This isn't a Trek franchise where they change uniforms willy-nilly.
IRL, most Militaries / Police Services don't change uniforms that often.
Hasbro's Power Rangers era and General Tokusatsu discussion
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IRL, most Militaries / Police Services don't change uniforms that often.
Incidentally, I just thought of something. It seemed to me that Power Rangers never explained how Lord Zedd could be "resurrected" by Reaghoul in Dino Fury, given that Zedd didn't actually die but was purified by Zordon's energy wave. I'm not sure if it was stated in the show, but RangerWiki says that Reaghoul resurrected a past version of Zedd from a time before his purification. If that's so, that makes him essentially a Parallel Isotope, as the alternate Belial and Tregear are known in Ultra Galaxy Fight over in the Ultraman franchise. I guess that's not an uncommon way to bring back a destroyed or reformed villain; see also Thanos and Gamora in Avengers: Endgame.
Which means, as someone pointed out in the tweet that made me think of this, that the purified and evil versions of Zedd now exist simultaneously in the Power Rangers universe.
Which means, as someone pointed out in the tweet that made me think of this, that the purified and evil versions of Zedd now exist simultaneously in the Power Rangers universe.
Another case of a Sentai/Ranger actor being unheroic in real life... Junya Ikeda (Gokaiger's GokaiSilver) has been arrested for alleged "complicity in special fraud," specifically a phone scam to trick people into sending him money by impersonating police officers, relatives, etc.
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/digimon-trigun-stampede-junya-ikeda-arrest/
And this is a guy whose Sentai character idolized space pirates and had the power to disguise himself as other Rangers. He should've left all that on the show.
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/digimon-trigun-stampede-junya-ikeda-arrest/
And this is a guy whose Sentai character idolized space pirates and had the power to disguise himself as other Rangers. He should've left all that on the show.
Silver is tarnished.
Just a month ago he was reaching out to fans because he'd been diagnosed with depression.
https://tokusatsunetwork.com/2023/0...-on-mental-health-requests-letters-from-fans/
https://tokusatsunetwork.com/2023/0...-on-mental-health-requests-letters-from-fans/
This feels similar to how the actress who portrayed Chloe in "Smallville", Allison Mack, got into trouble IRL with her actions.
Phone fraud seems fairly mild compared to that, or to two-time Power Rangers cast member Ricardo Medina Jr. doing time for voluntary manslaughter.
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He allegedly dressed as a police officer, went to the victim's house, and conned them into handing over their bank card and was working with other people to do this.
Incidentally, since the final episodes of Power Rangers Cosmic Fury included an Easter-egg line setting up Power Rangers S.P.D., which is set in 2025 and is thus the chronologically last PR series, I decided to rewatch it, since I never watched the whole thing the first time. And I'm remembering why I lost interest.
Certainly it has a lot going for it. The original action/stunt sequences in the first few episodes are superb, which I assume is Koichi Sakamoto's work. And the character writing is more sophisticated than in a lot of PR seasons, with distinctly drawn personalities and real conflicts that arise from character instead of magic spells or whatnot. But my problem is that there was too much conflict. These characters are just not very likeable -- always testy and bickering and kind of mean-spirited toward each other. I'd remembered my problem being with the cast, that they just didn't click with me, but now I realize it's more to do with the characters than the actors. Hopefully they'll improve as the team grows together.
It's also surprising to see how young Kelson Henderson was then. A reminder that this was 18 years ago.
Meanwhile, I also decided I might as well check out Gridman The Hyper Agent on Shout TV, given how much I keep hearing about the anime sequel/reboot/whatever. I tried out the first episode a while back and was unimpressed, so I didn't continue. Now I'm trying again, and I'm two episodes in. I can at least say that it's not nearly as annoying as its US adaptation Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad, which was basically just a lame high school sitcom with tacked-on cyberspace action sequences that could be pretty generically inserted into any given episode, given how little they connected. So far Gridman seems to hold together better, but it feels a little simplistic, and the child actors in the lead roles aren't great. Mainly it's amusing how crude the 1993 depictions of cyberspace and computer graphics were. It's also surprising how much of an Ultraman clone it is, right down to Gridman having an Ultraman-style rise sequence.
