Friday, September 26, 2014

Jurassic World: Rise of the Mutant Dinosaurs?

So a plot synopsis of the fourth film in the Jurassic Park franchise states that the movie will take place on a functioning amusement park called Jurassic World. However declining sales prompts the scientists to create new mutant dinosaurs using spliced DNA to draw in more tourists. Of course we all know what will happen with the dinomutants.The funny thing about this is that the ideas of a Jurassic Park filled with dinomutants was already tried via Kenner in the late 90's with a toy line called Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect. The premise of the toy line was that geneticists working for the park combined dino DNA to create new dinosaurs such as:

Compstegnathus, a hybrid of Compsognathus and Stegosaurus

 Armagospinus, a hybrid of Amargosaurus and Spinosaurus
 Ankyloranodon, a hybrid of Ankylosaurus and Pteranodon
 Paradeinonychus, a hybrid of Parasaurolophus and Deinonychus
Velocirapteryx, a hybrid of Velociraptor and Archeopteryx
And Ultimasaurus, a hybrid of Triceratops, T-Rex, Velociraptor, and Ankylosaurus.

Most of these toys never saw it onto the shelves due to poor sales and a lack of interest. Although the film Jurassic Park 3 did employ the idea of the researchers genetically enhancing dinosaurs to create giant Pteranodons with teeth and spiked super-Velociraptors, they never actually used dinomutants. However we may yet see Ultimasaurus chase tourists on an island next year in Jurassic World.




Saturday, July 26, 2014

Wonder Woman on the Big Screen

Despite numerous films featuring Superman and Batman, DC's mightiest mythical marvel, Wonder Woman, has had only a few appearances in the realm of film. Linda Carter was the first Wonder Woman in the 70's. Fighting for our rights in her satin tights (and a whalebone corset so tight she couldn't bend at the waist), Linda Carter's Wonder Woman was a TV icon. Over 30 years later, Adrianne Palicki was cast to play Wonder Woman in a made-for-tv movie that never aired due to advance fan-hatred over the shiny vinyl costume and bad script. And now in 2015, Gal Gafot will be the first Wonder Woman ever to appear on the silver screen in "Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice", clad in a darkly armored version of the classic Wonder Woman costume.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

With the upcoming Superman/Batman movie next year, a new Batmobile is set to be revealed. Here are a few cars set to potentially be the next Batmobile. First we have a sleek black modified Lamborghini in definite Batman style. The second, and recently mentioned more likely to occur, candidate is an Audi inspired Batmobile with elements of the Michael Keaton era Batmobile, allegedly being designed by GM. The third is a modified Corvette  with elements of the Adam West Batmobile. Fourth is a mixture of the Christian bale Tumbler Batmobile with an armored sports car. The 5th is a futuristic retake of the Adam West Batmobile. And the final contender is a heavily modified black muscle car taking inspiration from the Batman comics.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

New Rangers for 2015: Power Rangers Dino Charge!!

The news for the new season of Power Rangers was just released. After Megaforce we will be getting Power Rangers Dino Charge. Let's meet the Rangers and zords.

Red Ranger will be the Team leader. His Bio-Battery is fueled by the energy of the Tyrannosaurus and he pilots the T-Rex DynaZord.


The Black Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Parasaurolophus and pilots the Parasaur DynaZord.

The Blue Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Stegosaurus and pilots the Stegosaur DynaZord.

 The Green Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Velociraptor and pilots the Raptor DynaZord.

 The Pink Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Triceratops and pilots the Triceratops DynaZord.

 The Gold Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Pteranodon and pilots the Pteranodon DynaZord.

 The Aqua Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Ankylosaurus and pilots the Ankylosaur DynaZord.

The Graphite Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Pachycephalosaurus and pilots the Cephalosaur DynaZord.

The Purple Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Plesiosaurus and pilots the Plesiosaur DynaZord.

The Silver Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Brachiosaurus and pilots the Brachiosaur DynaZord.

The Yellow Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Deinonychus and pilots the Deinonychus DynaZord.

