Toys that Made Us: Power Rangers: Editing and Information Errors

Netflix has a toy documentary that has covered Star Wars, Barbie, He-Man, Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony and other toys. A lot of Power Ranger fans appear in this documentary such as Scott from Power Morphicon, Mike of Rangerstop, Black Nerd Andre, my buddy John, and two Ranger actors David Yost and Walter Jones. It tells the story of Haim Saban got the idea from Sentai to make Power Rangers. It starts out by explaining Tokusatsu. It shows a bit of history with Spider-Man and Kamen Rider. The accuracy then leaves. They use clips from subbed shows and mentions the wrong one while showing another. They show the Cyclone from Kamen Rider and say Sentai. I did my best to edit out the opinion from what CCLemon99 wrote. Thanks to him again.  The reason I did this was to just have the errors highlighted. 

Here is a couple of things CCLemon99 noticed:

• Popy is not mentioned. Popy was around before Bandai, they had the toy license in 1975.
• Kamen Rider is called the first Henshin Hero when that is inaccurate. I’m not even sure but Ultraman is one of them as well.
• Mattel imported some toys over from Japan in the 70s. Godaikin was Bandai's first attempt, but not the only attempt.
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  They mention Bioman but show a clip of Kyodai Ken Bycrosser. Bycrosser is not Sentai, but was produced by Toei.
• No mention of the 1987 comedy Dynaman dub here in the US but it is forgivable as it is just an hour.
• "Please remember, in 1991 Zyuranger aired in Japan." The show aired in 1992 but the toys were manufactured in 1991, hence why some toys said 1991.
• The 8 Inch Rangers were not sold for Zyuranger. If they were created for Zyuranger, it is not mentioned. The only time they were released was for Mighty Morphin.
• The original broadcast time of Day of The Dumpster. It's stated here as being 7:30am on August 28, 1993. In reality, it was 11:30am.
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  "Nonaka, speaking of America toy safety standards, shows a gold Zyusouken that he represents as "the American version" with an incredibly dull blade tip. The American Dragon Dagger is nowhere near as dull and, despite other big differences between the Dragon Dagger and Zyusouken, is the exact same blade. A better example of toy safety differences really lies with the swords that come with things like DX Won Tiger/White Tigerzord." -CCLemon99
• Stock footage of British parents swarming upon a Toys R Us while Trish is talking about complaints Bandai America was getting. The footage shown is of Bandai Europe.
• Auto-Morphin figures (1994) are said to be an American creation. Kakuranger (1994) had a line of figures with a very similar transformation action that released earlier in 1994. 
• A Ninja Steel commercial is shown during the Disney era.
• When discussing Legacy toys and then showing clips from 1994 toy commercials and Nonaka's gold-plated Kyuukyoku Daizyujin instead of highlighting the Legacy toys themselves.
• Also, at the end they mention Hasbro taking over and that TOEI was no longer part of it. FALSE. Toei is still partnered with Power Rangers because how else do they get the Super Sentai footage?

I wish it let my friends and other Ranger fans talk about their love of the toys and show off their collections like the Star Wars episode. These errors clearly show how much people really don't take Power Rangers seriously and had no passion for this episode. It could have been really great. I don't know if they messed up the clips on purpose as a homage to the early days of Power Rangers, or even Megaforce. Anyway, it is what it is and there you go. 

Source: https://www.cclemon99.com/2019/11/the-toys-that-made-us-mighty-morphin.html

SDCC 2018 Bandai exclusives: Zeonizer, Green Psycho and Silver Psycho

SDCC rolls around and the last Bandai Power Rangers exclusives are the Gold Ranger's Gold Zeonizer, Green Psycho Ranger (from Boom Comics) and the Silver Psycho Ranger (Zhane's disguise). 

 SDCC 2018 runs from July 19th-22nd! Bandai's license ends July 30th.

The Legacy Psycho Silver figure will be available at San Diego Comic Con at the Entertainment Earth booth (#2343) for $45. You can pre-order any remaining figures from the show by clicking here.

https://rangernation.com/

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/BA40161?utm_source=affiliate-20180622&utm_medium=affiliatewebsite&utm_campaign=product-sdcc2018&utm_content=affiliatelink&id=TO-312275760

Dear Hasbro: How to make a successful Power Rangers TV Season

How to make a successful TV Season/What fans want

Dear Hasbro, 

Here are some ideas on how to make a successful Power Rangers TV season. It of course is not an exact science. This is based on ideas, complaints and praises I've heard from fans. Fans have fought over which is the best season and the consensus is the cream of the crop is Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Time Force and Power Rangers RPM. The weakest seasons are agreed to be Power Rangers Operation Overdrive and Power Rangers Megaforce. Even though the most popular and well known by general audiences is Mighty Morphin Power Rangers but Saban tried to imitate it with Samurai and Megaforce (using mostly Japanese footage, little original footage and no characterization) was not liked by fans. Fans generally want good storytelling, characterization, entertaining but genuine characters. Also I have a Television production background so I understand about budgets, adhering to scheduling, and Murphy's law--things will go wrong at the wrong time.

