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4/7/08 Power Animals sources have indicated that plans are in the works for a Jungle Fury/Ninja Storm team up. Its not a 100 percent lock yet. But is in the planning stages. PA first reported this on Rider Power.

During the past year Samuell Benta ( Will in Overdrive) revealed that the Overdrive cast was not being brought back for a team up. Which many assumed meant we weren't getting any team up this year.

PA began to cryptically mention a team up a few weeks ago. One that didn't neccessarly have anything to do with Operation Overdrive. Which ended up being the proposed NS/JF teams up.

Other then Sally Martin ( who appeared in "Once A Ranger Parts 1 and 2" last season) we having seen the Ninja Storm team since "Thunder Storm Parts 1 and 2" , which featured the team up of Ninja Storm and Dinothunder. No full Power Rangers team has ever come back more then a season after there own has wrapped up. Click on the link to see Power Animals's post.

4/7/8 Power Animals has learned that Power Rangers RPM is a possible title for the 2009 PR season. But this could change down the road.

Past link titles incused Mystic Force and Drive Force. Mystic Force ended up sticking of course. But Drive Force became Operation Overdrive ( there was also a rumor about Power Rangers Relic Hunters being the title). Both Mystic Force and Drive Force were announced via press releases howerver. Power Rangers RPM was not released by press release and therefore is far less official.

The 2009 Power Rangers season will adapt Go-onger into a Power Rangers series. Which may or may not end up with Power Rangers RPM as the title. Click on the link to see Power Animal's post.

4/7/8 .MR-Aftershock has posted an exclusive look at some of the bikes that will be featured in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. The bikes have Dragon Knight and Wing Knight on them.

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight is an American adaption of Kamen Rider Ryuki. Which is scheduled to debut at some point in 2008.Click on the link to see Aftershock's post

4/7/8 I don't know what the plan for the new Power Rangers Network is. But I was givening permission by Bastian to try and recruit new webmasters for PRN. I'm looking for someone to be the man. To recreate the PRN website like I did Power Rangers Online. Someone who loved the old PRN like I did the old PRO.

Another idea would be to gather a bunch of fans together for a network of sites to be hosted on the PRN domain. For instance one site could be an MMPR site, another a Zeo site, ect.....

I'm not sure how all this would fit in the current plans for PRN. But its worth a try. Email me here.

4/7/8 A mysterious message at the Ranger Power Forums seem to indicate the return of Power Rangers Network later in 2008.

Power Rangers Network was at one point the second most reconizable Power Rangers site on google and yahoo searches. However, its main page was often times incomplete and barely served a purpose ( in the early days it did provide some good downloads).

The site however, was able to create a popular message board.The PRN Forum was once the largest message board in the fandom. The site was started by PRN Ranger. But the board itself was run by various admins over the years. Which included Marzeo, Micheal Bastian, White Tiger among others.

Once the PRN main page became complete dormant and PRN left the site completely, the board was move to Rider Power. And continued on under Marzeo and Kwaga Thunger ( who now owns Toku-fusion). The board began to slowly died off . And for the past several months has been off line.

Micheal Basitan bought the PRN domain from PRN Ranger. And currently has it parmed on Toku-Fusion. Rider Power wasn't interested in working with Bastian at the time and chose to to remain separate.

PRO planned on partnering up with Ranger Power after this went down. But nothing ever came of it and the board went offline with not real explination. PRO ended up reorginzing its own board into Rider Power.

For the first time in awhile the message on Ranger Power has been changed. Its unclear what exactly the plan is, and what incarnation PRN will come back as.

4/7/8 Some posters at Rangerboard are talking about bring Rangerforums back. Its unclear whether they have permission from the owner of the board.

A few years back, Ranger Forums was a Vbulletin forum that had a loyal board member ship. It was probably the third or fourth largest forum at the time. Liam was the owner and decided to sell to Snoopwarner. After a database crash the board was lost. And Snoops simply continued things at the Retrocenter Forum. Which can be seen as a contiuation of Ranger Forums anyway.

Its unclear what these new posters are bringing to the table. It seems like they are just going to start a new board with the same name and try to get back the old members. Click here for there post on RB. They also made a post on Ranger Retroforms which may shed more light on things.

03/21/08 It a fun bit of nostalgia for me, I have recently been reading Delta Reds' Lightspeed Rescue remake. A fic I originally had a hand in creating.

The Lightspeed remake is set in Delta's EVG remake universe. Which I recently plugged here and probably have ( and will) many times. It details the story of Operation Lightspeeds battle against the Demons.

Kendrix Morgan returns from the Lost Galaxy remake, to help Lightspeed develop Ranger powers of their own. And finds herself thrown back into the role of Pink Ranger, when new Lightspeed Pink goes missing.

Led by Carter Greyson the new Lightspeed team is forced to battle agaisnt he demons. But are they ready to face the evil of Dobolico's forces? You can find out in Episode 1 of this exciting series.Which is only part of the greater EVG Universe. The comprhenshive alternate Timeline to the Power Rangers Universe.

To read more of about the remake's creation , click here ( includes spoilers). To read the first episode ( "Operation Lightspeed Part 1: The Awakening") of the fan fic series, click here . The EVG universe has no association to Power Rangers or Disney. It is just a fan made series.

3/21/08 I have been slowly working on the Overdrive section of the site. I meant what I said a few weeks ago. I want to make this site more active, like it was during 2004 and 2005. I just haven't had anything in the final draft phase yet. Hench why I have not been posting my recent work. If you think my spelling errors are bad now, imagine if I didn't even proofread. Anyway, I plan on getting this OO section finished. Then I will start getting the JF section updated.

3/21/08 Mesogog has restarted Power Ranger Empire with a new database. This is not going to be confused with the resurection of Henshin Empire. Which is still around as a separate but affilated entity. Mesogog gives his reasoning here.

Power Ranger Empire was the second biggest Power Rangers forum at point. Which its orgins pointing back to 2003. And develped a loyal following from its membership.

The Forum has always been known for a lot of changes. As Mesogog has always claimed that it was his experiment. So he played arond with a lot of things. At one point the site became Odd Empire, after a meger with the now defunct Odd Sentai site.

But it reverted back to PRE soon after. Later, Mesogog decided to rename the board Henshin Empire. After a period the name reverted once again to PRE. Until the boards eventual demise.Mesogog closed the site and vowed never to open it again.

3/21/08 The Spandex Report is a Newsletter/web portal that is worth a look. It provides a guide to all sorts of news on the show and the fandom. They even list the latest fan fiction and multimedia related links. Its a great resource if you just want to see what is going on in the fandom.

3/21/08 At Rangerboard, Power Animals said that there is the possibility that there might end up being some team up after all. Power Animals didn't give away too many details. He wouldn't say if this would invovle the Overdrive cast or some other group of Rangers. And it is not a lock to happen. Aparently, the Writers Strike delayed some of the shooting. But they are getting ready to shoot again. Here is his post on the subject. Continue to read on in the thread, for futher information .

