Remember growing up and watching the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers? Millions of kids around the world used to get up early on a Saturday morning just to watch the latest episode. The original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers aired on Fox for only three seasons from 1993 to 1996. However, that was enough to start a franchise. The franchise has continued well into 2009. It now consists of 17 seasons and 15 different series with two films and the Power Rangers costumes continue to be one of the hottest Halloween costumes.
The latest film was just released in March 2009. The series was originally produced by Saban Entertainment and later by BVS Entertainment. BVS was a division under Disney. The original concept was adapted from the Japanese Tokusatau Super Sentai series. Almost all episodes will include carry over from the Japanese source material. Some will even have Sentai designs and edited footage.
A true power ranger is a fictional character that morphs into a powerful superhero. The superhero will generally wear a color-coated Power Rangers costume with a helmet that has an opaque visor. Each ranger will be assigned a suit and energy spectrum that matches a specific color. When the characters are morphed into rangers they generally possess super human strength, durability and the ability to fight in hand to hand combat.
When Disney started creating the series, the characters were able to maintain some of the superhero powers when they are in their natural state; such powers as, super human speed or invisibility. Rangers regularly operate in teams of five with an occasional, sixth team member joining the group somewhere in the middle of the series.
Each team of power ranges must obey a set of rules, or guidelines. A power ranger must not use their powers for personal gain. They may not use their powers for escalating a fight. They must never disclose their true identity to the general public, except for in extenuating circumstances. The plenty for disobeying any of these rules would be the loss of their power.
Along with their powers and following the guidelines, power rangers usually carry a standardized arsenal. Their arsenal usually includes either a laser gun or a sword. They will usually have access to a secondary set of weapons that combined into a larger weapon; like a cannon. Usually the arsenal, especially the zords, ends up getting destroyed at the end of the season. This usually has to happen in order to destroy the large and final monster.
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