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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Power Rangers Armored Might MMPR Red
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Darkonslaught Productions: Power Rangers Legacy Power Morpher
After many years fans can finally own the original Power Morpher. Well its a newer version but still its pretty much the one they used on MMPR. The bigger size may not be 100% accurate but for those who couldn't get the original can at least own the new one. The box has a really retro feel with the lightning bolts and the green color helps it make it looks like one of the original products. The added Die-cast gives the morpher more weight along with the worn out coins makes it look more like a prop rather then a toy. On top of that the added belt buckle which was removed on the original release gives it more display options along with adding a cosplay option. At this moment It is a toysrus exclusive and it is unknown if it will be sold at other retailers so keep a lookout at your store to see if you can get one.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Darkonslaught Productions: Power Rangers Legacy Megazord Review
In celebration for the 20th anniversary of Power Rangers Bandai released a new Version of the 2k10 megazord with an even more accurate paint and die-cast parts. Bandai even took it a step further and made a replica of the original box to go along with it. The die-cast parts help make it weight and is a nice touch since even the original 93 version didn't have that. However, they should have thought to fix up the hand so that the sword handle didn't get the chrome scraped off but oh well. Hopefully they will re-release the 2k10 Titanus along with a dragonzord so that a legacy ultrazord can be formed but only time will tell. Oh I forgot to mention in the video that it is a Toysrus Exclusive so if you want to get one you will need to check there.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Legends of Power, Week # 40: Guess Who's Back
LEGENDS OF POWER, WEEK # 40:
Return of an Old Friend
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
I liked to point out that this 2 parter was a major step for Mighty Morphin and in PR history. Why is that? Well, besides the obvious, allow me to break it down to you.
Near Complete.
Rita forgot one detail that made this story all the more interesting. Jason and the gang turned in THEIR power coins ... yet, Rita did not ask for the Green Power Coin. She asked for the Dragon Dagger. She got the Dragon Zord running amok. She knows there are some powers left int he coin cause of seeing Jason using the Dragon Shield. Yet, She DID NOT ask for the Green Power Coin.
*shakes my head*
Honestly, if Rita had asked for the Green Power Coin as well, Mighty Morphin would have possibly ended with Rita winning it all. But she didn't. And in Jason's and Zordon's clever foresight, they used the coin, got Tommy and infused it with some of Zordon's power for a temporary fix.
And Tommy came back hard. He got the others power coins, he got back control of the Dragon Zord. He took down the Puddies. And the Rangers saved their parents. It was pretty damn epic 2 parter for back in the day.
This also marked the return of the Green Ranger ... till the first 3rd of season 2. We got lots of Zyu2 footage going on. And was the beginning of the last part of the first season. For the first time, Rita got really personal. Her plan was near flawless. This plan was better than the one in Doomsday. It attacked the Rangers personally. Billy was turned evil. The Rangers lost their powers and had to relay on Tommy, whose powers were definitely in flux to get the Power Coins back.
It was a great jump on point as well. As this part of the series really meshes Tommy with the team, while his first run as Green Ranger ... he was definitely very much a sixth ranger.
Return of an Old Friend was exciting, somewhat smartly written and a rollercoaster of a 2 parter. Tommy's return has fans losing their damn minds in excitement. And it was the debut of the now classic Go Green Ranger Go song that many fans still listen to this day.
So, why is this # 40 and not much higher? A few reasons. First, Rita's fail at full victory for not asking for the Green Dragon Coin. Second, Rita had the Rangers parents. She should have hurt one of them in order to get a complete surrender. Third, the beginning of the bad cloth shield for American Footage.
Otherwise, this was a solid story that really pushed the Rangers and brought back Tommy in grand fashion, much like how he came in. And that is it for this week. Till next time, May the Power Protect You.
NEXT: The Episode With the Most Imfamous Ranger Line In History
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Toku Time: Zyuranger Review
EZ Rider himself invades the Broken Infinite with his Zyuranger review. Check out the tokusatsu Master himself go over the very Sentai which became Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ... and just how different it is to MMPR.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Rolling Review: Super Robot Chogokin DaiZyuJin
My second SRC, but 1st to be reviewed on this channel which is Daizyujin from Zyuranger. This figure comes with its signature Sword, Mastodon Shield, and its random Head Beam, only used like twice. Anyways the articulation is pretty good, and has alot of hidden features when discovering how its joints work. I personally love this figure due to the MMPR fandom I have, so it was a must for me. I do hope more "MMPR" Megazords/Mechas are made now!
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Toku 101: My Top 10 Ranger Defeats
Hello and welcome to another Toku 101! Today's topic is actually not a series, special or movie review it's actually a Top 10. This Top 10 is based around actually Power Ranger Defeats, this is also personally some of my most favorite defeats handed to the Rangers throughout the years. I may end up enraging several or amuse others as I don't think this type of Top 10 has been ever done so far. So sit back and enjoy, this oddly selected and complied Top 10 of Ranger Defeats!
10. Power Rangers Super Samurai: Master Xandred Appears
In the episode of Super Samurai: The Master Returns, Master Xandred himself comes to the human to bring Dayu back to the Sanzu River. Upon his arrival his challenged by the Samurai Rangers, mostly Jayden head of the Shiba Clan. During this battle he quickly desimated the entire team along with proving even Jayden in Super Mode and using the Bullzooka's finishing attack is not challenge for the likes of Xandred, leader of the Nighloks.
