Engine Sentai Go-onger Versus Power Rangers RPM - Part 2

So, after taking a look at Engine Sentai Go-onger, I was fairly unimpressed. It was completely episodic, and the events in one episode rarely left an impact on future episodes save for scant character development. Disney's last developed season of the Power Rangers franchise took a decidedly different approach than it did with shows like Dino Thunder and Mystic Force, not only in formula, but also in tone. Power Rangers RPM stars a cast of young adults, no younger than 17, and no older than 25 (though no ages are actually given, this is just based on personalities and roles and success/failures prior to donning a morpher). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the main cast was supposed to be that old since Time Force. As an adult, I find it easier to believe this part about our central characters having passed those ages already. Buying that anyone other than Summer is under 21 would be a real stretch, and I think Disney understood that when this show was in pre-production. So, we are left to guess the character's ages. The only one we get a hint about is Summer, but we'll get to that later.

So, the series starts us off with something different than normal. We are treated to a monologue that gives us a little bit of information about the global events that lead up to the start of the pilot episode. A self-aware computer virus called Venjix, has taken over nearly all of man-kind’s machines that were connected to the internet. He’s used the machines to build foot soldiers and all sorts of nasty robots to remove the human imperfection from the earth. Why? Because he’s evil. Okay, whatever. Our narrator is begging anyone who hears her transmission to flee to the domed city of Corinth. Why? Well, it turns out that Corinth may very well be humanity’s last vestige against the super virus, Venjix, and his army. Protected by a force field dome, this city has grown and prospered, keeping the semblances of pre-apocalypse Earth civilization alive. It’s often stated in the series that Corinth holds the last of humanity, but we find out that that’s not exactly accurate later. So, the audience is left to assume that it’s the last standing city. I take issue with this, but I’ll keep my mouth shut on that for the time being.

Our Tommy of the series, Dillon, driving around in his old muscle car in a vast desert wasteland watering a single flower that has just started to grow. Already, we know he’s going to be a “rebel with a heart of gold”. And since no pilot episode can go by without a fight scene in the first few minutes, we see the grunts of the season, Grinders. Fight, punch, win, no surprise. As Dillon dusts himself off, he get help up at gunpoint from behind by a shrimp-ish dude in a ripped suit demanding a ride and some water. Dillon, already knows that the “gun” is actually a broken muffler, calls the little man out on his bluff, and stares him down. After an exchange where Dillon reveals he doesn’t remember his name, past or anything, and the would-be attacker calls himself Ziggy from the last known human city, Corinth.

So, that's the opening scene. To avoid going on too long, let's go through with the character studies and then summarize as much as I can.

Scott Truman: Red Ranger and former fighter pilot. He assumes the role of leader naturally due to his background in the military, influence to his father, and out of a sense of responsibility from the death of his brother (yes, that's right, we have an off-screen death in the first episode) who was his squad leader before the Ranger team was formed. He proves that he's not perfect, but tries to be level-headed and rarely loses his cool. Dillon is really the only one who knows how to push his buttons by thumbing his nose at authority.

Flynn McAllistair: Blue Ranger and team mechanic. This Scottish dynamo has a lot of heart and has always dreamed of being a hero to the people. The weird thing is, when he tries to be a hero, he fails miserably. When he just reacts to a dangerous situation, he always comes out on top. He twice tries to assist the team with his new inventions, both times meeting with failure and shame, but quickly fixes the problem and saves the day. Clearly he needs to do some more beta testing rather than rushing a product out the door. This actually fits in well with his personality. As mentioned, when he goes out of his way to try to do something it inevitably blows up in his face. When he has a knee-jerk reaction, he's spot on. His inventions and his childhood attempts of defending the public good are both evidence of this. His bluecollar auto-mechanic father, only shown a couple of times, plays a surprisingly large role in his development as a character. He feel obligated to make his father proud, to show his father he can make a better life for himself using the values taught to him as a child, but is ashamed that his fantastical dreams of herodom are a disappointment. It's this above all that I think is why his instincts are so refined while his critical thinking is lacking. However, once he visits his father to find him asleep in a rather comfy looking armchair with a scrap book filled with all of the news scraps of his (Flynn's) deeds as a Power Ranger, Flynn has a really powerful unspoken connection with his father, knowing he's made his humble father proud. This moment is actually one of my favorites in the whole franchise.

Summer Landsdown: Yellow Ranger and debutante turned rogue. Summer comes from a wealthy family who (unknown to her) has gone broke since the end of the world. When her butler and the closest thing to a true friend or father she ever really had dies in her arms (SHOCK!) during the major Venjix attack that drives humanity into seclusion, she is hit with the realization that she's a spoiled little brat with no direction in life. Being the youngest member of the team, the only female (for the first several arcs), and the only person with no real experience in the real world has forced her to mature the fastest. She develops as a solid character quickly, and proves her worth in the world, hoping to make her deceased friend proud. Her naivete has kept her from becoming too jaded and she's still able to see the good in people, and she's the most willing to support controversial decisions surrounding Dillon in finding his past. She makes a pact with her parents to be on her own for a year to find herself, if she agrees to wed a blue-blood to keep the family out of the streets. When the anniversary of the agreement passes, and her parents come-a calling, Summer mournfully agrees to hold up her end of the bargain rather than fight it every inch. During this plot, she shows her ingenuity by faking the wedding ceremony with an unlikely body double to lure out a villain. Her parents' financial troubles come to light, but they agree to call of the charade in the aftermath and share a tender moment with their estranged daughter.

Ziggy Grover: Green Ranger and former mafioso. Ziggy is a schemer who can't scheme, a mobster who can't follow protocol, and a Ranger who can't keep his head in the game. At least at first. He's nervous, twitchy, conniving, friggin hilarious. He actually becomes a Power Ranger trying to follow Dr. K's orders by keeping the Green Ranger morpher safe, and is force to permanently bond with it to keep the ranger technology out of villainous hands. His nonthreatening antics that first introduce him to Dillon seem to endear the leather rebel to this jokester, and they are largely inseparable, with Dillon always willing to stick up for little Ziggy whenever he gets in too deep. He's one of those characters who has a huge personality, and makes dozens of tiny character changes as the series progresses. It's clear a lot of care went into this character when he was written, which is good since characters like him walk a fine line between adoringly comical and obnoxious. One revelation about Ziggy that occurs about mid-way, that is kind of central to the series' closing scene, is not something I will discuss, as I want to keep the ending to this series as spoiler-free as I can, but I will say it may make your eyes well up a bit with how selfless it is.

Dillon: Black Ranger and the closest we get to a Tommy as the franchise has ever gotten besides more Tommy. This character is literally a rebel without a cause. He knows nothing about his past for most of the show, other than at some point he was essentially turned into a cyborg with experimental Venjix technology. While this plot device is used a lot, it has the added benefit of making him an angry ball of clay that the events of the series shapes. Again, a lot of care went into this character, as they were really careful not to over do it. He gradually develops a relationship with Summer, and even finds family. There isn't much else to say other than he has one of those faces you've seen before, but you can never place it.

Gem and Gemma: Gold and Silver Rangers respectively. These hyperactive siblings come into play and shake things up. Thought to be long dead, these relics of Dr. K's past burst into the scene ready to make everything explode. Seriously, these two have a severe hyperactive disorder and are obsessed with explosions. They also finish each other's sentences. They're creepy. Really creepy. Like those twins from The Shining. Thankfully, being exposed to so much stimuli lets them stop acting in tandem and they start to act like two individuals instead of a hive-mind. I don;t really start to like either of them until Flynn's attempt at constructing a "Road Attack Zord". Gemma bonds closely with Flynn, and they develop a sort of crush on each other, resulting in Flynn asking her out. Gem, knowing jealousy for the first time, expressing his dislike for the whole affair, guilt trips his sister offscreen and she declines. But, there's still a little spark from then on. Oh, and they die. It's sad and really dramatic. Fear not! They manage to come back to life after the big bad is beaten, so Flynn/Gem shippers can still hope.

