Where are the Power Rangers?
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Where are the Power Rangers?
Last year, "Power Rangers Jungle Fury" ran on Toon Disney. Toon Disney is now Disney XD (Extreme Digital) and the Power Rangers are nowhere to be found on their schedule. A Google search only turned up an assertion on someone's blog that the new PR season will be called Power Rangers RPM, but gave no indication when or where it would shown.
Anyone know anything about the new Power Rangers season and what station will be showing it?
Thanks.
Anyone know anything about the new Power Rangers season and what station will be showing it?
Thanks.
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It's on ABC, on Saturday mornings. Don't ask me how I know. Also if you like that, give Kamen Rider Dragon Knight a try.
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there are ninja rangers, space rangers, power rangers, jungle rangers, time rangers, mystic ranagers, police rangers, samurai rangers and ummm that is all I can recall off the top of my head.
Ideas for future rangers
cowboy rangers
robot rangers
kid rangers
net rangers
evil rangers (where the monsters are the good guys)
angel rangers
dino rangers (wait did they do this)
dead rangers (they fight monsters from the dead)
music rangers (a rap ranger, a rock ranger, country ranger etc)
animated rangers
sports rangers
race rangers (race cars not different races)
rescue rangers (they'll have rescue vehicles that transform)
Ideas for future rangers
cowboy rangers
robot rangers
kid rangers
net rangers
evil rangers (where the monsters are the good guys)
angel rangers
dino rangers (wait did they do this)
dead rangers (they fight monsters from the dead)
music rangers (a rap ranger, a rock ranger, country ranger etc)
animated rangers
sports rangers
race rangers (race cars not different races)
rescue rangers (they'll have rescue vehicles that transform)
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Yeah, I started college in fall of 92 and we would watch them in the common rooms of the dorms in the afternoon. Back then they were more on the campy side and didn't take themselves too seriously. Heck, a group of us even saw the first movie in the theater and had a good time. I still have the soundtrack album also, which has some decent tracks.
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The show is scheduled to be part of the Saturday morning Disney lineup on ABC. Unfortunately, many stations pre-empt the show for something else, so most of us never see the shows scheduled for 11AM. The affiliate in Baltmore moved the show to 5AM on Saturday, and it isn't shown in the DC Metro area at all.
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I a remember a little about the first cast and the first movie, but thats about it. The last time I have read anything about the MMPR is when they original girl who played the yellow ranger died.
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I'm just glad Dragon Knight is better than the horrid Masked Rider that came out years ago and (I thought) pretty much killed any hope of Kamen Rider taking off here. Of course, with PR supposedly going away soon, I doubt Kamen Rider will find a foothold.
And yes, they're still making sentai shows in Japan, it's been such a staple there for so long (Goranger in 1975) along with Tokukatsu in general.. I can't imagine the Japanese going without Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, etc.
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Did you get the Kamen Rider V3 set? Expensive, but awesome, if only from a pure nostalgia factor. Unfortunately, I think Inazuman was better in my childhood memories...
I'm just glad Dragon Knight is better than the horrid Masked Rider that came out years ago and (I thought) pretty much killed any hope of Kamen Rider taking off here. Of course, with PR supposedly going away soon, I doubt Kamen Rider will find a foothold.
And yes, they're still making sentai shows in Japan, it's been such a staple there for so long (Goranger in 1975) along with Tokukatsu in general.. I can't imagine the Japanese going without Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, etc.
I'm just glad Dragon Knight is better than the horrid Masked Rider that came out years ago and (I thought) pretty much killed any hope of Kamen Rider taking off here. Of course, with PR supposedly going away soon, I doubt Kamen Rider will find a foothold.
And yes, they're still making sentai shows in Japan, it's been such a staple there for so long (Goranger in 1975) along with Tokukatsu in general.. I can't imagine the Japanese going without Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, etc.
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I really want to get the set and eventhough it seems expensive, given how many episodes there are, it's not that much. But still out of my reach for a awhile. I still haven't completed my Kikaida set. And have no interest in Kikaida 01, but I dug the 4 Hakaiders. I did watch Go Rangers, Battle Fever J, Zaboga, Inazuman and Diamond Eye and I have a few episodes of Rainbow Man on VHS.
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Thanks to Sikegrad's suggestion, I checked the WABC-TV schedule for tomorrow (Sat. March 21) and--lo and beholdl!--there it is: two episodes of Power Rangers RPM from 12PM-1PM. Now I have to figure out how many episodes I missed.
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I think you just missed 2 weeks worth. It just recently started.
My kids didn't like this one well enough to create a season pass for it. We haven't been watching it.
My kids didn't like this one well enough to create a season pass for it. We haven't been watching it.