3/21/08 Tommy Lawson, posted his thoughts on why he thinks production of Power Rangers won't move to Canada. And about why it would be a bad move by Disney. He orginally posted this at the Toonzone forums. But the The GKA times transcriped his post. Check it out.

3/13/08 Power Animals has confirmed through his source, that Live Action Power Rangers will continue in 2009. Thus officially ending speculation that a animated series would replace Live Action Power Rangers.. This is good news, as we are getting at least one more year of Live Action Power Rangers. Go to PRO's own Rider Power for PA's post on this.

3/13/08 I would like to plug the EVG fan fic universe. It changed url not to long ago. But it has been a fan fic series for several years, written by Delta Red. Its a remake of Power Rangers, staring his own character ( Mathew Corbott). Orginally it started our as a remake of Lost Galaxy that retconed the end of Space. But later a Lightspeed Rescue remake was made ( initially inspired by ideas from myself, but Delta really made the LR remake a reality). Later a Time Force remake was made. With the idea of another series to conclude the saga. But soon other pieces were written for the universe. Recently Delta Red has decided to go back and rewrite MMPR-Space, to fit his universe better. He is a very good writer. I recommend you checking out his work. He has been dedicated to this project for years. The series is not yet complete and is very much a work in progress. Some seasons were taking down for the rewrites. But there are a few of the season still up. So there is plenty to read and will be even more later.

3/13/08 Rangercast ( the Podcast) recently had a audio interview with Valiere Varone. Who plays Kendrix Morgan during Lost Galaxy. She currently has a carreer has a interior designer and seems to have a wonderful family. Varone was very open to the fandom during her time on the show. Many fans showed her support when she came down with Lukiema while still filmng. Which lead to Meledy Perkins reprising ehr role as Karone, to replace Valiere's character. Valiere came back for the finale and ended up making a full recovery. And from all accounts seems to be doing well. But listen to the interview to hear her story and interesting insites ogn the show;s production..

3/13/08 I would like to plug this new site by MTADoug. Its not exclusively a Power Rangers site, but seems to have a lot of Power Rangers content. The site is called Stumpf Productions.

3/13/08 This is sort of old news, but Henshin Empire is once again back. Henshin Empire being one of the many names of the forum once known as Power Ranger Empire. The forum closed down months prior. As the owner ( Mesogog) lost interest and decided to open up a non Power Rangers forum. But now he has decided to bring his forum back, using the Henshin Empire name once again. Its a completely fresh start with a new database. And he claims that the PRE name will never be used again. But visitors of the old board have already returned. Power Rangers Empire/Henshin Empire was among the bigger Power Rangers and Toku forums until it shut down.

3/13/08 I feel silly for posting this now. But the Writers Strike ended several weeks ago. Which saw the members of the writers union in holywood go on strike for several weeks. This effected the Power Rangers production teams as well. But now the strike is over.

3/6/8 I would like to apoligize to the vistors of this site. In the last few years I have done a medicore job maintianing this site. I don't know if it was burn out, lazyness, or lack of interest. It was probably a little bit of all of this. But my creative spark had been rekindled. And I am still very much a Power Rangers fan.

So starting now I am going to get this site active again. To the level that it was in 2004 and 2005. Where I basically had to build the site from scratch ( with a lot of help in terms of layout). I am starting out with much more this time and a healthy amount of traffic. So I know can take it back to that level and beyond.

I want a site that is routinely updated and relevent. I can't promise an update everyday but I am going to try to work on the site everyday. I have worked on the site for the past four days. My return actually officially happened on Monday. When the new main page went up. I I have already adapted some things to Jungle Fury. Thanks to Mr-Aftershock for the new site banner and picture on the splash.

I know I have made these kind of promises before. But this time I really want to get things going again. I have been working on my OO episode guide. I just need to give it a proofread before I post it. I want to get OO caught up and begin working on the JF section. A brief summery of JF is up already.

I am back full time now. Not in a literal sense where I am going to be working on this 40 hours a week. But in the sense that will be updating at the rate I did in 04 and 05.So let lets hope we can get this thing back together. Scroll down to read some of the new newsbytes I just added.

2/6/8 I fully recommend everyone give the Rangercast podcast a try. This is not to be confused with the Rangercast Message Board. Chris Funaro gives a lot of wonderful insights into the Power Rangers universe. Tyler is an excellent host. An there is a whole panel of other opinions. If you haven't listened to the show since the beggning, I'd suggest givening it another try.

2/6/08 Power Rangers Online woild like to wish a Happy Birthday to Chris Funaro. Otherwise known as Cmdr Crayfish. He is a well known Power Rangers fan that is among one of the most intellegent posters at any PR board.

He used to run Funaroverse. Which was once a web portal for the Power Rangers fandom. And was pretty successful for the few years that it was active.Chris current runs the funaroboard. A small board that is meant a small place for PR fans to go and with little rules. He also is one of the members of the Rangercast podcast. And can be found posting at Rangerboard.

3/6/08 Joe Rovang has written thrity-eight screenplays for a fan series using Jetman ( the sentai series before Zuyranger, which was used for MMPR Season 1). The scripts are written in hopes of them one day getting produced into actual episodes for a fan series. He is going to start releasing the scripts weekly. So that fans can read the series. The last few episodes are are being written now. Here is the thread he made on Rangerboard.

Joe Rovang is a well known Power Rangers fan that has been around for a long time. He is a well known fan fiction author but best known for his work on The Writers Guide To The Power Rangers Universe. Which is a massive guide to Power Rnagers continuity, designed to help fan fic authors research the show's history. He also has othe projects listed at Rovang.org.

3/6/08 This is way late. But in case you missed it you may want to check out the official press release on Jungle Fury. It contains spoiler so be warned. Even though the show has already started, it reveals who the fourth and fifth Rangers are going to be. Burgandy Ranger posted the release at Rangerboard. before JF debuted.

3/6/08 Catching up on some old news, Poweranimals reported some time ago... If live action does continue it may also move production to Canada. Due to the fact that it would cost the same to producr them in Nrw Zealand. This was reported at PRO's own Rider Power a few months ago. Check it out.

Power Rangers was orginally produced in Valencia, California. and remained there for the first ten seasons of its production. After Disney bought the show they moved production to New Zealand, in hopes of saving money. They also fired most of the production staff. But production costs in New Zealand has been rising. Which could lead to the show moving to Canada.

01/31/08 Power Animals has some potentially great news. It seems that one of his sources has reason to believe that there may very well be a live action. Power Rangers series in 2009. Power Animals was of course one of the few people that broke the original rumor about Power Rangers possibly switching to animation in 2009. Which has been widely known for the past few months. This is the first news that really seems to give hope that live action may continue. So this latest news is encouraging for those of you that wish Power Rangers to continue as a live action series. But its still not confirmed that we will get another live action season yet. So don't think this means we are diffinitly out of the woods Power Animals reported the news at Rider Power, PRO's very own message board.

http://www.riderpower.net/showthread.php?p=30428#post30428

For more info on how you can help get the word out about Saving Live Action, visit the Save Power Rangers website. Which is affilated with PRO. Special thanks to Ross for his wonderful work on the site. As well as Rangerking for some of the design.

http://www.savepowerrangers.com

1/31/08 Power Rangers Online Message Board has merged with Talk Rider, Digimon Central forums, Sailor Moon Kingdom forums ( not the invisonfree), and Lahana Forums. If you had an account at any of the forums it should work at Rider Power. All the databases of the boards were merged. So most if not all of the posts should be there. This is not the end of the Power Rangers Online Message Board or any of the other forums invovled. Its just a new beginning. And an attempt to create a big Power Rangers and Kamen Rider Board ( with other toku like genres mixed in).

