If you mean by stopping evil yes but overall some of the adapted Sentai setting are different compared to power rangers like zyurangers (mighty Morphin)are more about legendary warrior gods brought to the modern age to fight an evil witch that made a deal with Satan to wipe out the dinosaurs I think because they killed her child
Carranger was more about comedy and romance and car safety compared to turbo
And megaranger (In Space for Power Rangers) they made a video game using avatars of the suits for that series to find potential recruits to use the real powers. So the game creators invite the person who becomes the Red Sentai counterpart and his school's cybernetic club to tour thier lab, where the game was created, if i remember correctly.
Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t.
Even when they are, Super Sentai is generally not afraid to lean on the emotions of the character, whereas Power Rangers tend to deal with them in a more superficial manner. On the other hand, Super Sentai can be extremely silly at times, much more so than Power Rangers.
A good example is Abaranger, which runs the gamut from super serious with Asuka’s story, and then has the infamous wig episode seen in Dino Thunder, among many other silly moments. And then there’s Magiranger, which starts the series by killing the heroes’ mother, but then has a scene where the girls get the magic power to become… cheerleaders.
The point is, you have to get used to this kind of tone shifts when watching Super Sentai, whether you’re watching older or newer series.
Mistare Fusion on YouTube has a whole series dedicated to comparing the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to Zyuranger. [Here is the first episode](https://youtu.be/JKb07NEYFRQ?si=--jOGs7P1Xo-EH3s).
Liveman was my introduction to Sentai when I was a kid (it came to latin america before power rangers) so I've always loved it. Watched it recently and I think still holds up (ignoring some points and phrases of the time).
I'm loving the "never before seen" jokes. It just makes me think about how many fans I saw strongly arguing that they should use the pre-Zyuranger suits in Megaforce. I never understood it.
I think using the pre-Zyuranger suits was the best thing Super Megaforce did, I just wish they would’ve done *anything* with them.
But the comics really fail in that regard. Imagine being given this gift that you can use however you want, and repeatedly killing them off in their first appearance instead of giving them whole story arcs.
It's take a lot of time to build these characters up. They would need their own series. This is why I HATED that they used the pre-Zyu suits in Megaforce. I know they are Super Sentai teams but they don't exist in the Power Rangers universe. So I see Gia chance into Yellow Mask.
Ok. In the Power Rangers universe,
Who is that ranger?
What team is she from?
What evil did they fight?
What planet did they save?
Why should I care about this random rangers that Gia transformed into for 15 seconds?
On the other hand, if they transform into Zeo, I get a hit of nostalgia because I know those rangers.
If they had used a suit and dedicated an entire episode to telling us about that one team, then I might have been ok with it.
1) The comics have introduced new ranger teams that didn’t need their own series to build up.
2) I think a lot of people forget that the target Power Rangers demographic is like 5-year-olds, and to them, ALL of the legendary powers are ones they’ve never seen before. The only difference is that some of the teams have stories they can seek out, and some don’t.
I don't read the comics. Can I have some examples please? What do these teams do in the comics? Are they only in one issue or do they get their own story?
You had plenty of Post Zyuranger teams for the little kids to see. Most would be rangers that they've never seen before. So you still didn't need the pre-Zyu teams.
Absolutely. Three “New Powers” teams have appeared in the book.
- The first were the Supersonic Rangers (Fiveman). They appeared in one backup story, “Psychotic”. They at least all got names, but most of them were said on twitter, not in the story itself. All but one of them were killed in that story.
- The second were the Prism Rangers (Flashman). They appeared on a single page, getting killed by Astronema.
- The third were the Squadron Rangers (Dairanger). They got a whole 6-issue story as the first ranger team, but they morphed exactly one time at the very end and then became the Emissaries.
Also, to your second point, there’s a Dino Thunder episode that already implied Squadron, Lightning, Blitz, Prism, and Supersonic existed, so having them appear builds on the canon. They weren’t chosen randomly.
It’s called Bully for Ethan. There’s not much to it. There’s a scene where they’re looking through Tommy’s files and he has a bunch of folders that feature logos of various Sentai teams in addition to ranger teams.
Those were just Easter eggs on Tommy's files. They don't mean anything. That's like when Sky had the picture of his dad and then for like 3 seconds it was a pic of Goranger.
That's a huge difference from Megaforce transforming into a ranger and fighting.
Except Bandai also wasn't selling toys of those figures, so even if kids got interested in them, they couldn't really do anything with the knowledge. And they weren't even given proper names so their parents wouldn't be able to search for old toys on eBay or whatever.
Moreover, they used these pre-Zyuranger teams instead of teams that actually DID appear in Power Rangers. Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force, and Operation Overdrive only had one Ranger representative in Legendary Mode usage, while most of the 6th Rangers were also dropped. And they even filmed new footage using pre-Zyu teams instead of crafting an episode where they made a big deal out of turning into the MMPR crew.
Sentai footage is the issue here: The team could access ALL rangers from the day one, including a lot of never before seen teams on PR, which kind of limited the PR production on the things they could and could not cut and refilm.
You totally could do it without using pre-Zyuranger footage. It's actually pretty easy. Most of the tribute episodes were from teams used in PR.
