Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Just Ideas: Possible Power Rangers Theme Park Attractions?

Here is my own renditions and ideas. This by no means for sure will happen or are official. Nor have I heard any rumors or truth about any real ideas. Feel free to add comments on your ideas. I have a poll going on right now and when the results come out, I will either reiterate these ideas or link to this post. These are also the options from the poll.

Rollercoaster
Got the idea from the Hulk rollercoaster. I'm not a big fan of rollercoasters, but I can imagine that the cars can be in different colors as the rangers and be like a rainbow coaster. And maybe have a select villain.

Enclosed 'Dark' Ride
A ride like the ones at Disney (Small World, Peter Pan, Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, etc.) or the Spider-man ride at Universal Islands of Adventure. The ride can be 3-D like Spider-man or be like the ones I mentioned before with animatronics that barely move. They can tell a story. It could be of any select Power Ranger team, I vote for Mighty Morphin. since it is the best known. Most rides go from room to room, the first room could have Rita escaping the dumpster, second have Zordon telling Alpha to get five teenagers and we see the morphed Rangers appear, the third can have the Rangers fighting a monster or Goldar and fourth Megazord battle and fifth could have Zedd and Green Ranger and so on.

Indoor Stageshow
The Stage show Saban had in 1995 could be replicated or made better inside a housing stadium like Disney has for their stage shows, which are virtually all gone but the ones I grew up with where Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid in MGM Studios. I like air conditioning. And having it indoors, it can have special effects or 3-D. And this show can have different Rangers from different teams and being in-suit, they can have different voice actors. They can take the plot of Super Legends where Zedd returned.

(RPM in Philippines)

Outdoor Stageshow
Disney Hollywood Studios only had the Rangers in a parade and meet and greet, but back when it was MGM Studios, there was Ninja Turtles and they had a outdoor stageshow and then they did a meet and greet. As we said before, Sentai has plenty of stageshows and most of them are outdoors and they do pyrotechnics. Outdoors could also have a slight arena roof.

(Mystic Force and Dino Thunder in a foreign market)

In a Parade
The only thing Disney had them do was participate in the Car parade in Hollywood Studios. I have covered this many times before as they had one member from a different team and would rotate members, having a member of a new team replace one from four years before, for example Mystic Pink replaced Pink Time Force Ranger.

Meet and Greet
After the parade and at different times in Disney World Hollywood Studios in Orlando, the suited Power Rangers would sign autographs. To start out again, Saban will probably have all 5 Samurai Rangers and then slowly add a new member from a new team replacing another. I do wish they would have like Samurai Red, MMPR Pink, RPM Black, Jungle Fury Yellow and Operation Overdrive Blue.


Martial Art Demo

What I was thinking of was in-suit but an outdoor thingy where they train kids with simple marital art things and have an actual Martial Arts person be the host and explain.

Game-like Ride
In Disney World Magic Kingdom there is this Buzz Lightyear ride where you go in cars and have to zap targets. So maybe each looks like a zord and you have targets from different series, like one room has putties and Lord Zedd is in command at a park or cave and another has Cylcobots and Ransik is the boss inside a cityscape and another has Grinders and Venjix (a giant tube) in his headquarters, etc.


Museum of History
Ah, I want this so much. I imagine a big space with several rooms, it doesn't have to be as big as an actual musuem but it would be awesome to see suits in cases. They wouldn't have to have all the suits of each rangers but at least a few from each team. Or maybe all the helmets. I mean, there are some fans that have one helmet from each team. Not only suits and helmets of the team but like with Sentai that has Megazords, villains, and vehicles.



Gender Switching and Same Gender Body Changing in Sentai and PR

Fumiya and Remi of Fiveman
I heard they switch bodies by the monster of the week.


Billy as Pink and Kimberly as Blue (MMPR)
In the first season episode "Switching Places," Billy and Kimberly accidentally switch bodies when Squatt messes up Billy's machine. The story didn't match the footage, I would had liked it if they shot some new footage of the Blue Ranger acting like Kimberly and the Pink Ranger acting like Billy. In the reversion, they could had changed the backgrounds but they didn't. Bulk and Skull also switched bodies.

Astronema and Ashley (Power Rangers in Space)
Astronema switches her look thanks to a Body Switcher monster. Astronema as Ashley transformed into Yellow Ranger and Ashleya s Astronema transformed as well.

