Shame I can't make a Legionnaire Legacy of Jason and just link an episode of Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills for the entire thing.
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Shame I can't make a Legionnaire Legacy of Jason and just link an episode of Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills for the entire thing.
Shame I can't make a Legionnaire Legacy of Jason and just link an episode of Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills for the entire thing.
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For those who don't remember embarrassing Power Rangers knockoffs as well as I do: 
Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills E...
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oh god I embarrassingly loved that
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like I LATCHED ONTO IT HARD as m alternate PR
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I remember when the bitchy hipster kid in my neighborhood got all into VR Troopers
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ll the kids in the neibhrborhood were like "But . . . you would never REALLY get a . . . taootoo would you???" and now I have like three
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FROM BEVERLY HIIIILLS
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ahah
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I watched like
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most of the PR cash-ins.
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TTAFFBH, VR Troopers, there were Ultraman (Ultraseven, I think?) reruns on TNT sometimes, Big Bad Beetleborgs, a few episodes of Mystic Knights of Tir na Nog (Never really got into it)...
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Yeah, Ultraseven. He had the boomerang on his head.
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There was one other big one, I think
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Oh wait. Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad. That's it.
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listen
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beetleborgs was my shit
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For . . . . . . no particularly good reason
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I can think of two
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I recall liking that the girl had super strength A LOT
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The theme song and the theme song
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The costumes didn't hurt either. They were pretty rad
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I used to argue that super strength made her better at swimming
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ahaha
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the fights you have when you're 8, man
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Hey, I still remember making up powers for my toys to explain how they could beat up everyone else's toys in a fight. I can't say nothin
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ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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BeetleBorgs Episode 1 Beetlerock (Part 1)
HEY LOOK NOW THEY'RE SUPERHEROES
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(look, would somebody please app Kubo
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's dad already
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so that I can make all the Beetleborg jokes in the universe)
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I'm wondering like
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did it all fail because they weren't Power Rangers
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or did it all fail because they didn't have a Tommy on board each series
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WHO THOUGHT
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THAT THE WINNING COMBO
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WAS "European horror monsters + super sentai + bug theme??"
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Who was behind that
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I think Saban
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Toei owned Metal Heroes, which was where the sources for Beetleborgs and VR Troopers came from
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Yeah, looks like it was Saban
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lbr though, most of us were hooked as soon as the first three words of that theme song dropped.
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I fixate on theme songs a lot. probably too much.
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Beetleborgs had the best hook
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tbh
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Despite despising the show when I was a kid, I can still do the Doug theme, and I still sometimes find myself dooting out the A Pup Named Scooby Doo theme.
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um
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same
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no need for shame, we're all losers here.
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(I don't know how else to label us when we're a bunch of 20-30 year olds mashing digital action figures together)
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pretty much
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I'm just glad not to be the only person wh owas not, between ages 5-10, POINT FOR POINT recounting each episode of Power Rangers in the backseat on the way to school the next day
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oh man
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I was heartbroken because I missed the episode after Tommy came back as the White Ranger and had my friend tell me every little detail.
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I wonder if kids cling to Power Rangers as much these days as they did back then? It's kind of hard to tell with how adults pretty much dominate every fandom space.
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But it'd be interesting to know if it's still the huge must-watch, everyone wants to be that guy show.
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It's only now, like, eighteen hours later, that I remember Masked Rider was a thing. Now if only I could unremember it.
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I was in the car encouraging my mom to speed on the way back from my piano lesson cause I was about to miss the White Ranger episode
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watching the episodes for canon review was just
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some things are better left to nostalgia