This fight made it at the top of this list, only due to the fact Samurai is it's current season and Shinkenger is a great a Sentai. Some other reasonable features, is the fact Xandred barely gets any action in this entire series until practically within the final few remaining episodes. So it's great anytime he gets to actually inflict any kind of personal damage to the Samurai Rangers and the fact he can take anything they decide to dish out at him at any time or any where.
9. Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue: Titanium Ranger's Debut
After the Lightspeed Rangers went after Vypra the day following the Titanium Morpher being stolen, the thief appears before them as the Titanium Ranger. The Rangers are no match for this skilled and over powered new Ranger, who is working for the demons. They're unable to match him, until later on in the episode when they're given their newest weapons the V-Lancers. Only to discover the Titanium Ranger is Dana's Brother and Capt. Mitchell's Son, Ryan.
At Number 9, America Exclusive Ranger's Debut made the countdown for the fact America got 1 up on Japan. As the Titanium Ranger ran right through the Lightspeed Rangers, with nothing more than a not so amazing arsenal of weapons. Somehow we flopped at giving him a cool weapons, yet he had a bad ass fighting style along with a Megazord that was practically able to double as an AI. So in all due respect, beat that Japan! FYI, Aka Red doesn't count!
8. Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Terra Venture Invasion
In final episodes of Lost Galaxy, the Rangers were stuck in an almost no win situation as Trakeena forced Terra Venture to crash land onto a moon. She then proceeds to wipe out the entire colony, with raids of her forces suicide bombing the entire colony. The Rangers try to repel the attacks with the help of the Stratoforce and Centarus Megazord but they're overcome by bombers and wiped out. Along with that to defend the evacuating people from the colony, the Rangers are forced to use the Astro Megaship on selfdestruct against Trakeena's ship forcing them to scarificing most of their tech and zords to defeat her, including the final battle as Leo too also had to attack her in a suicide fashion.
This made the Top 10 at 8 due for the fact this felt a lot like Countdown to Destruction back in PRiS where the entire Earth was attacked by Astronema and no one cared what stood in her way. Just in this case, Trakeena was willing to murder and exterminate the people rather than enslave them all to serve her. Trakeena had gone so out of her mind she even attacked and killed her own generals, this practically ushered in her own downfall. The fact you'd turn your own forces into suicide bombers just for victory, proves how radical a person is, and how radical Power Rangers was to comeback from the previous season finale.
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7. Power Rangers Time Force: Ransik's Last Stand
In the season finale of Time Force, Ransik was forced into the ultimate battle by taking on the entire team. He literally smashes through the Time Force Rangers, including the Red Ranger's Battlizer. Ransik, so too strong for that Jen is forced to pursue him even after he beat the entire out of their Ranger forms. He actually is never defeated by the Rangers, but is defeat by the humanity he didn't know to understand and comprehend until he had almost killed his own daughter. It's at that point he turns himself in to the Time Force, and goes into custody.
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I'm ashamed I place this battle at 7, just cause personaly Ransik is one of my all time favorite villains and the fact he never actually was defeated by the Rangers. So for this battle to be 7 in my personal opinion is bad on my own ranking, I believe I put this here for the possible backlash I would've got by how I actually view some of these nostalgic MMPR battles I selected. Just anyways the fact Ransik what I believe the only villain to never actually be deafeated in hand-to-combat by Rangers, when it came to lead villains that actually fought. The fact he had to turn himself in, proves he's one of the better villains ever designed or created as Ranger Exclusive Villains. So he'd actually become a valuable part of the Ranger legacy, along with that no Disney-Era team could defeat him, unless it was like maybe Ninja Storm or Dino Thunder.
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6. MMPR: Eclipsing the Megazord
During the epic five part series Green with Evil from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Rita comes up with what at time was her best plan into defeating the Rangers. Rita, had Goldar lure out the Rangers forcing them into a Megazord battle and begun unleashing her strongest warriors. Goldar was the first, followed by Scorpina and finally the Green Ranger himself as a solar eclipse occured weaking the Megazord as it used solar energy to work. Upon Rita's victory over the Megazord she casted back into the Earth's core.
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Personally as I draw closer to the Top 5, it's harder to rank these selected battles and defeats as there's a lot I have to account for. Eclipsing the Megazord is difficult for me to even since I grew up with this battle pretty much, and it was instantly one of my favorite Megazord battles, even thou the Rangers didn't win. As for it being an actual defeat too it's great to almost be in the 5th spot, until I was remind of our next battle on the list...
5. MMPR: Green Ranger Debut
Starting off the Green with Evil series of MMPR, Rita decided to make herself an evil Ranger, a Green Ranger by using the new kid 'Tommy Oliver'. Well anyways in his first battle with the Ranger's he breaks into the Megazord cockpit, kick them out and leads to a ground battle. The Green Ranger, during the battle proceed to steal and use a Blade Blaster to combat the Ranger, only to finish them up with some sort of Dark Hadouken, a generic blast re-used years later by the Psycho Rangers.
This actually didn't make the original cut, as it's one of the first true Ranger defeats to me it didn't feel too great even thou it had a lot of amazing features. Favorably the whole invading the Megazord cockpit, the brutal beatdown of the original five Rangers and that closer. This defeat is a brutal one, but seemed have overtime been outclassed by other evil Rangers having to step up their game and out shine the legend of Tommy Oliver. It seems no matter where you go, you'll always be JDF'ed!
