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I've said it before, but you adapt LuPat by dusting off the Hexagon pitch, modernising it and going hog wild.
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True. You could do a Star Trek Voyager style show where two the two groups have differing viewpoints on how to use Rangerpowers -- one wants to steal from the rich to provide for the downtrodden and the other wants to protect the innocent. They would have to come together through a quirk in how the powers manifested/morphing grid imbalance/etc.
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Jul 29, 2018 01:39
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Or go the Super Megaforce route and never, ever point out what the team's theme is. 
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Or go the Super Megaforce route and never, ever point out what the team's theme is. Well there's a really simple explanation for the ToQger theme, it's  something I'll tell you later.
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Jul 29, 2018 03:34
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Or just go whole loving hog and make them the literal descendants of Arséne Lupin being pursued by the descendants of Herlock Sholmes due to legal action from the Doyle estate.
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Jul 29, 2018 03:35
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let me rephrase Power Rangers' target audience doesn't care much about trains and stereotyping autistic people like that is gross
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deadly_pudding posted:The only way LuPat comes across to the US with its theming kind of intact is if the Thief Rangers are all undercover cops, or they're one team of rangers who are knowingly given a power that requires Law and Chaos in balance. I can't see Haim Saban signing off on a show that's about 50% "The police can't help you", even if they other 50% is "The police are trying really hard to help you". I don’t think they have to keep calling them thieves or whatever. I think the core thing to keep is that one team operates with secret identities like the Zordon crews, and the other just lives in public like Lightspeed or SPD. As someone who was so tied to the secret identity mysticism stuff that Lightspeed Rescue was the point I went from dedicated viewer to dropping the show completely, I’m surprised that LuPat is able to do the Public Works Rangers thing so successfully. I guess it helps that they’re part of some new world order of law enforcement, and not some ridiculously high tech department protecting a small town. Also re ToQ: Power Rangers has had numerous trains show up as zords over the years. You’d need to do an extensive re-write of everything outside of the combat footage, but not that much more than they do with shows already. You’d want to make a new cast of allies and a new villain, but when Power Rangers makes their own villain people tend to think they’re the best in the franchise. If they could adapt Go-On to RPM, they could adapt ToQger. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Jul 29, 2018 |
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:There are at least four airing train shows for children right now. Thomas of course, Dinosaur Train, Chuggington, a different one I saw on Disney the other day. Kids are still into trains. Younger kids anyway And while that sorta lines up with the lower end of Super Sentai's demo, PR's core demo has largely outgrown those shows and pretty much avoids anything target to children younger them as much as possible.
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Coq au Nandos posted:I've said it before, but you adapt LuPat by dusting off the Hexagon pitch, modernising it and going hog wild. I don't think any sort of Hexagon can work, as long as the pitch is centralized around asking and answering questions about Power Rangers that basically only people here actually give a rat's rear end about.
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Jul 29, 2018 17:53
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Just change the thieves to secret agents like James Bond and from a different agency
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Jul 29, 2018 19:20
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I haven't actually watched any LuPat yet but couldn't you just make the Lupinrangers Robin Hood style figures?
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I mean one of the Overdrive rangers was a professional thief. So were Jack and Z, backstory wise. I don't think this is as big a deal as you guys think. Samuel Benta is a d-bag of course but I doubt that'd be any serious consideration production wise.
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Jul 30, 2018 03:02
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They've even done opposing power ranger teams before with Ninja Storm.
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I think the issue is that it's two opposing teams where neither is evil, but one is clearly meant to be Good (Patrens) and the other is meant to be somewhat bad (Lupins) and they directly oppose each other. It might be a little too grey for producers to be comfortable with as is without tweaks
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It really depends on the production team. The super white bread tone of Samurai and Megaforce would probably dumb it down, but I can see other producers being okay with it.
