Which Power Rangers show is the best?
>>23461220Hiw about dino thunder?
>>23461284Kino
>>23461220SPD
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>>23461220MMP1 Season 1, Zeo or Lightsped RescueAny other answer is wrong.
>>23461904>>23461385>>23461348>>23461322>>23461284>>23461247Better question, which Power Rangers OPENING is the best?
>>23461913Dino Thunder or Turbo.
>>23461913Zeo. ZEEEEEOOOO POWER ZEEEEOOOO*mmpr riff*
>>23461913Zeo, no question.
>>23461913I don’t care what anybody says, Mystic Force’s Intro goes so hard https://youtu.be/IsjuETN7DJw?si=2YAiLl0W-B2WaAda
>>23461913tie between dino thunder and spd
>>23461904>Lightsped RescueMy nigga
Probably In Space and I say this as someone who binged this franchise in his 30s so I have no nostalgia factor at play. It has the most consistently well written episodes with a clear end goal in mind, which at the time was the end of the series, and the music was still done by Ron Wasserman, who has that cool 90s synth vibe to his stuff.
>>23461220Beetleborgs sweeps every single show because none of them have this chad.
>>23461913https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zylHjeAhMTALost Galaxy
>>23462972I had this toy when I was a kid, holy fuck the toy was creepy.
>>23461220Lightspeed or Time Force.
>>23462972Jay Leno is in that?
>>23461913Zeo is worth getting the love it's gettingThat said, I really enjoy Lost Galaxy's story in the opening theme, and Lightspeed Rescue really pumps you up for it.
Fucking lmao at Lightspeed Rescue being the best at anything besides being the best at being a boring piece of shit>boring zords>boring guy rangers>boring girl rangers>boring villains>boring plot>boring theme>boring video gameYour childhoods were boring shit, faggots
>>23464261Thats not very nice
>>23461220
>>23461913Zeo is my favourite season but the best song is IN SPACE
>>23464261>Boring zordsThe existence of the Super Train Megazord invalidates the rest of your post
What do you all think of VR Troopers?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8_HrVhnqNg
>>23464634The Power Rangers Prime comic is currently turning one of them into a cocksucker.
>>23461220My top 3 are:>Zeo>Time Force>Ninja Storm
>>23464261Lightspeed Rescue has one of the best set of zords in the franchise history, and I say this as someone who started with MMPR.Carter is one of the best red rangers we had, Joel is fun, Chad is as chad, Dana is sweet and Kelsey is peak tomboy material. Diabolico was a cool villain, the Titanium Ranger plotline was greatLOLing if you're some Disney era fan who defends the slopshow that was the Mystic Force/Operation Overdrive/Jungle Fury era
While not my personal favourite its probably Timeforce. Much more complex character dynamics, willing to touch on more complex moral issues than usual, likeable cast with early roles from some new blood that would go on to become house names and some veterans winding their career down just having fun but still giving it 100%.Plus the actual end where the villain goes "holy shit i nearly lead my daughter to her death, you know what cuff me boys, i am turning myself in i fucked up" was extremely unique.
>>23461220The one you saw first.
>>23465204Comics were a mistake.
>>23465204Are you serious?
>>23465204What the FUCK
Ninja Storm has it's fans, and I'm sure it's ok, but it's where the franchise died for me. The shift to Disney made it feel way more ironic and belittling of the material. I'm. not saying old PR was edgy serious or lacked campy humor, but the Disney seasons is when it started to feel like the show was aware of how ridiculous it all was. I always got the feeling that Disney didn't just not care about the franchise, but felt the material was beneath them so there's this feeling of disdain for playing it too straight and this need to jangle keys and add goofy humor to undercut things. It was especially jarring coming off 4 seasons of characters regularly dying or all these melodramatic backstories
They hired this man
>>23465747The Disney era was pretty good despite the fact that they didn't want it and imo everything except Operation Overdrive was good.
RPM because I saw it right when I was about to get out of Power Rangers, and it was the perfect amount of tongue in cheek and serious for me to really get into it.
>>23465376Bruce Kalish Disney seasons are all trash and the only people who would defend them are people who only saw them once as a child.>hire guy who hates Power Rangers>they turn out terrble>surprisedpikachuface.jpg
>>23461284the yellow ranger was hot as fuck in this one.
>>23465764>those small diamondseww, it just shows how narrow the body is
>>23466628She was my first crush as a kid
The top three that made an impression on me:1. RPM2. In Space3. Time ForceHonorable mention goes to Ninja Storm. I loved the character interactions and humor. Sort of felt like the PR equivalent of Carranger.
>>23464586I never really liked how it doesn't have a proper hip/waist area
Looking back at Lost Galaxy's finale, I have mixed feelings. It's both incredibly intense and memorable but I also feel like it completely ruins Trakeena's character arc.
>>23466628she was a midget
>>23466941Trakeeniot is a different character from Trakeena really. It's weird that the show even tried to pretend it was the same personality as trakeena.
Anyone remember seeing Lost Galaxy Yellow nude in Not Another Teen Movie?
>>23467117Yeah that was hot
>>23461913Super Turbo
>>23465747>this need to jangle keys and add goofy humor to undercut thingsThis describes the post-Disney era better, the Disney shows might have had more "teenage edge" to their humor and the heroes' personalities, but the stories took themselves seriously enough (for Power Rangers shows, that is).
>>23467028Remember when the actress backed out for the Lightspeed crossover because for whatever reason the writers decided to make the episode more about some little girl than any of the two teams?
