Change Leopardon!
Hasbro's Power Rangers era and General Tokusatsu discussion
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Change Leopardon!
Much like “Inception” there will be a type of “Kick” involved but this rider kick won’t involve Edith Piaf to wake you up
The yearly photo on the roof across from the apartments has been released
Incidentally, I've seen some people expressing concern that the CGI backgrounds in the trailer looked AI-generated and hoping that generative AI wouldn't be used in the show. But I'm seeing it pointed out that Japan is much more resistant to the use of generative AI than the West, and its prominence in the US is artificially generated by tech companies pushing heavily for its acceptance, while that hasn't happened as much in Japan -- or at least Toei isn't one of those companies with a vested interest in pushing AI.
It's Silicon Valley Tech Bro's & their VC backed companies are the ones invested in the AI Tech Bubble that want this, the rest of the world who still has sanity are resisting.
nVIDIA has the most to lose should the AI Tech bubble pop.
This suit is gonna look so wonky after 40+episodes of action. Guess the entire thing is just light foam, this is probably the lightest rider suit ever.
The fights will likely be very dynamic since it's so agile
I'm just waiting for the eventual figuarts. That will be a figure worth purchasing
Is it me, or is the Suit Actors Quads REALLY thick?This suit is gonna look so wonky after 40+episodes of action. Guess the entire thing is just light foam, this is probably the lightest rider suit ever.
The fights will likely be very dynamic since it's so agile
I'm just waiting for the eventual figuarts. That will be a figure worth purchasing
Like Randy Orton thick.
We Americans really are living in the RoboCop future, aren't we?
I'd expect there to be more than one copy of each suit. Although I do remember that in the Metal Heroes shows in the '80s-'90s, the supposedly "metal" pieces of the stunt armor did tend to get worn and faded later in the season compared to the "beauty" suits used in close-ups. (Which is probably why the Space Sheriff Shaider finale reuniting all three Sheriffs didn't have any new action scenes but was just a clip show with a brief final scene of them posing in the beauty suits.) I guess they didn't have the budget to replace the suits then, but is that still the case? There have definitely been some duplicate costumes made over the years -- I'm remembering that Ryuki episode where Ryuki and Knight split into four copies of themselves for their big fight at the dam.
Sounds good.
We are our own unique time-line.
RoboCop is it's own thing, and we should be glad we're no-where near it.
Jensen Huang, CEO of nVIDIA literally went from "Crypto Currency Bubble" with his nVIDIA GPU's to "AI Bubble".
Somehow, he managed to bamboozle Wall St & the rest of the Silicon Valley VC folks that AI was the "Next Big Thing" and that everybody should bet the farm on it.
We know that the Silicon Valley types LOVE gambling, because that's what they're doing.
Despite the fact that AI isn't ANYWHERE close to what Lt. Cmdr. Data could do on 'ST:TNG'.
It's no-where near as intelligent as KITT from 'Knight Rider' or R2D2 from 'Star Wars'.
Yet somehow they've bamboozled the public into thinking we're on the cusp of that, despite not really being anywhere close to it.
The material options to make suits back then weren't anywhere near as good as what we have now.
Especially with the boom of the Cosplay Industry & Foam Making industry.
Yes there is an entire industry for Foam for Cosplay purposes now.
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It's all basically snake oil, but the tech billionaires monopolize so much of our systems and services that we can't get away from it, so there isn't a fair level of competition to weed out the bad products. This is what I mean by comparing it to RoboCop, where a single monopolistic corporation basically ran the whole city, if not the country, and policy was more about serving the shareholders' and executives' portfolios than serving the needs of the people.
Hmm, good point. I'd imagine 3D printing has also made it easier to create costume pieces on demand. Or are we talking about the same thing?
It's not quite RoboCop. He only runs the GPU market, but he's trying to make it influence more industries outside of GPU's.
Despite the fact that there are PLENTY of AI GPU makers and AI ASIC chip makers out there.
His name and company has become synonymous with AI right now.
It's literally 1x Man who pushed this, nVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
He's the Founder/CEO of nVIDIA. He might as well be God-King of nVIDIA.
@ 62 y/o, he took nVIDIA from nothing, into the All Dominating King of the GPU market.
His reputation within the tech industry is very polarizing, and I'm not a fan of the way he does things.
He literally is the poster boy of the Dark Knight's saying of "You either Die a Hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain".
