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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Power Rangers on Set in New Zealand Pictures

SPD:

Ninja Storm:

Mystic Force:

Operation Overdrive:

Dino Thunder:

Jungle Fury:

Goggle Red sighting in Facts of Life

In the 1986 season 7 episode "Reunion," a Goggle Red from Goggle Five balloon is briefly seen in the beginning of the episode. Goggle Five was the Super Sentai for 1982. This was spotted by my friend Larry.

X-Men/Power Rangers Tie-Ins

Also sent in by Tom Clark, this was Season 3 episode 17 of X-Men. When these guys appear you can hear the MMPR theme (w/out lyrics just the tune). X-Men was partially produced by the Saban company. Only the blue and pink rangers appear and they are clearly parodies, their chests kind of look like the toys where they had circles in the centers.
Advisory: If you are going to tell me about a sighting, you must have a picture. I am not covering parodies and just mentioning. I am only doing power ranger toys, t-shirts, posters, etc. in TV shows.

In around 1994, there were a string of Power Ranger/X-Men t-shirts and sweaters. My cousin had one of the Green Ranger and Beast (it was a sweater), I think they got rid of it, wish I had a picture of it. There were a few others but I forget the match-ups. I don't remember anyone with Wolverine, but I think there was a Red Ranger/Cyclops one and Gambit with another Ranger but I forget who, I don't think it was Black Ranger because I would have gotten it, I liked the Black Ranger.

This thanks to Tom Clark once again.

Poll Results: Favorite Villlain Type/New Villain Type/New Themes for KR and SS/Color Blind

What is your favorite kind of villain type?
Supernatural - 115 of 211
Space Aliens - 114
Dimensional Beings - 106
Demons - 100
Mechanical - 80
Mutants - 66

What new theme would you want for villains?
Circus - 59 of 202
Internet - 43
Wizards - 37
Ice-Element - 36
Aquatic - 23
Mole - 4

What new theme should Super Sentai do?
Planets - 86
Vanpires - 48
Aquatic - 36
Ghosts - 34
Winter - 3

What new theme should Kamen Rider do?
Magic - 49
Rescue - 40
Aquatic - 20
Plants - 13
Safety - 3
For 'Safety', I meant like Traffic Safety, maybe I should have put 'Traffic.'

I use a lot of colors so I want know, are you color blind?
20 of 158 are color blind

Should Yellow always be a girl ranger's color?
Both, alternate - 185 of 232
Yes, girls only - 42
No, boys only - 5

Should there be more female blue rangers?
yes, gives it a mix - 199 of 224
No, there's enough - 25

Time Force toys in King of Queens

Brought to my attention by Tom Clark. King of Queens, season 4 episode "Fender Bender." This episode aired October 15, 2001, the blue and red time force ranger toys appear. I checked and none of the Time Force Rangers ever appeared on the show.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Van Pires: More Info

Van-Pires had 13 episodes on 1997 and 1998. I forgot about this show recently but I did know it and watch it. It was an utter travesty. Live-action mixed with low grade CGI. Four teens became robotic cars and fought against similar creatures that were a mix of vampires. The picture below said it was on Fox Kids but it wasn't, it aired syndicated. In my area of Miami, it aired on Sunday mornings, mostly ignored. t was produced by Abrahams/Gentile (New York), with CGI animation being produced under MSH (San Francisco).

Van-Pires also had portions of its soundtrack written and performed by John Entwistle of the band The Who. The bad guys were the Van-Pires and the good guys were the Moto-Vators. I say it was a travesty because of the acting and the writing (especially when it came to the live-action portions). You can find this one online as well!

Jason Hayes played the leader in red Axle, he went on to play Jason Collins, one half of twins in Malibu, CA and was also on City Guys. He now is Co-Creator/Producer of I Eat Weird Inc.

The Tail That Wags The Dog, And Other Tales From the 1997 American International Toy Fair
Toys were to come out from galoob but never did.

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