Power Rangers Season 8-12 DVD Release Confirmed
 

Online retailer DVD Empire has put up a listing for "Power Rangers: Seasons 8-12" in a special boxset, which has been confirmed as an official release by Shout! Factory representatives!

The set- containing Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force, Wild Force, Ninja Storm and Dino Thunder- will apparently retail for 179.99 and is currently listed for release on November 12th but dates and prices are of course subject to change.

Thanks to member WhiteRanger for the heads-up!

Power Rangers Season 8-12 as been announced
 

Thanks to DVD Empire and confirmed by Brian Ward off of Ranger Board that Power Rangers Season 8 to 12 is coming as a Box set this will include


Lightspeed Resuce
Time Force
Wild Force
Ninja Storm
Dino Thunder

here the link to the full set details

http://www.dvdempire.com/1664972/pow...-12-movie.html

Welp, I'll be buying that box.

I'll be buying that. But I never heard of Wiled Force :lol

man i hope this gets a Amazon.com Rease so i can buy it through them

I think i'll just buy the mega sets. And pass on the Power Rangers Legacy set. I Will Get This. Loved All the Season's in this Mega set. I can't wait. I hope this ends up on Amazon for pre order.

$179? That is quite pricey considering Zeo-LG is only $130. I'll wait to see what Amazon drops its price to, but I'll probably just wait for a big sale like I did with MMPR and am doing so with Zeo-LG.

Anyway, this works out since DinoThunder is the last series I had planned to buy anyway. I could do without NS, but oh well, I guess I can suffer owning it.

Not sure about the question regarding TimeForce since I never watched the show.

Any chance I can get this set without Dino Thunder and Wild Force? :lol

You joke, but...

Back in the 80s, 90s, and even into the early 00s, it was common for ABC affiliates to have a baritone voiced guy reading a blurb during one show's credits to hype the show coming on next. I kid you not, the recording which hyped Wild Force called the show "Power Rangers Willed Force." I will never forget that as long as I live because it was so absolutely bizzare. How does one mispronounce "wild?!"

Awesome! Can't wait see artwork for it.
Defiantly will order when price drops under $100. ;)
Cool.

I'll buy it, i love those seasons.

I only really want Time Force from this set, so I'd probably wait/hope for an individual release.

I'm kinda in the same boat as Matrix. All I really want is Lightspeed and Time Force.

But Ninja Storm is awesome!

Eh, I dunno.
Ninja Storm is one of those series I was too afraid to rewatch because I couldn't stand it the first time around.
Then again, I really hate the whole "Surfer bro" character, so having a main cast consisting of all of them is putting me off.
*Puts it on the list of series to rewatch*
This reminds me, I'm only halfway through my Wild Force rewatch. Guess that attests to it's quality :lol

Ninja Storm's only real problem is it never took itself seriously, even Mighty Morphin for all its goofiness knew that a moment of tension and drama was needed from time to time. But overall Ninja Storm made a much better Mighty Morphin' call back than Dino Thunder did, the sentai fights were great and the characters were fun within their limitations, I dug it.

I know the NS fights were pretty fun. I enjoyed them.
But I can't stand the scenes where the characters are chilling out in their normal lives or hanging out at headquarters. If I skipped straight to the fight scenes, I wouldn't really be watching the series.

Strangely enough, I don't think I ever had a problem with Lothor. He was dumb, but I've seen dumber villains (Master Org and General Nazor, anyone?)

I dug 'em, EXTREME jokes aside, I think they are the closest thing Power Rangers has had to real teens, because come on Dino Thunder's teens were in many ways more ridiculous than Mighty Morphin's.

You had Kira singing autotuned pop songs on an acoustic guitar and that was basically the end of her character, minus shitty makeup and wanting to stick it to the man.

Connor was basically just a massive personality vacant douchesack who stood around in tracksuit bottoms with a bad haircut and every now and then he'd get a really rushed and contrived story around him. I am in love with this girl I met thirty seconds of screen time ago, let's save this tree or some shit!

