Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-63.231.187.170-20171112082100

I haven't seen this mentioned in detail to my knowledge (a quick search of the release thread on the official forums turns up nothing, at least!) but the Zyumorph dragons clearly get their name from "morph" of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" and the title of the original Japanese tv show from which much of the special effects footage for the original Power Rangers was taken: "Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger" ("Dinosaur Squadron Zyuranger", for the curious). Sinomorph is then derived from Zyumorph.

For their legacy breed sort names, the name "Dinozord" for Zyumorph and "Megazord" for Sinomorph fits absolutely perfectly for their placement in the list.

All of this makes sense considering that the six Zyumorphs all resemble their corresponding 'zords from Power Rangers: red looks like a t-rex, yellow has fangs like a sabertooth cat, pink resembles a pterosaur, black has a big spike on its back textured vaguely like a trunk and frills on the sides of its face that resemble elephant/mammoth ears, blue's spikey wings call to mind triceretops horns, and white again resembles a pterosaur. The Sinomorph is naturally its own design, but the colors of the other Zyumorphs match up with the placement of the dinozords in the megazord: blue band on the left leg, yellow on the right, red on the neck, black and white on the arms, red and pink showing prominently on the chest...

It's totally a Power Rangers homage, though just subtle enough that you have to actually take a good look to catch all the details.

(This brought to you by someone who didn't even really watch Power Rangers as a kid but can't leave breed name mysteries well enough alone...) 