Category: Power Rangers

All posts relating to the ever-present Power Rangers franchise and all incarnations within.

The 30-Day Challenge Under One Roof

Okay, so an explanation is in order…

This was originally posted last year as three separate blog entries. The original intention behind the 30-Day Challenge (that I had discovered on that Henshin Grid blog thing) is that it’s a list of thirty questions based on Power Rangers thar you’re supposed to answer one per day – hence the name, “30-Day Challenge”. The original plan last year was to compress it so that I’d put out six questions per day – the idea being that I’d get all thirty questions out in five days as part of a special theme week.

Unfortunately, tragedy hit close to home in the middle of the week and plans will go awry. So the end result is three blog posts spread out over a month.

Now because I’m trying to compile as much crap together as possible for the Master Document page currently in progress, I’ve manage to track down all three posts and compiled them under one handy dandy cheat sheet. So all thirty questions to this “challenge” can be found here, with some elaboration and a couple minor edits here and there.

So yeah… just remember that this was written in 2012.

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Celebrating Christmas With The Power Rangers… Two Versions

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers’ version of a Christmas special is Alpha 5 kidnapping a bunch of kids from all over the world to sing Christmas carols… badly.

The Power Rangers Samurai version of a Christmas special is a clipshow of past episodes…

I never thought I say this, but Alpha’s Magical Christmas turned out to be the better special.

MMPR 2010

I’ve been dipping back into Netflix for the past couple weeks and started watching some Mighty Morphin again. Yeah, I already have the DVDs (and they are awesome)… but Netflix just added the 2010 reversioning of the show (along with the rest of the seasons) and I decided to give it a dabble after not having seen it for a while.

It should be stated that the reversioning was somewhat controversial due to the choice of added effects and whatnots. A good number of people seem to hate it for that reason. Me? I actually didn’t care too much for them and perhaps that’s why I wasn’t too bothered by the changes. To me, it made an already cheesy, goofy show even more goofier. Whether that’s a good thing or not is up to personal preference, but to me, it just didn’t add all that much. It was MMPR, but with more glitter. It wasn’t like they made Greedo shoot first here or anything; it didn’t alter the storyline or anything. It’s just a bit flashier than before.
If they were to put this out on DVD? Yeah, I might pick it up because I’m into this stuff. I would not have gone for the mega set from Time Life if I wasn’t, but aside from that, I don’t think there would be much inclination on anyone’s part to go for what is essentially a re-release of Season 1.

Not Another One Of These Stupid Things…

Yes, apparently this is supposed to be a fan creation of a re-imagined grim and gritty MMPR flick… god, shoot me.

This much I will give them; it looks nice and the cinematography is pretty good for a grim and gritty picture. But the voiceover is kinda crap; it’s supposed to sound menacing, but instead sound like somebody has a sore throat or something. But perhaps the most disenchanting thing about this is that, outside of the staff, there is nothing distinctly Power Rangers about this. No costumes, no robots, not even a fight or two. At least the other “grim and gritty” clip from a couple weeks back had Rangers fighting; this doesn’t even tease that.

This one’s probably not for me. I guess I’ll stick with my brand-spanking new DVDs.