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10-23-2012, 01:03 PM | #11 |
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That was a very interesting editorial. Here's my opinion:
1- Power Rangers is still what I would call a Phenomenon It's 36 years old in Japan and going on 20 years here. THAT'S HUGE. That puts just the BRAND itself in to the same category of other toy and franchise Juggernauts like : GI Joe, Transformers, and Star Wars figures. That's a difficult feat to accomplish especially in this tough economic climate. I have lived 20 of my 25 years with Power Rangers. That's a lifelong fandom for many. Those don't just disappear and fade away. 2- It's still popular with all ages. Anyone who has netflix streaming could tell you in the "Popular on Netflix" Catagory right next to Doctor Who and Marvel Movies is MMPR. I have a large collection on display in my office in my house. When I have guests of all ages over they instantly recognize my Power Rangers and often ask to check them out. 3-Kids still love it. My Girlfriend is a Program Director at a school and I work there part time and the kids love to talk to the "Power Ranger Guy". I'll bring in older toys for them to play with and they go crazy. My three year old niece begs to come to my house so she can play with some old Ranger and Samurai Syber Squad toys. 4-Universal Appeal I live in New York City which in itself is like a tiny version of the planet with all countries represented in some way. There are stores devoted entirely to Tokusatsu merchindise and more "Clubs" for PR than I can count. I feel it's because the Rangers transcend any Racial,Language, or Ideal barriers and they give people a great entertaining story and remind everyone of what that wonderful child like awe and wonder felt like when we first heard "IT'S MORPHIN' TIME". 5- Things Change I understand what you're saying about the toy displays yes they are a 1/8th the size they where in the heyday of MMPR, this I think has to do with a few things, Kids don't play with toys as much as they used to. When we where younger our older siblings would play video games or go out and we would play with our toys. Your friends would bring their toys over or vice versa and you would play together and that's just the way it was. Console and Hardcore Gaming have ravaged the Toy market. HARD. I worked for Gamestop and TOYS "R" US when I was in college, most of the customers in the Toy Store where adult collectors and in the Gamestop most of the customers where kids. You can't sell things to people who don't want them. 6- It Depends on You It is our duty as fans to immortalize our fandom and keep it running strong. Support Power Rangers, Support Super Sentai. Send emails to the producers and film studios tell them how much MMPR means to you and thank them. Support the show any way you can. Support = Life for franchises. 7- Remember, Dream, ShareI have already begun assembling a small MMPR/Tokusatu time capsule for my future child. I don't think Toku is going anywhere but I want to able to share the magic and joy I had as a child growing up with these heroes. I want to be able to give my child a toy and say "That was mine when I was your age" And Thanks to MMPR I will be able to that. So I would say no the Phenomenon is not over, as long as we keep it alive. |
10-23-2012, 10:11 PM | #12 |
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I'm just getting back into things, so I'm not sure I've seen enough to give a proper answer. From what I have seen I wouldn't quite call PR a phenomenon anymore. I'm glad to see it's still around, and still has a bit of a following, but I don't think it's nearly as culturally relevant anymore. I'd love for it to reach that status again. I also want to see someone make a serious, or as serious as Power Rangers could ever get, movie reboot. Though that's probably a bit...unrealistic, lol...