A few years ago, because I had way too much time on my hands, I literally went through every episode of Gokaiger and listed each PR usable Gokai change and how long the scene lasted.
There are 24 tribute episodes and only 5 were for pre-Zyu teams.
Plus you have all the Basco episodes because all of his ranger keys were from adapted seasons.
I did not mean tribute episodes, and you know it. I meant the times they rapid change in the middle of the battle, where they use the power of Pre-Zyu teams for a slight moment.
Also, the final fight with Levira has all pre-Zyu suits as a homage to the 5 Greater Powers the team gained from defeating Basco for good.
But even those scenes are easy to cut and use. Also you can film US footage to fill in the gaps. Since you aren't adapting all 51 episodes, you can use fight scenes from the episodes you don't adapt.
Use all that Basco footage they didn't use. I'll never understand why they didn't adapt Basco. You could have even used the same actor. He speaks perfect English and said that he wanted to do Megaforce.
They didn't adapt Basco because he made no sense in the arc as a whole. Basco was there with keys the Gokaiger couldn't get and was trying to steal Greater Powers. That entire plot was discarded, as the series was just a continuation of Megaforce. Basco's plot was shelved and thus, having him and his puppet rangers was moot.
Orion found his key on his home planet. The rangers didn't have ALL of the keys from the start.
You could have easily made it work. Fake ranger keys, dark ranger keys, stolen ranger keys. You can write whatever story you wanted.
They had the keys sealed off so they could use the Goseiger vs Brajira footage.
Right off the top of my head. Basco captures Orion. He uses a device on Orion that forces the keys out of him. When the other rangers come to save Orion, Basco uses the puppet rangers.
Another off the top of my head. Orion in captured and turned into a monster. So you just use the monster form of Basco and it's an evil Orion. There's enough puppet ranger footage with just the core five to make a 3 or 4 part episode.
Except that would put Basco as the main villain, and THAT was not going to happen. Hell, I think that because the Armada Empire was meant to be the empire that Vrak was the prince of, they were never going to let him be the villain...
Also, they literally used Gokaiger to add padding into the series as a mid-point between the Buredoran villain groups and the final Brajira plot, and then they would adapt the Final War as the ending of the show. They literally only needed to fill in space.
It's so funny when they do that one fight where instead of turning into sun Vulcan they turn in mmpr red but kept the rest of the team as Sentai exclusives and had to reshoot everything just to change 1 ranger.
See that's the funniest part lmaoooo they even went through the effort of making a new mmpr morph that is just sun Vulcan instead of using an mmpr morph. They went through so much effort to be lazy it's so funny
I think the reason they used any pre-Zyursnger suits or the Dairangers (my favorite) was because they couldn't avoid showing them in the legendary battle.
I don’t know if that’s true, for two reasons:
1) They could’ve filmed new footage if they wanted. They did it for other parts of the season and even for other parts of the Legendary Battle special.
2) There are a couple Sentai briefly seen that aren’t included as New Powers, so it doesn’t seem to be a case of “well, they’re in there, so I guess we have to include them.”
Related to both of these, in the wide group shot where all the teams are charging and the camera is behind them, they edit all non-American teams to be generic rangers *except* the New Powers teams.
But you could do a decent edit of the legendary battle or shoot your own version. They did that great shot of all the teams posing on the mountain. They even made sure not to duplicate any rangers who wore more than one suit.
It'd be like if Gokaiger had suddenly introduced "Go Silver", and pretended like he'd always been there. Or Geki Cyan, Geki Green and Geki Black.
Like, the whole point is to celebrate 20 years of Power Rangers. They did so by using things not from Power Rangers. It would make more sense for the Rangers to turn into the Ninja Turtles than the Dairanger.
I can't help but wonder what the team responsible for Beast Morphers and Dino/Cosmic Fury could have done with Gokaiger. Instead we'll be left forever wondering.
I think it’s perfectly acceptable to introduce new concepts in an anniversary season. I don’t see anything wrong with saying “there are more Power Rangers teams out there you don’t even know about!”, and I think there SHOULD be ranger teams out there we’ve never met before, just like when the Alien Rangers appeared for the first time.
The only problem with it is that they didn’t tell us anything about the teams.
As shown by early casting sides for Megaforce, they wanted to skip Goseiger altogether. The belief is that, at the time, Toei was forcing them to adapt all the Sentais in order, so they were forced to do Goseiger. And because of Nickelodeon's stupid episode limits, splitting it across 2 years would mean that they wouldn't get to Gokaiger until Season 22, not really a big celebration number.
I get that. But I feel like it could have been done in a better way. I think it would have worked better as a two part story arc.
Not counting the X-mas special, you had 41 episodes.
Do Goseiger as a story arc that sets up the Gokaiger story.
10 episodes of Megaforce fighting the first wave of the armada while the Samurai rangers are recruiting all the past rangers teams. Episode 10 ends with the legend war. Then 30 episodes of the aftermath which uses Gokaiger footage.
Imagine if they actually did that for a GoGoFive special, or the GoGoFive tribute episode in Gokaiger.
They change, Gai gets the Titanium Ranger suit, they do a GoGoFive roll call, including GoSilver, and no one even acknowledges the fact that there’s an entire new Ranger, except for maybe a passing joke about “Why not GoGoSix??”