Sensei, Shane and Dustin (Ninja Storm)
Cam tries to make his father human again, because he is a guinea pig so he accidentally switches bodies with Shane and gets to be the Red Ranger and fight Kelzaks. He then accidentally switches with Dustin and fights Footzilla as the Yellow Ranger.


Yukito and Ryoga of Abaranger
They switch bodies in Episode 27.

Hoji and Wojonian Jinche (Dekaranger) Wojonian ried to escape deletion by switching bodies with Hoji in order to take control of the Deka Base Robo.

Sky and Wootox (SPD)
Wootox had an ability to switch bodies, he pressed his head to Sky and enter his luscious meaty body and even mimic his voice. He took off Sky's translator and he was stuck speaking Wootox's language but it made no sense. If Wootox had a translator, it meant he couldn't speak English so why was he able to speak English in Sky? OR it could be that Sky's body only could speak English and Wootox's body only could speak his language.

Kai and Houka (Magiranger)
Toad changed the brother and sister in Episodes 39 and 40. Houka made reference to having a penis. Anyway, Houka made a better Kai by appealing to the girl of his dreams. Kai complained that he had 'nothing' in his crotch. Anyhoo, they both learn from each other.

 Sosuke Banki (Boukenger)
In Episode 12, Sosuke changes bodies with a monster. I forgot about this one!

Luka and Don (Gokaiger)
Switched by a monster, Luka used Don's body as a doll and was a better and cooler Don. Don didn't want harm to come to Luka so protected his power. Episode 28.

Shinkenger had a body changing episode but it was with inanimate objects, I wanted to do only human bodies. And yes yes, the monster switched with Chiaki but that was rather quick... The monster went from Chiaki to a ball and Chiaki was in the monster for a while.

Poll Results: 2012 Sentai

What theme would you like for the 2012 Sentai?
Cowboys
  118 (38%)
Space
  143 (46%)
Animals
  90 (29%)
Sports
  66 (21%)
Vehicles
  69 (22%)

Do you think Baruganger is the true name for 2012 Sentai?
Yes
  117 (41%)
No
  48 (17%)
Maybe
  136 (48%)

Baruganger turned out to be bogus. So there we go. 

MYTHICAL DESTINY FAN FILM

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View Discretion is Advised. This is a non-profit project, lots of sweat ad blood. Thank you so much to those who helped, this took around three years. Power Rangers is property of Saban Brands and Gosei Sentai Dairanger is property of Toei Company. The following is for no profit and meant for fun and inspired by fans.

This is the story (similar to Shinkenger) where 5 youngsters have destiny to fulfill because their families fought and they trained too. Set in 2005. Tyson (Red) doesn't think he needs the help and Larry (Green) doesn't want to do it. Marvin, their tech guy, sets out to collect all five of them.

I know some scenes you cant hear what they are saying, some scenes blurry, some don't match lighting (one bright, one dark) and some sound effects are wrong places. No time to reshoot and we all did this for free in our spare time. There is a reason it is amateur! And yes, I know it's short. I'll be releasing a Director's Commentary soon!

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Gokaiger Episodes 28-35 Summaries


DUKEMON22 Wrote:

Episode 28:
Title- Tsubasa wa Eien ni (Wings are Forever)
Airs- 9/4/11
"Mera Mera~ to Hi no Tori Jyaaku na Teki wo Uchitaosu" (Burning Burning~The Phoenix will defeat the evil enemy) This is what Navi's latest Takara Navigate revealed! Marvelous and co. begin to search for the Jetman's great power, thanks to a top from Ikari Gai. Just then, a bike-riding mystery man shows up. This man steals Joe's Mobirates, and his true identity is revealed to be Yuki Gai (played by Wakamatsu Toshihide), the former BlackCondor of Jetman! "Look for the Jetman no further", is his warning.

Bounty Hunter Kiaido will be this episode's villain. Going by magazine scans Yuuki Gai is in fact dead, why he steals the Mobirates from Joe...not quite sure, but he's shown with a CrossChanger in the preview.

Episode 29:
Title- Abare Shichihenge de Atarashii Gattai (Abare Seven Change New Combination)
Airs- 9/11/11

Sanjou Yukito (Played by Tomita Shou), Abaranger's former AbareBlue, appears to help the Gokaiger. In tow his Yukito's wife and secretary, Sanjou Emiri (Played by Nishijima Michi), who insists that she was the Abaranger's former AbarePink. Aihm undergoes a "Shichihenge" (a Kabuki dance where the actor changes clothes 7 times). Could one of these changes be....AbarePink?!