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10-24-2012, 04:23 AM | #13 |
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Thanks for the input everyone, great reads and diffrent takes on things, that's exactly what we're here for
The sole fact that PR is going on 20 years is definatly a statement in itself, that it IS still a phenomenon, because indeed, you don't "just" last 20 years. But i'm also still of the opninion it's nowhere near MM levels,even when i take off my rose tinted nostalgia glasses. But i'm really excited that samurai is doing well and the upcoming megaforce has a lot of promise it seems, i already really dig the costumes and i have watched the epic sentai battle recently so even i am anxious to see how that will be done for american audiences. i'm not really into sentai but i had read so much raving about that special/movie i had to look it up. I don't dislike sentai and i regularly try watching it but i will never be really into it, i'll always be a PR guy i guess, i grew up being a Power ranger fan not a sentai fan,it's hard to shake that out of my mind when watching japanese stuff. Bad as the cheesy american acting can be,it's part of the charm somewhat for me. But it's not just power rangers that gives me that vibe tho, it's the same for many of the stuff i grew up with that has lasted, like turtles..i LOVE the new show, i even loved the previous show but i don't think anything will knock the 90's cartoon of it's throne anytime soon and there are still loads of people that don't even have clue turtles is still in existence even tho the fanbase can argue till the cows come home how it was never gone. These days it just seems harder for anything to reach "that" status it seem, maybe the world is indeed just too spoiled. i often wonder what a new movie could do to help that, i personally would LOVE a new big budget movie that is perhaps a little darker. maybe go the other way this time, instead of movie based ona series why not reboot a movie and then follow up with a series of it ( altho the sentai footage issue will prevent that from ever happening i guess) and i'm not even saying dark knight levels of darkness because i agree with the fans that say that that is just not power rangers and shouldn't be done. BUT, for example, i loved the TMNT movie and thought that was failry gritty at times even tho it still kept its typical humorous charm...you had turtles being apart,not even a team anymore, and having to learn to be one again, which was done brilliantly imo, with them having troubles listening to a leader again,and the face off between leo and raph on the rooftop....that movie was, IMHO,the perfect blueprint of how i would love to see a movie version of power rangers. keep the charm and even the cheese, but add that few layers of grittyness and show that they are not all BFF's all the time and it would be amazing, AND make the moment where they are truly a team again and on the same page, mean that much more in the end. Also, special effects are much better now then ever before, if you see what tey achieved with transformers and iron man, i almost instantly get a wet dream imagining what they could do with zords on the big sceen today. |
10-25-2012, 03:11 PM | #14 |
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rember pr megaforce is coming on tv
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10-28-2012, 02:15 AM | #15 |
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Pretty sure its still morphinominal
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10-28-2012, 09:40 AM | #16 |
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That was a very interesting editorial. Here's my opinion:
1- Power Rangers is still what I would call a Phenomenon It's 36 years old in Japan and going on 20 years here. THAT'S HUGE. That puts just the BRAND itself in to the same category of other toy and franchise Juggernauts like : GI Joe, Transformers, and Star Wars figures. That's a difficult feat to accomplish especially in this tough economic climate. I have lived 20 of my 25 years with Power Rangers. That's a lifelong fandom for many. Those don't just disappear and fade away. 2- It's still popular with all ages. Anyone who has netflix streaming could tell you in the "Popular on Netflix" Catagory right next to Doctor Who and Marvel Movies is MMPR. I have a large collection on display in my office in my house. When I have guests of all ages over they instantly recognize my Power Rangers and often ask to check them out. 3-Kids still love it. My Girlfriend is a Program Director at a school and I work there part time and the kids love to talk to the "Power Ranger Guy". I'll bring in older toys for them to play with and they go crazy. My three year old niece begs to come to my house so she can play with some old Ranger and Samurai Syber Squad toys. 4-Universal Appeal I live in New York City which in itself is like a tiny version of the planet with all countries represented in some way. There are stores devoted entirely to Tokusatsu merchindise and more "Clubs" for PR than I can count. I feel it's because the Rangers transcend any Racial,Language, or Ideal barriers and they give people a great entertaining story and remind everyone of what that wonderful child like awe and wonder felt like when we first heard "IT'S MORPHIN' TIME". 5- Things Change I understand what you're saying about the toy displays yes they are a 1/8th the size they where in the heyday of MMPR, this I think has to do with a few things, Kids don't play with toys as much as they used to. When we where younger our older siblings would play video games or go out and we would play with our toys. Your friends would bring their toys over or vice versa and you would play together and that's just the way it was. Console and Hardcore Gaming have ravaged the Toy market. HARD. I worked for Gamestop and TOYS "R" US when I was in college, most of the customers in the Toy Store where adult collectors and in the Gamestop most of the customers where kids. You can't sell things to people who don't want them. 6- It Depends on You It is our duty as fans to immortalize our fandom and keep it running strong. Support Power Rangers, Support Super Sentai. Send emails to the producers and film studios tell them how much MMPR means to you and thank them. Support the show any way you can. Support = Life for franchises. 7- Remember, Dream, ShareI have already begun assembling a small MMPR/Tokusatu time capsule for my future child. I don't think Toku is going anywhere but I want to able to share the magic and joy I had as a child growing up with these heroes. I want to be able to give my child a toy and say "That was mine when I was your age" And Thanks to MMPR I will be able to that. So I would say no the Phenomenon is not over, as long as we keep it alive. for the fandom its still popular to this day.you can wear a mmpr shirt and you will get kids and older people looking at the shirt and say something about the pr universe.had that many times already.its not as big as it was back with MMPR where toys were selling out and all that stuff.you can find the toys in almost any toystore or toy aisle kids will still buy them but do remember its a new generation of kids now and they have ALOT more other things to show since technology has gotten far more advance than back in the days. |
11-02-2012, 10:24 PM | #17 |
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not as long as the zords are lame and the rangers outfits are stupid looking.
