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Title: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on June 30, 2013, 02:08:08 PM
Maybe it's just me, but Power Rangers seems perfectly suited for the b-movie crowd. A 'children's show', but it combines several things I like and other b-movie fans like: sci-fi, action, monsters. It's like Star Trek mixed with a Bruce Lee film and add Godzilla style fights with giant monsters battling in a city with cardboard buildings.

I've recently been watching it again. It's still going strong, and is celebrating 20 years on the air. New cast, but they bring back previous actors and such.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: ChaosTheory on June 30, 2013, 03:49:37 PM
Guilty pleasure, definitely (though ULTRAMAN is better  :teddyr:).  It's crazy to me how many incarnations of this show there are.  My favorite one was NINJA STORM because the villains were the funniest.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on June 30, 2013, 04:42:25 PM
The first seven or so seasons tie together quite nicely, culminating in the death of Zordon. Zeo is probably my favorite one in the series. Previous villains Zedd and Rita destroy the rangers powers, but get displaced from their home by new villains. So the rangers find new powers, Zedd and Rita travel about in a mobile home attempting to help destroy the new villains, and Goldar and Rito (two monsters) are suffering from amnesia and get adopted on Earth by the school bullies.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: LilCerberus on June 30, 2013, 04:49:03 PM
For me, itvwas The Space Giants.
One episode, I reacall they stuck Rodak's mask in a cubbie in a wall to make it look like he was appearing on a monitor.
And the concept of an old wizard trying to teach spirituallity to a family of robots...


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on July 01, 2013, 12:16:07 AM
A local network showed Space Giants when I was very young. I don't recall much, but remember the costumes and title.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on July 01, 2013, 12:19:20 AM
There was a string of second rate knockoffs in the '90s after PR came out. Notably, Masked Rider, VR Troopers, and a show about kids who befriend a ghost, mummy, werewolf and become heroes called Big Bad Beetle Borgs.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: FatFreddysCat on July 01, 2013, 08:13:22 AM
My kids don't watch "Power Rangers" but I've seen commercials for the current series when they watch Nickelodeon and I can't believe it's still going after all these years!!

I worked in the toy department of a K-Mart when the first wave of Power Ranger Mania swept the nation in the early 90s, it was nuts. I had random people calling the department day in and day out asking "Did you get any of the new Tiger Megazord?", or if there was a pallet of boxes out on the floor waiting to be shelved people would be going through the boxes looking for particular figures/vehicles/etc.  Saturday mornings I did more crowd control in the toy department than actual work.  :teddyr:

I had never seen the show at this point but curiosity got the better of me so finally I went home one afternoon and turned it on just to see what all the whoop de doo was about. I had to admit, it was pretty neat stuff. I remember thinking "Oh yeah, if I were ten years old, this show would be the cat's ass."  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on July 01, 2013, 04:35:58 PM
When it started, I was 9 years old. As a kid, we had Ninja Turtles, WWE, Superheroes, and He-Man. Plus, I was a Godzilla fan and regularly watched MST3K, so to me, Power Rangers was great. It had kids that were heroes in costumes, Karate like TMNT, Godzilla style fights, etc.

Plus, the toys....ooohh, the toys were fun. So much so, that I'd created full storylines encompassing all toys I had: essentially, Batman was interacting with Power rangers, Ninja Turtles, WWE, X-Men, etc. in an intergalactic war with all villains. So, you'd have a team with Batman, the Pink Ranger, and Storm facing Magneto, Goldar and Catwoman.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: Pacman000 on July 03, 2013, 06:13:09 PM
That sounds like it would make an awesome movie HappyGilmore, but the liscensing fees would be murder. :smile:


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on July 03, 2013, 10:07:20 PM
That sounds like it would make an awesome movie HappyGilmore, but the liscensing fees would be murder. :smile:
:wink:
Indeed. But I had fun mixing and matching. Having Spider-Man and Donatello fight Roddy Piper and Dr. Octopus was fun.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on August 08, 2013, 02:28:52 PM
My kids don't watch "Power Rangers" but I've seen commercials for the current series when they watch Nickelodeon and I can't believe it's still going after all these years!!

I worked in the toy department of a K-Mart when the first wave of Power Ranger Mania swept the nation in the early 90s, it was nuts. I had random people calling the department day in and day out asking "Did you get any of the new Tiger Megazord?", or if there was a pallet of boxes out on the floor waiting to be shelved people would be going through the boxes looking for particular figures/vehicles/etc.  Saturday mornings I did more crowd control in the toy department than actual work.  :teddyr:

I had never seen the show at this point but curiosity got the better of me so finally I went home one afternoon and turned it on just to see what all the whoop de doo was about. I had to admit, it was pretty neat stuff. I remember thinking "Oh yeah, if I were ten years old, this show would be the cat's ass."  :teddyr:
They were hard to find. I had my mom, aunts, uncles etc searching.

