Video of the Week 7/17/13

Hey there InfiKnights I must admit I've been dropping the ball lately so once again here's 2 videos this week.

So yea this really tickled my funny bone it's an introto Avengers in MMPR fashion.

In keeping with the Avengers MMPR thing check out the creativity of this WWE 12 player

Power Rangers Armored Might MMPR Red

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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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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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Morphin Bracers Episode 38

It's time for more Toku News as Seraph (Frankie Rodriguez) is joined by Xaos (Jeremias de Leon), VisibleNinja, Wheelchair21 & Bullet Beast to give you news. Then Seraph & Xaos go over Seraph's year long greatest Power Rangers Story Countdown from #50 - # 37. Check it out.

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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.

    In a stroke of genius by Rita, she actually kidnaps the parents of all the rangers and then makes them "willingly" give up their power coins ... after Goldar puts Billy under a spell to do Rita's doing ... which in this case, was collect the Dragon Dagger. Billy did that. Jason, Zack, Trini, Kimberly & Billy ended up trading in their power coins. Goldar unleashed the Dragon Zord on the populace. And Rita was celebrating. It was a near complete victory.

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

Legends of Power, 50 Greatest Power Rangers Stories Ever Recap # 1

  Okay. Before I drop # 40, Here's a rewind of all the previous 10 Legends of Power Posts. Now, while I have them marked down by week, this will not directly tell you the title of the episode or storyline that got the honor. So, the wording next to the numbers are merely hints to the title of said storyline, NOT the storyline itself. Under the title will be the actual episode and/or storyline title & series it is from.

Week Number/Position on Countdown:

# 50 - Nice to Meet You Zack; Toldja I'd Be Back
           Mighty Morphin Mutant Rangers (MMPR season 1)

#49 - It's Those Machines,Who Have the Means to Use the Art of Tuuu-ning
           Another Song & Dance (Power Rangers Zeo)

# 48 - The Prodigal Son Returns
           From Deep Within The Shadows (Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue)




#47 - Powers Explained by Dr K
          Ranger Blue (Power Rangers RPM)

# 46 - A Rhino Storming In
          Path of the Rhino (Power Rangers Jungle Fury)

# 45 - Do You Want Some T & A to Go With Your Freaky Friday?
          Invasion of the Body Switcher (Power Rangers in Space)

# 44 - Beware the Moon & It's Wolf
          The Zenaku Saga (Power Rangers Wild Force)




# 43 -  I'm NOT a Real Boy?!
          Things Not Said (Power Rangers Operation Overdrive)


# 42 -  Here Comes the Bride, Ready to Fight
           Ranger Yellow (Power Rangers RPM)
                    
          
# 41 - Time For Time ... Racist!
          Trip Takes A Stand (Power Rangers Time Force)


         

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.

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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Legends of Power, WEEK 50 - A Countdown of The Greatest Power Rangers Stories

   Welcome to the first of a 50 week long column. Once a week, there will be a new Power Ranger story that was seen on the series post on here as among the best. Before we get started, I wanted to break down how this list is tabulated.

     Between looking over each series and diving into the episodes of each show, we are gonna look at  the best that Power Rangers has to offer. There will be  at least one episode of each series, Save for Megaforce, on this list. So be prepared. Some of the stories you will see will not be surprises. Some of the stories in this list most definitely will.

   Remember, while this list is somewhat subjective, fan comments and votes are STILL viable. For the next 50 weeks, we will be counting down an episode each week. So, grab your morphers and let's rock.







           













 MIGHTY MORPHIN MUTANTS


   Ah. Yes. We start with the first season. And oddly enough, we start with the second to last episode of the very first season. Mighty Morphin Mutants has a lot of great things going for it as to why it made the countdown.:

 - We have The Rangers fighting against a team of Evil Rangers

 - We got a character subplot and slight development for Tommy: with his forgetfulness.

 - It's a six on six ranger fight with the evil Rangers led by a crayfish monster.

 - Some damn good fighting scenes.

 - One of the funniest Bulk and Skull scenes in Power Rangers History.

 - One of the best and longest Zord battles in PR history.


Mighty Morphin Mutants is probably the second best instance of evil rangers for the first season .... heck, for the entire run of Mighty Morphin. The episode felt like a movie for the most part and it was Glorious. Yet, there are several things that make this episode hit #50.

