Power Rangers Dino Fury - Jam Session - Episode Review

 Episode Summary:

Javi's dad gives him a hard time about being more focused and not going from instrument to instrument. Dad wants him at a medal ceremony. Javi meets a roc band leader who is a jerk and has a dino key. He doesn't want to keep it. At the monster base, Santuara wants to know why Tarrick has her hide. He tells her the other villains only respond to him with the helmet. The Zord Jammer is ready to block zord signals. A sporix is released and Doomsnake returns. Javi tells Zayto about the key and he says it is the Freeze Key. They go to the lead singer of the Screaming Zombies with the rangers. They convince him to give the key if Javi plays guitar, but it is during the medal ceremony. Izzy makes up an excuse for their dad. Javi plays a guitar solo. The other Rangers enjoy the concert. Izzy watches Javi on her phone and Javi's dad doesn't like it and leaves in a huff. 

The lead singer gives Javi the key. Javi's dad Carlos berates him. Javi calls him a hypocrite, he says Carlos doesn't support him. The Rangers leave. Jane defends Javi and shows Carlos the concert with Javi's talent. The Rangers arrive near the zord and find large rocks. The rocks glow. The villains arrive. Red uses Hyper DIno Key and fights Void Knight. Aiyon joins in. Black and Green fight Doomsnake. Izzy tells Javi to go, Javi calls the SMash Dino Key and pummels the rock to reveal the zord. Zayto uses the freeze dino key and dons the armor. The zord flies out after the Zord Jammer. The Zord Jammer shoots lasers back. The zord freezes it. Red goes flying. Doomsnake fights Javi. Javi does Fury Smash and destroys it. 

Izzy got the Sporix. Aiyon fights Shipwreck. The monsters leave. Pterazord and Zayto meet. Zayto makes it go to Battle Mode. They enter the cockpit. Ptera Freeze Zord Battle Mode! Everything becomes icy. They face off against the Zord Jammer. Zayto calls the Mega Fury Saber and they do the Freeze Strike and destroy the Jammer Everything returns to normal. Back at the base, the monsters discover the machine is on. Void Knight stops it and goes in his secret room. He finds Santuara glowing and she transforms into a monster form. She appears in front of everyone and says her name is Void Queen, with new powers. Tarrick looks concerned. Back at Buzzblast, Izzy applauds Javi. Javi sees his dad Carlos come in. Carlos says he saw his performance and says his guitar playing is impressive. He thought about what he said. He always thought music was a waste of time and realized he was too hard on him. He says he will change. Javi says he was playing it for fun, he realizes he might want to make a career out of it. Carlos says he will be behind him every step of the way. They hug.

Review:
A pretty by the numbers episode. All I can say is that the monster costume for Void Queen is Madame Noir from Toqger, a sentai that has not been adapted into Power Rangers. Cosmo Royale was also a villain from Toqger. 

Power Rangers Dino Fury - Stitched Up - Episode Review

 Episode Summary:

Santuara is awake and Void Knight's name is Tarrick. She can't believe they are still on Earth. Izzy and her girlfriend Fern are talking and walking through a neighborhood. She asks her to prom. Izzy says she beat her to it. Izzy's mom is proud. Izzy's mom is a designer and wants to design their outfit. Izzy doesn't want a dress. Izzy's mom invites them to go to the store. They say they have homework, she leaves and she laughs. Mucus kicks the Sporix machine and a Sprix comes out. it eats trash. Void Knight comes out. The monster is called Junkalo and throws up metal. He recycles trash into new parts. Void Knight says he might be handy. He has a new Zord Jammer. Meanwhile at Buzz Blast, the gang talk. Javi has Izzy's prom outfit and she is less to stellar because it is a dress. She didn't like wearing dresses. Amelia wonders why Ollie's shirt is inside out. Izzy feels like her mom doesn't get her and throws the dress in the trash. A trash guy comes and complains. Zayto asks Izzy what she will wear.

