Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack

 

I had heard of Robotack but dismissed it because I thought it was just a little kid Toku like I perceive B-Robo Kabutack. B-Robo Kabutack is a semi-sequel of B-Fighter and looks goofy along side of it. Since my nephew is throwing toy cars at us and hitting us with his 'Kiyahs' and karate chops, I decided to show him B-Robo and stumbled upon Robotack. I thought it looked cool and showed it to my nephew and surprised there was more action and more violence. So can't show it to him anymore because he threw a toy at his mom.

I think it was because of this image above, I thought not much of it. But these two characters become robot warriors and fight hard against other ones. They might make animal noises and talk like kids and the hero actually spouts cartoon tears, but it is like any other Toku.

  Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack was produced by Toei Company, it is the final Metal Hero Series, aired from 1998-1999 alongside Seiju Sentai Gingaman on TV Asahi (Remember that Kamen Rider didn't air from 1990 until 2000).

  Robotack had a crossover with Gingaman in a stageshow.

 Red Rangers often appeared in stageshows before Gokaiger. Here are OhRed, Red Racer, Ninja Red, and Mega Red.

MEET THE OTHERS:

 Kamerock

Robotack's buddy, a turtle.He came to Japan from China following Robotack. He lives in the apartment near the Shardock P.D. Agency. He is troubled by Mimeena's courting. His Super Mode weapon is the Kamerazooka. His motif is based on the legend of Urashima Taro. He can replace his arms with Darkrow's left arm and Kabados' right arm to become Kamerock Masakari Slicer Special.

 Mog-Lucky

Green Wonder mole-type robot with a mole-type biochip. He is working under Karamatsu for the Yumegaoka police. He had worked for the Prefecture of Police in Paris, adapting a French accent as a result. Since he is mainly an underground working-type robot, his sensor causes a system error to an intense light. 

 Mimeena 

Wonder bunny-type robot with a rabbit-type biochip. She is the Wonder-type robot, but does not have the Magnet Change function. She supplies robots with the repair services. She has fallen in love with Kamerock. She ends her sentences with "Pyon."

 Takkard

Blue and White Wonder hawk-type robot with a hawk-type biochip. He had studied to become a teacher without knowledge of the Land Tool missing. He teaches Kakeru and his friends at the Yumegaoka Elementary School. In the Special Mode, Takkard flies at 800 km/h, using the Hawk Shield to protect himself.

 Toraboruto 

Yellow Wonder tiger-type robot with a tiger-type biochip who is the president of Gold Platinum. The creation of the tiger-type biochip by Dr. Takamine did not go smoothly, and so he had a cat-type biochip instead, but it was exchanged for the tiger-type biochip by Dr. Takamine in the finale. He is indignant to Dr. Takamine and plots the fall of Harappa. He is a Hanshin Tigers fan.

 

Darkrow 

Black Wonder crow-type robot with a crow-type biochip. The deputy branch manager of Gold Platinum's Yumagaoka Branch. Since he broke the Elder's precious vase, he was exiled from Harappa. He has rivalry with Kamerock. Although he is a crow-type robot, he has a fear of heights. Special Mode's weapon is the KaraSlicer.

 Kabados 

Orange Wonder hippopotamus-type robot with a hippopotamus-type biochip. Darkrow's follower and was too exiled from Harappa. He ends his sentences with "Dosu." Special Mode's weapon is the Masakarihawk ax. 

Speedam/Speedy Wonder and Mightburn/Mighty Wonder

Red Wonder dog-type robot was the latest model scientist robot of Harappa who is a candidate in the next senior, and he is the designer of Mightburn. Whenever he and Mightburn eat a fully ripened red Wonder Seed, they execute Reversal Combine into the fastest hero Speedy Wonder. He knew that Robotack and Torabolt are brothers. Mightburn is a purple Wonder monkey-type robot  who was created by Speedam, although he is evil. Whenever he and Speedam eat an unripened green Wonder Seed or a crushed, fully ripened Wonder Seed, or a dead Wonder Seed, they "Reversal Combine" into the strongest evil robot Mighty Wonder. He became a good robot by the shock of crashing into a temple bell.

 Master Ranking

An elephant and a whale robot who appears when a Badge is found. He judges the game for CongraTrophies, his carrier unit changes into the Ranking Arena. While he gives the CondraTrophy to the winner, he executes a failure game to the losing player. His motif is based on Hindu mythology.

Ranger Key Quality

While I was making that fake image of Ranger Keys for Happy Meal, I noticed some difference in the Hurricane Blue Key and then in other Keys as well. On the Hurricanger episodes of Gokaiger, the legs and arms of the Hurricanger keys are one solid color. Hurricane Blue has no skirt. But I remember in a magazine scan early on when Gokaiger started....

