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This is episode 29. I am one of your hosts, TFTM

Mike. Joining me from PCN is Scotty Cash. Hello.

Hey, how you guys doing? First of all, You know,

I just what I just realized is we're we're a

collaboration, but I don't think we play these

on pop culture network No, you don't what kind

of collaboration is that? I don't know. So this

is a collaboration between the geek cast radio

network and scott scotticash from his home computer

Pretty much. Yeah. Well, we're gonna have to

have a talk with these guys about that. Yeah

You can do that. They're your friends. I don't

even like those guys, but okay, right? Especially

that bearded one that's unmasked. He's so rude

I know, right? Also joining us once again is

the Super Sentai guy, Spirit of the Vault Matrix.

Hello. Hello. How are you? Very tired. Yes, very

tired. So we've got a couple of news items to

get through before we get to our topic of discussion

today. First of all, San Diego Comic -Con has

come and gone, and the legacy Green Ranger, White

Ranger Morpher is going for over $400 on eBay.

Yay, go Comic -Con. The other thing that was

released and known about was... Actually, I'm

gonna talk about the smaller stuff first, then

we'll get to the big giant head in the room.

Shout Factory is releasing seasons 8 through

12 of Power Rangers. It includes Lightspeed,

Time Force, Wild Force, Ninja Storm, and Dino

Thunder. So they're releasing that. And then

the giant... Head thing at Comic Con was all

Power Rangers legacy the first 20 years coming

out December 3rd 2013 which means that seasons

8 through 12 and then 13 to 20 are coming out

in between that time Tom the price Yeah, okay

so featuring over 270 hours of entertainment

on 98 DVDs available only from shoutfactory .com.

I'm actually looking for the price in this press

release. There is not a price yet. Yes, there

is not a price yet. Okay, now I forget, I think

I told you Scotty, I told somebody about this.

The way I compare the Power Rangers the first

20 years legacy giant head DVD set is I compare

it to the law -and -order Set that came out a

couple of years ago the law -and -order complete

series DVD set was a hundred and four DVDs for

$700 this is 98 DVDs It's got to be somewhere

around the four or five hundred dollar mark.

I'm only that it's gonna be about three to three

fifty Yeah, the only the only the only reason

I would argue that fact is because Law and Order

was ginormous, you know, with people that can

afford DVDs. Power Rangers was always big with

children that, well, can't afford DVDs. So I

would imagine that they're going to try to make

this as cheap as possible. If that makes any

sense at all. Well, what I'm saying is it goes

to DVD count, really. Is really what what the

price goes to and if the law and order set at

104 DVDs is 700 and that this big headset is

gonna be 98 DVDs you would have to think it would

be somewhere like Spada said anywhere, but I'm

gonna guess somewhere between 300 and 500 I'm

going 400 I'm going 399 99 just because all of

the bonus features and all that yeah, yeah, because

it's 270 hours of Entertainment in total so but

that's gonna be interesting You know what's gonna

really suck on that is if people don't pick it

up right away the aftermarket It'll be a thousand

dollars on eBay. I guarantee it. I decided that

I'm just gonna rob shop factory and to steal

one Right I'm gonna go stealing like a like a

like a like a robber Yeah, it might be easier

to just find the black nerds house and steal

it from him Yeah, I know right is he gonna get

one He got one. He didn't get one Well, they

they did some They did some skit shout factory

did some skit with him and they're like, yeah,

you can't have this anyway I never heard of that

YouTube guy. He's a YouTube guy. Yeah And I will

actually post the link in the post for this episode

of the podcast showing off how the DVDs fit into

the legacy first 20 years how they fit into the

head it's basically Hat racks in the back Is

what it looks like to me, but I will I will link

this in the post from TV shows on DVD calm So

we are starting a whole new journey here and

from the command center. I have only seen The

first four episodes of Megaforce. It's alright.

Well, we'll get to it when it finishes. That's

the way I'd like to do it But right now we're

going to go back in the time machine and we are

going to go back to August 28th, 1993 when Day

of the Dumpster premiered on Fox Kids. Yes, that's

right. I said Fox Kids, not this for kids TV

or Fox Box or any other 90s craft that they tried

to turn it into. What you listeners are going

to hear is you're going to hear the Mighty Morphin

signal. Whatever the hell it is. And then after

that is when you queue up your DVD, your Netflix,

whatever, as far as being able to watch this

commentary. So here comes the signal. And need

a shower. I was going to say, for 10 ,000 years,

Rita looks awfully young. She looks good. I hope

when I'm 10 ,000 years old, I'm mightily attractive.

