Power Ranger fans rejoice!

[UncleBob]

We'll be seeing the return of an old friend in the next incarnation of Power Rangers! Woo-hoo!

[GOROY]

Who will be returning?

[UncleBob]

Well, I don't want to spoil it for anyone who might care - however there's a big hint to long time PR fans in my first post. ;)

[Marril]

Jason? Tommy? I dunno, I hope it's either of them, but I've long since stopped watching PR anywho.

[GOROY]

Well, I'll like it if it is someone from the original PR, I haven't watched it since they changed for ........I guess the third time they changed.

[Water Pokemon Master]

How many generations of Power Rangers have there been? I remember watching the show once in a while when I was 5 at my baby sitters, which I think was the original series.

BTW, what is with them when they transform and move around a lot. For example, when they talk, they shake their heads. I have always wondered why they do that.

[UncleBob]

Mighty Morphing Power Rangers
Mighty Morphing Alien Rangers
Power Rangers Zeo
Power Rangers Turbo
Power Rangers in Space
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
Power Rangers Time Force
Power Rangers Wild Force
Power Rangers Ninja Storm

[Water Pokemon Master]

Now I remember. It was Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, from remembering the theme song. So, the series has been running for 10 years, right?

[TrueGamerX]

Now heres something I can talk about. When I was a young lad, I used to come home from school, kick out a bowl of Doritos and watched the afternoon episodes of PR. The essence and suspense it had on a young kid like me was awesome. My most favorite part of any show was when the Megazords came out to kick some major butt.

Overall, I watched PR up until the end of PR: In Space, when Zordon died :( . But I'd admit it, I cried, because I was that dedicated to the show. The shows after In Space, just got boring and plain, IMO. I mean there could be no storyline better than the Green Ranger Saga! And the Forever Red episode was also electrifying.

lol, excuse me for my geekiness, but I'm just a plain ol' PR fanboy!

[UncleBob]

True Gamer X - You might be interested in this next season. :)

WPM - As the first year of US Power Rangers was 1993, yes, the series is in it's 10th anniversary (although they just wound up their 10th season...)
This is a feat very few shows have accomplished...

[UncleBob]

I don't want to ruin it for anyone who doesn't want the spoiler, so I'll just post a link to this promo...

http://www.the-ultimate-empire.com/PRDT_abcfampromob.mpg

[TrueGamerX]

Wow, that looks awesome! It's cool that Tommy has come back to be a mentor for the "new" kids. Can't wait until February 2004.

[GOROY]

Zordon died?:(

[The Dark Llama]

UncleBob - What was Mighty Morphing Alien Rangers? I know the second season was a continuation under the MMPR name, just different people and zords.

Water Pokemon Master - When they have the helmets on, you can't see who's talking. They move their heads so you know who is talking. (in case you don't know the voices)

GOROY - Where do you get Zordon dying?

[TrueGamerX]

GOROY - Where do you get Zordon dying?

Zordon died at the end of PR In Space, because Zordon said it was the only way to destroy all evil in the universe, so he got Andros (the red ranger) to destroy him. That meant the Machine Empire, Lord Zedd, Rita and the rest of the villains were destroyed. But shockingly, Lord Zedd and Rita turned out to be regular people.

I know it was really sad. :(

[Water Pokemon Master]

Water Pokemon Master - When they have the helmets on, you can't see who's talking. They move their heads so you know who is talking. (in case you don't know the voices)
Oh, so that's why. But how come when they get hit by some sort of attack, they take it all aggressively. IMO, they are too animated.

[Marril]

Zordon died at the end of PR In Space, because Zordon said it was the only way to destroy all evil in the universe
Dang. He was cool, and that stuff with the ooze guy (?) in the movie was sad enough.

Also, I wish I'd seen the transition episodes for the first to second series. All I remember is one scene from the second episode where the T-rex was the last giant robot left. It's either selective-memory bias, or the first series really is a heck of a lot better than the ones today.

[Water Pokemon Master]

Does anyone have the breakdown of how many Power Rangers there have been in each series?

[UncleBob]

BTW, what is with them when they transform and move around a lot. For example, when they talk, they shake their heads. I have always wondered why they do that.

For the reason given above and, since you can't see their faces/bodies, you can't really see the emotion/body language that you normally would when talking to someone. The "way to animated" body language is to help express the feelings (typically urgency or pain) that the character's are feeling.

Zordon died at the end of PR In Space, because Zordon said it was the only way to destroy all evil in the universe, so he got Andros (the red ranger) to destroy him.

Which, mind you, did not destroy all the evil in the universe, as we've seen in future seasons (and the fact that Cleveland still exists). Not to say that Zordon's sacrifice was useless, for it did save the world from the major threat at the time (and it wasn't pretty)...

Does anyone have the breakdown of how many Power Rangers there have been in each series?

A lot?

Seriously, thanks to Rovang.org's Writer's guide to the PR Universe (and a little help from my memory, as the guide is offically kaput), here ya go.

