Zyu2 - What's with you?

[MattEmily]

Originally Posted by Maligore

Saban would have been too cheap for any of this anywAy. I was Surprised they did the extra footage that they did.

Originally Posted by Guardian Ranger

All the footage splices from different sources were part of MMPR's charm. As much as people like season 1 , that approach wouldn't have worked forever without the changes we got in season 2 and 3 .

keep in mind that while Saban may be cheap they shot a bunch of original footage themselves which wasn't cheap to do either.

Any ground scenes of Turban Shell was original and of course all following Season 2 episodes would've had Gorma Monsters from Dairanger (aside from revived monsters like Zedd's Halloween dimension and the Wedding Monsters since most returned monsters were generally either Zyu2 or a couple Zyuranger Dora Monsters) and any instances of a Gorma Monster would've required original footage of the Rangers (except for Nimrod and the White Ranger in 1 instance) since generally they didn't have many of the Gorma suits so in 1 scene you could have MMPR Red fighting Lipsyncher with neither one ever being seen in the same scene together since they didn't have her suit or if they did it got too damaged that they couldn't do anything to repair it but that's what led to Red throwing his Sword at her to bruise her neck so that they could at least have an excuse for why she has a bruise instead of just ignoring the mark on her cheek additionally they did shoot original zord scenes and now in the 3rd season generally all ground scenes were original until the Aquitians came and in the case of the zords it's only the Shogunzords who had original footage the first instance was when they made their debut by stomping into the park and the second instance was their battle against the Sinister Simian.

Maligore do you really want me to explain every single instance of original footage so that you can see for yourself that Saban is not as cheap as you think he is?

[magic713]

Does anyone know if Zyu2 footage contained shots with the Bandora Gang, or is it just battle footage?

[KCJ506]

Pretty certain Zyu2 was just battle footage. Though there was footage of the Bandora gang that wasn't in Zyuranger, but was filmed by Toei for Saban to use in Power Rangers. Often referred to as Zyu 1.5.

[seiya]

Originally Posted by Churlyryan

I still give props to John "Grnrngr" Greene and Jeff Pruitt for their servises in finding the uncovered footage. I made this thread not to put pressure on you guys to look for more footage, as I realize we as adults have better things to do than sift through old obsolete tapes. Still, that Christmas morning in 2014, was one I will never forget.

I actually do not think Jeff has anymore monsters. The ones we saw all heavily included reshoots to include Z-Putties and "Loosing his Powers" subplot for the Green Ranger. Jeff, after all, was the Stunt Coordinator, it would make sense for him to recieve the Japanese footage for necessary similar shoots.

That all being said, there's not much else out there who might have possibly kept any Zyu2 tapes...

As much as I love John, Jeff found it and sent it to him and Jeff is the one who unearthed it to begin with. I disagree about not having the rest too. Jeff has said that he likely has it somewhere "in storage". I would pay him whatever he wanted to unearth it and have told him as much. I am with you though, Ryan - I want the other 16 so bad. So much left to see. Preach, Ryan, preach.

YouTube also yanked what Jeff uploaded, so I re-uploaded it:

Zyu2 batch #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxTaSsvsjJ0

Zyu2 batch #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK-vdZpWrR4

I have a whole list of things I want to see. Check out my Zyu2 (mostly satirical) blog at http://zyu2ranger.blogspot.com

Hope you had a great holiday.

[powerpackers90]

Yeah Zyu2 will always be a big deal in the fandom even after all the footage is one day found. It is cool that thanks to the internet footage that was thought to be gone forever can be found in someone's basement and posted online days later. Hell I wouldn't be shocked if when we get closer to the movie release if more things like Zyu2 or maybe even the Bioman pilot gets posted on someones youtube page.

Originally Posted by Churlyryan

There will always be more for me as for as Tokusatsu and Sentai is concerned. This shit's been going on decades longer than Power Rangers. For all intents and purposes, Zyu2 totally is an official Season of Sentai, and I'm sure in some sort of "50th Super Sentai Anthology" book it will get heavy acknowledgement.

While it be cool if TOEI brings this up in a book. I don't think it will be counted as a season on it's own. As it's basically just scenes of Power Rangers filmed on location in Japan really. With footage matching Power Ranger more then Zyuranger. Blue being an inventor, Yellow having more famine poses, Pink being closer to a still alive Green, ext.

[MattEmily]

Originally Posted by Churlyryan

There is no Lokar. The rumors were fake. It's "just battle footage" Haim Saban commissioned from Toei to make in the Autumn of 1993.

Technically the rumors were never debunked it was just reported by Amit that he saw footage of Lokar in a Zyu2 'episode' but that could've been after they had edited it since no stock shots were seen in the Zyu2 footage.

Originally Posted by Churlyryan

Pumpkin Rapper has an entire Megazord and Dragonzord fight just waiting to be seen.

What about that blast Pythor? Why was he created? Was he a Zyuranger/Kakuranger reject?

I actually do not think Jeff has anymore monsters. The ones we saw all heavily included reshoots to include Z-Putties and "Loosing his Powers" subplot for the Green Ranger. Jeff, after all, was the Stunt Coordinator, it would make sense for him to recieve the Japanese footage for necessary similar shoots.

yea there are a lot of questions remaining such as the unseen Giant Pumpkin Rapper battle, where Pythor came from and if it was an unseen Zyu2 creation and of course we really don't know what Jeff has in his collection he was only credited for 151-160 of the first season which would've been the following episodes:

Grumble Bee
Two Heads Are Better Than One
Fowl Play
Enter The... Lizzinator
Trick or Treat
On Fins and Needles
Second Chance
Football Season
Mighty Morphin' Mutants
An Oyster Stew

and all of those would include Zyu2 creations so let's see shall we? There would be Grumble Bee, the Two Headed Parrot, Peckster, Lizzinator, Pumpkin Rapper, Slippery Shark, Soccadillo, Rhinoblaster, Commander Crayfish and Oysterizer and out of those it looks like we only have Oysterizer.

Originally Posted by magic713

Does anyone know if Zyu2 footage contained shots with the Bandora Gang, or is it just battle footage?

Originally Posted by KCJ506

Pretty certain Zyu2 was just battle footage. Though there was footage of the Bandora gang that wasn't in Zyuranger, but was filmed by Toei for Saban to use in Power Rangers. Often referred to as Zyu 1.5.

exactly there was Zyu 1.5 footage that just featured Rita, Goldar, Scorpina, Finster, Squatt and Baboo doing their motions in the Palace but sometimes they were outside but there was Zyu2 footage that focused on new monsters fighting the Rangers along with the Zyuranger mecha you know generally the Dinozords, the Megazord and the Dragonzord and sometimes the ground fights would also include Finster's Putties.

[MMPR Forever]

I wish they would have just made new Zyuranger footage ever year. That way MMPR could have continued.

[MattEmily]

Originally Posted by MMPR Forever

I wish they would have just made new Zyuranger footage ever year. That way MMPR could have continued.

I disagree granted I would've preferred that they would've kept the Zyu2 going on longer so that all of the footage would've been exhausted but any additional footage would've cost too much since remember that the monsters actually had cost about $20k.

[Zeo Mega]

Zeo.could have been a spin off instead. And if it did well they could have produced Ohranger 2 footage.

[Captain Codfish]

It would have been much too expensive. We are lucky they even did the extra footage to begin with. They could have just waited until the next season and used all Dairanger footage if they wanted to hang cheap.