>>23461913
>>23465747I dunno, with ninja storm it's probably the source material.
>>23461220Jetman
>Red RangerfagsUnoriginal, no opinion of their own, likes whatever is popular.>Blue RangerfagsInferiority complex, most likely has an older sibling they're jealous of.>Green rangerfagsAutists, you're not as cool as you think you are>Yellow rangerfagsExcellent taste, most well adjusted and have healthy sex lives>Pink rangerfagsSimps, probably stalks the actresses online>Sixth ranger/ special rangerfagsDon't like to lose, always has to have to the most powerful role in playground games, metafags in pvp games.Prove me wrong.
>>23470786what if the bluefag is just a fan of the nerd?
>>23461220Lost Galaxy
>>23461913RPM unused themehttps://youtu.be/QOAmJKoKeOI?si=e12NXLjGV4bmC7UA
>>23471087it's not the best, but it's definitely a high tier OP. I'm the anon who posted >>23470391 , and if we got the Dan Avidan OP, RPM would absolutely be up in 2nd tier.
>>23461220All of them
Finished watching Jungle Fury. I have severe retarded questions.Why the fuck the ending is literally shit tier and rushed?Why there are literally 10 fucking rangers, if I am to count both the lion and the chamaleon?What were the differences at the ending from Geirangers?
>>23468763Wasn't that choice made because they wanted to reduce the screentime of the LG actors and thus pay them less? Huge fucking scam if so
>>23471258I dunno, I got a lot of hate back in the day from calling it an extremely neutered version of Gekiranger, and is one of the reasons I distanced myself from the PR fanbase.>>23461913Zeo and the original MMPR even though I feel the latter is extremely overrated and suits keep clinging to it try try milk it for what it's worth. But I've developed a heavy bias and a lot of them to me don't hold a candle to the original Sentai openings. I don't care much for a lot of the sentai shows but they rarely miss with their openings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYe1defOvkM
What do you all think of this?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luI0jRMUjFo
>>23471370I want to know who thought the old lady saying "There's no such as monsters" was a good line.
>>23461220Ninja Steel
>>23471948Well, she is Brazilian after all.
>>23471948The only good thing coming from that seasonAlso post more
>>23465764Can't believe this isn't a fan film. Also I can sort of appreciate what they're doing trying to copy the look of the '95 movie's armored suits with the panel lines, but after decades of MCU-style suits it's kind of an eyesore. Better than the '17 movie at least.>>23466635You think that's bad, look what they did to Goldar.
>>23471258I didn't like that the Spirit Rangers were just... astral projections, or something? Instead of just having the Masters morph into Rangers.
>>23471948Holy yum!
>>23472067do it yourself Nerd
>>23470786>when the yellow is the hot one, the sweet one/heart of the team, and the fun one all at once
>>23475116man that episode was so retarded. Amazing how i have no nostalgia for it despite having it on vhs as a kid.
>>23472399>>23465764What's this?
>>2346191310, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1RANGERS... IN SPACE!
>>23461385how much of the original sentai do the pr actors see anyway? aside from the suit footage
>>23475614Ninja Kidz/MMPR crossover ad Playmates is producing to promote Re-Ignition.
>>23476608we need a kickstarter to buy a cup for Red Ranger
>>23476608Close up detail of the Red suit. Still not sold on them, but you have to appreciate the level of detailing put into them.
A look at the Evil Space Alien crew from the NinjaKidz thing: Goldar, Zedd, Finster, and Rita. Rita looks like she's based on her "10,000 years ago" outfit from the Boom comics.
>>23478804goldar more like gutdar
>>23478804>>23478823They are still goin under the idea of Goldar being a monkey instead of a Lion Scorpion Griffon Hybrid, but look how they massacred PlePlechaun
>>23478804>no boob spikes >no evil grandma energyNot muh Rita. Fucking hell, why do the bitch female writers keep self-inserting as her?
>>23478804I wasn't expecting a perfect 1:1 casting, but they couldn't even attempt to make Rita's twintail horns work? Absolutely shameful.And Finster... Looks like he could lead a villain faction of his own. Completely missing the point.
>>23476608>think the boots look too much like tabi>remember the coins were made by ninjorUnless I'm wrong, because it looks like something goes over the shin area.
>>23475632I doubt most end up seeing much, being on the acting side there isn't much reason to besides curiosity, unless the creators really want them to match the JP actors. Especially before the neo-Saban years where you couldn't just pull up the JP season on a bootleg streaming site without torrenting or streaming while it aired in Japan.There are proabably a few actors who've since sought out their season in it's original Sentai form,but it would be long after they finished shooting. The thing is most of these seasons were produced on fairly brisk schedules, most of them barely remember day-to-day shooting and it all blurs together, and because they're young actors in often their first big roles, they're spending a lot of time hanging out and partying to let off steam, not watching more TV(though a few have mentioned throwing Saturday morning watch parties to watch their seasons)
lol
does someone have a link for Power Rangers Prime issue 8 and 9, cause at GetComics hasn't updated at all despite they are already out now.
>>23479812>And Finster... Looks like he could lead a villain faction of his own. Completely missing the point.I wonder if they were intentionally trying to make Finster seem more fearsome or evil, or if it's just a side-effect of them not being able to make a very good Finster suit.>>23479836From what TokuJay was saying on Instagram, it sounds like the gloves and boots suffered the most from a lack of time and budget.
