Basically Power Rangers was a Japanese show that had new footage and dubbing added for American audiences. Japan has a huge history of these types of shows, and a lot of toys in the style you have come from the bad guys from these series. The ones from the 60s and 70s are especially worth seeking out as they are a lot of fun. From Wikipedia "Production of Power Rangers episodes involves extensive localization of and revision of original Super Sentai source material in order to incorporate American culture and conform to American television standards. Rather than making an English dub or translation of the Japanese footage, Power Rangers programs consist of scenes featuring English-speaking actors (either from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or the United Kingdom) spliced with scenes featuring either Japanese actors dubbed into English or the action scenes from the Super Sentai Series featuring the Rangers fighting monsters or the giant robot (Zord and Megazord) battles with English dubbing. In some series, original fight scenes are filmed to incorporate characters or items unique to the Power Rangers production.[6] Like many of Saban Entertainment's previous ventures in localizing Japanese television for a Western audience, the plot, character names, and other names usually differ greatly from the source footage, though a few seasons have stayed close to the story of the original Super Sentai season. The series that began the franchise, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (an American adaptation of the 1992 Japanese Super Sentai Series, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger), began broadcasting as part of the Fox Kids block of programing that aired on the Fox network. It lasted for three seasons (from 1993 to 1996).[7]"
Ahh Saban, they also brought us the ghostly love-child of Jay Leno and Liberace in the form of Big Bad Beetleborgs' Flabber: When I was a kid I always thought that the whole Power Rangers lead, mid-'90s wave of tokusatsu-like shows was just some production company finally trying to create an American answer to Ultraman. It took a decade or two for the news that they were actually "adaptations" of ongoing Sentai series to reach my brain. And that's why I will always think that Tokusatsu is cooler than Sentai.
thanx to link my blog i love this serie and now i need only one demon to complete all characters. i'm posting all Rainbow Stuff i can found on web
I need Kerageruge, after that i will start to collect the first versions of hand, mouth, eye and brain. Today i will post on kaijulab 2 new pics of Characters from Goranger Serie
Whoa - those Goranger figures are insane. When were those released? I keep decent tabs on the Rainbow releases but don't recall seeing those before.
Toei Hero Net releases. They are really awesome. I think they are doing the entire Iron Cross army at this point. Some of my favorite so far have been The Piano Mask and Faucet Mask.
I think is impossible understand when rainbow figure are release cause some are from toei hero, but other i dont know where came from, i only find them in japan webshop.
