So… the new plot has been revealed and from the sound of it, it sounds like they’re ditching their Goseiger costumes in favor of taking up all new Gokaiger powers and suits… complete with the ability to call upon former Power Ranger powers. Scope out the press release in 3…2…1…
The upcoming season of Power Rangers Super Megaforce focuses on the Rangers’ mission to defeat a massive alien army Armada that was sent to conquer Earth. To face this threat, Gosei, a supernatural guardian who has protected Earth for centuries, gives the Rangers special morphers and keys, which allow them to morph into Super Megaforce Rangers. The Rangers also have an added special ability to morph into any team of Power Rangers from the past. These super-sized adventures can only mean one thing: the all-new Power Rangers Super Megaforce has arrived!
Power Rangers Megaforce, which premiered February 2, 2013 on Nickelodeon, is currently captivating audiences with superhuman characters who formed the ultimate team to battle the most malevolent villains.
Fans can visit PowerRangers.com for more information and look forward to new adventures with the Power Rangers Super Megaforce in 2014!
About Saban Brands’ Power Rangers Super Megaforce
Saban Brands will launch the newest version of Power Rangers, the number-one and longest running boys live-action series on television, with Power Rangers Super Megaforce. The new series, which premieres on Nickelodeon in 2014, will deliver super mega action, humor, excitement and entertainment, in addition to the core themes of friendship, teamwork, fitness and helping others. Power Rangers Super Megaforce will introduce all-new morphing abilities, allowing the Rangers to morph into any team of Power Rangers from the past. The Power Rangers franchise is helmed by Haim Saban, who created and produced the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series in 1993. Power Rangers LLC, which licenses and merchandises the Power Rangers brand, is an affiliate of Saban Brands. For more information, visit www.powerrangers.com.
June 17, 2013 @ 4:57 pm
Why Super Megaforce? That name is even stupider than Super Samurai.
How can they miss out on the very idea of the name Power Rangers Pirates?
THE MARKETING WRITES ITSELF AND THEY IGNORE IT!
June 17, 2013 @ 6:29 pm
Yeah… as someone who’s utterly sick of Pirates, Zombies and Vampires, I’m so glad they aren’t going with that…
June 18, 2013 @ 5:50 am
i dont know from where the hell you took the notion that pirates are overdone like zombies and vampires..
July 27, 2013 @ 2:49 pm
Oh boo fricking hoo! I couldn’t care less about the name as long as the season is good! You sound like the type of loser who’d probably complain if Disney or another company was doing Power Rangers instead of Saban!
June 17, 2013 @ 5:38 pm
So they’re pulling a turbo instead of a zeo? That’s disappointing
June 17, 2013 @ 11:28 pm
nice plot and details for super megaforce. Though i really do hate the spilt season approach we been going since saban/nick and i really think it is a bit lazy with just adding super in the title. I really hope gobusters adaption doesnt do that. Overall cant wait to see how they will use gokai footage.
June 18, 2013 @ 8:59 am
Be interesting on how they go about explaining the ability to turn into other teams when they’ve gone out of their way in the current season not to reference any previous teams.
June 22, 2013 @ 11:26 am
they do have the keys or figures in the command center though
June 18, 2013 @ 4:12 pm
“t sounds like they’re ditching their Goseiger costumes in favor of taking up all new Gokaiger powers and suits”
Keith, it was confirmed the goseiger suits would be used primarily during super megaforce………
I hope you knew that.
July 8, 2013 @ 5:50 pm
Their original plans could have changed in a year. I hope you know that.
March 31, 2014 @ 10:09 pm
and now that we see it we know that keith changed his mind because they pretty much super morph in like 2 seconds for every single battle hard or not
June 19, 2013 @ 2:06 am
my big question to the writers, is how are they going to explain MegaForce Black’s character change. He’s a really competent fighter and he’s gonna somehow become an idiot when it comes to combat. Also, are they going to get “MegaForce” keys? cause that would be stupid to turn into your old suits when you could have just used your old morphers… The Ranger-changing gimmick could have easily (and toy-wise, already was) been put into the cards with the MegaForce morphers. Gokaigers should have been a separate team
June 20, 2013 @ 12:18 pm
Dear lord, are they even trying?
I know it is a kid’s show, or more accurate it is a bad adaptation of a Japanese kid’s show. That doesn’t excuse lazy writing. This creates all kinds of very strange continuity problems within the cosmology of even the American Power Rangers.
Yes, it is very easy to see that Megaforce was attempted as a reboot. This is especially easily seen if one watches the first episode which is a beat for beat rehash of the very first episode of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. However the people at Saban, who did some really good writing with SPD and the adaptation of Go Onger, could have done this better.
Heck *I* could do this better.
If you bring the other ranger teams to the world of Megaforce then you face a problem right away. That problem is simple:
Gosei is *not* Zordon.
Power Rangers followed a fairly complex cosmology.
There was a “warrior philosopher” named Zordon (of Eltar) who discovered an extra-dimensional energy spectrum that he coined, “The morphing grid” for thousands and thousands of years he protected Earth by teaching others and passing his knowledge on.
The original team tapped the Morphing Grid for power and we had the five colors of the grid. Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, and Pink. There is also Green, which for some reason Zordon lacked the ability to access. Later Zordon had managed to tap the energy to create White (which presumably is a combination of all colors).
It is indicated by the Aquitar rangers that they also tapped the Morphing Grid and they seemed to indicate that Zordon was the source for them as well.
