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Once and Always

What am I talking about, you ask? Hang in there.

I’m referring to the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (“MMPR”) of course.

This may look familiar to some:

My goodness. Look at each of these anniversaries*!

*I skipped including the 15th and 25th anniversaries.

Man, oh man. It’ll be 30 years this August! I…Feel…Old.

While I’m grown (I think) now and have priorities, responsibilities, and such, not much can fill my nostalgia cup like Power Rangers can. This is because it will forever be near-and-dear to me since [the USA variant] came out when I was growing up as a child. I grew with it and loved it.

Sure, I lost touch as I got older with life’s happenings and duties as time went along, but every 5 or 10 years I’d be giddy a little bit and be glad it lives on for new generations to enjoy (even if my biased opinion tells me that the original MMPR, Zeo, Turbo, Space, and Lost Galaxy were the best ones and newer one’s have gotten more campy/watered down.)

So, of course, when I caught wind that there would be some official Power Rangers content coming during the 30th anniversary year, I was pleased to hear that but I was super giddy to learn it was harkening back to the MMPR era! I watched this afternoon after work “Once & Always” on Netflix and it was a fantastic trip down memory lane whilst adding some new into the mix. “Once & Always” is a short for “Once a Ranger, always a Ranger”.

*The Once & Always subtitle for the Netflix original released today, 4/19/2023*

And I definitely cannot forget “Legend of the White Dragon” coming this fall. Rest in Peace Jason David Frank.

So much Power Ranger stuff this year!

I was so giddy I found my old morpher from when I was a kid and played around with it for a few minutes (yeah yeah whatever!!!) before putting it on my bookshelf with other knickknacks. I hope to share this show and (some of 😁) the toys with my son when he is a little older and can experience the series, too, in his own way.

~~Until next time~~ Once & Always,

Andrew

Star Wars Day!

Looking for SomeGoodNews?

We can all use a little… well, a lot of good news right now. A favorite actor of mine, John Krasinski, from The Office, has started a project called SomeGoodNews. So far there’s one video but I anticipate more are to come as it finds its footing. Go watch, like, and subscribe.

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Stan Lee

It is with sadness to write that Stan Lee, the creator of the Marvel Comics universe, has passed away today. This is a quick blog post just to share my condolences to his surviving family. His comics and resulting movies have had an impact on me, and on many past and current generations — future included.

Excelsior!

p.s. I know I’ve not written in a loooong time. I’ll get back to it soon.

STAR WARS

On occasionally I’ll go to Hobby Lobby with Danielle when she wants to look around or get some stuff. Within the last month or so I have found these awesome wall art MDF movie poster prints for the STAR WARS movies. Originally, they had only the original three (4, 5, and 6), which I bought, and I think they just started carrying the latest three (1, 2, and 3), which I just got the other day, too. So, now I’ve got all 6 of them and will be hanging them up soon! I’ll post another pic of them hung up later.

I did a search and comparison on all 6 of these prints and #4 and #5 are not identical to the original movie posters, but they do have key visual and focal elements relevant to the originals. No matter all 6 of these are authentic/commissioned by Disney (I still say Lucas Films) via the “official” stickers on the back — that’s good enough for me.

I can’t wait till December for the sequel trilogy to begin! May the Force be with you!