>>23481470>I wonder if they were intentionally trying to make Finster seem more fearsome or evil, or if it's just a side-effect of them not being able to make a very good Finster suit.didn't the modern comics remake him into a crazy guy who built monsters that killed his family and town?
>>23481474Kind of, not quite. He made monsters to terrorize people, but this scared his wife and then she accidentally dies during an argument. And realistically, the first half of the concept makes sense, considering he goes on to work with Rita with the goal of global/universal domination.
And now, some Purple and Orange Ranger art, because why not.
Aaand last one. I like how everyone pretty much universally agrees that these designs are fine once you get rid of Bulk's exposed gut and Skull's sagging pants from the original comic.
>>23481373I heard that Book didn't release those issues on digital. But would resume eventually. My guess is that the sales were so low they decided to try to improve them by discouraging piracySo unless someone bought a physical copy and scanned each page like the days of old, we're at their mercy
>>23483346>BookI mean Boom Studios
>>23480968>the first and last ever champagne rangerlol
>>23482817>>23482819The comics suck making Megazords
>>23482819I get that Skull's zord is aping Dino Charge but which show had a Megazord with a face on its crotch? Or was that in an unadapted Sentai?
>>23484171I think it's going for Wild Force Megazord/Gao King configuration, with the boar tusks set up like the bison's horns
>>23484171>which show had a Megazord with a face on its crotch?Just off the top of my head...
>>23481373Just buy the comics if you enjoy them, jackass
>>23483364Whatever they or Hasbro do with the series going forward, I really hope that they stop letting old wine aunt hambeasts write Power Rangers.
Talking Megazords. do you think Power Rangers should’ve included Sentient Zords?
>>23486181Wild Force did
>>23478804I kind of dig some of these designs. Rita seems to be inspired by the previous movie and some of the comic designs. Goldar looks 50/50 to me. Pretty close to the original but that red frabric mid section needs work. I love finsters redesign, but I have no idea why they gave Zedd those wierd shredder claw things. Makes me wonder if they will use these suits outside of the Ninja kids show as well.
>>23486181They should’ve, lots of shit was cut from abaranger to dinothunder cause of it.Best Ranger show was probably Lost Galaxy because of how original it is and a departure from the gingaman theme.
I cannot hate this guy. He seemed to have genuinely enjoyed his time on the show.
>>23483970Well, first, that Megazord is a fan (re)design (the Baconadon and Featherdactyl Zords never actually get used in the comic), and second, what's wrong with it? It's a pretty basic "one goes on top, one goes on the bottom" Zord combination you might actually see on the show. Boom's Megazords are horrible mishmashes with absolutely no thought put into how they combine that just put random parts everywhere.
>>23487317When an actual Dragonzord/Thunder Megazord combination should look like this.
None. It's all bastardized western shit produced by a Jew.
>>23483462>Power Rangers is known for its bright colorful colors>Adapting Zord footage from a series with 12 different rangers to pick colors from, including more obscure choices like Light Blue, Purple, and Orange>Hell they give Zayto Ryu Commander's mecha from Kyuranger so they may as well have just made him Purple and made it his official Zord>Let's give him the most drab shade of beige imaginable and pass it off as "champagne">The reason for why he's champagne is that Hasbro didn't want to make a black actor the White RangerEvery day it all comes back to Saban as to why this franchise is in the shitter.
>>23461913Wild Force.
>>23465477Nah, I watched MMPR live, and Samurai is way better. Except in music.>>23471948Dumptruck is here.
Some guy on YouTube did an animation with the Thunder Zords and came up with a sort of "Ultra Mega Tigerzord" combination that's kinda cool.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb6laxSFZ9g
>>23490616Horrifying, but kind of cool.
>>23479706>why do the bitch female writers keep self-inserting as her?Probably some yas queen mentality.
>>23483970Those are fanarts and they actually have more thought as a mecha put into it than whatever the fuck is Boom's abominations
>>23485107>I really hope that they stop letting old wine aunt hambeasts write Power Rangers.It's fucking embarassing how PR turns into Tumblr-fest even faster than Marvel and DC did in their time. Comic PR is a fucking embarassment nowadays I can't believe I used to think comics is the best offering of the franchise.Still, pre-Shattered Grid Go Go Power Rangers is peak PR. Shattered Grid ruined everything.
>>23487196My respect for him is immortalized with how he just constructively criticized everything about the 2017 movie.
>>23487328I wonder if the filming suits were compatible like that? Probably not.
>>23491872I always figured the arms and legs were separate from the torso to make it easier for the suit actor to put on/take off, but supposedly taking the suits apart like that in Ninja Quest completely destroyed the Thunder Zord suits, so...
https://x.com/TheComicAwakens/status/1962504220558414140Thoughts about new cast? Pink is blonde
>>23476608Five teens with attitude!
>>23491959IIRC, the shoulder pads are usually attached to the chest piece, so detaching it that way and stuffing the suit full of wires and other crap would damage it. But the rest is fairly modular (pelvic armor, thigh guards, boots, ect.), So they shouldn't be completely irreparable. I'd say it's more the outer wear and tear from the squibs and other battle damage than anything else.
>>23494057>>23494077A better pic stolen from Instagram.Kind of amusing how they're blending the style of the original series with the ethnicities from the 2017 movie. Except for "Zack", who is Hispanic(?) for some reason.
>>23494131Thanks dude! Also actor identities?
