Power Rangers Pulsecon Reveals

 So I watched the whole Pulsecon on Power Rangers. 

The biggest news was Dino Fury cast, only 3 Rangers were revealed. Russell Curry as Red, Kai Moya as Ollie/Blue, and Hunter Deno as Amelia/Pink, these were of the six Illumerdi revealed so the other tree could be correct.

Toy News:

The Zeo Megazord we already knew about. It is heavy and has a big box and removable helmets, wings and belt. 

Connor, Tommy and Z-Putty for the next wave. They will have exclusive boxes for Target, exclusive for Target are the only boxes. White Ranger will also get an exclusive Target box.

Auto-Morphin Figures, Retro Figures will be Walmart exclusives. Wave One is Red, Black, Pink and Blue. Green and Yellow coming soon. The weapons combine. 

New Monsters line

Pumpkin Rapper and King Sphinx, in Pulsecon they did a poll to see which monster should the Megazord take down and Sphinx won.

Part of the Versus Sets is Astronema and Andros

Also Sky Blue B-Squad Vs A-Squad Ranger, no Beevor head.

And Pulse exclusive is Metallic Armor Pink Ranger with Kat head sculpt. From what I understood she has a new lightning effect and bow. 

My question was showcased, twice. My YouTube is Hodgepodges and  my first question was "Will we have transforming Lightning Collection Megazords?" And the answer was with lava coming out of a volcano, soon things are coming. My second was in the Beast Morphers panel, I asked if Colby liked his Lightning Figure and he said he has it by his bed.

I liked the reveals. I am excited about SPD B-Squad vs A-Squad, the monsters and the Zeo Megazord.

Power Rangers Beast Morphers - Intruder Alert - Episode Review

 Summary:
Nate decodes a message from deep space about a villain named Ryjack. The Rangers are on alert. An alien is detected and they go check it out. They see a shiny silver robot-like figure near Morph-X and think it is the villain. They stop him from getting a device. They get the device and head back. Evox is out of Morph X and needs it. The real Ryjack arrives and collects weapons. He wants to steal Power Rangers weapons. He wants to work together/ Evox wants the Rangers destroyed first. Evox gives him the blaster of Vargoyle and makes a robot clone that will obey him with a compliance collar.  They disappear. Evox wants to get rid of him and steal his weapons afterward. Betty and Ben get caught in their own booby trap for the security vault. 

The Rangers tend to Betty and Ben. Nate and Steel arrive saying the vault alarm went off. The mysterious stranger gets his device and sneaks out. He is apprehended by the Rangers and Nate gets the device. They lock him into detention and go to the monster alert. Ryjack and Vargoyle are stealing Morph-X. They recognize Vargoyle The Rangers arrive. The rangers realize they have the wrong alien. Ryjack brings back Putties and Vivicks. The civilians fight the Putties and Viviks. Steel asks who they are and Ryjack says the Rangers fought them for years. The Rangers morph and fight. They use their powers and Ryjack does and hurts Zoey and Ravi. The Rangers run off. They tend to Zoey and Ravi in the sick bay as they have an infection. Steel plays with the mysterious stranger's weapon. Shaw tells Nate and Devon to communicate with the stranger. The stranger seems ill and needs the device. They give it to him and he recharges. Captain Chaku changes his translator and tells them he is part of galactic police and he is the good guy and why they attacked him. Nate says they didn't know. (What he doesn't know can fill a vault) They apologize.

Chaku says he lost power after following Ryjack through seven Galaxies. Chaku says their friends won't last long if they were hit by Ryjack's horn. He checks the two and says they must be treated. He uses a digital liquid. Blaze and Roxy arrive and are surprised by the news. Ryjack wants to know about the base. Evox tells them to send Vargoyle and tells Scrozzle to send a Gigadrone. Vargoyle leaves. Ryjack boasts. Back with Nate, their condition is improving. Vargoyle and Gigadrone are detected, Devon and Chaku are sent against Vargoyle while the brothers take the zords against the Gigadrone. Devon and Chaku fight Tronics and Vargoyle. His compliance collar is taken off and tries leaving but he's out of Morph-X. 