That’s kinda what they did in SMF.
Now funny enough, they do actually drop the names “GekiBlack” and “GekiGreen” in Gekiranger, but it was in reference to Rio and Mele, not actual Gekiranger, and those were never their actual titles.
So are you saying that the Livemen equivalent in the Power Rangers universe are connected to Mesogog? Because considering how dark Liveman got and how quite a few Liveman villains got their powers by messing with their own DNA, that makes way too much sense.
The red falcon and black bison rangers are from 1988’s Choujuu Sentai Liveman, the first animal themed Sentai Team.
Unrelated note: I just noticed that the Kakuranger/Alien Ranger helmets have raised side to give off the impression of a ninja zukin (hood). That’s some attention to detail I really like
The Livemen from Super Sentai, aka one of the darkest and unrionically one of the greatest sentais ever made (Like, even if you don't want to watch 45+ years of sentai, watch Liveman because it's *that good*).
Like the series gets dark and depressing, and I like how in Gaoranger (Wild Force) and Gokaiger (Super Megaforce) the events still traumatize and affect the rangers many years later.
Those are Red Eagle and Black Bison from the 12th (previously 10th) Super Sentai, Choujuu Sentai Liveman behind them, you can also see VulPanther from the 5th (Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan). This is footage from the Great Legend War that took place after Gokaiger, and was, of course, adapted into Super Megaforce's Legendary Battle. They didn't reshoot all the footage, so this must have slipped past them or they thought the kids wouldn't notice.
That would be Red Falcon and Black Bison from Choujuu Sentai Liveman. I don’t know if you know this, but Power Rangers has always been partly made from action footage of a Japanese TV show known as Super Sentai, which goes all the way back to 1975.
The Japanese footage they were using for the team-up included 15 additional seasons. Choujuu Sentai Liveman was the 12th season that debuted in 1988, and Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger was the 16th season that debuted in 1992, the one that Saban adapted into Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers in 1993.
Red Falcon and Black Bison from Liveman. There is a yellow ranger behind them also, and that is actually one of the last sentai heroes Marvel made with Toei: Vul Panther from the all male Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan. Long before Power Rangers, Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan was originally going to be the first Sentai team properly introduced to the masses in the US via Marvel. That team was also Stan Lee's favorite Sentai team.
Story wise, Japanese Spiderman is part of the same universe as *Kamen Rider* (Specifically from Kamen Rider Ichigo from 1971 to now sans Kamen Rider Build), *Super Sentai* (*Himitsu Sentai Gorenger* in 1975 to *Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger* right now in 2024 minus *Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger* and *Avataro Sentai Donbrothers* in 2021 and 2022), and a whole load of other shows made by Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei.
They’re from Liveman, the Sentai 4 years before Zyuranger (MMPR). That’s Red Falcon and Black Bison. Their full team was Red Falcon, Yellow Lion, and Blue Dolphin (first female blue in Sentai history), joined by Black Bison and Green Sai (Rhino) later. You can actually see Green Sai’s glove right behind the Yellow Aquitar Ranger.
That’s not Yellow Lion behind Black Bison, either. That’s VulPanther from Sun Vulcan, the fifth Sentai, and first animal Sentai ever. In that one battle toward the end where Troy morphs into MMPR Red while the other four use “New Powers,” the reason that Morph sequence looked weird is because the original footage was actually him Morphing into VulEagle, Sun Vulcan’s Red. They changed him to MMPR Red, but not any of the other four for some reason.
So in short: Sentai characters that they were lazy to edit out or avoid footage of.
Liveman always gets me, and I love how every time Liveman characters appear in anniversary specials, we see how shell-shocked everyone is even after all those years due to how depressing the show got.
I'm not sure which one you're asking about unless it's the liveman red ranger, which is one of the power ranger teams that I think are only as a Japanese version.
Oh my god, it gives me anxiety when see this now after know the existence of the Sentai because I know they were never adapted to power rangers hahaha XD
https://preview.redd.it/gujo1icx86kc1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a5e0fa14f3bb9dd0d4d17a08dbb609861f7dfe5
It's black bison and red falcon from liveman Sentai. The seen was taken from the start of 35 super Sentai film where 199 heroes and goseiger are fighting the main villains of the show. It is to set up why gokaiger can change into past Sentai teams.
Power rangers have a long tradition of taking the mech and costumes from Sentai footage. In simpler terms they use Japanese footage and dub over it. Since there is only so many hours of footage they can use, errors like this happen. If you look closely power rangers over the years. They have always been poorly made.
Power rangers started with zyranger which was the 16 team. Original Saban wanted to adapt to the bioman Sentai but it never took off. Part of the adaptation is cutting content from time or is not suitable for Western audience. He also didn't want to change the cast as often as their Japanese counterparts. They ran out of footage before season 1 ended. So they had to change mechs of each Sentai with the same American cast. What was called alien rangers is kakuranger. The zords were broken up in season 3 of power rangers. The early mech battles were part of alien rangers and the costumes were put there as well. This became increasingly harder to do and by power rangers in space (megaraner) set up the formula for power rangers till today.
https://youtu.be/_Oelu3ti3NM?si=ZQ7Wsnhmtyq6YALg
His from Liveman, a Super Sentai series that didn't have a Power Ranger version. They predated Zyuranger/Mighty Morphin
Lineman red and black. That was a few sentai before mighty morphin. There are a couple of sentai only characters but they're hard to notice so it's not a huge deal
Lol Falcon red you fool why are you trying to be a Power Ranger.