>>23494121No that scene totally ruined the suits, to the point Toei can no longer use it in Sentai or display it at their Museum. The Red Dragon is the Dairanger rep in those instances. And given they still have the very first robot suit from 1979 still displayable (it can't be worn but its still good enough to show off) and are 25 year old Wild force stuff in the latest Sentai the only logical explaination is that either that one specific suit failed to hold up unlike every other robot suit before and after it, or PR destroyed it during the destruction scene because they didn't think it would ever be needed again
>>23494140>or PR destroyed it during the destruction scene because they didn't think it would ever be needed againWhich, honestly, is totally Toei's fault. Say what you will about Saban (the studio), but I can't imagine they would've destroyed the suits had Toei explicitly told them "Don't wreck our suits, we want them back eventually."
>>23494257Saban did that a lot. To the point where Toei started refusing to give them the original props telling them to make their own.
>>23494257Part of it was short sightedness by Toei. They were still in the one and done part of Sentai. Crossovers wouldn't be a thing for another year and anniversary stuff was rare to the point where the only major production that actually used older suits in any capacity was the theme park short video short shortly before they sent the Dairanger stuff over for PR.But Saban (and the PR crew in general) does have a general "We own this forever" attitude towards the stuff to the point where they actively cockblocked Toei trying to buy any of it's stuff back during the PR fire sale a year or so back. Presumably Toei had a specific rule about Megazord suits that the PR team couldn't keep or damage them and had to return them when they were done. They did offer the Megazord suit for once and always but the PR team turned them down and opted to CG it.
>>23494134Sorry, no clue.>>23494205Seeing White with a Morpher on his belt is messing with me way more than it should.
>>23494319He's had before in US made suits. Like the movie one
>>23494205Say what you will about the suits overall (wtf is going on with the boots), but the White Ranger's shield and belt are a noticeable improvement on those from the movie's suit. I've always thought the movie's shield was too small (trying to make it too much like the Green Ranger's?) and whoever decided the White Ranger should have a white belt should be shot.
>>23494322And? It looks off every time.>>23494343Got to disagree there. Despite the movie shield just being the standard chestpiece with extra shoulder pads, the streamlined proportions where always cooler to me than the original vest style look. Fine in it's original context, but going from the Dragon Shield to that was a major downgrade. I do agree on the belt though. Making it gold would've elevated it to a 11/10 design.
The best MMPR is the movie.Great suits.Great music.Great story.Great cinematics and CG for the 90s."Thanks, Toei, we'll take it from here."A great demonstration of what Power Rangers could be if not held back.
>>23494205Jesus fuck, why'd they get a slender rectangular guy be the red?
>>23482831By far my favorite ranger designs.Bulk & Skull should have had an entire show for themselves.
>>23461247>Timeforce is usually considered the best PR show>it's also the only one that directly adapts the source material besides Wild Force with GaorangerInteresting>>23465666As cringe as this is, no one reads the comics outside of twitter faggots and they've been losing money on them and everyone involved will be out of a job so it won't even matter in a few months
>>23495710>Bulk & Skull should have had an entire show for themselves.Apparently there were plans for that? That's why they got turned into chimps in Turbo. But then it fell through.
>>23482814>>23482831These are so fucking bad they're like deviantart furry fanart tier
>>23497038Well, considering the bodies are just MMPR/Zyuranger suits, this means what you dislike about them are the helmets. So what is it about the helmets that you dislike?
>>23495710>>23497028Speaking of those two, who would you say was the worst attempt to emulate them?
>>23478377I always hated the gold animal symbols they had on toys and in the movie. Doing it like tis is a nice compromise.
>>23498077Why was that done again? Reminds me of when a lot of old Simpsons merchandise would have Bart wearing a blue shirt.
>>23494205Ugh. Ew. Are they ALLERGIC to casting attractive actors and actresses? The girls are mid or have manjaws.The men look like smiling dorks. NONE of them look fit or trained in martial arts at all. Lmao wtf is going on with Black? That is Zack's replacement? Is this a joke??? Every single member of the original MMPR cast had martial arts training except Amy Jo Johnson. But she at least was a trained gymnast, and was trained by others to do basic martial arts while filming the show. ALL of them were very fit.So are we going to get a bunch of wire work like a Chinese drama? Also wtf is going on with the ethnic ratio of the team? 3 brown Latinos or Mexicans? NO Asians?? No black guy??? What happened to having 1 of every race?Also those suits look ugly.
>>23498084Best explanation I can find, is to make them more appealing to kids, so that they could easly tell with animal they represent.
>>23498141I always thought it was to make them easy to seperate from bootleg/imports, like why Jurassic Park dinos all had that JP tramp stamp even though they didn't in the movie
>>23498159I think that was also the reason for blue shirt Bart merch that I mentioned.
>>23498169yeah same ideaI forget if Beavis and Butthead was that or dodging the band tmsthe medals suck, but scoring the five NIB for a hundred total as soon as I got zyu raws in the early 00s with no effort was a nice trade off for getting real zyu merch
>>23498084>Why was that done again?I think it was to make it obvious that merchandise was specifically MMPR as opposed to Zyuranger.
Someone's custom Lightning Collection Silverback figure and their custom Lightning Collection Goldar repaint.
>>23495772Fans who say TF is the best PR season should just be watching Sentai, TF is a bastardization of TimeRanger. PR should be western-styled storytelling on top of Japanese designs and fight scenes. RPM is the best and any other answer is wrong (LR's finale are the best two PR episodes though)
>>23499735Also DC is fun too
>>23498040Victor and Monty
>>23498084It was because American superheroes tend to have symbols on their chest, and helps differentiate each Rangers other than their helmet.