Eventually the Morphing Grid was presumably damaged, or at least Zordon’s ability to tap it was, and he replaced it as a power source with the mystical Zeo Crystals.
Though the Morphing Grid itself was still tapped by others. (We saw this with the In Space, and the Operation Overdrive series. Note: Operation Overdrive straight confirmed that they were tapping the Morphing Grid.)
The running theories on some of the others such as Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force, and SPD are that they built their devices by reverse engineering the remnants of all of the battles that took place in Angel Grove. Thus we can assume that they too were tapping the Morphing Grid, though in the case of SPD they must have solved Zordon’s problem with “too much energy of any one color being in the same place at the same time” because they had multiple teams, so they had to have multiple of each ranger.
The problem is once we got to Megaforce they dropped all of that. They acted like nobody had ever heard of a power ranger before. Gosei was acting like he was Zordon. This, in the series of Megaforce, was never covered, they never made a link back to what Gosei was.
I know in the Japanese series Goseiger the characters are actually Angels. However Japan has an advantage because Aka Red has explained before that all Sentai are mystically linked. They didn’t have to deal with the convoluted origin that Power Rangers had… Which actually was one of the strengths Power Rangers had in my opinion as a linked cosmology and frequent call-backs are not bad things.
In Gokaiger, the series Super Megaforce is based on, the story line was when the Zangyack attack all of the Sentai try to fight it off and in the end sacrifice their powers to drive the forces off.
That concept doesn’t work with American Power Rangers because in pretty much all of the American Power Rangers series the characters lost their powers anyway by the end of their own shows.
This is going to cause other continuity issues if Gokai Silver is ever introduced. Gokai Silver has the ability to somehow hack the morpher and get all kinds of strange combinations from it. (Such as once becoming half Go-On Gold, half-Go on Silver (the Go-On Wings) or becoming half Gokai Green and half Gokai Red to create Gokai Christmas.)
June 22, 2013 @ 11:29 am
with the losing powers thing, after in space the powers never seemed to disappear entirely. its been shown the can get their powers back, such as in the team up episodes.
July 8, 2013 @ 6:45 pm
After watching Gokaiger, America is losing out on seeing the best series of Super Sentai ever. The plot, the characters, and the overall story of Gokaiger is awesome, well-done, and truly entertaining. I only wish that everyone in America could see what the Japanese got to see. I think that it is laziness on the part of the American team of writers and producers which is to blame for this sad decision. The fans of the show would have had no problems with the Gokaigers changing into other rangers which had never been seen here. Guess I’ll be watching my DVD’s instead of MegaForce.
July 11, 2013 @ 6:22 am
I agree, Gokaiger is the BEST super sentai show I have seen, full stop. The only other show I have enjoyed this much is Kamen Rider OOO’s. Its a travesty for this show to be done as a ‘Power Rangers’ Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger was written, obviously if you watch the show, to appeal to not only children but adults who had grown up watching super sentai as kids. (Something I can’t say about Power Rangers) To lower this classic show to the low low level of ‘Power Rangers’ is complete and utter …… I don’t have a word for it.
July 27, 2013 @ 2:52 pm
And here I was thinking it was Nickelodeon’s fault for forcing Saban Brands to have a season over 2 years with 20 episodes each instead of a 40-episode season! If you want to whine at somebody, whine at the execs at Nickelodeon as they’re the ones who made the stupid decision to have Megaforce be a 20-episode season, and besides, do you really want to have to wait practically 5 years to catch up with Kyoryuger?
August 1, 2013 @ 12:50 am
What the American team should do is just play the Original Japanese footages and put subs. That way they won’t filth the beauty of the original Sentai series. Or if they really want to see Americans do the acting just take on the original story line from Japan without any changes. That would help improve the MMPR shows greatly. And they should also start acknowledging the Super Sentai series franchise everytime they show it in the U.S.
March 31, 2014 @ 4:37 pm
I can’t agree with this. I think America was TOTALLY capable of making this work but they are just not doing it for whatever reason. I just can’t help but think back to Power Rangers in Space. They had old rangers. they had new rangers. they had rangers that weren’t even super sentai but it ended up being like the BIGGEST move EVER. I mean they had a power ranger A FREAKING POWER RANGER kill off ZORDON!!!! I mean that was just unthinkable when I was a kid and still is. like if there was a huge moment in Power Rangers for me that was it. Power Rangers in Space and it ended ALL of that in one hit. Andros taking down Zordon and Zordon’s tube thing shooting out that energy that killed every bad guy we’d seen since power rangers started. This is what Super Megaforce could have been. but they didn’t.
btw I don’t agree to subs or just dubbing the Japanese story. We have to remember that Power Rangers is for kids and when I say kids I mean American kids. We weren’t allowed to see guns and death and even have the bad guys say death or kill. I don’t think it’d pass the censors to have things like Barizorg is the tortured and brainwashed guy that saved the blue ranger from slavery and now blue has to kill him to end his suffering. No go with the rents guys. lol Or you know prejustice and contempt for the rangers cuz they are outlaw pirates that nobody respects. Like a half of Super Sentai is “suitable for children” over here.
August 1, 2013 @ 12:46 am
What else can you expect from a knock-off. The Power Rangers story line is as bad as the names they come up with. I’d definitely still stick with the original Japanese Sentai Series. The story has more content in it. The U.S. adaptations are just way off and no good.