Sunday, November 6, 2016

Power Rangers Dino Supercharge - The Rangers Rock - Episode Review

Missed it yesterday because of Rangerstop Con in Orlando, FL.

Summary: 
Sledge is upset about his ship being a wreck. Poisandra slaps him in the face for not telling her he survived. He found something special in the cells, a glowing egg. He let go Heckyl. He took the eggs and planted them throughout the Earth. He wanted to know if Poisandra was okay. Poisey was miserable, he says the world wasn't fun and we see pictures in the opposite enjoying Hawaii, Japan and China. James Navarro watches this. Snide gives Sledge the Dark Energem.

Zenowing says he created the zords with geodes as eggs. Shelby can't believe it. He says it works like the Energem crystal beds. He tells her he will teach her how to creat eit. At the cafe, Koda wins a pie eating contest. Kendall doesn't liek this, telling them James found the dark energem location. Back at the base, Keeper says the dark energem has to be destroyed. James tells them about Sledge. Chase says to hit them with all the megazords. Shelby says there is no way to be sure. She says to surprise attack on the ship and crush the energem. They agree and say no megazords. Back on the ship, Sledge gives Poisandra flowers and she crushes them, saying she wants to get married. 

He says as soon as the ship flies. She leaves. Snide and Fury tell him that the Rangers are coming. Fury goes get a monster called Badussa. The Rangers are found out by Viviks in the forest. Badussa turns Zenowing, Koda and Kendall, Ivan and Riley into statues. Viviks throw Shelby away. Chase and Tyler are turn into stone. James, Philip and Shelby escape and hide behind a tree. 

Heckyl arrives to rescue, saying he knows how to lose a world. Badussa escapes. Heckyl leaves. Shelby is left shocked. Shelby touches Tyler's statue and tears up. They go back to the base and put the statues there. Keeper says their zords won't work without the Rangers (since when?). Their zords have no cockpits. Keeper tells Shelby to create a zord, she has no confidence. They give her pep talks. Shelby looks through dino bones and chooses the Spinosaurus (not choosing one dino because it looks like a crocodile--hmm). Sledge hurries up Wrench in putting the dark energem in a weapon.

Shelby puts in metal, bones and a crystal in the eggs and with Keeper's soul power. The egg burns up and goes down in the ground. Keeper tells them to follow them. Shelby takes out the Spino dino charger. Poisandra decorates the ship. Keeper and the others stop back in the forest. Philip walks towards a campsite and Heckyl appears behind them. Heckyl says Snide is after him. Heckyl tells them they split up. Shelby says he saved them. He says he wanted to destroy Badussa, he says Arcanon destroyed his planet. Keeper is surprised he survived the end of Sentai 6. Heckyl wants to restore the planet. Badusa arrives and Shelby smashes his amulet. Philip, James and Shelby morph and Pink, Graphite, Aqua and Keeper fight Badussa. She is about to destroy the amulet, Heckyl wants to work together. They both blast it and the Rangers are restored. 

Shelby sends them her coordinates and she thanks Heckyl. Heckyl tells her to get off the planet. Badussa knocks the three away and calls the mangabeam. Philip asks how they can destroy him with no Megazord. Keeper's staff glows. He says the Spinozord is alive, it emerges from the ground and hits Badussa. James says good job. The Rangers call Ankylozord and Pachyzord. Shelby throws the Spino charger and make Spino Charge Megazord, the four appear in the cockpit. Keeper helps fight. He has a red base with Spino as his symbol. Badussa is destroyed and shrinks down. The Rangers arrive. They leave Keeper. 

The Rangers reunite. Badussa arrives with Vivicks and the blue guards. The others morph. The ten Rangers fight the villains. Badussa fights Red. Red goes Super. Shelby gives him the Spino Charger and he gets Stego spino Formation. Badussa throws an attack and he throws it back with the Spino Boomerang. The ten Rangers do a final dino strike and Badussa explodes behind them. Sledge's ship is up and flies away. Kendall figures he powered it with the Dark ENergem.

Poisandra wants to honeymoon in Hawaii, China and New York. Sledge says it won't exist when he is done, maybe the Milky Way. She leaves. Snide and Wrench arrive with the Dark Energem, Sledge wants to see the destruction. Zenowing offers Shelby to be an appertance, she declines. Shelby tells Tyler she did it for the ones she loved to fix up her messed up plan. Tyler tells her it doesn't matter, she did good. Shelby tells them that Heckyl said to get off planet. Ivan says that Sledge's plan is so huge, they have to get off planet.

Review:
We got Spino Charge Megazord and Deathryuger's monster form but no Talon Ranger. Way to get our hopes up again. (First was Super Megaforce) I do like that Shelby created the zord as this works on her character since she wasn't even allowed to touch the equipment in the beginning of the first season. I was disappointed at the statue quality, the Madison statue from Mystic Force was better and that wasn't so hot. Why I care? Production values. But TV, there is not much budget to make realistic statues of the actors. Also more rules that make no sense like the zords won't work without the Rangers, the Pterazord worked without Ivan and the other zords work plenty of time without James, Philip and others. Heck, Plesiozord worked without Albert. 

