Sunday, September 6, 2009

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight website updated

I do not know when it has been updated but it has finally been updated with much more stuff. Unfortunately, the rider page section is messed up. They have eCards--which has Dragon, Wing, Torque and Strike's Final Vents. You can't go to Artwork and Fanart, and Coloring Book because you have to register and the register thing---is coming soon! So there are still plenty of things they got to fix. If they need a new webmaster, contact me! I've had Super Sentai Time Capsule for 10 years.
Updated 09/09/09
They have fixed the Riders section.

Games are cool, there are super-hard trivia game---it is hard! Try it on difficult. I don't remember what Aunt Grace called her bird! Also, the Puzzle games are cool, putting it on expert, it is like almost 100 pieces. Programming and the Advent Card section is not ready yet.

The avatar section is cute, you can select from Dragon, Wing, Strike, Torque and Siren advent deck buckles---but they dont have female face so why have the Siren deck?

Check it all out at Kamenrider.com


Also at Bandai.com, Kamen Rider Dragon Knight is focused on and there are videos of a guy showing kids what to do with their cycles.


Saturday, September 5, 2009

What does Disney Owning Marvel have to do with Power Rangers?

What does Disney Owning Marvel have to do with Power Rangers?

In the opinion of this blogger that has been a Power Ranger fan since 1993 and have been in the internet fandom for ten years, I believe Disney wanted to a lock on the boys' market. Marvel is house of go-to boys franchise, the number one being Spider-Man. Many in the media believe Disney is weak in the boys' market and they want to tackle it. Well, they had one powerful pawn in the boys' market which was/is the Power Rangers. Unfortunately, they did not know how to wield it or/and they really couldn't wield it anywhere else. As I have mentioned before, the reason Disney has stop production on Power Rangers is because they no longer wanted to share profits with Toei and Bandai and wanted to do everything on their own and get all the revenue. Now, with Marvel, they have more avenues.

They still have to share with Marvel but it is just not one property. They have Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, the Avengers, Captain America, Thor, X-Men, The Avengers, and the list goes on and on. They can do animated series, TV movies, big movie features, etc. One non-Power Ranger fan can say Marvel is a bigger fish for Disney to tackle, a more of a sure thing. But Disney hasn't completely given up on Power Rangers, because they still have Super Legends merchandise and still have the copyright.

UPDATED 2/6/11
Now that Disney has returned Power Rangers to Saban and Saban has done a lot of promotion for the new season (Samurai), Disney has said that the reason they dropped PR was because mothers complained about the violence. But I am scratching my head in bewilderment at such a statement because the Marvel heroes are much more violent. I've seen Iron Man merchandise in Disney Store and Iron Man the movies are rated PG-13 and show lots of violence, much more than the play violence of Power Rangers. So again, I'm scratching my head as to why Disney spokespeople would say an obvious and weak excuse for dropping Power Rangers. Like Saban said, they didn't know what to do with it.

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight: Who Has the Decks

We haven't seen Len pick up the decks but in episode "A Rider's Resolve," we seen Len has five Advent Decks. Six Riders have been vented, Len wasn't there when Torque was vented, so it makes sense he doesn't have that deck. The decks he has are Incisor, Camo, Thrust, Sting, and Spear. He vented Incisor, so it makes sense he has that deck. Torque vented Camo but I remember seeing the Camo deck left alone. Strike vented Thrust in front of Len, Kit, and Chris, so it makes sense that Len could have grabbed it. Strike vented Sting instead of Len, so it makes sense Len would grab that deck. And Kit vented Spear, so he must have given the deck to Len.

Power Rangers RPM - Episode 22 - "Dome Dolls"

Episode 22 - "Dome Dolls"

Episode Summary:

It is a hot day, a black robot general walks down the desert. Back in the dome, Flynn gets oil in the face when Dillon starts his jeep. He needs a lot to go on his jeep. Ziggy puts a chef hat on Dr. K's head and she takes it off and shreds it in a blender. Ziggy wants to teach her how to make a good breakfast, but she is not a great pupil. She asks where he learned how to cook and he says prison. She runs away. Gema comes in, beating out Gem and Scott. The black robot comes into the villain's lair. Tenaya has a new robot, full of straws. Kilobyte, Venjix's most feared general is the name of the black robot, he is feared by the others. He takes off his head and takes out dust and wants Tenaya to clean it up. She is insulted and wants to fights him but the others hold her back. Tenaya is commanded to go with her Chemical Bot to the city.


Tenaya is upset that Kilobyte called her sweetheart and blasts a Grinder. The Rangers arrive and fight the Grinders. The Rangers split and the five go after Chemical Bot. Tenaya takes on the twins. The three hold the robot down and the other two its down. He looses his red drink and freaks out. He dirnks the purple drink and sprays it on the Rangers. He disappears. Yellow grabs his red drink that he left behind. Tenaya returns to the base and Kilobyte scoffs at her. Chemical Banki pours a yellow drink in the tubes of the city and a yellow gas goes off. Two soldiers go by it and faint. Then all the men in the city fall asleep.


