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I know I don't talk about real-life events on this blog very often but as long as this occupation is happening I strongly encourage my followers to reconsider giving their money to Power Rangers. Haim Saban is a zionist who financially supports the AIPAC and politicians advocating for this genocide, and while there's no clear answer to how much he gets nowadays with Hasbro owning the franchise, his name is still attached, so it's better to be safe than sorry. If you would like to engage in PR content there are plenty of 🏴‍☠️ sites to use or download links; or limit spending in games like Legacy Wars to in-game currency rather than your own real money.

And in the meantime check out this post with resources to help Gaza and the Palestinian people during this time of crisis.

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A slight addition to this, while I still believe you should avoid giving PR your money whenever possible, the BDS would like you to focus maximum effort on these specific companies!

Not putting more money into Haim Saban's pocket is important, but remember to listen to Palestinians and other official representatives.

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I have my own idea about the Ranger in Rita Rabelaissa's world. I think in her world it's like a reversal of roles, meaning the Rangers are the villains in her world, and she and Zaid are the heroes.

Maybe! I'm definitely interested in learning how her home world differs, and why she's called Rabiosa instead of Repulsa in the first place. I guess we'll have to see if Green gives us any answers, assuming that IS her home world

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Making a big prediction: V2 Tommy is gonna have a completely new suit, something we haven’t seen before, and they’re gonna reveal it at SDCC

I am crossing fingers that at the very least we'll tease when Tommy will rejoin the team! My hope is that it'll line up with Green finishing, which looks like it'll only be four issues long - so not too long to wait

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There's a lot of ways The Return's take on the themes of revenge and the cycle of violence is more successful than others but I think one of the big ones is the main villain manages to thread the needle of being enough of a theat that she needs to be stopped but she’s not evil enough that Kim killing her would be justified

Because really at the end of day the worst thing Selena does is kidnap and fight the six people that caused the deaths of her family. Sure bringing back Rita would be bad and we have to stop that but you can’t really blame Olivia and Tommy hearing this and being like oh my god Kim

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Everyone else to Minh: And what do we say to the evil robot that murdered our mom?

Minh: i forgive you for murdering mom.

Everyone else: Good. 😊

Kim to Minh: and what do we say to the evil robot who murdered our mom?

Minh: Nothing cuz i already killed her.

Kim: Good! 🥰

The thing is I don't think Once and Always was going for a "you have to forgive your enemies" lesson - no one ever tells Minh to do that. I think they wanted it to just be a more general "killing in the name of revenge is bad" lesson which on paper is fine - I think it's good for kids' media to discourage punitive violence.

The problem was always that the conflict set up has no logical resolution OTHER than killing, and because of that they DO kill the villains at the end with no remorse despite acting like Minh was out of line for wanting to kill them beforehand. Zack literally says "this is for Trini!" when he lands the finishing blow on Robo-Rita. So it feels less like we want to tell a nuanced, mature story about revenge and violence and more that we have to find a way to hold off killing these guys so the special can fill out the hour-long runtime.

It's why I feel they should have brought Carla Perez as Mystic Mother brainwashed back into evil somehow. That at least would have offered SOME nuanced discussion about if Minh would be justified wanting revenge on her when she wasn't in her right mind. (Funnily enough Robo-Rita is essentially a brainwashed Alpha but no one cares about trying to save him. I guess Billy had built a new one so we don't need to care about that one anymore lmao)

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one of my favorite genres of Tomberly is when Tommy addresses the team like KIM!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and everyone else)

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Potentially the only fandom more Miserable than Spider-Man fans tbh

To be fair to Spider-Man fans that truly is a land of the highest highs and the lowest lows so they earned their rights to be miserable

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The Power Rangers fandom is the only fandom I've ever been in where companies are like "look at all this cool stuff we're making!" and the response to it is "welp guess this means the franchise has failed and is dead in the water"

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The preview pages were down and Aunt Kimberly was protecting Minnie. When I saw that, I felt sorry for "once and always" 😭😭😭😭😭😭

love being validated that OaA Kim had to be nerfed because there would be absolutely no way she'd go along with the whole "nooooo murdering the evil death robots is bad :/" nonsense

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Though I love it and dont think it deserves the trolling, I do think that mmpr 2026 has a bit jarring opening though. Everything happened too quickly.

It was like the feeling of arriving say, 15-20 minutes late to the movie theatre.

Like actually show a few pages of rangers' civilian lives before having Billy bring them in the Command Centre. Maybe have Billy teleporting them in be the last page of the first issue and then everything else. (First issue becomes second, Second issue becomes third but everything stays the same)

Either way, I think we will see Marguerite's real writing in the coming issues with the sort of slice of life stuff.

I get what you mean, even if I do think the intention was for us to feel the same urgency and panic over jumping headfirst into action before you even know what's going on that the Rangers do. (And part of me wonders if the criticisms of Prime being too slow and having no Ranger/Zord action didn't influence it a bit as an editorial choice.) It helps that we know things will slow down considerably after that fast-paced opening, but there IS definitely a lot that needs to be explained that the opening arc expects you to just kinda roll with (like why they have new suits, where's Zordon, where are THIS timeline's Rita and crew, etc)

I think a compromise would have been for the CGD issue to be the one that shows off the Rangers' civilian lives before being called in by Billy, rather than being an abbreviated version of issue one

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Playmates could do the funniest thing rn

Drop Collector’s Line of the MMPR V2 suits

And I would get the whole set because I love being contrarian

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Ten years on and on, and fans still haven't grasped that comics don't necessarily have to be part of a TV series, and that a relaunch doesn't mean it has to be the same as the main canon. Well, I liked the second issue somewhat better than the first. Tommy, where did you go, kid? Will you see your old version in Green?