I stopped watching for a bit, but got back into it a few years ago when they brought in former rangers I knew as a kid.

This year is the twentieth season and they've gotten former rangers together to.come back.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on August 08, 2013, 02:33:03 PM
I was watching some special features on their new box set dvd's.

The then-president of Fox Kids didn't think Rangers would last. She agreed to air it based on her kid liking the footage he'd watched. Her conditions: it'd only air as a summer series, only at 7:30AM, and only the first 40 episodes produced would air.

It was such a hit by the tenth episode, it started airing in afternoons. By the 20th episode, she ordered two.more seasons.

It's now in it's 20th season.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: VenomX73 on August 08, 2013, 06:03:53 PM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WKz4TSFkbVM/TFeMGUOifkI/AAAAAAAAAdI/75V9fDl_zuE/s1600/the-power-rangers-tv-series105-1-g.jpg)

The original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 1993


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: bob on August 19, 2013, 08:40:57 AM
I loved this show as a kid, as well as this young lady.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/KimberlyHart.jpg/220px-KimberlyHart.jpg)


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on August 19, 2013, 10:24:43 PM
I loved this show as a kid, as well as this young lady.

([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/KimberlyHart.jpg/220px-KimberlyHart.jpg[/url])

Beautiful girl, there.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on August 28, 2013, 07:14:29 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX5qVY2zDvM

On this date, August 28th, 1993, the premiere episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers debuted on Fox.  20 years later, we're halfway through it's twentieth season, Power Rangers Megaforce.

Megaforce will end at sometime next year with all former rangers returning (well, not all.  Mostly, it's all Japanese footage using their costumes, but we'll get cameos throughout the season of them not in costume.)  But the end of this video shows what it's all been leading to.  As a fan, seeing all the costumes together made me happy.  I realize it's stunt actors in the suits, but still.  :buggedout:


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: zelmo73 on September 29, 2013, 12:44:45 PM
We used to watch this show stoned after a long night of drinking right after I graduated from high school back in the day.  :drink:

Watching it stoned was definitely a profound experience, as the original post explained, blending Bruce Lee with Godzilla-style destruction and outrageous enemies and horrific acting. I can't believe that it's been on 20 years already! My little nephew used to watch it when he was 5 years old. I should remind him at 25 years old now of those days when he used to run around the house karate-kicking the air in his Power Rangers underwear.  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on October 15, 2013, 08:04:17 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejJh1opn6jY

We used to watch this show stoned after a long night of drinking right after I graduated from high school back in the day.  :drink:

Watching it stoned was definitely a profound experience, as the original post explained, blending Bruce Lee with Godzilla-style destruction and outrageous enemies and horrific acting. I can't believe that it's been on 20 years already! My little nephew used to watch it when he was 5 years old. I should remind him at 25 years old now of those days when he used to run around the house karate-kicking the air in his Power Rangers underwear.  :bouncegiggle:

I'm really kinda shocked it lasted, and I was a huge fan of it back then.  Figured it'd get three-four seasons, tops.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: JayJayM12 on December 06, 2013, 05:50:21 PM
Quote
Having Spider-Man and Donatello fight Roddy Piper and Dr. Octopus was fun.

That was Wrestlemania IV, right?


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 06, 2013, 10:09:50 PM
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Having Spider-Man and Donatello fight Roddy Piper and Dr. Octopus was fun.

That was Wrestlemania IV, right?
Indeed.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: zelmo73 on December 07, 2013, 03:34:10 PM
Quote
Having Spider-Man and Donatello fight Roddy Piper and Dr. Octopus was fun.


That was Wrestlemania IV, right?

Indeed.


This would have been a better-suited answer:

(http://users.content.ytmnd.com/2/f/e/2fe1a5a739dc5eefad839e0f6f46debf.jpg)

 :teddyr:


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 07, 2013, 09:43:55 PM
Last week was the mid-season finale with their mentor freaking out and telling them to morph as explosions happened around them. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmEa8CvfpuE

Presumably, it leads to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjRG7X-z9ps

Quote
Having Spider-Man and Donatello fight Roddy Piper and Dr. Octopus was fun.


That was Wrestlemania IV, right?

Indeed.


This would have been a better-suited answer:

([url]http://users.content.ytmnd.com/2/f/e/2fe1a5a739dc5eefad839e0f6f46debf.jpg[/url])

 :teddyr:

Ha! I love that.


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: messedup on December 14, 2013, 04:07:27 PM
Wow...they are still doing this?
I used to love the first version as a kid (including the Movie with Ivan Ooze), but lost interest quickly afterwards.
Only caught glimpses here and there of the other shows...


Title: Re: Power Rangers
Post by: HappyGilmore on December 14, 2013, 10:05:55 PM
Yeah.  It's still on.

They've even brought in Jason Frank as Tommy for this season.  He's older now, late 30's or so, but still hopping around. :bouncegiggle: