[timothyR]

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Originally Posted by Azly

At the risk of climbing on my soapbox, I hate this kind of lazy, cynical, in-name-only "reimagining". If you're using existing names, but changing personalities, designs, backstory and concept, then you're essentially admitting that you're using those names to try to grab the nostalgia dollar and nothing else.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I'm not a fan of this mentality.
Everyone knew it was going to be different from the show. No one was anticipating a mildly tweaked Dino Megazord/Daizyujin.
It's the differences that took all individuality and made it into the AOE Dinobots in aesthetic for dino mode, and a giant, sludge footed ranger in robot mode that had most people cross.
We weren't asking for more of the same, we were wanting them to be more unique. They instead chose to embrace the summer blockbuster cookie cutter alien, and molded themselves after everyone else.

Couldn't agree more with both of you.

Also.. It's one thing to drastically change up the designs, but the fact that they couldn't even use the classic combination is insulting.

I'm all for changing styles and aesthetics. Like.. Transformers prime Optimus, or even the newer RID Optimus are both what I'd call great homages to his classic G1 look. Hell, compared to this, even movie 1-3 prime is a solid homage to G1 prime.

But these ugh.

I think I'd be WAY more forgiving if the designs translated better to the toys, but they don't. The detailing is extremely dull, there's a jarring absence of paint detailing, and while I don't mind parts here and there disconnecting and reconnecting.. This takes that concept too far.

I'm sure they'll all look rather nice on screen. But all that's going to do is make me like the toys even less.

There are just some basic things I would've liked to have seen with this iteration of the Rangers. 1st, ranger helmets that represent their zords as well as MMPR did. Zords that combine similarly to the MMPR zords.. And zords with the proper amount of legs lol.

With those guidelines I still think they could've come up with something awesome.