I'm glad I watch SHT shows. So that I don't have to worry about Japan mucking up my giant robots.

"Find your dinosaur voice."

Had a moment to think rationally (thank you espresso). There's a lot of ways this could go. It could be the Breakfast Club with elements of Looper. It could be like Percy Jackson but dark like the Divergent series. It could even be like Enders Game but with Transformers. I mean, those are awesome, right? Someone in Hollywood came up with those designs, and created masterpieces out of rehashed material and they're considered contenders for the Stank awards, right?

:confused:

All snark aside I will reserve judgement for actually attempting to watch this in the theaters. I did with Revenge of the Fallen. Have to be able to give the franchise a chance. Unfortunately it will already fall to the curse of Transformers live action movies just based on the design, the montage trailer footage, and the overriding instinct of long time fans. Love it or hate it, it's the same sentence as the Transformers series.

"It's just not my Power Rangers."

I have long since given up on the fact that original, fresh science fiction can exist. We've hit saturation. There are so many already published short stories and manuscripts that were just so good, and because some Holly-bro exec decided it wouldn't make money just canned it. The best stories are the ones that are NOT messed with so far that you can't recognize the source material. That is why Marvel and DC work (again, perception is everything).

The combination toy version does a better job of that. But I have a feeling this toy is closer to the on-screen model...which does a better job of looking like Maizinkaizer than any Megazord known to us before.

Or Tennis Balls... I dunno.

Stop it!! It's too funny of a coincidence!!

i am so glad that Narutaki never appeared in Gaim....
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20150726052608

Oh god he did well that show is now ruined after this thread thanks Asian Eugene Levy

Thats Zordon's body....... Yup. I could totally picture his face being projected in that face shield.

So what's the story? He split up his body to create 5 power gems?

Seriously that megazord should be sold to the Ryukendo creators so that they can make a sequel. The design alone is fine but honestly they messed up to think majority of the fans will tolerate that.

For the people that have a hard time understanding why some of us are criticizing this new take on a Megazord, let me try to explain my viewpoint a bit. Just play along with me for a minute.

Imagine if Dino Thunder was the original show. The Megazord was composed of three dinosaurs (T-Rex, Triceratops, & Pteradon). Then years later, a movie comes along trying to 'reboot' Dino Thunder. They redesign the Megazord to look different. Still made of up 3 dinos, but the Pteradon gets replaced with a Stegosaurus. And the yellow ranger is now pink (cause it sells better to girls or something).

But if you look at the two of these Megazords, you can see just as many similarities as differences. Both are mostly made up of the T-Rex with its head prominently on display. Aux zord becomes arm. Left arm has a drill attachment. Made up of Red, Blue, & Yellow colors. If a person who only casually had heard of Power Rangers was shown the second picture, they would instantly recognize that it is Power Rangers related.

http://i.imgur.com/dEOmiqU.jpg

Now let's looks at MMPR vs Live Action. The departure is too radical. The only similarities are their horns and colors (the combiner toy has more coloring). If you showed this new toy to any layperson, no one would guess it belongs to Power Rangers.

It's one thing to reimage the Megazord, but it is another thing to just say screw it and give us this. ESPECIALLY when they are still putting out TV shows that are still giving us toys in the same vein. Why depart from the franchise so hard when the franchise is still doing great as is? Why would the average person see this thing and think "Power Rangers"?

http://i.imgur.com/FhfqUCR.jpg

In all honesty, the Live Action Megazord has more in common with a mech from Zone of Enders. Seriously, just look at it. Humanoid person just wearing kevlar and occasionally bits of body armor. No actual face. A few glowy bits. Some stubby wings. Thingys on the hips. A stabby arm blade.

http://i.imgur.com/l3TOTzR.jpg