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Power Rangers fighting scenes were from a Japanese series?
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*sniff* I remember being in Wal-Mart many years ago (probably a decade ago) and seeing the Dragonzord toy. I was all like "omg omg omg," but it was $40 and my dad wouldn't buy it. So I took it and hid it under a lot of towels in this huge cart. I remember coming back like two days later and going through the entire cart...but it wasn't in there...
'twas a sad day indeed.
'twas a sad day indeed.Bowser said:*sniff* I remember being in Wal-Mart many years ago (probably a decade ago) and seeing the Dragonzord toy. I was all like "omg omg omg," but it was $40 and my dad wouldn't buy it. So I took it and hid it under a lot of towels in this huge cart. I remember coming back like two days later and going through the entire cart...but it wasn't in there...
My DragonZord was actually given to me. The guy was a friend of mine who had grown out of it when Amy Jo Johnson left the cast (and by grown out of it, I mean, so pissed off he threw the DragonZord against the wall, and broke it).
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Just by the difference in video stock I knew it was from foreign TV. Presumably Japanese, because of the obvious Godzilla overtones. This and the awful lip synch issues. I made these conclusions at the age of 11, only having watched 5 minutes of one episode. "I'm not a smart man, but I know what crappy Japanese TV looks like."
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Forever Red was the best episode of PR I saw. I started rewatching Power Rangers 2 years ago on Fox Family and got caught up in the plots. Then I started watching Ninja Storm(best series IMO) and finally had something to look forward to on Saturday mornings. Too bad it didn't last that long. The new series did a flashback on every PR series telling the story from the start, through the differnt series, and how it tied in to each other.
I stoped watching when that little kid became a ranger. Which should tell you that the footage for the fights are imported. How could a 11 year old grow 2 feet in a matter of seconds. I was glad they left his ass at home when they went to space.
I stoped watching when that little kid became a ranger. Which should tell you that the footage for the fights are imported. How could a 11 year old grow 2 feet in a matter of seconds. I was glad they left his ass at home when they went to space.
jobber said:
Ninja Storm wasn't so bad, but it just reused things that had been done before (Ninja series in Mighty Morphin', evil rangers becoming good, nerd becoming a ranger (though the last time that happened was with Billy I think)).
Not like Power Rangers is a series to be praised for its complicated storylines anyhow. NS did feel a bit more fresh. The first episode made out the PR to be like these mythical beings long forgotten (one guy only read about them in comics..?), which wasn't too bad.
The Legacy of Power episode was pretty good even though it was basically a flashback ep. Forever Red wasn't too bad, and it was cool that they brought back some of the older villains.
Would have preferred there to be an ep where there was a hugeass showdown with all the rangers and their respective villains instead of Forever Red. Even though it would make no sense, have all the MegaZords come back and such.
DopeyFish said:
What about the terrific acting jobs?
Watch Legacy of Power. It's a bit better in that you get to see the entire series up until that ep, basically (and there's not really a true story).
And oh how I hate that they make Tommy out to be the best ranger evar in Forever Red (and Legacy of Power).
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Maybe it's because I grew up in the 80's but I swear to god Power Rangers (and most cartoons/shows for kids) suck(/ed) arse! Nothing comes close to the quality of He-Man, Ghostbusters, Transformers, or TMNT (although knew series has impressed me).
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I meant the shows of the mid 90s and today particually. I don't know if it's nostalgia making me biased or not. Actually it's probably not as most of the 5 minute long Warner Bros cartoons are still best then 95% of kid's shows in the last 10 years.
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AniHawk said:
You know I used to watch Thundercats but I cannot remember the show at all! The main cartoons, where I can recall characters and their names very clearly, are TMNT, Ghostbusters and He-man to an extent.
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...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Holy shit...this thread blew up.
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For all the people remembering X-OR (Uchû Keiji Gavin in japanese 1982)
The main actor (Kenji Ohba) has a role in Kill Bill Vol. 1, he is the bald guy helping Hattori Hanzo in the sushi shop.
The main actor (Kenji Ohba) has a role in Kill Bill Vol. 1, he is the bald guy helping Hattori Hanzo in the sushi shop.