Ethan, he was the nerd right? I don't think the show really established how nerdy he was enough /sarcasm.

Also Trent, the artist, who draws worse than I do and I can't draw. I guess he was pretty teenagery since he had so much ANGST.

I'm not saying Dino Thunder was any good, or saying that Ninja Storm was worst than DT.
But I do think the NS teens were the most unrealistic set of teenagers this side of MMPR, because motocross, including bike maintenance and gear, is totally something someone can do on a part time job (Not sure if the NS teens were out of high school or not, but I don't believe they had full time jobs considering they had the whole ninja training, then PR thing going on).

No but I use DT as an example because I really can't fathom why a show as poor as that seems to get a free ride, I do sometimes wonder if I'm an alien because the fandoms best of lists are usually the same as my worst of list.

But yeah the whole EXTREME stuff was a little iffy, but they actually felt like teens in their characterisation, attitudes, personalities etc rather than DT's cardboard cut outs and Mighty Morphins depiction of teens from about seventy years before the show aired.

Don't worry, I'm in the same boat. I found about half of DT to be pure crap, so while it's not on my "Worst" list, it's nowhere near my best.

And that's fair enough. In my experience in high school, I was friends with a guy exactly like Ethan and Connor, so I felt they were decent representations of teens, but that may have just been an isolated incident.
MMPR's depiction of teens was horrid. They were less depictions of teens, and more depictions of goody goods from PSAs who would never touch a drug or do anything bad ever.

Rewatching Power Rangers as an adult, critically, to me it feels like Disney never truly understood what they wanted Power Rangers to be and as such they tried to constantly recreate Mighty Morphin's success and when that failed they seemed to just directly lift sentai plots.

And although a lot of the later Disney stuff in my mind was awesome, it's clear with shows like Dino Thunder just how much Disney were struggling, they seemed to always focus on the wrong thing in that series and by pretty much the second half the show was just a fucking mess.

I've met people like Ethan and Connor also, but none of them have ever been that one dimensional, ever. But yeah the MMPR teens really did belong in like an anti-pot PSA from the 40s.

This guy disagrees:

http://www.rangercentral.com/databas...-vi-lothor.jpg

Until they somehow remove this guy, the really loud pitched voices (seriously, were they screaming into the mics?), and the sportsy type talk, the show will never be even remotely awesome.

DinoThunder was great because it had a villain that looked and sounded threatening, Tommy, it talked about the previous teams, the cast actually felt like they belonged in high school, a goth for a ranger, good acting (except for Tommy phoning it in at times), getting to see Lothor get his ass beat by Mesogog, and as much as I hated their dub for AbaRanger, they did something to recognize Sentai. Not to mention the show had the advantage of using AbaRanger for its footage. Is the show perfect? No. There is no reason Trent had to be placed under an evil spell. They could have had him really torn on what to do since his father was Mezogog. Secondly, the final fight sucked.

Lothor was an awesome villain!

I always found him fun to watch, but I weird :eyebrow

Finally the DVDs that those seasons deserve are coming out. I have fond memories of of Ninja storm through SPD and saw an episode of Mystic Force.

To join in on the Dino Thunder disscussion, DT was my first PR series but I don't remember it for the characters. Granted, maybe because when you are a kid, you only care about awesome heroes and Zords but still. I haven't rewatched Dino thunder straight through so I can't comment on the acting. This series did get me to want to get a ps2 for the video game though, leading me into gaming.....

Remembering Dino thunder reminds me that Power Rangers is trying to be both Sentai and Rider at the same time with the Battlizer and power ups. But I think that if I can rewatch it again, it'll have a lot more intresting characters then sterile mighty morphin' teenagers.

Ninja Storm is my Mighty Morphin'—flawed, but I can't hate it because it was my first season. I think it could have improved considerably with a better soundtrack.

Dino Thunder is one of the most enjoyable TV shows I have ever watched. Every time I watched an episode, I was always looking forward to how fun it was, and I was never disappointed. Trent's story as the evil White Ranger was a bit too long, but I can forgive it.

