I'm not looking for something to hate. I'm just not going to give the movie the benefit of the doubt when it's not presenting a spark of originality. The designs are ham-fistedly aping current popular movies, the tone feels like Amazing Spider-Man meets Breakfast Club (Going by the trailer), and the toys looks underwhelming.

I'm not trying to shit on the movie because it's the in thing to do. I'm not going to judge this book by it's cover when it actually comes out. But so far, all the back of the book blurbs aren't giving me any hope.

The only way to solve this is by painting this other mecha t-rex red and sell it

http://www.sideshowtoy.com/wp-conten...oduct-silo.png

Again I am waiting for a better quality version on par with the legacy line to show up, meaning a slightly pricier rendition that has more details

Or maybe we just want a good movie that's, like, original or soemthing?

Those are terrible, though.

And Partially melted.:lol


Actually that's still being debated:

http://www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/...osaurus9112014

Except they aren't.

The first didn't receive any real hate outside of Geewunners until the second came out and trashing the movies became the popular thing to do.

Dark of the Moon's biggest problem was being a bit overbloated. It had a really nice, dark atmosphere to it, and the Chicago invasion was a genuinely chilling sequence. There were some great fight scenes, some really cool designs, and while the humor was still hit or miss, it had some good moments.

Age of Extinction was a huge step in the right direction. Marky Mark was a perfect casting choice, this is him doing what he does best and the humor really worked with him in this (the whole exchange after they escape from Lockdown's ship was hilarious). The bots had really distinct and well performed personalities, John Goodman was a perfect Hound. Again, we got some great fights or action scenes. Moments like Ratchet's execution were suitably brutal. The dinobots were a bit underutilized, but it was still nice seeing them.

Again, the first movie was a very solid film overall. Few things compare to seeing Blackout transforming on screen for the very first time or the Autobots assembling and transforming for the first time, that still gives me chills.

Revenge of the Fallen, I disagree with a lot of the complaints, stuff like the twins for instance (remember when our first reaction to seeing their leaked designs was "inbred rednecks" and not "black stereotypes"?). Some interesting ideas were adapted and given a cool new take, such as the seekers, Jetfire's origin, the Fallen. And Devastator was an absolute spectacle in IMAX. But I do agree that overall it was the weakest film in the series.

All in all I'm still looking forward to the movie.
I think what I'm not liking about the toy is the sheer amount of molded detailing. It's all a solid red, and the waveyness clashes together to mess with my eyes. More color on it would make it look a lot better.

I just noticed that the BBTS page mentions that the megazord it's a part of is 24" tall, which will be interesting.

My major complaint with AoE was just how long it was. It's ending, then it's not, and again and again. I just got bored after a while.

Dude, they are.

They are really, really bad movies. I don't hate them personally, but even I won't delude myself into thinking they aren't just terribly made, terribly written, terribly everything'd films.

....Except film critics have hated those movies since at least ROTF so I'd say it's less hate "being trendy now" and more now that the hype's gone people simply realizing with hindsight that these movies just aren't that good same with people hating MMPR these days.

And regarding ROTF most of the hate for that movie didn't come from Geewunners but people who hated the human protagonists getting the lion's share of the screen-time over the Bots with a generic teen romance plot,the racist stereotypes and the toilet humor and AOE also got a lot of hate for it's plot's edginess.

The BBTS listing has absolutely sold me on the t-rex zord. It won't be cheap, but the Megazord sounds like it'll be worth completing. Especially with it having electronics and being two feet tall when combined. Should be interesting to see how the rest of the DX zords turn out.

TBH, while I do get why some people hate the design, I like it, and I'm definitely going to be picking these up.

Originality is overrated. Just because something is original doesn't mean it's good. All the same, just because something isn't original doesn't mean it's bad.

Except that's not entirely true.

The same old shit over and over again isn't good to me. It's boring, and uninteresting. At least if the movie was halfway unique it could still suck and it'd at least have accomplished something. But even if it's 'good' it could easily go unremembered for being so bland and uncreative.

Entirely is the key word, here.

Let's be honest. This is a reboot, and un-originality kind of inherently comes with the entire concept, so I'm not sure what you expected from this. Although maybe the fact that what we're seeing is fulfilling your unenthusiastic expectation is entirely part of the problem you have with it. Which is fair.

I don't feel the same way, though. I'm pretty optimistic so far.

I think that's it exactly.


So far, this is almost everything I expected (more like feared) and nothing I actually hoped for or wanted to see.

Lack of any originality tells me the director lacks faith in his project so he's trying to piggyback off more successful projects.

No, I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
Profit is all that matters, and every company will make sure to keep doing what makes money first, and that means they'll reuse and recycle whatever is popular until it's not popular.
Originality is pretty much the only thing we can hold on to, because good movies will always come out using the tried and true methods, so you never have to worry about a lack of quality content. But when a movie strides for the middle, that's when they hit that perfect level of mediocrity. Suicide Squad, Age of Ultron, Ghostbusters, the TF movies, Amazing Spider-Man 2, whatever and whatever.