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Power Rangers Dino Supercharge - Worg World - Episode Review


Summary:
At Sledge's ship, Snide is stopped by Poisandra and Curio, she wants to know his secret. He tells her and she can't believe it and grabs Curio. An alarm goes on that Heckyl is on the loose. Snide destroys the guards. Wrench asks to go, Snide says to let him go. The gang hangs out flyers to meet Worg, the robotic caveman, only Koda likes it. Ivan is not interested. A grandpa asks Riley to take a pic of him and his granddaughter and Worg takes his toupee. Kendall tries his attack mode. Worg throws his spear on a woman's hat and Kendall turns it off and tells Koda to take him out. Koda apologizes to Worg. Later, Ivan serves at the kitchen and tells Koda he is efficient. Koda has used Worg to cook.

Worg attacks and incites a food fight. Kendall gets mad at Koda. Outside, Riley, Tyler and Shelby spot two white and black robed guys. Screech gets  a trumpet and plays music that turns everyone into zombies except for Riley who covered his ears. Tyler and Shelby uncover his ears. Koda has earphones and escapes the zombies coming at him. Chase arrives and becomes a Zombie after he takes off his headset. Ivan zombies come towards Koda. Koda changes back the Rangers by covering their ears. Koda and Chase grab the trumpet and break the spell. The six morph. 

Viviks are called and they fight. Koda and the Rangers toss around the trumpet until Chase loses it and one of the robed monsters gets it. Back at the ship, the two asks Lord Arcanon for help. They tell them that the Rangers won't fight the Zombies. Snide wants to go, Arcanon says no because he lost Heckyl. His plan is to play it among the city. Zenowing says that Chase and Koda were lucky to have the headsets. Kendall has work to do. Later, Koda tells Worg he made many mistakes, we flashback to a few. He tells it a story of mammoth hunt, he says Worg reminds him of his friends and puts him in storage. Shelby and the gang are almost done doing the headsets. Kendall says they are out of time.

Ivan and Zenowing stay with Kendall to fix the headsets while the main five go and go past zombies. Tyler finds the source of the music and they have to go past civilians which they can't hurt. They escape with the help of Worg, they morph and fight the villains. Silver arrives. Silver grabs the record player and destroys it. Arcanon arrives and has the Dark Energem. He transforms and his face changes to green and he makes thunder and lighting. Firey Rocks fall on him. Ivan arrives. He throws bolts at the three enemies. Red goes Super and the Rangers attack together and an explosion occurs, but they are unhurt. Magna Beam makes Lord Arcanon big. The Rangers call the zords. Koda activates Super Drive and they formed the Ultrazord. Arcanon wraps vines on them and blasts them. Zenowing says to use the most powerful attack. 

Blue uses the Dino Super Drive Saber and does Ultra Plasma Final Blast and Arcanon is seemingly gone. Arcanon is back to size and lost the Energem in a book and crawls towards it. Sledge grabs the book and says guess who is back and holds the dark Energem. He puts the dark energem in his gun. Shinge, and the two robbed monsters come. Fury, Wrench, Poisandra, Curio and Snide take Sledge's side. They blast Arcanon away. Heckyl watched this. Back at the musuem, Shelby and Kendall think of something for Worg. At the cafe, they see Koda and Worg doing a fitness class with a bunch of people. 

Review:
Meh, even Arcanon's transformation was lackluster. Sledge's return was welcomed, the villains are more interesting than the main Rangers' filler stories. Only thing this showed was that Koda misses his old life. 

Thursday, October 27, 2016

My Maintaining a Fansite panel at Rangerstop con 4 Nov 4-6, 2016





Maintaining a fan site 
Power Force member Lavender Ranger has owned and maintained Super Sentai Resource website for 17 years and written for Ranger Central and Henshin Grid blog. Includes a quick tutorial on those ranger profile pics from Sentai books (attached). This panel will discuss how to edit photos, write for website and upload it. Also on my experience as part of Power Force and limited relationship with Saban Brands. 
When: Sunday November 6 11am
Where: THE HOLIDAY INN SUITES ACROSS FROM UNIVERSAL STUDIOS 5905 SOUTH KIRKMAN ROAD ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32819

No extra charge, get your ticket today!

Power Rangers movie morpher, Trex and Sword toys revealed

Movie morpher
When I first saw the morphers on the suits, I couldn't figure how they would make the toy. looking at this, it looks so unappealing. I understand on a story standpoint how the suits and morpher are supposed to look organic and foreign but for a toy, it looks like strange space rocks.

Tyrannosaurus zords
The zord looks like the movie zord will be awesome but the toy itself looks like the regular zords, cheaper and lost in translation. I really would've liked to see a complex toy like the Hasbro Transformers or like the Legacy zords. I hope he gets the Legacy treatment.