Galactic Inceptor, Chaku's cycle is called and Devon uses Cruise as a cycle. Vargoyle blasts at them with his motorcycle. Devon kicks him and Chaku tackles him down. Chaku and Vargoyle duel and then Devon gets in. Devon is taken down and Chaky avoids blasts and hits Vargyoyle's weapon. Devon and Chaku finish him off. Striker Megazord is formed. Gigadrone is destroyed. Ravi and Zoey wake up okay. Nate introduces Chaku. Zoey and Ravi thanks them. They have a lesson to not judge a book by its cover. Chaku still needs to defeat Ryjack. Ben and Betty have a new thief trap that actually works and traps Chaku and the Rangers who don't have security cards that the device needs. Shaw tells them they did a great job.

Review:

Space Sheriff Gavan came out in 1992, part of the Metal Heroes label. To give you some perspective, Speilban was one of the Space Sheriff series and his footage was used for VR Troopers. The Meta Heroes have had revival movies since 2012, which are occasionally crosspromoted in Sentai. Chaku is Gavan New Type, who was introduced in Go-Busters and continued in Gavan movies and Taisen movies. "Chaku" is part of Gavan's morph call. I think it was a good episode and of course, this is the first of two parts of Chaku's adventure. Out of the episodes including Metal Heroes (like Skyfire in Ninja Steel), this has to be the better one. I'm looking forward to the other ones.

Power Rangers Beast Morphers - The Evok Snare - Episode Review

 Summary:

The Rangers cut the Morph X energy supply and have an arrow to take him down. It will be launch with the Beast-X Blaster, a combo of a couple weapons. Zoey shows it off and freezes Berry's dad's wedding tuxedo in ice. Ben tries breaking it open with no avail. Nate hasn't figured out how to separate his dad out. Devon is concerned. Nate says he has been working hard. Devon leaves, saying he will find a way. Scrozzle is concerned, Evox wants Roxy and Blaze to get more Morph-X.

Devon looks through newspaper articles and finds one with his dad and him. Cruise brings more Ranger records. Ravi asks Devon and he found info on a Black Ranger that had a virus and tries to get a response from Dr. K. Bulldozertron arrives and the Rangers morph and fight. Blaze and Roxy morph and fight Gold and Silver. The trio power up. Ravi goes to help the others while Red and Yellow defeat the Bulldozer. Gold and Silver fall down and the bad guys leave with Morph-X. Silver blows up the tanker with the bad guys. Commander Shaw arrives says the last tower was able to be drained and it will be left unguarded. Scrozzle hears this. It was bait, Yellow hears this. 

A Gigadrone is sent to Tower 5 and they get a new interdimensional call. They figure the call is from Dr K. Devon and Nate go to the base with Shaw. The others form the zords to make a new combo: Beast X Ultrazord. They destroy the Gigadrone. Dr. K talks technobabble to Devon, saying her tech can not help. What happened was different. She thinks about something she read about Doomwing and Zenowing and made Split Emitters. Devon returns to the gang. They figure Evox will show up at Tower 5. Devon asks about the old Ranger tech in Nate's vault. He says he may have Split Emitters. Shaw tells them to go. Nate gives Devon Morph-X and asks for their help. They enter the vault and find random Ranger tech. Betty finds Split Emitters and they take them. 

The others wait at Tower 5. Evox arrives, growls and can barely move. Nate has the bow and shoots towards Evox but Evox stops it. He throws it towards them. They jump back at the ice attack. Evox is stopped by Devon. Mayor Daniels appears and tells Devon to let Evox pass. He says he will be destroyed. Ravi says it isn't his real dad talking. The Rangers try to deter Devon. Devon puts down his weapon and smirks. Ben tells him he's ready. Devon says transport and the split emitters split the Mayor and Evox apart. Devon goes to his dad. They hug. Scrozzle come to Evox. Evox says he is needs Morph-X. They teleport away. Later, Shaw recharge the towers and Morph-X is back to energize the city. Shaw asks Mayor what he might know. He says his last memory is the explosion in the portal (end of season 1). Nate tells him it was all Devon. Betty and Ben use the split emitters to take their dad's tuxedo out, they accidentally get their dad trapped in there and then Ben. Devon saves the day by getting them all out.

