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Time of India
10-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
All the Power Rangers skins in Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 4 Item Shop
Image via Epic Games. With the arrival of the Power Rangers in Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 4, this Epic battle royale title has totally upped the ante in the collaboration game. With an array of accessories like Backblings, Pickaxes, Emotes, and many more, this collab has become an instant blockbuster. However, the showstopper of this crossover is undoubtedly the Power Ranger skins. Two skins of this popular franchise were already released alongside the beginning of Season 4. Now, the Item Shop has come up with more Power Rangers skins. Every Power Rangers Skins in Fortnite Item Shop in Chapter 6 Season 4 There are a total of five Power Rangers skin in Fortnite Item Shop. | Image via Epic Games. As of now, Fortnite has featured a total of seven Power Rangers skins. Many fans were able to obtain two of them for absolutely free . However, those who missed this opportunity, now can easily purchase five of those skins from the Item Shop. Here are all the details regarding the Item Shop Power Rangers skin Chapter 6 Season 4 in Fortnite: Ranger Item Price Blue Ranger Blue Ranger Outfit 1,200 V-Bucks Triceratops Coin Back Bling 300 V-Bucks Power Lance Pickaxe 500 V-Bucks Red Ranger Red Ranger Outfit 1,200 V-Bucks Tyrannosaurus Coin Back Bling 300 V-Bucks Power Sword Pickaxe 500 V-Bucks Black Ranger Black Ranger Outfit 1,200 V-Bucks Mastodon Coin Back Bling 300 V-Bucks Power Axe Pickaxe 500 V-Bucks Yellow Ranger Yellow Ranger Outfit 1,200 V-Bucks Sabertooth Tiger Coin Back Bling 300 V-Bucks Power Daggers Pickaxe 500 V-Bucks Pink Ranger Pink Ranger Outfit 1,200 V-Bucks Pterodactyl Coin Back Bling 300 V-Bucks Power Bow Pickaxe 500 V-Bucks All of these skins and accessories can only be bought separately because none of them are available in a combined form of a bundle. That means, a particular set of any of the five Power Rangers costs a total of 2,000 V-Bucks. Players should also keep in mind that all the Power Rangers skins and their associated Backblings and Pickaxes will be available until August 29, 2025, 8 PM ET. However, those who have bought the Season 4 Battle Pass or have subscribed to Fortnite Crew in August, can avail themselves the Green Power Ranger and the White Power Ranger , along with other themed items. Read More: How to get the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Megazord in Fortnite? Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
Geek Tyrant
05-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
THE POWER RANGERS Just Made Their Live-Action Comeback... in a FORTNITE Ad?! — GeekTyrant
The Power Rangers franchise has been pretty quiet lately. After the nostalgic punch of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always and the finale of Cosmic Fury , the future of the Rangers felt like it was up in the air. With reboot rumors stalling, Hasbro auctioning off pieces of the franchise, and even AI-upscaled episodes floating around, fans have been waiting for signs of life from the legendary team. And now we've got one, though not in the way anyone expected. The first new live-action Power Rangers content in nearly two years has arrived... as a Fortnite commercial. Epic Games just revealed the next season of Fortnite , titled 'Shock 'N Awesome,' and it's set to drop August 7. The theme is a full-blown alien bug invasion straight out of Starship Troopers . But players won't be facing this threat alone, because the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are suiting up to join the battle. The Red, Yellow, and Blue Rangers make their entrance in a full-blown live-action trailer, teaming up with familiar Fortnite faces to blast giant alien bugs with miniguns and pyrotechnics, and it's set to a thumping remix of the iconic Mighty Morphin theme song. It's packed with '90s nostalgia. And while it's undeniably fun, it's also kind of wild that this is the first live-action Power Rangers anything we've seen since 2023. The full Power Rangers skin bundle, featuring all five core team members and themed accessories, including that remixed theme track, will be available in the Fortnite store later in August. As for Green Ranger fans, Tommy Oliver is set to appear in the season's battle pass. Then, from September 16, players who complete seasonal quests can unlock a Dino Megazord skin as part of a midseason event. The Power Rangers are officially back in action... in the most unexpected way possible. Live-action, laser-blasting, and now fully digital. Welcome to 2025.
