Saban brands shows of the super megaforce rangers.
 

Saban brands shows off the super megaforce rangers at there booth at the international licensing expo.


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Said it before, said it again, the only two that work are Gia has Luka and Emma has Ahim.

One word, marvelous.

100% agree with you there

I can see Jake as Don.

How do they not work?
I'm curious.

They're using the suits. Not the characters. Noah isn't Joe, and none of Joe's personality traits come through in his fighting style, for example.

All I ask for Super Megaforce is that they use the footage from the Don and Luka body switch episode. They need to flesh out Jake and Gia's relationship after all, right?

That's the ONE episode i want to see adapted, that's my favorite fiction scenario ever.

How dare you use Marvelous' name to describe this show.

Same. :D

O_O Um, I'm sorry... please don't kill me!

No matter how many times it's said, they just won't care. :|

But I can try again anyways...

THEY AREN'T THE SAME CHARACTERS. WHY SHOULD THIS MATTER?

Well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBwFbNYDEfY

I'm not going to kill you. I will however cement you to watching Dario ARgento's abomination of a version of The Phantom of the Opera. That is punishment enough.

:eek:... That is... worse... than death... :cry

You mean the whole fact that Joe's a trained swords-master that's even adopted his teacher's special attack and even goes as far as to wield five swords doesn't imply anything about the character? Not only that his role call and general stance in every scene suits Joe's personality and is a pretty stark contrast to how Noah acts (when he is showing a personality beyond being a "nerd" steretype). Plus the fact that Gokaiblue's weapon of choice are dual swords while GoseiBlue's was a bowgun.

Then Don's fighting style and personalities don't even need to be explained, because just by watching any fight scene you can see what he is like out of suit, which is unlike Jake. Then, like with Joe, you're switching from an exclusively close combat weapon to an exclusively long range fighter.

Troy maybe can get away with Marvelous because Marvelous doesn't show huge amounts of personality compared to Luka, Joe and Don in his fights, except for his poses and stance. Despite the fact that Troy is a criminal blank slate personality-wise, they can get away with pretending he's a confident leader through the stock footage.

Gia and Emma only get away because Gia's "sometimes I fold my arms and look cross" "personality" is the closest current Saban will ever get to a strong female like Luka and GoseiYellow also used a close combat weapon and Emma can get towards Ahim if they cut her/ignore her polite role-call pose and stances because Ahim was the most generic fighter of the the Gokaigers.

Bad use. It's not because we "don't want change" it's the fact that there is no change, they're just copy-pasting fighting footage and pretending they're characters that they've made no attempt to line up personalities with. No attempt has been made to make the Megaforce characters work with the personality seen in the Gokaiger fights, which is inexcusable because there have been many examples where Saban/Disney has made an effort to make the Sentai footage match well with the PR footage.

It matters because they are different characters, but using the same footage for the fights. Sometimes it works, especially like in SPD and Time Force, because the Stock Footage and PR characters actually worked together and were believable. Gokaiger is not the case. It is a problem when the different characters are radically different to what they normally are whenever they're using Sentai footage. I don't know if they're going to cut most of the actual Gokaiger suit fight scenes, but looking at the two sets of characters and the Gokaiger footage, there are clearly going to be problems.

Yes. Joe is a trained sword master. That's why his technique of "Swing swords around really fast" is just so linked to Joe and Noah could never perform.
He flails the swords just as wildly as Don does. Just because he doesn't trip around doesn't mean his actual technique is any better. The 5 sword scene doesn't need to (And probably won't) be brought over.

Noah's weapon of choice changing can be explained away in a line of badly written dialogue, don't worry.

I disagree, Joe's alternating-one-hand-behind-back stance implies someone who's trained them self into knowing what they're doing around a sword. If someone new were to watch a fight scene in Gokaiger, I'm sure they'd identify Joe as someone who knows what they're doing with a sword. But I guess that's easy enough for them to ignore and I'm coming with an opinion of someone who has watched the show and knows Joe's background.

What does that have to do with anything?
I don't see Joe's sword fighting style as anything special, especially considering he who "Knows what they're doing with a sword" was outfought by Marvelous.
Outside of Luka with the strings, I never felt any of the Gokaigers's styles were any special.

I was saying that maybe someone who doesn't wouldn't automatically associate him with knowing what he can do with a sword. So maybe people who exclusively watch PR won't be bothered by it.

Marvelous didn't dual wield swords though and didn't have the, as mentioned previously, unique swordplay and stance that Joe did.
None had unique weapons, but all had personality-specific stances and styles, especially Don.

well maybe jake and noah will swap and noah will be green and jake will be blue, swapping them would make their personalities fit better

Something was off in that picture.

Belts are too low. Can't see the "bend" in the suit design.

That's what I've been thinking the entire time. I'm not overly familiar with the Megaforce characters, but from what I've seen of them, Noah works better as Green than Blue if Saban intends to carry over a lot of Gokaiger footage. And come on, of course they're going to carry over footage. It's Saban.

Anyone notice we have yet to get promotional pictures of the musket that the Gokaigers use? Just thinkin' out-loud.

From this video, it appears they will be changing to a far more generic, less personality-based role call pose. Hopefully it is. None of the Megaforce characters matched up with the Gokaiger role call poses. Not a single one.

When did they use muskets?

I think he means the GokaiGuns, which are actually flintlock pistols, not muskets, Kickback ^_^'

That makes much more sense. But they are using the flintlocks in this picture:

http://www.tokunation.com/attachment...3&d=1371619816

Just reading this thread about translation issues.

You do realise that Noah and GoseiBlue are already a terrible fit, yeah? Noah spends the series as an insecure nerd, unsure if he can really do the things that Jake, Gia, Troy can etc then he morphs and shows such utterly boss skills when he fights and uses that bowgun that it is like he is an entirely different character all together...which he is. The insecure nerd, takes on monsters all alone, and leads the team when Troy doesn't.

Having him suddenly pick up 1337 sword skills in Super Megaforce is the least of his problems.

Very true, but is just another mark against what is shaping up to be a terrible season. It doesn't help that everyone was incredibly excited for a PR equivalent to Gokaiger and it had potential to be the best PR season ever.

Who knows? Maybe Super Megaforce will be amazing and a great Anniversary like Gokaiger was. But right now, there's is very little good compared to the huge amounts of bad. Doesn't help that I personally am really disliking Megaforce and its crew of high school stereotypes minus actual personalities and the thought that they will be representing the anniversary saddens me. I'm keeping my expectations low for now.

Saban getting Power Rangers back really was the worst thing that could have happened. I reckon Disney would have done this all so much better.

I get the whole back to basics thing for the anniversary cast but I think they went a little too far back, to the days of amateurish acting where the unmorphed stuff acted more as a framing device for the sentai footage than really trying to tell a story. I thought Power Rangers moved past that like fifteen years ago.

But they wouldn't have. By the time RPM rolled around Disney couldn't care less about Power Rangers by the sounds of it.

Disney constantly threatened to axe the show and pretended to not care. Then each season had loads of money thrown at it for new footage, casts that could actually act and stories that were actually coherent.

Until RPM, where it was replaced with the MMPR redux.

Huh? RPM was a MMPR redux?

No, RPM finished and it was replaced with a new version of MMPR season 1 which had horrible comic style transitions and similar effects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYWS28_g2o

Oh :lol I've never even heard of this before!

I don't think we ever got it over here to be fair, at least not to my knowledge.

Have you see the MMPR toys that are all over Tescos at the moment? They were made for this. Yeah, we're only getting 2010 toys now :lol

I guess if no one talks about it online and it never came out over here I would never find out about it.

Is that like the Red Ranger on the bike and stuff? Wow, we're so far behind...

Yep, kinda sad isn't it?

It is really depressing, I feel like that poor kid in high school movies who saves up for the latest trend and everyone has already moved on already.

Hey guys look at my Gosei Morpher! I smile next month when they're finally released in the UK, to a collective Tokunation yawn and eye roll.