Review:
A pretty good episode and great to see Dr. K back. But a little unbelievable that the past Rangers would let Grid Battleforce even get their old tech, let alone their morphers. Even unbelievable that Dr. K would let them have the Cell Shift Morphers. Fans were also discussing how they could have SPD tech if SPD takes place in 2025. For me, the crew just put random tech for fun without thinking of why and how. Also, it would've made more sense if the Dino Charge Rangers had the Split Emitters and not Grid Battleforce. Given what happens in later episodes, I guess it is all out of the window in terms of logic. 

Dino Fury and Lighting Collection Rumors

  Here are the latest rumors. The first batch is about the upcoming season of Power Rangers Dino Fury to start shooting soon and premiere in early 2021. The exact date is up in the air. Illumerdi has report that the cast is of five, three are male, and two are female. 

https://twitter.com/MegaPowerBrasil is responsible for this pic

https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2020/09/08/dino-fury-cast-revealed/

Russell Curry, Hunter Deno, Kai Moya, Alexandria Nuñez, and Chance Perez. The colors are unknown right now. Most people have supposed Kai is Black Ranger, Russell is Blue, Chance is red, Alexandria is green and Hunter is Pink. With Alexandria being a second female and there only being one female in Ryusoulger, fans have supposed green will become female much like the male Yellow Rangers became male in the past: Mighty Morphin, Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force and Wild Force respectively. This would be a welcomed change but it is unknown if this is official at this point.

As for Lightning Collection, No Pink Spandex has reported rumors for upcoming sets. The sets sound exciting and hope they are true.

Villains King Sphinx and Pumpkin Rapper, monsters from Mighty Morphin. They are called Deluxe villains and are to be retailed at $29.99. I was hoping for monsters. My friend who is a toy collector was hoping for monsters too.

Two-Pack of Andros and Astronema, also retailed at $29.99. I hope the sculpt for Astronema is better than her model design for Legacy War game and the Rita sculpt. The Rita was great and hope for more. 

Two-Pack of SPD A-Squad and B-Squad, when I first read this I thought it would be all 1o rangers but then I saw two-pack. No Pink Spandex thinks it will be just one color. I am hoping for Red. In the Power Rangers SPD canon, there were three red rangers for B-Squad. The first was Jack, then Sky at the end of SPD series and Bridge in Once A Ranger special. Since a Jack figure is already released, I assume it might be Sky. As for A-Squad, the most well known A-Squad Ranger is Red and Charlie, the first female Red Ranger. She is the first evil one and since Lauren, she is not counted as a female Red Ranger proper by fans but rather a secondary female Red Ranger. As fans know, A-Squad are not Japanese in origin but American made. The helmets are based on In Space.

UPDATE 9/10/20

Power Rangers Twitter says the cast of Beast Morphers is reuniting at PulseCon on September 26th for PulseCon. Tune in for behind the scenes stories, a live Q&A, never before seen footage, and a historic announcement. Comic Book Now believes the historic announcement has to do with the Dino Fury cast.

Two more Lightning Collection figures revealed

Psycho Green was found in a Walmart but not for sale just yet. And in some Targets, Black Dino Charge Ranger has been spotted. Also overseas White Dino Ranger.

Photo from Ray Alcantar on Facebook.

Photo thanks to @KidMtheman

Some fans are complaining about paint applications on White Ranger's helmet and Black Ranger's buckle. I honestly don't mind.

Speculations: What could not adapting Sentai mean for Power Rangers

UPDATED 7/20/20

Last week Illuminerdi brought out news that Hasbro would no longer be adapting Super Sentai footage from Toei, the majority of the fandom does not believe this unless Hasbro makes an 'official' announcement. As the news broke, there has been confusion. Some fans thinking Hasbro no longer being connected to Toei meant they would lose copyright to existing Power Rangers characters. As Jason Bischoff, who used to work for Saban Brands and briefly Hasbro told me via tweet once that if it is already Power Rangers, there is no copyright problem. Toei can't take that away. Hasbro cutting ties with Toei means Dino Fury will be the last season (for now at least) adapting from Toei's Super Sentai.

