I'm not sure why they keep saying trains from Toqgr would be unviable to adapt for Power Rangers...the Supertrain was one of the more memorable sequences from the show and its all relative if you treat it respectfully and show it in a cool manner then people would love it...
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I'm Not Okay With This was a show on Netflix based on a comic. The guy working on the new Power Rangers adaptations previously worked on that show.
I think I watched a report from that series (not LSR, but the other one more recent with the trains) and what I liked the least were the suits. I believe a similar sequence like the supertrain in LSR wouldve work but there was something in those suits that was off.
Sounds a lot like they might be rebooting the franchise and those rumors about Hasbro cutting ties with Toei could be true after all.
I'm of two minds on it. While it will be interesting to see how Hasbro brings a full-on Western sensibility to the series, I'm envisioning the U.S. being stuck in a Zordon era loop for the next decade. If I want new zords, I'll HAVE to probably import. Since I'm primarily a Megazord collector, it kind of sucks not having a choice. While the American version was traditionally inferior anyway, occasionally, I preferred them over the BoJ when clip breakage is an issue like in Dino Charge. So far, my GoBusters hasn't had any problems but I've only transformed them into the main gestalt and that's it. I think the problems start when you go into cluster zord modes and you start forcing weight onto the toy.
Because Toqgr was just trains. The Supertrain was a carrier Zord, not the main one, and it also looked awesome and right in line with the other Zords. The Toqgr trains are simplified, colourful, and silly looking by comparison, and they're all trains with nothing else to fall back on. Comparing the Supertrain Megazord to Toqgr is like comparing is like comparing MP-10 to the Cyberverse One-step Prime.
I'd love a ToQger adaptation. ToQger was the series that got me into buying BoJ mecha because it felt so 80's Popy in comparison because of the lines on the designs! And the TV show was great! *stands on soap-box* Nothing since then has brought back the old 80's Popy feel for me, which is disappointing. Ninninger was kitchen sink random, Zyuohger was pixel-block inspired, Kyuranger had almost as many weird limbs sticking out as Transformers Beast Wars, Ryusoulger looks like AoE Transformers Dinobots and, while I love Kiramaizin, the rest of the Kiramager mecha feels half-assed. What's wrong with clean lines and solid super robot transformations? Why does everything need to be pointy, sharp and fiddle-faddly? Okay, I'll get down now...rant over.
Yeah, those suits are almost too plain. That plus the train motif probably wouldn't fly, although I enjoyed the series and the mechs, as simplistic as they were. I do think Gobusters was a perfect one to adapt toy-wise, considering how much like Transformers those mechs were, although the distribution of them on American toy shelves, coupled with the weird way they air seasons here made it kind of forgettable. In that same sense, the Kiramager toys would probably be a good fit with them as well. I didn't realize the Dino Thunder white exclusive was up for prorder on walgreens.com: Power Rangers Dino Thunder White Ranger I needed something to couple with bluestreak...
SMP Bio Robo is up for preorder at BBTS. Went ahead and pulled the trigger in light of the fact I'll never, ever own a good condition edition of the original DX...
The mecha were cool and we could have finally gotten an orange ranger. Still minorly bummed about that one. lol, classic Dr. Kain.
Has anyone in Canada gotten a replacement DT White helmet from Hasbro? There's one at my EB Games but I'm not going to pick it up if I can't get a proper helmet.
