The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Thread

[Henry88]

Shout! Factory has announced MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: SEASON ONE, VOLUME ONE plus a 40-disc set of POWER RANGERS SEASONS 1-7.

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2012/05/09/mighty-morphin-power-rangers-season-one-volume-one-on-dvd-august-21st/

[Raefire]

....Power Rangers qualifies for the Time Life treatment? Oh, I wanna see that commercial...

[goflyblind]

this seems... unnecessary.

[MrTorso]

this seems... unnecessary.

Why? It was/is a very popular show and movies that have never been on dvd. I get asked about them all the time at work. I am just glad they are going to release them to retail at the same time they are putting out Time-Life sets.  When Time-Life did the Bionic man they sold them exclusively for a couple years before season 1 was available in stores.

[Pak-Man]

I tried to like Power Rangers back in the day. I really did. Either I was just a year or two too old, or the rapid-fire plot points frustrated my then-developing writer's brain.

[Henry88]

and that theme song to this day is still very cool.

Go Go Power Rangers!

[monstermoviefanchicknj]

I tried to like Power Rangers back in the day. I really did. Either I was just a year or two too old, or the rapid-fire plot points frustrated my then-developing writer's brain.

Yeah, I was way more of a VR Troopers fan myself (even though it was basically Power Rangers with a different name).  Brad Hawkins was basically my first crush on a TV star.

[Henry88]

Here's Shout! Factory's press release...

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2012/06/06/power-rangers-multi-disc-box-set-collection-available-for-per-order-now/

[Sideswipe]

No blu rays?  What a bunch of cheap bastards!

[TheUnabeefer]

It's all on Netflix anyways... (I should know, I've been marathonning it all)  ...so I don't need to buy the huge box set.

But I *WILL* admit gladly that I've been enjoying the show far more than I ever did back when it first aired.  It's fun stuff!!

Also, I was glad to find out that the guys who played Bulk and Skull are still best friends in real life.  One is a director and the other a college professor too.

[Sideswipe]

In a surprising move by the writers, those two actually get a lot of developmnet.  It would have been so easy to just leave them as the generic comic relief.

[TheUnabeefer]

In a surprising move by the writers, those two actually get a lot of developmnet.  It would have been so easy to just leave them as the generic comic relief.

I have a feeling the actor who played Bulk becoming one of the directors of the show helped a lot...  but yeah, there were even a few spots mid-series that had the 2 of them either saving the day or helping in an unexpected way.  In one episode, a baby was left alone when the father was kidnapped, and it made me happy that Bulk/Skull's first instinct was to take care of the kid.  It's a small thing, but development-wise is quite good writing.