Power Rangers is making a hard dive to hit that line, going off what info we can gather.

I confess, that specific statement was kind of a joke. :D

But I really don't think un-originality is essentially a terrible thing. It can be for sure, but not always.

So... What exactly does the morpher do? The switch, I thought, closed the centre like an aperture, but the picture with the switch in motion doesn't show anything else different.

Remind's me Kamen Rider Ichigo and Nigo's drivers.

It makes the coin spin, like I thought it did.

And that's pretty lame to me. It's like Agito meets Skyrider and OOOs.

And I want to see the Triceratops.

I'm not too enthused about the spinning coin thing. I was hoping it would do something with a little more flare.

To be fair the TV morpher doesn't do a whole bunch either. I'd say this new one is par for the course.

The thing about this T-Rex toy which I don't understand is that I can't see a single transformation joint on the entire figure. Where and how does this thing integrate into the Megazord? I'm just not able to visualize it being part of a larger robot.

If you look at it while it's facing left, the side of the zord looks like the chest piece, like Dino Charge Megazord/ Kyoryujin. The gun on top looks to be where the head would snap on.

What do you think?

From what I can assume so far, That lever looks like it will function similar to this Kuuga belt:
http://i.imgur.com/mDzJZCN.jpg

I wonder what the locking mechanism for the coins are like.

You might want to consult a physician.

It's comments like his where I try to imagine the thought process.

Like his brain pulls overtime hardcore, tryign to come up with something "Ugh...guh... do... not like... must... insult... brain, must.... POOP! IT LOOKS LIKE POOP!!" He blurts out, smoke coming from his ears.

Like I don't like the thing myself, but at least I try and describe my dislike for it better than an infant can.

To be fair that was decades ago, though.

Much like how Kamen Rider belts are constantly trying to become more interactive (for better or worse) I'd like to think this would continue the trend and actually do something worthwhile.

This definitely feels like a miniaturized version of the cheaper legend rider belt toys from a while back but just the buckle.
I assume the people who made this particular toy looked into those for inspiration somewhat.
As long as this is not on par with the prices of typical sentai role play toys I would say it gets the job done from the looks of it so far.
The lever sticks out like a sore thumb but that's just me.

I think I've narrowed down the problems I have here. One: I still don't know what the Head, arms, and tail do. My worst fear right now is *spits* partsforming. Two: I wish the Ranger fig' had a real cockpit instead of sitting in the mouth.

So what a TON of Sentai mecha already do?

That doesn't make it okay.

So I was at London comic con and got a close up of the zord and got a glimpse of the megazord head.

http://i.imgur.com/HwKCTr7.jpg

Yup.

I hate modern Sentai mecha that just breat apart and call it "transforming." A little bit here and there is understable. A tail that detaches to be a weapon, a helmet that comes out from under a zord for the Megazord. But I really hope that, at most, the tail comes off and that's it.

Maybe the donasour head flips in when the Megazord head flips out?

*edit: nevermind, I found another picture with a better angle and it appears as though the helmet has a silver front with red sides. Hopefully we'll see more paint by the final release.

I'd argue that trying to reinvent the wheel every year in Rider belts has also not been a good thing. I don't think this morpher needs to do a million things to be a solid toy. That's true for 1993, and I'd say it's true today.

I'm pretty sure we're seeing the top of the helmet in that pic.

That's why I said for better or worse. I'd rather something not be good trying something new than not be good doing what's already been done. Ex-Aid's belt sucks, but then you have really clever and streamlined belts like the Sengoku driver, or at least nicely featured sound and lightboxes like the Drive belt.

But the morpher is boring both visually and in function. Just a little extra spice is all I ask for so it's not totally devoid of identity. Something that moves, like if the apeture could open and close. Simple is good most of the time, but this is too simple.


Except it isn't true, since the toy looks boring as shit.

It'd like to think we've, yknow, progressed with progress, not regressed.

But it does do something that moves. The coin spins and it has lights/sounds. That isn't regression, that's just all it needs to do for this particular film. It looking boring as shit is subjective and not a fact that disproves what I said. It's cool if it's not for you, but that's a totally different conversation.

We heard that the "Stomp and Chomp Grimlock" was a pretty well received toy. So we decided to just make it again. All we have to do is switch out the Optimus for a Red Ranger and no one will ever notice. Brilliant!

I get that the PR Movie wants to be more 'realistic' than the campiness of the TV shows and their zords that look like toys. Transformers wanted to do the same when they started making movies. But this T-Rex looks like something straight out of a Transformers 5: Age of Power Rangers.

http://i.imgur.com/i7fh69W.jpg