Season One: Mighty Morphing Power Rangers:
Red: Jason
Pink: Kimberly
Black: Zack
Blue: Billy
Yellow: Trini (who died a few years ago in a car wreck because she wasn't wearing her seat belt)
Green: Tommy

Season Two:
Red: Jason, Rocky
Pink: Kimberly
Black: Zack, Adam
Blue: Billy
Yellow: Trini, Aisha
Green: Tommy, Tommy Clone
White: Tommy

Season Three:
Red: Rocky
Pink: Kimberly, Kat
Black: Adam
Blue: Billy
Yellow: Aisha
White: Tommy
(Note, all seven teens also became "Ninja Rangers")

Season Three 1/2: Mighty Morphing Alien Rangers
(When the Rangers - and everyone else - is reverted back to their youth, they must call upon the aid of visiting Rangers from another planet)

Yellow: Tideus
White: Delphine
Blue: Cestro
Red: Aurico
Black: Corcus

Season Four: Power Rangers Zeo
Red: Tommy
Blue: Rocky
Pink: Kat
Green: Adam
Yellow: Tanya
Gold:Trey (of Triforia) , Jason

Season Five: Power Rangers Turbo
Red: Tommy, T.J.
Blue: Rocky (Short Time in Movie), Justin (Boo!)
Pink: Kat, Cassie
Green: Adam, Carlos
Yellow: Tanya, Ashley
Phantom Ranger: (Unknown to anyone)

Season Six: Power Rangers in Space
Red: Andros
Blue: T.J.
Pink: Cassie
Black: Carlos
Yellow: Ashley
Silver: Zhane

Season Seven: Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
Red: Mike, Leo
Blue: Kai
Yellow: Maya
Pink: Kendrix, Karone (who took over for Kendrix for the last few episodes while the actor who played Kendrix was out for cancer treatment)
Green: Damon

Season Eight: Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue
Red: Carter
Blue: Chad
Green: Joel
Yellow: Kelsey
Pink: Dana
Titanium: Ryan

Season Nine: Power Rangers: Time Force
Red: Alex , Wes
Pink: Jen
Blue: Lucas
Yellow: Katie
Green: Trip
Quantum: Eric

Season Ten: Power Rangers: Wild Force
Red: Cole
Yellow: Taylor
Black: Danny
Blue: Max
White: Alyssa
Lunar Wolf: Merrick

Season Eleven: Power Rangers: Ninja Storm
Blue Wind: Tori
Red Wind: Shane
Yellow Wind: Dustin
Navy Thunder: Blake
Crimson Thunder: Hunter
Green Samuari: Cam

Note, this list doesn't include previous Rangers who show up for one or two episodes to help (or get help) from the current Ranger team (unless they get a new costume and become a part of the team), nor does this include the various evil/Psycho Rangers, Robot/Cyborg Rangers, or whatever other "fake" rangers there may have beenat one point or another. Also not included are Non-Rangers, like Turbo's Blue Senturion (who was a robot), Lost Galaxy's Magna Defender (who was both himself an unknown warrior and Mike, the former Red Galaxy Ranger), The Ninja Turtles (who showed up with their "sister" in a couple of episodes during Space), or the Masked Rider (who made an appearance to help start his show back during the Mighty Morphing era).

In conclusion, there are (have been) a lot of Rangers.

[GOROY]

TruGamerX, what do you mean, Rita and Zed were Humans, I thought they were aliens?

[Spectreon]

Whatever happened to Bulk and Skull??? I think that was their names??? I mean they where on the show forever... even when it was pointless for them to be. I remember in like Space or Galaxy they would go back to earth just to show them, even though it had little or nothing to do with the show. They where helping some crazy scientist guy (I think).

I stopped watching on a regular basis after like season 3. I did get into Lightspeed Rescue though an liked it... I defenitely think the first couple of seasons where the best, followed by Lightspeed and Time Force, but it all gets to repitive. Seaon starts, new Rangers/Powers. Each episode a new hreat comes up, they beat it, it grows, Zords beat it. At end of season, begining of next, old Rangers are to weak to face new evil, so new Rangers Powers are needed. 10 seasons (11th starting soon) of the same principle idea.... and you wonder why most shows cant pull off 10 years.....

[TrueGamerX]

TruGamerX, what do you mean, Rita and Zed were Humans, I thought they were aliens?

They were aliens, but its just when Zordon died, it changed them from evil aliens to real people.
Go to this link, and when u get there, go to the very bottom and click on "Countdown to Destruction" Part 2. You can see pictures on what happened on that episode.

http://www.rangercentral.com/eps-pris.htm

[GOROY]

Oh, that was weird. I was also wondering what ever happened to GOLDAR and Rita's brother...whose name I forget. ;)
(Wasn't it Rito or something?)

[TrueGamerX]

I forgot what happened to Goldar and Rito (yep that was him name). But they were funny and was a great storyline to the show.

[GOROY]

"Whatever happened to Bulk and Skull??? I think that was their names??? I mean they where on the show forever... even when it was pointless for them to be. I remember in like Space or Galaxy they would go back to earth just to show them, even though it had little or nothing to do with the show. They where helping some crazy scientist guy (I think)."

Originally posted by Spectreon.

I think they were going to go to space during the "In Space" era, but Skull overslept and Bulk and the scientist went to space without him. I don't know if that was the last time they were there or not though. That is about the time I started to stop watching PR, so I don't know what happened to them after that.

Yea, I miss the good old days watching MMPR every day except Sunday of course. Now we are in the wonderful age of Pokemon which seems to be lasting longer, YAY! :)

[YoungJohn06]

I loved the old Power Rangers! I watched up til the Lost Galaxy... (at least the majority of it) I continued to watch some of the other power rangers, but they just weren't as good.

My favorite types of the episodes was when they had the Robot Rangers (I think that's what they called them) in the Power Rangers in Space episode. I always loved those kind of things, when they had similar things to rangers fighting, cause it was a lot more intense and battles were cooler than with the giant monsters that moved so slow.

The new Ninja Storm... is so... weird lol. I miss the old ones so much.