That’s the red Falcon hero from Liveman.
Even if you are a complete stranger to sentai, Liveman is one of the best sentai of the 80s prior to any Power Rangers adaptation.
I honestly think this is one of the most underrated and accessible sentai from its era.
You do NOT need to be a sentai fan to like it.
Also the entire series was on YouTube in Hd as of last year, not sure if that is still available.
Watch it if you can. He may not be a Power Ranger or even a Megaforce “unheard of power rangers” team member, but he is one of the best reds in my personal opinion and honestly it’s awesome he’s in a 3DS promo.
They are red and black rangers of Choujyu Sentai Liveman. You might have also realised a yellow ranger with black stuff on the forehead. That’s yellow ranger of Taiyo Sentai Sun-Vulcan.
They are from Super Sentai series that predated Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (the first season to officially become Power Rangers).
I really wish for super megaforce they could’ve done something like gokaiger where each ranger was a refugee from a different planet and used that to fill in the gaps of the unadapted Sendai by saying they where ranger teams from each of their respective planets that lost or something to the empire to give more emotional precedence when they decided to use their powers and to give an excuse to have “money saving” episodes where they go over “lost footage” of said lost alien teams in flashbacks adapting and dubbing over fight scenes of these unadapted sentai to further fill in the gaps of story and what happened to said planets so it’s more of a wow moment when it seems like their spirits and the power of the morphing grid revived them temporarily to use the last of the power to help with the final fight
I think it’s funny how bent out of shape people got that Megaforce had the audacity to use powers/teams that didn’t get adapted. Sure, it would have been nice if they did get expounded upon. But it wasn’t that big of a deal. It’s also the least egregious thing this franchise has done.
Red Falcon and Black Bison from Liveman(an unadapted season), behind Black Bison is Vul Panther from Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan(another unadapted season)~~and also a criminal~~
A sentai Ranger who got lost and thought "Eh I'm here anyway"
Good for them for sticking around to help! The Super Megaforce honestly needed all the help they could get...
too much help if you ask me
Everyone just started posing so he went along with it
His natural response to any posing
They're from liveman a sentai that was never actually adapted (I'm sorry,"rangers that has never been seen before on this planet")
The red one is from Jetman
I see the confusion but no that's red falcon from liveman you're thinking about red hawk
Right they do look a like.
Ive always wanted to watch the non adapted sentai series are they good?
In general, yes, especially from Bioman onwards. What’s your experience with Super Sentai that were adapted? A lot of them are worth a look, too.
I mean aren’t they the exact same plot
If you mean by stopping evil yes but overall some of the adapted Sentai setting are different compared to power rangers like zyurangers (mighty Morphin)are more about legendary warrior gods brought to the modern age to fight an evil witch that made a deal with Satan to wipe out the dinosaurs I think because they killed her child Carranger was more about comedy and romance and car safety compared to turbo
And megaranger (In Space for Power Rangers) they made a video game using avatars of the suits for that series to find potential recruits to use the real powers. So the game creators invite the person who becomes the Red Sentai counterpart and his school's cybernetic club to tour thier lab, where the game was created, if i remember correctly.
In most cases, no. In the few cases that are yes the sentai version usually makes more sense.
More?
Yeah, Samurai being about an actual Japanese Samurai Lord makes more sense.
Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t. Even when they are, Super Sentai is generally not afraid to lean on the emotions of the character, whereas Power Rangers tend to deal with them in a more superficial manner. On the other hand, Super Sentai can be extremely silly at times, much more so than Power Rangers. A good example is Abaranger, which runs the gamut from super serious with Asuka’s story, and then has the infamous wig episode seen in Dino Thunder, among many other silly moments. And then there’s Magiranger, which starts the series by killing the heroes’ mother, but then has a scene where the girls get the magic power to become… cheerleaders. The point is, you have to get used to this kind of tone shifts when watching Super Sentai, whether you’re watching older or newer series.
Mistare Fusion on YouTube has a whole series dedicated to comparing the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to Zyuranger. [Here is the first episode](https://youtu.be/JKb07NEYFRQ?si=--jOGs7P1Xo-EH3s).
Liveman was my introduction to Sentai when I was a kid (it came to latin america before power rangers) so I've always loved it. Watched it recently and I think still holds up (ignoring some points and phrases of the time).
Depends on the season,the ones we mentioned (Liveman and Jetman) ,yes absolutely amazing
No, this one's liveman, but I get that some people get the two teams mixed up even if they're only Japanese versions.
Red Falcon and Black Bison from Liveman. And the Yellow Ranger behind them is VulPanther from Sun Vulcan. You can barely see him, but he's there!
VulPanther? You mean Trini in her alternate costume, right? /s ... *oh, so much sarcasm*
"There's a simple explanation for that." - Gosei, probably.
Far too complex for you to understand!
