The honor is mine, bud. I'm appreciative of everything the film has gotten feedback wise... positive and negative. But for the most part, the support has been amazing. Honestly, I was already almost 20 when the show started, so it was a bit past my time...I was a Star Wars and Superman kid. So discovering the fandom for this has been eye opening to say the least. To have a fan film teaser trailer for one episode pass 100,000 views in 4 days is pretty startling. Been a great week. Thanks again for the warm welcomes!

So I watched the trailer and I like much better than Zedd killing a young female girl.

I also like you two chaps better than Dom or whatever his name is. Though I don't think either of you should speak for him, especially if this is supposed to be "for the fans."

The new trailer is good, but uh... kinda all over the place. I hope there's some better clarity down the line when the episode is released.

I still don't like the direction it's going, I don't think Power Rangers needs to be mature, as the campiness and whatnot make it what it is, but I'll continue watching to see what unfolds.

Hey Mnemonic....good to meet you. I don't presume to speak for anybody, only for myself...and I'm a pretty straight shooter.

I won't speak for Dom, nor will I try to defend him to anyone who's never met him. I don't mean that in a bad way, but why should I bother? If you don't actually know someone and you've made a decision about what type of person they are, how is someone else that you don't actually know going to change your opinion? I'll leave that at that.

I honestly never read the first trailer as Zedd having killed the girl....I always read it as she screamed because he ripped her doll's head off.

As for the teaser, there's only so much you can do with it. You're making a minute and a half trailer for a fifteen minute episode...so showing the audience roughly 8% of the total film without showing them too much can be a bit of a challenge.

In regards to the mature aspect of it, as I said, everyone will have their opinion. While I agree completely that the campiness is a huge part of Power Rangers to this point, we have been promoting it as a "reimagining". If we were just going to make a fan film of what's been done already, I'd probably just pull out of the project. What would be the point? The people who want to see that already have it. However, there is a large group who have always wanted to see something like what we're doing, and this gives them that opportunity, while not taking anything away from those who love it just the way it is. It's not for everybody. And that's cool. But our intention is to provide something that hasn't been done, or not on a bigger scale at least, to a large group of people who have wanted to see it...not to force people who love what they already have to watch something that they have no interest in.

That being said...I'm glad that you're giving it a chance. Let's be honest...worst thing that can happen...you don't like it and you lost 15 minutes of your life. What we're doing is not saving lives....we're making movies, trying to entertain as many people as we can, and hopefully the folks who don't like it will just do what I would do...watch the version I prefer or watch both. Thanks again for the post!

Thanks for continuing to check us out! I echo what Matt had to say. And I actually edited some of the trailer myself (as well as the first episode) - when I don't work as an actor I work as an editor - and one of the versions I did had some more content in it, probably would've been more to your liking, but it did give a little too much away, so we backed it back off a bit. Basically, the Silver Guardians have the morphers, Claire gets inside to try and get them back, discovers some other pretty cool things along the way, and has to battle her way back out, with a little extra help from something even she doesn't fully understand. This episode, along with the second one, plus some mini episodes with lay out the framework of the world, the good guys and the bad guys, the tone and style of the show, and the new set of Rangers recruited to once again defend Angel Grove. As more and more stuff is released - more and more questions will be answered as this whole thing evolves...everything being done fits in with everything else to flesh it all out piece by piece...

I thought i was on board before but that REALLY hooks my interest sir. You have my undivided attention in 3...2...1...

Discovered today that "RedRangerDonMoney" was paid by the creator of MMPR Film to post positive things here at TokuNation and on another forum.

Your entire production can't have a class action lawsuit filed against you fast enough.

Wow that's lame...how desperate are these guys?

Well, that's the worst form of positive feedback.

Would love to know where you "discovered this". Because I'll say it right here and now. It's an outright lie. OUTRIGHT lie.

Well actually no, it isn't. We know for a fact that it's true. We aren't in the habbit of fabricating news. What do you have to refute that claim? And why appear now after the project has clearly been proven to be a joke and a scam that's run off with the money of thousands of fans? Why even begin the controversy again when nothing will come of it?

I'm not one for taking the word of an individual involved in a Kickstarter project that took $43,000 from fans and has failed to deliver on every single facet since the project's inception.

well this film director did do a vlog announcing where it was and why it late. and the first episode now up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lVytv5cpLU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjlmaETEtDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ikgQG4uSXo

well this are on there you tube page.

Not interested.

i was just posting content relivent to the thread that all.

I meant in any of their work.