Solon says a Sporix Beast is at the dump. He eats more trash and the Rangers arrive. The Rangers morph. The Rangers fight the Henchemen. Mucus collects the parts. Zayto uses Sprint key and rushes the monsters. He burps and the Rangers recoil from the smell. Mucus puts on a gas mask. Javi puts Blazing Battle Armor. The Rangers de-morph and don't like the smell. They ask if Izzy is okay. Izzy realizes her mom made a tux for her and Fern got it. And Izzy's mom did listen and Fern's dress is in the trash. They hear a whistle and it is the trash guy from Buzz Blast. The Rangers look through the trash. They find the dress but it is totally ruined. Izzy feels bad. Ollie thinks he has a way to track the monster.

Void Knight thanks the monster for the parts for the Zord Jammer. Mucus comes with toothpaste and cleans the monster. He swallows Mucus. Santuara watches what is happening on a screen. Void Knight leaves with Junkalo. Izzy talks to his mom. She confesses what happened to her mom. She apologizes. Her mom says she understood. She says it took a while, she learned she is her own person. Later, Void Knight works on the device while Junkalo burps out Mucus. The Rangers spot areas for Junkalo. Izzy, Javi and Aiyon fight Void Knight and fight. Aiyon tries blasting the Zord Jammer. Void Knight charges up. Meanwhile, the other trio fight a giant Junkalo in the city. They call the zords. They make the blade formation of Megazord. They use Elasto Key and do Elasto Lash on the monster.

He burps on them. He falls. Red calls the Pacha Smash Zords, the Zord Jammer detects it. Javi calls the Blazing Fury Armor. Void Knight teleports away with his device. Smash Formation is made and all six Rangers are in the cockpit. They call the Mega Fury Saber and do the final attack. Junkalo is destroyed. Izzy gets the Sporix from Mucus. Tarrick takes off his helmet and talks to Santuara, who wants revenge from humans. He wants to leave the planet and doesn't want revenge. He tells her to rest. Carlos, Javi's dad, hies a camera in a plant. Izzy and Fern come out in their outfits. Fern thanks Rina, Izzy's mom. Carlos wants to take photos. Izzy agrees. They take pictures. Javi appears in a limo. Izzy is shocked. He opens the Limo to reveal their friends and they say Surprise. Aiyon says the snacks are free. Carlos does one more photo. 

Episode Review:

The warm review from Power Rangers fans about Izzy going to prom with Fern has been great. I am glad this is now the media for kids, that love is love and it is perfectly normal. A lot of children's media has done similar things such as Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, having gay guy parents and a gay recurring friend. I am surprised the two seasons have gone above and beyond with Izzy just having a girlfriend being a minor character. In fact, Fern is more seen than any other non-Ranger romantic interest in Power Rangers history. Chase's girlfriend only lasted two or so episodes, Angela hasn't much of a character in MMPR, and other non-Ranger romantic interests haven't lasted more than one episode. As for the episode itself, it is the usual outing, and not much info on Santuara yet. 

Power Rangers Dino Fury - Tiny Trouble - Episode Review

 Episode Summary:

Occulo searches the forest for Sporix and finds one. The Ranger strain in Dino Henge while Aiyon snacks. Ollie wins but his balloon pops. Aiyon keeps on talking about Earth desserts. Amelia spots the Pacha Smash Zord. Aiyon says it is much smaller than it was before. Aiyon uses the Grow Dino Key. Zayto says he has been watching the infomercial channel. Aiyon says Pacha trust her. Pacha jumps away. He blasts a whip cream can by mistake. Zayto tries catching Pacha but it blasts Zayto full of whip cream. The others try catching it. It throws donuts on the others and a bunch of donuts becomes huge. Ollie catches Pacha but is full of donut. They go into the base. They can't find the key. Pacha jumps around the base. Aiyon stops it before it gets in the Key rack. Aiyon says to trust him. Ollie gives him a  leash. 