   - The Tommy Subplot seemed kinda of there. You could have substituted it with a different subplot and the episode would have been just as good for the first season.

 - Heavy Use of Zyu2 footage is both a good and bad in this episode.

 - We NEVER see what happens to the evil Pink and Yellow Rangers. We just *Assume* they were destroyed but we see them go flying.

 - It's season 1 acting. What do you want?


Overall, why not the best episode ever, Mighty Morphin' Mutants was an enjoyable ride with an almost cinematic like feel to it. Check out Mighty Morphin' Mutants to see what I mean.

But till then, Happy New Year's and welcome ... It's gonna be a bumpy and awesome ride.


- Frankie Rodriguez
 Broken Infinite E-I-C/Founder/President
 Power Rangers Fan 20 years and Counting.


Next Week: It's So Bad It's Good Kind of Episode

VisibleNinja Plays - MMPR (SNES) FINAL

At last....

Mo puttys, mo boredom...

LMAO: Green Ranger, Guile's Theme Goes with Everything

I'm sorry. I saw this on Youtube and just had to post it. Some of you will find it funny some may not. But you know; HATERS GONNA HATE!

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The Weakest of the Bunch, in both worlds....

VisibleNinja Plays - MMPR (SNES) #3

It's time for some Yellow action up in this house!

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Another round with recolored Red Rangers.....yay....

Let's Play: MMPR (SNES)

Another Power Rangers game fall's into the shooting gallery!

Toku 101: Kamen Rider/ Super Sentai Worlds

Hello and welcome to another Toku 101 with I, your columnist, Wheelchair21. Today on Toku 101, I'm sort of over booked so I selected very short entertaining specials from the Toku Community. That would the be the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai Worlds were specials where Riders and Senshi came together in their own universes to defeat Other Worldly threats. These specials were 3-D shorts shown in 1994 for amusement parks and special events nation-wide, there was also a third part I won't feature here but it was based on the Metal Heroes franchise. In Kamen Rider World, Zo and J teamed up to defeated the resurrected Shadowmoon and his army of undead Kaijin, while in Super Sentai World five teams of Senshi teamed together to defeat a brand new threat to the planet.

Up First, Super Sentai World:


Well anyways as viewed in that short, the current team Ninja Sentai Kakuranger appear to save two siblings from a new enemy Emperor Daidas. The brother was played Shiro Izumi, who played Yūma Ōzora in Dengeki Sentai Changeman and Burai in Zyuranger. As the Kakurangers are weakened, the other Sentai Teams from the past 4 years come to their resuce allowing them to defeat Emperor Daidas and his army. I personally enjoy this short a lot cause it had give the view a lot to take on the Sentais from the late 80s to early 90s. Along with that we actually get to see the Zyuranger/MMPR Suits team with Kakuranger/Alien suits which was a rare occasion until Gokaiger so several Power Ranger Fan usual applaude this special for that fact. Many like myself who're Ranger fans overly enjoy the Mecha battle as we see the original three Mechas used in Power Rangers Team Up; that Mecha Battle just blew my mind back when I first saw this entire special back in 2006-07. Another thing is by just viewing this as special, and not an actual canon thing you over look all the screw ups like how Gai Yuki/Black Condor is alive or how are the Zyurangers back on Earth if they ascended to Heaven in the finale. So if I had to rate this film as if it was a complete movie, I'd say a solid 4 out of 5!

Now, Kamen Rider World:


It this special/short Shadowmoon returns reviving Sai Mutant(Kamen Rider Black), Cyborg Soldier Lv 2(Shin Prologue), Agito, Garai, and Zu(Kamen Rider J) They attack Berry(Talking Grasshopper from J) and the siblings from the Super Sentai World special linking the universes. Kamen Rider ZO appears first then is soon joined by J to combat Shadowmoon's Kaijin Army, before J is forced to enlarge himself to Kaiju size to combat the monster sized Shadowmoon. Anyways this special features the reprisal of ZO, J, Shadowmoon and Berry as they're all voiced by the original actors along with reuse of footage from the preivous Kamen Rider 3-D special "Run Across the World" to flashback the Kaijins defeat. This special isn't actually too special since, well at the time I first saw this the only thing I cared about for this film was Shadowmoon, Sai Mutant and Cyborg Soldier Lv 2. I personally at the time didn't care for ZO or J too much and felt this special to be quite bland and average for Kamen Riders. The best feature of this special was battle of giants, Shadowmoon vs Kamen Rider J that was practically what made this entire special! Anytime there's titans clashing it always makes a Toku better in my opinion. Anyways my rating for this is sadly a 3.5 out of 5, for the fact the sourced Kamen Riders aren't the best ones to have been possibly used.