The Hill
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hill
‘Power Rangers' actor splits with writer, says casting a ‘milestone'
Walter Emanual Jones, the actor best known for his role as the Black Power Ranger in the 1990s 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,' has rejected the notion that casting a Black actor in the role was a mistake. 'While some choose to seek out the negative, I've always believed in focusing on the positive,' Jones wrote on Instagram this week. 'I understand the impulse to address what might be seen as cultural insensitivity, but calling it a 'mistake' would dismiss the impact it had on countless people around the world who found inspiration and representation in TV's first Black superhero — morphin' into none other than the Black Power Ranger!' Jones's comments follow remarks from Tony Oliver, a writer from the show, who said he regretted having a Black actor play the role of a Black Ranger and an Asian actor — Thuy Trang — play the Yellow Ranger. In an interview for investigation discovery's for 'Dark Side of the Power Rangers,' Oliver said he had never noticed the stereotype until his assistant pointed it out to him. 'It was such a mistake,' Oliver said. Jones himself had joked about the casting of a Black actor as the Black Power Ranger, according to footage from the documentary. 'My name's Walter Jones, I play Zack. I'm Black, and I play the black Ranger — go figure,' Jones said in the clip. The show was a pop culture phenomenon for many growing up in the 90s, so much so that Jones reunited with castmates for a 30th anniversary reunion special. 'It wasn't a mistake; it was a milestone. It was an honor,' Jones said in his Instagram post.
USA Today
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
'Power Rangers' writer calls casting Black, Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers a 'mistake'
'Power Rangers' writer calls casting Black, Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers a 'mistake' Show Caption Hide Caption Victoria Justice breaks silence on 'Quiet On Set' and Dan Schneider Victoria Justice broke her silence on 'Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV', saying that former producer Dan Schneider owes her an apology. unbranded - Entertainment Decades after casting decisions for the "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" sparked outrage, head writer Tony Oliver has some regrets. The show, which premiered in 1993 and spawned a pop culture phenomenon, cast a Black actor in the role of the black Power Ranger and an Asian actor as the Yellow Ranger. The decision was widely viewed as insensitive and, in a new documentary, Oliver calls it a "mistake." "None of us are thinking stereotypes," he said in an interview for "Dark Side of the Power Rangers," the latest episode of the Investigation Discovery documentary "Hollywood Demons." In fact, he revealed, it took one of his assistants pointing out the stereotype in a meeting for him to realize the optics of it. Netflix's 'Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers reunion special is millennial nostalgia done right While the show later established a pattern of swapping out actors for each color Ranger season to season, the mark made by the original casting was indelible. Walter Emanuel Jones, who played the original Black Ranger, even joked about the choice in behind-the-scenes footage from the show. "My name's Walter Jones, I play Zack. I'm Black, and I play the black Ranger — go figure," he says in a clip from the "Dark Side of the Power Rangers." The original Yellow Ranger was played by Thuy Trang. "It was such a mistake," Oliver said in the documentary, covering his face slightly and shaking his head. "But Thuy was not our original Yellow Ranger," he revealed. "It was actually Audri DuBois. She was the one who did the pilot episode. Don't know why she left. You'll have to ask her." DuBois, who was interviewed for the episode, told producers she exited over a pay dispute when the studio refused to give her enough money per episode to make a living and finance her move from Arizona. "I try to be tough about it," she said through tears. "It is what it is, you know." DuBois was not the only star displeased with their "Power Rangers" paycheck. Stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt also recalled in the episode an impassioned speech Trang gave in front of network executives advocating for a fairer shake. "The owners of the stations all came," Pruitt said. "Rupert Murdoch came, they brought out the Power Rangers. Thuy went up to the microphone and started reading this speech. How rotten Fox was for not paying them more money, and how they all deserved more money … the station owners were just looking like, 