 

The keys above and other ones are much more detailed. If you notice, the Hurricane keys have grey arms and Hurricane Blue has skirt and legs. AbareBlue has triangles everywhere. PteraRanger has diamonds on her cuffs. GingaGreen has the bite marks on his cuffs.

 In the Gaspon Series 6, the Hurricanger have colored arms and legs, no grey. The Magiranger girls have no white legs!

 These are official keys in Super-Sentai.net that look just like the ones used on the show.

 Gingaman cuffs have no bite marks.

Zyuranger cuffs have no diamonds (teeth). 

 Megaranger have no colors on the white stripe.

Abaranger keys have no triangles. hese are official keys in Super-Sentai.net.

 These are the keys I use for Rangercentral.com (Super Sentai section), and these are from TV-Asahi, they look just like the ones from super-sentai.net, lack detail, compared to the Magazine ones.

So where those detailed keys only made for the magazine and not for the show?

 Gao White Gasphon key and the key teeth from GaoWhite key in Episode 3 of Gokaiger. As you can see the Gasphon key has a circle and half circle on bottom and top has teeth near the figure and one long one near the end. The show has one circle and two little teeth and one long tooth on the other side. They may have default key teeth, because I can't figure they made the 199 keys before the show and settled on designs.

AND....

 This is the difference between deluxe, candy toy and Gashapon keys. The above picture is not mine, found it online.

Super Sentai at Double Hero Festival

These pictures are from the blog link below, of an event in Japan that has Super Sentai and Kamen Rider stuff.

Left to right: MagiBlue, VulPanther, Time Red, Geki Blue, Gao Red, Red Turbo, Deka Master, Gokai Pink, Red Hawk, Gosei Black, Gokai Red, Tyrannoranger and Gosei Red.

Left to Right: OhRed, Red One, Time Pink, Gokai Blue, Red Racer, Change Dragon, Mega Red, Bouken Yellow, Bouken Red, Go-On Green, Gokai Yellow, Go Red, Geki Red, Change Pegasus, and Shinken Pink.

Tyranno Ranger, Gosei Red, Aka Red, Gokai Red, Shinken Red, Red Ninja, Abare Black, Go-On Red, OhRed, Red One, Time Pink, and Gokai Blue.

Kuwagata Raijer and his bike (the reason the Hurricanger aren't there is because they didn't have their own bikes).

DekaBlue and his Machine Husky.

GaoSilver and Wolf Roader

DekaBreak and his Machine Boxer

Shinken Gold and Sushi cart, with Ika-Chan and Ebi

Bomper

Gekkou and Mandora-boy

Timeranger equipment and Fairy Bokku

Source: http://ameblo.jp/gn-x-zero2/

Gokaiger: Legend Cameos and Unlocking Power Rules

UPDATED 7/19/11 6:30 PM EST

This had omissions because I was in a hurry, now I finished it.
There doesn't seem to be any 'set in stone' rules for 'unlocking' Legendary powers in Super Sentai. Because the 199 Heroes movie seems to be set in between of Episode 16 and 17 and in Episode 17, the Goseiger powers are used and it is stated they received 11 powers and we still get members from teams that the powers were supposedly unlocked.

Episode Three saw our first Sentai alum. Atsushi Hashimoto as Kai Ozu, his sky saint Frajel made a cameo. Kai taught Don about 'Courage' and they gained the Magi Dragon. They saw the MagiRed helmet appear superimposed over Kai. The five Magiranger keys glowed. Episode 4 was a character-development episode.

Episode 5 saw three returning Dekaranger. Doggy Krueger's suit actor and voice actor returned and he was in the majority of the episode. Jasmine/Deka Yellow made a cameo in the beginning and Ban/Deka Red made a cameo at the end. Marvelous saw Deka Red's helmet appear superimposed over Ban. They received the Pat Striker, the five Dekaranger keys glowed and made Deka GokaiOh. Episode 6 was a character-development episode.

In Episode 7 Jan appeared and Master Shafu made a brief cameo in the end. The Gekiranger keys glowed, GekiViolet's key glowed violet for GokaiGreen. Don and Ahim saw GekiRed helmet superimposed over Jan. The GekiBeasts are set to come out of GokaiOh but no new formation will be made as there is no toy. Episode 8 was a character-development episode.

GaoRed's actor Kaneko Noboru appeared in Episode 9 for when the Gokaiger gain GaoLion and form Gao GokaiOh. They saw the GaoRed helmet superimposed over him. Their Gaoranger keys glowed. Episode 10 was a character-development episode.

Gao Black key glowing purple while Gao White glows white of course.

Karou Shiba appeared in Episodes 11 and 12, the first tribute to be two episodes. Their keys glowed and unlocked Shiniken GokaiOh. 13 was a character development.