4. Power Rangers Wild Force: Master Org Ravages the Animarium
In the finale the Wild Force Rangers, discover Master Org is fully revived and he's already defeated the Lunar Wolf and Animus in battle. Now Master Org, heads to the Animarium itself to bring it down from heavens and destroy every Power Animal on it. Master Org, just wrecks all the Power Animals that stood in his. Even the Wild Force Megazord an decendant of Animus itself stood no chance. Upon the destruction of the Power Animals the Rangers lost their powers and Master Org brought the Animarium back to earth.
Growing up this battle was one of the most 'horrorifying' battles known, making this come in at number 4. When Master Org managed to wipe out the entire roster of the Power Animals several were quite shocked. I mean seriously we know he's the main villain but he took out 16 Power Animals plus Animus, that's just making yourself a boss. Some people like to joke thou the only reason Master Org won was because the Wild Force Rangers sucked and I highly have to agree with most of those beliefs.
3. Power Rangers in Space: 'Super' Darkonda defeats AstroDeltaMegazord
In mid-season finale/hiatus of PRiS, Episode: Flashes of Darkonda, Andros discovers Darkonda took his sister goes to after him vengeneace. During his search for vengeneace he gets the Mega Voyager activation key cards, leading to a duel in which Darkonda had up his sleeve a Super-potion that was poisoned by Eclipter. Anyways the potion mutated Darkonda making him stronger than the AstroDeltaMegazord, and during the closing minutes of the battle he spawned a hidious squid like thing that join him to combat the Rangers. The episode would end up, endding with Darkonda and his mutant spawn sending the AstroDeltaMegazord crashing the ground and skidding down through the city.
This is my personal favorite of all time for some odd reason, that's why I had to let this one slip into the Top 3 of this Top 10. Anyways as mentioned earlier this was mid-season finale and this left you at a horrible cliffhanger for at the time it was actually listed as the season finale, which for some kids thought it meant Space was over. So by listing this episode as the season finale, it left kids fearing the show was cancelled our a new series was coming sort of like how our Top 2 and 1 sort threw right out at us.
2. MMPR Season 3: Rito Destroys the Thunderzords
Early on, back in the old MMPR days they liked to change to the new sentai stuff during the actual start of the new season instead of like using the finale to help transition. Just for this transition people continue to believe it started in season 2 and concluded in 3. Anyways in the series Ninja Quest, the Rangers are threatened by a complete and utter idiot, whose Rita's brother, Rito Revolto. Rito comes to congraduate his sister's wedding and to defeat the Rangers. Sadly he actually manages to defeat the Rangers practically all by himself with the help of four resurrected monsters. He defeat handed to the Rangers actually doesn't just destroy the Megazords but their connection the Morphin' Grid too.
This defeat managed to be Number 2 for the fact Rito did most of the work and actually never really needed that extra set of stock footage, Zyu2 monsters to back him up. Practically everything in this match was to just push and hype the upcoming change into the Ninja Powers. I honestly got to say this was great but the episodes that would end up following it stood no match. Along with that season 3 was really hazy for me cause I honestly always end up having to rewatch it and Ninja Quest part 1 is like 1 of like 6 episodes I actually like from this season before it transitioned to Alien Rangers.
1. Power Rangers Turbo: Command Center RaidNow we come to the Number 1 spot on the countdown, Divatox attacks the Command Center. After Goldgoyle defeated the Megazords, Divatox discovers the location of the Command Center(IDK How She never knew where it was until now, seriously?!) and has all over her forces raid it. The Rangers successfully hold off the attack for a short time, until the battle actually occurs within the Command Center's Power Chamber. At that point the Rangers were cornered and Elgar came in during the ongoing battle, planting charges all about to have the Command Center be leveled a second time by explosives.
This to some is a lot of people's favorite moment of defeat, one reason is cause a lot of people hate Turbo and the other is well at this time we never really had a battle at the Ranger's base of operations. This was quite an amazing battle, and good outlook on a true destructive defeat hand to them. The fact they were cornered, and over run by Divatox's forces really mad you think, what would've happened if the original Rangers were there to face this challenge?
10. Power Rangers Super Samurai: Master Xandred Appears
In the episode of Super Samurai: The Master Returns, Master Xandred himself comes to the human to bring Dayu back to the Sanzu River. Upon his arrival his challenged by the Samurai Rangers, mostly Jayden head of the Shiba Clan. During this battle he quickly desimated the entire team along with proving even Jayden in Super Mode and using the Bullzooka's finishing attack is not challenge for the likes of Xandred, leader of the Nighloks.
This fight made it at the top of this list, only due to the fact Samurai is it's current season and Shinkenger is a great a Sentai. Some other reasonable features, is the fact Xandred barely gets any action in this entire series until practically within the final few remaining episodes. So it's great anytime he gets to actually inflict any kind of personal damage to the Samurai Rangers and the fact he can take anything they decide to dish out at him at any time or any where.
9. Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue: Titanium Ranger's Debut
After the Lightspeed Rangers went after Vypra the day following the Titanium Morpher being stolen, the thief appears before them as the Titanium Ranger. The Rangers are no match for this skilled and over powered new Ranger, who is working for the demons. They're unable to match him, until later on in the episode when they're given their newest weapons the V-Lancers. Only to discover the Titanium Ranger is Dana's Brother and Capt. Mitchell's Son, Ryan.
At Number 9, America Exclusive Ranger's Debut made the countdown for the fact America got 1 up on Japan. As the Titanium Ranger ran right through the Lightspeed Rangers, with nothing more than a not so amazing arsenal of weapons. Somehow we flopped at giving him a cool weapons, yet he had a bad ass fighting style along with a Megazord that was practically able to double as an AI. So in all due respect, beat that Japan! FYI, Aka Red doesn't count!
8. Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Terra Venture Invasion
In final episodes of Lost Galaxy, the Rangers were stuck in an almost no win situation as Trakeena forced Terra Venture to crash land onto a moon. She then proceeds to wipe out the entire colony, with raids of her forces suicide bombing the entire colony. The Rangers try to repel the attacks with the help of the Stratoforce and Centarus Megazord but they're overcome by bombers and wiped out. Along with that to defend the evacuating people from the colony, the Rangers are forced to use the Astro Megaship on selfdestruct against Trakeena's ship forcing them to scarificing most of their tech and zords to defeat her, including the final battle as Leo too also had to attack her in a suicide fashion.
This made the Top 10 at 8 due for the fact this felt a lot like Countdown to Destruction back in PRiS where the entire Earth was attacked by Astronema and no one cared what stood in her way. Just in this case, Trakeena was willing to murder and exterminate the people rather than enslave them all to serve her. Trakeena had gone so out of her mind she even attacked and killed her own generals, this practically ushered in her own downfall. The fact you'd turn your own forces into suicide bombers just for victory, proves how radical a person is, and how radical Power Rangers was to comeback from the previous season finale.
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7. Power Rangers Time Force: Ransik's Last Stand
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I'm ashamed I place this battle at 7, just cause personaly Ransik is one of my all time favorite villains and the fact he never actually was defeated by the Rangers. So for this battle to be 7 in my personal opinion is bad on my own ranking, I believe I put this here for the possible backlash I would've got by how I actually view some of these nostalgic MMPR battles I selected. Just anyways the fact Ransik what I believe the only villain to never actually be deafeated in hand-to-combat by Rangers, when it came to lead villains that actually fought. The fact he had to turn himself in, proves he's one of the better villains ever designed or created as Ranger Exclusive Villains. So he'd actually become a valuable part of the Ranger legacy, along with that no Disney-Era team could defeat him, unless it was like maybe Ninja Storm or Dino Thunder.
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6. MMPR: Eclipsing the Megazord
During the epic five part series Green with Evil from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Rita comes up with what at time was her best plan into defeating the Rangers. Rita, had Goldar lure out the Rangers forcing them into a Megazord battle and begun unleashing her strongest warriors. Goldar was the first, followed by Scorpina and finally the Green Ranger himself as a solar eclipse occured weaking the Megazord as it used solar energy to work. Upon Rita's victory over the Megazord she casted back into the Earth's core.
.mkv_snapshot_16.28_%5B2012.09.13_18.10.41%5D.jpg)
Personally as I draw closer to the Top 5, it's harder to rank these selected battles and defeats as there's a lot I have to account for. Eclipsing the Megazord is difficult for me to even since I grew up with this battle pretty much, and it was instantly one of my favorite Megazord battles, even thou the Rangers didn't win. As for it being an actual defeat too it's great to almost be in the 5th spot, until I was remind of our next battle on the list...
5. MMPR: Green Ranger Debut
Starting off the Green with Evil series of MMPR, Rita decided to make herself an evil Ranger, a Green Ranger by using the new kid 'Tommy Oliver'. Well anyways in his first battle with the Ranger's he breaks into the Megazord cockpit, kick them out and leads to a ground battle. The Green Ranger, during the battle proceed to steal and use a Blade Blaster to combat the Ranger, only to finish them up with some sort of Dark Hadouken, a generic blast re-used years later by the Psycho Rangers.
This actually didn't make the original cut, as it's one of the first true Ranger defeats to me it didn't feel too great even thou it had a lot of amazing features. Favorably the whole invading the Megazord cockpit, the brutal beatdown of the original five Rangers and that closer. This defeat is a brutal one, but seemed have overtime been outclassed by other evil Rangers having to step up their game and out shine the legend of Tommy Oliver. It seems no matter where you go, you'll always be JDF'ed!
4. Power Rangers Wild Force: Master Org Ravages the Animarium
In the finale the Wild Force Rangers, discover Master Org is fully revived and he's already defeated the Lunar Wolf and Animus in battle. Now Master Org, heads to the Animarium itself to bring it down from heavens and destroy every Power Animal on it. Master Org, just wrecks all the Power Animals that stood in his. Even the Wild Force Megazord an decendant of Animus itself stood no chance. Upon the destruction of the Power Animals the Rangers lost their powers and Master Org brought the Animarium back to earth.
Growing up this battle was one of the most 'horrorifying' battles known, making this come in at number 4. When Master Org managed to wipe out the entire roster of the Power Animals several were quite shocked. I mean seriously we know he's the main villain but he took out 16 Power Animals plus Animus, that's just making yourself a boss. Some people like to joke thou the only reason Master Org won was because the Wild Force Rangers sucked and I highly have to agree with most of those beliefs.
In mid-season finale/hiatus of PRiS, Episode: Flashes of Darkonda, Andros discovers Darkonda took his sister goes to after him vengeneace. During his search for vengeneace he gets the Mega Voyager activation key cards, leading to a duel in which Darkonda had up his sleeve a Super-potion that was poisoned by Eclipter. Anyways the potion mutated Darkonda making him stronger than the AstroDeltaMegazord, and during the closing minutes of the battle he spawned a hidious squid like thing that join him to combat the Rangers. The episode would end up, endding with Darkonda and his mutant spawn sending the AstroDeltaMegazord crashing the ground and skidding down through the city.