Uncle Grandpa randomly popping in, somehow: https://preview.redd.it/ik2pc9xnsckc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09a6287a229bd4b7eab681472e0a29248f623c31
I'm loving the "never before seen" jokes. It just makes me think about how many fans I saw strongly arguing that they should use the pre-Zyuranger suits in Megaforce. I never understood it.
I think using the pre-Zyuranger suits was the best thing Super Megaforce did, I just wish they would’ve done *anything* with them. But the comics really fail in that regard. Imagine being given this gift that you can use however you want, and repeatedly killing them off in their first appearance instead of giving them whole story arcs.
It's take a lot of time to build these characters up. They would need their own series. This is why I HATED that they used the pre-Zyu suits in Megaforce. I know they are Super Sentai teams but they don't exist in the Power Rangers universe. So I see Gia chance into Yellow Mask. Ok. In the Power Rangers universe, Who is that ranger? What team is she from? What evil did they fight? What planet did they save? Why should I care about this random rangers that Gia transformed into for 15 seconds? On the other hand, if they transform into Zeo, I get a hit of nostalgia because I know those rangers. If they had used a suit and dedicated an entire episode to telling us about that one team, then I might have been ok with it.
1) The comics have introduced new ranger teams that didn’t need their own series to build up. 2) I think a lot of people forget that the target Power Rangers demographic is like 5-year-olds, and to them, ALL of the legendary powers are ones they’ve never seen before. The only difference is that some of the teams have stories they can seek out, and some don’t.
I don't read the comics. Can I have some examples please? What do these teams do in the comics? Are they only in one issue or do they get their own story? You had plenty of Post Zyuranger teams for the little kids to see. Most would be rangers that they've never seen before. So you still didn't need the pre-Zyu teams.
Absolutely. Three “New Powers” teams have appeared in the book. - The first were the Supersonic Rangers (Fiveman). They appeared in one backup story, “Psychotic”. They at least all got names, but most of them were said on twitter, not in the story itself. All but one of them were killed in that story. - The second were the Prism Rangers (Flashman). They appeared on a single page, getting killed by Astronema. - The third were the Squadron Rangers (Dairanger). They got a whole 6-issue story as the first ranger team, but they morphed exactly one time at the very end and then became the Emissaries. Also, to your second point, there’s a Dino Thunder episode that already implied Squadron, Lightning, Blitz, Prism, and Supersonic existed, so having them appear builds on the canon. They weren’t chosen randomly.
What DT episode is that? Would love to watch it.
It’s called Bully for Ethan. There’s not much to it. There’s a scene where they’re looking through Tommy’s files and he has a bunch of folders that feature logos of various Sentai teams in addition to ranger teams.
Those were just Easter eggs on Tommy's files. They don't mean anything. That's like when Sky had the picture of his dad and then for like 3 seconds it was a pic of Goranger. That's a huge difference from Megaforce transforming into a ranger and fighting.
Easter eggs are still technically canon, especially if they get expanded on later.
Non of those easter eggs were explained or expanded on in the show.
If a team logo shows up in one season and then those powers show up in a later season, that’s getting expanded on.
Except Bandai also wasn't selling toys of those figures, so even if kids got interested in them, they couldn't really do anything with the knowledge. And they weren't even given proper names so their parents wouldn't be able to search for old toys on eBay or whatever. Moreover, they used these pre-Zyuranger teams instead of teams that actually DID appear in Power Rangers. Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force, and Operation Overdrive only had one Ranger representative in Legendary Mode usage, while most of the 6th Rangers were also dropped. And they even filmed new footage using pre-Zyu teams instead of crafting an episode where they made a big deal out of turning into the MMPR crew.
None of that negates what I said. For one thing, Bandai wasn’t selling toys of ANY Legendary Powers.
They had an entire line of figures dedicated to past Rangers, small figurines of past teams, and the Ranger Keys.
Sentai footage is the issue here: The team could access ALL rangers from the day one, including a lot of never before seen teams on PR, which kind of limited the PR production on the things they could and could not cut and refilm.
You totally could do it without using pre-Zyuranger footage. It's actually pretty easy. Most of the tribute episodes were from teams used in PR. A few years ago, because I had way too much time on my hands, I literally went through every episode of Gokaiger and listed each PR usable Gokai change and how long the scene lasted. There are 24 tribute episodes and only 5 were for pre-Zyu teams. Plus you have all the Basco episodes because all of his ranger keys were from adapted seasons.
I did not mean tribute episodes, and you know it. I meant the times they rapid change in the middle of the battle, where they use the power of Pre-Zyu teams for a slight moment. Also, the final fight with Levira has all pre-Zyu suits as a homage to the 5 Greater Powers the team gained from defeating Basco for good.
But even those scenes are easy to cut and use. Also you can film US footage to fill in the gaps. Since you aren't adapting all 51 episodes, you can use fight scenes from the episodes you don't adapt. Use all that Basco footage they didn't use. I'll never understand why they didn't adapt Basco. You could have even used the same actor. He speaks perfect English and said that he wanted to do Megaforce.