>>23499735Time Force’s casts chemistry also goes along way to making it enjoyable.
>>23499762This. The very embodiment of copying the basic formula without understanding why it worked the first time.
>>23499735To be fair, half of what makes Time Force beloved is related to Ransik, who is an original addition.
>>23501865Save for the clock tower fight, the TF finale is awful, all the characters pull heel-face turns on a dime. Even Judd says he hates TF
>>23487181Honestly it was a huge missed opportunity to have the characters bonding with their zords. They don’t have to talk, but the Rangers could treat them like giant kaiju-sized pets. Imagine Dragon Zord sensing Tommy is in danger, and comes to his aid without being summoned. Or Conner learning to tame his Zord. All of that would’ve been enjoyable.
>>23499735I find the lack of Dan Southworth disturbing.
>>23499762>>23501786They even tried to copy the theme song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpQmPjUxWSE
>>23502136>Even Judd says he hates TFYou mean Judd "In the Limelight is my favorite episode" Lynn? You really want to bring his opinion into the discussion?
>>23503212It would make it more poignant and emotional when they inevitably lose the zords at the end of the season. That's one thing about the seasons as they go on, the zords feel more vestigial and they have no issues destroying or losing them. The zords getting destroyed in DT feels like it happens so fast.
>>23485096She's hot
>>23504217Yes, toku should be wacky fun and not melodrama for kids
>>23504997The weird thing is that the Sentai source material rarely even does that, so I have no idea why PR made it a habit of destroying the Zords every finale for a while. Not like they needed to justify replacing them when they'd have a new team the next year. The DT zord sacrifice was just a fake out death in Abaranger.
>>23506275>I have no idea why PR made it a habit of destroying the Zords every finale for a while.>Not like they needed to justify replacing them when they'd have a new team the next year.That's probably the reason. An easy way to raise the stakes for the finale that they don't have to figure out a way around in the event of a crossover, since they rarely had access to footage from team-up movies where it would be an issue.
>>23507021So just the James Bond gimmick of blowing up all his stuff for drama? That's lame
>>23507021Funny thing is I don't think they ever explained why they needed to ditch the Zeo powers for the Turbo ones outside of one deleted scene.
>>23507305We all know what happened. There was a dramatic battle with Serpentera on the moon.Seriously though, it's crazy no one's ever thought that was important enough to go back and elaborate on. Boom could've made a miniseries off that premise, but I guess that's not an outlandish enough prompt for their fanfics.
>>23507679>Boom could've made a miniseries off that premise,Seeing as how bad Boom butchered In Space by turning it into fujoshit, it might have been a blessing.I mean seriously, it's baffling how the PR comics got Tumblrized faster and harder than Marvel and DC did.
>>23501786The worst part is Disney seasons had their Bulk and Skull expies yet they never feel as blatant ripoff as Victor and Monty.
>>23507708>I mean seriously, it's baffling how the PR comics got Tumblrized faster and harder than Marvel and DC did.Not really. Not only is it a "younger" property than DC and Marvel, but the resurgence in 2016 coincided with the big cultural shift of the time. If anything it's amazing we got any quality stories before the line went off the rails.>>23507714For all their faults, Disney's writers definitely understood the spirit of Bulk and Skull's archetype better than Neo Saban/Hasbro's writers. Still blows my mind that the company that only got the rights because they wanted one network put more effort in than the company that started it all and one founded on creating memorable characters out of toys (circumstances aside).
I just want to say that I love Green Ranger Tommy and prefer him nowadays over his White Ranger self.Also him and Jason are the PEAK duo.
>>23509284>Still blows my mind that the company that only got the rights because they wanted one network put more effort in than the company that started it all Nothing in Disney feels as ambitious as In Space or Lost Galaxy or even Lightspeed. Maybe SPD. The Disney seasons are still better than Neo-Saban or Hasbro, but there's such a marked downgrade in scope even if they had a higher budget.
>>23509797SPD has an ambitious setting with New Tech City and taking place in the future, at the tail end of an ongoing alien war that SPD has been losingSame with RPM taking place in a post-Apocalyptic setting where Rangers haven't existed before Dr. K invented them, giving each Ranger a backstory related to who they were before the Apocalypse and what they did after is pretty impressive You have to admit that those seasons weren't afraid to break the formula
>>23509810Was RPM always an alternate universe or was that a retcon? I do remember hearing whoever was in charge of the Neo-Saban era hated the Disney shows and wanted them to be non-canon. Even refusing to invite any of the Disney Rangers back for Megaforce. Casey from Jungle Fury only came back because his actor was a writer on the show.
>>23509840They included some references to past seasons, like a destroyed Overdrive helmet and the pizza from Jungle Fury, but the people working on the show always said they saw it as a standalone universe.
>>23507714>>23509284Did Disney even have that many Bulk and Skull expies? Only Cassidy and Devin come to my mind as a bumbling duo archetype (and they were pretty good to be fair).
