Saturday, February 20, 2021

Power Rangers Dino Fury - Destination Dinohenge - Episode Review




Episode Summary:

Amelia, who hops off her bike, says hi to her boss Jane of BuzzBlast, who works too much on weekends. She has an idea about Dinohenge for a story. Amelia has never written a story that was her own. She has already done a video, on glow in the dark lip gloss. Jane wants a factual story and Amelia is happy, she has permission to go. She has a machine that detects ghosts. She walks through the foggy forest. She finds something moving fast. Ollie yells for help, he gets electrocuted in a net. He was on a bike. Amelia apologizes. He is late for something. He is looking for Dinohenge too. He split up with his archeologist mother. They find the ruins. No one knows where they came from. A woman--Dr. Arkana, his mom greets Amelia. She has cool tech like a drone that can detect structures. 

The drone scans the dinosaur statues and they start rumbling. The drone comes back. The rumbling stops. Ollie's mm shows there is a chamber underneath. A man arrives, Warden Buzzkill--Warden Garcia. Amelia already knows him. He is a park ranger who wants them to pack up and file a report. Dr. A happily goes with him and tells Ollie to pack up. Ollie stays with Amelia, who helps with the drone. She calls herself a ghost hunter and Ollie figures she thought he was a ghost. He says he never saw a ghost and asks for proof. She says with ghosts, it is hard to find proof. She calls him close-minded and he calls himself logical. Void Knight arrives and detects the energy source. He blasts through the ground. Ollie and Amelia hide. Void Knight goes down. Amelia follows but Ollie is hesitant. 

They find the underground headquarters and find footsoliders. They hide from Void Knight. He finds a dinosaur lady and a dormant Red Ranger. She puts light on the Red Ranger but he does not move. Void Knight slashes on the device meant to revive Zayto, the Red Ranger. Ollie grab the sword and fight back Void Knight. Amelia shocks him with her net. The dinosaur woman throws a key at them but Void Knight takes it and uses it on his sword to bring the "Hengemen" to life. The two have fighting experience and fight the Hengemen. The device is too damaged to wake up Zayto. Amelia gets the sword and slashes at the Hengemen. Ollie and Amelia get cornered and the swords glow. The dinosaur lady Solon throws keys at them when their Morphers appear. They morph.

Ollie becomes the Blue Ranger and Amelia becomes the Pink Ranger. Void Knight tells them the Hengemen to tear them apart. The two fight the Hengemen. Amelia asks what else they get. Ollie says Zords. Void Knight finds the energy source and it is glowing balls called Sporix. He has the Hengemen take a chest of Sporix. Solon hits the device. Red Ranger awakens and fights the Hengemen. He has questions. A device falls to the ground. Zayto says Sporix is bad. They fight Void Knight. Some Hengemen are destroyed into rocks. Zayto changes his sword into the Dino Dagger. The Sporix escape and float, circling everywhere. Void Knight escapes with it. He throws rocks on them. The Sporix escapes but some fall to the ground and hatches into a monster. They disappear. Ollie and Amelia de morph.



Zayto demorphs. The Morphers become wrist devices. He knows stuff as he can read minds. He was making sure if it still works. Solon says 65 million years have passed. Zayto is an alien and Solon is a cyborg dinosaur. He tells them that his home planet  Rafkon was attacked by Sporix and few survivors    They left the planet to Earth. They followed and fought them along with dinosaurs. They grew giant and  they retreated. Morphin masters arrived and used the Morphin grid. Their dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts became statues and gave life to Zords. The masters made the knights into rangers. They locked the sporix in chest and the others were lost. They tried destroying the sporix but could not. They wonder who the void knight is and need to get the sporix back. We see the sporix hide all over the city.




Episode Review:

Unlike Beast Morphers, the show starts with the theme song. So far so good. This felt like part 1 of 2, it is not as rushed as people say it is. It just felt short and I did want more. The story is engrossing. It is great the Morphin Masters from MMPR and the comics have been referenced here. So I am looking forward to the next episode. 