Quick Guide:
Saban Era (1993-2001) - Mighty Morphin to Wild Force
Disney Era (2001-2010) - Wild Force to RPM
Neo Saban Era (2011-2018) - Samurai to Super Ninja Steel
Hasbro Era (2019-) - Beast Morphers to ?

Original Fighting Footage

While not vital as there is already fighting footage, sometimes it is important to have some new footage to tie in with what the story asks for. Lost Galaxy and RPM has this a lot since each took place in other environments other than the footage had. Megaforce had very little but was still acceptable, the biggest flaw of Megaforce was bad editing between changes and too many battles and little story. For example, the editing was bad in the episode "A Lion's Alliance" when you briefly see Turborangers from Sentai footage and the episode "The Wrath" has the Sun Vulcan logo briefly before Red Ranger becomes Mighty Morphin.  

Unmorphed battles

Fans love to see the actual actors fighting villains. It is rare in recent seasons but has happened. Fans like to keep the illusion these characters are actually in battle. I say illusion because of the stunt people. Even if it isn't all done by the real actors. 

Name Items

Disney seasons like Ninja Steel and others suffered from weapons, attacks and zords not having names. While Lost Galaxy couldn't keep track of the names of the zords (Misnaming Centaurus and Strataforce Megazords), Disney didn't give names to all their Power Sphere weapons. While not vital, since Hasbro is mainly a toy company and have toys to sell, it is important that everything has a name. Also don't have competing names like in Megaforce while the footage showed the Japanese names and not the American ones. Saban Brands was pretty good at naming everything but had trouble in what mentioned earlier. 

Characterization

While easy to say, it is a hard thing to give every actor equal time. But it is a disservice when one character has most of the episodes and another has not one single highlight episode. Above Gia from Megaforce did not have one single episode to herself, she did share some but that was it. Also have characterization that make sense, Kendall from Dino Charge had hit-and-miss, sometimes her actions made sense and other times did not. Other times, characters were so annoying, we didn't want to root for them. Case and point, Dax from Operation Overdrives who was kind of okay in solo episodes but for one-liners were groan-worthy and irritating in most episodes. 

Compelling Villains

Like fellow fan Linkara says don't just have villains SCREAM ALL THEIR LINES and have generic bad guy deep voices. The most popular villain bare none is Lord Zedd. But other compelling and complex villains include Ecliptor (PRIS), Darkonda (PRIS), Astronmena (PRIS), Diabolico (PRLR), Villamax (PRLG), Trakeena (PRLG), Rita (MMPR), and Ransik (PRTF). There are plenty more and notice the ones I mentioned are from the early days fans refer to Saban Era. What makes a good villain is a villain with a clear goal and some characterization. Someone kids can fear but not too scary of course. Someone who not necessarily has to be funny, not have to be too goofy and campy (Lothor of PRNS and Vekar of Super Megaforce). And not someone flat like Vrax of Megaforce. 

Tone

Tone for Power Rangers is tricky. Has to be fun, but not too goofy, not too condensending to the young audience, and not too serious that it borders on boring. Super Sentai can be darker than Power Rangers but it can also be goofier than Power Rangers at the same time. Out of the Neo Saban seasons, Dino Charge has about the right tone. It balanced genuine comedy with action, adventure and suspense. Fans bring down Disney seasons but I liked their production values, I did not appreciate the tone of the comedy sometimes in Dino Thunder and Jungle Fury. I did like the comedy in RPM, it didn't talk down to kids. The humor in Samurai and Ninja Steel unfortunately does. I'm talking about Monty and Victor. I know Bulk and Skull were a bit lowbrow and condensending but I feel those actors made it work more than Victor and Monty. And Bulk and Spike's humor didn't quite gel sometimes with Samurai's tone. 

Thanks for your time.

Love, Lavender Ranger

Related: http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2015/11/which-series-should-be-adapted-for-2017.html | http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2014/04/lavender-ranger-editorial-how-lavender.html

Power Rangers 25th Anniversary Ranger Keys

Just when you thought they would never ever do Ranger Keys again. Apparently Toys R Us saw profit from the redux of keys two years ago or was it a year ago? Anyway, fans found a listing for it. The picture is a placeholder.

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=BA40385A

You guys know I love Ranger Keys and still collect them. My buddy https://twitter.com/DTAKEOVR has made those missing keys like Movie, Ninja Steel, Dino Charge and any others, he has done amazing ones. So basically the listing says there will be SIX sets of five, so it looks like it will be different packaging than the ones we are used to. Another thing is that it says the keys will fit in the Dino Charge Morpher which I don't believe. I just hope they make another morpher with new sounds.

Now on to the speculation on which keys they could be because this wouldn't be Lavender Ranger's blog if I didn't do this....

What I think Bandai will do

1. Ninja Steel - 5 (Red, Yellow, Gold, Blue, Pink)

2. Dino Charge - 5 (Red, Blue, Green, Black, Gold)

3. MMPR - 5 (Red, Blue, Black, Green, White)

4. Samurai - 5 (Red, Blue, Green, Pink. Yellow)

5. Megaforce (Red, Blue, Black, Pink, Yellow)

6. Movie (Red, Blue, Black, Pink, Yellow)

What I think Bandai should do...