>>23509810The writers certainly tried to make something bigger, and I do think SPD and RPM are highlights, but it still doesn't feel as big as the attempts made at doing this big world building and environments we got from In Space through Wild force(even with their own budget crunches). They were making these elaborate settings like Astro Megaship, Terra Venture or the Lightspeed base. SPD does make some good use of it's budget, but at the same time there's a lot that just feels somewhat cheap, like sitcom sets. Not that the image compositing and sets in the late Saban era wouldn't also end up cheap, but they swung for the fences. Most of the Disney sets feel really basic in general to me(again, with the exception of some of SPD)RPM's tight budget is really noticeable. Venjix being an edited image of an alienware PC for the first half just cracks me up because it was during the peak of that brand being hyped to kids who didn't know better, and it's such a distinct case. I just think there's a marked difference from when the show was shot in LA, and when it was in NZ. It might not even just be a Disney vs Saban thing but a matter of changing crews.I will say there's still benefits to the Disney era. They had a lot more budget for US suit fights IIRC so there's more unique action in that regard. Though at the risk of sounding more negative than I should, I also don't particularly like the Disney era US footage fights either.
The Lost Galaxy to Wild Force seasons didn't feel like power rangers imo. Their tone is abysmally different when you compare it to the rest of the series.
>>23510279I wouldn't necessarily call that a bad thing, though I may be biased in that I like when they branch out like that. I also think they were (mostly, Wild Force is especially lopsided) better overall.That said I also think the feel in general changes every few years. I can't say Disney truly feels like early Saban- maybe Turbo sometimes. More polished than Turbo was though.
>>23510279How so? The show carried over In Space's more serious tone, but aside from the shift to a young adult cast there wasn't that big a change.
>>23510279It's just the soundtrack mostly dumping rock for some reason.
>>23510279Bruh, that's the peak era of Power Rangers. It didn't feel like MIGHTY MORPHIN which is a good thing.
>>23510025Marah and Kapri are considered Bulk and Skull expies except that they're on the villains' side. But from SPD onwards they change it a bit, usually by having just one guy (Boom, Phineas, Norg) so only Cassidy and Devin are considered a proper Bulk and Skull expies.
>>23510824>Marah and Kapri are considered Bulk and Skull expies except that they're on the villains' side.Wouldn't that technically make them Squatt and Baboo expies?
>>23510984They don't need to fit the archetype 1:1, but I guess in this case than be expies of both.
>>23461913ZeoSPDIn SPACETurbo
>>23471087I could've sworn when RPM aired this theme was used, I remember hearing it
>>23489563The show runner for Dino Fury and Cosmic Fury was a completely radicalized liberal fag who if not for sponsors and Nickelodeon execs would have took Power Rangers into the worst direction possible.He wanted the meme of the fat black lesbian wheel chair bound vitiligo cunt a reality in the show.
>>23487317Boom comics fans hate me because I make it my business to point out how shit the zord designs are in the comics. They could easily hire an artist who does mech art to at the very least design their shitty megazord ideas but instead have their artist draw the most terrible weird shit possible.
>>23490616>that's kinda cool.What the fuckNo it's not cool. It lacks understanding of the zord and functionality. You don't need to include every single piece of the zords. Even in official designs parts that can't be used just go into hammer space.
>>23490963>>23479706Wasn't Ninja Kids some shitty channel created by some Mormon's and their gymnast and martial arts kids?Why the fuck is Hasbro doing an official crossover with a dead channel?
>>23490984As soon as they entered the "original character and concept" bullshit the Boom comics were doomed. After Shattered Grid it instantly jumped into fanfiction dog shit. With cross series ships, lesbians, rewriting lore, their obsession with female red rangers.I really hated when they started to dip into series that Power Rangers skipped and coming up with the most faggy stories possible.
>>23515221I guess it's their last hurrah for the channel, given they did Power Rangers-inspired skits, so they're getting a freebie and graduating to the real deal before it ends.Actually now that I type that out, cross-promotion aside that is way too generous for modern Hasbro. What the fuck is going on?
>>23515221They are desperate to make kids get interested in MMPR that's why
>>23515605I don't think kids even watch that channel now all of the kids from the channel are getting kind of up there
>>23478804For some reason this reminds me of those videos of Spider-Man and Elsa from Frozen from a few years ago.
>>23461220I started with MMPR and watched until Dino ThunderDino Thunder or Time Force I hear SPD is good, but when I saw a preview of the gross dog guy with the predator dreadlocks back then. I bailed
>>23515215>hammer space.Grandpa go to bed.
>>23516523Doggie was literally best (good) boy.
>>23516523>I hear SPD is good, but when I saw a preview of the gross dog guy with the predator dreadlocks back then. I bailedThe US Doggie Cruger costume is technically impressive, but reeks of American lack of aesthetic sense. JP Doggie is a big anime dog man and kind of janky as a costume sure, but it looks cool. The US costume has a higher budget but has so many bizarre additions like ugly ass dreads and scales to superficially make it feel more alien.
>>23517192Every time I see "Anubis Kruger" posted on Japanese social media the responses are always "What's the American obsession with uglifying everything? What is wrong with them?"Every time I see the stereotypical black dude on YT react to Doggie Kruger I always hear "Awww naaaaah hell naaaaaa dude naaaah man nah" and other ebonics decrying Boss.
>>23515221>Why the fuck is Hasbro doing an official crossover with a dead channel?IS it an official crossover? I just thought it was essentially a decently budgeted fan film type thing.
>>23517222>Every time I see the stereotypical black dude on YT react to Doggie Kruger I always hear "Awww naaaaah hell naaaaaa dude naaaah man nah"They reek of tourism.
>>23517388Hasbro for whatever reason Hasbro had gave them licensing and funding for the project.
>>23471556Thanks you reminded me that despite Sentai/PR being about kung fu fightan we haven't had a martial arts themed series for the last 18 years.