I probably won't buy the DVDs since Netflix exists, though.

Wow, you people are young. MMPR was my first series and I was there watching the tv for the premier on that Saturday August morning. I was 11 at the time and fell in love with the show the moment I saw the first commercial for it 2 weeks prior.

MMPR was my first season, but Turbo was the season where I was old enough to actually comprehend what was going on.
I still think Turbo is vastly unappreciated for vapid and airheaded reasons.

See, I comprehended everything right from the get go. In fact, I knew right away the show was Japanese and loved when I saw a magazine in a store that talked about the Japanese versions. I remember learning that Green Ranger died in the Japanese version from one of those magazines, which made me want to see it so much more even when I was 12 years old.

In fact, there was a store that had a sign in their window that they were now selling Power Rangers toys, including the green ranger. We went in there, and they were all rangers that came with motorcycles. They looked nothing like ther Power Rangers outside of being pink, red, blue, green, and yellow. Not to mention their bikes looked like unicorns.

It was many years later that I realized those toys were actually the DaiRangers. :cry

As for Turbo, these are the reasons I hated it (haven't seen it since it first aired):

Not know what the heck happened to the Zeo powers and why Zedd and Rita were not doing anything.

Not knowing where Mondo was since he vowed to get revenge.

Wondering what happened to the Zeo powers.

Divatox and her crew of idiots replacing Zedd and Goldar.

The ridiculous looking villains I could not take seriously.

Car zords.

Justin.

Tommy, Adam, and Kat being replaced by unworthy characters.

Alpha 6's voice.

Nothing came out of Divatox and Zordon Divatox being sisters.

Divatox changing actresses three times.

The footsoldiers went from looking cool in the movie to dumb in the tv show.

The Phantom Ranger was a waste.

Having just rewatched Turbo, lemme counter your points.

This is fair enough. Blame David Yost, if anything.

He was destroyed along with the rest of the Royal House of Gadgetry. I was surprised he was rebuilt come In Space.

Didn't you bring that up already?

Zedd and Goldar were crap. Face it. Zedd was threatening for all of 6 episodes before parental complains caused them to tone him down and he felt like the Shredder with a neat design. He was not missed unless you're too busy jacking your nostalgia boner over him, since he was inept, generic, and lame.
Goldar has been lame as hell since they paired him up with Rito.

This is bullshit since the MMPR and Zeo villains weren't anything worth taking seriously to begin with.
Unless a giant crawfish is suddenly the epitome of villain costumes and I just don't understand.

This is bad how?

Justin is twice the actor JDF and Johnny Yong Bosch, Justin was one of the better characters in all of Power Rangers, Justin is one of the better actors in all of Power Rangers. Justin is one of the best characters I've seen and citing him as a negative is complete bullshit, especially if you haven't seen the show in 15 years.

TJ was more worthy of Tommy to be Red. Adam was not a good character. Get over yourself. You can like the actors all you want, but their characters were shit, and their acting was even worse. Drop your nostalgia and open your eyes. TJ, Carlos, and Cassie were far, far better than those 3 ever were.

Fine.

Dimetria, and it's supposed to be like that. Not every mystery angle is supposed to be resolved by an exposition dump.

Twice, and only because the first actress got pregnant (And she returned to being Divatox after she lost the weight).

They looked dumb in the movie...

He was a bit too ambitious and budget cuts constantly caused him to get the shaft.
Doesn't stop him from being twice as interesting than In Space's Silver.

If you haven't watched Turbo since airing, then rewatch it and then present your issues. If you still think it's bad, fine, I'll back down. But it's been over 15 years and everyone is so buttmad over it they refuse to re-watch it, so it's hard to trust an opinion who can't give it the time of day to reevaluate it but does have the time to constantly bitch and hate over it.

What does he have to do with this?

No he wasn't. Don't you remember that after Zedd and Rita blew him up at the end of Zeo, his head was still active and he vowed revenge against them? It was the last scene before the last commercial break.

