#there is so much pr original footage in this season and really all it does is make the sentai stuff feel SUPER weird

[mo-ok]

A curated list of Lost Galaxy observations (as the worlds number one Gingaman enjoyer). Ordered from "found this fun" to "grinding my teeth very mad losing sleep over this"

1 - i absolutely love how all over the place they are about emulating Gingaman's I C O N I C running. They kinda sorta do it sometimes but no one ever seems committed to it and its so fucking funny. Like an embarrassed kid not wanting to play "yes and" in front of his friends in drama class. Delightful.

2 - Endlessly amused by Mike's Aura Changer. Ki ryoku tenshin. Mike of the heavenly ring star. Cow Ranger.

3 - They only ever use the washed out/thrown overboard/kinda dead Bucrates suit for Kegler (they dont actually use ANY Gingaman footage for this character isnt that fun)

4- The Gingaman Yartotos: baby boy, baby. The Lost Galaxy Swabbies: evil. Its the eyes man, why are they looking at me like that

5 - what's up with the big ass scar on Captain Mutiny's chest?? It's cool and makes him look like a battle hardened pirate but also he never had this in Gingaman (not even in the megaranger crossover) and i wanna know how it happened

6 - Magna Defender comes back as a ghost and tells Mike to kill himself this has nothing to do with anything i just think its so fucking funny.

"Killing myself fixed all of my problems. You should give it a try"

7 - these poor suits are absolutely wrecked lmao i wonder if thats one of the reasons Mike never does anything. the texture on the magna defender suit is making me feel like i need to wash my hands

8 - i'm beating my head against a wall over these. how do you even fucking manage. very funny tho hi Gouki hi Shelinda

9 - Are the Torozord, Centaurus and Stratoforce Megazords not sentient??? Like, they are just as self aware as the other galactabeasts right?????? WHY DID ABSOLUTELY NO ONE FUCKING CARE WHEN THEY ALL GOT BLOWN UP??????????? none of them appear in the crossover so I'm making the assumption that they died for good and NO ONE. CARED. is the Zenith Carrierzord ok? does he miss them????? this actually hurt my feelings tbh

10 - this is THE BIGGEST nitpick i have and really it doesnt affect anything and i'm only upset because of how much i love Hyuuga but

Mike suddenly just HAVING THE KNIGHT AXE fucking gutted me. I lost count of the amount of times this team suddenly had a new weapon at their disposal with no explanation and typically this kinda shit doesnt bother me but you CANNOT just give the Defender Torozord this FUCKING AXE. this axe is so important to Hyuuga's character and story arc and Mike just fucking pulls it out of his big cow ass, uses it like twice, and then blows up the Torozord. IN FACT, I DONT THINK HE EVEN USES IT OUTSIDE OF THE MEGAZORD.

ALSO. dont use the close ups of the Defender Torozords head moving around like he's talking if you arent goiNG TO LET HIM ACTUALLY TALK he looks so silly

BONUS - this is from the Lightspeed Rescue crossover but like jesus fucking christ they dont even use the morphers like this why did they use this footage who made this decision i would like to speak to them

[kabutoraiger]

y’all are probably asking the wrong person about PR-related things but. from my understanding, 3 min anon, that’s pretty much how things are currently? like i only watched 2 episodes of beast morphers (the current season) but the fights seemed to me to be a majority their own footage. so i think financially things are at the point where that’s how they’re doing power rangers now, which is great.

of course that wasn’t always the case and we flash back to rpm ~10 years ago where they tried to create their own original show, basically (for the. artistic merit of it all?) and apparently the cost of that show nearly ended the franchise. 

but i do think it was worth it in rpm’s case bc that season is great. you can make the almost-exact copy, and it might be good (like say. time force), but it won’t really have that spark of creativity behind it? it won’t be the passion of the people working on it which does tend to show through in the final product.

looking at certain individual characters, personality swaps might be the result of demographic, too. a character type that was deemed fine for a hero in a japanese show might be considered not marketable enough for american kids. thinking about something like nakadai->trent or matoi->carter in particular, where an abrasive character is turned into someone earnest & pleasant (just brainwashed for a bit in trent’s case). 

[bwprowl]

So Power Rangers Beast Morphers is a thing, huh? It’s been *decades* since I actually followed a PR series, my love of Go-Busters and earnest curiosity about what this ‘Hasbro Era’ will look like fueling me, but it’s turned out to be a pretty solid kids’ action show so far. It’s at least no more or less goofy than your average Sentai season, some of the characters are cool (Devon’s a great Red) and it’s nuts how much original footage they’re slipping in there. And of course, its existence means we get sweet new Hasbro figures of Go-Busters designs. The first set has officially dropped at Wal-Marts nationwide in special bins as part of an Easter promotion (seriously, just...go with it), and I was able to snap up the main three Rangers plus ‘Cybervillain Blaze’ yesterday! Talk about an event!

Apart from the quality of the figures themselves, I just wanna gush about ‘Blaze’ for a second on account of how happy I am he exists. Enter is still one of the best Sentai villains in recent memory, and his Dark Buster form from last couple episodes was a design that was absolute sex. I’ve *craved* a toy of some sort of it since, but the Go-Bus SHFs fizzled before we even got to Beet and Stag Busters (and weren’t all that great anyway), so chances of this guy went right out the window. Well thanks to Beast Morphers rewriting the use of the suit, here we are with a toy of it right from the start! Blaze is fine as a villain, I guess, but I mainly got this because it’s Enter, Dark Buster, to me.

Being a villain figure, Blaze Buster has slightly lower priorities than the main Rangers, so he does get cost-cut down to only having T-crotch hips, which limits his posing options some, Everything else on him is nicely universal joints though, and the sculpt and paint are still killer for a ‘basic’ figure from this line (Power Rangers! With painted backs! Hasbro spoils us). He’s got his sword and even some Beast Morphers bonus accessories: An evil version of the Cheetah Beast Blaster (we’ll see if that shows up in-show) and a role-play-size version of his key. All the figures come with one of these, Hasbro opting to fill the collectible-gimmick hole in Go-Busters’ play pattern by just inventing their own things, and they’re honestly pretty cool! They look neat, they actually flip out instead of just being static pieces like I thought they would be. They don’t really *do* anything yet since I haven’t got the morpher, but they’re cool to have and are at least on-par with some of the collectible trinkets Bandai’s produced throughout the years. They actually make me more interested in getting the morpher!

The Rangers themselves are all a bit better than Beast Blazer there, owing to their top-billing. Honestly, the sculpts on these alone are worth the license changeover- Ranger toys that actually look like the Rangers! No more beefcake boys and wasp-waist girls! Yellow Buster is a *bit* curvier than real-life, but compared to what we got in the past, she’s still far and away superior. Overall the texture, detailing, and paint are so far away from what we’d come to expect from Bandai of America that the shortcomings that are on these can be excused by comparison. Would I like to have wrist and ankle joints? Sure. But look, weapons with paint on them! Painted backs! The Beast Busters all come with slightly differentiate weapon loadouts, so you gotta get ‘em all if you want the regular blaster, the combined gun, and that dang Cheetoh Blaster, but it upticks the variety anyway. And the keys can even clip to their arms like big blade weapons, which is kinda goofy, sure, but at least gives them something to do.

These things are a great start for this line, and I can’t go on enough about how happy I am that Hasbro making finally half-decent Power Rangers toys for our shores coincided with my favorite Sentai in ages being brought over. Gonna have to get at least a couple of mooks for all these guys to fight with, and I’ll probably be all-in on future waves too.

So that was fun! Good to be back, everyone. I’ll see you here again next time!