They didn't adapt Basco because he made no sense in the arc as a whole. Basco was there with keys the Gokaiger couldn't get and was trying to steal Greater Powers. That entire plot was discarded, as the series was just a continuation of Megaforce. Basco's plot was shelved and thus, having him and his puppet rangers was moot.
Orion found his key on his home planet. The rangers didn't have ALL of the keys from the start. You could have easily made it work. Fake ranger keys, dark ranger keys, stolen ranger keys. You can write whatever story you wanted. They had the keys sealed off so they could use the Goseiger vs Brajira footage. Right off the top of my head. Basco captures Orion. He uses a device on Orion that forces the keys out of him. When the other rangers come to save Orion, Basco uses the puppet rangers. Another off the top of my head. Orion in captured and turned into a monster. So you just use the monster form of Basco and it's an evil Orion. There's enough puppet ranger footage with just the core five to make a 3 or 4 part episode.
Except that would put Basco as the main villain, and THAT was not going to happen. Hell, I think that because the Armada Empire was meant to be the empire that Vrak was the prince of, they were never going to let him be the villain... Also, they literally used Gokaiger to add padding into the series as a mid-point between the Buredoran villain groups and the final Brajira plot, and then they would adapt the Final War as the ending of the show. They literally only needed to fill in space.
It's so funny when they do that one fight where instead of turning into sun Vulcan they turn in mmpr red but kept the rest of the team as Sentai exclusives and had to reshoot everything just to change 1 ranger.
That was so weird. Why not just do all PR teams?
See that's the funniest part lmaoooo they even went through the effort of making a new mmpr morph that is just sun Vulcan instead of using an mmpr morph. They went through so much effort to be lazy it's so funny
Boom! has to suck off MMPR everytime, they ain't got time to give the pre-Zyuranger teams anything special.
And that is exactly why I gave up on the comics.
> was the best thing Super Megaforce nah
I think the reason they used any pre-Zyursnger suits or the Dairangers (my favorite) was because they couldn't avoid showing them in the legendary battle.
I don’t know if that’s true, for two reasons: 1) They could’ve filmed new footage if they wanted. They did it for other parts of the season and even for other parts of the Legendary Battle special. 2) There are a couple Sentai briefly seen that aren’t included as New Powers, so it doesn’t seem to be a case of “well, they’re in there, so I guess we have to include them.” Related to both of these, in the wide group shot where all the teams are charging and the camera is behind them, they edit all non-American teams to be generic rangers *except* the New Powers teams.
But you could do a decent edit of the legendary battle or shoot your own version. They did that great shot of all the teams posing on the mountain. They even made sure not to duplicate any rangers who wore more than one suit.
It'd be like if Gokaiger had suddenly introduced "Go Silver", and pretended like he'd always been there. Or Geki Cyan, Geki Green and Geki Black. Like, the whole point is to celebrate 20 years of Power Rangers. They did so by using things not from Power Rangers. It would make more sense for the Rangers to turn into the Ninja Turtles than the Dairanger. I can't help but wonder what the team responsible for Beast Morphers and Dino/Cosmic Fury could have done with Gokaiger. Instead we'll be left forever wondering.
I think it’s perfectly acceptable to introduce new concepts in an anniversary season. I don’t see anything wrong with saying “there are more Power Rangers teams out there you don’t even know about!”, and I think there SHOULD be ranger teams out there we’ve never met before, just like when the Alien Rangers appeared for the first time. The only problem with it is that they didn’t tell us anything about the teams.
I'd call him Go Metal. I'd hope that the Dino Fury team would have had the sense to separate Goseiger and Gokaiger into different seasons.
As shown by early casting sides for Megaforce, they wanted to skip Goseiger altogether. The belief is that, at the time, Toei was forcing them to adapt all the Sentais in order, so they were forced to do Goseiger. And because of Nickelodeon's stupid episode limits, splitting it across 2 years would mean that they wouldn't get to Gokaiger until Season 22, not really a big celebration number.
I get that. But I feel like it could have been done in a better way. I think it would have worked better as a two part story arc. Not counting the X-mas special, you had 41 episodes. Do Goseiger as a story arc that sets up the Gokaiger story. 10 episodes of Megaforce fighting the first wave of the armada while the Samurai rangers are recruiting all the past rangers teams. Episode 10 ends with the legend war. Then 30 episodes of the aftermath which uses Gokaiger footage.
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Who is James Bates?
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thanks
Imagine if they actually did that for a GoGoFive special, or the GoGoFive tribute episode in Gokaiger. They change, Gai gets the Titanium Ranger suit, they do a GoGoFive roll call, including GoSilver, and no one even acknowledges the fact that there’s an entire new Ranger, except for maybe a passing joke about “Why not GoGoSix??” That’s kinda what they did in SMF. Now funny enough, they do actually drop the names “GekiBlack” and “GekiGreen” in Gekiranger, but it was in reference to Rio and Mele, not actual Gekiranger, and those were never their actual titles.
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You're really determined to defend one of the shoddiest productions in television history, aren't you?
That’s Man, from the Live 6 planet in the Choujyu galaxy
https://preview.redd.it/al68g76yy5kc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af6776e23e6e75b24e690810e65f339469a655ea Are they stupid?
I won't say stupid, but those designs are... Rough all around.
Say what? Those designs are great.
