Author: MA/Anitama Cover source: Season 2 Dinosaur Team
Hero emerged
While the Saipan team is in full swing to produce team episodes, on Fox TV station , Lesch, who is the head of the children's channel, is not relaxed. Lesch needs to convince the TV headquarters to approve the new program she envisioned, which is no less difficult than the difficulties she experienced in the past Marvel era in the face of senior management. A week before the Dinosaur Team officially started, Lesch found her boss, Lucie Salhany. Before that, Lucie roughly read the Dinosaur Team's playback plan and completion clips, but she didn't like the series in this mode very much. Salhani said tactfully that perhaps her eyes were too old, but she did not see the value and future of the show. Lesch knew that she had to strive for this time. She explained her praise for the Dinosaur Team without reservation. At the same time, she made a bet: if the team did not get the ratings she expected after the premiere, she would immediately replace the show, thus convinced Salhani to finally approve her playback plan. The first-generation dinosaur team took the risk to air under such a swaying situation. Without Lesch's firm attitude, it might even die a week before it was released. Lesch used a gambling to win the dinosaur team a fledgling opportunity.
Dinosaur Team "Morphin Time".
After experiencing this game, Fox TV also changed its requirements for team episodes. Lesch was forced to find Saipan and told him that 40 episodes of content must be produced to meet the needs of the TV station, and will be arranged as a summer program to support eight weeks of continuous broadcasts. After learning about the new variables, Saipan was not panicked. Instead, he readily agreed to Lesch, saying that he would do everything possible to achieve the goal. Saipan believes that as long as the team is truly released, it will be recognized by the European and American markets. There is no need to worry too much about whether it will be accepted by teenagers. Since this is a work that is loved by Asian audiences, it will definitely be loved by Europe and America. Saipan has grown up in repeated failures over the past eight years. Compared with the hardships he suffered in major TV stations in the past, he has finally survived and gained recognition. Such a small setback is even less worth mentioning.
On August 29, 1993, the Dinosaurs finally ushered in the premiere of Fox Channel on the weekend. The initial broadcast time was not ideal, and the team was scheduled to play at 7:30 in the morning, and only a few viewers could get up early to watch this new hero's special shot. But by the second week, the situation changed, and those who had watched the Dinosaur Team spontaneously recommended the series to their friends around them. Then a miracle happened, and the ratings of this morning show actually surpassed that of Fox's ace animation Batman (Batman: The Animated Series), which was a prime show scheduled to be broadcast at 16:30 pm. Lesch then made a bold decision, and she exchanged the Dinosaur Team, which was originally scheduled to be played in the morning and the Batman animation played in the afternoon, so the Dinosaur Team suddenly became the prime show of Fox Children's Channel.
American version of team action director Jeff Pruitt.
put the team in prime time only in the second week, which was a very risky decision at the time, and the team's rising popularity later forced Fox executives to admire the greatness of Lesch's decision. The success of the series was unexpectedly smooth, even beyond Saipan and Lesch's expectations, and it became the favorite show of teenagers at that time, and by the end of October the team's audience exceeded the four million mark. Before this, no animation or children's drama on the TV station could achieve such a result in such a short period of time. The only one that can match the ratings is the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" animation (it took about 4 years). The Dinosaur Team surpassed this number after 2 months of use and continued to ferment. The Dinosaurs became famous in one battle. The rapid growth of ratings and popularity in a short period of time completely dispelled the doubts of Salhani and Fox's senior executives. Fox even began to consider actively renewing contracts and longer series. The American version of the team series Symbian hoped to create has embarked on the journey.
On the way to filming the first season, Oliver encountered a new challenge. As usual, while watching the Japanese version of the team thinking about adapting the plot, he accidentally discovered that a new warrior appeared in the team, the sixth among the Beast Company - Bray, the Dragon Emperor Company. Oliver was surprised and happy. This was a powerful heart-warming agent for the team. After continuing to watch the Japanese version of the series, he confirmed that the Dragon Emperor Company was a part of the Dinosaur Team. The Dragon Emperor Company turned aside the whole team. Oliver immediately found the film director Ellen Sarnoff and went to meet Saipan with him, telling him that the sixth warrior appeared, and the American version of the shooting plan also required the sixth warrior to bring a new climax to the story. The crew selected the candidates for the new warrior in a short time, and finally decided that Jason David Frank would star in the team's sixth man, Tommy, and started the American version of the evil warrior series "Green with Evil". Oliver and the entire production team successfully created the sixth person story belonging to the American version. Due to the successful creation of the character Tommy, the popularity of the American version of the Dinosaur Team has been further improved. A new character who woke up from evil and joined the team has become a new idol in the minds of teenagers.
Japanese version of the sixth man, Dragon Emperor, Bla.