>>23517992This thing is officially funded and they couldn't even finish the fucking gloves and boots for the suits??
>>23517992More like Playmates, who Hasbro licensed PR to.Hasbro basically gave up on Power rangers. Playmates has almost no money but wants to have /some/ media out there since Hasbro isn't making anything new.
>>23517682Deka doggie wears sunglasses so he’s the better one. Spd doggie does have the daggeron voice though
>>23507679>Boom could've made a miniseries off that premiseBoom! couldn't have have done that. Because then they'd have to acknowledge Kat's existence to tell that story.
>>23518693That, and considering the main threat is Serpentera, that means they'd have to write Zedd in a threatening manner and go without humiliating him for five minutes.
>>23465747Sensei didn't do it for you?
>>23518693>>23518809Damn, that completely slipped my mind. I guess they could pull it off if Kat was conveniently off visiting relatives, and Serpentera was being empowered by a time displaced Venjix (because of course).
>>23518693Wait do they hate Kat?
>>23520470I don't think that's true, I think anon is just making assumptions because they admittedly seem to favor KimberlyShe was the one to get her own mini set during MMPR 3 after she left, leading her own teamShe became one of the protagonists of Shattered Grid after main Tommy died, even getting to wear the Dragon ShieldThe universe ended with her and Tommy together and they seemed to actively resist moving the main Boom comics to season 3 because it would mean Kim would need to leaveAnd then there's all of the focus and attention they gave to her Coinless Counterpart the Ranger Slayer>Whole arc to herself in Go Go>The Gravezord >Led the hodgepodge Beyond the Grid team of Rangers from various seasons and became a Solar Ranger>Secretly worked with Promethea for years and went back to her world so they could make her the new Drakkon and Queen of the Coinless Universe>Except they couldn't even plan that properly because next she sacrificed all of the remaining Power Coins in the machine that makes Ranger Sentries to give everyone a fraction of the Ranger Powers only for them all to get killed by Dark Spectre off panel>But it's okay because Kim and the few other survivors teamed up with Drakkon to become the Drakkon RangersSo it's not that they hate Kat, they just really can't get out of Kim's ass
>>23518080It happensYou give people who don't know how to produce or budget money chance are they're going to waste it
>>23520470>>23520526It's because Kim is probably the most popular of the original team, second only to Tommy and arguably more popular since a lot of people dislike Tommy. Even in the original series she was the only one to get a truly proper send-off. Plus they got her actress to write for them, which is a big deal. Both her and JDF wanted to have Tommy and Kim together in some way, but Soul of the Dragon ran with the idea that Kat marries him in the end.
>>23521483>Even in the original series she was the only one to get a truly proper send-off.I thought that was because Amy Jo Johnson was the only one of the original cast to not leave on bad terms. The others were gone long before their characters were written off for obvious reasons.
>>23505872>toku should be wacky fun and not melodrama for kidsNigga did you not watch Jetman?
>>23521503Aisha's actress also left in good terms but they just handwaved her out without even using her actress. They don't dwell much on the remaining Zeo cast in Turbo; Rocky leaves in the movie and the rest of the cast just has the two parter to leave. Kim had a whole arc to ease her out.
>>23521503That's exactly it. Amy was the only one who actually gave the producers a heads up that she wanted to leave soon so they should start working on writing her out. Austin Walter and Thuy just stopped showing up one day so they had to be replaced without them actually being there and Karen just kind of surprised them with her sudden decision to leave right as they were starting up the Alien Rangers arc and they also couldn't write her out properly because they'd already turned the Rangers into kids so her kid character was the one who left.
>>23522239And Yost literally walked off set due to all the homophobic stuff he'd been dealing with. I think that's when they turned Billy into an old man and sent him off to Aquitar.
>>23522302In Yost's case he'd given them notice as well hence why they'd already been slowly phasing Billy out, but then in his final batch of episodes he couldn't take anymore abuse and just left. They'd already worked out his leaving they just had to deage him in order to get around Yost being no longer around
>>23520470It's not that they hate Kat herself (besides maybe one or two literal proshippers, AJJ herself included), but everything after MMPR S1 got shafted due to writer preference and mandates. It's not like the Stone Canyon trio fared any better, even with the minor focus they got. Kat just gets the worst of it since she came in so close to the end of the series.
>>23522302>>23522319I have friends and even an Uncle who worked in film in the 90s. I call BS on David Yost's story about being insulted by the film crew. No one in a film crew would dare insult the actors. Heck, half the time the film crew are encouraged to avoid speaking to actors unless absolutely necessary. *IF* (and that's a big if) David Yost WAS insulted, then it was by someone "above the line" such as a Producer or Executive Producer visiting the set. Not the film crew. Someone with serious money and influence. But David Yost is probably too much of a coward to say their names. So he just vaguely says, "The film crew called me homophobic slurs". Total cowardly attitude. What a cop OUT.
>>23521483>but Soul of the Dragon ran with the idea that Kat marries him in the end.Because the show itself officially states as much in multiple episodes. It's kinda hard to argue with the source material, unless you're doing some weird ass what-if story.>Side eyes "MMPR: The Return," which ends with Kim in her 40s-50s married to Tommy in his 20s...
>>23522712PR was not a union Hollywood production at the time. The crew might not have been the typical professionals
>>23522712Power Rangers were not run like a regular production back then. The actors were considered losers who couldn't hack it in the real business at worse and glorified stuntmen at best. There's a reason it was considered a career dead end.
