Monday, February 4, 2013

Poll Results: Power Ranger Ranger Keys #1/Extra Kyoryuger

 Do you think the Lauren figure will be released in North America? 
Yes
  102 (59%)
No
  26 (15%)
Maybe
  44 (25%)

 Do you think the KyoryuGold rumor that the mentor Torin will be him is true? 
Yes
  71 (42%)
Yes, not Torin
  46 (27%)
No
  27 (16%)
Maybe
  50 (29%)
Don't Know
  44 (26%)
Not Sure
  42 (25%)

 If the KyoryuGold rumor ends up being true, would you want another Kyoryuger ala Dekaranger? 
Yes
  152 (88%)
No
  19 (11%)

 
What do you think about the multiple Jyudenchi (Beast Batteries) in Kyoryuger? 
Awesome
  108 (67%)
Too Many
  37 (23%)
Don't Know Yet
  55 (34%)
Don't Like it
  16 (10%)

If and when Ranger Keys comes to the US, which team would you most want all the keys from?
Mighty Morphin
  151 (45%)
Aquitar
  151 (45%)
Zeo
  151 (45%)
Turbo
  151 (45%)
In Space
  151 (45%)
Lost Galaxy
  151 (45%)
Lightspeed
  151 (45%)
Time Force
  151 (45%)
Wild Force
  151 (45%)
Ninja Storm
  151 (45%)
Dino Thunder
  151 (45%)
SPD
  151 (45%)
Mystic Force
  151 (45%)
Operation
  151 (45%)
Jungle Fury
  151 (45%)
RPM
  151 (45%)
Samurai
  151 (45%)
Megaforce
  151 (45%)
 Someone ruined this but the most was MMPR, Megaforce and Space. Least was PROO.

If and when Ranger Keys come to the US, which color keys would you want most? 
Red
  128 (44%)
Pink
  128 (44%)
Blue
  128 (44%)
Yellow
  128 (44%)
White
  128 (44%)
Black
  128 (44%)
Green
  128 (44%)
Sixth
  128 (44%)
Extra Hero
  128 (44%)
Other
  128 (44%)
 Someone ruined this but the most was Red and Sixth.
If and when the Ranger Keys are made for the Power Rangers, would you buy more than the Japanese ones?
Yes, for sure!
  111 (57%)
Yes, cheaper!
  73 (37%)
No, just some
  22 (11%)
No, not at all
  31 (15%)
Don't Know Yet
  55 (28%)

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Ranger Keys in Gosei's Command Center in Power Rangers Megaforce

UPDATED 6/26/14
Thanks to @Razzle1337 and Fury Damond of Ranger Crew Blog for the screen captures. Also to @Razzle1337 for identification of the teams.
 Power Rangers producers probably do NOT expect fans to screen cap images and nitpick on details. Like for one, they use the Goseiger cards instead of new American cards. And I am obsessed with the Ranger Keys and they have Ranger Keys in the headquarters. There are 18 teams in the headquarters but it seems that the same teams are each row. I think the key props are newly created props.

They are indeed like the Ranger Keys from Gokaiger but at closer detail, the fat thing in the middle is more like a belt and not like the Keys that have it thicker and with nails. The Time Force ones have colored necks and not white necks. All of them have the triangles like Red on the chests and not their individual shapes. But I do like that Yellow has a skirt (black line) but maybe all the Yellow keys they created has skirts. So I think these are new American key props.

I only spotted MMPR, Zeo (close up thanks to JDF), Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed, Time Force, Mystic Force, Operation Overdrive, and Samurai. LG, LR and TF are in order but Mystic Force is next to Time Force.


Troy is looking at Mystic Force Yellow, which was originally male but has a skirt line on the figure which leads me to believe that all the Yellow Ranger Key props in this base have lines regardless of gender.

Also Samurai is next to Operation Overdrive. There seems to be only teams of Yellow-Blue-Red-Green-Pink and Yellow-Blue-Red-Black-Pink. I see no Crimson, Navy, White or Violet Keys, meaning there is no Ninja Storm, Jungle Fury, Wild Force or Aquitar. Also I did not see Green and Black together which would be RPM.

So what it could be that these are probably placeholders. They probably could only make 8 team sets and hoped no one noticed. Maybe for close ups, they will get the other ones. I think at least they tried. I counted 16 sets in all, so 8 sets twice.

Mystic Force Blue originally is light blue but here we see it is a regular blue like the others.


I recolored Mystic Force Blue to almost the same shade and added skirts to the Yellows.

At first I was disappointed that not all the Ranger teams are represented. But then I thought it through and on a TV standpoint, they really thought it through. If they couldn't do all 17 teams, they decided to make 8 to represent 16. If you think about it, if they did legit they would had to make 17 Red, 14 Blue, 17 Yellow, 11 Pink, 9 Green, 6 Black, 3 Light Blue, 3 White, 1 Navy, 1 Crimson and 1 Violet. They ended up making 40 original keys of only 6 colors and in total 80. They made 8 Red, 8 Blue, 8 Yellow, 8 Pink, 6 Green, and 2 Black and duplicated them.

