UPDATED 3/16/14 9PM EST
Today in "Samurai Surprise," they used footage of Gokaiger episodes 11 and 12.
In Episode 12, Gokai Red became Ryuuranger, Hurricane Red, Bouken Red and Shinken Red.
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Jake became Midoranger from Goranger, OhGreen and Green Sai of Liveman and Shinken Green.
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Jake only became Green Zeo Ranger IV and Green Samurai Ranger.
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Jake only became Green Zeo Ranger IV and Green Samurai Ranger.
Gokai Yellow became Mask Yellow, Mega Yellow, Abare Yellow and Shinken Yellow.
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Gia became Mask Yellow, Yellow Space, Yellow Dino Thunder and Samurai Yellow.
Gokai Pink became Denzi Pink, Pink Flash, Time Pink and Shinken Pink.
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Emma became Pink Flash, Pink Time Force and Pink Samurai Ranger.
The Rangers gathered as Time Pink, Green Sai, Hurricane Red, and AbareYellow. In Super Megaforce, they replaced it with Green Zeo and Blue Megaforce.
First time I saw this I got mad, but it could it be possible Jason Smith (Casey, who wrote the episode) did this as an inside thing? He knows Sentai so maybe he thought he could pass this by the Saban Brands team. I mean, they could had easily edited these two out. And it made no sense to omit Green Sai if they were including MaskYellow and Pink Flash. People are saying why should I care. I am not mad because it is including Sentai. I am just upset they do it willy nilly with such randomness and no context. I mean, they omitted Turboranger and Jetman last week but this week seem to do whatever they want.
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I mean they reshot some of it, why not add other teams? Why couldn't Gia become like Turbo, Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed, Wild Force, SPD, Mystic Force, Jungle Fury, or RPM instead of Maskman? And why couldn't Emma become Turbo, Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed, SPD or Mystic Force? Oh well. Another theory is the reason they reshot the last scene was because they didn't have any of the pre-Zyu suits. So they can sometimes add Pre-Zyu suit footage but not make new ones. At least it gives us stuff to debate over until the cows come home. It is never a dull moment now, Saban.
To keep track of it, check out the Ranger Key section of Power Rangers Central I'm working on:
http://www.rangercentral.com/database/2014_supermegaforce/prsm-rangerkeys.htm
The code is not working by the way, some pop-ups might come up.
Good post. Would also like to add that since they keep many of the sentai teams that never appeared in power rangers they should have given them actual names and explained who they are? But it is cool seeing them. Think saban brand should have released some short comic books that told the story of these unknown teams that would have been cool.
ReplyDeleteI agree as well.
DeleteGood post. Would also like to add that since they keep many of the sentai teams that never appeared in power rangers they should have given them actual names and explained who they are? But it is cool seeing them. Think saban brand should have released some short comic books that told the story of these unknown teams that would have been cool.
ReplyDeleteI think it was an interesting idea to introduce pre-MMPR teams in Super Megaforce but they need to have names and the origins may never be explained except maybe a graphic novel series.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think the reason why pre-MMPR teams have appeared in "Earth Fights Back" and "Samurai Suprise" is because both were written by Jason Smith as since Jungle Fury, he has become a Sentai fan and is so far the only Disney era cast member to appear in Super Megaforce.
Maybe the "Super" in the title could possibly mean never-seen Ranger forms in North America, referring to the pre-1992 Super Sentai teams?
Since Saban only cares about kids, why don't you ask them on how they feel about the Sentai Rangers? Heck ask them how the feel about the show in general. I feel Saban will only change things if there's a bad feedback from kids.
ReplyDelete2014 ... The year that Saban Brands decided not to respect anything, whether Super Sentai (with skip Go-Busters) or whatever Power Rangers (with the scene ...).
ReplyDeleteRIP Power Rangers 1992-2013.
Daggy, my 4 year old nephew, since being my kid, knows about sentai but doesn't see the difference yet and considers all of Sentai as Power Rangers.
ReplyDeleteI'm a teacher and one of my 9 year-old students I talk about PR, he thinks its cool.