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Xelkelvos posted:I think the issue is that it's two opposing teams where neither is evil, but one is clearly meant to be Good (Patrens) All cops are bad.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:All cops are bad. I mean yeah, but as far as a kid's show in the US is concerned, cops are good and you're friends unless they're the crooked kind. Actually, that might be a decent set-up: The Lupin team is also cops, but not as higher ranked or something as the Patren team so they moonlight as thieves to get in on the action.
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You guys are overthinking this. The Pat team are licensed professionals and the Lupins are vigilante's taking justice into their own hands which puts them at odds with each other.
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The Power Rangers are cops.
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Jul 30, 2018 16:28
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Sometimes. Bulk and Skull also are cops sometimes (and real rear end in a top hat ones too, they racially profile and hand out every minor citation they can in order to feel powerful)
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Jul 30, 2018 16:34
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Tbh, Zack is the only original ranger who wouldn't narc. Mayne Tommy pre-white ranger.
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Billy is no narc
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Honestly none of the original Rangers are cops or cop like. Like just going off of their bare bones character traits, Kim might object to pot or something but generally they're normal teens who do normal teen poo poo. Also Kim keeps signing them up to save the environment. But you know, 90s. Though notably, most of the time Kim pulled that poo poo, most of the guys bailed as hard as they could.
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Jul 30, 2018 17:21
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That was Trini
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Jul 30, 2018 17:24
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:That was Trini Okay look, I'm not going to lie Trini's role as Kim's best friend leads me to blob her few distinct moments into Kim more than it should. Mostly because Trini had like, two things to her. Three sorta. She had "Cares About Environment", "Is Probably The Second Smartest", and "Karate But Not As Much As Jason"
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Jul 30, 2018 17:27
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First look at the team up, and they announced it for 8pm on August 28th, which was the day MMPR premiered.
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Ha ha I totally expect it to be lame and bland but I’ll still watch it and hope for the best I thought I heard Steve Cardenas was on board for the team up, too? Sockser fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jul 30, 2018 |
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Yeah but they're only officially announcing them a few at a time. JDF looks in better shape than Wes somehow despite being like ten years older. Catherine has aged completely normally, JDF looks like he could be mid 30s in that photo. I like to imagine Catherine Sutherland's first day on set in 1995. "Ok Catherine, can I call you Cat? You'll be playing a a character named Katherine (Kat for short) who can turn into a cat." John Wick of Dogs fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jul 30, 2018 |
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Jul 30, 2018 19:58
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Are they letting anyone from the Disney era show up this time?
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Nodosaur posted:Are they letting anyone from the Disney era show up this time? Iirc, Tommy Rocky Kat Wes And yellow from Megaforce. Mia? Tommy sorta counts as Disney era right ? A.I. Borgland Corp posted:
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Tommy is Disney by technicality. and I see. That sounds better than the Saban only group from Megaforce.
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Jul 30, 2018 20:15
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Can't wait for Tommy to Gokai Change into himself.
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:First look at the team up, and they announced it for 8pm on August 28th, which was the day MMPR premiered. Legit sad Kat will be Turbo Pink and not Zeo Pink.
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Unponderable posted:Legit sad Kat will be Turbo Pink and not Zeo Pink. Theoretically we’ve got Rocky and Tanya and maybe JYB repping Zeo and nobody else repping Turbo, as a possible explanation
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Jul 30, 2018 20:22
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That's honestly a drat solid lineup of returning people.
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Lol they really don't even try to use that turbo morpher right anymore
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Aren't some of those actors spotted in New Zealand just people who live in New Zealand?
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SpazmasterX posted:Lol they really don't even try to use that turbo morpher right anymore I recall reading that the actors never had to really do the Turbo morph properly, because they never had to really get the key into the morpher properly. The glow special effect would cover any mis-aims. Partially related, I wonder how many former Ranger actors have perfect or near-perfect muscle memory for their morphing, even decades later, thanks to conventions and stuff. You know JDF can do all of them, gun to his head, without breaking a sweat.
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You wouldn't be able to get a gun to his head, he'd spin kick it out of your hand
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