Doctor K: The inventor of the Ranger technology and super short with a bad haircut. Much like Operation Overdrive's explanation, she taps into the morphing grid and makes cool stuff. Gem and Gemma were her lab rats for testing her tech in the thinktank they lived in. She was essentially kidnapped as a very young child and forced to create stuff and solve complex problems for a bunch of no-faced suits who kept her inside the bunker by explaining she was sick and allergic to the sunlight. When she finds a butterfly fluttering around and follows it, she passes by a tiny window/air vent thingy (it looks like an archer's barricade) and sunlight splashes on her face. Not bursting into flames and exploding in a pool of death, she realizes she's been made a fool of and unleashed the AI virus, Venjix, into the compound's security systems to try to flee. She is caught, and before she can launch the kill code to stop the virus from leaving the network and infecting the world, she gets busted. Gem and Gemma save her, and seemingly die in an inferno as the virus self-destructs the compound before heading off to be an evil computer virus. So, Dr K is responsible for the end of the world. Hey, at least she made a mark in the history books. Okay, more like a smoldering crater the size of North America, but still. So, to assuage her guilt, she improves on the Ranger Series technology to combat her evil brain child. More stuff happens, and she 's still short as hell.

Colonel Mason Truman: Scott's father. He clearly is proud of his son, but can't show it as he is essentially in charge of the safety of presumably the last city on Earth and his only living son is leading the charge against a nigh immortal threat bent on killing them all. He feels letting his emotions get the better of him could lead to humanity's end, which is kind of understandable. What's not understandable, is that he never gave himself time to grieve for his eldest son. One would assume that bottling something like that up would lead to an outburst at the wrong time or an easily exploitable weakness for the enemy. So, since he had to be all cold and stony, his son, Scott, felt he had to be as well. Eventually they reconcile, but that wall has been there for so long, I doubt their family would have ever recovered.


The Good:
This series is the most mature out of all of them. As the last Disney entry in the franchise, this was a real high note.The characters were great, the villain was threatening (until he got himself a face, meh), the twists were believable, and the cinematography was GREAT. I know a lot of people hate the civilian powers, and they did get rid of them for this entry in Power Rangers, though they did add a new power for the main five in their morphed state. There was so much new footage shot, that this could hardly be considered an adaptation of Go-Onger at all.

The Bad:
The fight with Venjix was a little weak. I do like it when the final battle isn't done in Zords, but this one felt lacking. It had such built up, only to have a mediocre release, that I keep expecting the villain to come out of the explosion all charred and cut up and try to chock Scott (as the leader, it's his job to be choked by the baddie) while everyone is high-fiving.

Summer's age is the only confirmed age we have. Venjix attacked on her 16th birthday, and a couple of days later, she arrives at Corinth and makes the pact with her parents for a year of freedom. Assuming her parents gave her an extra month or two, she would be a little over 17. She ain't no 17 years old. I don't buy that for one second. Nineteen, maybe. MAYBE. But not seventeen. If a seventeen year old girl who was raised to be a snob and only had a year to find her path could make THAT big of a change in character, I'll shave a penis in my chest hair. If she were 18 and forced with some responsibilities (like overseeing some small part of her parents' financial empire) by the time the world ended, then I could maybe see it. Early twenties would be more believable. But no, we're told she's 17, and before arriving in Corinth lived a life of ignorant indulgence. We're told this, and we're shown this, and I don't like it one bit.


The Ugly:
Do the writers really expect us to believe that when the domed city of Corinth was being engineered, that the blueprints were shared with NO ONE? Or that no one else thought of a similar safe haven? I find it hard to believe that Corinth houses the last humans on the planet outside of Venjix's guinea pigs. At times this notion can ruin an episode for me. In fact, being reminded of this during the opening sequence made me feel dour quite often, so I just skip it when I revisit this season.

Summary:
Engine Sentai Go-Onger is a nice show full of camp, but whatever substance it may have had is so bogged down by its extensive cast of characters and episodic format, that it's hard to remember much of a story. I'm surprised their camper didn't have a spotlight episode dedicated to it. Giving the mechs character roles was a mistake in my book, and made the show really hard to sit through.

Power Rangers RPM trimmed the fat from 24 featured characters down to 9 (I am counting Gem and Gemma as a single person). With a unique and entertaining story to the franchise, humor in all the right places, and most of the action being spot-on, this was a lot of fun to watch. Yes, I know I didn't write up a synopsis on Tenaya. I wanted to, but felt like it may lead to too much of a spoiler for that closing scene.

Versus Results:
If you have a kid who just likes bright lights and sounds, pop in some Go-Onger. However, if you are looking for a story befitting a post-college age group, you can't go wrong with Power Rangers RPM. It may be a little tame for adult audiences, but there's nothing wrong with that at all, and it's still age-appropriate for children. RPM is a great family show regardless of your age with more than enough elements to please viewers of all ages.

