Purdue University 'Red Ranger' promotes Friendship

In Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, a student has dressed up like a Red Ranger to promote anti-crime, anti-drugs and pro-community, like a blood drive. The unknown masked Purdue student doesn't talk. "That's the Purdue Red Ranger," said Tom Halsema, a friend of the Red Ranger. "I think he was a big fan of all those red Power Rangers that came before him and wanted to live part of that himself."

He has a Facebook profile
Source: wthr.com

Kamen Rider 2011: Kamen RIder OOO

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The below pciture of the actual design (maybe final) for the new Kamen Rider's blank form to come up after Kamen Rider Double ends. Kamen Rider Double will most likely end in August like Decade and the new one will begin in September. The rumored name is Kamen Rider Regulus.

The Rider will change forms through medals. These forms will be represented with different groups of animals. There are 3 medals in each group changing the head, torso & arms, and legs of the rider. The medals are distinguished via lines. One line of medals change the head, second change the torso & arms, and third change the feet.

Above I believe is a fan rendition, I am not sure. The yellow "Field Form", is represented by Lion, Tiger and Cheetah. The green "Insect Form" is composed of a Stag Beetle, Mantis and Butterfly. Eyes are green in the red "Bird Form", blue eyes in yellow "Field Form", and red eyes in green "Insect Form". While Bird Form and Field Form are aesthetically similar, Insect Form actually differs greatly, with protruding horns out of the helmet.

The new Rider's belt. On one side is the "Medal Holder" which stores the Medals. (Six Medals can be stored at one time.) The other side of the belt has the 'Medal Scanner'. The 3 Medals for each form are most likely to inserted into the belt, and then the buckle is spun. The belt has a signal display.



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Buffy the Vampire Slayer connections with Power Rangers

Before Power Rangers, what lead me to it was "Saved by the Bell," with its teenagers and outlandish situations, meant for kids. Power Rangers was a natural progression. After PR, it was Buffy the Vampire Slayer the series, when it premiered in 1997, I was a teenager. Actually, there are quite a bit of connections and references from Power Rangers to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There are many similarities to the first season of Buffy, like teenagers fighting monsters, strong females, witches, a stuffy male mentor and somewhat campiness. But of course, Buffy was much more better crafted, all original and got more sexual and adult as it went on. So it was a natural progression as I grew up.

Xander Bly
The most obvious reference, which hasn't made clear if it was a reference but many fans did believe so, that Xander Bly of Mystic Force was a reference to Xander Harris of Buffy.


Sophia Crawford
Stuntwoman Ms. Crawford went from playing the Pink Ranger in the first three seasons to being the stunt double for Sarah Michelle Gellar in the first two seasons of Buffy. This was reference to in the 2nd part of "What's My Line?" when Buffy called fellow slayer Kendra a 'Pink Ranger.'

Alison Macinnis and James Marsters
Alison who played Dana in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue in 2000 dated James Marsters (Spike for 5 seasons of Buffy and 1 season of Angel) for a brief while. This is them when they were at an Cosmopolitan event when Sarah Michelle was on the cover.

Walter Emmanuel Jones
How else could I forget that Zack himself guest starred as a college student in the episode "Fear Itself" of Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is only seen in one scene and doesn't interact with the main cast.

Michelle Trachtenberg
Equally Michelle Trachtenberg guest starred on Walter Jones' after-MMPR show "Space Cases." She guest starred in the episode "All You Can Eaty" with her "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" co-star Danny Tambereli. Michelle went on to play Dawn on Buffy.

Ron Rogge
Ron Rogge, who played Captain Mitchell in Lightspeed Rescue played a cop arresting Buffy and Faith in Season 3 episode "Bad Girls". Roggé has several lines and appears in two scenes of the episode.

Karim Prince
Karim Prince appeared in Season 5 episode "Spiral," as one of the Knights of Byzantium, who wanted to destroy the Key (Dawn) before the main villain Glory could use it. You may not recognize Karim Prince but he played Cestro the Blue Aquitar Ranger. He also appeared on Malcolm in the Middle as Francis' military cadet friend.


Tom Wyner
Voice Master Vile and Sid the Dummy in the first season of Buffy.

Last three pictures thanks to After the Power. Let me know if I missed anything else.