This is my personal favorite of all time for some odd reason, that's why I had to let this one slip into the Top 3 of this Top 10. Anyways as mentioned earlier this was mid-season finale and this left you at a horrible cliffhanger for at the time it was actually listed as the season finale, which for some kids thought it meant Space was over. So by listing this episode as the season finale, it left kids fearing the show was cancelled our a new series was coming sort of like how our Top 2 and 1 sort threw right out at us.
2. MMPR Season 3: Rito Destroys the Thunderzords
Early on, back in the old MMPR days they liked to change to the new sentai stuff during the actual start of the new season instead of like using the finale to help transition. Just for this transition people continue to believe it started in season 2 and concluded in 3. Anyways in the series Ninja Quest, the Rangers are threatened by a complete and utter idiot, whose Rita's brother, Rito Revolto. Rito comes to congraduate his sister's wedding and to defeat the Rangers. Sadly he actually manages to defeat the Rangers practically all by himself with the help of four resurrected monsters. He defeat handed to the Rangers actually doesn't just destroy the Megazords but their connection the Morphin' Grid too.
This defeat managed to be Number 2 for the fact Rito did most of the work and actually never really needed that extra set of stock footage, Zyu2 monsters to back him up. Practically everything in this match was to just push and hype the upcoming change into the Ninja Powers. I honestly got to say this was great but the episodes that would end up following it stood no match. Along with that season 3 was really hazy for me cause I honestly always end up having to rewatch it and Ninja Quest part 1 is like 1 of like 6 episodes I actually like from this season before it transitioned to Alien Rangers.
1. Power Rangers Turbo: Command Center RaidNow we come to the Number 1 spot on the countdown, Divatox attacks the Command Center. After Goldgoyle defeated the Megazords, Divatox discovers the location of the Command Center(IDK How She never knew where it was until now, seriously?!) and has all over her forces raid it. The Rangers successfully hold off the attack for a short time, until the battle actually occurs within the Command Center's Power Chamber. At that point the Rangers were cornered and Elgar came in during the ongoing battle, planting charges all about to have the Command Center be leveled a second time by explosives.
This to some is a lot of people's favorite moment of defeat, one reason is cause a lot of people hate Turbo and the other is well at this time we never really had a battle at the Ranger's base of operations. This was quite an amazing battle, and good outlook on a true destructive defeat hand to them. The fact they were cornered, and over run by Divatox's forces really mad you think, what would've happened if the original Rangers were there to face this challenge?
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Toku 101: Power Morphicon 3
Hello and welcome to the return of Toku 101; I'm your columnist, Wheelchair21. After being on vacation and attending Power Morphicon 3, I'm here to bring you some cool details and news! So let's get back on track and get some coverage on this amazing event.
Power Morphicon 3
The event lasted for three days, in Pasadena California at the Sheraton Convention Center. It was from August 17th to the 19th, and was sponsored by Bandai. This was to comemorate the 20th anniversary of Power Rangers by closing out Samurai and promoting Mega Force. Along with that we had Johnny Yong Bosch and his band Eyeshine as the guests of honor, followed up by the special appearance of David Yost! The convention was amazing and worth the trip, but will I do it again well that all matters on what will happen and occur at the next Power Morphicon. Just as for this one there was alot to with not so much time to get it all done!
On Saturday, when the cast of Power Rangers Samurai was at the convention everything was a buzz due to the looming appearance of David Yost. Well the Samurai cast caused huge lines to form up, for the meet and greet/signing before and after their panel. It was so long of a line that people were practically blocking all the entrances to the panels. Then when it came time to the David Yost, event/panel his signing actually almost caused the convention to be shutdown, due to fire hazards as the line had three paths within the center leading all the way to outside entrance. Finally to end Saturday was the Paul Schrier's Ice Cream Truckers and Eyeshine Concert, which was amazing. That was Saturday thou, practically all about waiting on lines for autographs and photos. While Friday and Sunday were come and go days as the thing was starting/ending on those certain days.
Friday was mostly people walking around the merchant room, and people going around getting autographs. Along with that people were busy trying to get the Power Morphicon exclusive Samurai 2 Pack with Shark Attack Red Ranger and Super Mooger, while waiting for the '+18 Panel' with Johnny Yong Bosch, Walter Jones, Catherine Sutherland, Jason Narvy, Tony Oliver, Ron Regge, Dan Southworth and Jason Faunt. The plus '+18 Panel' was problem the utter most show stealing panel at the whole entire convention since people were just asking questions you wouldn't get at the actual panels meant for the show. Other than that Friday was just for fans becoming aware of their surroundings.
Sunday though didn't do much better than Friday, until Rick Medina, and other members of the Samurai Cast appeared for signings. Medina came with full force as he came bringing his Blazing Lion jacket for people to while for photos with him, along with cool on set photos of him on set of Wild Force. So mostly he got over the most with fans for just bring his old Wild Force things with him. The other Samurai Rangers, held their quite while except for Najee "Kevin the Blue Ranger" because I believe he's the least liked Ranger on the entire show. Hector and Brittany (Mike & Emily) got alot of the attention out of the returning Samurai Rangers for the last day of the convention. (Me with Medina up-top)
One cool aspect while attending the convention was the filming of the web-series "No Nerds Here" starring Jessica Rey (Wild Force White), Jason Faunt (Time Force Red) and Nika Burrise (Zeo/Turbo Yellow). I along with TokuAnimeNews co-host Projektrdm and Reviewtopia's EZ Rider took part in this filming. We found it to be entertaining while, yet cheesy, corny and boring as some of the takes weren't too exciting. The Cast and Crew thou that were hired on, were quite nice and interacted with us extras. I along with Projektrdm and a few selected PMC attendee extras really warmed up to specifically the director of the series, Skylar who was a really cool individual. Anyways that was a great convention, and panels of the convention are all over the web by now so go check them out. Along with the panels is the trailer for Mega Force, along with the demos of the Mega Force toy line such as 4" Figures, Retro Fires, Deluxe Megazords and Roleplay toys. So we got a lot cool news, while enjoying some witty panels while being forced to wait for the upcoming finale of Super Samurai...
