Yeah, even though weirdly enough, Arisa somewhat replicated how Ranru sounds like, but I could subtly pick out that it was her, not Aiko.

Ah, so it was someone else? I wasn't sure of it because I only remembered Ranru from Deka vs. Aba and didn't know exactly if it was her in Kyoryu vs. Go-Bus or not. But at least she did a good job.
I guess the actress playing Ranru just didn't have the time to join. After all, the Zyurangers have mostly retired, so they should be easier to get than the Abarangers. I guess that's also why AbareBlack wasn't in. After all, it would have looked pretty damn cool to have three Black Rangers fighting together.

Is there a source for this, actually? She was uncredited in the movie and when someone added it to the Ranger Wiki, it was source-less and quickly removed, so..

Honestly, if that's the explanation of how it happened, I'm perfectly fine with it. Really glad they didn't undermine the end of Go-Busters with some "BRAVE DA ZE!" BS.

I finally watched it. It was alright. Outside of some dodgy CG, it was fairly solid.
I never finished GoBus, but I did appreciate Jin not being revived because of the Busters' Bureivury.
That, and I'm pretty sure the writers knew that they couldn't bring back one hero via bureivury without bringing back Dragon Ranger and Abare Killer, when dino Sentai are pretty well remembered for having someone die :lol

Anyway, was a fun movie. I love it when the teams actually get to interact with each other, even if it's brief.
And seeing Utchy team with the other ptera rangers was great (Yeah, they all teamed with their counterparts, but I enjoyed that sequence the most :lol)

Mhmm Aiko-san is still raising a family I believe. It would have been nice for her to come back and voice her role at least, it wasn't that long of a suit cameo. And yeah having AbareBlack fighting with the other black rangers or with Torin would have been quite a sight to see.

I gave it a 3, and even then I think I was being generous. Honestly I thought it was the worst vs. film there's been in years.

Regardless of how much they actually appeared in the film, the Go-Busters were completely shafted. They did half the hard work and didn't even get to be in the big fight, Usada and Gorisaki were completely absent (and Nick kinda pointless being there), Enter and Escape were superfluous and then taken down without by the Kyoyrugers without any real face off against the Go-Busters (on which note, how exactly did the Enter copy have Dark Red Buster), the Kyoryuzin combo was lame....I could go on. That said, I have REALLY missed all of the Go-Busters cast. Especially J.

The Kyoryuger portion wasn't much better. So past Gabutyra travelled to the future to warn Daigo that he'd die in the future? And then knew all about it when they travelled into the past again? Did the writers not have a real concept of how meeting yourself in the past work or are dinosaurs suddenly all knowing and all seeing? The "evil Kyoryuger" thing lasted for all of 30 seconds too, which I guess is good given how horribly forced it was.

And then there's the dino crossover itself, which was the best part of the film. The new villain seemed pretty lame and I still think the Neo Grifforzer and Abaranger-guy suits looked terrible, but I can't argue that the all-dino roll call wasn't incredibly cool. I think the film could have done a little better explaining why the other 4 Zyurangers and Abare Yellow weren't around, but I won't hold that too much against the film. I don't know what was going on with the Tiger Ranger costume though.

And a few final thoughts - I'm not usually one to complain about this but this film had OBSCENE amounts of awful CGI. And I'm kinda disappointed the ToQger cameo wasn't actually part of the film itself - half the fun is having the current Sentai react to the newcomers.

I think if it had opted to just be a Dino crossover film it might have fared much better, but it felt like half the time it didn't know what it wanted to be and really suffered because of it.

Just watched this and I honestly thought this was a rather boring Vs. movie. It didn't really keep me interested after the first half. I wish that we could get some Abaranger Figuarts out of this movie or something but I really felt like everything happened to quickly and too easy. The "neo" villain designs were pretty cool though. I started to fall asleep by the end of the movie. :/

I can never bring myself to nitpick or slam these types of movies. There are some I enjoy more so than others based on the amount of times I find myself re watching a certain VS movie, I'm just happy and feel fortunate they exist and can bring us fanwank-tastic segments we normally wouldn't get in a Sentai or KR series.

Finished watching Imagination Station.

It was a fun movie, but…this really should've been it's own thing. The Gobusters felt kinda shoe horned, I mean you can ignore all of their scenes, come up with a different reason why Geki and Ryoji went evil and it'll be the same movie.

And the constant bromance that went on between Gabutyra and Daigo…I really wanted to shout "Geeze, Daigo just marry him already!"

The Kyoryugers traveling back in time to kill the dinosaurs…yeah I'm pretty sure that would've had a HUGE impact on the space time continuum and to have that not be acknowledged in someway is kind of…well dumb.

Overall, I enjoyed it but this didn't feel like a proper VS movie at all. It felt more like a V Cinema or something.