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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Doing that loses all connection though. It's more efficient, but without the connection, any character growth feels undermined. Any and every comparison would be unfairly weighed to the Japanese counterpart. The comparisons drawn in this manner would come down to "American character did blank, blank and blank. Meanwhile, the Japanese character did (Proceed to gush over what all this character did, as you were there when it happened)."

I completely understand what you mean. I wanted to watch Power Rangers. I tried starting from the beginning. I mean, it is all on Netflix. It's just so much harder to watch for me. I even tried watching bits of the more recent ones. I might eventually get around to watching it all, but it'll probably be a while.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

See, from the moment I first read about the toys in a toy magazine to the first commercial Fox showed, I was hooked. I watched it every day it was on, even the reruns, all of the way through the first half of Lost Galaxy. By then, I was sick of the show changing its cast members on a regular basis, and constant changing of the costumes and zords because by the time I finally would get the toys, it would be time for the next series. Hell, I did not even get the original Megazord and Dragonzord until my birthday in June of 94, not knowing that two months later, those zords were going to be obsolete.

I knew the show was taken from a Japanese show (it is pretty obvious to a Godzilla lover), but I did not know they changed series every year.

I am also kicking myself because I'm sure a lot of you remember how many bootlegs surged in cheap toystores advertising that they were selling Power Rangers. Well, there was a store that I went into that claimed they were selling just that, Power Rangers. I go over to the bin and started looking at the toys, looked through them, and yelled, "This is not Power Rangers, these are more knock-offs." They had five rangers, they all came with bikes, but there was no black ranger, only a green ranger which also looked nothing like the green ranger I knew. They were selling them for like $10 a piece. Years later, I come to find out, they were actually the DaiRangers with their bikes. If I knew then what I knew now, I would have had my dad buy them.

See, I really liked the toys as a kid also. But my mom didn't really allow me to get many things. Nearly all the toys I owned as a kid that cost more than $5 were usually birthday or Christmas gifts. I'm sure this is the reason that now, every time I see something cool my reaction is "Shut up and take my money."