Kaiju come pre-grown.

November 9, 2013 3:37 PM

Mighty Morphin Jaeger Pilots (SLYT)
posted by griphus (19 comments total)

I haven't even watched this yet and I'm going to favorite it for the abstract concept alone.
posted by The Whelk at 3:39 PM on November 9, 2013

ditto The Whelk

(NEWT IS TOTALLY BILLY THE BLUE RANGER)
posted by nicebookrack at 3:59 PM on November 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

Wow. It's... depressing how cheesy 80s guitar can totally strip the mood and atmosphere from pretty much anything.
posted by Ghidorah at 4:11 PM on November 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

This is incredible and I can't + it enough for concept OR execution

The editing is really spot on, too. It's great how fiddling with framing can make a giant imax movie look like a TV intro.
posted by Joviwan at 4:18 PM on November 9, 2013

(NEWT IS TOTALLY BILLY THE BLUE RANGER)

TIGERS TRICERATOPS ARE COOL LET’S DRIFT WITH A TIGER TRICERATOPS.
posted by griphus at 4:25 PM on November 9, 2013

Oh shit, from Bryan Cranston's AMA:

...I did voice work for the Power Rangers years and years ago. Someone once told me they named the blue Power Ranger after me, his last name was Cranston. I found out years later that was true.

posted by griphus at 4:26 PM on November 9, 2013 [2 favorites]

Blue ranger, blue meth, not a coincidence.
posted by The Whelk at 4:31 PM on November 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

On the blue for perfect symmetry.
posted by sfts2 at 4:49 PM on November 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

Another terrific recent riff on Power Rangers: Key & Peele's Power Falcons.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:55 PM on November 9, 2013 [3 favorites]

Dear sc114,

We made this *just* for you.

Love, the Internet
posted by sc114 at 5:58 PM on November 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

Channel 101's Gigabots feels like yet another riff on Pacific Rim, but it actually came out three years ago. It's a spoofy Neon Genesis Evamorphin' Power Rangers impossibly well-executed on a twenty buck budget.
posted by Iridic at 6:14 PM on November 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

Okay, that thing from Cranston's AMA led me to check his voice acting history and holy shit he was Isamu!
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 6:16 PM on November 9, 2013

And here he is: as "Snizard" and "Twinman."
posted by Iridic at 6:20 PM on November 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

The problem with Gigabots is it kept the duncan brothers from making other funnier things.
posted by aubilenon at 6:33 PM on November 9, 2013

I once calculated, if you watch one episode per day, you could watch Power Rangers without a repeat for seven years straight.

I also calculated that you could read one Gottlieb-Newton slash fic per week the whole while.

Also. I grew up next door neighbor to Charlie Day's Grandma, and went to High School with his sister. I've been told I once played softball with him, but I've successfully repressed all of my teenage memories, so I can't confirm that.
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:48 PM on November 9, 2013 [1 favorite]

(I also now live right next door to another girl I went to highschool with, and we were mutually surprised that we were married to much more attractive spouses than you'd expect, from out of state. These things happen in Rhode Island.)
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:09 PM on November 9, 2013

I once calculated, if you watch one episode per day, you could watch Power Rangers without a repeat for seven years straight.

This list sez there are about 750 episodes, so maybe two years?

Still, that is indeed a metric fuckton of episodes. No wonder they eventually had to resort to having things like a Giant Purse as one of the villains.
posted by ShutterBun at 12:36 AM on November 10, 2013

I'm just an omnivore
Each day I kill some more
I like destroying
I'm Kaiju
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 9:53 AM on November 10, 2013 [2 favorites]

Oh my god, Newt & Hermann have the combined Bulk & Skull onscreen credit. IT'S PERFECT.
posted by nicebookrack at 7:49 PM on November 10, 2013