You know, I've said this before and I'll say

it again. When I first saw the Megazord in this

opening sequence of the beginning of the intro

to the show, I'm like, hey, it's a live -action

Voltron. I was actually in Toys R Us right before

it aired, and I didn't know what it was, and

I'm like, it's a new Voltron! I know, right?

Yeah. we should also say we didn't say this in

the intro to the podcast but um august 28th 2013

20 years after the fact this is spada's birthday

happy birthday sir thank you thank you yes i

turn old yes you turn old oh man i love that

intro it's damn good yeah somewhere on a distant

planet called mars somewhere in the california

desert A cop light blinks. Those are the worst

space suits ever! We should be dead! Normally

when I'm in space and I see a giant dumpster

thing, I immediately try to rip the lid off.

See, the other problem I have with this in space

thing, that they're on the moon, it's daylight!

It should not be friggin' daylight on the moon!

Are we for sure it's the moon? Pretty sure it's

Saturn. No, it's the moon. There's no water!

Yeah, there's no water. Well, the moon, it would

have to be the moon because that's the only place

astronauts have been able to go. And in the Asian,

or whatever the Asian version is, Jew Ranger,

it's Mars. and the youth center nice leg root

shakes i know right you know this whole juice

bar is an insurance nightmare i know teenagers

martial arts and gymnastics yeah and this was

93 so yeah really really bad um hey trini's keeping

it safe she's just doing a little bit of yoda

yes she's just doing a little bit of yoda yes

yoda wait a minute she was awfully close to that

dis how did but uh yeah how did trini get over

to that dismounting kimberly dismounting oh god

here we go And isn't that the hallway from the

school? Yeah. It's all connected, dude. It's

all connected. Yeah. It's true. Man. You know,

I look at Bulk now, and I look at him, I looked

at him in Samurai. He hasn't changed much over

the years. He's just gotten older. He's a little

bit skinnier now, I'd say. He is a horse here.

Yeah. Boy, that's not a salt or anything. I feel

like some pepper with that shake. OK, now this

is the moon. this is the moon yes but the reason

why i said it shouldn't be daylight in the in

the earlier scene when she landed is because

it points it then the transition it went to it

showed earth right so what's closest to the earth

i mean she can't be on the friggin sun she can't

be on venus or mercury and i don't think it would

earth isn't would not be that close to mars no

it wouldn't so yeah Billy is so unsure of himself

here. Why does Jason kind of remind me of Ralph

Macchio? Because they're both extremely handsome.

Pick Billy, pick Billy. The bulk and skull walk

in on your guys's screen yet. I think I'm a little

far a little ahead of you guys Yeah, cuz we're

at the oh no here they come there. They are I'll

pause it for a second or two Now they're trying

to be karate masters they just want to be loved

right Bone could do a sumo if he gained about

500 pounds One thing that always struck me about

this show is if these kids are supposed to be

in high school, why do they look so damn old?

Well, no different than any other hot quote -unquote

high school show like I don't know really those

guys were those were teenagers Yeah, but okay,

I would use Dawson's Creek well, yeah, that was

later, but At the time that this was out, I would

use Saved by the Bell as an example, as a better

example of kids in high school. So you want a

bunch of Justin as Power Rangers. Yeah, that

went over well. No. What I'm saying is that.

They just don't seem to be as high school age

as they should be, like in that in that scene

with them doing the karate stuff earlier. Gotcha.

Hey, this is why they don't want Tommy part of

their team, dude. They're just not enough room

with this table. You know how you got that spot

at that restaurant? They just can't move. It's

like Samurai. Something balks face every episode.

Oh no! Earthquake! Earthquake! Even though nothing's

actually moving. Well, there's stuff falling

on my screen. Hello, stock footage! That's not

stop footage. Let me know when it shows alpha

for you guys Wow, how are you so far ahead? Yeah,

I hit play when you guys did Wait is Kevin I've

never noticed he had a teddy bear. Yes. Yes.

Well, it's a teddy bear with a robot head So

it's it's obviously showed alpha for you guys.

Yes now I'm behind you. Thanks guys You're welcome

Boy, we really need to work on this for the next

episode. We'll see how you guys like it another

earthquake We're all conveniently in our we're

already conveniently in our teleporting positions

Hold on don't move though By the power of fast

forward Let's see I like that transition Where

they were teleporting. Especially for 93. There

wasn't a lot of stuff like that. That was cool.