On the other hand, the intense shooting cycle also forced the entire team to continue working at high intensity to meet the TV station's weekly playback schedule, and the actors were exhausted due to the uninterrupted shooting tasks. Every week, the actors and production teams are constantly catching up with the progress. After completing a shooting period, they must devote themselves to the next stage of shooting at the fastest speed. The seven-day shooting work lasted for about four months. At first, the actors were asked to join the crew every two days, but as the density increased, the pressure finally became greater and greater. Fortunately, the tacit understanding between the actors became stronger and stronger, and everyone quickly integrated into the role. The entire team formed a big family, not only the actors, but also the crew members worked diligently, which made the filming efficiency extremely high in the later stages. During this period, the team's leading actors gradually established a strong friendship. The unexpected success of the
team led to the actual number of episodes in the first season far exceeding Lesch's original expectations. In the end, the audience saw the Dinosaur Team in the first season, which had a total of 60 episodes. This may be the biggest challenge for the production team, because the original Japanese dinosaur team Beast Company only has 50 episodes of the plot, and the number of episodes of the American team as an adapted version actually surpasses the original version, so when the Japanese version was about to use up the Japanese segment, the production team encountered an embarrassing plot bottleneck. In order to solve this problem, Saipan once again contacted Toei, hoping to fill the needs of American version playback with the original innovative team plot. After Toei judged the situation, he reached an agreement with Saipan, allowing the US version of the extended plan and giving Saipan and his team a lot of reference to shoot and complete the additional content. This agreement seems to be a recurrence of the incident where Marvel authorized Toei to adapt the character, and this time Toei helped the US to complete the original plot production of the team hero. This includes leather case and various props authorized to the US to remade, as well as an additional script of nearly 25 episodes customized for the US version and various monster leather case. Compared with the first forty episodes originally pieced together by the Japanese version of the team, Toei has integrated more into the unique world view of the American version of the team in the newly produced plot, and has truly shot the team story of the Angel Jungle for American teenagers, becoming the American team in the thorough sense.
Dinosaur Team Season 3 Ninja Attire.
In the next two seasons of the extraordinary team, Saipan insisted on using the Dinosaur Team's leather case. Even if the time corresponds to the Japanese version of the Dinosaur Team, it is no longer the Japanese version of the Dinosaur Team, but the brand new Japanese version of the five-star team Dalian (Five-star team イレンジャー) and the Ninja Team's Hidden Corps (Ninja Team kaku クレンジャー).Saipan cleverly retained the images of the five warriors he had successfully created at first, and then replaced the mechas corresponding to the five warriors, so that while using the old leather case, he could insert a new Japanese integrated robot battle screen to achieve a win-win situation. Another change made by Saipan was to evolve the sixth-man warrior Green Company, which originally belonged to the dinosaur team, into a white warrior of the five-star team, forming a unique six-man lineup in the US version. Almost all the players' leather case battles were filmed in the United States, but only when the robot war was injected and switched the Japanese prints. In Season 3, Saipan set up an extra-air team plot, which introduced Ninja Team's leather case and Japanese version clips, so that the Japanese version of leather case battle once again returned to the daily plot of the American version of the team. It was not until the 4th season ZEO that the American version of the team finally changed the leather case and transformed into the Japanese version of the superpower team, King Lianzhe, and ushered in the first evolution of the entire leather case.
American version adapted from the alien team.
American version of the team took nearly 4 years to change the leather case. Practice has also proved that the first season of the dinosaur team's five-person leather case is the most important generation in the audience's minds. Saipan also hopes to extend the life of the dinosaur team's leather case as long as possible. During this period, the production team used different plots to cleverly avoid the evolution of the team. While allowing the five soldiers to obtain different degrees of strengthening in the plot, they also tried not to change the warriors' leather case. At the same time, the production team also realized the importance of retaining the warrior character body. After the first generation, three warriors ushered in role exchange, but the subsequent decline in popularity also formed. So Tommy and Billy, who insisted on retaining, maintained a very high popularity. Among the extraordinary teams after this, Tommy can be said to be the longest-term character. Even if he changed halfway, he returned to the extraordinary team crew many times, and each return resonated with the old audience. In the subsequent team dramas, Saipan found a balance between the two, retaining the characters but evolving the leather case to satisfy the audience's freshness, which can not only retain the enthusiasm of the old audience but also stimulate the development of a new story linkage between the Japanese team plot.
Jason David Frank and his generations of transformation.
Jason, the actor of Tommy, once commented on the team series: "No matter how time passes, the audience of the team series always exists, and everyone has a hero in their minds." Just like other long American dramas, the team series continues to live, even if it constantly ushers in the alternation of new and old characters and the inheritance of the team, the only thing that remains unchanged is the continuation of the spirit of the team and the continuation of the struggle between justice and evil.
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