Power Animals and MR-Aftershock will be givening us exclusive updates on Power Rangers Jungle Fury and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. Both men have are the ones to discover Dragon Knights preduction. Power Animals has also broke a lot of PR news as of late.

1/31/08 Once again, it has been awhile since my last update. I hope to update more continually once Power Rangers Jungle Fury begins. PRO's sister Kamen Rider site will update more once Dragon Knight starts. But there is some interesting PR news above. So nows a good time to update this news page.
11/19/07 Gage has brought back his webportal. Ranger Web Portal is a source for Power Rangers news. As well as for whats going on in the fandom. He briefly opened the site in the summer but had to close it. Now it is back. Check it out for all the latest news.

11/19/07 Power Animals is reporting that Jungle Fury is currently scheduled to be the last live action season of Power Rangers. At which point the show would switch to animation. As has been previously rumored. PA is suggesting a massive fan writing campiagn to convince Disney otherwise. Please keep this letters proffesional. As any kind of hateful letters will hurt the cause. If you are sceptical, keep in mind that it will be too late once an official announcement is made. Its better to act now, it surely can't hurt. Emails are ok, but regular letters are much more effective. As it shows you care more. Here is PA's thread at Rangerboard. Here is the address you should use in the letters, also from PA:

The Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521

11/19/07 The GKA Times is reporting about a story on Yahoo news, that shows Jackie Mericand picketing for the Writers Guide Strike. Which shows that the strike affects Power Rangers as well. Tommy Lawson ( posting his thoughts at Toonzone Forums) thinks this could be part of the reason why the switched to animation is being discussed for 2009.

Jackie Marchand is a long time Story Editor for the Power Rangers Television Show. And also serves as an Executive Producer. The GKA Times is a news site for various action adventure shows. Which mainly deals with Power Rangers and Toku. Toozone is a long running forum for Cartoons and other kids properties. Here is the actual post on the subject, at the GKA Times. Go there for more information.

11/19/07 I It appears Stan Lee at one point wanted to adapt Super Sentai into an American TV series. Margaret Loesch tried to help him sell the concept to Kids TV Networks. But they were laughed out of every network. When Loesch became President of Fox Kids she orderd Power Rangers from Haim Saban ( who had the same idea years later).

The Blast From the Past website did an interview with Loesh that revealed this. The interview itself was about the X-Men animated series, but Stan Lee and Power Rangers came up . Loesch was President of Fox Kids in the late ninties. And is responsible for bringing Power Rangers, X-men and many other shows to the Network. Blast from the Past is a website dedicated to old ninties shows on Fox Kids. For more information on the subject go to the interview.

11/19/07 A little while ago, Power Animals released information on the new Jungle Fury cast. revealing the actual cast in the proccess. Here is his thread at Rangerboard, for all the information.

11/19/07 Go here for a sneak peak at the new official Jungle Fury Website. As found by Power Animals.

11/19/07 Rangerboard is holding another fan gathering in New York City. They did a few a few years back, that were said to be successful. Go to this thread for more information. Power Rangers Online has no affilation with this gathering. Kids get your parent's permission before going.

11/04/07 The Writers Guild has officially gone on strike , as of Monday Nov. 4. This effects all forms of scripted television and film. One can expect it could have a big effect on Power Rangers as well. Since the writers are members of the guild. Production on Overdrive is obviously already complete. But they must at least be in the pre-production phase for Jungle Fury. So you have to wonder if production will be halted at some point. No new scriptes can be produced by non producers. So one would expect it would, if this strike goes on long enough.

11/04/07 Back to more current news. It seems that Power Ranger Empire has shut down yet again. And this time seems to be for good. Mesogog has cited unhappiness with the fandom and server costs as an issue.. He did thank all his friends and supporters. And will be making a non Power Rangers website in the future. But it appeares as though PRE is not coming back this time. Here is his message on the domain.

11/04/07 And there you have it. That should catch us up. If I forgot anything important I may post it later. But I am sure most of you have been following as closely as I. The Power Rangers going to animation possibility is pretty big. But we don't know if its really going to happen or not.. So we will follow that story as it happens. Again I apoligize for wait this long to update.

11/04/07 A few months ago, rumors about Power Rangers becoming an animated cartoon in 2009 swirled. I apoligize for not posting about this important rumor sooner. Power Rangers Online has not updated since that news broke. But it from the people I have talked to this looks like more then a rumor.

Samuell Benta referenced some rumor ( at Starpoints Rangercast) about Power Rangers possibly going animated in 2009. Not much was said about it. But it seems to be something Disney is actually thinking about This wouldn't effect Jungle Fury but the season afterwards. Here is the thread on the subject. Make sure you scroll down to see the actual post. Here is a news article I have written, that goes more in depth.

11/04/07 According to MR-Aftershock ( one of the key people that broke the Kamen Rider Dragon Knight story) , four episodes of Kamen Rider Dragong Knight have been produced. Currently production is on hatius. We seem to be looking at a March debut now as a start date for the show. With merchandise coming out in May. A network announcement is forth comming ( although most evidence points to Cartoon Network,. its just not offcially announced by either party yet) I personally am looking forward to another American Toku show and hope it is a success. As the more Toku shows the better it is for the fans and the genre's success in America. And of course could conciveabley pave the way for more imports/adaptions. It remains to be seen if we will ever see the amount of Toku we got in Power Range'rs heyday. But Kamen Rider Dragon Knights sounds like a cool concept. And should be fun to watch when it debuts in 2008.

09/11/07 Aparently, the Morphicon Team is getting closer on a decison as to whether there will be a second Morphicon or not. The staff is going to get together and discuss what they need to do to make a second con happen. And more importantly, whetner they are going to do another one or not. Its said to be looking good, but it is not a lock that there will be another one.

Morphicon was the first Power Rangers Convention ever. Which featured various Casts and Crew , as well as many fans. The Power Rangers Convention idea was for a long time considered almost impossible. But Maurreen and her team made it happen. Morphicon was approved by Disney as a official Power Rangers Convention. And they are arpently the only group Disney is interested in being invovled with. So any other convention group would probably have a very hard time getting any kind of official clearance ( not to mention doing a brand new conventions would be very hard anyway). Hopefully The Morphicon Staff will ultimately decide to do a second convention. As the first wone was said to be a lot of fun and a big success. They are looking at a possible 2009 or 2010 convention date. The actual location is up in the air, but it probably will be in LA again. Since its the easiest and cheapest way to attract more actors. Since most of them live and work up there.