Oh my god. This is the same thing I do when I

get teleported into the places that I'm unaware

of. I just start touching stuff. We're already

wearing primary colors! Yeah, they um... Well

again, the way I'm looking at this now is holy

crap. It's all sketched out. Oh god, it's a giant

floating head! But everybody's okay with that

though. Well, the way I'm looking at this show

now is with all the primary colors thing is it's

sketched out just like WWE has. Oh god, I just

realized something. This is 1993. Zordon is using

Proto Skype. That's why he looks so gra -bad.

I know, right? Skype version zero point zero

zero one zero point zero zero one. He's using

the beta version. I was going to say he's using

the alpha version. Oh, I get it. Here we and

you read your footage. Yeah. Here we have Rita

on a bike, which she never ever had any other

time in this episode or in this season. Yeah.

Or series. Yeah. Or series. She used it to fly

around Tokyo. She is the wicked witch of the

globe. Actually, she torn into children most

of the time. In Zyuranger, maybe. In Zyuranger,

yeah. Yeah, Zyuranger. Or Chu, Ju or Chu? I can

never remember how it's called. Ju. Ju. Ju -ranger.

They got pagers! It's better than a cell phone

morpher well cell phones back then yeah It'd

be like how am I supposed to more for this bag

phone? I'm gonna plug this into a wall or something.

I have no signal Those Zords looks so awesome

still to this day I agree and The and the Americanized

versions of the helmets still look terrible.

I know or they different in the And the Japanese

version yeah, they change every now and then

they lose the clips Okay, that's the only difference

yeah, I can live with that that and training

is a dude You know I did an interview with Marigold

Scott and one of the writers on the Transformers

Prime Beast Hunters comic and She said as a kid

she always like trini versus kimberly she always

thought trini was was the more intelligent one

out of the two and i was like yeah but trini

never did anything she was off with billy in

some basement doing some technical thing kimberly

was the more agile one maybe she just felt threatened

by her How many times and I'll ask this again

throughout the commentaries How many times in

the series have they actually used the outside

of the command center said very few times because

it's an actual art museum Yeah, oh and I never

noticed but that's a composite that shot right

there where they walk out It's a composite shot

between the museum and the out rock cropping

from Star Trek where he fights the Gorn. Oh my

god You know that for a fact yeah Never I never

noticed that before but I remember reading somewhere

that they've composited those two together Wow

And Rita's palace and Finster is making monsters,

this is how I actually make pudding That does

not surprise me we are going to wait a minute

wait a minute wait a minute This is their way

to fight teenagers Yeah, yeah really yeah pudding

monsters great somebody my grandma screams at

me just like that too I Don't want to Buddies

I Do enjoy how they they they kick the crap out

of them for a while Yeah And by kick the crap

out of them, it's mildly perturb them. Yeah,

that's true. We're gonna hold you guys forever

Like Jason is the only okay Trini a little bit

but like you guys were saying earlier, how is

gymnastics? You know You know a part of martial

arts. Okay sure Jason I can see Getting it right

off the bat and being able to kick their ass

But the rest of them not so much and it's point

proof positive with Billy Oh By the power of

their mighty zippers All right. Oh Block block

it hip talks. Wait, that's that was like the

most powerful hip toss ever Yeah, dude, those

are the first -generation putties spada Let's

do it I think I'm supporting notice the morphers

changed Like they were pointing out before another

point it now they were pointing in yeah. Yeah,

I Love that original morphin sequence though.

Oh, yes That's just awesome. I love how they

I love how they the the production design did

basically their faces inside the morphers with

the colors behind their heads. I thought that

was great. Green screen is wonderful. Yeah. Wait,

why are they on the top of the bed? But weren't

they in the desert? But yeah. All of a sudden

Billy knows how to fight. Yeah, they did gain

power quote -unquote Yeah, but you got to think

that they would still have to know how to use

those still have to have some learning curve

on how to use the Downloaded into their brains

Yeah, they've never really actually really said

that the suits have any extra power or anything

like that the power becomes in like they said

it protects them more but it How does Rita Everett

- I've always wanted to ask this. How does she

get her wand back after she throws it to Earth?

Does Goldar, after he shrinks, picks it up and

brings it back or something? She actually has

one of those things that janitors have that they

have like their keys attached to. Where it just

zips back. A lanyard. She's got a really long

lanyard. Yeah. A lanyard that is one astronomical

unit. It just looked like Goldar had a bunch

of red on underneath his gold. That's a rash

for another day. Show it again, show it again.