He's lived long enough to monopolize the GPU market and became the Villain.
His bad actions within the Tech Space is a laundry list of things that I don't have time to get into.
3D Printing is Cosplay Adjacent.
It's very beneficial to Cosplay and it's community.
But it's a seperate innovation compared to the modern material science improvements we've had since the 1960's / 70's / 80's.
The widely available raw material selection, along with widely availiable knowledge of how to fabricate and manipulate it, & commercial off the shelf tools available now have made Cosplay & Costume Design it's own industry.
That's one of MANY books along with free online YT video tutorials and places to buy un-cut EVA Foam and other resources for Cosplay Making.
Cosplay Making has SOO many resources along with the ease of Etsy and other services to contract out Cosplay 'Costume Making Work' to have somebody make you a costume.
The Cosplay Competition Scene is also it's own thing now.
Here's a estimate of how big the Cosplay market is.
It's a actual business industry now.
Here's one of many examples of how big Cosplay has become:
WWE SuperStar Zelina Vega constantly cosplay's because that's her hobby and she can do that as part of her job as a Pro Wrestler / Sports Entertainer.
Kenny Omega cosplays very frequently as well on the men's side of Pro Wrestling for AEW.
And he's one of many Wrestlers who have Cosplayed while working in the ring.
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The yearly photo on the roof across from the apartments has been released
I think the design is fine, but for some reason its giving me a very "fake muscle suit" vibe in this pic. Still, at least its something I can take seriously, I'm a little tired of goofy suits after almost a full year of Gaav (I show I like but feel that the suits take away from the show).
Aruto- Stop the AI hate! They are humanities dreams! We need to treat AI with AI.
HAI! Aruto JAAAA NAITO!!!!
*Dead Silence*
Humagears are actual AI, though (or AGI, artificial general intelligence), not the plagiaristic large language models and image-generating programs that are misleadingly touted as AI by the tech people trying to normalize them.
As I recall, it was actually established that it was illegal to model a Humagear on a real person, so I doubt they would've been sanguine about letting human intellectual property get plagiarized by AI. Although there was that storyline about the manga artist who was hostile to the idea of adopting a Humagear art assistant, but eventually came around to teaching him to create for himself, or something like that.
To commemorate the Gozyuger movie coming out and 50th anniversary of Super Sentai Toei brought back some sentai actors to cheer.
Wow. I almost did recognize Alatas actor and they got Tori Matsuzaka(ShinkenRed) who in the past was discouraged by his talent agency to looking back on their sentai experience
Shinken Red
Kyoryu Red
Gosei Red
ToQ 4
ToQ 1 actor must be really really busy. Last year they only had him for 3 hours for Boonboomger cameo
Wow. I almost did recognize Alatas actor and they got Tori Matsuzaka(ShinkenRed) who in the past was discouraged by his talent agency to looking back on their sentai experience
Shinken Red
Kyoryu Red
Gosei Red
ToQ 4
ToQ 1 actor must be really really busy. Last year they only had him for 3 hours for Boonboomger cameo
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Some more images of Zeztz from a pop-up event in China. We get a glimpse of some of his form changes. It looks like they also have the DX belt on display. It appears that the "belt color change" will be achieved by piping light through a transparent strap.
Oh, that's clever. So they can change the suit's colors live by changing the LEDs, rather than needing to switch to a different suit? That would certainly save on filming time and visual effects. Although they might still add some animation to "sweeten" the form changes.
Apparently Zeztz has the longest time for pre-production since Kuuga due to filming in advanced for China. This could help make the story and world feel more thought out instead of rushed.
Usually when someone asks why the CGI sucks for sentai and Kamen Rider it's usually because they have a really really short window to make the effects
Another preview
Zeztz and his other forms
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The Chest Belt is still odd IMO
I like it. I think it's an interestingly fresh approach.
As I mentioned, we've had Riders with non-belt transformation drivers before -- Riderman (helmet), Amazon (armband), the Oni Riders (tuning forks), TheBee (armband), Drake (gun), Sasword (sword), Diend (gun), Lupin (gun), Necrom (armband), several Sword of Logos Riders (swords or other weapons), Valen (gun). Although they all still have costume belts, which are sometimes part of their combat gear (like Amazon's) but are usually just decorative. Zeztz is the first TV Rider to have no waist belt at all, though Shin and ZO in the '90s movies were beltless, and J's belt disappeared when he transformed, aside from its crystal.