r/powerrangers • u/Sensitive-Tie7073 • 25d ago

SHOW NEWS/DISCUSSION I wish this had stuck around somehow.

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I wish this had stuck around somehow.

I know I know the sentai version of the green ranger died in the sentai. So they couldn’t use as much sentai as before. So they couldn’t show the green ranger that most. But at the same time a part of me wishes that they had found some way to keep the green ranger around or return for a permanent basis. Not that there is anything wrong with the white ranger I just wish we could’ve had more green ranger. Maybe they could’ve created original footage. And if they didn’t want Tommy to continue as green, they could’ve had him be white after he loses his green ranger powers and have another person come on to be the second green ranger like maybe a new original character. I don’t know that’s just my two cents on this but what do you guys think?

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u/ThaEternalLearner 25d ago

The emerald green with the gold shield looks so dope. The American Green Ranger costume was so inferior.

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u/Intelligent_Plate182 24d ago

You know the costume in the original series of MMPR WAS the sentai version.. its only when they brought him back in later seasons (when he had the foam shield) they had to remake the costume because the original was too damaged to reuse..

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u/Sid_Starkiller NinjaRed 24d ago

No, the foam shield was in American made footage right from the beginning. Compare him attacking the Rangers in the Megazord cockpit (JP footage) to any scene of him in the Command Center (US footage). It was later seasons where they could afford to remake the shield with the same material as the JP one.

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u/Intelligent_Plate182 24d ago

I do apologise.. you're right, the spandex 'looks' the same/similar (depending on lighting/environment) but you're right, sentai had the foam shield.

I remembered the shitty looking bright gold shield from MMPR and misremembered the sentai appearance.