It's times like this where I do kinda wish the designs of the characters and props could vary more between incarnations to make it more obvious that this is a new thing, like TMNT or Transformers. (Not counting suits obviously, since suit changes are usually in-universe changes.) I get they probably just want to keep things consistent visually across the mediums, but still.

But yeah, super interested in learning what Tommy's up to. And I have wondered if they might pull a Green No More and have Green end with old!Tommy sending a message to his younger self, especially if either theory about Green being Rita Rabiosa's home dimension or a bad future of the 2026 dimension is true

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I love the comics right now, both mmpr and Unlimited, and I feel genuinely excited for the first time since Melissa's run on mmpr ended in 2024.

People are saying Unlimited is so good because it has characters from other seasons, and I don't disagree because its high time they appear in the comics, but the main characters are Trini and 2016 Billy. It is still MMPR coded and still very good even to the anti-mmpr fans. So the whole 'anti-mmpr' stuff has no basis.

But on to brighter stuff, just saw the previews for issue 3 of mmpr and I am seated!

I do wonder if there will be a switch-up on Unlimited once it's obvious the roster changing every issue and page space will limit the amount of exploration the non-MMPR characters will get. Like #2's marketing hasn't exactly been subtle about it primarily being an Andros and Karone focus - I'm not expecting much for Kendall, Sky, and Chip. And yeah, outside of helping in the specific missions I'm not sure how much they'll be relevant to the greater story of Striking Tiger and Operator's respective baggage. Not that this is all bad writing or anything, I just have played these games before with fandom's expectations vs reality

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Re: mmpr 2026

It is CLEARLY set in an alternate universe. The previews made it clear.

A lot of trollers are saying they are not excited for this, because they know what happens after this continuity wise. That it would lead to Once and Always etc etc. They want something "new."

Even if it was set in the show continuity, it is not grounds to say the story is pointless. Look at Star Trek's success with modern shows like "Strange New Worlds" which are set before the original series, and despite being bound by established canon including the character death of one of its main characters, tells a fascinating story.

Minh was born around 2005-2006, and 10 years after MMPR roughly sets the timeline around 2003 (ninja storm). Plus Tommy at this point of time would be involved in Dino Thunder/Mercer stuff, not trekking through mystery forest etc. It just doesn't make sense within the show verse and it's fine.

Also if they had wanted "new" stuff, where was their support during "Beyond the Grid", " Ranger Academy" or even "Prime"?

This fandom would have a much better time with the comics if they approached each one with the mindset of "this is a new continuity unless explicitly stated otherwise" and it's very frustrating after TEN YEARS of BOOM holding the license that they don't seem to grasp this. It doesn't matter if it's the same cast or the same general timeline of events; that does not guarantee it being set in a pre-established continuity. Honestly, I'm starting to think the choice to release Power Rangers Unlimited, a book that uses the 1993 and 2016 continuities in its story, alongside MMPR 2026 is to subtly "other" the latter as its own secret third continuity. (And of course Green, a book that supposedly connects to MMPR 2026, is the one that is outright stated to be a reimagined future.)

But regardless, you're right; there's no need to dismiss it even if it IS set in an old continuity. Tommy, Billy, and Zack were the only 1993 Rangers to really get in-depth exploration of their lives after Rangerhood; Kim in particular is a complete blank slate. But unfortunately this fandom makes it clear that to them character work is secondary to cool flashy lore, so......

Whatever. It's expected at this point, but it never stops being frustrating. The 2026 series could end with Tommy and Kim getting married with Kim expecting Olivia and this fandom will be like "so I guess after this they'll break up so he can be with Kat to line this up with Once and Always?"

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What Kimberly needs is Tomberly; why don't they understand that?

I don't want to say Kimberly NEEDS her romance, as obviously she stands fine on her own without it, but I do find it interesting how many comics at this point write it so Tommy and Kim deal with similar issues and they're at their best when they're together

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I was thinking mostly in terms of “you keep releasing teams all at once like this you’ll run out eventually” but I sent that late and forgot about villains and like theoretically you could divide up Jungle Fury into three (core 5/spirit ranger/Jarrod and Camille)

Yeah, and notably Zeo Gold Jason is being sold separately. So it's not like EVERY character will be released in a set; Sixth Rangers and other "special" guys can spread things out

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Fascinating to drop Zeo all at once. I don’t expect it going forward but at the same time, it would be nice. That way at least there’s no incomplete teams

Obviously Playmates isn't hiding the fact that this line is meant for collectors and collectors love full sets, so I see it like a high risk, high reward situation. Most people in the fandom hated the Lightning Collection's "make a figure out of whomever we hit when we throw a dart at a board" strategy because it led to incomplete teams, so it makes sense to me, as long as the sales justify it continuing.

(Though I kinda wish they started backwards with Cosmic Fury so I could finally get a Fern toy)