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It’s a slow news day, but I caught this one over at RangerBoard and thought it should be shared with the masses, if anything, just for an eyebrow-raising read.

Apparently in Saudi Arabia, the McDonalds Happy Meal Samurai Blue Ranger toy stomps his foot on a disc (his Samurai Dragon Disc, mind you). And while no one can really confirm the validitiy of the claim (as none of us have the Saudi Arabia version of the figure), apparently the dragon symbols resemble the spelling of the prophet Muhammad. So when you trigger the toy’s action feature, the Blue Ranger smashes his foot down upon the name Muhammad, over and over again.

Interesting.

I got nothing for this one. Join in our discussion and see if the Blue Ranger hates Muhammad or if this is one of those coincedence stories.

Original Source: Gatestone Institute

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Coming in August of this year to a theater near you (if you live in Japan that is) will be the continued tradition of each Kamen Rider series having a movie, as Kamen Rider Fourze the Movie – Everyone it’s Space Time! releases. And just like with the Gokaiger movie which featured Gavan, the Kamen Rider Fourze movie will feature another long-thought-dead Tokusatsu series of characters, Uchuu Tetsujin – or Space Ironmen.

Thanks to Jefusion and Henshin Justice, here’s a brief translation of the story involving the Space Ironmen!

With the use of Cosmic Energy, Grandain was created together with his sister, Skydain by the Federation of Alicia. When they were activated, they already have their own will, and decided to rebel against humanity. Skydain has two blades on her arms that she can fold out, while, Grandain had a weapon called GranBuster X, a cannon on his chest.

Black Knight is the third Space Ironman is called. He works together with Inga Blink (Mikie Hara) of the Federation of Alicia. He mostly relies on his strong defensive armor instead of offensive attacks. On his chest, he has a mounted machine gun. As a weapon, he uses a rapier called “Blackest Leaver.”

Kamen Rider Fourze The Movie releases August 4th and is directed by longtime Power Rangers stunt choreographer Koichi Sakamoto. Get ready for space time!

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On May 24th, 2002, famed Power Rangers scribe Amit Bhaumik finished his final draft of an episode of Power Rangers Wild Force that was meant to serve as a celebration/anniversary episode for 10 years of Power Rangers. Those of you who follow and are fans of Power Rangers will know that episode forever as Forever Red, probably the greatest “fanboy” moment in all of Power Rangers nearly 20 year history.

The story was total fan-service – remnants of the evil Machine Empire (Power Rangers Zeo) had regrouped on the surface of the moon to dig up Lord Zedd’s personal zord, Serpentera (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers). In a mission deemed top secret, veteran Power Ranger and team leader Tommy Oliver (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Power Rangers Zeo, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers Dino Thunder) gathered together all the Red Rangers of the past (minus Rocky) to team up and destroy the remnants of the Machine Empire as well as Serpentera.

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Power Rangers 10th Anniversary, Amit Bhaumik has updated his personal blog with some details regarding the early days of drafting Forever Red, including new photos and scans of some of the original drafts/ideas/etc.

Click here to check out the Forever Red blog!

Share your favorite memories of Forever Red in our discussion thread attached via this story. Is Forever Red the best Power Rangers team up? Or was Once a Ranger a better team-up? Maybe you just prefer the team-ups mid season between two teams like “Reinforcements from the Future”. Join in the discussion!

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As Power Rangers fans are becoming accustomed to, Power Rangers “Super Samurai” is on hiatus until this fall, where the final remaining episodes will be shown.

What is Serrator’s master plan? Are we finally going to see the REAL ultimate duel between Red Ranger Jayden and Deker? But most importantly (and those of you who watched Shinkenger please don’t spoil it for those who haven’t) … Jayden’s secret will be revealed!

Check out the trailer below!

Editor’s note: Does the “Let’s do it!” sound like Tommy to anyone else? Haha!

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When we helped break the news some time ago with a translation from a TOEI interview regarding how Toei was re-shooting the Pirate Sentai Gokaiger “Legendary War” footage to contain US-only heroes, the speculation began across the entire Power Rangers fan community that there was a possibility that we’d get Gokaiger as the 20th Anniversary Season in 2013.

Well, thanks to the on-going casting and information thread both at RangerBoard as well as at RangerCrew, we have the audition role for the male Power Rangers call-backs script.

Why is that important?

Well, for starters it mentions a working title for the 2013 season, as well as giving away what series may be the final one coming for the anniversary season. Curious to find out? Click the story title (or the discuss link) and read the casting spoiler!

CREDIT: RangerCrew

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For those of you who grew up watching the Power Rangers, as you got older I’m sure you always stopped to wonder how these “teenagers with attitude” always managed to go fight. What happened if they were sick, hungover, or just didn’t really feel like going out and saving the world AGAIN for the ump-teenth-billion time?

Check out the following video for a fun laugh!

CREDIT: sneakyzebra for the awesome video!

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We have a new image of the upcoming Go-Buster Rangers, the StagBuster and BeetBuster!

The Gold BeetBuster will be another human character, while his buddyroid will be the Silver StagBuster.

Keep watching for more information as it comes!

CREDIT: Jefusion

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Hey Power Rangers Samurai fans!

A 3 minute long remix of the Power Rangers Samurai theme by Noam Kaniel is now available for download on both Amazon.com and iTunes!

Click here for the Amazon.com MP3 download!

For iTunes, simply check via your iTunes account or iPhone/iPad device!

For those curious as to what it sounds like … take the theme song, the ending credits, and a mixture of one of the Power Ranger themed battle songs and combine it all in to one and you have a pretty sweet sounding track!

Enjoy!

EDIT! Via Amazon.com, the instrumental of the same theme is FREE! Get it while you can!

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For those of you who follow Transformers at all surely know of a fellow by the name of Vangelus, a popular podcast host of WTF@TFW as well as a common contributor to other podcasts, not to mention one of the most popular and highly subscribed video toy reviewer.

Vangelus dropped me a line to let me know that he’s got some new reviews up of some Kamen Rider W SIC Figure sets on YouTube, and we’re going to pass them along to you (for those who don’t already follow him and his updates).

So check out the video reviews of the following: CycloneJoker & Xtreme, HeatMetal & LunaTrigger, and FangJoker & Skull!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApI2b1fw6ic

Thanks Vangelus! Image in this news post courtesy of our very own CookSux!