As for this has been my partial coverage on Power Morphicon 3, to see more go check out TokuAnimeNews at http://www.tokuanimesnews.blogspot.com/ or wait for next week's Toku 101! That's when I'm actually allowed to go into full details on my experience at PMC, since I'm contractionally obligated to first release all stories there first. Just here's my highlighted listing of the Panels from Friday to Sunday:
Friday August 17th
5:00 PM Panel A
"Behind the Scenes: Power Rangers Feature Film Retrospetive"
Join cast and crew from MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: THE MOVIE and TURBO: A POWER RANGERS MOVIE as they look back and reminise on their favorite experiences from the feature film adventures of the Power Rangers!
5:00 PM Panel B
"Power Morphicon Trivia Contest 2012 w/ Database Ranger"
Join host Database Ranger in a fast-paced battle of wits against your fellow fans!
6:00 PM Panel A
"Behind the Scenes: Design and Development w/ Tsuyoshi Nonaka"
Tsuyoshi Nonaka describes the design history of ZYURANGER, POWER RANGERS SAMURAI/SUPER SAMURAI, and more!
6:00 PM Panel B
"Unsung Heroes"
Celebrating some of the show's most morphinominal cast and crew!
7:00 PM Panel A
"Spotlight: Power Rangers Turbo"
The cast and crew of POWER RANGERS TURBO discuss their experiences working on the hit series on its 15th anniversary
7:00 PM Panel B
"Behind the Scenes: The Music of Power Rangers w/ Ron Wasserman" Musician Ron Wasserman (The Mighty RAW) discusses his musical history throughout the series
8:00 PM Panel A
"Friday Night Feature: TURBO - A POWER RANGERS MOVIE"
w/ live commentary from cast and crew
8:30 PM Panel B
"Power Rangers After Dark"
This 18+ panel allows guests to let down their guard with their adults fans. No video recording equipment is permitted at this event.
Saturday August 18th
10:00 AM Panel A
"Spotlight: Where it All Began"
A look back on the start of the series with the casts of MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS through POWER RANGERS TURBO.
11:00 AM Panel A
"Spotlight: Johny Yong Bosch and Eyeshine"
Q&A with the hit band
12:30 PM Panel A
Saban's Mega Power Panel
1:00 PM Panel B
"Pretty and Powerful"
A look back on the women who shaped POWER RANGERS
1:30 PM Panel A
"Spotlight: Bulk and Skull-a-thon"
A look back on the laughs and legacy of Bulk and Skull.
2:00 PM Panel B
"Behind the Scenes: Design and Development w/ Tsuyoshi Nonaka"
Tsuyoshi Nonaka describes the design history of ZYURANGER, POWER RANGERS SAMURAI/SUPER SAMURAI, and more!
2:30 PM Panel A
"Forever Red(s)"
Honoring the Red Rangers throughout the series history!
3:30 PM Panel A
"David Yost Charity Event and Q&A" *Ticketed Event
In this special, ticketed event, David will be hosting a Q&A and giving away some of his Power Rangers paraphernalia throughout the panel. As well as raffling his Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie signed script with proceeds going to Trevor Project.
7:30 PM Panel A & B
"Saturday Night Concert Event: Ice Cream Truckers and Eyeshine Live!" *Ticketed Event
Sunday August 19th
10:00 AM Panel A
"Gold Ranger Member Event: Take a Stance!"
*Gold only pre sold event
11:00 AM Panel B
"Gold Ranger Member Event: Acoustic Concert w/ Eyeshine" Gold Only
12:00 Noon Panel B
"Behind the Scenes: Voice Actors"
The voice actors behind POWER RANGERS and her sister programs give insight into their work.
1:00 PM Panel B
"Spotlight: Villains"
The vilest villains of POWER RANGERS and her sister programs unite to destroy Power Morphicon once and for all!
2:00 PM Panel A
"Spotlight: Ameritoku"
Cast and crew from POWER RANGERS' sister shows, BEETLEBORGS, VR TROOPERS, and MASKED RIDER discuss heir experiences working on their hit shows!
2:00 PM Panel B
"Spotloght: Digimon"
The some of the cast of DIGIMON look back and discuss their experiences working on the hit series!
3:00 PM Panel A
Costume Contest Check-In
3:30 PM Panel A
"Power Morphicon 2012 Costume Ball Contest"
For PMC's final event of the year, the attendees are the stars! Mingle with your fellow fans dressed as your favorite PR characters, or whatever Tokusatsu or Ameritoku theme might strike your fancy!
4:30 PM Panel A and B
Closing Ceremony
Power Morphicon 3
The event lasted for three days, in Pasadena California at the Sheraton Convention Center. It was from August 17th to the 19th, and was sponsored by Bandai. This was to comemorate the 20th anniversary of Power Rangers by closing out Samurai and promoting Mega Force. Along with that we had Johnny Yong Bosch and his band Eyeshine as the guests of honor, followed up by the special appearance of David Yost! The convention was amazing and worth the trip, but will I do it again well that all matters on what will happen and occur at the next Power Morphicon. Just as for this one there was alot to with not so much time to get it all done!