11/04/07 Its been a few months since Power Rangers Online had been updated. Much less since any news has been reported her. Of course news stops for no one. And we missed out on reporting some news the past few months. One that could very well end up being a huge story in several months. We will try to catch up as best we can. I apoligize for waiting so long to post the next four newsbytes. And will try to stay on top of the news more often. I also really want to get the Overdrive section current again.

08/20/07 Star Points Rangercast has already the source of big news. Samuell Benta has confirmed that there will be no Operation Overdrive/ Jungle Fury team up next season. It seems that the money just isn't there. It doesn't surprise me at all. Since the move to New Zealand, team ups seem to no longer be a lock. As we got no team up for Wild Force/Ninja Storm or Space Patrol Delta/Mystic Force. In a sense its really not that big of a deal. The team up concept does get wattered down when they happen every year. When team ups don't happen every year, they become more special.

08/20/07 A new board has been created by Mesh ( the Owner of Starpoints), Samuell Benta ( protrays Will on Operation Overdrive) and Mysterious. It is a board designed for cast member interacton with the fans. They already have Samuell Benta (Will), Gerald Urquhart (Flurious), David Weatherly (Spencer) , Ria Vandervis (Miratrix), Karen Ashley (Aishia), Rhoda Montemayor (Rose), Steve Cardenas (Rocky) are current signed up or have agreed too. Its an interesting concept that seems to be off to a good start. The board is called Star Points Rangercast.

08/20/07 Kamen Rider Dragon Knight has been picked up by the Cartoon Network. So it looks like it is officially good to go. It won't debut untill early 2008 however. Cartoon Network is an interesting station, as it usually just airs cartoons. But Dragon Knight will be targeting kids so it makes sense. Plus Cartoon Network is a reasonably big network. This is a good day for American Toku fans.

Actress Kathleen Gati has a site that confirms this. Aparently she is going to be a guest star on the show at some point. Scroll down towards the bottom of the site and you will see Kamen Rider listed ( it says its on Cartoon Network). It refers to it as Kamen Rider Black Knight. Its not confirmed or not, as to if the show has had a name change or if that was just some mistake . Click here to go to the Gati's site.

For more on Kamen Rider Dragon Knight check out Kamen Rider Online. Which is Power Rangers Online's sister site, dedicated to Kamen Rider (specifically Dragon Knight and any other future American incarnation)..

07/26/07 I've prepared an editorial about the Tyzonne character and how he seems to have lost a lot of his initial luster. I'd like to do more of these type of opinion pieces in the future. As I think it ads to the site. If anyone is interesting in writing there own editorial, send them into me and I will see about putting them on the site. For now here is, "The Problem With Ty".

07/26/07 Bandai America ( the American branch of the toy company that destributes Power Rangers and Super Sentai toys) has released a press release regarding the 15th anniversy of the show and various activties associated with it. Which includes a tour and details on how fans can vote Power Ranegrs toys into the Toy Hall of Fame. As well as information for actor apearances at Comic-con. Go to Bandai's site to read the press release in full.

07/25/07 It seems Kamen Rider Dragon Knight is going through some type of recasting. Most notably, the role of Kit Taylor seems to have been recast. all the important information. Kit Taylor was orginall slated to be played by Matt Smith. Who preformed the role in the piolet presentation. Now it seemsthat Stephon Lunsford is playing the role. According to IMBD.

The first five episodes of Dragon Knight are being rewritten to suit a younger audience. Credit this story to Power Animals and MR-Aftershock. As revealed in a thread at Rangerboard. Here is the thread, which explains more. Read the full first page to get the whole story.

This may cause some fans to groan. But it is far to early to tell just how the show is going to be. As we don't even know how the first five episode would have been anyway. It makes sense for them to target a younger audience, since they have to suit their target demo. It doesn't neccessarly mean that the show will end up been better or worse because of it. Power Rangers suites a young demo, yet most of the older fans have no problem still watching it.

No word on where Dragon Knight will actually air is avialable. Just that it is slated for an early 2008 release. For more information on Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, go to our Kamen Rider Website. Kamen Rider Online is still in its begining stages.

06/25/07 This past weekend Morphicon, the very first Power Rangers Convention took place. From the sound of things it looks to have been a big success. Congrats should go out to Maureen and all the orginizers. Various cast and crew members from the past attended. As well as the current Overdrive Ranger cast. Such vets as Austin St. John, Steve Cardenas, Walter Johnson, Jason Narvy, Emma Lahana and many more showed up. Not to mention Jackie Marchand, Koichi Sakamoto, and Tony Oliver among the crew side. Visit this thread at Rangerboard for some fun stuff regarding the convention.

06/25/07 It seems Operation Overdrive is going to be the first season of Power Rangers to completely be released on DVD. The catch is that its not going to be in one single boxset. Its going to be in a series of Volumns. But its better then nothing. Hopefully this will lead to better things down the line. Click here for the article confirming this.

06/25/07 It appears that the Jason David Frank bowed out of his scheduled MMA fight. Due to the Promoter changing the rules to boxing only. Since the opponent only knew boxing. JDF did not like the last minute change and bowed out of the main event. Interestingly enough, the promoter was using JDF's past on Power Rangers as a draw for the show. And it seems people actually showed up to see JDF fight. Its a shame the fight didn't happen. Check out the article on the subject here..

06/25/07 Rangerboard member Lunar Wolf Ranger ( along with Zeored) meant Cerina Vincient at Texas Frightmare Weekend. He got some photes of her and himself. Which he posted in a thread at Rangerboard.

06/25/07 I want to put a plug in for Power Rangers Planet. Its site thats been around for a year or so and has become pretty popular. It seems to mainly be a site for downloads and such. It is worth checking out. Linear Ranger's new Jungle Fury website is up. Mystic Diamond of Starpoints has put up his Jungle Fury site. I'd also like to place a plug for a Power Rangers message board called Ranger Discovery. Ranger Discovery seems failry active and worth trying out. Another board called Tokusatsu-fusion, is worth a try. Its run by Kwaga Thunder, the current head admin of Ranger Power. Which is another forum worth checking out.

06/25/07 Blue Power Shrine has gotten a makeover. I have gening it the PRO layout. As it seemed to make sense, since it was much better then the basic layout it had before.I'm probably going to do that with my other affilates as well. I have already done that with Kamen Rider Online.

06/25/07 With Kamen Rider Dragon Knight coming in 2008, I have decided to open up a Kamen Rider website. Mainly focusing on Dragon Knight and any future US Incarnations. There will be some content on the Japenese versions and Masked Rider. Obviously there isn't much at the site now. But there will be time. Particlually after Dragon Knight debuts. You can also check out the website's forum. Which actually has been around for several months. It is hosted by me and ran by MR-Aftershock. I also admin the board. So it seems natrual for Kamen Rider Online and Ridertalk to work together ( the names of the website and board respectively).

06/22/07 Gage has already closed Ranger Web Portal. He is busy in his personal life. Its a shame, because I thought his site had a lot of potential. But it only lasted for a few weeks.