The Talon Ranger has a Bio-Battery fueled by the energy of the Spinosaurus and pilots the Spinosaur DynaZord.

The Dino Charge Megazord. Combination of T-Rex, Stegosaur, amd Triceratops DynaZords
Dino Charge Megazord in Lightning Mode with Parasaur and Raptor Zord, Thunder Mode with Ankyosaur and Cephalosaur, and Blitz Mode with Deinonychus and Raptor Zords.
PteraMax Megazord form of the Pteranodon DynaZord.
PteraMax Megazord in Lightning Mode.

The Ptera Charge Megazord: Dino Charge Megazord plus Pterandon DynaZord

PlesioMax Megazord for of the Plesiosaur DynaZord.
Dino Storm Megazord: T-Rex, Plesiosaur, and Cephalosaur DynaZords combined.
Brachio Titan Megazord form of the Brachiosaur DynaZord.
Dino Charge Ultrazord: Dino Charge Megazord combined with Brachiosaur, Raptor, and Parasaur DynaZords.
Spino-Striker Megazord: Spinosaur Dynazord combined with Ankylosaur and Cephalosaur DynaZords.


Friday, January 31, 2014

Kid Omega's Futures as Phoenix


Quentin Quire aka Kid Omega likes to be this anarchist/anti-authority character who thinks his omega-level telepathy, limited telekinesis, and genius IQ put him above society and after a few attempts to overthrow the X-Men, has grudgingly been forced into their ranks. However in three separate futures, Quentin is not only a full-member of the X-Men, but host to the cosmic powers of the Phoenix. In one future, a future version of Jean Grey as the White Phoenix is given advice on saving the timestream by Kid Omega as Phoenix who wears a green-and-purple Phoenix costume. In a another future, an adult Kid Omega is leader of the X-Men and host of the Phoenix Force, wearing a black-and-red bodysuit with a huge gold Phoenix emblem. And most recently in the events of Battle for the Atom, Kid Omega is the Phoenix and member of a rag-tag group of surviving X-Men in a dystopian future, wearing a black-and-gold Phoenix costume.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Nate Grey/X-Man costume history


Nate Grey aka the X-Man, is the son of Cyclops and Phoenix, artificially created in a laboratory from the two mutants' DNA to be the most powerful telepath/telekinetic on Earth. His first uniform was a blue-and-gold leather bodysuit and jacket. Upon the destruction of his reality, he escaped into the current Marvel timeline using his psychic abilities to cross dimensional planes. He kept his blue and gold costume for a little while, until he was convinced by friends he had made to pick a more normal look, to which he changed his costume to an all black leather attire. Later he met this reality's version of his father Cyclops, who gave him one of his old costumes (a blue bodysuit with a white X emblem). When X-Man faced a powerful opponent while he was stripped of his telepathy, he used his telekinesis to form a body armor from surrounding pieces of metal to compensate for his reduced powers. After getting his powers restored, Nate donned a black X-symbol bodysuit with white swirl designs. As his powers grew stronger, X-Man became a "shaman" to his new home reality, and began to practice using his dimensional traveling powers to protect Earth from threats from parallel realities (a while wearing only a trenchcoat and black slacks). However, X-Man merged himself with the astral plane to protect everyone on Earth from a pyschic invader. He was lost as psionic energy on the astral plane until former super-villain Norman Osborn attempted to use a group of psychics to pull Nate's psychic energy from the astral plane and inadvertently reformed him. X-Man reappeared on the physical world wearing a blue trenchcoat with phoenix-wing lapels and an ornate golden X emblem on the back with grey slacks and an x-emblem belt. After Nate was stripped of most of his powers, Nate wore a black-and-gold hooded trenchcoat with black-and-gold leather pants. And in a possible future, X-Man finally joined the X-men and wore a blue-and-yellow uniform with a red x-emblem. In another future, X-Man was among a group of people who had been (or would become) hosts of the Phoenix Force, his Phoenix costume being a gold bodysuit with a black-and-yellow phoenix emblem accented with orange gloves and matching belt.