i don't know exactly what it is, but MMPR will always be the best for me. they had GREAT zords, i mean, the dragonzord is probably one of the coolest ever, then being able to combine it with the megazord and titanus, it really doesn't get any better than that. and the outfits.. they just looked awesome, nice and symmetrical, but the helmets, the helmets are where all of the coolness lays. they don't have stupid ass looking shapes or whatever.. they were all awesome a trex head with the teeth around and whatnot, same with the green rangers dragon helmet, the sabertooth with the cool teeth over the glass (or whatever the hell you wanna call the black on the helmet) .. anyways, they will never be as cool as they used to be as long as the zords are lame and the outfits just look ridiculously stupid. the MMPR helmets had some edge to them, they were cool and much more intimidating. |
11-03-2012, 03:35 AM | #18 |
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You've obviously never seen dinothunder...
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11-03-2012, 04:55 AM | #19 |
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Personally I think there have been infinitely better zords since the first season of MMPR.
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11-05-2012, 04:36 PM | #20 |
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Thanks for all the great responses, love reading them all.
I like some of the later series costumes a lot, especially the series that also had animal themes. just because Mighty morphin had the animal theme, i always sorta looked at that as one of the key trademarks for a power rangers team, every time they had another theme, like the cars in turbo or the in space designs, even tho in itself they looked good, i always felt it lacked one of the key components of what i knew to be power rangers. also, some people hate the silver mounth pieces but i always loved them, infact the helmets that don't really show a mounth always threw me off a bit, even the ones that did show a mounth sculpt but not the explicit "mounth area" always made me feel a bit awkward about them and it's one of the main reasons i didn't like the zeo suits, i missed the silver mounth areas a lot! Power rangers without an animal theme going on is like a Batman design without a bat symbol on his chest, it would still obviously be batman, but it's missing something. Also, many of you will not agree with this, but i think the low budget and cheap effects hurts power rangers these days whereas looking back at mighty morphin,back then as a kid i didn't know any better and special effects were hardly ever good back then anyway so these days the tacky effects are part of the charm about MMPR, yet when i watch a more recent series and see it is still so cheap...well it turns me off because now we HAVE seen better and we HAVE seen what is possible, if that makes sense. a lot will disagree since fans like to argue that the cheepness of a PR series is one of the trademarks in itself, those are the same fans that are opposed to a big budget PR movie because it wouldn't feel like power ranger..i am not in that camp, i'm the opossite and i would like to see it explored, i don't understand where the notion that power rangers SHOULD be cheap is coming from tbh. Look at smallville and the flack it got online about the cheap ass special effects...if that show had aired in the 90's people wouldn't even notice and took it for what it is, yet because by the time smallville aired people had seen so much better effects and it made it uncomfortable for many to look at smallville and accept them in this day and age and i think that is the same reason why a lot of older people can't get more into PR these days and still clamour for there mighty morphins...the same issues that form part of the charm there, are what's hurting the show today. i know a lot of my friends would still be into it if everything didn't STILL, after all these years, look so cheap. when a cgi zord looks worse than ps2 videogame grpahics in 2012, it's very hard to overlook it for a lot of people that might otherwise still like the concept and the suits etc. |
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