Monday, July 21, 2014

Power Morphicon Guest Announcements! Sentai meets Power Rangers!

Check out these awesome new @PowerMorphicon guest announcements! Special thanks goes out to @bboyrealm for supplying me with the press release and photos . 

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Power Morphicon is Proud to Announce Sentai and Henshin Actors Yuuta Mochizuki, Hiroshi Maeda and Yasuhiro Takeuchi as Special Guests

Pasadena, CA - Power Morphicon, the official Power Rangers convention, is proud to announce that Super Sentai and Henshin actors, Yuuta Mochizuki, Hiroshi Maeda and Yasuhiro Takeuchi will be making their first U.S. convention appearance at Power Morphicon next month.

The three-day event will be held on August 22-24th at the Pasadena Convention Center.


Yuuta Mochizuki is best known for his role as Geki, the red Tyranno Ranger, from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, which Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, was adapted from. 

Mochizuki is also known as J1 of the Neo-Jetman in Choujin Sentai Jetman, played the role of Koji Segawa/KamenRider J and has performed as the second Tuxedo Mask in the Sailor Moon musical.

Mochizuki recently reprised his role as Geki in the 2014 film, Kyoryuger vs Go-Busters: The Great Dinosaur Battle! Farewell our Eternal Friends.



Hiroshi Maeda is a professional Japanese stunt man and suit actor who is best known for portraying the Tyranno Ranger in the 1992 Super Sentai series Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.

Maeda went on to play the red ranger in Saban's Power Rangers series in Mighty Morphin, Turbo, In Space, Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force, Wild Force, and Ninja Storm.

Maeda's also known for playing Kamen Rider 1 in two films: Kamen Rider: The First and Kamen Rider: The Next, as well as playing Dragon Knight in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.



Yasuhiro Takeuchi is a professional Japanese stunt man and suit actor who is known to have recurring roles in many Super Sentai series. Takeuchi has worn both Rangers and mecha (zords) suits.

Takeuchi is one of two stunt actors to portray the Dragon Ranger in Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (the Green Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).

Takeuchi’s long list of credits include Mythical Chi Beast RyuseiOh (Red Dragon Thunderzord in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), the Mega Winger (Power Rangers In Space), V-Rex(Power Rangers Time Force's Q-Rex), Timeranger Blue & Green (Power Rangers Time Force’s Blue & Green Rangers), Shinken Green (Power Rangers Samurai’s Green Ranger), Gokai Green (Power Rangers Super Megaforce’s Green Ranger), and more recently in Ressha Sentai ToQger as the ToQ 4gou (Green Ranger), which is currently airing in Japan.

All three actors will join over 100 confirmed guests at Power Morphicon next month.

This will mark the first time a Japanese Super Sentai actor, Yuuta Mochizuki, will be meeting his American Power Ranger counterpart, Austin St. John, both of whom played the lead role in their respective series as the Red Ranger.

More information about Power Morphicon can be found online at http://officialpowermorphicon.com


About Power Morphicon

Power Morphicon is a three-day convention held every two years that celebrates Power Rangers and related series such as VR Troopers, Beetleborgs, Kamen Rider and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The three-day event brings in over 5,000 people from all over the world to participate in cosplay events, panels featuring all guests, breakfast with the guests, martial arts demo/classes, prop/FX workshop, and more. Power Morphicon is a local business owned by painter and artist, Scott Zillner, and is an event that is directed by an all volunteer, unpaid staff.

For more information about Power Morphicon, please visit http://officialpowermorphicon.com.

Friday, July 18, 2014

2nd Anniversary! (along with a special video)

I just wanted to write up a quick post to celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of Power Rangers Media Info. It doesn't even feel that long ago that I started up this blog and its accompanying/my Twitter (https://twitter.com/PR_Media_Info). These past two years have been really amazing, to say the least. I want to thank each on every person who has visited and gotten some use out of my site, even though I don't really care that much about views. This site is a conglomeration of my love for everything Power Rangers VHS / DVD related, my passion. Once again, thank you all. Here's to another two years and many more!

To commemorate this special occasion, I have a very special upload that pertains to my favorite PR season, Lightspeed Rescue. It's footage that was played on the monitor screens in the Aquabase! :D Enjoy!


VR Troopers - Unreleased Kenner Prototype Concept Sketches (Scans)

 Working through my backlog of materials to scan and share... Here are scans of original concept sketches for a line of VR Troopers figures ...