to meet, I just have very little spare cash for travelling out to conventions. Follow him on facebook. Every couple days when he has some spare time he holds a little contest where he'll call the first person to post their phone number.
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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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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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MisterBibs posted:Reading this thread has got me into a Power Rangers kick. And now I just found out that a second season of Mystic Knights was cancelled to make way for Lost Galaxy. I am conflicted.
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MisterBibs posted:Dumb question, but I'm genuinely curious if it's just me: You can still pick out the sentai footage. Obviously all your scenes involving stock zord footage and megazords are sentai, except for cockpit scenes nowadays. Anything involving a new weapon is probably sentai. Any scene where civilians are present but they're not obviously white people is sentai. Beyond those, look for where in-suit dialogue has really exaggerated movement. Sentai keeps it fairly normal, in my opinion at least.
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JT Smiley posted:That's because the current Japanese toys are expensive as poo poo nowadays! For instance, you could buy your little one the US Samurai Megazord for around $30 dollars, or you can purchase the Japanese original for $80: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=17880096 It was 30 bucks because it was cheap garbage. I bought the $80 Japanese version and it's a drat good quality figure. Solid plastic, great paint apps, plus you actually get the proper box modes.
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Is it just me or does GokaiOh look unmolested beyond some missing paint apps? EDIT: Oh poo poo! Legacy Dragonzord! 
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Jul 18, 2013 04:16
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RBX posted:
Yup. Looks like missing paint apps and decals, and they changed the mast on the Gokai Galleon to molded plastic with paint instead of a decal. Gonna have to wait and find out if there's any more changes beyond the cosmetic ones.
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Jul 18, 2013 04:38
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Zonekeeper posted:It's definitely more than cosmetic - there's Zord-builder attachment points all over it. I count six in that picture alone. You're right, somehow I didn't even pick up on that. Looks like I'll wait to get GokaiOh off ebay sometime.
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Zedd posted:I always wondered if it's really cheaper to make new molds for the edited parts then to just copy the original? Depends. In this case it's probably cheaper since removing the panel opening gimmick means far fewer parts per unit. Usually the only real cost-cutting measures you'll see require a complete overhaul of the original design, like you can see in the Overdrive Megazord compared to Daibouken. Daibouken is already very small compared to other megazords, but has a lot of detail and various bits and pieces. The Overdrive megazord used cheaper quality plastic and removed functions and/or moving pieces in some of the zords, leaving the awful piece of poo poo that the states got. RPM made everything smaller, used lower quality plastic, and removed the electronics from the Engine Souls to shrink them down and lower costs as well. Gosei Great is nearly identical to its counterpart, but again smaller and cheaper plastic.
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Zonekeeper posted:Also there are rumors that they'll make a general-release non-24K version of the Green Ranger Legacy Morpher with the Green/White ranger coins. It's basically a given. Big companies don't produce molds for things with the intent to only use them for an exclusive limited run. What you'll likely see is an announcement at least a few months from now when they'll announce the gold chrome or matte gold version to come out alongside the Dragonzord and Dagger so the SDCC version owners don't feel so jilted. Not that they would, I think. I'm hoping my guy delivers and gets his hands on an SDCC morpher for me, but I'll live if he doesn't. With the announcement of the dagger, I'm planning to take the morpher and dagger and turn it into a kickass display piece.
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OZC posted:Plus they updated the electronics (one button press plays the sound effects and starts the song Press again to stop). I doubt they'd bother to update them if it was only going into a limited run of 1000. Plus they'll probably weather the coins to match the standard Legacy Morpher as well, while the SDCC ones are fully shiny. I have no opinion on weathered or shiny coins, it's all good to me.
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Liar Lyre posted:I always love to try and figure out why the Red Ranger is the Red Ranger. Sometimes it's natural leadership, others it is being courageous, and sometimes it feels like dumb luck. Don't forget "Being the Chosen One/Special Snowflake". Time Force, Wild Force, Mystic Force, and Operation Overdrive are the guilty parties there. Poor Leo really did fall into Galaxy Red by dumb (tragic) luck though.
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Pasteurized Milk posted:I would have thought Go-busters would be easy to bring over. I mean they have megazords and they morph. GoBusters also utilized very little stock footage outside megazord combinations, meaning they'll either have to create some or do the same thing as GoBusters and not use any for morphing sequences or create their own. Luckily, all the finishing moves are already in-suit so they just have to be careful with their editing. Chances are they'll create some since doing it like GoBusters would cost quite a bit more money on the whole. Then you also have the Buddyroids since they're an integral part of the Buster Machine cockpits and make several appearances in all the in-suit footage. You'd have to create new cockpit sets and film all new footage to ignore them, so they'll be used in some capacity. Furthermore you also have the problem of Stag Buster, who acts exactly like J and has very robotic movements when he's not in combat. He's also too big of a doofus to write him in as some badass cyborg ranger. So you have to have to localize J as basically his same character and then you have to have a good (and equally goofy) Beet Buster to pair him with. Beyond all that, you have to deal with some other factors. Since Enter and Escape created basically every Metaroid, you need new footage there to introduce the MOTW unless you just have it walk onto the scene unintroduced. You're going to need new footage and boss monsters anyways for the enemy headquarters since Enter and Escape didn't have "monster" forms until very late in the series, so you have to shoot new stuff there and edit around any scenes Enter and Escape were in until you can use them. In a perfect world Enter and Escape would both speak fluent english and just perform their roles again, but c'est la vie. Additionally, all the monsters in the last quarter of the series have big red parts with MESSIAH printed on them, so you have to work something around those too. Basically, the GoBusters adaptation will take a lot of time, money, and effort to be nearly as good and I have very low expectations after Samurai and Megaforce. 
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My biggest question is why they never change clothes? Was the budget really that small? Did anyone notice they left their little sparring session and were back in their regular outfits when they demorphed?
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Dr Tran posted:I use the GoBusters alert. One time it went off in a store and a kid grabbed his mom and said how cool it was. Do you have an mp3 of that handy? I could never find one that wasn't just some schmuck holding their morpher to a microphone.
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JT Smiley posted:Its been a while since I've seen Go-busters, but I distinctly remember all of those things happening. Plus Shinkenger only had one annoying ranger versus five on Go-busters. You're out of your mind if you think any of the Go-Busters were annoying, especially Green Hippo.  Plus, he's right. Messiah was always a a virtual skull until he possessed a megazord in the episode he was destroyed in, and Enter had a combat form he didn't even use until about 3/4ths of the way through the show. The megazords were always separate entities from the smaller ones, and they were almost all based on the two types of giant robots from the lab in hyperspace.
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Speaking of toys, I got my gold edition Legacy Morpher on Wednesday. Now I just need the Legacy Dragon Dagger and Dragonzord to make a fuckin' sweet display piece. For those interested, it's my understanding that the dagger comes out on 2-20 and the Dragonzord on 3-22. I'll double check those, though.
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Gaz-L posted:Or at least have the song for each season play. Then you have to deal with all the poo poo openings post-SPD.
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