On Saturday, when the cast of Power Rangers Samurai was at the convention everything was a buzz due to the looming appearance of David Yost. Well the Samurai cast caused huge lines to form up, for the meet and greet/signing before and after their panel. It was so long of a line that people were practically blocking all the entrances to the panels. Then when it came time to the David Yost, event/panel his signing actually almost caused the convention to be shutdown, due to fire hazards as the line had three paths within the center leading all the way to outside entrance. Finally to end Saturday was the Paul Schrier's Ice Cream Truckers and Eyeshine Concert, which was amazing. That was Saturday thou, practically all about waiting on lines for autographs and photos. While Friday and Sunday were come and go days as the thing was starting/ending on those certain days.
Friday was mostly people walking around the merchant room, and people going around getting autographs. Along with that people were busy trying to get the Power Morphicon exclusive Samurai 2 Pack with Shark Attack Red Ranger and Super Mooger, while waiting for the '+18 Panel' with Johnny Yong Bosch, Walter Jones, Catherine Sutherland, Jason Narvy, Tony Oliver, Ron Regge, Dan Southworth and Jason Faunt. The plus '+18 Panel' was problem the utter most show stealing panel at the whole entire convention since people were just asking questions you wouldn't get at the actual panels meant for the show. Other than that Friday was just for fans becoming aware of their surroundings.
Sunday though didn't do much better than Friday, until Rick Medina, and other members of the Samurai Cast appeared for signings. Medina came with full force as he came bringing his Blazing Lion jacket for people to while for photos with him, along with cool on set photos of him on set of Wild Force. So mostly he got over the most with fans for just bring his old Wild Force things with him. The other Samurai Rangers, held their quite while except for Najee "Kevin the Blue Ranger" because I believe he's the least liked Ranger on the entire show. Hector and Brittany (Mike & Emily) got alot of the attention out of the returning Samurai Rangers for the last day of the convention. (Me with Medina up-top)
One cool aspect while attending the convention was the filming of the web-series "No Nerds Here" starring Jessica Rey (Wild Force White), Jason Faunt (Time Force Red) and Nika Burrise (Zeo/Turbo Yellow). I along with TokuAnimeNews co-host Projektrdm and Reviewtopia's EZ Rider took part in this filming. We found it to be entertaining while, yet cheesy, corny and boring as some of the takes weren't too exciting. The Cast and Crew thou that were hired on, were quite nice and interacted with us extras. I along with Projektrdm and a few selected PMC attendee extras really warmed up to specifically the director of the series, Skylar who was a really cool individual. Anyways that was a great convention, and panels of the convention are all over the web by now so go check them out. Along with the panels is the trailer for Mega Force, along with the demos of the Mega Force toy line such as 4" Figures, Retro Fires, Deluxe Megazords and Roleplay toys. So we got a lot cool news, while enjoying some witty panels while being forced to wait for the upcoming finale of Super Samurai...
As for this has been my partial coverage on Power Morphicon 3, to see more go check out TokuAnimeNews at http://www.tokuanimesnews.blogspot.com/ or wait for next week's Toku 101! That's when I'm actually allowed to go into full details on my experience at PMC, since I'm contractionally obligated to first release all stories there first. Just here's my highlighted listing of the Panels from Friday to Sunday:
Friday August 17th
5:00 PM Panel A
"Behind the Scenes: Power Rangers Feature Film Retrospetive"
Join cast and crew from MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: THE MOVIE and TURBO: A POWER RANGERS MOVIE as they look back and reminise on their favorite experiences from the feature film adventures of the Power Rangers!
5:00 PM Panel B
"Power Morphicon Trivia Contest 2012 w/ Database Ranger"
Join host Database Ranger in a fast-paced battle of wits against your fellow fans!
6:00 PM Panel A
"Behind the Scenes: Design and Development w/ Tsuyoshi Nonaka"
Tsuyoshi Nonaka describes the design history of ZYURANGER, POWER RANGERS SAMURAI/SUPER SAMURAI, and more!
6:00 PM Panel B
"Unsung Heroes"
Celebrating some of the show's most morphinominal cast and crew!
7:00 PM Panel A
"Spotlight: Power Rangers Turbo"
The cast and crew of POWER RANGERS TURBO discuss their experiences working on the hit series on its 15th anniversary
7:00 PM Panel B
"Behind the Scenes: The Music of Power Rangers w/ Ron Wasserman" Musician Ron Wasserman (The Mighty RAW) discusses his musical history throughout the series
8:00 PM Panel A
"Friday Night Feature: TURBO - A POWER RANGERS MOVIE"
w/ live commentary from cast and crew
8:30 PM Panel B
"Power Rangers After Dark"
This 18+ panel allows guests to let down their guard with their adults fans. No video recording equipment is permitted at this event.
Saturday August 18th
10:00 AM Panel A
"Spotlight: Where it All Began"
A look back on the start of the series with the casts of MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS through POWER RANGERS TURBO.
11:00 AM Panel A
"Spotlight: Johny Yong Bosch and Eyeshine"
Q&A with the hit band
12:30 PM Panel A
Saban's Mega Power Panel
1:00 PM Panel B
"Pretty and Powerful"
A look back on the women who shaped POWER RANGERS
1:30 PM Panel A
"Spotlight: Bulk and Skull-a-thon"
A look back on the laughs and legacy of Bulk and Skull.