MMPR Retrospective in SFX Magazine; first covered by No Pink Spandex site

This is the January issue of SFX Magazine, which I have read in the past. No Pink Spandex covered this earlier but I just noticed now. They complained about Goldar and Snizard, but what I find alarming about the article is that they call the original yellow ranger 'technically a transsexual' which is very incorrect and a common misconception of transsexuals. If they want to really comment on the yellow ranger having no skirt and once being male, they got it wrong. Saban and company just change the genders, that's it. Trini is female, that's it.

I hate to get all preachy but I think it is an important point to bring up, as it is apparently still taboo in mainstream culture. Intersex is still called hermaphrodite and transgender is still incorrectly called transsexual. My Firefox browser spell check doesn't have any of these terms in their dictionary. Anyhoo, enjoy the article.

The story was provided to No Pink Spandex by SnoopsWarner via Rangerboard.

No Pink Spandex Post--SFX Magazine

Who Would Win? Round #5

Rita vs. Bandora
177 people voted that Bandora (106 votes) could beat Rita (71) in a battle. When Rita was roaming around in space due to Lord Zedd, she ended up in a worm hole into Bandora's Palace. She got out of the dumpster and they went out witch versus witch.

Scorpina vs. Lami
165 people voted that Scorpina (63) would be beaten by Lami (102). When Rita was beaten by Bandora, she asked her to send Lami to kick Scorpina's butt for working for Zedd. Lami happily obliged and snapped her neck, that's why we never saw her again. (or that's what my crazy mind says)

MMPR the Movie team vs. Dairanger
Out of 146 votes, fans believe Dairanger (84) would kick butt and I agree. It was a close call, MMPR the movie got 62 votes! Dairanger was the bloodiest series. When Ivan Ooze was destroyed, it created a wormhole that let the Dairanger arrive. The Rangers would think the Thunderzords were stolen and the Dairanger would think one of them were imitating Kibaranger.

SPD Rangers vs. Dekaranger
137 fans out of 186 say the Special Police Dekaranger would kick the butts of the B-Squad SPD Rangers. A wormhole would open and the SPD Rangers would end up in Japan again, only to discover it is the year 2004 and they are arrested by the Dekaranger. Their SP-Licenses tell them to eliminate them.

The Degree of Gold in the Gold Rangers

UPDATED 5/15/13 11PM EST

As I covered the degree of silver in the Silver Rangers and wanted to make a post covering Gold, I decided to do this. Gold is less used than Silver. Even though he was called the Gold Ranger in Zeo, King Ranger is not considered a gold ranger in Sentai, he is considered a black ranger, I will have him in the post. Deka Gold is actually the first warrior in Super Sentai to be called Gold, even though she is exclusive to the movie (seen only for a few seconds). She was seen briefly and was like a orange-y gold color. Magi Shine / Solaris Knight was essentially navy blue suit but with gold armor on top. His gold was more like a golden yellow. Go-On Gold / Ranger Gold was the first official gold warrior in Sentai and the second Gold Ranger in Power Rangers--the only to be completely gold. His gold was more shiny, much like his partner Go-On Silver. Shinken Gold had blue and gold, his gold was just as shiny as Go-On Gold but had a yellow-ish tinge. Unlike the color silver--that there has been two female silver rangers, gold has only one female. For Sentai, Silver was first used in 1997 and Gold started out in 2004 but no real toy until 2009. For Power Rangers, Gold started out in 1996 and Silver in 1998.

Now in 2013, we have legitimate five full-time Gold Rangers. Well King Ranger wasn't really a 'Gold' Ranger and Deka Gold was barely even seen over a minute. As I said before Magi Shine / Solaris Knight had mostly gold, it was the armor and it wasn't shiny shiny. Go-On Gold / RPM Ranger Gold was shiny gold, like someone once said was like a Duracel battery with half black. Shinken Gold / Gold Samurai Ranger had blue and gold, his gold was just as shiny as Go-On Gold but had a yellow-ish tinge. Beet Buster of Go-Busters is half black and gold like Go-On Gold but just as shiny. Kyoryu Gold of Kyoryuger is more gold than all of those rangers combined in his suit alone. He has some navy blue and black but he is mostly gold.

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