Power Rangers VR gives us close up look at Zords movie

Somehow the Power Rangers movie has kept the Rangers’ Zords shrouded in secrecy (and fog). The first teaser posters showed us barely anything, so our best looks actually came from the toys—and now we have an even better look at all the Zords, and it’s stillnot an official movie reveal.

A new set of photos come courtesy of the new Power Rangers VR experience produced by Reel FX that Qualcomm were showing off at CES this past week (which also gave us themuch-needed confirmation that Zordon will still be a bald head floating around on a display).

Power Rangers: Zords Rising will let VR headset owners explore the Rangers’ base from the film, meet up with Alpha Five, see giant hologram versions of the Rangers themselves, and getup close to the five Zords themselves.

While we’ve seen these designs before, that was in toy form—where play features and a general lack of detail sort of obscured just exactly how these mechs will look in the movie. This is basically how they’ll appear in the film—and weirdly enough they actually seem to lack the strange marbled texture of the movie suits, instead favoring the bright classic colors of their respective Rangers.

They still certainly look bizarrely alien—especially the Mastodon Zord—but being able to see how these designs will actually look in the world of the movie helps, rather than seeing them isolated as (relatively cheap-looking) toys.

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Power Rangers Megazords

In the universe of the television series Power Rangers, Zords are colossal mechanical or bio-mechanical robots. When monsters grow to incredible sizes, the only way the Power Rangers can fight them is by summoning and piloting these enormous war machines. Usually this will happen towards the end of every episode. 

The Zords come in many different forms. Some take the form of animals, both current, mythical, and extinct. Some of them are humanoid in appearance, such as the Shogunzords and Super Zeo Zords. Others simply look like giant vehicles or other traditional machines (examples include the Turbozords, Time Flyers, and Delta Runners). When the individual Zords are inadequate for the task, they can join together into a more powerful, humanoid robot called a Megazord. 

Starting with Season 2 and the Tigerzord, one Ranger can possess a Zord that becomes its own Megazord. Examples include the Q-Rexand the Omegamax Cycle. 

Every season of Power Rangers from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers onwards saw a new set of Zords being deployed by the current Rangers. Each set is based on the Mechafrom the connected Super Sentai series. This change of Zords occurred even before the yearly costume change to match the equivalent Sentai series. 

Although it is never stated in the series, it is assumed that the Zords are named after Zordon, the first mentor of the Power Rangers. This is seemingly evidenced in the pilot episode, where Zordon was named Zoltar, and the Zords were called "droids." 

It's been a tradition for the primary Megazords to wield swords or other melee weapons while the rest would have blasters, laser guns, cannons or other long-range weapons to fight with. On occasion, sometimes a Ranger will use another Ranger's Zord, and the Rangers will sometimes pilot their Zords while not morphed.

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