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morninkim · 1 year ago

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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.

#rotmmpr #mmpr #mighty morphin power rangers #power rangers #my art #dino megazord #i am... not good at drawin robots. so the rise!megazord is part combining mecha and part fusion ala omnimon/omegamon from digimon adventure #hence the sword and cannon #i imagine also that the triceratops and mastodon heads can shrink and recede their weapons (kinda like the storm megazord's lightning mode)#to allow for more hand-to-hand combat #or to summon other weapons based on the other zords #like a set of daggers for the sabertooth and a buster sword for the tyrannosaurus #and a bow for pterodactyl #idk what the dragonzord looks like yet but. im thinking about basing the dark dragonzord on m*tt's dzord from the comics bc like #i feel like that design could work as inspiration for it with it being more monstrous and agile #while when tommy summons hers its more lumbering and classical godzilla (rise tommy ABSOLUTELY is a fan of showa era godzilla movies)#once again recurring theme in stuff i do being dark dzord is an unstoppable force while tommy's dzord is an immovable object #kinda if that makes sense lmao #anyway. also wanted to mixup the formation a bit so mastodon forms upper arms and left forearm #triceratops is right forearm #sabertooth is lower legs (kinda splits in half diagonally) and pterodactyl is chest head and shoulder joints #tyrannosaurus is main body that the others kind of clamp onto #ALSO each zords placement is significant to each member of the team's place in the group #with billy being everyone's right arm and always wanting to help #zack's the shoulders because he lifts everyone up on them and keeps hold #jason's the main body and core because he's mostly the leader and wants to keep everyone together #trini is the legs because she keeps everyone grounded and moving forward whenever she can #and kim forms the head and chest because she's the heart of the team (being told as much by everyone when she first summons her zord)

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