See, and again, I don't know about the Sentai

version, but again, why I always thought of Voltron

when I saw this. I was just about to say that.

It's the exact same places. They each come from

a volcano, the forest, the desert, many different

places from across the globe, just like the lions

from Voltron. But you realize that Power Rangers

was out before Voltron. We've had this discussion.

Sentai was. Power Rangers was not. This was out

before Voltron was. No, it was not. Voltron came

to U .S. in 1984. This series aired in 1990 in

Japan. Did it? Chu Ranger, yeah. And the lions

came from under the water, in the forest, in

the desert, in the volcano, and the statue in

front of the castle. Yep. Didn't Voltron come

from the sky or something? No, the lions formed

Voltron. From the sky? Well, when they would

fly up into the sky, quote unquote. Yes. They

never used the dino tank enough. No, I never

did Now I'm gonna say something a little weird

but The amount of passion that the original Rangers

were able to get out of their performances I

don't really think has been matched especially

Jason Yeah 100 % Yeah, I totally agree on that,

I mean... And the audio, when they're in their

suits, in the original series, works better than

it does in current seasons, for some reason.

And he just bonks them over the head with his

sword. Hey look, Spada, it's a Red Optimus Prime!

You're supposed to be martial arts people you

should see that at that coming But again, it

goes to my point of they don't know how to use

it properly yet They you know, this is the first

time they've used it so I can forgive them Screwing

up on some of the moves in this first battle.

Yeah, I mean it makes it makes a better story

So they get a sword and he runs away. Yeah They're

like he's like I'm I'm I'm barely winning see

look, how'd she get it back already? I told you

how look I know and there's her bike in the background

Yeah, she hung it up on the wall like a good

girl So no one steals it Congratulations on not

dying No, I definitely like like that, you know,

they don't they don't know everything from the

get -go You know what? I mean, they're kind of

new to the situation kind of like the story with

With Superman. He doesn't know how to fly at

the beginning. He doesn't know how to you know,

do all his powers at the beginning It just makes

for a little bit more of an entertaining story.

No, it does. And I like that. I just what I don't

like is when they immediately like in later seasons,

as soon as they get into the resorts, they know.

Right. Out of you. That's what I'm saying is,

no, I agree with you. I prefer them not knowing.

Well, I think that wasn't it in Lightspeed Rescue.

Didn't they say they were trained to use the

Zords at one point? Yeah, that was so weird.

Yeah. I'm sure we'll get to lightspeed commentaries

in the future. He's worried about her hair, dude.

I'm just messing with you guys. Sike. Screw the

90s. Screw the 90s. Alpha is just... In this

scene, he is so annoying. nice nice and that

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time, but back to action! Alright, we are back

and we just watched Day of the Dumpster. I still

enjoy watching this 20 years later. Absolutely.

You know we mentioned in the commentaries of

some of the nitpicks and I mentioned about some

of the and again It's mostly nitpicks for me

like I have not like there's to me. There is

nothing wrong with day of the dumpster It's a

good first episode it establishes every character

It kind of introduces some of the minor characters

like bulk and skull a little bit they you see

that they have a rivalry with with the With the

Power Rangers, even though they don't know their

Power Rangers. So I like that. I thought it was

a good, good story, Scotty. I agree. I mean,

I don't really, we've already pretty much had

these conversations in the, uh, in our discussions,

but yeah, I mean, I definitely, I mean, I definitely,

I wouldn't agree to do it if I didn't want to,

you know, I could watch, I could probably watch

seasons, you know, one and two and three, probably

just all the time, you know? Oh yeah. Yeah. Um,

And it's it's interesting going back and watching

them, you know, Spada, you said you picked up

on stuff you hadn't seen before. Oh, yeah. Yeah,

I've never I've never noticed Alpha having a

Teddy Alpha. I've never noticed that before.

Yeah, that was a little strange. It is it. It's

cool. But at the same point, being older now

and going back and seeing it and actually have

seen all of two ranger at this point, it's. both

cool and at the same point it at the same time

it's kind of oh if that makes any sense it does

for someone that has seen the the original version

of the show but on on my end it's like you know

like you know like we said like i picked like

like i asked about how many times do they actually

use the the outer set for the command center

uh... you know it was just stuff i'd never paid

attention because when i was a kid watching this

stuff is like oh cool martial arts mover oh cool

robots you know it wasn't trying to look for

stuff that i hadn't seen before and that's one

of the reasons why the podcast is going to do

commentaries is because of going back in noticing

stuff we didn't notice before All right, any

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