Certainly it has a lot going for it. The original action/stunt sequences in the first few episodes are superb, which I assume is Koichi Sakamoto's work. And the character writing is more sophisticated than in a lot of PR seasons, with distinctly drawn personalities and real conflicts that arise from character instead of magic spells or whatnot. But my problem is that there was too much conflict. These characters are just not very likeable -- always testy and bickering and kind of mean-spirited toward each other. I'd remembered my problem being with the cast, that they just didn't click with me, but now I realize it's more to do with the characters than the actors. Hopefully they'll improve as the team grows together.
It's also surprising to see how young Kelson Henderson was then. A reminder that this was 18 years ago.
Meanwhile, I also decided I might as well check out Gridman The Hyper Agent on Shout TV, given how much I keep hearing about the anime sequel/reboot/whatever. I tried out the first episode a while back and was unimpressed, so I didn't continue. Now I'm trying again, and I'm two episodes in. I can at least say that it's not nearly as annoying as its US adaptation Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad, which was basically just a lame high school sitcom with tacked-on cyberspace action sequences that could be pretty generically inserted into any given episode, given how little they connected. So far Gridman seems to hold together better, but it feels a little simplistic, and the child actors in the lead roles aren't great. Mainly it's amusing how crude the 1993 depictions of cyberspace and computer graphics were. It's also surprising how much of an Ultraman clone it is, right down to Gridman having an Ultraman-style rise sequence.
The future parts, but not the main body of the series.
Anyway, I can already see that the attempt to reconcile SPD with current PR continuity is awkward, since SPD establishes that Sky's father was an SPD Ranger, meaning the organization has been active for decades, not just the two years between CF and SPD. Although I suppose we could assume that SPD has existed in space for decades and occasionally recruited members from Earth, only establishing a headquarters on Earth after the influx of alien refugees in 2023.
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Wow! Anna Nicole Smith's daughter watches Super Sentai! Her dad made the suit from scratch!
That I did not expect that, very cool to find a Sentai fan in some unexpected places.
I'm more surprised that people today remember who Anna Nicole Smith was.
If you read up on her life, it's wild on all the crazy things she's gone through.
Even her daughter had a giant Paternity Battle over who is her biological father; several men she was supposedly having a affair with including her photographer & body guard filed for paternity claims over the daughter.
Tokushoutsu Thanksgiving day takeover schedule
https://news.tokunation.com/2023/11...week-of-programming-picked-by-toku-fans-76656
A number of tokusatsu influencers, websites, and professionals have all come together to create the ultimate playlist of programming for the entire week of Thanksgiving
Select episodes from different Tokusatsu franchises
Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman, and Godzilla
https://news.tokunation.com/2023/11...week-of-programming-picked-by-toku-fans-76656
A number of tokusatsu influencers, websites, and professionals have all come together to create the ultimate playlist of programming for the entire week of Thanksgiving
Select episodes from different Tokusatsu franchises
Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman, and Godzilla
Well, that was prophetic... I've been watching the very silly 1993 series Gridman The Hyper Agent on Shout TV, and I just saw one where the computer-virus monster of the week took over a remote-controlled, autonomously mobile vacuum cleaner and had it attack people. The name of the vacuum-cleaner monster was Gyurunba, the last 2/3 of which is pronounced... "Roomba." 
ALL YOU NEED IS DRIVE!
BoonBoomger logo leaked from the China Trademark Network and posted on the Chinese board baidu
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8746815384
You see the speedometer gauge and the tires incorporated into the logo. There's up arrows on Bakuage and the “ー” in the name is the speedometer arrow.
BoonBoomger logo leaked from the China Trademark Network and posted on the Chinese board baidu
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8746815384
You see the speedometer gauge and the tires incorporated into the logo. There's up arrows on Bakuage and the “ー” in the name is the speedometer arrow.