'What is this?' "When it was over, she walked backstage, and she just ran to me and grabbed me and started crying, and said, 'What did I do? Oh god, what did I do?'" he recalled. "She regretted it instantly, but it was kind of too late." Not long after the speech, Trang, along with Jones and Austin St. John, who played the Red Power Ranger, were fired and replaced, the episode reveals, implying they were axed in part because they advocated for better pay. While the show was taking off in its second season and toy sales began to boom, the actors saw very little of that economic boon, making little enough to need second jobs, the documentary claims. "Everybody got scared by cutting off three of the rangers," Oliver said. "Cutting them out, it sent a message to everybody, 'Don't even try it. We'll just replace you like that. We don't care." While the new set of Rangers played less into racial stereotypes, the original casting decision would not soon be forgotten. In an interview with Complex in 2013, the show's writer and director Shukli Levy said the choice was not intentional. Why Millennials are obsessed with 'Power Rangers' "At that time, (show creator Haim Saban) and I were new to this country. We didn't grow up in the same environment that exists in America with regards to skin color," he told the outlet. "We grew up in Israel, where being a Black person is like being any kind of color. It's not something we talked about all the time. It wasn't a big issue. And that's also how I felt in Paris, where we lived for seven years before coming here." Barbara Goodson, who played Rita Repulsa on the show, defended the decision to Complex at the time, characterizing it as a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of situation. "If they didn't do it, people would say, 'Well, why didn't they make the Black Ranger a Black Ranger?' You could get criticized either way," she said. "The girl who played the Yellow Ranger after Thuy wasn't Asian, she was Black. You could find something to scoff at everywhere."
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Black Ranger Walter Emanuel Jones reacts to writer calling Black and Yellow Power Rangers casting 'a mistake'
For Walter Emanuel Jones, suiting up as Black Ranger in the mega hit Power Rangers franchise was nothing short of an honor. The actor responded to headline-making comments from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers writer Tony Oliver, who recently expressed regret over the perceived stereotypical casting of Black and Asian actors to play Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger — namely, Jones as Zack Taylor/Black Ranger and the late Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan/Yellow Ranger. Sharing screenshots of all the headlines on Oliver's comments on Instagram, Jones challenged the notion that it was culturally insensitive and clarified that he considers it a milestone of its era."While some choose to seek out the negative, I've always believed in focusing on the positive," Jones wrote. "I understand the impulse to address what might be seen as cultural insensitivity, but calling it a 'mistake' would dismiss the impact it had on countless people around the world who found inspiration and representation in TV's first Black superhero — morphin' into none other than the Black Power Ranger! It wasn't a mistake; it was a milestone. It was an honor." Jones made his Black Ranger debut on Fox Kids' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in 1993 and appeared across all two seasons. He recently reprised the role alongside his original costars, including Amy Jo Johnson and David Yost, in Netflix's 30th anniversary reunion special feature Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always. Oliver and more creatives looked back on the crafting of the show and the casting in the Power Rangers episode of Investigation Discovery's new docuseries, Hollywood Demons. "None of us are thinking stereotypes," Oliver, the program's former head writer, said in the episode of Jones and Trang's casting, adding that it was his assistant who pointed out the potentially problematic nature of it during a meeting one day. "It was such a mistake." Jones himself also recently discussed the topic during an appearance on Jim Cummings' Toon'd In! podcast last month. "Me being in a black suit never bothered me," Jones said, sharing that he had been floated for the blue and red suits as well but the characters did not quite fit him. "Black was what I wanted to wear." He also echoed a tidbit shared by Oliver in the docuseries, that Latina actress Audri Dubois had been cast as Yellow Ranger in the pilot but departed the show due to a pay dispute. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