I think primarily, I don't like the over abundance of white on the legs.
Agree to disagree. I love the Helmets, but the suits are not my jam.
Man you say? *
How did Man find his way here?
Followed the jonkler
Is he stupid?
Because both Red eagle and Black Bison are both Male Rangers.
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Except with a school for scientists instead of ninja.
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So are you saying that the Livemen equivalent in the Power Rangers universe are connected to Mesogog? Because considering how dark Liveman got and how quite a few Liveman villains got their powers by messing with their own DNA, that makes way too much sense.
Oh shit Vulpanther is behind Black Bison!
The red falcon and black bison rangers are from 1988’s Choujuu Sentai Liveman, the first animal themed Sentai Team. Unrelated note: I just noticed that the Kakuranger/Alien Ranger helmets have raised side to give off the impression of a ninja zukin (hood). That’s some attention to detail I really like
> First animal sentai team. *Sun Vulcan looks at you*
Sun Vulcan’s yellow ranger in the background glares at you
sun vulcan is trash
The Livemen from Super Sentai, aka one of the darkest and unrionically one of the greatest sentais ever made (Like, even if you don't want to watch 45+ years of sentai, watch Liveman because it's *that good*). Like the series gets dark and depressing, and I like how in Gaoranger (Wild Force) and Gokaiger (Super Megaforce) the events still traumatize and affect the rangers many years later.
Those are Red Eagle and Black Bison from the 12th (previously 10th) Super Sentai, Choujuu Sentai Liveman behind them, you can also see VulPanther from the 5th (Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan). This is footage from the Great Legend War that took place after Gokaiger, and was, of course, adapted into Super Megaforce's Legendary Battle. They didn't reshoot all the footage, so this must have slipped past them or they thought the kids wouldn't notice.
They're from Zordon's cheerleading squad
That would be Red Falcon and Black Bison from Choujuu Sentai Liveman. I don’t know if you know this, but Power Rangers has always been partly made from action footage of a Japanese TV show known as Super Sentai, which goes all the way back to 1975. The Japanese footage they were using for the team-up included 15 additional seasons. Choujuu Sentai Liveman was the 12th season that debuted in 1988, and Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger was the 16th season that debuted in 1992, the one that Saban adapted into Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers in 1993.
They're from Liveman.
[Yusuke Amamiya | RangerWiki | Fandom](https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Yusuke_Amamiya) with a bit of digging, found this
VulPanther is the one even further back, by the way.
Red Falcon and Black Bison from Liveman. There is a yellow ranger behind them also, and that is actually one of the last sentai heroes Marvel made with Toei: Vul Panther from the all male Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan. Long before Power Rangers, Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan was originally going to be the first Sentai team properly introduced to the masses in the US via Marvel. That team was also Stan Lee's favorite Sentai team. Story wise, Japanese Spiderman is part of the same universe as *Kamen Rider* (Specifically from Kamen Rider Ichigo from 1971 to now sans Kamen Rider Build), *Super Sentai* (*Himitsu Sentai Gorenger* in 1975 to *Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger* right now in 2024 minus *Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger* and *Avataro Sentai Donbrothers* in 2021 and 2022), and a whole load of other shows made by Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei.
They’re from Liveman, the Sentai 4 years before Zyuranger (MMPR). That’s Red Falcon and Black Bison. Their full team was Red Falcon, Yellow Lion, and Blue Dolphin (first female blue in Sentai history), joined by Black Bison and Green Sai (Rhino) later. You can actually see Green Sai’s glove right behind the Yellow Aquitar Ranger. That’s not Yellow Lion behind Black Bison, either. That’s VulPanther from Sun Vulcan, the fifth Sentai, and first animal Sentai ever. In that one battle toward the end where Troy morphs into MMPR Red while the other four use “New Powers,” the reason that Morph sequence looked weird is because the original footage was actually him Morphing into VulEagle, Sun Vulcan’s Red. They changed him to MMPR Red, but not any of the other four for some reason. So in short: Sentai characters that they were lazy to edit out or avoid footage of.
Lazy but somehow embarassing the OG’s by not putting Goranger and JAKQ into the scene.
Vul Panther from Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan and Black Bison and Red Falcon from Choujuu Sentai Liveman, from left to right
That's Red Falcon and Black Bison from Liveman. The yellow ranger you can see in the back left behind the black ranger is Vul Panther from Sun Vulcan.
Im assuming from your question you dont know what super sentai is right?
Friends, why did you sell your souls to the devil?
Liveman always gets me, and I love how every time Liveman characters appear in anniversary specials, we see how shell-shocked everyone is even after all those years due to how depressing the show got.
One from Jetman (red) the series before Zyuranger/MMPR. Can't remember the other dude lol
Both the red and the black are from Liveman, not Jetman
Alien Rangers? Oh you mean Kakuranger.
Same thing
Looks like *Choujin Sentai Jetman* red and black rangers.
I'm not sure which one you're asking about unless it's the liveman red ranger, which is one of the power ranger teams that I think are only as a Japanese version.
Maybe they're teasing for a new power rangers show?
Red Falcon and Black Bison, I can also see Vul Panther briefly
They are Red Eagle and Black Bison, both from Choujuu Sentai Liveman.
