"It's Morphin' Time!"

Let's see a show of hands.

Who here knows about the Power Rangers?


Those of you who did not raise up your hands, you must be either too shy to admit it, or that you have a sad, sad childhood.

Power Rangers. Who could forget them? Back when it was first shown (around 1996?), most of us were in that age when we dig shows portraying silly bad guys and super cool giant robots.

The idea of heroes clad in brightly-colored latex suits jumping around shouting "Aiya!", "Hia!" and other kungfu calls whilst beating up pea-brained dummies really appealed to us. Throw in the fact that there's a huge, uber-cool, uber-strong and uber-slow robot at the end of every episode, and the producers had our gullible minds captured and our gullible mouths salivating.


Not mentioning the fact that their boss was a huge distorted holographic head and their assistant boss was a robot that goes "Ai-yai-yai-yai-yai!" and a dorayaki for a head.

See the similarities? ;)

By the way, have you ever noticed some of the recurring things present in every episode?
1. The grey Putties (the underlings of the enemy) would always encircle the Rangers and take their turn in getting bashed up by the Rangers.
2. The monster of the episode usually has a ranged attack that it can fire from a certain part of its body. The cue to it using that attack is for it to cover that certain part of the body with its palms before firing that energy beam of death at the Rangers.
3. And it's not really an energy beam of death. It just causes lots of sparks to come out of the Ranger's chest. The Ranger then flies backward while screaming "Aaah!" before getting back up few minutes later, uniform still intact and without any serious injuries.
4. When the Rangers call for their Zords, the big-sized monster will let the Rangers finish the robot assembly process. It has never occurred to it that it can just stomp the Rangers to a squishy death.
5. The Megazord never uses its ultimate weapon until it has been beaten to the limit. Why can't it just take out its sword in the beginning of the fight and destroy the monster? That way, the show can move on to the following week's monster. Saves time!

Anyways. When it first started showing, it started a craze among the kids and headache among the kids' parents. Craze because the kids love it and headache because the kids keep urging their parents to buy the Power Rangers Action Figures.

I myself used to pester my parents a lot. Whenever the family goes to a shopping center, I would pull my mum to the Toys Section and point at the figure of the Megazord with all its detachable and transformable Zords. It was super cool at that time okay.

Which kid wouldn't be sucked in by this?

And every single time my parents would turn me down. :( It wasn't cheap, I know. But I was stupid at that time and didn't know the value of money.

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Two weeks ago, my mum brought back a whole box of odds and ends given to her by my uncle. My uncle is moving house, and in the process of cleaning up, found an old box containing many of my cousins' toys. He thought that it'd be a good idea to give those toys to my mum's colleague, whose young nephew simply loves these things.

Look what I found in the box:

The original Megazord. Missing the mammoth head shield and the sword

The Dragonzord. Missing the drill tail

Haha! Seeing the robot, my mum said that she wants to keep it! So, technically, my wish from many years ago came true many years later!


p/s: I've heard people tell me that God doesn't always answer prayers with a "Yes" or a "No". Sometimes the answer is a "Maybe" or a "Not yet". I guess this is kinda true for this case. So am I going to wake up at the age of 72 to find an Ibanez electric guitar beside me? =P

Side Order: I just watched "The Golden Compass", disregarding the many e-mails imploring people to not watch it, claiming it to be anti-Christianity. Well, I must say that this anti-Christianity thing is present in the movie, but the public is really playing things out of their proportions. Most people won't even notice those anti-Christianity elements to be there! In any case, the movie is still not worth the value of your money. In my opinion, it is nothing more than a movie trying to copy everyone else. There's even an "I am your father!" Star Wars moment in there. Bleh! Not worth my RM6. Go watch "Chuck & Larry" instead. At least the gay jokes are really hilarious.