I am sure he had good reason to take it down though. As running a Power Rangers site is just a hobby. A news/web portal is time consuming to run. And not everyone has the time for that kind of work load.

Obviously, our real lives are more important then running a Power Rangers site. But there will always be someone new with a new site. So if this is truely the end for Gage's work in the fandom, its not the end of the world. I have removed all links to his blog, as the links all seem to be broken now. If anyone is interested in starting their own web portal. Give me an email and I can give you someone advice on getting started.

06/20/07 Jason David Frank has aparently been trying his hand at Mixed Martial Arts. He has already been in two fights and is fighting Ron "the Badger Macmasters" in an Amature MMA Show ( at the Williamson County Pavilion, in Illinios).

Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA) is a rising sport that combines Martial arts and Amature Wrestling. UFC is the top MMA promotion in the US and is in a big boom period. Which has made MMA very hot.

JDF isn't really fighting for a big promotions or anything. Sounds like something he is doing for fun or on the side. But it is an interesting story none the less.

Credit the Story to Figure Four Newsletter ( I believe you have to have premium access to see the newsbyte) and .siude.com (the article seems to be gone). Here is a thread at Rangerboard about it, which has the Suide Story.

06/19/07 It seems that there was PR content at this year's lisencing show after all. Ray Calderon, Con, and Lisa J attended the convention. Ray has a bunch of scans, which include the logo for Power Rangers Jungle Force. Which seems to be a lock for the title of PR 2008 now. Of course the title was revealed several months ago. Ray also has scans from other properties at the show. Including Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. I should note that I was wrong several newsbytes back. I said that the licencing show is about kid properties. It is actually for a variety of movie, tv , and video game propertise. So its far from just a kids show convention. Its a convention for just about everything. Its actually not for the general public though. Its for the companies invovled to sell their franchises to advirtisers. As you will see by viewing the picture gallery. Ray Calderon is somehow able to get in every year. View the thread about the new Logo on Rangerboard. View Ray's pictures.

06/17/07 Ranger Web Portal has been restarted at a new address. The old link no longer works. The site will still serve the same purpose at its new address. I recommend checking it out. Its a great way to catch up on Power Rangers News. The webmaster ( Gage) is off to a good start. Click here to go to the site.

06/14/07 Some fans not able to attend Morphicon this year have decided to try their hand at a new Power Rangers Convention. Tentatively planned for 2010. The Group is called Ranger Alliance. And plants on running an East Coast Power Rangers Convention. They are looking into Detriot, Chicago, and New York City. Of course Detriot and Chicago are technically part of the Midwest. The project is in the early planning stages. So it is far from a lock. But its nice to see people trying. As we would all probably like to see a second convention after Morphicon. Here is the thread discussing this at Rangerboard.

0/6/14/07 Aparently the big team up episode could be airing. on ABC kids on August 11 and August 18. I assume it will air earlier on Toon Disney. The title is "Once A Ranger". It is slated to be a two parter. Credit Power Rangers On-Air Central

06/14/07 Aparently there will most likely be no information for PR at the upcoming liscening Show in New York. Which will make the second year that no PR info is present. After a several year tradition of it being the place where the new PR Incarnation is revealed.

The Licensing Show is a yearly gathering of TV Execs. Where new televison products are presented to sell to advirtisers. Mainly Children's propertises are presented there.

In the past Power Rangers always promoted its upcoming season. For several years Ray Calderon ( Owner of Rangerboard and founder of Power Rangers Central) found a way into the show. Making him the one to reveal the new Power Rangers season's theme. Chronoranger even went to a few early shows and shared the credit on the scope one year.

In recent years the new incarnation of Power Rangers has been announced in press releases, before the show. Just this past year there was no Power Rangers presentation. So it looks like its the end of that era. As we already know the new incarnation's name is Jungle Force. Although its an early title that could change. Credit the Story to Linear Ranger

06/14/07 I have finally aquired the powerrangersonline.com domain. PRO.com was the orginal domain for PRO under Chronoranger. When the orginal PRO shutdown the domain was purchased by a third party , for advirtisement purposes. At which point it had multiple owners over the past several years. I have been trying to buy the domain for a few years now. The domain recently expired and I was able to aquire it after the fact. Tts very satisfying to finally have the .com.

I am glad to have the domain back in the PRO family and back in the Power Rangers fandom. For now it parks on our current domain, powerrangersonline.org. Which means powerrangersonline.com will bring you to Power Rangers Online. I don't want to change domains at this point. But its nice having powerrangersonline.com parked on PRO. Its a great time for Power Rangers Online.

06/14/07 PRO-Board and Rangergallery are back up. As some of you probably already know. The host fixed the problem a day or so ago. They just reset the database. So no information was lost. Expect a major announcement invovling PRO-board soon. As we are merging with another forum. Our memberships and posts will be moved over to the said forum ( which will be revealed when the merger is complete). The other forum is more active and will be a good partner for PRO.

06/14/07 There is a new Web Portal I would like to advirtise. The Webmaster is collecting all the news from across the fandom and posting it in his blog. He wants to create a resource for webmasters and fans in general. Its actually a great idea. As the fandom can use a good web portal. He is also doing a newsletter. I wish him the best of luck. I encourage every one of you to visit Ranger Web Portal.

06/10/07 For some reason the databases accross my webhost account have disapeared. Which has resulted in Ranger Gallery and PROboard being down. I have database backups on my cpu. RG's back up was from several months ago. But its better then starting from scratch. However, before I mess with anything I am going to get in touch with my host. To see if anything can be restored. So please be patient. I just wanted to give any curious people the heads up.

06/10/07 The_Light from Rangerboard has revealed a cast pictuer fromt he shooting of the anniversy team up. Basically confirming that Johnny Yong Bosch ( Adam), Sally Martin

( Tori), Emma Lahana ( Kira), Richard Brancatisano ( Xander), and Matt Austin (Bridge) are coming back for the big team up. With Bridge as the SPD Red Ranger. Which was pretty much already known anyway. Here is the link to his thread with the picture.

Click here for the thread

05/21/07 Rangerking has created a splash to link to both of his sites on his Ranger Mania domain. A third cast site is expected to be created eventually. His two existing sites are Legacy of Power and Rangernews ( formly Rangermania)/ Legacy is a Power Rangers information site, much like PRO. Rangernews is a news sites with links to old interviews with cast and crews. Rangerking has put together a nice network for himself thus far.

http://www.rangermania.com

05/21/07 I have brought back he old Splash Page ( from when this layout first debuted), as most of you probably know by now. It just seemed to work better then just using this page as the splash. I think its a real nice splash. So thats why I brought it back. Previous plans to do audio podcasts and editorials have been dropped for now. But it doesn't mean that they won't happen in the future. I would say Editorals will eventually happen at least. Its jsut a matter of time and motivation. Power Rangers Online will continue to be a comprehensive resource to Power Ranger's Mythology. As it has always been under my tenure.

http://rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=104402

05/21/07 Over the past few weeks the archives to the orginal PRO have been avaliable on Way Back Machine. A website that archives websites. PRO's archives had been blocked by the current domain owners. But now they are accesible for the time being. Its fun looking back at Chronoranger's PRO. Especially for me, since it insipried me to create this version of the site.