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This is an odd sentai season... I haven't seen the American version yet, but this one has anthropomorphic "zords" which I think is a first.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/03102009...ers_158807.htm
LIGHTS OUT FOR 'POWER RANGERS'
March 10, 2009
THE plug has been pulled on the once-mighty "Power Rangers."
After 17 years, Disney has stopped producing new episodes of the show that was a pop-culture touchstone of the '90s.
Apparently, the five color-coded superheroes - Green Ranger, Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, etc. - are still selling a lot of toys, but have become passé as a TV show.
There was no official word from Disney, which owns the show. But the cast and crew were informed this week that the show has been dropped, according to reports in the local papers in New Zealand, where the series has been produced since 2003.
The show will likely still be on the air for some time - in repeats. But no new ones will be made.
The series, about superheroes who can don and doff their costumes instantaneously to fight the bad guys, was based on a Japanese series.
It began as "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" on Saturday mornings on Fox in 1993 and moved to ABC and Disney's kids cable channels in 2003.
The show, while hardly controversial, did have its detractors.
Some local stations dropped it from their Saturday morning lineups in 2006 when the FCC said the rock-'em-sock-'em series did not comply with government requirements to air a certain number of hours of educational programming each week.
March 10, 2009
THE plug has been pulled on the once-mighty "Power Rangers."
After 17 years, Disney has stopped producing new episodes of the show that was a pop-culture touchstone of the '90s.
Apparently, the five color-coded superheroes - Green Ranger, Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, etc. - are still selling a lot of toys, but have become passé as a TV show.
There was no official word from Disney, which owns the show. But the cast and crew were informed this week that the show has been dropped, according to reports in the local papers in New Zealand, where the series has been produced since 2003.
The show will likely still be on the air for some time - in repeats. But no new ones will be made.
The series, about superheroes who can don and doff their costumes instantaneously to fight the bad guys, was based on a Japanese series.
It began as "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" on Saturday mornings on Fox in 1993 and moved to ABC and Disney's kids cable channels in 2003.
The show, while hardly controversial, did have its detractors.
Some local stations dropped it from their Saturday morning lineups in 2006 when the FCC said the rock-'em-sock-'em series did not comply with government requirements to air a certain number of hours of educational programming each week.
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I liked some of the New Zealand seasons, esp. the one with Jason David Frank returning as "Dr. Thomas Oliver" (Dino Thunder) and the "S.P.D." season that had all the badasses in the group, including the dreadlocked Red Ranger; a butch Blue Ranger; a hot blonde who looked like a young Pam Anderson; and a goofball who looked like Eric Bogosian. In fact, I daresay those were the last two seasons I liked.
And my local Japanese video store stopped carrying the sentai seasons after Gekiranger finished. Oh well...
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Some local stations dropped it from their Saturday morning lineups in 2006 when the FCC said the rock-'em-sock-'em series did not comply with government requirements to air a certain number of hours of educational programming each week.
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Okay, I’m not too far behind. WABC ran episodes #3 and #4 of PR RPM yesterday and I watched them. I was about to write this series off by the middle of the second of the two episodes when in came an attractive high-kicking villainess, Tenaya 7 (short for “Tenaya Generation 7, Venjix Human Infiltration Attack Bot”), played by Aussie actress Adelaide Kane, a real cutie. She definitely perked things up. Also, the annoying comedy relief character, Ziggy, became the fifth ranger--Green--much to everyone’s surprise. Which means he’ll be in costume more and somewhat less annoying. So, I’ll give it a chance. The effects and action were nice, although I don’t really like that hyperactive editing of fight scenes.
Also, since I’d never seen any episodes of the Japanese original, “Engine Sentai Go-Onger,” I put in the only example I have of that series, the 34-minute movie version, “Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Bunbun Banban! Gekijo Bang!!” It has no subtitles, but it’s so filled with cool stuff that I never felt at a loss. The Rangers (7 of them, including Gold and Silver Rangers) go back in time to a Samurai village and get into lots of sword fights with demon-shaped monsters and such. I like seeing sentai characters in period costume, so it was fun. No Pink Ranger in this series. The females are Yellow Ranger and Silver Ranger.
Definitely want to see more "Go-Onger." (That's short for "Go on [fill in color] Ranger.")
Also, since I’d never seen any episodes of the Japanese original, “Engine Sentai Go-Onger,” I put in the only example I have of that series, the 34-minute movie version, “Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Bunbun Banban! Gekijo Bang!!” It has no subtitles, but it’s so filled with cool stuff that I never felt at a loss. The Rangers (7 of them, including Gold and Silver Rangers) go back in time to a Samurai village and get into lots of sword fights with demon-shaped monsters and such. I like seeing sentai characters in period costume, so it was fun. No Pink Ranger in this series. The females are Yellow Ranger and Silver Ranger.
Definitely want to see more "Go-Onger." (That's short for "Go on [fill in color] Ranger.")