mighty morphin power rangers

mxyzptlk · 07-10-2001, 11:21 PM

did any one else hear watch the original power ranger show it was so cool. i was just lookin at my old toys and i came across the green rangers zord and it was so cool. i went and put bateries in it and it rocked. wanna know what i hate though is the new episode of power rangers they shoulda canceled it after the original series.

**RockItShipper** · 07-10-2001, 11:32 PM

I've got to say that a recent report of 2 male Sentai from the Japanese series faking a wedding sure sounds interesting.

**James Harvey** · 07-11-2001, 12:21 AM

From day one I found the show extremely unwatchable and idiotic. It was so...bad. FOX actually had some good stuff on the net at that time, but this series brought it all down.

**RockItShipper** · 07-11-2001, 12:41 AM

Originally posted by DickGrayson
From day one I found the show extremely unwatchable and idiotic. It was so...bad. FOX actually had some good stuff on the net at that time, but this series brought it all down.

I tried watching it during the first season, but I couldn't watch more than 10 minutes of it. I'm somewhat curious about the Sentai show, but I don't want to end up having 4 eps of another show I don't like. Yugi-Oh might get jealous.

mxyzptlk · 07-11-2001, 01:43 AM

hey you guys gotta rememmber you were 14 or so when this show came out. and i was 6 or 7. this was the show for my time period. everybody faught over who got to be red or green ranger on my play ground. and you fought over who got to be heman. i mean i liked heman but i only saw reruns of it.

**don Jaime** · 07-11-2001, 08:17 AM

Dude, I didn't like Masters of the Universe, either.

I first remember seeing it in a restaurant in Plano, Texas, and was glad it was too loud to hear how bad it was. MMPR managed to maintain its level of quality over the years, too. I'm amazed its still on; I'd have thought Fox would have killed it to make room for something new.

There is one good thing I can say: it doesn't have a sentient dog. I always wanted to bash in the TV when a promo for the MMPR knockoff VR with the "Ew, brutal!" hound came on. I feel the same way about the Borged-up Chihuahua on the MMPR knockoff Los Luchadores. Ick. I think you can guess my reaction to the Cats and Dogs ads from this....

**The Mad Hatter** · 07-11-2001, 09:47 AM

Ah, the nostalgia of youth. I remember enjoying He-Man back when I was a kid, I got a huge kick out of it. Then, two years ago, I went back and watched some of it... and discovered that the cartoon was horrible. It's true, kids have strange tastes. I would have probably been a huge Power Rangers fan if it first came out when I was, say, five.

**Flying Grayson** · 07-11-2001, 11:36 AM

Originally posted by mxyzptlk
hey you guys gotta rememmber you were 14 or so when this show came out. and i was 6 or 7. this was the show for my time period. everybody faught over who got to be red or green ranger on my play ground. and you fought over who got to be heman. i mean i liked heman but i only saw reruns of it.

I was about the same age and have often commented that the first season seamed better than the others. I have never seen He-Man before thought. My father strictly outlawed that show before I was even born. I feel sad now.

mxyzptlk · 07-11-2001, 03:56 PM

it was not directed at one certain person i just wanted to say that it was the show kids loved when i wanted reminess.

**Mr. Eye** · 07-11-2001, 06:34 PM

I used to like MMPR, when it first came out. But it got old, real fast.......

Mr. Eye

NewMaxFranklin · 07-11-2001, 06:54 PM

I was in the sixth grade during the first season and I remember the show being huge. It was probably extra huge in Hawaii, because of the strong anime fan base there. Though it wasn't my thing at first, I watched it religiously fron the second half of the first season into the second half of the second season.

I was also a fan of Transformers, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Ghostbusters and He Man. I remember Ghostbusters and Thundercats, but I can only assume I watched Transformers and Silverhawks, because of the old bed sheets, school folders, and small underpants my mom has. (Oh, like you don't have tiny cartoon underpants.)

**James Harvey** · 07-11-2001, 09:40 PM

I had the chance to watch THUNDERCTAS for the first time in ages, and that show reeked. Bad voice casting, an overuse of the same footage, and that damn cat sidekick that I wanna to kick every second it was on screen. Althought VOLTRON has held the test of time for me. I can remember being around 10 or so when MMPR came on, and just immensly disliked it. It was so...blah. I remember hearing how popular it was, I thought I was the only person who hated it.

mxyzptlk · 07-12-2001, 01:06 AM

hey does anybody remmember the first power rangers movie it was pretty cool.

**The Mad Hatter** · 07-12-2001, 09:29 AM

A couple of friends and I were sophomores in college when the movie came out. We're a goofy sort, so we went to go see it at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday when NOBODY was there, and we proceeded to make loud, Mystery Science Theater 3000-esque sarcastic comments through the whole thing. It was wonderful.

**Nightflower** · 07-12-2001, 11:07 AM

I first saw Power Rangers when I was ten as well.....didn't like it. My brother, however, LOVED it, and it became a staple in our household -_-. It's the same thing over and over again, which is not something I mind if it's something I like. But they were just so goofy, and the acting was terrible, and so...many....bright...colors...*hisses* Plus for some reason, it made kids really violent....

**RockItShipper** · 07-12-2001, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by Nightflower
I first saw Power Rangers when I was ten as well.....didn't like it. My brother, however, LOVED it, and it became a staple in our household -_-. It's the same thing over and over again, which is not something I mind if it's something I like. But they were just so goofy, and the acting was terrible, and so...many....bright...colors...*hisses* Plus for some reason, it made kids really violent....

Any of you guys see this?

http://pages.prodigy.com/crossover/fake4.htm

**DR. BELCH** · 07-12-2001, 01:17 PM

I first saw them as characters on the cult classic Night Flight, and there they were laughably bad--they were a parody of Japanese monster movies complete with weird dubbed voices (the yellow one was a Texan with an accent thicker than country gravy). But when they were brought to Fox, the "laughably" part ceased--it was twice as much time given to half as much talent, like a one-note Saturday Night Live sketch brought to the big screen. My brothers liked it, though; me, I couldn't get past the exaggerated flipping and hand movements, the cheesy rubber monsters, the way the city was trashed (with no complains from the city government or the citizens!) in every ep, or Rita Repulsa's bore-through-steel voice. Lord Zedd's design was cool for about ten minutes, but he fast became boring and just a whiny cliche. At least the Pink Ranger was pretty (and, as I saw on Felicity, she can do drama passably). Of course MMPR was ten times better than V.D--oops, I mean V.R.--Troopers, or the abortion with the clown genie who looked like Elvis meets The Joker.

**Nightflower** · 07-12-2001, 01:20 PM

How many knock-offs were made (Besides "offspring" of the original Power Rangers)? I only remember two- VR. Troopers and Superhuman Samarai Cyber Squad (Pity the man who had to come up with a theme song for that!)

**langden alger** · 07-12-2001, 01:32 PM

"I mean V.R.--Troopers, or the abortion with the clown genie who looked like Elvis meets The Joker"

if your talking about "flabber" or whatever the heck his name was from the incomprehenisbly annoying "big bad beetleborgs" show, i always though he looked like the illegitimate son of jay leno and smurfette.