[wrestlemaniac]

Thanks for all the great responses, love reading them all.

I like some of the later series costumes a lot, especially the series that also had animal themes. just because Mighty morphin had the animal theme, i always sorta looked at that as one of the key trademarks for a power rangers team, every time they had another theme, like the cars in turbo or the in space designs, even tho in itself they looked good, i always felt it lacked one of the key components of what i knew to be power rangers. also, some people hate the silver mounth pieces but i always loved them, infact the helmets that don't really show a mounth always threw me off a bit, even the ones that did show a mounth sculpt but not the explicit "mounth area" always made me feel a bit awkward about them and it's one of the main reasons i didn't like the zeo suits, i missed the silver mounth areas a lot!

Power rangers without an animal theme going on is like a Batman design without a bat symbol on his chest, it would still obviously be batman, but it's missing something.

Also, many of you will not agree with this, but i think the low budget and cheap effects hurts power rangers these days whereas looking back at mighty morphin,back then as a kid i didn't know any better and special effects were hardly ever good back then anyway so these days the tacky effects are part of the charm about MMPR, yet when i watch a more recent series and see it is still so cheap...well it turns me off because now we HAVE seen better and we HAVE seen what is possible, if that makes sense.

a lot will disagree since fans like to argue that the cheepness of a PR series is one of the trademarks in itself, those are the same fans that are opposed to a big budget PR movie because it wouldn't feel like power ranger..i am not in that camp, i'm the opossite and i would like to see it explored, i don't understand where the notion that power rangers SHOULD be cheap is coming from tbh. Look at smallville and the flack it got online about the cheap ass special effects...if that show had aired in the 90's people wouldn't even notice and took it for what it is, yet because by the time smallville aired people had seen so much better effects and it made it uncomfortable for many to look at smallville and accept them in this day and age and i think that is the same reason why a lot of older people can't get more into PR these days and still clamour for there mighty morphins...the same issues that form part of the charm there, are what's hurting the show today. i know a lot of my friends would still be into it if everything didn't STILL, after all these years, look so cheap. when a cgi zord looks worse than ps2 videogame grpahics in 2012, it's very hard to overlook it for a lot of people that might otherwise still like the concept and the suits etc.