Most fans know that chunks of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers takes footage from it’s Super Sentai predecessor, but there is some footage that didn’t make the trip.
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During an appearance at Florida Supercon, Jason David Frank and Amy Jo Johnson were asked about the original Sentai series, and their reactions when they first saw it (via Debra Gallagher).
“I think a couple of times they showed it in the office, but the problem with that was it just didn’t, it confused the American version and what we were doing because we had to cut stuff out,” said Frank. “So it was confusing as it was because we didn’t know what Power Rangers was, nobody did in the United States, so it was kind of confusing to see different things.”
Johnson didn’t watch much of it, but Frank remembers some of the stuff that didn’t make it to America.
“I got a chance to watch some of it. It was a little more violent, which was cool at the time. I was like “put that in” and they were like “sorry, we can’t, this is in the United States”, and we were like “What! Put that footage in”, but we couldn’t. They cut a lot of the cool.”
Before moving on Frank said, “I want to meet the original Green Ranger that did that Ya know?”
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers took much of its footage from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, which is actually the 16th installment of the Super Sentai series. The Green Ranger was played by Shiro Izumi, who played the role of Burai the Dragon Ranger.
Izumi is retired now, but who knows, maybe this would be something really cool to take place at Power Morphicon.
As for the current run of Power Rangers, you can learn more about Power Rangers Ninja Steel below.
“With the franchise’s 24th season, Saban Brands’ Power Rangers Ninja Steel starts deep in space, where Galvanax is the reigning champion of the most popular intergalactic game show in the universe in which monsters battle to prove who is the mightiest warrior. Galvanax is determined to become invincible by controlling the mythical Ninja Nexus Prism, which contains six supernatural Ninja Power Stars. The only thing standing in his way is a new team of heroic teenage Power Rangers who possess it. The evil Galvanax sends his warrior contestants down to Earth to steal the Ninja Power Stars, where each epic battle against the Power Rangers is broadcast throughout the universe. Together, the Rangers must master their arsenal of Ninja Power Stars, Zords and Megazords, each made of legendary Ninja Steel, in order to stop this evil threat and save Earth from destruction.”