Just a Quick Update

Did you ever like Power Rangers? Do you still like Power Rangers? If you're here, then the answer should be obvious. Help convince the powers-that-be to release complete season box sets on DVD (with special features and subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing...like me). Sign the petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/PRsets/petition-sign.html

Now that that's out of the way, I finally got my hands on the candy toy for GoZyuJin, more ranger keys, and another HD Alpha. Plus, I'm going to take a leaf from Brad Jones (the Cinema Snob) and review Not See Kola! I'm really excited about this. I just gotta get in front of a camera for a few hours (GoZyuJin is gonna take some time to review, it's in 3 boxes) and then edit it. I'm also still writing my second part of Go-Onger VS RPM. It's not quite where I want it yet, and as long as it is, I still feel like there's a ton missing. I may have to write out a third part for final thoughts rather than trying to fit it all in as I go...we shall see how it turns out. In any case, that's where I am with things, so hang tight!

Engine Sentai Go-onger Versus Power Rangers RPM - Part 1

Here's a new segment where I take a look at stories and characters from the Super Sentai and Power Rangers franchises, and compare the two. The goal here is to see which treats its audiences with the most grace, has the most to offer multiple demographics, and just offers a better story. As such, there will be MAJOR spoilers.

In February 2009, the 32nd sentai team had its pilot episode. March the following year, Power Rangers RPM aired in the USA. Both used the same fight footage, but were wildly different. Since Go-onger aired first, let's talk about what this story was about.

Go-onger started with 3 people driving around in a camper (which, thanks to the wonders of hammer space, has enough space for a kitchen, sleeping arrangements for 5 people, and a research laboratory) fighting a few baddies here and there. Sousuke, Ren, and Saki who are Go-on Red, Go-on Blue, and Go-on Yellow respectively, met roughly 8 months before the series starts when a race Sousuke was competing in was attacked by the Gaiark. Sousuke (a race car driver), Ren (a bus driver), and Saki (a concession peddler) are the only 3 with the guts to fight off the Putties of the season. Witnessing this brave act, 3 sentient vehicles and a fat little robot (yeah, work your head around that) named Bomper decide that this trio is worthy of entrusting the fragile vehicles' bodies to. You see, these vehicles (Speedor, Buson, and BeaRV) are from a parallel world called Engine World. Coming to Human World caused their bodies start to decay, so they split themselves into souls contained in these little card things and Casts which are just mini die-cast versions of their bodies. When the Souls is Put into the cast, the engine is made whole and can grow big to do battle for 10 minutes or so. By putting the Soul into a mopher, the souls project a holographic image of their true selves to communicate with others, though this is proven useless as the Soul cards can talk and even jump about without any aid.

Early on, the trio are stalked by a former "detective" with an effed up hairhawk (who is later revealed to have just been a beat cop) and a tuktuk driving kid who is perpetually between jobs. These two freaks of nature desire nothing more, for the time being, to join the Go-onger team. So the fat little robot, Bomper, decides to let them join the team out of desperation, and their Engine partners seem to exist purely to be whimsical because...because! So, these new members are names Gunpei (Go-on Black) and Hanto (Go-on Green), and their partners are Gunphard (a German Shepard/gun themes police cruiser) and Birca (motorcycle cruiser that throws out random Italian catch phrases at inappropriate places. Whether it's a shark or dolphin, I don't remember it being explained).

So, that's the main five. They're all full of energy, have really strong desires that are barely explored. Gunpei wants to save the world because he was a lackluster cop, Hanto wants to use his powers to hit on girls, Saki wants to be an idol eventhough she has NO talent (and yes, there was an episode where she had a featured singing role), Sousuke wants to be the very best Grand Prix racer (like no one ever was), and Ren wants to be a mechanic in a pit crew.