A hidden formation, left untaught by Nakadai Mikoto, the former AbareKiller, using the Abaranger's Great Power. Using the Abaranger Keys in GokaiOh, GokaiOh is able to unite with Goujyujin's arms. GojyuGokaiOh presents the idea that different legends have the potential to teach different great powers, and/or that hidden potential exists for all great powers Action Commander Daiyaaru is this episode's villain. This episode was also noted to feature Aihm and Gai pretending to be a couple.


Episode 30:
Title- Tomo no Tamashii dakedemo (Only a Friend's Soul)
Airs- 9/18/11
Liveman's former YellowLion, Ohara Jou (Played by Nishimura Kazuhiko), appears in front of Joe! Joe, who obtains the blueprints to Barizorg, heads to Academia to see if there is a way to return Barizorg to the way he was! Great Scientist Zaien will be this episode's villain.


Episode 31:
Title- N/A
Airs- 9/25/11
Ohranger's Former OhRed, Hoshino Gorou (Played by Shishido Masaru) , makes contact with Basco, while Ohranger's Former OhPink, Maruo Momo (Played by Satou Tamao) makes contact with the Gokaiger! Navi's Treasure Navigate tells the Gokaiger, "Uaoh! Uaoh!", but what does that even mean? Regardless, Marvelous and crew set out to look for the latest great power.

Before them appears a placard-wearing woman who tells them "Here is the Great Power." What is this woman's true identity?! Also, Basco hatches a plan to get this Great Power! Things get serious, please don't miss it!





 
The bench where he was stabbed. :(
 
UPDATED 9/9/11
Episode 32 - The focus is split two ways, but the main focus is on Don and his creation of the Gokai Galleon Buster.

Episode 33 - Dairanger tribute episode. Ryou of the Heavenly Fire Star (Tenkasei Ryou) aka Ryu Ranger who previously appeared in the Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle will make his appearance!

Episode 34 - Luka's backstory episode.

Episode 35 - Go-Onger tribute episode which is possible to last for another episode. Sousuke Esumi aka Go-OnRed appears. The new Engine, MachFalcon will make its debut, Hiroaki Hirata best known for his roles in Tiger & Bunny's Wild Tiger, One Piece's Sanji and Johnny Depp's official Japanese voice actor will voice the new Engine.
 

More Rumors:
Rumor has it that ChangeDragon, YellowFlash, and RedMask will make some sort of appearence in episode 32 to grant the Gokaiger their powers. It isn't specifically mentioned what kind of appearence, so it's not a confirmation of returning actors.

On that note, the GalleonBuster will likely utilize the powers of Ohranger, Changeman, Flashman and Maskman.

Monday, August 29, 2011

History of Power Rangers at Universal Studios


For almost five years, the Power Rangers were at Walt Disney World's Hollywood Studios in Orlando (2005 to 2010). But that is no longer the case. For those who just clicked on this from google and not familiar with this, Disney owned Power Rangers from 2002 to 2010, now it is owned once again by the original owner Haim Saban. I've read online that many parents miss the Rangers and their kids want to see them. So far Saban has not announced them at any parks as of yet. Because Power Rangers are now airing on Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon Studios used to be at Universal Studios Orlando and some characters did frequent there, some fans believe the Rangers might move over there. It is yet to be announced.

Saban has had the Power Rangers appear at Universal Studios before. For Lightspeed Rescue in 2000, the actors appeared at Universal Studios Hollywood, California for 2 days and their bikes were there for a while. Now, yes these were no staying theme park attractions.

Also I remember reading an article back in 1994 that the original cast of MMPR (Austin St. John, Thuy Trang, Walter Jones, etc.) also made an appearance---they made five shows and there was a big crowd. Now, yes these were no staying theme park attractions. The longest thing at a theme park the Power Rangers have ever had was in Walt Disney World. Another theme park-like thing there is the Nick Hotels and Nick Cruise where the Nickelodeon characters appear at.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Gokaiger 27 and 28 Preview










Sorry, no female greens or unique gender changes (just Flashman) this time.

Next week...



Gai returns for Episode 28, controversial! And the monster od the day is a red Bobba Fett? They become Bioman, Jetman and Maskman.