1. Ninja Steel - 5 (Red, Yellow, Blue, Pink, White)

(Customs by @DTAKEOVR)

2. Dino Charge - 5 (Red, Blue, Green, Black, Pink)

(Custom by @DTAKEOVR)

3. Dino Charge - 5 (Gold, Aqua, Silver, Purple, Graphite)

(Custom)

4. Jungle Fury - 5 (Dai Shi, Camile, Spirit Rangers--Bat, Elephant, Shark)

(Custom)

5. Missing Keys: Lauren, Kat Ranger, Nova Ranger, Sentinel Knight, Ninja Steel Gold

6. Movie (Red, Blue, Black, Pink, Yellow)

(Customs by @DTAKEOVR)

New York Comic Con 2015 (NYCC) Exclusives

http://bandai.com/nycc2015/

 

 

Limited Edition Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie Dino Charger Power Pack

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Legacy Power Morpher

Re-release

And the usual Tokyo Vinyl

 

 

To follow up on the successful Dino Megazord Charger campaign at Toys R Us locations immediately after SDCC 2015, Bandai is doing it once again as it brings the Ninja Mega Falconzord Dino Charger to Toys R Us stores. As with the previous campaign, fans who spend $20 or more on Power Rangers merchandise will receive one Dino Charger. October 9 through October 31, 2015. Quantities limited; no rain checks. Offer available in Toys "R" Us stores only. Offer valid through October 31, 2015 or while supplies last.

 



More Upcoming Power Rangers Dino Supercharge toys

UPDATED 11/23 6:30 AM EST
Razzle1337 has found listings for new toys.Speculations below names:

43002 T-Rex Super Charge Morpher

Speculation: I suspect this has to be the Gabutyra that Red uses to become Super. 

Dino Stunt Bikes 

 I wonder why Green doesn't get one.

43071 Dino Cycle and Red Ranger

43072 Dino Cycle and Black Ranger

43073 Dino Cycle and Blue Ranger

43074 Dino Cycle and Gold Ranger

43075 Dino Cycle and Aqua Ranger

43076 Dino Cycle and Graphite Ranger

43077 Dino Cycle and T-Rex Super Charge Ranger

Zords

43098 Plesio Charge Megazord (Megazord and Rocket Modes)

43103 Ankylo Zord 
43106 Deinosuchus Zord 

43104 Pachy Zord

43105 Ammonite Zord (Toy Fair images above)

43151 Spinosaurus Zord  

43152 Spinosaurus Zord (I wonder why two different listings)

Figures

 43131 11" T-Rex Super Charge Red

 

43230 5" T-Rex Super Charge Red

43231 Aqua (male)

 43232 Purple (female)

43233 Dino Drive Gold 

 43234 Dino Drive Graphite 

43235 Dino Drive Aqua (Fake pic above)

43236 Dino Drive Purple

43242 Plesio Charge Megazord


      43310 Purple (perhaps male)

43244 Ninja
My monster expert friend thinks it is Debo Shinobinba.

43245 Game Face 

My friend thinks it is Debo Spokorn.

 

43243 Snide (Villain)

Has been confirmed to be "Neo Zeltrax" the monster form of new villain Jekyl. Snide means an unpleasant or underhanded person or remark. It is also a play on words with "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

Also @odot92 of Rangercrew found these:

Dino Charger Ultimate Power Pack 1

Toys R Us Exclusive

This has the Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Pachy and Ankylo Dino Chargers but the zord toys are different colors. Triceratops is blue, Pachy is purple, Ankylo is orange and Stego is violet-red like Dino Thunder and Tyranno is Black.

Ankylosaurus from Dino Thunder was orange and the now Ankylozord is cyan. Mixed toy above.

Stegosaurus was pinkish-red in Dino Thunder and now blue in Dino Charge, hybrid above.

 Bunpachy was purple in Dino Thunder and grey/graphite now in Dino Charge, hybrid above.

Dino Charger Ultimate Power Pack #2

Toys R Us ExclusivePachy is green like in Dino Thunder, Pterandon is Yellow like Dino Thunder, Raptor is red for some reason, Deinousuchus is Blue for some reason, supposed to be orange and the Cycle one is grey. Well the Raptors were Raptor Riders in Red, Black, Blue and Yellow in Dino Thunder.

Triceratops was blue in Dino Thunder, now pink, hybrid above.

Para was green in DT and black in DC.

Pterandon now is gold in DC but was yellow in Dino Thunder.

 Linear Ranger found Dino Spike toy and in the back, there will be color-coded Dino Chargers like the red one that was for Carnival (Super).

From Razzle1337:

https://twitter.com/_ShadowRay22 says 43308 Teacher could be the monster at left.

https://twitter.com/_ShadowRay22 says 43307 Shinge could be Endorf that is full of fire.

43308 Doomwing has to Mad Torin, the evil counterpart to the Kyoryuger mentor.

43246 Silver Ranger