Not to be totally outdone by Shout!’s massive boxset, Lionsgate has announced new Power Rangers Samurai DVD releases- featuring the beginning of the “Super Samurai” saga.
As with previous Samurai DVD announcements, these Volumes will contain 4 DVDs for a suggested price of 14.95.
The Super Samurai volumes will be released in mid-August!
http://tvshowsondvd.com/n/16970
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
In the wake of opened pre-orders for the much anticipated “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1 Volume 1,” Shout! Factory and Time-Life have announced probably the first of many Power Rangers boxsets:
The Power Rangers: Seasons One -Seven 40-DVD collection will include: All 145 original episodes from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Seasons One, Two and Three, plus the ten-episode series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Alien Rangers. It then continues on with Power Rangers: Seasons Four – Seven, featuring all of the original 183 episodes spanning the seasons entitled Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers In Space and Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. In-depth bonus content includes: a retrospective featurette on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers phenomenon, brand-new interviews with members of the cast and the creative team, and much more!
Amazon has put up an early listing for the first Mighty Morphin Power Rangers DVD release!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0080730CK/“Season 1: Volume 1” will be released on August 21st. Further details to be announced!
Once again “Power Rangers” is being re-adapted for international airing.
“Mystic Force” dub details TBD; we assume it will begin upon conclusion of the current dub series, “SPD.”
http://www.toei.co.jp/release/tv/1199458_963.htmlFor 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!
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!
While Shout! Factory works on the long-awaited season sets, fans of Samurai will be pleased to see these new DVD Volumes on shelves later this June! :)
These first two volumes will presumably contain 3 episodes each and will be available for $14.98 apiece.
http://tvshowsondvd.com/n/16690
Earlier this year rumours began to circulate that an interview with TOEI executive Takeyuki Suzuki in the February issue of Hyper Hobby magazine mentioned the possibility of filming brand new Legend war footage for Power Rangers’ 20th anniversary, with all pre-Zyuranger teams removed.
Now, courtesy of Henshin Justice Unlimited user Nerefir the interview has been translated, and does indeed suggest that TOEI will be filming new footage for the anniversary. The translated portion of the interview has been included below.
HH: 2012 is also the 20th anniversary of Power Rangers, isn’t it.
Suzuki: At first we got an offer from America to do something like “199 Heroes,” but of course Power Rangers started with Zyuranger, so the characters before that don’t exist. “So just get rid of those parts.” (laughs) We can’t do that either, so the discussion became “Let’s just film new footage with the 20 years’ worth that we do need.”HH: Power Rangers has already been reimported and dubbed with the voices of the actors that played in the Japanese original. That’s very interesting.
Suzuki: Yes, once you get used to it, it’s very interesting. But there’s a cost to getting the actors to dub, so we can’t really do it much.HH: Lately they have events even in Taiwan. In Asia, it’s not really “Power Rangers,” is it?
Suzuki: I suppose. Originally they would just broadcast the Japanese version in east Asia. They’ve been doing that in Taiwan for 7 years now. It’s not really profitable, but they wanted to try it out, so they did it. It’s gotten an unusually good reaction.HH: So then, what are the prospects for sentai, including Power Rangers, in 2012?
Suzuki: In America it will be the 20th anniversary of Power Rangers, so they have to put forth a lot of work. In preparation for that, they asked us to “film the parts with the sentai (from Zyuranger on) in Japan.” We’re currently setting up for that.
What does this mean for the 20th anniversary of the Power Rangers franchise? Sound off your thoughts after the jump!
Shout! Factory has signed a multiyear agreement to distribute several Saban Brands properties, including episodes from the “Power Rangers” franchise.The deal gives Shout! Factory exclusive DVD, Blu-ray and select digital rights to more than 700 episodes of the various “Power Rangers” shows that ran between 1993 and 2009, as well as 92 episodes of “VR Troopers” (1994-96), 26 episodes of “Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation” (1997-98) and 88 episodes of “Beetleborgs” (1996-98). The agreement does not extend to the ‘Power Rangers’ theatrical movies.
Initial rollout plans for the Saban are slated to begin in summer 2012, according to Shout! Factory, with single-season sets to start and potentially complete-series sets in the future.
Fans have been waiting for this a LOOONG time! :D
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/tv-dvd/shout-factory-distribute-power-rangers-other-saban-titles-26645