The real tragedy is that Bill Hader has to voice that abomination of an imposter they call Alpha 5 and Walter White is Professor Hart from VR Troopers because floating heads in tubes are so out of style.

A couple of new pics from the VR thing over at io9, including Zords.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/power-rangers...-lo-1790975283

Yes, because transformers has done nothing original in the last few years at all.
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/...AV-60-Bisk.jpg
Look at this lobster. Just based of the 1984 Lobsterbot. Had to change the name because copyright, but same guy.

http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/...ctoriontoy.jpg
Nothing new here at all.
Nope, no original character here.

http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/...-Twinferno.jpg
Yep, this is Twinferno's 500th toy, can't wait for the next one.

What I'm saying is that Transformers is still innovating, even if you don't think so. Even the generations line, which you're dismissing as G1 with elbows, is still characters that haven't been seen since their debuts. not the ever-redone 1984 line-up. In Power Rangers terms, it would be like visiting the later zordon-era, which would be remaking In Space. And people would love In Space redos.

Does that mean I have to wait at least a decade before I can get some homages to Lost Galaxy?

Uh no offence but you aint exactly disproving his point in fact you're proving it all those designs you showed borrow heavily from G1 in Victorion's case specifically she's a remold of Combiner Wars Defensor.

On topic I found this:

http://kyomusha.deviantart.com/art/M...zord-395772592

Look at that a techno-organic looking Megazord that actually looks like the Megazord.

Fans on deviantart continue to shame Hollywood.

Um... I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic about the Lobsterbot bit. Most of the RiD Cons seem to be wholly original characters, not even sharing names as far as I'm aware.

...1 out of 3 then.

You missed all the sarcasm present. 2 out of the three characters in the post have been created in the last couple of years, even if the toy is a remold of a G1 dude (which, to be fair, so where the original transformers, as Diaclone exists as a thing), and the third is an example of the generations line (a line that tends to stick to 1984-1986) giving a character with near zero story time and other toys a new form.

In addition, the other guy is complaining about the movie aesthetic taking over everything. None of the toys in either line currently resemble any movie character beyond "Is named x and turns into y". Robots in Disguise is a great source of innovation, outside of Bumblebee, and Generations, like I said, is visiting some of the equivalent In Space/Lost Galaxy era of Transformers- the later, less remembered parts, with some things there for recognizability because they've been consistantly appearing for 30 odd years (See Voyager Optimus Prime and Megatron, and even that OP borrows from the Gen 2 design).

To try and make this vaguely relevant to the topic, I guess I'm saying that the movie designs won't take over everything, and nostalgia will eventually move on to something else. It might take a metric tonne of MMPR first, but Saban might eventually revisit some of the more Headmastery stuff instead of the Arc crew for the 20th time.

FWIW AkibaSilver, I totally get what you mean. Transformers rarely returns to slavish 1984 pandering. Usually superficial characters and names come back, but Transformers reboots constantly with the same names, wheras PR doesn't so it's a hard comparrison to apply everywhere. I also agree with the notion that I doubt this movie will greatly influence future iterations.

In fact, as pointed out, the near total lack of advertising for this movie makes me wonder if it's not a fucking mess as it is and the producers are avoiding wasting money on advertising to minimize their loss.

While there isn't as much advertising as I thought there would be, it does make sense for them not to but not for the reason you stated.

March is not a Tentpole month. Usually April is the beginning of the summer season of films with May being the major player. You do get some major films in March but it isn't jammed full like May and June where everyone is fighting each other and thus marketing dollars are spent like mad.

Let's compare the films in that month, shall we? Now, this is all based on Youtube searches, so if I miss something please let me know. Power Rangers has had a single trailer and a toy commercial.

March 3rd has only one major release: Logan. Logan has had a regular trailer and a Red Band trailer that only showed one extra scene. It has had no commercials.

The next week sees Kong: Skull Island released. It has had two trailers; a comic-con trailer and the regular. No commercials

The week after that, one week before Power Rangers, comes the film that will probably be the biggest: Beauty and the Beast. It has had a teaser and a regular trailer and several commercials

The week Power Rangers comes out it has only one new competitor... the remake of CHiPs that hasn't even had any footage shown yet nor even a poster.

The week after Power Rangers comes out there are two films that could challenge it: Baby Boss which has had a single trailer and Ghost in the Shell which has had a single trailer.

After that there is literally no major film coming out until April 14 when the new Fast and the Furious film comes out. One trailer, no commericals.



So if you remove Beauty and the Beast from the mix... Power Rangers is pretty much in line with every other film coming out around it. So there is no need to overload the world with commercials and trailers as the competition isn't either. So to claim that they are advertising this film because clearly it must be bad is a falsehood. They are advertising it yet because there is no need to. If it were coming out in June and we were in April or May then you'd have a point... but not here.


Oh, and one other point: If we take into account merchandise it is blowing everything else out of the water. Target already has endcaps, Wal-Mart will be getting center aisle displays soon, and so with Toys R Us.