Occulo gives Void Knight the last Sporix but it is not enough for the machine. Occulo tells him about the zord. Wreckmate is sent to help him capture Pacha. The Rangers find out the key is inside Pacha. Auton is looking for Pacha. The Rangers and Solon aren't so sure. Aiyon has indeed lost Pacha. He spots Wreckmate and Occulo with Pacha. He calls for backup. He gets his weapon. The others teleport next to him. They listen to the foes. Ollie berates Aiyon. They sneak around the foes. The Rangers morph and fight. Pacha jumps away. Wreckrate chases after Pacha. Zayto fights Shipwreck while Ollie and Aiyon looks for Paca. Solon tells them Pacha is a new zord, not Pacha herself. She is a baby Pacha. Apparently the first Zord child. Aiyon realizes he was wrong. Ollie uses a dino key to listen for Pacha. 

They spot baby Pacha. Ollie uses Vision Enhance key and spots the real Pacha Smash Zord, which is stuck in the mountain. Ollie thinks of throwing a boulder and tries liftuing one. Aiyon gives him a pebble. Ollie throws it and Aiyon makes it big and it smashes the mountain open to reveal the mother zord. Pacha roars, Baby Pacha goes inside. Baby Pacha gives them the Smash Dino Key. Aiyon's stomach gruggles. He burps. They teleport away. Shipwreck imprisons the Rangers until Ollie and AIyon save them. Occulo becomes big. Aiyon calls the Mosa Razor Zord. Blue fights Shipwreck. Aiyon fights Occulo. Ollie dons the Smash Battle Armor. He fights Shipwreck. Shipwreck teelports away.

Ollie frees the Rangers. Ollie calls the Pacha Smash Zord and it beats up Occulo. Solon sends the rest of the Zords. Ollie uses the key to combine the zords into Dino Fury Megazord Smash Formation. They fight Occulo. They punch him endlessly. They do Smashing Barrage attack. He flies down. They call the Megafury Saber. They do the Pacha Mega Punch and destroy Occulo. Void Knight got the Sporix. Aiyon says he will train more. Ollie sats 6 or 8 hours. He freaks Aiyon out. Void Knight puts the Sporix in the machine. The purple energy goes in the machine. Santaura wakes up. 

Episode Review: 

Great episode. Aiyon is still a bit annoying. Ollie was solid in this episode though. If Aiyon has so much experience, how come it didn't don on him that Zords could have babies? Technically in Sentai, Pacha isn't the first spawn, the Turbo Falcon Zord was Mechalcon--son of Bearv and Speedor.

Power Rangers Dino Fury - Missing Pieces - Episode Review

 Episode Summary:

Void Knight fixes Shipwreck and Occulo arrives, saying he can see through anything. Slyther has an amulet to mess with the memory of the Rangers. Solon is having a cyborg update from Ollie. Zayto and Aiyon are searching the universe for Rafkon which probably moves in eons. Amelia forgets how she hurt her shoulder. Aiyon suggests using the light dino key, which repels witch spells. Amelia feels the same. Javi thinks of making a portal to Rafkon. Solon wakes up, she says they won't be able to find it. She decides to make another calculation on it. Later. Javi and Izzy are walking down steps when they get called by Solon about a Sporix. They spot it but Ocolio and Slyther get there before. The siblings morph and fight.

Javi uses the Flare Key and uses the Flare Flash on the villains. Izzy tries hitting him but he dodges. The others arrive. Slyther mixes up their memory and tells them a story to confuse them. They are hypnotized. The villains leave. Solon says she has found Rafkon. The Rangers tell Solon what happened--or not happened. They talk about pickles. Solon thinks they have been messing with their memories. Rafkon shows Splon the false memory. Solon says memory can be unreliable. Aiyon is untrusting of Solon. Ollie wants to do another update. Solon shows them the three suns on the map. Aiyon wants to go with Zayto. Zayto says he will be right back. Solon thinks Rafkon can wait. Solon reluctantly agrees and the T-Rex Cosmic Megazord is formed for Zayto. Zayto opens the gateway to Rafkon. He enters outer space and finds the three suns but no Rafkon. He scans the star system. 