Power Rangers Online was created by Chronoranger in 1999 and grew to become a popular website and web portal. It launched its own succesfull forum on Coolboards and later Ezboard. In 2001 the site closed down and the Message Board became Domant.

In 2004. I decided to repopulate the Message Board and create my own site. Which eventually became the new Power Rangers Online. I have moved the remaining Ezboard posts to my current Vbullten version of the board.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010515194504/www.powerrangersonline.com/

05/21/07 According to the Henshin Justice forum , the tenative title for PR 2008 is Jungle Fury . Not much is known about the season otherwise. Disney just registered the domain, no official press releases have been announced. It just seems likely as the tenative title. The title could end up changing even so. The orginal title for Operation Overdrive was Drive Force.

http://www.rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=104174

05/21/07 According to Brown Ranger at Rangerboard , Emma Lahana is appearing in the piolet for a remake of the Bionic Woman. It was not said what role she has in it. But I assume its some sort of guest spot.

05/21/07 Once again the site has been in a bit of a lull. But things should be picking up as I catch up on the OO section and other aspects of the site. I may go on these king of breaks frequently. But rest assured Power Rangers Online should be around for a long time.

4/01/07 It seems Funaroverse no longer has Scorpion Rain up for download. I guess they were serious when they said limited time. I hope most of you were lucky to download it while you had the chance.

4/01/07 So aparently Power Animals pulled an April Fools joke on the fandom. The whole thing about "At All Cost" building to the anniversary team up was just a joke. As anyone who saw the episode can see. We did get a cool little reference to Mystic Force though.

4/01/07 Chris Funaro and Derk Smith have put up a video featuring the fifth part of Scorpion Rain. It is aparently the only copy they have left. They claim it will only be for a limited time so I would download it now while you have the chance. Its a pretty small file and easy to download. Even with dial up.

Scorpion Rain is a legendary fan film created by Amit Bhaumik, Joe Rovang, Derik Smith, and Satu. Chris Funaro got involved later in the project. Amit went on to become Story Editor for Power Rangers Wild Force. Personally writing "Reienforcements from the Future" and "Forever Red".

Scorpion Rain took place between Zeo and the Turbo movie. It was meant to show why Zedd and Ritas didn't stick around after Zeo. Since the Turbo Movie seemed to leave several loose ends from Zeo. It was all supposed to be an april fools joke ten years ago. But they were exposed and decided to not show the video to anyone. Forever Red was written using Scorpion Rain as its backstory. A lot of people have been wanting to see this for a long time. I would take advantage of this opertunity. The video can be accessed at the Funaroverse.

Go to the Funaroverse

Scroll Down for Some Info on Scorpion Rain from Funaro himself

04/01/07 Tonight an new episode of Operation Overdrive debuts on Toon Disney, at 8 pm Eastern. The episode title is "At all Cost". According to Power Animals at Rangerboard, it features some build up th the 15th anniversy team up. At least in a minor way. Follow this link to read PA's spoilers. You will have to scroll down, the screename to look for is Power Animals Returns.

http://rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=102522&page=2&highlight=costs

03/29/07 A Japanese magazine scan has revealed some rather interesting spoilers for the upcoming 15th Aniversy Special of Power Rangers. Which will be an episode of Power Rangers OO, airing later in the season. According to the translation, Lord Zedd and Rita's son is going to be featured. With him ploting revenge against the Rangers. The article makes reference to a collection of hereos. Which probably has to do with the returning Rangers. Its long been known that Johnny Yong Bosh was returning for the special. A long with what was rumored to be Emma Lahana, Sally Martin, and Richard Brancatisano. The scan didn't give any names though or go into much detail at all. The concept is diffinitly an interesting one. As it would be an excellent nod to the past for long time fans. And fitting for a one or two part anniversy special.

Of course this also has the real chance of not making sense. Since Zedd and Rita turned good after "Countdown to Destruction". And with Rita becoming Mystic Mother , as we learned last season. Which already seemed to make little sense givening what happened in C2D. Much to do with Rita suddently looking older then she did in C2D. And just the fact that it was confusing as to how she could be the source of good magic in so short a time. It just didn't seem to completely jive.Of course there son could have went evil on his own or be somehow stolen from them and raised to be evil. But its going to leave confusion for many. And I get the feeling their might not be a long drawn out answer.

Another problem, is that the child would still be nine years old in Earth Years. But who knows how long it takes for Zedd and Rita's specious to reach maturity. Frankly, they should have just used Dark's Spector's son. It would have made much more sense and still been a nice nod. Spector was actually killed, so his son would have more reason for revenge.

For better or worse it should be very interesting to see how the special unfolds. Especially if the list of returning Rangers is accurate. It will be nice having JYB in for an apearance. Not something many would have ever expected to see again. It should be a fun team up episode. I just hope the son aspect makes sense. Even if the clues to the mystery are only vaguely solved.

Credit this story to DiscoInferno of Rangerboard. Who posted the scans there and his brief translation. These are the same scans that confirmed this years new battlizer design ( scans like this pop up every year, and have since NS). Other sites reported the battlizer news but PRO never did. Disco Inferno also broke that story on RB. And did so a month or so back.

Here is the post with the magazine scan

Here is the post about the battlizer

03/27/07 I'd like to plug a fan site here, which is unaffilated with Power Rangers Online and is run by another webmaster. Of whom I don't know personally. The site is called Power Rangers Unlimited. It has content for every season just about. With some season story info, a lot of character stuff, downloads, and more. It also has a sister site that deals with Fan Fiction. Run by the webmaster's sister.

Go to Power Rangers Unlimted
03/27/07 The planned Morphicon fan convention looks to be a go. It is about to become the first ever Power Rangers Convention. Which is quite a feat for this fandom. As at one piont it was considered an impossibility. The crew invovled her really has worked their tales off. Maureen Dawson ( better known as Ivydraken) has organized the whole thing. She is a long time member of the fandom and soon to be a Law School Graduate. The convention itself is happening in LA ,June 22-24. Its was first announced two years ago. Now Ivy has confirmed that it is diffinitly happening. But this is going to be the last convention she plans on running. So if there is ever another someone else will have to step up. And who knows if that is ever going to happen. I am going to link you to her recent thread at RB and the Morphicon Website. Go to the below links for more information and contact info.

Rangerboard Thread

Morphicon Official Site

03/27/07 Rumors have surfaced at Rangerboard of a possible US adaption of Granzazer. Which is another Japenese Toku. Of the same genre as Super Sentai Its far from confirmed however. I suggest all of you read the thread I am about to link to. As it has evidence for both sides. The American Name is aparently Zodiac Guardians.

With Kamen Rider Dragon Knight being shopped around, its nice to see another potential American Toku series. It would usher in a big rival of American Toku . As PR has been the only kid on the block for several years. Since Big Bad Beetleborgs ended. Sonlightson broke the news.

http://rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=102384

03/27/07 I have found the old PRO site on Way Back Machine. The one that was owned by Mike Wayne and used the domain powerrangersonline.com. Way Back Machine usually blocked it to carry out the domain owners wishes. Its owned by a cybersquatter currently. But for some reason the site wasn't blocked for a short time. Which allowed me to save the main page and some of the sections. Below is what the Main Page looked like in those days.