>>23522712>my uncle works at Power Rangers
>>23461220Controversial opinion aheadI think that vehicle zords are super lame
>>23522712It wasn't that they were calling him a fag to his face so much but more that they'd refer to him as such behind his back and make snippy remarks to him in front of him. They were asking other actors if he was gay and were being snide about telling him about how he couldn't be gay as a Power Rangers actor. Maybe some of the crew would make a snide remark but since he wasn't officially out it was a case of not wanting to resemble that remark so he sucked it up
>>23523143>here's a list of non-Union people. They all suck and are rude because they are non-union. Only union people are professionals! Tee hee. Please examine your head. Working under a Union contract only means they get paid more, and the production has to follow certain rules like required lunch breaks and overtime pay for the crew. The SAME PEOPLE work Union and non-Union jobs. Saban was a non-Union production, but that doesn't mean people were assholes. It's the same group of professionals. I can't believe you honestly believe the words you wrote. Use common sense. >>23523144>The actors were considered losers who couldn't hack it in the real businessAnother idiot response. All the actors were young looking for a big break into their careers. Some already had agents to represent them like Walter Jones.>>23523145Never said that. Never worked on a power Rangers but I'm quite familiar to film productions and low budget work in the LA area.Even helped out on several sets. The crews are generally professional and grateful to be there and be able to earn a living. The film crew are generally the nicest and most grateful people on set. Plus It's a small world. People know eachother and talk. Arrogant people who insult actors do not get hired or called back for work. They get dismissed, fired, and a new crew member is brought in to replace them the next day. Thousands of people are waiting in line to replace you if you mess up on set. I've seen it happen.The only people I've seen that are a-holes are the Producers, some writers visiting set, and arrogant Directors. Some have yelled at crew. >>23523548The film crew are generally the nicest and most grateful people on set. They are just happy to have work. David Yost is a coward for blaming the nameless camera team and crew members who can't defend themselves. Ask David to name their names or say which specific crew members insulted him. We have imdb. We can look up names. David is a Coward.
To be fair, I remember an interview many years ago where fans asked Johnny Yong Bosch asked about working with David Yost. He said that David Yost was a demanding Diva on set. That Yost was hard to work with, and made extra demands because he was oldest Power Ranger on the show.
>>23523829>>23523548>>23523143Well if Yost is telling the truth then other PR actors should be able to confirm his story. Someone go Tweet at Amy Jo Johnson.Ask her if Yost is telling the truth.Also Austin St. John and Walter Jones are available to be asked too.Why hasn't anyone done this?
>>23523854>Someone go Tweet at Amy Jo Johnson. Shes too busy trying to ask fans to donate to her gofundme for her new project and making excuses about why she can't come back to power rangers
Now that it's come up, I don't recall any other cast member speaking about what they did or didn't see in regards to Yost's bullying. Ever since his No Pink Spandex interview, it's always been taken at face value. Others supported him, but they never directly spoke about it. Which also reminds me, Douglas Sloan's tell all is supposed to drop in November, right? Hope it sheds some light on the situation from his view as part of the production.
>>23524999Yeah that's the thing. No one has confirmed Yost's story. In fact like some staff members have come out and said Yost was never bullied. They claim Yost left because he wanted even more money during Zeo. By that point the show was paying Union rates for everyone, but Yost wanted even more. JYB claimed Yost was pretty difficult to work with and thought he was better than everyone else and kept talking about how he was the senior ranger.
>>23523229I think Turbo had the coolest megazord combination, it's so slick and practical.
>>23523829>>23525030All he said is that yost is an ass during the movie filming, nothing about being a diva or how he thinks he's better than everyone else “In the first script, I had quite a bit and I was excited about it, and he complained that because he had been there longer, he should have more [lines, scenes] and I shouldn’t have more than him. And so in the next script, I had quite a bit less. At least all the fun stuff, you know.”
>Cosmic Fury really pretending like Zedd destroying Zords with a blast from his staff is some godly display of power he was never capable of before when it was literally the first fucking thing he did on the show
>>23525217But his hat's bigger now
>>23525217The real display of power was trying to write the N word on a mountain
>>23494205soulless
>>23525124Not that anon but JYB said he never witnessed any homophobic bullyung on set against David during his entire time as a power ranger actor.
>>23525217Granted, one-shotting an entire fleet of Zords with beams is a whole lot different from creating a chasm to sink them in. That said, the latter was definitely more shocking and dramatic than the former.
>>23525217How come Zedd's early 90s suit still looks so much better tham the Dino and Cosmic Fury recreationsRemove the silly Zs from it and he could be a legit horror monster
>>23526468Costume budgets went a lot farther in the 90s, please understand.
>>23526459There had to be more to it than just making a chasm - The Zords chilled out in chasms. Chasms were their resting places. Zedd had to have put some of his own power into damaging/destroying/whatever the Zords on top of it.
>>23503271Is Eric the best Sixth Ranger?
>>23526585I was joking before, but it's highly likely given Alpha talks about recovering what was left, and I doubt the Zords would be heavily damaged from a little dip in magma.Adding the the original post, there's also the idea that Zedd didn't just pick the Dinozords off like Duck Hunt, he made the Rangers watch slowly sink away after they finally recovered them from Pirantishead. Power didn't just go to Zedd's head, it took away his pension for mind games.
>>23525054In the movie or the TV show? I was always surprised the show never used footage of the movie's combination sequence.