Back on Earth, Amelia's shoulder still aches and checks Buzzblast. She watches a video from Jane. J-Borg downloads about massage and massages Jane, very roughly. J-Borg massages her with her feet. Jane stops her. They roll another clip of when they spot Occulo and the Rangers fought him. The Rangers don't recall this. The beast through Pink on a column and she figures out why her shoulder hurts. They figure out Solon was right. Zayto finds a message beacon, but no planet. The message makes a sound he knows. The Rangers get an alert about Oculo. Zayto has the Light Key which they need. The Rangers teleport away. The Rangers arrive and morph. They fight Hengemen. Occulo does an attack. Slyther mixes up their memories once again. Red arrives on his cycle. 

He takes the Amulet and destroys it. Zayto uses the Light Key and uses the Spell Breaker. All the Rangers fight the villains, except for Mucus, of course. Blue and Black use Flare and Slick Keys to blind the villains. The Rangers slash at Ocolo. They use their keys and do the "Dino Fury Force" attack. Void Knight arrives and stops them. He says he is sick and tired. He races towards them and they fight. He slashes the ground. Everyone drops down. The villains exit. (Mucus says "pay rises" but I think she meant "Pay raises.") Void Knight doesn't have enough Sporix to power her machine. The Rangers apologize to Solon. Aiyon asks Zayto what he found, he says there are suns but no planet. He plays the message for them. Amelia says it sounds familiar. It's the old broadcast from Space. Ollie figures they are puzzle pieces. They play them at the same time and they heat an English message. All the Rangers say they want to find it. 

Episode Review:

Interesting episode, I like the concept of the Rangers already had a memory wipe and not aware of it. Unfortunately, it goes nowhere, the plot is overshadowed by Zayto looking for Zayto. Also, it is not a normal episode as there is a Megazord but no Megazord battle, which is fine by me. I wish the memory wipe came with a flashback to an actual memory that tied to the messages. Maybe that would've felt more complete. Also an interesting way to tie in Jane and J-Borg in the episode is watching videos of them. 

Shared Robo/Megazord Cockpits (2022)

 The robo cockpits of Super Sentai have been different. Sometimes they sat down, sometimes they stood around. I just have pictures of one main robo, not all. This is updated from a 2013 post.

Sit-Down Cockpits
1. Battle Fever J (1979)
The first series to have a robo---the first cockpit was technical and boxy and everyone sat down.

2. Denjiman (1980)
Second sit-down joint cockpit. They had no door in the back.


3. Changeman (1985)
They shared a cockpit for their base but in the robo, they were split, Red in one, one boy and one girl in the other two. Change Phoenix had a capsule-like cockpit like the Bioman. In the shared cockpit, they had a backdoor.

4. Flashman (1986)
They shared a cockpit. Where from 1981 to 1985, they all didn't have shared cockpits. This diamond-front shape was used again for Maskman, Hurricanger and Ohranger.

5. Maskman (1987)
I like the look, with the windows on the side.

6. Liveman (1988)
The first trio shared their cockpit in the first robo. I don't know about the second robo, let me know if you know.

7. Turboranger (1989)
I don't like how generic it looks. They had a rahter big backdoor.

8. Fiveman (1990)
I like the colors.

9. Jetman (1991)
If this cockpit looks like a cockpit, there is a big reason. This is the first time I think they recycled a cockpit, because this cockpit was re-used for Zyuranger. They had a backdoor and their symbol on the back.

10. Zyuranger (1992) / MMPR Season 1 (1993)
The same cockpit was re-used from Jetman and just customized. But this is what Power Ranger fans are used to seeing. They had a backdoor and their symbol on the back. Yes, Dragon Ranger was in the cockpit once but only for Zyuranger, this footage, for some reason, was not used in Power Rangers. Dragon Ranger/Green Ranger only used his own robo's cockpit once.

11. Ohranger (1995) / Zeo (1996)
The first sit-down cockpit since 1992 and it was cramped. Depending on the helmet, the Rangers would switch seats. Once they got in their other robo or the pyramid, they had more space. They always sat down. The sixth hero had his own sit-down cockpit.

