Observations of Power Rangers

[RandMcnally]

The original Pink Ranger was hot.

[Otto]

@hey alright

Man, I wish real life was that funny. My contacts in the field tell me the orginal Red Ranger isn’t in gay porn, that’s just a muscled out guy who looks like him.

Contacts in which field, Power rangers or gay porn? Because either way, I’m fascinated.

[OneCentStamp]

Father of four here. Allow me: Ranger Central. Everything you could ever want to know about PR.

[Beadalin]

Oh my God, that shit is STILL ON? Wow.

I was a daycamp counselor for a few years, and that stupid show was the bane of my existence at the time. We had to outlaw any and all Power Ranger references at the camp, because the kids would ALWAYS try to pull Power Ranger moves, and they would either:
a) Fail spectacularly, injuring the perpetrator or
b) Succeed spectacularly, injuring the targeted kid.

We had kids jumping off tables, off stairs, kicking each other in the head, plowing full tilt into walls, etc. etc. etc. Kids do that kind of thing anyway, but once we banned Power Rangers, the incidents dropped to maybe one a week, rather than several a day.

[rjung]

@GuanoLad

I seem to recall that in the first series that made it big, there were five characters - three boys, two girls. But the stunt players were made up of four boys and one girl. That made for an interesting situation, if you were paying attention.

Yeah, the original Yellow Ranger grew an extra appendage whenever she morphed into her costumed form.

(I used to enjoy the original MMPR, back when it was all high camp and quality Japanese martial-arts fighting. The later stuff lost too much of the latter to keep me.)

[GythaOgg]

Ever seen the original Japanese shows uncut? That’s some weird business by western standards. I’ve got a run of Zyuranger (the show the first version of MMPR was based on) original and undubbed. It’s very, very different from the American version. Characters die, horrible things happen, angst for everyone, the bad gal ends up as a sympathetic character, and everyone goes to heaven at the end, kind of. (Let’s not forget the baby in the gold battle helmet in the very last scene of the last episode!)

What’s really funny is watching an episode of the Japanese version back-to-back with the episode of the American version that borrowed the footage. Some of the convolutions the American writers went to to get the most out of the Japanese footage defy belief.

[Jayn_Newell]

@Beadalin

Oh my God, that shit is STILL ON? Wow.

Amazingly. I stopped paying attention a few years back–as far as I’m concerned, MMPR died after the end of Rangers in Space, at which point the continuing storyline was cut off (At least Bulk and Scull got their wish :)). I was already losing interest at that point, so I didn’t bother really getting into the later incarnations.

[BluePitbull]

@bouv

And from what I could tell back then, all the fighting scenes in costume or with the 'zords were from the original Japanese, as were the scenes of the villians on the moon, as it was clear they were dubbed. But the scenes with the actors not in costume, it was in English.

This is why Power Rangers is so lame :rolleyes:

[Weirddave]

@Talon Karrde

I’m surprised they didn’t make the red ranger an Indian.

Then they could have had him hang out with the lone ranger.