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Published: 2018-03-09 00:26:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 2404; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 0
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Description Decided to try my hand at another dinosaur themed team. 

These guys get their powers from an experimental (and potentially alien) super fuel accidentally combined with the fossils of Cretaceous era animals, thereafter called DinoGel. I imagine the rest of their equipment and zords continues this liquid DNA/gel theme, with a some kind of remolding gimmick. Maybe... I don't know. Still thinking about how that might work. 
 
I went with a three man team early on as a tribute to one of my favourite seasons: Dino Thunder. The way I see it, you can't have a dinosaur theme without a few call backs here and there. Just not possible! They are PteranoRed, StyracoYellow and AmmoBlue. In other words, pteranodon, styracosaurus and ammonite. Not your every day choices for power animals I grant you, but I didn't want to hit too many of the common tropes.

Later they are joined by the Spinosaurus rangers, Black and Green. Technically, since they both use the same morpher and DinoGel, they aren't really a five-person team yet. BUT this is why their suits are so similar (and why SpinoBlack doesn't have a skirt like AmmoBlue does). I see these two as feuding siblings -- SpinoGreen being the originally intended spino ranger who takes up something of a rival position to the main trio due to morals, and his teen sister who often steals the SpinoGel to fight alongside the other rangers. 


I DO actually have a sixth ranger in mind. A female t-rex ranger who's a bit of a wild card. But I'm struggling with what colour to make her... Dark red for the whole red t-rex ranger thing, or something else entirely? What do you guys think?

Also, I'm struggling to come up with a title that isn't too cheesy (or already taken by other OC dino rangers)... Maybe something will leap out at me in due course! 

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Comments: 11

sentaipower [2018-04-30 11:16:21 +0000 UTC]

I want to see more all 5 rangers plus ocs please drawings together rangers PLEASE

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CaptainKessler In reply to sentaipower [2018-04-30 18:58:25 +0000 UTC]

Haha I may do one of these days.

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sentaipower In reply to CaptainKessler [2018-05-01 17:16:06 +0000 UTC]

are you going to draw rangers?

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TeiOuja [2018-03-09 04:27:59 +0000 UTC]

I'm loving the costume designs. Very unique, very colourful and kinda reminiscent of Dino Thunder whilst bringing it's own ideas to the table. I also love the DinoGel idea, reminding me of the Sclash Jellies from Build.

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CaptainKessler In reply to TeiOuja [2018-03-10 19:11:25 +0000 UTC]

That's pretty much what inspired the idea tbh. I love the look and gimmick of the Sclash riders I thought hey, what if I incorporated that into a ranger team? I even went so far as to attempt to have semi-transparent liquid parts like the visor or shoulder armour, but (thankfully!) decided against making them Grease/Cross-z clones lol 

Funny enough I added a little joke into the story in that the guy who created their morphers initially wanted to power them with "special batteries" (sound familiar? lol) but had no intention of making them dinosaur themed. "Stuff happens" and he ends up with these guys power by DinoGel!

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TeiOuja In reply to CaptainKessler [2018-03-10 23:39:53 +0000 UTC]

I'm really liking all this. And I'd love to see the semi-transparent parts used for the Sixth Ranger, bring it full-circle.

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CaptainKessler In reply to TeiOuja [2018-03-11 15:26:08 +0000 UTC]

I'll certainly try out every option

Thanks! 

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TeiOuja In reply to CaptainKessler [2018-03-12 00:52:21 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome. 

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wjones215 [2018-03-09 00:51:54 +0000 UTC]

First off, the team looks great so far. Second, I don't recommend using a darker red for your female t-rex ranger, the use of red with the t-rex, which keep in mind that it's not bad, just overused and it's boring. Maybe try using white for the 6th ranger color, that would be cool to see, but the final call is yours. Are you planning on just having 6 rangers?

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CaptainKessler In reply to wjones215 [2018-03-09 01:00:39 +0000 UTC]

White is a good choice. If I did do that I think I'd have to mix is with another colour so as to balance out / contrast against all the white panels on the main team.

And yeah, I'm pretty much going to stick with just 6 for this team. My rangers always seem to end up in teams of 7 plus these days (I blame all these experimental sentai we're getting these days!) So I wanted to strip it back to the old school 6. Although remember that for most, if not just a good portion, of the story, there would only be a max. of 5 rangers on the field at any one time.

Thanks for the comments!

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wjones215 In reply to CaptainKessler [2018-03-09 01:32:34 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. A secondary color is highly favored to even out the primary color used for the suit and it's all good with just the six ranger team. And, you're right in recent years the number of rangers for one team is getting a bit out of hand, I hope that we can see a upcoming team that the max is 6 total.

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