Power Rangers Movie Megazord, Ninja Steel female armor and Lego/Mega Bloks debate

I decided to clump all these things together...

Movie Megazord

Over this weekend, Power Rangers Twitter revealed this picture of this Interactive Megazord, it is one solid piece, it is not a transforming Megazord. The fandom went crazy. Well, the majority of the response was "Meh." I know this from being at Rangerstop convention in Orlando, Florida from November 4-6 and talking to fans. The consensus was to keep the picture away from them. 

 Above is the transforming Megazord. My thoughts are that it looked like Optimus Prime, I don't like that Mastodon went from shoulders to the right leg, that Sabertooth tiger went from a leg to the waist. I have no rpoblem with the Pterdactyl going to wins. I'm not crazy about it but let's see how it looks in the movie. 

 

Ninja Steel toys

More toys are being revealed, including the standard zord armor toys that were more common in the Disney Era, other than Saban seasons recently. So this pic turned up. I don't know if the armor was actually made for her. It looks too big for her. But I love the idea that female rangers can have armor again. Female Rangers have not had armors since Lost Galaxy and In Space. In Space had Astro Armor for Pink and Yellow. Lost Galaxy had armor for Pink and Yellow along with the male Rangers. I commend Bandai and Saban for doing this. 

http://www.rangerboard.com/showthread.php?p=5283125#post5283125

Jason Bischoff, Director of Global Consumer Products for Saban Brands posted on Rangerboard that he was posting just once and couldn't answer any questions because the limits of his job. Bandai and Saban always avoid answering anything in case things change or they can't say. I know this from experience with Power Force. He can be contacted at @prometheanworks on Twitter.

MegaBloks

MegaBloks is an older deal that Jason inherited that is technically still active. The more-recent MegaBloks product reveals (above) are older and were held to be timed at the same time as the movie release. The upcoming MMPR items will see an extremely limited release in specialty stores worldwide. It is a non-exclusive deal and in major stores is to be determined. 

LEGO Ideas

Vote here: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/157302

Bruce Lowell designed these and they are a proposal for Lego Ideas. Fans have to vote for it to make it real. Sometimes the Lego Ideas become real, some don't. Jason says nothing about the MegaBloks deal that prevents us from exploring LEGO ideas He says, "LEGO ideas submissions often find their way into other Lego avenues (full lines, games etc.) Can't say it enough: if you'd like to see LEGO Power Rangers stuff, we really need you guys to rally up, get behind it and vote with your votes! Sharing on social is also an excellent way to help (and Bruce has made it easy for us with banners available on his website)."

I personally would like to see Lego take over the license. Lots of fans do. My nephew can't tell the difference, he says MegaBloks is Lego. There was a Lego scam back in July saying Lego had the Movie license but ended up being untrue. 

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. 

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. 

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

http://www.rangerstop.com/

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.

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.