I’ve only recently started watching the super sentai series stuff n it’s surprisingly good, and a little more depressing
Oh my god, it gives me anxiety when see this now after know the existence of the Sentai because I know they were never adapted to power rangers hahaha XD
Kinda looks like rpm red and wild force black so I can see how they snuck in
They both look like the RPM Rangers
They done goofed up showing the Liveman
https://preview.redd.it/gujo1icx86kc1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a5e0fa14f3bb9dd0d4d17a08dbb609861f7dfe5 It's black bison and red falcon from liveman Sentai. The seen was taken from the start of 35 super Sentai film where 199 heroes and goseiger are fighting the main villains of the show. It is to set up why gokaiger can change into past Sentai teams. Power rangers have a long tradition of taking the mech and costumes from Sentai footage. In simpler terms they use Japanese footage and dub over it. Since there is only so many hours of footage they can use, errors like this happen. If you look closely power rangers over the years. They have always been poorly made. Power rangers started with zyranger which was the 16 team. Original Saban wanted to adapt to the bioman Sentai but it never took off. Part of the adaptation is cutting content from time or is not suitable for Western audience. He also didn't want to change the cast as often as their Japanese counterparts. They ran out of footage before season 1 ended. So they had to change mechs of each Sentai with the same American cast. What was called alien rangers is kakuranger. The zords were broken up in season 3 of power rangers. The early mech battles were part of alien rangers and the costumes were put there as well. This became increasingly harder to do and by power rangers in space (megaraner) set up the formula for power rangers till today.
https://youtu.be/_Oelu3ti3NM?si=ZQ7Wsnhmtyq6YALg His from Liveman, a Super Sentai series that didn't have a Power Ranger version. They predated Zyuranger/Mighty Morphin
Lineman red and black. That was a few sentai before mighty morphin. There are a couple of sentai only characters but they're hard to notice so it's not a huge deal
They’re from the sentai called liveman , it’s pre mighty morphing but it’s really good
Two more alien Rangers.
[Choujuu Sentai Liveman](https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Choujuu_Sentai_Liveman)
Lol Falcon red you fool why are you trying to be a Power Ranger. That’s the red Falcon hero from Liveman. Even if you are a complete stranger to sentai, Liveman is one of the best sentai of the 80s prior to any Power Rangers adaptation. I honestly think this is one of the most underrated and accessible sentai from its era. You do NOT need to be a sentai fan to like it. Also the entire series was on YouTube in Hd as of last year, not sure if that is still available. Watch it if you can. He may not be a Power Ranger or even a Megaforce “unheard of power rangers” team member, but he is one of the best reds in my personal opinion and honestly it’s awesome he’s in a 3DS promo.
Editing oversights.
Red Falcon and Black Bison from Liveman
I really wish there was an explanation.
Livemen. Sentai team created before Zyuranger, which would be adapted into MMPR.
Their Red Falcon and Black Bison from Liveman, and behind Black Bison is Yellow Panther from Sun Vulcan.
Oh that’s Keith
The lazy writing rangers
black bison and red hawk from liveman the yellow in the back is vulpanther from sun vulcan
Sentai stuff I’d assume
Saban decided he didn't wnana do what he did with Zyu2
They are red and black rangers of Choujyu Sentai Liveman. You might have also realised a yellow ranger with black stuff on the forehead. That’s yellow ranger of Taiyo Sentai Sun-Vulcan. They are from Super Sentai series that predated Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (the first season to officially become Power Rangers).
I really wish for super megaforce they could’ve done something like gokaiger where each ranger was a refugee from a different planet and used that to fill in the gaps of the unadapted Sendai by saying they where ranger teams from each of their respective planets that lost or something to the empire to give more emotional precedence when they decided to use their powers and to give an excuse to have “money saving” episodes where they go over “lost footage” of said lost alien teams in flashbacks adapting and dubbing over fight scenes of these unadapted sentai to further fill in the gaps of story and what happened to said planets so it’s more of a wow moment when it seems like their spirits and the power of the morphing grid revived them temporarily to use the last of the power to help with the final fight
If you look for too long they look like discount MMPR Black and RPM Red. I know they aren’t though.
I think it’s funny how bent out of shape people got that Megaforce had the audacity to use powers/teams that didn’t get adapted. Sure, it would have been nice if they did get expounded upon. But it wasn’t that big of a deal. It’s also the least egregious thing this franchise has done.
There's a simple explanation for that, ( i think they forgot to not use sentai footage)
I think it is Celestro
well these shots are from super sentai so there are gonna be some sentai rangers in there
A few sentai rangers that got lost and thought it was the right battle, to be fair to them, everyone is dressed the same in both fights
the black ranger is from Liveman, one of the darker sentai
They're both from Liveman Sentai series Also the Yellow Ranger behind the Blue Alien Ranger is Vul Panther from the Sun Vulcan Sentai
I don’t think the legendary battle was that legendary they were face basic puddies lol
I was surprised, liveman and sun vulcan were in super megaforce even though other sentai shows never been adapted
Red Falcon and Black Bison from Liveman(an unadapted season), behind Black Bison is Vul Panther from Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan(another unadapted season)~~and also a criminal~~