Bulges: Cups or Not to Cup #2

Two years ago I brought up the point that Dan Ewing (Dillon/RPM) brought up that Disney had the male cast members wear athletic cups. In the post, I hypothesized that Disney had athletic cups but Saban didn't have athletic cups. Now I have a new theory that in Samurai and Megaforce, they don't use athletic cups either, even for public appearances. So I decided to go more in depth into it. A fan who commented on the last post known as David brought up a good point, an athlete cup would make sense in the fictional world, they are fighting, they have the suits for 'protection' so they do need 'protection' there more than anywhere else.


Some people might find this inappropriate as I have close-ups so if you are interested, press 'read here' or if not, move on.

Poll Results: SDCC/Mega Bloks Blind Pack #2/DVD Boxset choice/Super Mega Gold and Gold Shogun

Which figure would you want most out of the Power Rangers Super Samurai #2 Blind Pack?

* - Some of these are incorrect names and descriptions. 

Red Ranger

  53 (37%)

Blue Mega

  41 (29%)

Super Blue

  42 (30%)

Super Green

  45 (32%)

Translucent Mega Red

  51 (36%)

Translucent Mooger

  30 (21%)

Training Yellow

  43 (30%)

Gold Ranger

  56 (40%)

Bulk

  56 (40%)

What do you think of the Exclusive Six-Figure Pack of Power Rangers Samurai for SDCC?

Beyond Words

  70 (46%)

Awesome

  74 (48%)

Good

  34 (22%)

Okay

  24 (15%)

Bad

  10 (6%)

Don't Like It

  14 (9%)

Who Cares

  21 (13%)

Shark Sword?

  32 (21%)

Now that we see Gold Shogun and Super Mega Gold on toy boxes, do you think we will see them on the show? 

Super Mega

  47 (30%)

Shogun

  28 (18%)

Both

  92 (59%)

None

  29 (18%)

What do you think about the MegaBloks 3D image of Red Ranger for SDCC? 

Awesome	69 (56%)
Good	33 (26%)
Dumb	17 (13%)
Don't Like It	16 (13%)
Don't Know	31 (25%)

Which DVD BoxSet are you getting?

TimeLife MMPR-LG

  127 (85%)

MMPR

  56 (37%)

Papercutz changes cover for Power Rangers Super Samurai Graphic Novel

Left is the original cover revealed last year and to the right is the final cover. The first cover of the graphic novel had Red, Blue and Yellow in Super Mode. And this cover was made before Super Samurai even aired. We now know that the Rangers can only be 'Super' one at a time. Well, Super Sentai and Shinkenger fans already knew that. But probably Papercutz did not. They changed the cover appropriately. I haven't bought it, so I don't know how it is inside. But early words says its good. 

Power Rangers Megaforce: I Commend Saban Brands for readiness and efficincy

Power Rangers Megaforce hasn't even aired yet and the cast hasn't even been finalized (so of course they haven't started filming yet) but lots of measures have been taken. Since Saban Brands revealed Power Rangers Megaforce in June at the International Licensing Expo, we have seen various Megaforce things like the Graphic Novel, Mega Bloks figures, and the costumes. The reason I make a 'deal' about this because before Samurai, there wasn't much of this. We saw the MMPR Rangers at events and the Comic Con even after Samurai was announced. 

 

 Above picture of the Issue 4 of the Graphic Novel by Papercuts, picture thanks to Samuraicast.com.

Above from http://blog.samuraicast.com/
We saw the costumes at the International Licensing Expo and 2012 San Diego Comic Con. All five of them. As for the Samurai Rangers, we only saw Red and Pink in New York in October of 2010. We saw all five at the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade of 2010. Gold appeared later on at events after his initial appearance. Super Red Ranger at the last Toy Fair of 2011. 

Above picture from MMPRtoys Facebook.

 Megaforce Mega Bloks that came out at the International Licensing Expo. Pictures thanks to Samuraicast.com.

So I am impressed that before 2012, we already see the Mega Bloks toys, costumes for events and graphic novels. The graphic novels irk me because they haven't even finished casting, so how will the Rangers look like? And I am glad to know that the Megaforce Rangers will appear at the Thanksgiving Day Parade. So meaning this might be an on-going thing where the future team appears at the Thanksgiving parade before the show debuts. Like how pictures of the Samurai action figures came out in September or so, I am sure we will get pics of the Megaforce toys from Bandai in the next coming months. 

Megaforce Rangers at Comic Con and International Licensing Expo (and Samurai Rangers!)

UPDATED 7/16/12

 Pictures from Power Morphicon Facebook

 Daniel Southworth with the Samurai Rangers in front of the Megabloks mural at Comic Con 2012. He was there for the Power Morphicon Convention, that had a booth at the Comic Con.

Daniel Southworth (Eric Quantum Ranger) with young fan

SDCC MegaBloks Mural.

Following pics from MMPRtoys: 

Samurai Rangers with Megaforce Rangers in front of the memorial.

 This are from JustJaredJr

Following shared through Twitter:

Super Red Samurai Ranger mannequin (no shoulder pads) at a NY Toy R Us.

Above picture provided by Fury Diamond of Samurai Cast Blog of the International Licensing Expo.

Some people have said why I made a big deal about Quantum Ranger having the Red Time Force Ranger suit the memorial. I mean, it is not as important as world hunger, war, genocide and any other world issues. But I mean it was commissioned by Saban Brands, it is not that hard to access Rangercentral.com (which I help with) either. 

Mega Bloks: White or Black Vest for Super Samurai Blue?

UPDATED 7/15/12
I am so obsessive. Turns out I over-reacted again. It is not a black vest at all! It is just a translucent white vest but when photographed, it looks black. So disregard! But if you ever see old posts on blogs or boards mentioning Gedou Shinken Blue or a 'Dark' Blue Ranger, you can see it was from mistaking the clear plastic vest as black.

Above is a picture of the packaging for the Blind Pack #2 of Mega Bloks. I see a white vest. You tell me. I don't have it yet, but these pics are from Tumblr and eBay, I got it on Rangerboard but don't know the names. If these are your pictures, let me know and I'll credit it. 

In the paper inside calls the one with the black vest as 'Translucent Blue Ranger Super Samurai Mode.' There is no white vest. 

The Super Samurai Blue Ranger in the show has a white vest. As far as the Japanese footage of Samurai Shinken Shinkenger and all of Super Sentai, Blue does not have the Black Vest. The Black Vest comes from...

 Gedou Shinken Red, which appeared in Shinkenger vs. Goseiger. The leader was turned evil. The bad guys (Nighlok in Power Rangers) were the Gedoushu. Gedou is also a term for a state of existence outside the six realms of Buddhist cosmology.

S.H. Figuarts have Hyper Shinken Red and Gedou Shinken Red available. Hyper Shinken Red is known as Red Ranger Shark Attack Mode in Samurai.

Above is a fan-made creation. Gedou Shinken Blue didn't exist. We don't know if it will appear on the show. I find it unique that MegaBloks gave him a black vest. It is curious that we don't see Shark Attack mode for Red or Shark Attack Mega Mode. Oh well. I so am going to go after this one!

Also by the way, the official site says you can get Pink Ranger Samurai Mode figure in Pack one. I always had assumed there was a mystery figure in series one but reviewing the packaging again, it says only 8 figures and there is no figure with a '?' on the front like the second pack. So perhaps it is a mistake.

http://powerrangers.megabloks.com/en/maf/5

Related: http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2012/07/megabloks-reveals-graphics-for-power.html | http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2012/02/power-rangers-samurai-mega-bloks-figure.html | http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-super-samurai-megabloks.html