And here I was hoping the "we're getting SUED!" saga had started.:(
:p

I show up now, because I just happened to be checking in to see how the mini-episode was doing, and on a Google search this thread popped up, which I had previously taken part in, and I checked in to see if any further comments were made. I don't spend my life tracking every comment made about the project, as I do this for a living and am involved in several projects that are just as meaningful to me as this one. Then I saw the ABSOLUTE BS comment that was posted, which I';m sure came from a "source" not in anyway involved in the project, who knows nothing about the goings on behind the scenes of the project other than what he got from reading even MORE BS on the internet, and figured I'd lay out some truth. You want to know what I have to refute your claim? I'M IN THE DAMN THING. That means I'm not going off of what I heard. I'm going off of what I KNOW. I can make no profit off of this project, nor is it going to have any impact on my acting career...I did it for fun... therefore, I HAVE NO REASON TO LIE. You have proof? Give me the source. I'd love to speak with them after they tried to make insinuations about a personal friend of mine who came to this page for no other reason than to try to set the record straight about the project and connect with some PR fans. I'd LOVE to have that conversation. You may not be in the habit of fabricating stories...but you're sure the hell in the habit of spreading someone else's fabricated stories. You have no facts. I have facts. I'm done with this board now. I can't even believe that people buy this crap. A couple of guys making a fan film for no profit, the director of which was already successfully working in the industry, took money that he can't make back and PAID one of his actors to talk up the project on a fanboard that the general population who will watch the project could give a damn about and doesn't even know exists? Yeah....that makes perfect sense. Say whatever the hell you want. Just know that I KNOW FOR A FACT exactly how clueless and full of shit you are. That's good enough for me. Your members can decide for themselves who is telling the truth.

Sir, I'm not saying this to support my fellow staff, but as a fellow actor in the field, you could've said that a lot more civily rather than rush to anger. That was a rather unprofessional way of going about this. Now, we've seen the proof that you and the rest of the cast and crew have done some work on the project. But again, an update would've been nice instead of keeping silent for all of these months. Yes, I know you're busy, but there were fans waiting. And we know how people are, as soon as something doesn't happen the way they want, they immediately assume and make accusations. Thank you for stepping forward and letting us know that you and the rest of the cast and crew are still active, and hope that this internet backlash doesn't do anything to discern your interest in this website. Cause sir, this is a site I've been with for 3 years now, and I'd prefer that no conflict arises and that things are talked out in a calm and civil manner.

My apologies for my anger. a LOT has been said about this project over the last 2 years, and as a professional, I chose to keep my mouth shut. Critiques are a big part of what we do, and we learn to ignore the negative. As you can see from my previous posts on this thread, I'm all for keeping it civil and reaching out to the fandom. That being said, this particular situation was not a critique of the work so much as a direct and utterly false attack on someone who I consider a friend and who is one of the most honest and forthright people I know. It was malicious, it was false, and anyone with even an inkling of common sense would be able to put 2 and 2 together on the accusation and its source. It was made personal. And THAT I will not tolerate. I appreciate the effort that you've put into this site. I really do. But you need to take a long and serious look at the things you allow to be posted, as well as the intentions of those posting them. If this weren't a fan film, and I was getting paid, and our professional careers WERE riding on this....the word "libel" would most definitely be used. If someone is going to make accusations against someone, they damn well better be able to support them with more than "I've discovered".

How come the actual show doesn't have blood and gore while this does?

Because this is an independent production. Indies tend to skew the lines of official properties for their own individual views and interests.

Plus, Power Rangers is a children's television show. It doesn't, and shouldn't, require blood.

We never said this was going to have blood and gore...at least not to my knowledge. This isn't anything like the "Power/Rangers" thing that came out recently. We said we were going "darkER", and more adult...establishing a more realistic world. Darker and more adult than "Power Rangers" leaves an awful lot of room. Think somewhere along the lines of the recent slate of Super Hero movies. When I joined, my assumption based on what I was told, was that this would be somewhere between "The Dark Knight" and the Marvel films. I think we've stayed in that realm.

i can say this i did post 3 video regarding the project and one was vlog and update what was happening from the director. sorry for his loses on losing his mother.

Thanks man. It was just the most major in a series of setbacks we've had along the way. The first episode was actually "in the can" a long, long time ago. And every dollar of the Kickstarter, and then a significant amount out of pocket, was spent on just the one episode. Between some post production delays that we've spoken about publically (though not in full detail) regarding SFX, a couple of other things that I'm not going to mention here, as I don't speak for production and it wouldn't be professional to do so, and then topping it off with Dom's mother...it's been a heck of a road.

That being said, I think people who had a fear that we were going to do a "Power/Rangers" type film, or feared that we were taking Power Rangers to a terrible place that a children's show shouldn't go, are going to be pleasantly surprised when the episode finally arrives.

What's so bad about a kid's show having blood and gore anyway?

The same reason why "Adult" shows don't feature full frontal nudity.
Because people don't want their shows to get axed after half an episode.

What is that supposed to mean?

...Because it's inappropriate content for young children?

Wrong fanfilm.

This one so far has only two twins talking to a cop who are supposed to be the Yellow and Pink Rangers respectively.

2 years and 40 grand for this shit. Something that took probably an hour tops to film. Yep. I get it's the "first episode" but people paid money to watch something besides a scene from Law and Order with ridiculously over-the-top bad acting.

Like KB, I'm done with this.

Allow me to explain how things work outside of the acting business, sir.

For starters - this is a community website that allows discussion on a large variety of topics except for a minor few - politics, religion, etc. We like to keep things civil around here and promote healthy discussion. In the end, we're all like-minded individuals who have a passion for a hobby/genre of entertainment that brings us together, forges lifetime friendships, and gives us memories that we can hold on to forever.

