Rise of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Dino Megazord
Story/Background stuff under the cut, design notes + commentary in the tags!
When needed, the Power Rangers can summon colossal machines known as Zords from their Power Coins. The form a Zord takes is dependent on their personal thought of what could be most powerful at the time of bonding to their coin. For Zordon's originally chosen Power Rangers 10,000 years ago, it was mythical creatures significant to each of their alien cultures, similar in appearance to a Dragon, a Unicorn, a Griffin, a Stone Lion and a Phoenix.
In this team's case, upon finding the coins, Billy posits that the coins could potentially date back to the Ice Age, or even the time of Dinosaurs. Zack and Trini latch on to the Ice Age comment and eventually manifest the Sabertooth and Mastodon Zords, while Jason, Billy and Kimberly think of a Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Pterodactyl, respectively.
While the five Zords don't appear as physical contructs until some time into the team's struggle against the Dark Green Ranger, once they do, the Rangers are able to combine them into the great Dino Megazord.
Armed with the powerful Mastodon Cannon and the Triceratops Saber, the Dino Megazord is easily a match for Rita's Dragonzord, eventually gaining the ability to combine with it when Tommy reclaims the Green Power Coin and summons her own purified version.
This is the dumbest inside joke that I’ve ever laughed at...my friend jokes about the MMPR rangers he doesn’t like just being another Mastodon Ranger, so I’ve made everyone a Mastodon Ranger in a morph sequence >.>
Happy Birthday 🎂 In Heaven For 💛 For 1 Of The Greatest Asian Female Actresses To Ever Dawn The MORPHINOMENAL SKILLS OF BEING A POWER RANGER ⚡💛🐅
Born On December 14th, 1973
Thuỳ Trang was born in Saigon, South Vietnam, now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on December 14, 1973, to father Ky Trang and mother Be Trang. She had two brothers and one sister. Her father, a South Vietnamese army (ARVN) officer, was tasked with protecting Saigon from communist North Vietnamese army. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, he was forced to leave his family behind and fled the country, immigrating to the United States. Trang and her family lived in a detention camp as her father petitioned the U.S. government for political asylum for his family. They fled Saigon when Trang was two years old.
The role was originated by actress Audri Dubois in the pilot episode before Trang took over the part. After securing the role, Trang moved from Fountain Valley to Los Angeles to be closer to the set of the show, which she found to be a major adjustment. Trang described her character as having "quick hands and a peaceful soul", and felt the character was inspiring for viewers who have long desired an Asian superhero: "Asians are not portrayed in the media very well, and there are not many roles for Asian people except for the stereotypes – gangsters, hookers, things like that. A lot of older Asian people come up to me and say that I'm doing a service to the Asian community."
She was a Vietnamese-American actress. She was known for her role as Trini Kwan, the original Yellow Ranger on the original cast of the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
She Died In A Car Crash 🚗 😢 In September 2001
She Was 27 Years Old
Please Wish This Young & Bright Asian Actress 🙏 😢 Who Was Gone Too Soon, A Happy Heavenly Birthday In The Morphin Grid In The Sky ⚡☁️
You Know Her
You Grew Up To Her
& Her Legacy Lives On
The 1 & Always
MS. THUY TRANG 🇻🇳 AKA TRINI KWAN, THE YELLOW POWER RANGER ⚡💛🐅 OF THE MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS
HAPPY HEAVENLY 50TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 ✨ IN HEAVEN MS. TRANG & MAY THE POWER PROTECT YOU.�� ALWAYS 😞 #ThuyTrang #YellowPowerRanger #SabertoothTiger #MightyMorphinPowerRangers #ItsMorphinTime #OnceARangerAlwaysARanger
“Solon could have done the science stuff” is another point to my “Minh should’ve been the MMPR rep” agenda. Because she should have been I think it would have been a fun dynamic with other rangers plus having the only two Sabertooth Tiger rangers together
Though I guess if she was there she, Izzy and Fern would have just straight up killed Ollie so
Honestly if not for Hasbro's weird mandate that Cosmic Fury and Once and Always be as separate as possible Minh probably WOULD have been the MMPR rep. Or at the very least been there along with Billy. Becca Alwyn and Simon love their OCs too much for me to think they would willingly leave her behind lol
A small ceratopsian dinosaur called Gremlin was recently discovered-
GREMLIN- it’s just too funny-
There are so many dinosaur rangers that should have that instead of what they already have in the Dino department-
GREMLIN?!! ANGY GREMLIN?!!??
They actually have such a good array of dinosaurs, WHYYYY do they stick to the classics— not to mention they add NOT DINOSAUR animals like sabertooth tigers and fUcKiNg dragon— there needs to be a season that’s got CREATIVE dinosaurs here 👀
Fern should've had therizinosaurus instead.
Therizinosaurs were the Giant Ground Sloths of the cretaceous.
Smilodon (Sabertooth Cats) and its cousins hunted ground sloths. Perfect Fizzy tie in too!
plus Therizinosaurus means "reaping lizard" or "scythe lizard", so Fern should've had a scythe. also therizinosaurus probably had feathers, so shes floofy like Izzy!
plus giving Fern whatever the fuck solon is rather random.
I love this!!
However, I don't necessarily agree with the last part bc wasn't Fern given the title of Solonosaurus (not a real dinosaur, but that is what Solon is) ranger bc she saved Solon?
What do the Dinozords look like when separated in the RotMMPR AU? Cause I imagine that the proportions they have to each other is kind of funny, because the Triceratops and Pterodactyl Dinozords are just so smol compared to the Maston and Tyrannosaurus Dinozords. Sabertooth Tiger is in the middle.
ooohh thank you for the question!!
haven’t done any proper designs yet simply bc i’m not comfortable enough w my skills to pull them off BUT
I think your size estimates are pretty spot on, Pterodactyl Zord’s definitely the smallest w Triceratops being just slightly bigger - Tyrannosaurus and Mastodon are definitely YUGE compared to them and ya, Sabertooth’s right in the centre
Design wise they’d be sort of like, not too dissimilar to the original designs, but in the style of Transformers Animated, if that makes sense?? Eventually I’m gonna refine the design a lil more, but that’s kinda the gist of it, put simply. Also, because of their nature as like, constructs formed from their connections to the Power Coins, they kind of act more as Digimon partners to the Rangers than as big built robots - so they’ve kinda got bonds with them ala later teams in PR and they’re less robotic, with the Megazord’s design coming from the Rangers being like “okay the Dark Dragonzord is a giant monster basically, obviously the way to beat it is with a giant robot”
Hence why I make the Omnimon comparison in the tags of the Megazord post, it’s a bit less of a combining mecha and a lil more like a Jogress/DNA Digivolution, if that makes sense? They kind of become more robot-y for the purposes of combining
idk if that answers your question exactly, i think i kinda just took the opportunity to quickly ramble about the Rise Zords, the image of them in my head is very very good - one day I’ll draw them properly
I’m watching the first episode of Power Rangers Dino Fury, and man, Power Rangers loves having non-Earthborn human-types who’s planet was fucked over by bad guys. There’s Orion in Megaforce, Andros in PRIS, uhhh, probably more because again this is a series with over 900 episodes.
Also: the dinosaurs fought the bad guys.
Also, I see a sabertoothed tiger, a T-Rex, and a Triceratops. Hehe.