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AgentHaiTo posted:My son got purple kyoruger's mech for Christmas. Maybe for his birthday, he'll get the last two mechs. Owns owns owns Sudden urge to spend hundreds of dollars, especially since I haven't seen any of the train stuff that excites me (and I love trains).
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HKR posted:Owns owns owns The good thing is he has a grandmother in Japan who mails these to us in the US every few months, sort of a Kyoruger care package. I'm actually thinking of skipping showing Train Rangers to my son though, and not just for space and cost concerns when it comes to the toys. I don't like the look of the train robots or the uniforms, where with the Kyoru stuff, I liked all the stuff that came out and watch the show with him.
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AgentHaiTo posted:My son got purple kyoruger's mech for Christmas. Maybe for his birthday, he'll get the last two mechs. ZU ZU ZU PLEZUOOOOOH It's bigger than I thought it would be.
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Dec 26, 2013 19:11
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I'm not sure if toy Gabutyra is huge, or if its the other ones that are tiny, but the scale just looks all wrong. They're still cool as hell and make me sad I'm so broke though.
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jivjov posted:I'm not sure if toy Gabutyra is huge, or if its the other ones that are tiny, but the scale just looks all wrong. They're still cool as hell and make me sad I'm so broke though. Yeah, toy Gabutyra is bigger than the rest of the main Kyoru, as those are just his different arms. Pteradon is about the same size, but Plezuo is bigger than all of them. My wife is saying no more robots, but we are actually going to Japan in March, and I may pick up Spiny Daioh and Bragioh if we have the luggage space. I mean, we got most of them already, why not get the rest, right?
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Wait, no Kyoryu this weekend? So it's ending with 48 episodes? That's lame. Edit: Or, more likely, I shouldn't even trust Jefusion to have accurate airdate info. SpiderHyphenMan fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Dec 26, 2013 |
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There is no Kyoryu this weekend, but it's ending with 49.
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It was posted on a Kamen Rider facebook group so I don't have a link to give you guys, but has anyone else seen the footage of the Genesis Driver? I didn't know how well a fruit juicer driver would work, in concept or execution, but like everything else Gaim, it blew away my expectations. The thing is drat cool, and I can't wait to see it in action! (I haven't seen the newest episode, if it actually already has been.)
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:It was posted on a Kamen Rider facebook group so I don't have a link to give you guys, but has anyone else seen the footage of the Genesis Driver? Post a link to the group, dummy.
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Let me post the video instead (or a video, anyways, not too sure if it's the same Cipher Pol 9 was talking about) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crMNwBVdP8
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HO-HO-HO! A day late but a Christmas Present none the less! My fellow Goons, I present to you a magical gift! Three morons riffing Alpha's Magical Christmas! http://www.wadejobkar.com/bonus-03-alphas-magical-christmas/ Be forwarned-this is all improve. We had like, a minute's notice and planning.
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I started drinking at the beginning of that episode and did not stop until well after we were done. If profanity offends you for some reason, do not download.
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Sorry, didn't think to post the group, but Blaze Dragon came through with a much better video than the one I saw so no point tracking it down now. I like the new voice and the juice-filling gimmick a lot, personally.
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So I finally watched Hurricaneger 10 years after. I was floored when I realized the kid was the same kid from Go-Busters. I liked when they went all  against the mooks.
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Dr Tran posted:So I finally watched Hurricaneger 10 years after. I was floored when I realized the kid was the same kid from Go-Busters. I liked when they went all Hurricanger 10 years later is great and doesn't require much knowledge of Hurricanger to enjoy. You'll miss some of the character interactions and some of the plot points, but it's great fun that can be had by someone completely alien to Hurricanger.
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Been watching some Dairanger because why not. Episode for has a puppet with a gun, so that makes this a good series.
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anyone post this yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKVa1eQF3PI
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many apologies for the double posting but i just had to post one of the worst reviews I've seen in a while https://www.kamensentai.blogspot.com/2013/10/kamen-rider-wizard-series-review.html when will fanboys get it in their loving heads the difference between actual criticism and a summary?...
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Race Realists posted:many apologies for the double posting but i just had to post one of the worst reviews I've seen in a while When will people realize when someone puts red text on a red background anything they write can be safely ignored?
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Its like we took a time machine back to the internet of 2002.
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http://i.4cdn.org/m/src/1388876617892.jpg Tokkyuger's mooks. Oh my god.
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Rei_ posted:http://i.4cdn.org/m/src/1388876617892.jpg These may be the greatest Mooks in the history of Mooks.
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http://i.imgur.com/6vAL3WO.jpg Yellow's rocking the Luka look.
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Choo Choo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXy6OIEup9k
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It sounds like the morphers actually have a bing bong. I seriously hope they do, that would be fantastic.