Next, we have our baddies. They hail from Machine World, and call themselves Barbaric Machine Clan Gaiark. There are three main baddies. Earth Pollution Minister Yogostein, Water Pollution Minister Kegalesia, and Air Pollution Minister Kitaneidas. What's their goal? You guessed it! To pollute the planet. Guess what the major theme of the series is? If you guessed "pollution is bad", you'd actually be wrong. Shocker, I know. The obvious conflict is actually entirely secondary. Why? Because the show was trying to be ironic. The motivations aren't really explored. Kegaleshia is there to be sexy. Kitaneidas is there to be his own organization's foil, and Yogostein is supposed to be the serious one. Supposed to be. At the end of the day, his own confidence proves to be more of a foil than the Air Minister's own inability to function. I really wish there was ANYthing more to say about the water and air ministers...but there's nothing to say at this point. Yogostein has a bit more personality, though only just. He's seriously determined to succeed to prove to his father Yogoshimacritein and to his Vice Minister Hiramechimedes. Yogoshimacritein is the head of ALL the ministers, and their race as a whole. He's never called a king, but for all intents and purposes, he is. Hiramechimedes is Yogostein's second-in-command, and I'm guessing occasional lover. This dude is obsessed with math. His binding attack is a string of characters which are just numbers that make up Pi, and his blast attack is a big eff-off triangle that he draws in the air and explodes. This guy has more personality than Yogostein, but his only motivation is jealousy at not being made Earth Pollution Minister. One thing I will say is that he learns from each of his mistakes, and after each failure adjusts his strategy significantly to compensate. Not typical villain behavior, which is a really nice change of pace. But he's only around for a few episodes, so not much is explored with him. There's a "Cleaning Minister" somewhere in there, but it's quickly revealed that all of his accomplishments were all a lie, so he's not really worth talking about. He's there for like, 4 episodes and there aren't any major revelations so he might as well not have been created to begin with.

So, there are two more Rangers that pop up occasionally right before the middle of the series, but they don't really become regulars until after Hiramechimedes bites the dust. They seriously dislike the Go-ongers because they aren't that bright, act like children, and are poor as dirt. These two call themselves Go-on Wings, and want to upstage the Go-ongers so much that they'll even tell civilians they rescue to only call them the Go-on Wings. Go-on Gold is a Nancy rich boy named Hiroto with gold streaks in his hair. For some reason, he never looks anyone in the eyes for longer than a second; he always looks around at his surroundings with a look on his face like whatever he's doing isn't worth his time. Go-on Silver is Hiroto's little sister named Miu. She's basically the exact same as her brother, but after several encounters with the Go-ongers (and after letting her Engine combine with the others), she proves willing to at least try to get to know them. They end up having a few mini-arcs that never amount to anything. I really wish they did, because these characters had so much potential. Miu showed the most personality, and it was so gradual that it made her seem perfectly organic. It really took her over a dozen episodes to do a full 180, and it was one of the few things that kept me engaged.

Next we have the Engines themselves. We've got Speedor, Buson, BeaRV, Gunphard, Birca, Carrigator, Toripter, Jetras, Jumbowhale, Kisamoth, T-Line, and K-Line. That's right, 12 more "central" characters, each with their own personality (well, to be fair T-Line and K-Line are just extensions of Kisamoth). Their personalities are really just extensions of their partners. Carrigator and Kisamoth (and their conflicts) are kinda the same. They're ancient, and insecure about their role in modern day. One episode is spent on each of their spotlight episodes, so you can tell how important they are to the overall story. That's the twelve in a nutshell.

As for plot...well, that's the difficult part. We have 5 baddies, 7 rangers, and 12 Engines, each of which have at least one spotlight episode. There's 50 episodes, 31 of which are spotlight episodes with little to no plot development (Miu and Ren's are the only ones with actual analytical character development), with another 2 being spin-off episodes from the movie, a clip show, and a holiday episode where Santa must be saved. That leaves 15 episodes for actual plot, but the plot moves so slowly, that the show quickly devolves into the "watch our wacky adventures" kind of show, where it just moves one episode at a time and everything is pretty self-contained. It really boils down to this (which is so sad):

The Gaiark are invading the world to create enough pollution for their race to be able to survive the atmosphere. The Go-ongers and Go-on Wings stop them at every turn because they are the only ones with the power to do so.