That's what makes THIS place special.

Regarding the production that you've been involved in. Your director pissed all over this fan community - whether it be drunken postings where he told the very fans you market this to at RangerBoard (the largest Power Rangers community online) that "they don't matter in the end", to causing enough of an issue that discussion is disallowed at every major Power Rangers fan community board except this one.

I even tried to set up an interview with your embattled director. To the point that I would let him choose which questions he wanted to be asked because I wanted to give him a chance to clear the air for the fact that the rest of the Power Rangers community can't stand him. "He's hard at work in production!" I was told. "He'd love to - let's communicate a time that works!" I was told.

Ironically a couple more E-mail attempts would result in nothing - not even from your good buddy who was trying to be the liaison. In fact, he simply disappeared off the face of the Earth here while discussing the film with potential fans.

Your production took $43,000+ from fans with deadlines and promises. Once the money was paid, everything changed - it went from "film" to "web series" to "one episode". You're almost two years past the end of the Kickstarter with two trailers since the Kickstarter ended and nothing else to show for it with an original deadline that is over a year past due.

Perhaps my initial reaction was harsh to the revelation made to me by a good source (who I will not name out of journalistic integrity). But it wasn't posted as a "news story", it wasn't blasted across the Internet on social media. It's a comment on a message forum. You want to wave around the word libel that's fine - I'll wave around the word fraud (you know, the whole "paying for a product that was not delivered on time or as originally advertised" bit).

At the end of the day - this is my website, my forum, made up of individuals who volunteer their time for a hobby that they are passionate about. If you'd like to throw around your critiques on how we should do things here - by all means hit me up, send me a private message, look me up on social media - I'm very easy to find. You and I can scream at each other until we're both blue in the face.

So I appreciate your understanding of why I would be personally pissed off if "I discovered" through a legitimate source that what I thought was an individual here on good will was only here because they were getting compensated and everything discussed was nothing more than lip service.

Wouldn't you?

For what it's worth - I enjoyed your accent in the latest release. Is it genuine?

As I said....I don't speak for production so I'm not going to attest to whether Dom was busy or he wasn't other than to say he was spending most of his time caring for his mother. My issue was the accusations made about Don which were COMPLETELY false. He was not asked by production, bribed, coerced, or anything else. Like myself, he took his own time to come here and try to connect with the fandom. The episode with myself is NOT the episode funded by Kickstarter, and is not the first episode. It is, and always was, advertised as a mini episode, which we filmed in addition to the first episode along with a couple of others, to introduce the world of our fanfilm. NO Kickstarter funds were used in the production of the mini episodes. They were funded out of pocket....which is a big reason why you won't see any morphs or costumes or effects in them.

As to my accent in the short, I do have a natural Brooklyn accent, however, as an acting exercise for myself, and as a wink to the fandom, I greatly exaggerated the accent and my performance, as a little mini tribute to the type of acting on the show over the years. I tried to walk a line between the more reality based world we're trying to create, while not robbing the die hards of the "over the top" acting they've come to know on the show. I'll leave it to you guys whether I was successful or not. I have to get to bed because I have to be on set first thing in the morning. But I will check back, and will answer any questions I can in regards to the project. All I ask, is that the accusations stop. I can assure you, no matter how reliable you think your source is, they're not as reliable as me.

How?

Are you seriously asking how blood & gore is inappropriate for children? Maybe because it scares the shit out of them and shows them things no kid should ever see until they are old enough to even understand what's going on?

Are you really that inexperienced with children? Clearly you never had a little boy at home who catched a Horror-movie by accident and then couldn’t sleep for a whole week without someone guarding his room until he was asleep.

I'm all for cartoons/children shows being intelligent and somewhat tackle more adult things for children to think about, but blood & gore is something no kid should see. If someone get's scratched by a monster and has bloody claw-marks that bleed a little, no big deal. But when I hear "blood & gore" I think of the hardcore stuff, and that's definitely nothing that children should see in their media.

And for that matter, rolling up franchises that were intended for children and just tune up the violence and stupidity (Bayformers) to appeal towards teenagers and adults is just stupid. A realistic approach can work, but in the end you always lose what made these things special in the first place.

Too little too late.
 

It just took too long, all of the money was wasted and Dom seems like a negative or anti version of Saban. I was afraid at one point of the M.M.P.R. fan film and Kickstarter campaign was nothing more than a ripoff, and now I know that it is indeed a ripoff. Jason David Frank and his family could do a 1,000% better fan film with a release date that doesn't change multiple times, with or without the support of Haim Saban. So why don't we all just stop talking about something that no longer matters and is a complete waste of time and talk more about a real Power Rangers movie that will be coming out in 2017 or the Zordon of Eltar fan film because they are the truly the only ones that matter until 2020with a possible sequel to the 2017 film. Sorry Dumb Dom, but nobody cares about you nor your M.M.P.R. fan film project anymore, no matter if you believe that or not.

Did you just tell people to stop talking about a subject in the thread for it that hasn't had a post in almost a year?

Pretty sure we've all moved on, dude.

Man, for a second I was curious if some new development had just popped up, too :lol
Damn.