Friday, February 5, 2021

Power Rangers Dino Fury Coming February 20th

 Old news in the online world but if you missed it, here it is: 

Power Rangers Dino Fury will premiere on Nickelodeon on February 20. Also, Mick (Ninja Steel) is back.

Teaser Trailer:

https://www.ign.com/articles/power-rangers-dino-fury-release-date-trailer-cast-revealed-exclusive

Pictures from:

https://powerrangers.hasbro.com/en-us









What do I think?

Well, I don't judge a series before it starts. I am not the kind of person that says "this is going to ruin Power Rangers" because basically, this is the last series based on Super Sentai. The next Power Rangers series are supposedly a live-action grittier series and an animated one most likely. The addition of Mick however could go one of two ways: adding vanilla to vanilla or adding yummy chocolate syrup to vanilla. The pattern with Power Rangers is endless, teenagers getting together and meeting in a high tech headquarters to team up with aliens and fight aliens. Ryusoulger was about an ancient tribe (the Rangers were being trained) coming to modern world, which I wish was carried on. It is not like I hate it or whatever but it is a bit tiring. 

Other tidbits

  • Izzy and Javi are step sister and step brother, respectively.
  • Gaisorg: Void Knight (source: website)
  • Tankjo: Boomtower (source: website, toys)
  • Unicorn Minosaur: Shockhorn (source: toys)
  • Basilisk Minosaur: Doomsnake (source: toys)

Friday, December 25, 2020

More Zenkaiger scans



Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger, translated as Machine World Squadron Full Throttle Ranger.

In this story, our heroes will use full-force full-throttle to stop the enemies who are trying to destroy the parallel universes. One hero known as Zenkaiser, with a heart of justice, will stand up to a preposterous giant mass of evil who has managed to break into their homeworld. Fighting alongside him are four robotic lifeforms. Kaito Goshikida becomes Zenkaiser, Zyuran becomes ZenkaiZyuran and his main outfit is based on Geki of Zyuranger and his armor is based on Daizyujin (Original Megazord). Gaon, is based on the Gaoranger's vests and when he becomes ZenkaiGaon, his armor is based on GaoKing. Magin's outfit is based on the Magiranger uniforms and when she becomes ZenkaiMagin, it is based on MagiKing. Vroon is based on DaiBouken and his regular outfit is based on Boukenger's jackets and he becomes ZenkaiVroon.








Their mech forms can become animals or vehicles and can merge together. ZyuranGaon is made of ZyuranTyranno and GaonLion. ZenkaiOh VroonMagin is made of MaginDragon and VroonDump. ◆

 

Friday, December 18, 2020

Zenkaiger revealed

 Images of the leader of the 2021 series Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger have been revealed as wekll as the other four members. It is not yet known if it is their Ranger forms. The other four are mecha that will grow big and combine, their face sand motifs are based on old robos such as Daizyujin from Zyuranger, Daibouken from Boukenger, MagiKing of Magiranger, and GaoKing of Gaoranger.

Zenkaizer is the leader, he is inspired by Goranger's Akaranger and JAKQ's Big One.



I basically love it. I agree with one comment on Twitter that having the Rangers be mostly costumed is done to prevent COVID-19 complications. We might not get human forms for all of them, maybe only Zenkaizer. I think it is great. As for those saying this is proof Hasbro will no longer adapting Sentai is silly. Many before said Shinkenger and Go-Busters would not get adapted and look where we are now. I personally believe Hasnro will not be adapting sentai any more but this is not a reason. What it could mean is that Toei is free to do whatever they want without worry of Power Rangers but I don't think it has stopped them before. I do know Bandai America did have input in Sentai before but I don't think Hasnro had the same relationship. I think it is a difference between story telling and international branding, maybe Toei didn't worry about Power Rangers in a story telling capacity when doing Super Sentai but maybe they did toy-wise and design-wise for international branding. 


