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Interview with Gregory Mitchell (formerly of Bandai America)
Full interview will be available at the Talkin Toku website
http://www.talkintoku.com/e/035-inte...gory-mitchell/ The interview, broken in to parts, is available on YouTube via the TokuNationOfficial channel. They are linked below. |
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Update - Preview, Parts 1-6 online.
Talkin Toku full mp3 version soon Part 7 and 8 on YouTube soon after. |
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Yeah that Then & Now Rita has press pics that look like a production figure (considering the basic paint apps), so I think that may come out.
http://www.morphinlegacy.com/wp-cont...ta-Repulsa.jpg |
I like to call bullshit on that Rita figure for her breast plate is not big and pointy enough to poke an eye out.
Otherwise Gregory sounds like a cool dude. |
This is pretty fun to listen to.
Man I'd love just having a long discussion with a Transformers designer over characters and alternate modes like this one |
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Given the short timeline that the movie merch was originally slated to roll out, it seems sensible that she would have already been tooled, so I'm really crossing my fingers and hoping she gets put out SOMEHOW. It was pretty stupid of Bandai to not put her in the current crop of Good vs Evil packs (which were smart enough to include the previously unreleased Odius and Spinferno), so hopefully they have other plans for her. https://i.imgur.com/ZmbBuh3.jpg |
Regarding Ninninger's motifs, the reason we got Harry Potter and Yeehaw Rodeo Cowboy ninjas to name a few was because Toei had Ninninger's concept set as unorthodox ninjas. Adding to this the reason the motifs were all over the place for the robots was because for some reason they decided to "Let's just mash up all the popular motifs from previous sentai shows into one! High Five buddy!", and this part is my speculation, why other than Shinobimaru we had non-ninja-related stuff such as a western dragon, heavy machinery, train, and an animal. It was also an attempt to apply the whole "Cool Japan" movement they had going on a while back apparently focusing on elements such as "budo", "cute stuff" "technology", "Incorporating all things good is the pro of Japanese culture".
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Though tbh, the cowboy ninja was more of a "why not" since cowboys vs ninjas was a possible meme argument after pirates vs ninjas. So it was kind of a "cowboys vs ninjas? NAH! Cowboy ninja!" Many of the nin various mecha were also throwbacks to Kaku's individual battle robots too. It was a mixed homage which is also why they did the cameo of one of their classic ninja tokus too. A lot of sentai was influenced by pop-culture that way. Magiranger exists pretty much because of Harry Potter. Same as how Kamen Rider Wizard and Kiva existed because of Wizards of Waverly Place. Same as how Den-O exists because of Densha Otoko and popularity of time travel and trains. All the way to modern day where Lupin exists because of Lupin the anime's longevity and the abundance of heist movies that were coming out for a bit. |
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that Rita looks nothing like the actress from MMPR/Zyuranger.
*sigh* take my money |
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