So by the chart above, Dino Fury will be the last season in 2022. This is my projection as presently the Nick contract ends in 2021. But since they have been doing 2 years each season, it makes sense they would extend it for a year. What is to come for 2023 is unknown. Michael Louie, former webmaster of Power Rangers Now, said in a recent interview with Illuminerdi that is unlikely Hasbro will be making their own footage for Power Rangers as that would be expensive and Toei was doing a good job, so why do it? Michael made it clear Hasbro's choice was not because of Toei's quality. I think it was a money issue and in Hasbro's vision, they don't see the current formula working. I personally see that Hasbro doesn't see that Sentai is part of the DNA of Power Rangers. Many fans have said that the live-action show is part of it and without it, it wouldn't feel like Power Rangers.

Taking a Break

Insiders believe Hasbro is putting all their money in the upcoming movie and toys will continue. They want Power Rangers to be as popular as in 1993 and want to tell more stories of Mighty Morphin team because that is what the public is familiar with. Franchises without a constant show are not unheard of. Transformers, My Little Pony, Ninja Turtles, Marvel and DC franchises have survived without having a constant TV show or movie on. Hasbro probably sees this as a break. As for MMPR, people are more familiar with Jason, Kimberly and Tommy just like mainstream people are more familiar with Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and Megatron for Transformers. As Super Sentai has never taken a break and even with Covid, it doesn't look like it will end. 

What Hasbro sees producing the live-action series

This is just guessing, I don't know the actual details. I don't even know the ratings but word is the ratings are stable but lower than before. Power Rangers the series has not been as popular as it was in the 90's. Some seasons have been popular (good ratings or good sales) but not at the same level. Power Rangers Zeo had 50 episodes in 1996 while Power Rangers Wild Force had 40 in 2002. When Disney started producing Power Rangers, episode counts started at 38 episodes with Ninja Storm in 2003 and then lowered to 32 by RPM in 2009. In 2011 once they joined Nickelodeon, the episode count was down to 20 per year with some specials, and each 'theme' was expanded to 2 years. Let's look at facts:

1995 - Zeo - 50 episodes

2002 - Wild Force - 40 episodes

2003 - Ninja Storm - 38 episodes

2009 - RPM - 32 episodes

2011 - Samurai - 22 episodes

2020 - Beast Morphers - 22 episodes

Episode counts have stayed steady for 9 years on Nickelodeon but it is few and many fans have complained of the few episode count. But it looks like all we can get. There simply is no other network. Cartoon Network is now simply in house cartoons that range to 13 minutes in length. The other choice is a streaming service but no children's franchise is surviving on a streaming service exclusively. The most popular TV series for kids would be Spongebob and that is on Nickelodeon. And Nickelodeon hasn't been kind to Power Rangers as much as the Disney networks were, probably because of the violence and it is not the same anymore on television. The restrictions on television are tighter nowadays. I don't mind the violence but it has always been an issue with Power Rangers. I am not saying it is the ONLY reason but could be a contributing factor.

The Future

I foresee if Power Rangers does take a break from Super Sentai, it doesn't mean they can't go back. Let's face facts, Power Rangers has had a lot of different owners--Saban, Disney, Saban (again) and Hasbro. And whoever owns them later or even Hasbro, can always go back to adapting Sentai. Even if Sentai ends, they have plenty of series to choose from (Toqger, Zyuoher, Kyuranger, Lupinranger vs Patranger, and Kiramager). While I am not happy with the live-action factor of Power Rangers taking a break or ending, I do find all of this interesting. I don't see the Power Rangers franchise ending. I would really like to see how an animated series would play out. Without Sentai, Power Rangers could really stretch its wings and come out of the 'make my monster grow' formula and go on its own pace. It would be interesting to see rangers, weapons, zords, and villains designed by Hasbro and a story going by its own pace and not relying on footage. Now for those who don't believe this happening, I am not going to force anyone to see it my way or whatever, everyone is free to their opinion. The truth will come out soon one day. But let me tell you this, I am oddly positive moving forward. What am I basing this on? 27 years of consistency. Ironic that on the 30th anniversary, there won't be a series based on new sentai. But who knows, maybe there will be because of this whole Covid thing. Hasbro could extend the Nick contract for 3 years until 2024.