Power Sword
this actually  looks more impressive than the actual movie sword but I wish it was more complex like the Samurai Mega Blade that just a hand blade.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Talon Ranger Mystery

UPDATED 6/16/18
SPOILERS AHEAD
Deathryuger in Kyoryuger
In Kyoryuger, there is Deathryuger, a monster who becomes like Kyoryugers and controls the Tobaspino, this is featured in the movie. As you may know from the Shout Factory DVDs, the Sentai movies are seperate from the series and cost extra money. That is why the Dairanger movie is not in the Dairanger DVDs. For Samurai, Saban spent extra for the movie, RPM teamup special, and comeback special. For Megaforce, Saban bought the footage to Goseiger and Gokaiger but not the movies. Explaining why we didn't see the extended Legacy War from the 199 heroes movie. Saban didn't buy Kyoryuger movies or specials. Deathryuger briefly appeared in Kyoryuger episodes but with a monster head. In the last episode, 100 years pass and the Kyoryuger's descendants become Kyroyuger but in different colors but same actors. So Red's actor becomes a good version of Deathryuger called Kyoryu Navy. There was even a special on this.


Toys
 The Deathryuger's monster form even appears in the ship cells. We will see Spinozord on Dino Charge and we got the toy of Spinozord and the Dino Charger toy. In the Dino Charge Morpher, if you insert the Spino Dino Charger, you can hear "Talon Ranger," This was revealed by fans early on when the morpher was released. Kickback of Ranger Command Hour says Greg of Bandai said at PMC that the sound byte of Talon Ranger was placed because Saban told them to put it there. There was to be something but nothing came of it. So fans thought Deathryuger would most likely be Talon Ranger. Talon Ranger has not appeared in action figure form and since Ninja Steel is starting up, it is most likely we won't see one. Fans were hoping for one as a PMC exclusive. But this year PMC had no Dino Charge exclusives. We did find out they will be making Poisandra so maybe they will make Talon Ranger.



Power Rangers Dino Supercharge - Freaky Fightday - Episode Review

Summary:
Snide's tentacle grabs Shinge in the air as he is captured. Snide has the Viviks take out Professor Strikler. He has an eraser that swaps bodies, he swaps Shinge and Vivik. Snide says Poisandra tried switching bodies before but not the Rangers. Arcanon is for it. Ivan and the others are in a box to check out a graffiti artist. Ivan finds out it is his doppleganger, someone who looks like him. The new guy says he is from Zander, his great granddad was a knight. Kendall says they are cousins. His name is Zach. Snide wants to be split from Heckyl and promises to be on Arcanon's side. Heckyl says his planet was destroyed. Snide says he is doing the best for him. Riley and Zach talk. Paint falls on Zach. Later they eat and Zach apologizes. Ivan says one more lesson, he will learn true art from him.

They are outside and Ivan shows him artwork of the knight of Zandar. Zach tells him to pose for him. Ivan doesn't like Zach's painting. The Rangers get called and Tyler's body is switched with Shelby's and Chase and Koda switch as well. They are not used to their weapons. Professor Strickler fights Shelby while Koda fights the game monster. Riley and Ivan arrive and get switched as well. Ivan speaks with Riley's voice and so on. They morph and fight the monsters down. The monsters leave. 

Back at the base, the gang have changed to different clothes. Shelby is upset that her clothes doesn't fit on Tyler's body. Koda eats a lot in Chase's body. Riley in Ivan's body finds the art that was in the trash. Ivan criticizes it, Keeper and Zenowing tell him to re-think, just because he doesn't like it, doesn't mean it isn't good. Ivan takes off his jacket and talks to Zach like he was Riley. (This scene was probably made to save on special effects to put the two in the same scene)

Riley relates to Zach the art with two different smoothies, how art is different. Zach thinks Ivan won't like his work. Ivan gets called and tells Zach to give him a chance and leaves. The Rangers introduce themsleves by their original colors and their real colors appear behind them. A monster switches them all again in other bodies. They ambush them. They call Dino Steel. Tyler is still Pink, Shelby is Gold, Ivan is blue, Koda is green and Riley is black. Zenowing arrives and morphs into Silver, and Nightmare switches Zenowing and Professor Strickler. Tyler smashes the switcher machine. Red goes supercharge and they defeat the monsters. Arcanon fires the manga beam and makes the three monsters huge. The seven Rangers call all the zords and they blast at the monsters. Ultrazord is formed. 

Gold goes Super Dino Drive. Game monster takes off his basketball head. The Rangers form the Titano Cannon. They destroy the three. Back at the ship, Arcanon is mad at Snide. He says splitting the two would be better. Wrench gets the split emitters working again and split up Heckyl and Snide. Heckyl is seized and he calls Snide a traitor, he says they will all pay. Heckyl is put in solitary. Back at the cafe, Tyler asks Shelby if it is okay to fit n her clothes again, she says it is all stretch out. Ivan and Zach meet, Ivan apologizes and gives him the painting back, all cleaned up. Koda gives them lime smoothies, which are Zach;s favorite. The others watch, Ivan gets a brain freeze. The others laugh. 

Review:
Tyler and his friends has been dumb before but now all the Rangers forgot the Split Emitters, even Kendall. Seeing and hearing Davi Santos with his normal voice was interesting. The special effects weren't as bad as they were back in the day, now it is done using computers. The monsters now look like they are doubling up on the ones that get toys. Also interesting they have related dopplegangers like in Kyoryuger.