[wrestlemaniac]

As is probably clear by now from some of my previous posts i'm still a big mark for the original mighty morphin days i grew up with so i admit i may have a biased view on certain things, but it got me thinking...yes mmpr wasn't that great and had many errors,things that could bug you to no end, was very cheesy and well, every other negative remarks that can be thrown at it probably has truth to it. But then again, for all it's faults and cheesyness, it DID end up being massively popular and even haters would be hard pressed to argue there is a huge shift in reckognision and ,well, importance in popculture i guess you could say.

I also chuckle when i think back at all the knock ranger toys that were everywhere back in the day...cou couldn't even walk in a freakin grocery store without seeing some sort of ranger clone in the toy isle..some were even quite cool but i mean, anything that even slightly looked like a power ranger sold like hot cakes and every store was in on it,that's how huge it was...i haven't seen a knock of ranger toy in stores since,hell like i said even real ranger toys are tucked away in between beyblade and ben 10 and amazing spiderman toys in our toystores. a far cry was the walls of PR toys i got to witness as a child.

in the MM era, litterally EVERYBODY knew power rangers, is was everywhere, even your 90 year old grandma was able to tell you what a power ranger looked like.Toys were everywhere, every kid was talking about it, just like turtles and tim burton batman movies, it was an undeniable phenomenon.

So PR never stopped and is still going yet i thinks it's safe to say that the majority of people,when you say the name power ranger, will STILL think of MM's. toystores carry very little PR stuff these days ( at least over here..). back in MM days, even non fans or adults knew the goddamn theme song,which is also something that has never been achieved again afterwards imo.

yes we, the people that care enough to visit boards like this and talk about it, and still watch it, we still care and know about the franchise, but realisticly speaking we are just a minority. Even kids these days hardly play with rangers, i can tell from family experiance, some of them don't even know what a PR is even tho they might've seen a glimps of samurai on tv.They just don't care like we seemed to used to as kids.

Now again, i speak from a Belgium standpoint, i can not accuratly judge what it is like in america or elsewhere but i still think that no matter where you live, the visibility and impact of PR is just a shell of it's former glory even tho some seasons were hundred times better than what we got with MM...What would it take for power rangers to be HUGE again in an overall broader sense ?

i mean, Batman has always been popular by fans but after the Burton movies his impact on the "world" was pretty low key,aside from comic readers who kept up every other person when hearing the word Batman instantly got an image of keatons batman in his head. it wasn't untill the Nolan films, hate them or love them as you please, that the world of Batman, and batman himself, was catapulted to a worldwide phenomenon status again, to the point even non fans wear dark knight t shirts and your parents know the movies even tho they don't care for batman per sé.

Anyway to wrap this up,part of the magic of MM for me, and why i still think of it so fondly, was the memories of how huge it was, that in itself was part of the charm for me,it wasn't just watching it on tv that made it fun, it was the overall visibility and awareness they got, that added that special flavour to it. These days aside from us die hard fans, nobody gives a s..about PR IMHO,aside from a few kids. but i don't think kids these days will think of samurai as fondly in 20 years from now like my generation does about MMPR.

Can lightning strike twice like it did for batman ? or will PR never reach that level again ? Was it just the fact that it was a new idea at the time for our audience, that made us love it so much in the first place ?