They're still making power rangers?

no and yes and no :P
You must have a very good memory if you can remember it from 1993, as it wasn't out until 1994 :P
However the guys who made the show helped Disney buy the channel that screened it or something, and the rights for Power Rangers transferred to Disney. Disney's version isn't that different, and of the Disney version I've only seen Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, which is better than the original shows, and has the return of Tommy.

First I gotta say amen to the Tommys return for Dino Thunder, between that and this last season of PR they are the only seasons i have seen all the way through since the originals, in 94.

UNfortunately this season will be one I will miss willingly,, the Costumes and Vehicles look cheesy, ((ther ware some pictures of the Vehicles,, cars with faces of the animals the Rangers Represent)) Theres only 1 ranger spirit (dont ask) that seems new to the group and thats the Red Eagle Ranger the rest weve seen done, Such as Yellow Bear, Blue Shark, Black Wolf. So its not worth it.

i think it would be interesting but, they could only fight at night cuz of the vamp.

they really are running out of ideas that seem interesting. i know they still have stuff they can use since there are 30+ years of PR in japan. but still.

and btw i DID like the werewolf thing with RJ. \m/ \m/ ::throws the horn for the zen/surferlike wisdom of the RJ.


and in refference the main idea of the thread. yes, and i'm still happy they do. i remember watching the premier of the first episode when i was little. and i'm still a PR nerd to this day :-D

The replacement of the characters was what killed it for me. I had just gotten over the loss of all my pals of the last few years (Tommy, Adam, Kat, Tanya respectavely) and now, once In Space makes me ok with the characters that replaced them, they get chucked out the door. Or bay hatch since I guess they're still Space Rangers somewhere out in the PR universe. ;D

That's not to say I don't still enjoy Power Rangers. I rejoined the fandom somewhere in S.P.D., have seen every season since, and consider myself partially devistated that it is coming to an end (as we know it at least). I do like how the Rangers aren't tied to one place (what was so special about Angel Grove anyway???). The Rangers can be where the evil is. It really opens up the world as they say. But, being the continutiy whore that I am, nothing will ever really replace those first six years for me.

Yeah some of them did echo past seasons in a way.
PRDT had echo of MMPr since the high school angle.
And PRSPD similar to PRLSR because of the work for the government, or whatever.
Haven't seen PRJF so can't judge that..but I liked PRWF, so that sounds okay.

The only season that I really hated, well 2 of them, were PRMF and PROO.
Magic and androids....searching for crystals.
WTF?!?!

All the others I can sort of just pop in and watch random eps and not be bored. But those two, send me straight into sleep mode!

You don't want to mess with Juanita!!
And I am not a stalker!!

it will only be like turbo if they totally eff it up. oh and there is no scheme by disney to remake the older series. they only do the themes that occur in the original japanese series. i really really hope they have the vehicles be sentient.

I am a 62 year old person. While the Power Rangers series is sort or repeditive in each episode with the fighting and pyrotechnics and such, I do not find it boring either. The producers and scriptwriters of these shows have found a formula to succeed with each show. I do not know how to really describe that fomula but it is a sort of "building up" those who are weak against those who are more powerful with some kind of quest to get more powers to conquer the more powerful with amazing new powers and keep repeating this cycle within a series many times and guess what; it works and keeps my interest because the script writers pull this off succesfully. On top of this, the optical and digital effects while sometimes cheesy come off A-OK because our minds are made to accept this "reality" as a sort of entertainment and a sort of "neato" thing.
The TOEI company pulls this off quite great year after year and just gets better at it all the time. I remember a series from the 1960's; CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS, an English production using "Super Marionation, and marvelous pyrotechics that made it a nifty series for that time. The POWER RANGER series have a resemblance to Republic Pictures serials of the 1930s as well but at this moment I cannot remember as to what quite that resemblance is other than some pyrotechnics use and some daredeviling but I have seen some resemblance to those serials deployed, oh like a rousing final ending just like in the end of JUNGLE FURY and other POWER RANGER's series which you will find in a lot of REPUBLIC snd for that matter UNIVERSAL serials of the 30s as well. I would not doubt for a minute that the producers of POWER RANGERS picked up on some of this from those serials much as George Lucas picked it up as well for STAR WARS. I do think that the producers of POWER RANGERS put alot of work into these shows and have done so all these many years which is more than I can say for alot of kids and adult shows.
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Stop blaming Disney for the similarities. The basic premise of each series is decided upon by Toei.

Yeah, These Power Rangers seasons are pretty much not worth watching. I remember all the series's up to Lost Galaxy had a great plot and story. And great characters to go along with it. Disney is just using a popular series like PR to profit from toys. Its pretty much milking everything the franchise has to make money off of toys. So what they do is dont even worry about having a great plot. or anything. They just worry about adding a ton of toys and weapons, and alot of really cheesy stuff. It's sad. This franchise was a power house back in the day, now its down to this.