My bad, I was distracted.

I do agree that they turned Goldar into a joke, but Zedd still entered the command center, he fought Tommy, he captured the Falconzord, Ninjor, and pretty much won the battle with the rangers.

What I mean is that the monsters just did not look threatening in Turbo. Their dialog and personalities did not fit the Japanese footage.

As a kid this was bad because they went from awesome zords that were based off mythological creatures to cars. When you love mythology and have absolutely no interest in cars, this makes a big difference.

I hate Justin with a passion. It was more of them still treating him like he was an adult character even though he was a child. And I still think Tommy and Adam are the best Power Rangers ever. They were always my favorite as a kid and they are still my favorites to this day. That bike episode was just down right awful.

See above.

I disagree. From a story telling point, if you don't want to advance it, don't bring it up at all. It makes the writers look dumb.

Fair, but it stills fucks with continuity and pulled me out of the immersion even at 14.

Compared to what they look in the show? They looked far more terrifying in the movie.

Never cared for Shane that much, but the Phantom Ranger and BLue Senturion were lame characters. They could have done so much with Blue since he was sent from the future, but nope, another dropped plot line. Sure, it could be what happens in PRiS, but they didn't even bother to touch on it in PRiS.

I'll rewatch it when I get the DVDs. I just finished the MMPR set last week, so I'll get the next set when it is on sale and I have the money for it and I'll watch them all in order. I might enjoy the show more since I absolutely love CarRanger.

Oh yeah, there is one other thing I hated about Turbo and that was the treatment of Bulk and Skull. First, what happened to them being international spies like they did at the end of Zeo? Sure, they would fail, but it was not even talked about. They were just randomly cops again in the Turbo movie. THen they get turned into freaking monkeys, only to go invisible. WTF was the point of it? IT showed the writers had no idea what to do with their characters anymore.

It all started with MMPR with me but I think Lost Galaxy was really the place where I was old enough to comprehend what was happening

$180? Ouch. I'll stick to Netflix till I can get it for cheaper.

Wild Force was my first PR series technically but Dino Thunder was the first one I could comprehend what was going on

lol

Lost Galaxy is kind of where the show lost my interest. I did not care for the completely new cast, I was sick of buying new toys every year from square 1, also, Beast Wars had become my main focus by then, and I did not like the Starship Troopers vibe I was getting from the show. Their military uniforms felt like they were just taken from that movie set. As such, outside of Ninja Storm and DinoThunder, I never really watched any of the series outside of like their premier episodes and maybe an episode here or there. I don't think I've seen anything to Time Force though, maybe one episode of Wild Force, and then I've only seen 2 episodes of JF and nothing afterwards until the first two episodes of MegaForce. Now JF and RPM is pretty much because Disney took the shows off the air in my area, but I also hated the first two episodes of JF, so I didn't care. As for OO and MysticForce, I've seen the first and last few to each series, but I could never stand the series enough to watch the whole thing. I hated the cast to both series, I hated the rap music to MF, I hated the Attack of the Clones music from MysticForce, and I hated the Miser Brothers being the villains of OO. Not to mention a lot of episodes in MF I did see felt majorly rushed and the Sentai footage looked like it was being played on fast forward.

That's because the suits were taken from Starship Troopers...

Anyway, I think the yearly cast changes were a nice change of pace. Of course there were characters I liked, but the writers were so intent on never letting the characters grow up, it's not like they had actual stories beyond the Green With Evil saga.

I honestly, now I'm an adult and have rewatched a lot of Power Rangers stuff with a much wider toku pallet, have to say I really dislike a vast majority of Power Rangers seasons. Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force, Ninja Storm, Mystic Force, Jungle Fury, RPM - all fantastic but all the rest of the seasons range from downright awful to just having good moments dotted around a lot of shit.

That's precisely how I'd describe Ninja Storm :lol

Anyway, Turbo will still be one of my more fonder series.

i Agree with you on that one even when i was