Wow, Power Rangers Bruce Timm style?

You know, I think any animated version of sentai would have to work on the
costumes... if only because they have the freedom to. I mean, isn't part of sentai having masked men really about stunt doubles?
 
Stunt doubles and a sense of coolness. Think of it this way, what would spider-man be like if everyone knew what he looked like...oh yeah terrible
 
An animated sentai show has the opportunity to soup up the armor and have the ocassional non-armored fight scene. It'd be a shame not to.

That said, I really think live action He-Man sentai would rock!
 
Actually I remember an interview with Haim Saban that said the reason they passed on Jetman was that it was a dark series with a lot of violence and death that wouldn't "pass on American TV without a lot of cuts"...but this was about 1992 or 93.

Jetman was a homage to Gatchaman and the monsters were ordinary objects brought to monstrous life. I think it probably was the episode with the killer teddy bear that put Saban off of Jetman.

Personally, I like the idea of a new series each year. But I also watch Super Sentai as well.

And there are rumors afoot that Disney will convert the PR franchise to animation after Jungle Fury runs it's course...they claim it'd be cheaper to produce.
 
Well, a couple things. I never really liked Power Rangers that much. I mean I watched the first season and enjoyed it on a small level, but I could never get too into it. I also feel it isn't fun enough to be cheesy, and it's not serious enough to be taken seriously. So it's an unhappy medium with me. And lastly, I'm more of an Ultraman guy.

That said, I do not doubt it has a huge fanbase over the age of 10. I mean, you can't punt a football in a web forum without hitting a PR fan of some sort. Even still, an animated version of the show has as much appeal as the animated Fraggle rock. it seems like a good idea, you can get away with a little more in animation than in live action, but other than that... what's the point? other than continuing the franchise, it seems like all the charm of something done in live action is gone. Plus, other little factors in making a cartoon play a role in making it not as memorable as the original.

I mean, I think an animated show would work, but I just don't see it being as successful as the live action series, unless the same people are involved.
 
Um....WHAT? No intelligent person SHOULD consider that racist. There's positively no way in which that counts as "racism", period. It isn't an act of hatred or discrimination. It's the harmless practice of localization. Every single country does it, and the actors aren't chosen by race either way. Wasn't one of the first American "power rangers" an Asian anyway? Trini?
 
When I was a kid, the point of the animated Fraggle Rock show was that I didn't have HBO and was just glad to see the Fraggles in any form I could.

:p

Don't know how that would apply to Power Rangers, though.
 
Basically Power Rangers would loose all its appeal if it became just another cartoon. The fact that its the only show of its kind on the airwaves is its one of its biggest strength.
 
TWO Hours?!? Beside Dragon Knight where the FRELL would they find the other hour and a half?? Someone's dubbing Ryukendo? Airing Ultraman Tiga again and some older shows?? I can't see those Ryukendo and Sazer adaptations project be done by fall.
 
The purposed rumored lineup is

Big Bad Beetleborgs

Ryukendo

Sazers

Dragon Knight

It gets worse though, we have scripts floating around here and there for shows called Galactic Knights and Zodiac Warriors.
GK COULD be the Korean EreXion series. And an educated guess tells us that Zodiac Warriors is likely Gransazers
 
Technically whats being shown in the UK doesn't mean it''l have the same network support here.

For example. Sonic X is a JETIX series elsewhere in the world but we know it as a 4Kids series.

Similar to that, Saban's Masked Rider might have appeared on JETIX UK's run of "A Friend In Need" but that episode can't be aired here by Disney as they don't have the rights to Kamen Rider....Andness Entertainment does.

Just look at it like the whole nutty Bat Embargo thing if that helps.
 
Greatest Saban Quote Ever!


You see folks Power Rangers do not suck, if they did that wouldn't sell as well and they would not have been bought by Disney for 2 billion dollars.

The show`s appeal lies in three keys

-Robots

-Karate

-Teenagers

These three elements usually come seperately but in PR you get them all at once. Now PR does use a very easy to follow formula, but that recipe has evolved since Jason and crew first leaped on screen.

I mean I can tell you for key episodes that Bruce Timm would have brought the house down with. One ranger's wife being kidnapped in the middle of a war that cost him his whole planet. One day he finds the man who took her away from him and the two fight in a classic fight.

One Ranger is brainwashed into thinking he`s the king of the Machine Empire, a nasty group, and is the only one who can kill a Power Ranger. It takes the love his girlfriend and his friends courage to power down thier powers to break the trance.

One Ranger is haunted by the spectre of his past as a blood thirsty villian who almost brough the Rangers to their knees. Things get worse when the spectre turns out to be real and he must defeat it if her wants his sanity back


A young police woman loses her fiancee and finds the man who almost killed him. Even though her love was taken away by someone else`s hand, she sees killing this guy as a good standin for her rage.


Tommy Oliver is in a coma, and the only way he can break out is to fight his former alter egos one by one. The results are just as heroic as any other hero who fights for his will to survive.

All in all, I can give you litterally hundreds of great PR episodes that were good and a good number that were episode outside of the finales.
 
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