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The acting was, but then they didn't exactly have good scripts to go with. Most of the lines were utter cheese. And having Cole (red from Wild Force) with most of the lines was even worse since he can't act worth shit.DopeyFish said:
But the fight scenes were the best ever in a PR episode, not counting the movies. (Though some portions were probably better than TAPRM). They were pulled off extremely well, and the slow-motion-matrix-esque technique added a lot imo. The SEs were top notch too.
The only major problem I had with Forever Red, was that Cole was able to completely destroy Serpentara with his fucking speeder? WTH! All of the Thunder Zords combined weren't able to take that thing down back during MMPR, and somehow Cole manages to just fly through its mouth with his speeder and it blows up? BULL SHIT PLEASE. Using the Beetle Borg costumes as the main villians also sucked, but at least they tied them in with the Machine Empire...which kinda makes sense.
And Tommy is not the best. Jason is. kthx.
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Kenji Ohba is the man! He also played several roles in serveral toku shows including his recent appearance in the Japanese version of Ninja Storm(Hariken). Speaking of Space Sheriff, Saban used the third Space Sheriff Shaider(quite popular in the Philippines) for the 2nd costume in the 2nd season of VR troopers for Ryan Steele:Milhouse31 said:For all the people remembering X-OR (Uchû Keiji Gavin in japanese 1982)
The main actor (Kenji Ohba) has a role in Kill Bill Vol. 1, he is the bald guy helping Hattori Hanzo in the sushi shop.
^middle guy is Shaider
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Agreed.
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Defensor said:
Cool. Do you have these episodes on your PC or VCD? I've seen whole sets of MMPR, Zeo, and Turbo on VCD on Ebay a few times and I'm thinking about getting them.
Also, this thread needs more Psycho Ranger luvin':
Best Ranger villains of all time. And Psycho Pink is the only villain in the history of PR (American) to literally kill a Power Ranger. (Kendrix from Lost Galaxy)
Is there a site where I can see all the zords (whatever the hell they were called)? I remember in the original series there being:
The first normal big zord... normal big zord with green zord... the samurai looking big zord... and then the movie zord? There was also a ton of other upgrades like something that appeared like a Brachiosaurus and I also remember there being voltonesque tigers at one point (this had to be in 96 because I'm sure I stopped watching the show during that year). Did the movie or white ranger come first? I remember still watching it when the white ranger was introduced.
The first normal big zord... normal big zord with green zord... the samurai looking big zord... and then the movie zord? There was also a ton of other upgrades like something that appeared like a Brachiosaurus and I also remember there being voltonesque tigers at one point (this had to be in 96 because I'm sure I stopped watching the show during that year). Did the movie or white ranger come first? I remember still watching it when the white ranger was introduced.
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The Red Dragon Zord that came with the Thunder Zords owned the house.
I know that and I thoguht Sloan confirmed a DT/NS crossover already?
I know that but it still sucks that he didn't at least get a cameo appearance. He was a damn good Red Ranger (and later Blue in Zeo). Not as good as Jason but jesus he was better than Cole in Wild Force or Carter in Lightspeed Rescue.
I liked Zeo but I didn't like the way they wrote off Yost in the show (he had contractual issues with the show and didn't like the direction being done with the series). Zeo had some awesome concepts though and Catherine Sutherland was hoooooooot. The Super Zero Zords were damn cool too.
No way, Turbo > Ninja Storm. Oh and Justin looks soooooooo bad now. -_-
I know that and I thoguht Sloan confirmed a DT/NS crossover already?
Shouta, Rocky wasn't needed for the Forever Red reunion. What would Rocky suit up as since Jason returned as the original Red Ranger? Plus he was a hack...
I know that but it still sucks that he didn't at least get a cameo appearance. He was a damn good Red Ranger (and later Blue in Zeo). Not as good as Jason but jesus he was better than Cole in Wild Force or Carter in Lightspeed Rescue.
I liked Zeo but I didn't like the way they wrote off Yost in the show (he had contractual issues with the show and didn't like the direction being done with the series). Zeo had some awesome concepts though and Catherine Sutherland was hoooooooot. The Super Zero Zords were damn cool too.