Episode 14 featured Red Racer of Carranger, the keys didn't glow and there wasn't a 'Gokaioh' special thingy and Navi said the powers were useless. They unlocked the powers by copying the Carranger pose and capturing the hearts of children.

15 & 16 introduced Basco, 17 introduced Gokai Silver, 18 introduced Goujyujin, and 19 introduced Gold Mode. Episode 18 had Mikoto/AbareKiller appeared in a flashback along with in-suit Dragonranger and TimeFire who didn't speak. Gai unlocked the Abaranger, Zyuranger, and Timeranger powers respectively through the AbareKiller, Dragonranger and TimeFire keys inside Goujyujin. Gai did meet all 15 Sixth Heroes in a white space in Episode 19.

Episode 20 had not only GingaRed but Kuro Kishi/Hyuga, he gave his key to Gai, with the powers of Gingaman. The black key glowed Red. No GokaiOh formation.
S0me superimposing we see early and some later in the episode, some the Gokaiger see and some only the audience see. Red Racer played with his.

Hyuga got a superimpose, he's the first non-red hero to get a superimpose.

Episode 21 had Akashi, asking them for their help to get a Precious. When they were in GokaiOh, Marvelous took his BoukenRed key out which glowed and conducted a Gekiranger-esque power (because there's no toy) for GokaiOh, where they got DaiBouken's weapon and its spirit slashed at Ryuuwon. Ep 22 is filler. Even though supposedly they unlocked the powers of Boukenger in the 199 heroes movie, they did a tribute in this episode. Marvelous remembered seeing Akashi with the Bouken Red helmet over him from the movie.

From episodes 3 to 11 followed the pattern of 1 ep of tribute and the next for character development. Then on, it was random. 11 & 12 = tribute, 13 = character, 14 = tribute, 15-19 = 5 eps of no tribute (though powers were unlocked) and then back-to-back tribute with 20 and 21. The 'unlocking' of powers seem to be random, sometimes five keys glow, sometimes one key glows or none glow.

Got from the movie:

11: Goranger (above), JAKQ, Denjiman, Goggle Five, Dynaman, Bioman, Turboranger, Dairanger, Boukenger, Go-onger and Goseiger. The above GorenGokaiOh has no toy form... yet.

We know we are getting GoGoV (Episode 23), Hurricanger (Episodes 25 & 26), Liveman (Episode 30), Jetman (Episode 28), Ohranger (Episode 31), and Go-Onger (toy coming soon) tributes soon, we are just missing Battle Fever J, SunVulcan, Changeman, Flashman, Maskman, Kakuranger, Fiveman, and Megaranger; and it doesn't mean we won't be getting any of the movies once again, judging by Boukenger and Go-Onger. I'm hoping for Dairanger.

UPDATED 7/29/11
I didn't know where to file this and I just decided to add to this post.

Gokaigers seem to change into past heroes one to five times per episode so far. The least being one (Red, Pink and Green became JAKQ in Ep 10) and the most five I think the most (Luka became a bunch in episode 6). But there are plenty of other examples but this is just one example. Most episodes the Gokaiger become more than one team but in some episodes, they just become one team and the other Gokaiger become one of different teams (Green and Yellow have done a lot of this). There was less than 30 suit gender changes they presented in the magazines and Gosei vs. Shinken, but 3 1/2 unannounced officially before (NinjaBlack, AbareKiller, Go-On Wings and MegaSilver).

As of Episode 23, the past heroes that the Gokaiger have changed into a lot are: Gokai Green has become Shinken Green the most (4 times: 1, 12, 16, and 18), Gokai Pink has become Go-On Black the most (4 times: 3, 5, 19 and the 199 heroes movie), Gokai Pink will probably become Go-On Black a 5th time in the upcoming Go-Onger episode (don't know number as of now, will probably be 28 or 29).Gokai Red has become Shinken Red (4 times: 1, 2, 12 and 18). Gokai Yellow hasn't become a hero 4 or 5 times yet, but heroes she has become 3 times are Ginga Yellow, Gao Yellow, Deka Yellow, Magi Yellow, Bouken Yellow, Go-On Yellow and Shinken Yellow. The most changes she has had in one episode was in Episode 6, she had 6 changes (if you count Gokai Yellow herself).Gokai Blue hasn't become a hero 4 or 5 times, but has used a certain key 4 times. The heroes he transformed into 3 times each were: Shinken Blue, Go-On Blue, Gao Blue, and Ginga Blue. Because of his Blue Final Wave attack in Episode 5, he has used the following keys four times: Ginga Blue and Shinken Blue.

Related: http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-past-cameos-work-on-gokaiger-so-far.html | http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2011/06/gokaiger-powers-recieved.html