Summer does a cool move on the billard table when Gem, Scott, and Dillon have fall asleep. Flynn falls asleep. Dr. K says that the gas is specific chromosome, gender-specific. Vasquez tells them that the Colonel is asleep. Ziggy has not be knocked out... until now. Vasquez is worried. Summer tells Gema to work on the upgrades, Dr. K will work on a antidote and Summer will take care of Vasquez. Kilabyte criticizes Tenaya (she asks if because she looks female, that he thinks she is weak, he says it is because she is programmed to be a girl, that she is weak.) and is sexist and holds her up, until Venjix tells him to let her go. Summer gives Vasquez confidence. Meanwhile, Gema upgrades the Road Zord, but now it will only work with Scott's Engine Cell. Dr. K has an antidote and tries it on Ziggy. Ziggy wakes up and says he had a dream where he was with Dr. K. He falls asleep again and Summer arrives.


Tenaya, Chemical Bot and the Grinders come into the city as the guards are asleep. Summer and Gema use Dillon's car, saying it is an emergency. After the break, the girls arrive in Dillon's car. Summer asks Vasquez if she is ready, she says not yet. They fight the Grinders. Tenaya brings the girls down. They then morph--Silver and Yellow share a screen. Sorry, for those hoping for Silver to have the screen on her own. Yellow does an energy burst and takes down some Grinders. Dr. K continues working on the antidote. Tenaya pushes Chemical Bot into the fight and the two fight him. Vasquez initiates a thunder storm and takes out the Grinders. Tenaya attacks the duo. Vasquez creates a tornado, the girls grab on to 'something' and the twister takes in the bot and the grinders.


Tenaya holds on to dear life. Vasquez's base goes haywire and the climate control goes offline. The girls de-morph. Dr. K finally has the antidote and sprays it on the boys. She gives Scott the Road Attack Zord and the boys run off to battle. Tenaya is about to attack the girls when Kilobyte shoots Tenaya down, saying no one likes a cheap shot. Tenaya is clearly upset. The boys arrive, saying stay away from 'our' women and re-tract his statement. Scott and the Road Attack Zord fight the Chemical Bot on the other side of the city. The Rangers reunite. The bot is grown and the other zords except for Red's fight the bot. Because his energy is down. ValveMax and Mach Megazord are formed and take down the monster. Red cheers them on from below.


After the break, the twins and Ziggy pour the antidote in the fan. Ziggy wanted all the girls for himself to date. Dillon is upset that his car hood is gone, Summer and Gema bring it. Dillon is upset. Flynn is for painting it. Dillon doesn't want it like new, he wants it like he had it. Gema and Summer say he understands. Dillon tells her not to drive his car. She says not to fall asleep next time. Dillon asks how driving his car into a tornado a good thing. Scott and Flynn says it is good because at least their cars were not used. Tenaya overhears Kilobyte asking Venjix if she knows the truth about herself. He says she should never find out. Tenaya wants to show Kilobyte who is ruthless.


Review:
It is obvious they used the Straw Banki instead of the Shower Banki because of Shower Banki's obscene nipples. (Her faucet knobs were her nipples) Shower Banki's plot was used in this episode but they switched the bot. Actually, they combined two monster's plots together. Interesting. Also interesting that they brought in Krikezy early on, he is suppose to appear later on. He appeared in the Japanese magazine fans of PRRPM, so that will be interesting if there are some surprises coming up. It is interesting that there is a dynamic between Kilobyte and Tenaya. In the Go-Onger episode, Yellow and Silver initially succumbed to the pressure and were scared, but thank god our women are much braver. Yellow took lead fast. Vasquez sort of reflected the Japanese rangers. But the episode isn't as great as I thought it would be, I would have liked it if the girls would defeat the monster on their own.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Kamen Rider Cutie #10: Carrie Reichenbach

She portrays Kase, Kamen Rider Siren on Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.

She has been on "Monk," "Fashion House," Yes Man, "Rules of Engagement," and "Two and a Half Men."

Next up for her is Mercury Abandoned.










Oops--Missed Kamen Rider Dragon Knight Episode 21 today


For some strange reason, the CW aired Kamen Rider Dragon Knight episode 21 "Strike's Ultimatum" today in the United States on September 4th and won't rerun it any time soon. I am always on top of these things but not this time, I only caught the end. For those who missed it, here is a description:

Kit and Maya go to the place indicated by JTC, looking for his father, who was kidnapped by Strike. Len learns that Kit and Maya could be falling into a trap and goes to help them. Kit begins to fight Strike, who soon receives reinforcement from the Cho brothers, but Kit manages to defeat them and vents Kamen Rider Spear, which leaves Axe furious. At the end of the episode, Kase transforms into Kamen Rider Siren appears and defeats some of Xaviax's soldiers.

Upcoming United States Episode Air Dates:
22 "A Rider's Resolve" Saturday September 5, 2009
23 "Kamen Rider Siren" Saturday September 12, 2009
24 "Dark Temptation" Saturday September 19, 2009
25 "Dropping the Axe" Saturday September 26, 2009
26 "Kamen Rider Wrath" Saturday October 3, 2009
27 "The Attack" Saturday October 10, 2009
28 "The Arrested Dragon" Saturday October 17, 2009

Chris Ramirez/Kamen Rider Sting was vented by Kamen Rider Strike in Episode 19 "Semper Fi." Albert Cho/Kamen Rider Spear was vented by Dragon Knight in Episode 21. Kamen Rider Strike has vented three riders: Sting, Thrust, and Torque. Torque had vented Camo and Wing Knight vented Incisor. Now, the only riders left are Dragon, Wing Knight, Strike, Axe, and Siren. I feel bad for Chris, I don't like putting the mark on his cute little face. Hope he'll be back.