2:00 PM Panel B
"Behind the Scenes: Design and Development w/ Tsuyoshi Nonaka"
Tsuyoshi Nonaka describes the design history of ZYURANGER, POWER RANGERS SAMURAI/SUPER SAMURAI, and more!
2:30 PM Panel A
"Forever Red(s)"
Honoring the Red Rangers throughout the series history!
3:30 PM Panel A
"David Yost Charity Event and Q&A" *Ticketed Event
In this special, ticketed event, David will be hosting a Q&A and giving away some of his Power Rangers paraphernalia throughout the panel. As well as raffling his Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie signed script with proceeds going to Trevor Project.
7:30 PM Panel A & B
"Saturday Night Concert Event: Ice Cream Truckers and Eyeshine Live!" *Ticketed Event
Sunday August 19th
10:00 AM Panel A
"Gold Ranger Member Event: Take a Stance!"
*Gold only pre sold event
11:00 AM Panel B
"Gold Ranger Member Event: Acoustic Concert w/ Eyeshine" Gold Only
12:00 Noon Panel B
"Behind the Scenes: Voice Actors"
The voice actors behind POWER RANGERS and her sister programs give insight into their work.
1:00 PM Panel B
"Spotlight: Villains"
The vilest villains of POWER RANGERS and her sister programs unite to destroy Power Morphicon once and for all!
2:00 PM Panel A
"Spotlight: Ameritoku"
Cast and crew from POWER RANGERS' sister shows, BEETLEBORGS, VR TROOPERS, and MASKED RIDER discuss heir experiences working on their hit shows!
2:00 PM Panel B
"Spotloght: Digimon"
The some of the cast of DIGIMON look back and discuss their experiences working on the hit series!
3:00 PM Panel A
Costume Contest Check-In
3:30 PM Panel A
"Power Morphicon 2012 Costume Ball Contest"
For PMC's final event of the year, the attendees are the stars! Mingle with your fellow fans dressed as your favorite PR characters, or whatever Tokusatsu or Ameritoku theme might strike your fancy!
4:30 PM Panel A and B
Closing Ceremony
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Toku 101: Power Morphicon
Hello, and welcome to another one of Wheelchair21's Toku 101! In today's segment of Toku 101, I'll be talking about the Power Ranger convention Power Morphicon. The reason it's the subject of the column this week is the fact it's tomorrow and I'm already in California to attend! So anyways let me de-brief you on what Power Morphicon is, when it started and some of the cool things that have happened at past conventions, along with what's to come!
POWER MORPHICON
POWER MORPHICON
Back in either 2007 or 2008, Saban went to most likely Disney at the time to make this convention. The reason for PMC, was to celebrate Power Rangers' 15th Anniversary. Its location Pasedena, California where has stayed there since then. At the actual first ever convention it seemed to have barely been promoted; for the fact I didn't discover it till months after it took place. Along with what seemed to be small promoted convention for Power Rangers we had several guests and unusual panels. For example guests were Austin St John(Jason/MMPR), Johnny Yong Bosh(Adam/MMPR-Turbo), selective Red Rangers, selective Disney-Era Rangers and the cast of Operation Overdrive. Some of the more memoriable panels however contained "Forever Red", "MMPR", "Unsung Heroes", "PROO Cast" and a trending one, the "Bulk & Skull" panel!! Some of these panels are on youtube, so please check those out.
Power Morphicon 2, was held almost two years later and from what I heard it was to celebrate the MMPR Movie and Saban buying back Power Rangers. As for PMC 2, that was an amazingly larger success from what I had personally noticed. There were more Cast members on hand attending the event along several new panels leading to a better varity. New guests including the 2nd Set of Turbo Rangers, Erin Cahill(Jen/PRTF), Vernon Wells(Ransik/PRTF), Robert Axelrod(Lord Zedd), and Jason David Frank(Tommy/MMPR-Turbo,DT) along with some members of Kamen Rider Dragon Knights' cast. Newer panels were Dragon Knight, Turbo/in Space, Time Force, Voice Actors and a JDF panel that Jason Narvy(Skull) crashed...Just like Unsung Heroes at the 1st PMC.
And finally we come to Power Morphicon 3, which will be held this very weekend! This one is to celebrate, the Turbo Movie, the announcement of MegaForce and preparations for Power Rangers' 20th Anniversary. Just as for this year's event some Cast Attendees will not be returning for this event; like JDF, some of the Turbo cast, Erin Cahill, and the Dragon Knight cast. The new/returning guests are Johnny Yong Bosh with Eyeshine, David Yost(Billy/MMPR-Zeo), members of the Wild Force cast, the Samurai Cast, the debut of the MegaForce cast and members from Saban's other adaptions. Along with these guest members several "Gold Ranger" Events are being held like concerts, and the exclusive David Yost panel. These "Gold Ranger" Events are for members who decided on buying the VIP Ranked tickets...Which I personally stupidly chose to get and damn glad I did seeing the results it got me!
However I rather not wish to list the current schedule of panels and events at this time. My reason for this is because the schedule can change by the time I've finished this post prior to leave to attend. Anyways I for one say, PMC is overrated at this time for it has barely had enough time to mature. It's worth going because it's pretty much buyer beware. Reason I say that is I bought my ticket back last September, guests didn't start getting announced until March or April and it costs a lot of cash pending on where you live to get there. So for now look forward to news and updates from PMC3! To check out more info on Power Morphicon please go to: http://officialpowermorphicon.com/
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