[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by PkmnMstr

I would have no problem attending Power Morphicon or a Super Sentai equivalent. I usually look into the characters and stuff of Power Rangers without actually watching so I at least know how to compare the equivalent series.

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)."

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by PkmnMstr

I don't think I was ever religiously into Power Rangers as a kid. Sure I really liked it, but I doubt I tuned into every episode. I watched whatever I could catch and probably stopped around Lost Galaxy.

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.

[PkmnMstr]

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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."

[cb1]

I like both power rangers and sentai
abaranger got dino earth and pr dino thunder not have dino earth

[TokuChris]

I think the thing Power Rangers had going for it was the fact that it was all in one contained Universe - you didn't have to have a movie to get a team-up. At any point, Jason, Tommy, Adam, etc., could show up to help the new group of Power Rangers. There's always nods back to previous seasons ... you just really felt like this was a new group of Power Rangers, knowledgable that there's previous Power Rangers, and this is their story.

With Jungle Fury, that all changed. It was like a mini-self-contained Universe. And the same for RPM (which we later learn IS a self-contained Universe). And Samurai, while it has Bulk and mentions of Skull, has shown absolutely no relation to previous years. Power Rangers is now feeling like Super Sentai in the sense that every series is its own self-contained series ... and I think that's a shame for Power Rangers, because they just can't pull off the awesomeness that Sentai and Kamen Rider do.

[ComicGuy89]

I think the biggest thing I like better about Super Sentai compared to Power Rangers was the polish the series alway had. This is mostly due to a lack of spliced footage, which make episodes seem discontinuous and inconsistent at times.

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Originally Posted by Kickback

I think the thing Power Rangers had going for it was the fact that it was all in one contained Universe - you didn't have to have a movie to get a team-up. At any point, Jason, Tommy, Adam, etc., could show up to help the new group of Power Rangers. There's always nods back to previous seasons ... you just really felt like this was a new group of Power Rangers, knowledgable that there's previous Power Rangers, and this is their story.

With Jungle Fury, that all changed. It was like a mini-self-contained Universe. And the same for RPM (which we later learn IS a self-contained Universe). And Samurai, while it has Bulk and mentions of Skull, has shown absolutely no relation to previous years. Power Rangers is now feeling like Super Sentai in the sense that every series is its own self-contained series ... and I think that's a shame for Power Rangers, because they just can't pull off the awesomeness that Sentai and Kamen Rider do.

The one universe idea was interesting, but it also brought on a whole slew of plot holes with the less-than satisfying attempts at keeping continuity. I think even with Jungle Fury, it's still all part of the same universe, RJ did mention the Morphing Grid, and based on Theo's comments it was already pretty clear that Power Rangers have existed before in Jungle Fury. RPM was the first one to explicitly ignore previous canon.

I wonder if Gokaiger created a continuous universe? It may not be in-canon with the previous seasons, but it certainly created a universe with every Sentai team in existence and it remains to be seen if Go-busters takes place there.

[Kagezuno]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

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.

I remember about that time seeing ranger figures with bikes from Fiveman . . .I think they were called "Global Rangers" or something.