Most of the links don't work. As they link to other parts of the Way Back Archive that is blocked. The link to the Ezboard takes you to an archive of what the Ezboard looked like back then. I don't know if I will do anything with the old site. I have been playing around with the idea of using the layout. But I haven't talked to Mike Wayne in a long time. So I am not sure if I should do it.

http://powerrangersonline.org/oldpage.html

03/27/07 Once again I have been lacking with news updates. I plan on getting a few done now. I am not going to try to catch up for news that I missed. Odds your got it from somwhere else anyway. I am just going to move forward.

I have however been keeping up with Overdrive the past several weeks. For those that don't know the Mystic Force section has been updated. With it now being laregly caught up. There is still more work to be done in areas. The MF Episode Guide is complete. The Overdrive section is up and running. I need to do the Zord and weapon profiles. I have been summerizing OO episodes as the series goes. I will update the OO episode guide very soon, if not the same day I post this.

I have found a banner program. And have been able to make more passable banner buttons for Overdrive. They don't match up with the old stuff perfectly. But they are sufficiant . A lot of parts of the site still have a Mystic Force buttons instead of an OO one. Its going to take time for be to fix that. But the OO Section is up in datafiles if you can't find it.
3/05/07 Tonight Power Rangers Operation Overdrive debuts its third episode ( last weeks premiere was actually two episodes). The new episode is titled "The Underwater World. I enjoyed last weeks premiere. I really like the new cast so far. It will be interesting to see the direction the season goes in. The episode airs tonight on Toon Disney, at 8 PM Eastern.

2/27/07 The popular Funaroverse website is now being updated again. Chris Funaro (Commander Crayfish) started the site with Derik Smith (Derik). With Jesse Herndon ( Sirstack), Lynn ( Symbolic Agony), and others on staff. The site's goal was to not only provide PR news, but to try to better connect the fandom. By letting everyone know what other webmasters or fanfic writers were up to. There was also a few good opinion pieces and interviews. Most notably one with former Power Rangers Story Editor, Judd Lynn.
It started modestly as a geocities page with no advertising from anyone invovled with the site. And gradually grew to become one of the more popular Ranger sites on the web. It served as a valauble resource for the fandom. Aroung the time of Wild Force's end Funaroverse ceased to be active. But the site remained up as an archive. There were a few breif periods of updates periodically ( one short perioud during DinoThunder). But it was not active for all intents and purposes.

Chris and Derik went on to create Funaroboard to act as a niche board where people could say what was on their mind without recourse from a mod staff. Now Funaroverse is back with a new look. Updates are now frequent again. And it apears the site is back for the long haul. The fandom could use a good web portal again. I am glad to see the site back. I encourage everyone of you to visit the site. Most of the old staff is back. It looks like Lynn is not part of the site anymore, however Impy is now part of the staff.

Chris Funaro, Derik Smith, and Jesse Herndon are long time PR fans that have been a major part of the Power Rangers Fandom since its beginning. Derik and Jesse were invovled with the enfamous Scorpion Rain Fan Film. Jesse is currently the editor of TV.com's Power Rangers Section. He is the owner of Power Rangers Spoiler Warnings, which still exists as an archive. He had a short stint as Editor of the Writers Guide before Joe Rovang returned to the postiton. Funaro has long been a great poster at Power Rangers Newsgroups and Message Boards. I seriously have never meant a more intellegent Power Rangers fan. Visit Funaroverse by clicking on the link below.

Funaroverse
2/26/07 The Power Rangers "Kick Into Overdrive" tonight, as Power Rangers Operation Overdrive debuts on Toon Disney. Updates at PRO should become more frequent as Overdrive continues. The Overdrive section is finally up. There isn't much there but it will grow week by week.

I apologize for the hokey graphics for Overdrive. This is only temporary. Both my graphic designers from last season are no longer working on the site. So I am behind in getting new banners for Overdrive. So for now the tacky banners and buttons will be used for Overdrive. I hope to get this fixed soon.

The Mystic Force section still needs updates. I was able to update the episode guide for the season. Only the final two episodes are left to summerize. Expect more updates to that section as time allows. I know have failed to report a lot fo the news that has been reported on other sites, the past few months.

With my focus on making this site an up to date archive the news aspect may suffer greatly. I would suggest visiting my friend's site for up to date Ranger news, when I can not provide it.. Visit Rangerking's Rangermania, which is linked to below.

Thus doesn't mean that I am not going to post news here. I am just not promising to allways be up to datwe with it. As my focus will be writing about what has happened on the show. I would like to incorporate more editorial pieces to the site this season.

Rangermania.
12/15/06 Ross "Jzt451" has gone back to making PR Websites. You may know him from some of his older works, in addition to assisting me on PRO and Ranger Gallery. He has opened a new website called Ranger Album.

Ross opened a Dinothunder Website in 2004. Ross attempted to expand and run and SPD site on a new subdomain. Eventually he decided to open a PR site for every season called the Morphing Grid. Eventually he scrapped that entirely and created the Morphing Grid Gallery. Ross stepped down from hsi duties and closed his site. I actually owned his domain at the time. I have sensed sold it to someone else.

Now Ross is back with a new domain and another website. This one seems to be a full PR website that Morphing Grid was intended to be. The site is under heavy construction. But I have no doubt it will match his prior quality in time.
Go to Ranger Album

12/15/06 Power Ranger Empire has reopened. Mesogog ( now Shadow Master) has found a back up for it. He has decided to bring the site back after all. The site is supposed to open this weekend, if not already. All the posts and threads from before are still going to be there. Congratulations to the members there. I know the plays was well liked by its membership and will still. be. Club Showdown will be opened as a separate Project.

Go to Power Rangers Empire.

11/29/06   It seems that Power Rangers Empire and Ranger Forums have closed down. Although that may depend on your point of view.