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TQG looks like it'll be a lot of fun.
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Looks like this series will be goofy as hell. And the costumes do look better in motion though I don't think they looked all that bad to begin with.
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I did like the "gate lowering" bell for the robot, I expect it's part of the final strike.
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Rei_ posted:http://i.4cdn.org/m/src/1388876617892.jpg They even use tommy guns!  Akibaranger has finally been beaten. I'm in love.
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Rei_ posted:http://i.4cdn.org/m/src/1388876617892.jpg Those mooks are amazing. They remind me of these mooks.
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I am in love. Now that toy scans are a bit better too I'm fairly sure I'm going to be getting the robots as they come out this time.
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Rei_ posted:http://i.4cdn.org/m/src/1388876617892.jpg Since we all know that that link is gonna die pretty quick, I uploaded it elsewhere. Here.  Also, It might be worth watching just for the "Why didn't they attack somewhere without rails? Why didn't they put the target on the rails so the heroes coming to save the day do the dirty work?"
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So did they just give up on not-goofy sentai after GoBusters?
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To keep up the modality of toku with increasing visual quality of television, it either needs to have a budget that honestly Toei/Bandai doesn't seem to enjoy dishing out or lean really hard into being eccentric and outlandish. A lot of toku actually does rely on imagination to make it fun and interesting, so you have to create a world and characters that can support being that expressive and bombastic. The easiest way to do this is to tell exciting, childlike stories. Also GoBusters just didn't do very well. A lot of kids found the story depressing as hell, and the characters weren't terribly interesting, and the juxtaposition between the tone of the story, and the characters in it didn't make a whole lot of sense. It was incredibly stylish, but undone by its own content.
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Go-Busters was silly at times but it was a lot more serious in the episodes before Messiah was destroyed, the ratings were really bad and so the show was apparently retooled to be slightly more wacky and it was given a new theme song.
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While it had its silly parts (the Weakpoints apart from Ryuji's and the Buddyroids, mostly), Go-Busters was rather dark for Sentai, dealing with people getting in actual dangerous situations that aren't ignored or put lighter than they are, the Go-Busters themselves were clearly emotionally scarred people, Kuroki at first is shown as a rather harsher leader than the usual for Sentai (though it lasts about one episode, sadly), Enter is a far more threatening and competent enemy than the usual ones seen in Sentai, and there's the whole sacrifice theme going around, from the fact that we're led to believe the Go-Busters parents are dead, Kuroki outright says that the Go-Busters themselves can be sacrificed for the city's own safety, Hiromu KILLING their parents, and of course, Jin's heroic sacrifice. Saying Go-Busters was a light and fun series just because of the stupid gimmicks only shows you didn't watch it at all, honestly.
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Rei_ posted:Also GoBusters just didn't do very well. A lot of kids found the story depressing as hell, and the characters weren't terribly interesting, and the juxtaposition between the tone of the story, and the characters in it didn't make a whole lot of sense. It was incredibly stylish, but undone by its own content. Twelve by Pies posted:Go-Busters was silly at times but it was a lot more serious in the episodes before Messiah was destroyed, the ratings were really bad and so the show was apparently retooled to be slightly more wacky and it was given a new theme song. Keep in mind that while the ratings of Kyoryuger started higher, they've since dropped even lower. Kyoryuger is the opposite of dark, and yet it's still on track to be the lowest rated season ever. It's tremendously difficult to argue that Go-Busters' failure was related to its content anymore.
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That's not quite what I was trying to get at. I was saying it was trying to be a show that modern sentai just CAN'T TELL because of its modern demographic and consistent design philosophy. You can't tell have a serious show, and also a recurring plot point that your Red freezes if he looks at a chicken. While the show was incredibly intelligent at times, you have to understand the role the Producer plays in the Toei/Bandai production cycle of ensuring that these shows are THEMATICALLY consistent between seasons. GoBusters felt like the writer and producer were often at odds with eachother about what the show should be, and it undercut a lot of what made that show unique. GoBuster Ace for example is a fantastic mecha that played well with a lot of the shows tones, however Bandai DEMANDS a Sentai robo follow a certain development pattern for merchandising, so you wound up with a mecha by the end that was really gross and cumbersome and often at odds with what the show was trying to do. There is literally a point in that show where the Producer just steps in and axes the show direction in favour of something else, because the dissonance between the story, the characters, the merchandise and the setting was just too much. It's not that these dictate the failings of the show ratings wise, in fact I'm not sure people are sure why Sentai's doing so badly these days anymore, but you can see how these rating issues emerge in the development of these shows as writers attempting to be unique, and producers attempting to maintain ratings vie for control of the show. Which is a shame because I actually thought they hit a balance I enjoyed in the last chunk of its run that was a good middleground between it's first and second thirds. Rei_ fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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