Conclusion
Personally the double/triple-billing of the features actually was a great idea; bringing together Sentai, Riders and Metal Heroes into a great 30-minute special. ALong with that I personally don't care for the third piece that I didn't feature for this segment as I've never actually found it subbed or know the series used for the Metal Hero segment. I only personally cared for the first two, as I've always enjoyed Super Sentai and Kamen Rider due to Power Rangers and sadly Saban's Masked Rider. Thou out of these two, 3-D specials I perfer the Super Sentai World over the Kamen Rider World as the sourced characters used in the special I'm more fond of; as the MMPR fan in me leaps for joy everytime DaiZyuJin, Dairen-Oh and Muteki Shogun are seen together. And yes I usually always go for Sentai of Kamen Riders when things head towards late 80s to early 90s since that's the dark days for the Riders, but as of late I've seemed to become a larger fan for Riders and put Sentai on the back burner pending on the collectibles. So for people out there who can't decide on which is better I then have to saw moderate with what you like and want, along enjoy the shows for what they are .... Except Goseiger, Go-Buster and Hibiki cause we know those series are just horrible! Anyways, I'll see you all again on the next Toku 101.

Tamashii Nations Day One Coverage

Earlier this morning Tamashii Nations has shown the new line-up of figures ranging from SHFs to even Monsterarts. 


To start off with we finally get a look at Kamen Rider Blade in SHF form.  He is one the three Pre-Decade Heisei Riders that hasnt been released in the Figuarts line until now.  He looks pretty nice so far and it will be cool to see if Bandai will show the other riders from his series in the next couple of days.

 In the next picture we get a look at a whole bunch of Showa related SHFs.  We can see Appolo Geist who was a really huge fan wanted figure along with Riderman and Kamen Rider X.    Also Stronger fans can finally get a Tackle to go along with their Stronger Figuart.   They even decided to show a regular shocker solider so I guess you can army build those as well.

 Next we got a confirmation that the rest of the Zodiarts will be released.  At this point I wonder how Bandai will decide to release these since most of the ones released so far were exclusive so possibly some of these newer ones will be a regular release.

In the following image we get a look at the rest of the riders from Kamen Rider Faiz along with the Horse and Wolf Orphenochs.   I am glad to see that they made a Wolf Orphenoch because I really liked his design and it will be cool to display him next to Faiz.  Something tells me he is going to be exclusive but at this point I can't even tell how much shown will even be released to begin with.

To go along with the announcement of Space Sheriff Gavan, Metal Heroes fans can will be pleased to see that Bandai has decided to make Shaider and Sharivan as well.  Seeing as Toei is trying to revive Metal Heroes these SHFs are nice to help promote the franchise and a nice addition to the fans collections.

The next image reveals that the rest of the Ryuki Riders will be released in the SHF line.  For this series its hard to tell how they will release them because of the whole contract monster thing getting in the way.  Most Kamen Riders dont have a specific partner of some sorts so being a series that mostly revolved around them makes it difficult to release them.

Moving along we also can also see that Bandai is once again catering to Power Rangers fans with the reveal of the MMPR Green Ranger or Dragon Ranger from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.  It looks as though the Dragon Shield is indeed removable so if it is we can make MMPR Red to wear it. At this point its pretty much inevitable that the other rangers will be released as well so we finally get a definitive figure team of the original Power Rangers.

For those who Superhuman Samurai fans you should be glad that Zenon has also been announced to go alongside Servo so the only one that needs to be released is Drago.

Finally we also find out the other "she" that Bluefin was referring to and it was none other then SH Monsterarts Biollante.  The massive female Kaiju is sure to be the most expensive and the biggest figure yet in the line.  So this has been a look at day one at Tamashii Nations so stay tuned for the next couple of days for new announcements.  Source: TokuAnimeNews via Tokunation

VisibleNinja Plays - MMPR (Game Gear) FINAL

It's the last stand of the Rangers!