Power Rangers - the appreciation and discussion thread

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Allio

It's the curse of Uramasa, he finally became fully Juuzo

wow JDF
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8yfxVYCAAAJzDU.jpg

while JDF is my favorite Ranger he could have responded better to this.

[Darthknuxward]

What the hell?!

[Leonardo322]

Mighty Morphin' is my favorite of the shows.

[Allio]

[SophieDem]

Originally Posted by Allio

This is so cool Fits perfectly Ninninger. Well, to their theme at least. I'm curious what both Dino Charge and the new Sentai will bring. This is the third ninja theme sentai and maybe they will do team up with Hurricaneger and Kakuranger just like they did in the dino themed sentai a year ago with Kyoryuger, Abaranger and Zyuranger.

Should we do a new thread for Super Sentai or there is already one?

[ZariusTwo]

I don't mind the Sentai news being posted in here, it becomes PR later on anyway so it's pretty relevant to the topic

[SophieDem]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

I don't mind the Sentai news being posted in here, it becomes PR later on anyway so it's pretty relevant to the topic

Thanks Zarius. Ok, that's true but both of them are different franchises that's why I asked.

[Allio]

Technically not true, Power Rangers is just an over seas version of Super Sentai. in the contract eyes, Power Rangers is more or less just a dubbed anime.

[Wildcat]

Really liked the first episode of Dino Charge. It already seems far less corny than Megaforce. Really like the suits/helmets and the look of the zords.

Regardless of the disappointing Legendary Fight, Megaforce was just not good in general. It was very corny and it all came off very generic imo.

As for Super Sentai. I've never seen one but I'd consider PR part of it. I mean it is the American-ized version. It's certainly not a separate franchise. That would make it a ripoff.

Just how much of PR is SS? Is it everything that isn't showing the American actors on screen? I thought they just use bits and pieces. Like maybe certain action shots or zord fights.

[Allio]

All Megazords fights are from Super Sentai, save for like 2

as for ground battles, it depends.Space had a good bit of original footage. SPD-RPM was almost all original footage. Samurai and Megaforce...that was pretty much 98% Super Sentai footage. There wasn't any sentai footage in the first episode of Dino Charge.

[Wildcat]

Wow pretty much all megazord fights? For every season, even way back for MMPR?

I remember that one episode of DinoThunder where they stay late at the cafe and watch a Japanese show based on them...I assume that was in fact it's real life Super Sentai, right?

[Shred Head]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

Wow pretty much all megazord fights? For every season, even way back for MMPR?

I remember that one episode of DinoThunder where they stay late at the cafe and watch a Japanese show based on them...I assume that was in fact it's real life Super Sentai, right?

Ok Mighty Morphin is a very hard a complicated to answer. Somewhere in season one they actually ran out of footage of the show Zyuranger. Pretty much the show was going to end with episode 40 Doomsday. Ratings were so good they couldn't end it there so they payed Toei to make new monsters and battle footage for them fans named it Zyu2 footage. The footage is Japanese but its not sentai its footage made for Power Rangers. Season two things get even more complicated. They have to make new toys and they need to put in the new Megazords from the new Sentai. The problem they were still using the Zyu2 footage so they had to splice the footage. For example Thunder Megazord punches the screen monster falls over.

If you want to know more about how that worked in MMPR season 2 read this it goes into more detail. http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Zyu2

As for that Dino Thunder episode more less although they didn't really accurately dubb the Abaranger episode. If you want to experience Sentai I would watch the real show. With Zyuranger coming out in America on DVD you can legally get your chance.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

Wow pretty much all megazord fights? For every season, even way back for MMPR?

As Allio says, there's only been about two or three original U.S footage Zord fights ("A Friend In Need Part Three", and I think one with the Shogan Zords, might have been "A Chimp In Charge") there was one in Lost Galaxy too ("Power of Pink"), and there were plans for one in "Forever Red" before they blew the budget and had to settle on the flying bicycle ending.

I remember that one episode of DinoThunder where they stay late at the cafe and watch a Japanese show based on them...I assume that was in fact it's real life Super Sentai, right?

Yep. Abraranger, DT's Sentai counterpart

[SophieDem]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

As Allio says, there's only been about two or three original U.S footage Zord fights ("A Friend In Need Part Three", and I think one with the Shogan Zords, might have been "A Chimp In Charge") there was one in Lost Galaxy too ("Power of Pink"), and there were plans for one in "Forever Red" before they blew the budget and had to settle on the flying bicycle ending.

And the same goes for the rangers. All of the rangers can be found in their Sentai counterpart except Ryan in Lightspeed Rescue and Tommy's white ranger form in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Technically, that white ranger was in Dairanger which aired one year later after Zyuranger. And the alien rangers which appeared for an episode or two (I watched a little bit of Mighty Morphin) can be found in Kakuranger that aired after Dairanger. Maybe Ryan is the only ranger who is originally American.

That is why some of the girl yellow rangers don't have skirts while the pink/white rangers have. (Wild Force: Taylor - no/Alyssa - yes, MMPR: Kimberly - yes/Trini - no) In their sentai counterpart those yellow rangers were boys. And the writers, creators used the clips which were filmed in the original Japanese version. For example, in Megaforce you can see a scene when two monsters are talking and the street sign can be seen written in Japanese kanjis and hiraganas right above their heads.

[sdp]

Super Sentai doesn't need another thread here since there isn't enough interest here and whatever interest there is for it can be discussed in this topic already but they're definitely different things even if related. I sometimes cringe when I see fans try to explain the relationship of SS to PRs they go too much into detail and specific things that only happened in certain seasons which overwhelms the casual fan. I just explain "PRs is a japanese show called SS and the scenes without suits that have japanese actors are replaced with American footage to create a different story and maybe even different suited scenes depending on the season". You don't have to go straight into what Zyu2 is when someone just wants a basic explanation, if they ask for more then you can geek out. I've seen this happen in many non-toku forums and it overwhelms the user asking the question.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by Storm Eagle

Dino Charge starts on February 7th, at 12 noon.

sadly hasn't aired here yet! what a shocker

[Allio]

anybody seen the pilot forthe Korean hero show Gunblade? it's being directed by Koichi Sakamoto (known for his tokusatsu work in Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and Power Rangers)

here is the pilot


the show is suppose to start this year with an american dub next year.

[Wildcat]

Originally Posted by sdp

Super Sentai doesn't need another thread here since there isn't enough interest here and whatever interest there is for it can be discussed in this topic already but they're definitely different things even if related. I sometimes cringe when I see fans try to explain the relationship of SS to PRs they go too much into detail and specific things that only happened in certain seasons which overwhelms the casual fan. I just explain "PRs is a japanese show called SS and the scenes without suits that have japanese actors are replaced with American footage to create a different story and maybe even different suited scenes depending on the season". You don't have to go straight into what Zyu2 is when someone just wants a basic explanation, if they ask for more then you can geek out. I've seen this happen in many non-toku forums and it overwhelms the user asking the question.

A different story? I assume it's minimal things like how the rangers know each other and where they hang out otherwise the villains and fights wouldn't match up with Super Sentai.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

A different story? I assume it's minimal things

Sometimes, and in other instances it really is'nt. There have been whole episodes with american-exclusive fight sequences with the Rangers and villains. Indeed the first episode of Dino Charge has zero Sentai footage

[Allio]