Showing posts with label New Ranger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Ranger. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Sixth Rangers: Let's Get Shiny!

Dukemon22 may not remember this but he once told me that the reason that most of the Sixth Rangers were silver or gold or metallic colors was for Toei to show off something shiny to sell toys. Come to think about it in a business standpoint, if kids bought the new Sentai toys in February, there would be a lull in May or the summer, so they put something new to get them buying more toys. Here are the shiniest of the Sixth Rangers. The only ones I don't cover here are Time Fire/Quantum Ranger, Abare Killer/White Dino Ranger and Deka Break/Omega Ranger.

Dragon Ranger / Green Ranger
He was green, not that shiny but he had a big shiny gold shield, which is very memorable to fans.

Kiba Ranger / White Ranger
He was white but sure had a lot of gold, the shield, the belt, helmet, cuffs and even his sabre.

King Ranger/Gold Ranger
Come on, we mostly remember him as the 'Gold Ranger' because of all the gold he wore. Toei counts him as a Black Ranger as his name was not 'Gold' in Sentai.

Mega Silver/Silver Ranger
He was the first fully metallic Ranger in Sentai, he was the first and not last of the Silver Rangers.

Titanium Ranger
Bandai America/Saban chose to make their own Ranger without Super Sentai counterpart, they could had chosen any color they wanted (that wasn't the main 5) so it could had been White, Black, Purple, whatever, but they chose Silver-y Titanium. This could support the theory that shiny metallics are the way to go for Sixth Rangers, the majority of them are metallics.

Gao Silver/Lunar Wolf Ranger
Second Silver Ranger in Sentai, he had some dark blue/indigo in his suit but with gold.

Shurikenger/Green Samurai Ranger
He was Green but he definitely had more gold than Dragon Ranger.

Deka Master/Shadow Ranger
Even though he had Black and blue-ish armor, the blue-ish armor was shiny. He's an Extra Hero but there was a lot of toys made of him and he sure is shiny and some people do count him as Sixth.

Magi Shine/Solaris Knight
The shiniest of them all, he had a blue suit but you could barely see it with its gold armor.

Bouken Silver/Mercury Ranger
He was shiny even though he had black, even his blue accents were metallic and shiny.

Go-On Gold and Go-On Silver/Ranger Gold and Ranger Silver
I remember a cousin said they looked like Duracell batteries, because they were shiny.

Shinken Gold/Gold Ranger
Blue was a welcoming change to counterbalance the gold, instead of black. Because now seeing the Gold Mega Ranger in Samurai with black, the black made him look duller than with the blue.

GoseiKnight
Pretty shiny, we regarded him as a gold-silver-black Extra Hero but he is considered as a Silver Ranger in Sentai.

GokaiSilver
He coined the phrase 'Let's Get Shiny' for Super Sentai. The 10th truly shiny Sixth Ranger and the seventh Silver Ranger (including DekaBright).

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Go-On Wings Key and Gold Mode in Episode 19


Now we know how they link the buckle to the treasure trunk.




Gai can't decide between the two keys: Go-On Silver or Go-On Gold.

He is sent to a white space and they mime (don't talk).




Later....
He asks for help from all 15.



Episode 20 preview....


Toei.co.jp/tv/






Friday, July 1, 2011

Super Sentai: Non-Color Teammate Names

I'm counting only select Extra Heroes. Whole teams that didn't have colors in their names: JAKQ, Changeman, Zyuranger, and Dairanger. I might be missing some teams. I think I am counting the heroes with the word from their team in their names, except for those in Hurricanger.

King Ranger
The Ohrangers had colors in their names, Toei consider him a Black Ranger. The kanji symbol of King is on his head and belt.

Signalman
In Carranger, he was an extra hero but anyway, he didn't have 'Racer' in their name.

Time Fire
I think he was the first team member to not have a color name in a team that had color names.

Goraijer
The Hurricanger had color names, but the Goraijer didn't, they had names of their insects: Kabuto Raijer and Kuwagatas Raijer. Some people were correcting me and I thought I made it clear, I guess not. I admit that maybe my wording was off. I didn't think the Goraijer had color names, because why the hell I would put it here in the first place?

Shurikenger
Shuriken is the star shape.

AbareKiller
First name is for me, culturally, is arguably the American team didn't want to use. Fine for Japan, but not for America. But a cool name none the less. But I wouldn't want kids saying 'Killer.'

AbareMax
Just a power-up but treated toy-wise as a sixth ranger.

DekaBreak
I still don't know what Break refers to.

DekaMaster
'Master' of them all, makes sense. Also, funny cause he's a dog. He's his own master.

Deka Swan
She's a swan and it's a swan.

Deka Bright
Cool name ever.

Magi Shine
He's shiny and his name is shine.

Magi Mother
She was a mother, obviously but I don't know, just a mother? She was a warrior, not just a mother.

GekiChopper
He can chop things.

GoseiKnight
Toei counts him as a Silver Ranger and doesn't have 'Silver' in his name and suit seemed the most like an Extra Hero.