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Post by Vitamin Z on Mar 12, 2009 23:00:21 GMT -5
LIGHTS OUT FOR 'POWER RANGERS' Post staff writer THE plug has been pulled on the once-mighty "Power Rangers." After 17 years, Disney has stopped producing new episodes of the show that was a pop-culture touchstone of the '90s. Apparently, the five color-coded superheroes - Green Ranger, Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, etc. - are still selling a lot of toys, but have become passé as a TV show. There was no official word from Disney, which owns the show. But the cast and crew were informed this week that the show has been dropped, according to reports in the local papers in New Zealand, where the series has been produced since 2003. The show will likely still be on the air for some time - in repeats. But no new ones will be made. The series, about superheroes who can don and doff their costumes instantaneously to fight the bad guys, was based on a Japanese series. It began as "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" on Saturday mornings on Fox in 1993 and moved to ABC and Disney's kids cable channels in 2003. The show, while hardly controversial, did have its detractors. Some local stations dropped it from their Saturday morning lineups in 2006 when the FCC said the rock-'em-sock-'em series did not comply with government requirements to air a certain number of hours of educational programming each week Honestly, I haven't watched it in a long time, but just the fact that they are gone is really sad. No more Super Legend action figures or anything cool like that.  |
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Post by Double J on Mar 12, 2009 23:00:56 GMT -5
It's for the best, the show lost its way long ago. It'll make a comeback in 10 years when someone makes a movie where they take an old sentai series, refilm the non-suit scenes with various stereotypes and make a parody of the genre out of it.
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on Mar 12, 2009 23:02:41 GMT -5
The originals in 1993 are the best....if they ever bring those to DVD, I will be the first one at the store to get them.
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Post by pineappleexpress on Mar 12, 2009 23:02:46 GMT -5
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Post by spam on Mar 12, 2009 23:03:23 GMT -5
Well, if they toys still sell, maybe they will make some super sweet and detailed Mighty Morphin stuff to cash in. They changed and made new series too often is what happend. When they went from MM to Zeo as a kid, I already was like...WTF?..And quit watching.
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Post by Vitamin Z on Mar 12, 2009 23:03:59 GMT -5
It's for the best, the show lost its way long ago. It'll make a comeback in 10 years when someone makes a movie where they take an old sentai series, refilm the non-suit scenes with various stereotypes and make a parody of the genre out of it. It'll be like Transformers in about 10 years. It'll be a big movie with lots of CGI and it'll be more adult oriented. |
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Post by Vitamin Z on Mar 12, 2009 23:05:04 GMT -5
Well, if they toys still sell, maybe they will make some super sweet and detailed Mighty Morphin stuff to cash in. They changed and made new series too often is what happend. When they went from MM to Zeo as a kid, I already was like...WTF?..And quit watching. They already did that too. They released a bunch of Super Legend stuff. I have a Green, Gold, and White Ranger. They are very detailed and have lots of articulation points. |
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Post by Double J on Mar 12, 2009 23:05:20 GMT -5
That's pretty much what the Mighty Morphin' Movie was. Tons of CG, no re-hashed Sentai image, and missing a lot of it's charm.
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Post by carly1988 on Mar 12, 2009 23:06:06 GMT -5
Once Tommy, Kimberly, Jason, Zach, Billy and Trini all left, Power Rangers went down the hole |
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Post by Edgeman05 on Mar 12, 2009 23:10:14 GMT -5
Good times.
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Post by Sandy on Mar 12, 2009 23:12:56 GMT -5
The original was the best. Tommy was the best Power Ranger ever.
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Post by Barrett on Mar 12, 2009 23:14:10 GMT -5
Okay. Now release the three seasons of MMPR on DVD so I can die happy.
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Post by Vitamin Z on Mar 12, 2009 23:15:00 GMT -5
Okay. Now release the three seasons of MMPR on DVD so I can die happy. They released them....in Germany. Its not fair, I like Power Rangers more than any German! |
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Post by Barrett on Mar 12, 2009 23:16:00 GMT -5
It's for the best, the show lost its way long ago. It'll make a comeback in 10 years when someone makes a movie where they take an old sentai series, refilm the non-suit scenes with various stereotypes and make a parody of the genre out of it. It'll be like Transformers in about 10 years. It'll be a big movie with lots of CGI and it'll be more adult oriented. I honestly can't wait until they do that. That movie better have Lord motha  in' Zedd and Goldar. |
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Post by Vitamin Z on Mar 12, 2009 23:22:55 GMT -5
It'll be like Transformers in about 10 years. It'll be a big movie with lots of CGI and it'll be more adult oriented. I honestly can't wait until they do that. That movie better have Lord motha in' Zedd and Goldar. Green Ranger is all I need. |
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Post by jomoishollywood on Mar 12, 2009 23:51:50 GMT -5
I was a huge fan...
When I was 8...
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Post by J12 on Mar 13, 2009 0:02:32 GMT -5
Weird to see something so important to my childhood finally come to a close. Hard to believe its been around so long, crazy.
Its for the best, though, nothing touches the old days.
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Post by The Silent Flute (joepetree) on Mar 13, 2009 0:03:24 GMT -5
its Morphin Time
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Post by Barrett on Mar 13, 2009 0:09:00 GMT -5
I honestly can't wait until they do that. That movie better have Lord motha in' Zedd and Goldar. Green Ranger is all I need. An Evil Green Ranger movie writes itself. |
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Post by M2K on Mar 13, 2009 0:09:19 GMT -5
There's still one whole series left to go though, if anyones interested. RPM just started this past weekend. It's looking like it may end up being better than Go-Onger but that's not saying much.
It's okay though, as long as i get my Super Sentai and Kamen Rider I'm okay, heh.
And there's always Kamen Rider Dragon Knight if you want some Toku Americanized in the PR fashion.
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