While that sounds extremely boring, there are a couple of episodes that actually stand out. One I mentioned before, where Saki sings. However, she's not alone. Kegaleshia and Miu join her. This monster from another world threatens to destroy the entire planet (leaving nothing for the Gaiark to inhabit) just by growing too large. It turns out that he can only be shrunk by the right music. Enter the Pollution Ministers singing Rock n Roll! So that fails and the monster grows. Hiroto sings a surprisingly lovely ballad (seriously, it's fantastic), but that's not quite right either. So the girls join together to form an idol band called "G3 Princess". It's nifty seeing Kegaleshia actually morph from her princess dress into her usual get-up in the exact same way the the Go-ongers morph into their costumes. The producers immediately released a G3 Princess album and set up an idol tour. This episode was so successful that the girls actually did encore shows and were included in an encore album towards the end of the series. They even tried to capitalize on the success with a G5 Prince  show, which was awful.

The final two episodes were pretty good too. I was given a nice shock when Yogostein's father actually KILLED Gunpei and Hanto onscreen. You saw their engine die, and you saw them die. BAM! To Be Continued. Holy hell, that was powerful. It wasn't even a quick explodie death either. You saw them suffer for a minute first. This was downplayed in the following episode when Miu, Hiroto, their Engines, Jumbowhale, Kisamoth, T-Line, and K-Line were also killed and almost immediately revealed not to ACTUALLY be dead, but "transported to another frequency", and only dumb-as-a-brick Sousuke can save them, which he does. After all, we can't let children know what death is, right? No, that'd be bad.

The Idol Debut episode wasn't the first or the last time Saki and Miu would have to team up to save the boys, which is kinda how Miu grew into her own person. She started off as the female analog of her older brother, and was forced to cooperate with someone else in order to save him more than once. Because of this, she became exposed not only to an outside force, but another example of feminine strength. This let her step out of her brother's shadow and become her own loveable and quirky person. Saki develops only in the sense that we see her revert back into a weak child twice, only to over come that part of her past and forget all about it for the rest of the series. Once was when her older sister who's basically the worst sibling ever created for a TV show, who was manipulating her and everyone around her because...because! Saki's sister was a freaking master of manipulation, going so far to have planned out her con from before we ever saw her enter frame. She even sold the Go-onger Mobile Ops to a used car dealership! And at this point Hiroto and Miu were still big enough douches that they wouldn't help out. The other time was when we saw her flashback to getting lost in the woods and a little boy taught her her current catchphrase "Smile, smile!" to cheer her up until her parents found her. Whadyaknow? She ends up in that forest again, surrounded by ghosts, and finds a little boy who reminds her of her flashback. Lo and behold, it's the same boy. Turns out he's the spirit of the forest. Big surprise. Her character doesn't really develop as much as it is revealed, but unfortunately, it doesn't make us like her any more or less.

Ren strangely enough doesn't develop through his spotlight episodes, but rather in the background. He sees everyone else's strengths and wants to be a better and less shy person because of it. Like Miu, this makes him more organic and likeable...even if his facination with Hanto's eyes are a little off putting. Ren's spotlight episodes really just serve the purpose of showing us the "new Ren". Whenever she makes a big enough change in the background, we see him use his new traits in the spotlight. I found this a nice change from the usual "Focus on this character, and make them change this way" formula. Sousuke doesn't change at all. He doesn't really learn any lessons, gain patience, tolerance or understanding. He's the perfect example of the person you'd hate to know in real life. He doesn't think about the consequences of his actions and get praised for his gumption. From the supposed leader of the group, I had really hoped for some character revelations.

Hanto, like Saki, doesn't really change as much as become revealed. And Like Sousuke, doesn't learn from his mistakes. At all. He just keeps ogling girls older than him and lives the life of a goofy sidekick. I was disappointed in this especially since he had a spotlight episode where it seemed like he was picking up bad habits, and was taught responsibility, only to have the entire episode neeeever mentioned again. It's like it never happened. He didn't change at all from how he was before the episode aired. I was really expecting him to form bad habits that he would need to battle off and on to teach both him and his teammates new lessons. Gunpei is similar. He starts off as a stern father-type with a cocky attitude and bad hair. through the series, he starts to act the same age as everyone else, pals around more (though this just comes out of the blue) and takes the stick out of his ass. It's not so much as he develops, so much as he just gets used to the presence of these new people.

All in all, this series is good for one-liners and a mile of Kegaleshia's cleavage. There isn't really much substance to it. It's really unfortunate since it seems like they started to care more about introducing new Engines and weapons to make toys of, but decided that kids would eat up the shiny colors any way, so who cares about story, right? Shove a few more toys at them to buy!

Stay tuned for Part 2 of this review where shit gets real, in Power Rangers RPM