No way, Turbo > Ninja Storm. Oh and Justin looks soooooooo bad now. -_-
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It was. Though the whole 'ooze' concept was pretty ignorant, the rest of the movie had really good action sequences and a decent plot. (Although I wish finding the 'Great Power' would have had a bigger effect than simply restoring their powers and reviving Zordon.)Bacon said:
The suits were ten times better looking. The metallic armor made things seem less cheap and slightly more realistic. (And a huge lol to the moments in the actual series when they tried to replicate the 'metallic armor' by sprinkeling the spandex with shiny sparkle powder.) However, while the suits were better, the zords...were not. The CGI was horrendous, and the Ninja Mega Zord was attrocious. It didn't even have a fucking face aside from a silver metal plate and three holes. The Ninja Megazord in the series was ten times better.
No diceTritroid said:Do you have any of a Gold Ranger morph sequence? I swear I would be tempted to change my avatar if you did.
I really didn't like Zeo as much and when it started to air(I did watch the Gold Ranger arc though). I practically stopped watching Power Ranges from then. Not until In Space came along that I started to watch the series again, and then stopped when Lost Galaxy aired
I started to watch the Japanese series of each iteration instead and compare that to the stateside version of each show.
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He did confirm it, but I wasn't sure if it was going to air this year or early next.
You are out of your mind Shouta since Dana from Lightspeed Rescue was soo much hotter than Kat
I really only watched a couple of eps of Ninja Storm(Most of the early eps, the introduction of the Goraijers and Cam as the Green Samuari). So much potential to go with if Ninja Storm followed the Shuricanger arc from Japan where it had you guessing the real identity of the green one was...but alas was wasted
I do agree that the voice dubbing was pretty bad in the show when they were in their suits. Everytime I heard "dude!" I was banging my head against the wall. Could you tell me how Ninja Storm ended?
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Ninja Storm ended with a Supercharged Lothar (forgot how he was supercharged) invading and the NS rangers trying to fight him off. He steals their powers during their battle. Lothar's plan was to open a rift and let all the evil within it out (IIRC) and what happened was as he was opening the portal, he was knocked into it by the Rangers (I think). He had the NS powers with him, so Lothar and the NS powers were sealed in that chasm of evil. Yadda Yadda, the NS crew became teachers at the Ninja Academy and those two villain girls became students there. Been ages since I last saw it.
Shouta said:
No, I meant the way that they make him out to be the greatest Ranger of all time. I know he has a lot of fan fare, but everyone standing there as Tommy walked off saying, "WOW, THERE GOES THE GREATEST RANGER OF ALL TIME" was freakin' stupid.
I too was always a fan of Billy. He actually became acceptable among people who thought he was a nerd before when he ditched the glasses and got the wolf zord (which pwns).
I also didn't like the way they wrote him off. But what I hated most was that he was in the Command Center and not really part of the team anymore. Wasn't there an ep where he became a ranger again, though?
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AniHawk said:
No, although they did make it seem like he was the Gold Ranger for a few episodes. They would never have him in the same scene when the Gold Ranger was around, and then he would show up just shortly after and go "What's up guys?" They were making it so blatantly obvious that it had me convinced he was the Gold Ranger for a while.
But then once the Gold Ranger was revealed to be Trey, everyone was slightly disappointed that it was a nobody.
Although once Trey lost the ability to use the Power Staff, the obvious choice was to give the powers to Billy. While they were trying the transfer of power, Billy's body automatically rejected it, and he later explained that this was because he and the rest of the rangers were inside the old Command Center while it was imploding, and this somehow contanimated his system thus causing the Gold Ranger powers to be rejected.This pissed off a lot of fans, since they were setting it up to be Billy as the sixth ranger. Even some of his comments were so depressing: <Zordon> The five of you will need to blah blah blah. <Billy>...There used to be six.
To be honest though, I had no clue they were going to bring back Jason as the Gold Ranger, and I don't know of anyone else who did. When Tommy suddenly thought of someone else who could possibly take control of the Power Staff, I could have sworn he was thinking of his stupid native american brother or whoever that played such a pointless fucking role in the series. But needless to say I was really glad to see it was Jason once he took off the glasses and bandana. ^-^
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