Sunday, December 13, 2020

Power Rangers Lightning Collection: Wave 8

Adam/Zeo Ranger IV Green

Syd/Pink SPD Ranger

Ethan/Blue Dino Thunder Ranger

Leo/Red Lost Galaxy Ranger



Power Rangers Beast Morphers - Evox Unleashed - Episode Review

 Episode Summary:

People are exiting a building. Human Roxy guides them out. Traffic is jammed. Zoey's mom announces on the news with breaking news. Shaw tells everyone is an emergency. The Mayor says the city must be evacuated. The Beast Morpher Rangers are behind them. They cut and Zoey's mom asks Shaw to let Zoey come with her. Shaw says Zoey is critical to her success. Zoey's mom wants to see her. Yellow Ranger takes off her helmet and reveals her identity. Zoey's mom hugs her and tells her she is proud of her. Zoey's mom says she understands her and the city needs her. Zoey thanks her and leaves. Nate fixes an arrow and gives it to Ben to put in the Bow. Devon arrives with cases with Betty. Betty takes the cases away. The Rangers run. Evox is near a tower.

The Rangers morph. Devon has a Ninja Super Steel Blaster from Ninja Steel, Steel has RPM Silver and Gold's weapon the Cloud Hatchet, Zoey has a Lightspeed Rescue's Therma Blaster, Nate has a Dino Charge's Dino Saber and Blue has an SPD Delta Enforcer. Evox is shocked. They say he didn't hack their legendary weapons. They attack with the legendary weapons and then shoot an arrow from their BEast-X King Bow. Evox knocks it and calls Robotrons. The Robotrons fight the Rangers and Evox leaves. He enters the main source room. With the energy of every tower, he enters the power source. Steel gets the anti-virus arrow and enters the tower. The Rangers destroy the Robotrons and go after Steel. Steel enter the green energy where Evox is. He stabs Evox with the arrow. Evox laughs and absorbs it. 

Evox blasts Steel, who de-morphs and shuts down. He glows blue and flows around like energy. Evox laughs. Nate cries. He blasts them and they fall out of the tower, de-morphing. The mayor and Zoey's mom come in a GB car. The Rangers calm down Nate and go to the base. The Rangers inform them about Steel. Devon gets a walkie-talkie and tells Grid Battleforce that they went against Evox and Steel made a choice to fight Evox alone, and did not return. He says Grid Battleforce has to evacuate. He says the Rangers will stay and fight. Ben and Betty say they won't evacuate. Beast Bots say they will stay. Everyone else agrees. The sky goes dark and red energy swirls around Tower one. A huge Gigadrone appears. The Ultrazord is prepped. Shaw gives an inspirational mini-speech. The Rangers run. Evox encounters the Beast-X King Ultrazord. Evox blasts at them and they drop their weapon. Evox makes the Ultrazord goes down.

Evox mentions Steel. He says being human makes you weak. Nate says Evox couldn't handle being human, with Steel and the Mayor. Nate goes to Devon's cockpit to reroute the Morph-X to human DNA. He made the other zords offline. They make Beast-X King Megazord. The Morph-X flows through the and attack Evox. They glow green. Green energy flows from the megazord to him. He screams. Explosions occur. The Megazord flies out. They destroy him and Evox is eliminated. The Rangers cheers. Green energy flow everywhere. Nate says the Morph-X is returning to the Morphin Grid. A blue swirl emerges. They watch it as they see Steel's form. It changes into a teenage boy. Nate cries. The boy says he is Steel and can't believe he is human. Nate hugs him. 

He says the Morphin Grid did it. Steel can not believe it. They all hug. A year later, Ben and Betty capture Scrozzle. Colonel Truman has brought him. Devon is now the commander. Truman says they found him in the Corinth sewers. Truman leaves. Devon welcomes them and alerts them of operation 3-6-5. The mayor says they use wind energy now. Mayor hopes Zoey never runs for mayor. Nate and Zoey run off. Ravi paints Roxy in the park with his mom. Ravi runs off because of a call. Steel fights some punks but it turns out to be a movie and Blaze is his stunt double. He gets an alert from Devon and leaves. Steel morphs into the Silver Ranger. He finds the base empty. He takes off his helmet and it is a surprise birthday party from the team. He is one years old. He says he has everything he could possibly want. They celebrate. 




Episode Review:
Good sweet episode. Nice to have Colonel Truman around for a cameo.