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Kamen Rider Wizard Episode 21










Go-Busters Miission 49 Gallery - Go Buster!





My Adventures Shopping (My Haul)


Okay so I went shopping and hunting for the ACG cards which I am obessed with thanks to the Gosei Morpher. So I missed the premiere of Megaforce but I recorded it and reviewed it in my eariler post. So yeah, I wanted to get there on time, going to my local Target and finding nothing.


I went to an another Target and did find the mini figures which my nephew will love. For those in Miami, it is the one on Biscayne Blvd NW in Aventura, the one near Florida International University Biscayne Bay Campus. To get the Translucent figure, I had to grab the one in the back of all of them. I forgot to grab some extras to trade.

I finally went to Wal-Mart (of 163 avenue NW in Aventura for those who live in Miami) and found them. I grabbed 2 Starter Packs.

Starter Pack comes with the 'game board,' instructions, 2 Dice, and 40 cards (half Samurai, half Megaforce). And 16 cards are repeats, 2 of each. 

And a couple Booster Packs.

I got a good haul and even a MM Power Up Holo card. My goal is to get most of the females, since they only got Mighty Morphin, RPM, Samurai and Megaforce in this first series, I got them all except for Yellow.









Here are my repeats if anyone is interested in trading.


Power Rangers Megaforce Episode Review - Mega Mission

Pics thanks to the painstaking efforts of FuryDiamond of Megaforcecast.com


   [Some of the summary will be out of order]
We see all the Power Rangers from the past fighting in a large war. It turns out a dream the new kid Troy is having. He wakes up on the bus and goes to class. In a class, the teacher Mr. Burley asks his students (including Emma, Gia, Noah and Jake) which species will survive. Emma says Insects and Noah says robots. Troy enters and says humans. Admiral Malkor asks Creepox about Earth. The Warstar aliens have inspected Earth and say they can invade. Gia goes to the hangout Ernie's Brain Freeze and Emma request something as she goes to see a Orange Monarch Butterfly.


 So Jake has a crush on Gia so he convinces Noah to go with him to Ernie's. Vrax hopes that the humans aren't a problem, he tells Malkor. Malkor is sure they will take care of them. In a secret underground Command Center on an ocean shore, Tensou and Gosei wake up. Gosei tells Tensou to select five teenagers. Tensou has three eyes and reminds me of Wall-E and the robot from Short Circuit.


Emma spots a monster. Jake is about to give an ice cream to Gia but Gia gets teleported away. Noah then gets teleported away. Jake gets teleported last. Troy is practicing martial arts on a building roof and gets teleported. The four enter the mysterious base and meet Tensou. The place lights up, with hundreds of statues known to fans as the Ranger Keys. Gosei surprises them and explains that Zordon left him to guard the Earth and only wake up when there is an extraordinary menace. Jake comments that Gosei looks like a Tiki from his dad's Hawaiian shirts. He explains they will be Power Rangers. Emma teleports in and shows them the monster she saw. Gosei shows them on their consoles video of the Power Ranger they shall be and the powers they will have. 


Noah asks who are the Ranger Keys. Gosei tells them that they are the Rangers before them. Troy commented eariler that he saw them before in his dream as he looked at the Red Time Force Ranger Key, which we flashback to but with more footage. Gosei gives them their Gosei Morphers and teleport them to the city. They land on the ground and Loogies are attacking. They fight the Loogies and are outnumbered so they morph and fight the Loogies. They call their weapons the Phoenix Shot, Snake Axe, Dragon Sword (even though called Dragonzord in the closed caption), Shark Bowgun and Tiger Claw.

Scaraba is summoned to fight the Rangers by the Warstar aliens.  They destroy him, return to the headquarters where Gosei congrats them. "We were lucky this time," was said by Zack and now Noah. Emma repeating Kim's "Helmet messes up my hair." At least she said "Just Kidding" and not "Not."


Review:
The Nick Bumpers are cute.  Jake is definitely the funny one and has the best lines. Noah's actor John Loudermilk does a good job at little mannerisms and such for his intellectual character. Emma and Gia come off a bit stuck-up and cold in this episode. Jake and Noah are endearing. Troy seems bland, like Red Rangers before him, hopefully he peps up. Some lines made me laugh as intended, some made me shudder like Emma's "Pink is my favorite color. I am not sure about this Ranger thing." I did like that Noah's line of "Megazords. Power Cards." mimicked Zack's line in the first episode of "Power Morphers. Megazords." Blue admiring the robot also mirrors the first episode and also the Rangers landing and Troy saying "Gosei said this will give us more power."

One criticism would be the use of the Goseiger cards in the show when they could have reshot it with new cards. The new Power Rangers cards appeared at PMC and they started shooting this season after PMC but I guess they had their reasons. I liked the Zordon references and other references. I am glad there is no Bulk or Skull, but Ernie's name use is confusing. Emma mentioning Insects and Noah mentioning Robots foreshadows the villains this for this year. Also, the open credits include many future Megazords, the big Legend War, and Ernie (new) and Mr. Burley.