Power Rangers Empire was started by Mesogog in 2003.. His goal was to create a kid back forum for Power Rangers fans to gather. PRE provided downloads, picture galleries, and other services not provided by other boards at the time. It grew into the second biggest board in the fandom. It was very well loved among its members. But there were plenty of others who didnt like the site at all. But no one can deny it was a legimate board in the fandom. There was some kind of server crash or hack that caused Mesogog to lose PRE. Mesogog has decided to open a non PR board. I suspect many of his members will visit there, and it will pretty much be the same thing. So I wouldn't count PRE out just yet. Go to PRE for more information.

http:///www.powerrangerempire.com

Rangerforums was created months after PRE by Liam. It was a smaller PR board that had a loyal membership base. It became most notable for having every episode of PR avialable for download. When Liam could no longer run the site he sold it to SnoopsWarner. Rangerforums just had some kind of database error, which caused most of it to be unrecoverable. Some of the Media threads were recovered. Snoops is trying to recover the rest, but it doesn't look likely. He has directed the members there to go to the Ranger-Retrocenter Forums that he just restarted. He moved some of the media threads there. So this looks like another case where the spirit of the board will survive under a new name. Retro Forums was actually a board he had separately before, but he is restarting it.   Here is the url for the new board.

http://www.ranger-retrocenter.com/forum/

11/20/06 There is also a rumor going around (according to Shadowzord) that Johnny Yong Bosch. is coming back for a special team up. Also set to return at this point are Emma Lahana, Sally Martin, and possibly Richard Brancatisano. Brandon Jay McLaren was supposed to be a part of the team up but had to drop out, due to another commitment. So if this goes down he should be replaced. This rumor was actually reported more than a month ago. But I felt it was worth noting now, for those of you unaware.. I actually reported the JYB rumor when the story broke eslewhere. But I never reported the rumor about the others returning. Again it is not official yet. But this looks like it will happen, in some shape or form. Based on what Shadowzord has said. But let me be clear, its just supposed to be a team up type thing ( probably a one or two parter). It is not them returning to be the Overdrive Rangers.
11/20/06   A very interesting rumor has just surfaced at Rangerboard. Aparently someone who visited Youmacon ( a big scifi and fantasy convention) learned that Tony Oliver is returning to Power Rangers for Operation Overdrive. Now this is by no means confirmed, so take this with a grain of salt.

Oliver more famous for his voice acting in Robotech, is very underated in fandom history. He was PR's Supervising Produce for the first few years of MMPR. Which is the equilvant to what we call Story Edtior now. Basically the head writer. Oliver was heavily invovled with the creation of the show and a lot of its concepts. He also had bit voice acting parts. He played the voice of Saba, The Wizard of Deception, the Megazord voice you heard when the orginal megazord formed, ect... He continued to write episodes here and there until Turbo. And even came back for some voice acting roles and produced/wrote some specials. He was a co producer on the show (after his run as Supervising Producer ended during Season 2) until Zeo. He also was a supervising producer for VR Troopers and Masked Rider.

Its hard to tell what his return would bring to the show. Since times have obviously changed, MMPR ( although Oliver had other ties with PR for years after, as noted above) was the beginning of PR and a very different era. We don't know what new ideas Oliver would bring in or what his philosphy would be. If I had to guess, I would say that things wouldn't change very drastically . But I think Oliver could be a very creative addition to the production team. Of course the rumor doesn't reveal what his role would be. But I would assume some sort of wrting or producing role. But thats just my speculation. Again this could all wind up being tottally false. Here is the thread that sparked this discussion.

http://rangerboard.com/showthread.php?t=97193&page=3

This thread has more about Oliver's background. Its a thread from Funaroboard.

http://www.funaroverse.db-destiny.net/fbBB/viewtopic.php?t=1387

11/20/06 Its been a little while since I posted an update. But the site is far from dead. I just uploaded some new Mystic Force content. With more to come in the future. The forum has been moved to Vbulletin software. All posts and memberships from the invisionfree were moved over. Posts from the old Ezboard also were moved. Posts and Memberships from Lahana Forums were also merged into the new software.

10/29/06 I want to point out a upstart website that could end up being a good resource. Arrow has been running Ranger Wiki for several months. It is an intereactive resource. It is the software taken from Wikipedia. If you sign up you can add informationa and edit it. Or you can just visit and read whats there. In time it could really become a valuable guide to the show.

10/29/06 Micheal Bastian has brought back Power Rangers Network. He has purchased it from PRN Ranger. He obtianed some of the files from the old message board. He has sinced merged those memberships and posts with Rangertalk. So if you are a member of the old PRN you might want to check RT out. Your old log in should work. This is not to be confused with Ranger Power Forums. Which is actually where the old PRN forums moved too. Micheal just has the files up from before the move. RP is now a compeletely separate entity. The PRN splash has also been obtained. Not much is present right now. But plans seem to indicate that something shall be done with it overtime. I wish Micheal luck with it. I hope PRN can have a purpose as a website. If you have any serious ideas on how to make the site better, give me an email. I am not associated with the site. But I can pass the ideas a long to Micheal.

10/29/06 I want to correct a mistake I made earlier. Steve Wang was not a writer on Lost Galaxy. He directed " The Rescue Misson" episode of Lost Galaxy. And did some work on the Turbo movie. He has worked on other projects as well. Like directing Guyver 2: Dark Hero ( similar to Kamen Rider in a lot of ways). He recently directed a movie entitled "Drive". Which may or may not be out yet. Special thanks to MR-Aftershock and Power Animals/Shadowzord for pointing this out to me.

10/22/06 The following is a message from Steve Wang. That was orginally sent by MR-Aftershock:

"I am very aware that there are numerous forums that have posted early drafts of the script pages. I am not entirely happy about that and it's my fault for not taking precautions in the beginning. For some reason, it did not occur to me that there was a big cult following here in the US. (then again, I was not getting any sleep for weeks trying to prepare the show...)

Anyway, I am sure you are aware of this as well as I. There are a lot of haters on these forums and any negative press from them could greatly jeopardize the chance of this show getting picked up here in the US.

I don't know what they are expecting from the show. But you can tell them that it's definitely a kid's show (ages 7-12) and not to expect super dark stories and bloody violence. I have been a fan of Kamen rider since the 70's (that's why I was chose by the powers that be to re-imagine the US adaptation.)

You can count on the fact that the vibe of the show is definitely going to be different than MMPR. And you can expect that as a fan of the original series, I will treat the show with total respect. This is not going to be a carbon copy of Ryuki, it's loosely based on some of the concepts and storyline. Different does not mean disrespect. I was asked by Toei people if I know what IS Kamenrider? Guess they approve of my answer.

People who want to see this show succeed should support the effort and not blast it to hell. making this show appeal to an American audience and fans of the original is a hugely difficult task!

We are doing our best with our limited resources. "

That sounds reasonable to me. I think it sounds like the people behind this proposed series know what there doing. It sounds like it is going to be done in a similar way to Power Rangers. But won't be a goofy as Masked Rider. I really hope the piolet gets picked up. It really feels like this is going to be a good show.

10/04/06 More info has come in about the new Kamen Rider adaption, which seems to be titled Kamen Rider Dragon Knight ( set to adapt Kamen Rider Ryuki), at least for now. The producer/director seems to be Mike Wang. Steve Wang is another producer of the show and is Mike Wang's bother. Steve Wang previously worked on Power Rangers Lost Galaxy as a writer. Chris Phillips seems to be a writer on the project and is writing the piolet. The script that was uncovered was actually from part of the first draft. There is a final draft out there somewhere. The project is actually set to shoot very soon ( probably Oct. 14-18). In case your wondering the script pages were found from a casting site that MR-Aftershock had access to. This project does not seem to have any invovlement with Disney. No word on what network this is being sold too.

Credit this news to MR-Aftershock. Who uncovered all this from an unnamed online source. I can't reveal it but I checked it out myself to verify what he told me. But keep in mind folks, this is just a piolet. Nothing has been green lit beyond this.