12. Carranger (1996) / Turbo (1997)
The Carranger also sat down. For the Turbo: A Power Rangers movie, they had a different looking cockpit.

13. Megaranger (1997) / In Space (1998)
The Megaranger had a fancy-smancy cockpit.

14. Go Go Five (1999) / Lightspeed Rescue (2000)
The team had similar sitting-down cockpits, depending on their robo.

15. Hurricanger (2002) / Ninja Storm (2003)
Even though they did not share cockpits until they merged all six, I wanted to show the cockpit. They really didn't have a backdoor. For those who do not know, that is Gozen, the source of the mecha in Hurricanger.

16. Magiranger (2005) - Magi Shine / Mystic Force (2006) - Solaris Knight
Magi Shine had his own sit-down cockpit in Travelion.

17. Boukenger (2006) / Operation Overdrive (2007)
They always sat down, the shared cockpit changed for DaiVoyager but it was the same method. The sixth hero sat as well.

18. Go-Onger (2008) / RPM (2009)
They sat down in their own cockpits. For their own seperate robos, they didn't have a shared cockpit. But when they combined 6, 9 or 12, they had a big combined cockpit.

 19. Goseiger (2009)/Megaforce (2013)
The Goseiger sat down in their cockpits, Gosei/Robo Knight didn't have one because of course he is a robo/zord.


20. Gokaiger (2011)/Super Megaforce (2014)
Silver of course had his own. The Gokaiger had a cockpit separate from the rest of the ship where they lived at. When they combine the robo of Silver, he does appear with them.

21. Toqger (2014)

The main 5 had a shared one for their main robo. When they combined with Orange, he would appear with them.

22. Lupinranger vs Patranger (2018)
They both had sitting down shared cockpit. 

Stand-up Cockpit
1. Dairanger (1993)
This is the first stand-up cockpit, but it looks a like a sit-in cockpit. The blue glow-y thing in the back has been used a lot in Super Sentai, for example, Jetman (I think), GoGo Five, and Hurricanger. The Power Rangers stood up in the Thunder Megazord cockpit as well. The six hero had his own stand-up cockpit. The Dairanger joined the Kibaranger in his cockpit when they joined together their beasts.

2. Timeranger (2000) / Time Force (2001)
You rarely saw them in their individual ships, but they had their own cockpits and they sat. But for the most part, when they were in the joint cockpit, they stood up. The sixth hero had no cockpit.

3. Gaoranger (2001) / Wild Force (2002)
Everyone stood up in their cockpits, even when they had the Soul Bird. The sixth hero stood up as well.

4. Abaranger (2003) / Dino Thunder (2004)
See a pattern? Most teams that stood up were in animal-robos. Rarely happened for White and Black to be in the cockpit but they all stood.

5. Gekiranger (2007) / Jungle Fury (2008)
These were unique as they had no 'consoles' like the balls from Abaranger for example. And the poles would change color depending on who was controling. For example, Geki Violet's poles were purple and Geki Chopper's poles were white. Miki (a civilian) even controlled SaiDaiOh once.

6. Shinkenger (2009)
The seventh team to stand up in their cockpits but fifth to share a cockpit standing up.

 7. Kyoryuger (2013)
They stand in their own cockpit, depending on what dinosaurs are in the main robo but sometimes all five. Sometimes one Kyoryuger runs one giant robo like Silver in Bragigas, Violet in Plezon or Red in SpinDaiOh.

8. Ninninger (2018)

The Ninninger stood up while Akaninja sometimes sat down.

9. Ryusoulger (2019)

The Rtysoulgers stood up.


Stay in your dang cockpit (sit-down)
1. Sun Vulcan (1981)
They didn't have a joint cockpit, they stayed in their own cockpits.


2. Goggle Five (1982)
Blue and Black shared one mech and Yellow and Blue shared one. But these pictures are from the movie, where Pink and Black stayed in flying fortress. Let me know if they ever shared a cockpit.

3. Dynaman (1983)
They stayed in their own cockpits and sat. Yellow and Pink shared their mech and Black and Blue shared theirs. Let me know if they ever shared a cockpit.

