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Factor White
08-01-2008, 03:37 PM
Just think about it dudes, I dont watch sentai but if Im not wrong, Jetman was the season before Zyuranger, what would have been if Saban would have started with Jetman and not Zyruanger, or any other Sentai, and was it the "ranger" in zyranger which made Saban name his show Power Rangers?
Ecliptor_knight
08-01-2008, 03:42 PM
Probably yeah and they just added Power and the Mighty Morphin part to make it sound 'cool' and appealing to kids. It's like "Oh, they're mighty and they morph, how cool is that!?"
Jiemusu
08-01-2008, 03:42 PM
Lol that's actually a very good point Factor White! Never thought about it like that.

I guess you're right.

Power Men or Power Man doesn't sound as punchy though lol, sounds either like a battery, or sorta like something Marvel or DC would come up with. It sounds too much like a Western Comic series.
tsda
08-01-2008, 04:27 PM
Lol that's actually a very good point Factor White! Never thought about it like that.

Yes, you're right! He made a really good point out there! And it's so obvious, yet I never thought about it... But I believe that's true, Nash, although I dunno if we will ever know the truth behind it.
DaiRed
08-01-2008, 08:17 PM
Lol that's actually a very good point Factor White! Never thought about it like that.

I guess you're right.

Power Men or Power Man doesn't sound as punchy though lol, sounds either like a battery, or sorta like something Marvel or DC would come up with. It sounds too much like a Western Comic series.

Marvel does have a character called Power Man.
Jiemusu
08-01-2008, 08:22 PM
Marvel does have a character called Power Man.

That's why I recognized it.
GnomeBandit622
08-01-2008, 10:25 PM
I still think Power Rangers should take after Super Sentai more. SS is just so much cooler.
Titanium Ranger
08-01-2008, 11:14 PM
I still think Power Rangers should take after Super Sentai more. SS is just so much cooler.

Kinda off-topic..


Anywho, that's quite a possibility. I suppose it would've helped that rangers, by definition, help enforce the law so that kind of stresses the point.
GnomeBandit622
08-02-2008, 12:05 AM
Kinda off-topic...

Yeah, I know. It was just a thought.
DTGR
08-02-2008, 02:00 AM
Hmm, you're probably right FW!
JungleKingRanger
08-02-2008, 02:14 AM
**gives thread a five star rating**

we could of ended up with 'mighty sour'n jet bird heroes' for the beginning of pr
Hear All
08-02-2008, 02:40 AM
I don't even want to imagine the names that could have been:eek:
Ryoutarou
08-02-2008, 08:10 AM
Probably not much different.

If I recall, they actually tried to take the Sentai naming scheme with them when they changed to Zeo by calling the show Zeorangers for about half the season.
tickled.pink
08-03-2008, 12:15 AM
we could of ended up with 'mighty sour'n jet bird heroes' for the beginning of pr

I lol'd, seriously. :D

Along the same lines though, there was always a credit at the end of MMPR saying that the show was based off of "Galaxy Rangers" - does anyone know what that is? There's a Wikipedia entry for an anime of the same name, but it bears no resemblance to PR or Sentai.
DaiRed
08-03-2008, 03:43 AM
I lol'd, seriously. :D

Along the same lines though, there was always a credit at the end of MMPR saying that the show was based off of "Galaxy Rangers" - does anyone know what that is? There's a Wikipedia entry for an anime of the same name, but it bears no resemblance to PR or Sentai.

Season Two footage was from Gosei Sentai Dairanger, and they probably thought "Dai" meant Galaxy.
Iron Ranger
08-03-2008, 04:09 AM
I don't necessarily believe that. I think they had then ame power rangers setup. They just didn't use jetman because everyone dies. (which is a nice way to end a series, but has no team up :sigh:)
zeorangerIIIblue
08-03-2008, 04:26 PM
Hell, they could have named it power force....Some of sentai is based off of Voltron and vice versa, and ultron is really named ultron force, so why not?
Factor White
08-03-2008, 05:14 PM
Well "Power Rangers" is kinda cool, I mean kids really love the name, so the bottom line is that Saban was lucky that he didnt start with Jetman and started with Zyuranger, cause both the title and the theme(Dinosaurs) attracted more people and made kids like it. And besides Jetman hd capes, it wouldn't have worked if the first season had capes, then no season after that had capes as part of that suits, until 2006. So the whole Zyuranger thingy actually worked well. And Im glad our first PR season was based on something like Zyuranger.
Jiemusu
08-03-2008, 05:26 PM
Agreed, Zyuranger was defiantly the best sentai to base the first season of Power Rangers on. And I'm not just saying that because it was.