4. Bioman (1984)
They sort of shared cockpits but it was Red and Pink in one and the others in another. Let me know if they ever shared a cockpit.

5. Go-Busters (2012)
They all stayed in their own cockpit. Well.. not all alone, they had their Buddyroids, save for Beet and Stag since Stag was a Buddyroid and had his own cockpit.

6. Kyuranger (2017)

Each Kyuranger stayed in their own orb. 

7. Kiramager (2020)

They had their own cockpits where they sat down.


Stay in your dang cockpit (stand-up)
1. Kakuranger (1994)
After ten years, maybe a homage, the Kakuranger stayed in their own cockpits. And like the Dairanger, they got no chairs and had to stand-up. The Ninja and Shogun Megazord cockpits were completely different.


2. Gingaman (1998) / Lost Galaxy (1999)
They mostly stayed in their own cockpits, but once they went into the Red one's. The rotating thingy in the center was probably a homage to Kakuranger.

3. Zenkaiger (2021)
Zenkaiser was in his own cockpit since his teammates were the mecha.

Unique Cases
1. Dekaranger (2004) / SPD (2005)
The Dekaranger mostly took their own cockpits didn't have a share one except for DekaBaseRobo. But as you can see, Deka Master is sitting while the others are standing, so a unique case.

2. Magiranger (2005) / Mystic Force (2006)
They became their own robos but when they combined, they got their own chess-board cockpit, so its hard to say if they were 'standing' because they had no feet!

3. Zyuohger (2016)
They had their own boxes but in a shared space, they also sat down. When the Gokaiger joined them, they were a bit crowded, the Gokaiger stood up, hunched over inside each box with their corresponding Zyuohger. 


Power Rangers-only Cockpits

1. Thunder Megazord (1994)
Similar to the Dairenoh cockpit, the Thunder Megazord cockpit was much more colorful and for the Thunderzords, we didn't get individual cockpits like in Dairanger. Probably becuase of budget.

2. Ninja Mega Falconzord (1995) -- Movie Edition
Pink Ranger is in the middle on the first level. The Rangers got to sit down in their individual ninjazord cockpits much like the Dinozords.

3. Ninja Mega Falconzord/Shogun Megazord (1995)
For some reason, Pink was bumped off and the Red ranger got the middle on the first level. And this time, the Rangers did get their own cockpits for the Ninjazords and Shogunzords. They looked like the Dinozords cockpits but they stood up in them.


4. Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie Megazord (1997)
More spacious and very different looking than the cockpit from the Carranger footage.

5. Titanium Ranger - Solarzord (2000)
In Go Go Five, there was no Titanium Ranger and the Linerboy robo has no pilot. So they made a cockpit for the Titanium Ranger to run the Solarzord. It looked a bit like the Lightspeed cockpits but some additions.

6.  Power Rangers Samurai (2011-2012)
All Power Rangers Samurai cockpits, they go to Mega Mode, probably to not use the very-Japanese looking stage-like cockpits of Shinkenger. This still has them standing up but the cockpit looks more suped-up and futuristic. The zord heads change on the consoles depending on the zord they have. Gold appears next to them when their zords are combined.

7. Power Rangers Dino Charge (2015-2016)
All the Dino Charge cockpits were reshot with a special cockpit, most likely to remove the Japanese robo names. But also, in order to show off new armor to sell toys.

8. Power Rangers Ninja Steel (2017-2018)
All the Ninja Steel cockpits were reshot with special cockpits, most likely to remove the Japanese-looking Ninninger cockpits and show off armor to sell toys.

9. Power Rangers Dino Fury (2021-2022)

All the Dino Fury cockpits were reshot, for some unknown reason. They don't get special armor and the Ryusoulger cockpits were not too bad, they were similar to the Gingaman and Gekiranger cockpits which were used for Lost Galaxy and Jungle Fury, respectively. It was probably done to in order to hide the fact Green is female now. 

http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2009/08/shared-cockpits.html?m=1