60 Fun Facts About Power Rangers

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers made its 1993 debut on which television programming block?

Fox Kids took a show that rival networks had turned down, and within months it was the top-rated children's series in the United States.

What is the original Power Rangers team's desert headquarters called?

The Command Center stood in the California desert until it was destroyed at the end of the original series, after which the team was led deep underground to its replacement, the Power Chamber.

Which producer created Power Rangers after discovering a costumed superhero show on a business trip to Japan?

Haim Saban filmed a pilot and then spent at least five years pitching it; in his partner's words, nobody wanted it and people laughed.

In which fictional California city are the original Power Rangers based?

Angel Grove's residents get a heroic moment of their own in the In Space finale, when Bulk and Skull rally them to join the battle beside the Rangers.

Which intergalactic sage picks five 'teenagers with attitude' to become the Power Rangers?

Zordon cannot fight Rita himself: she trapped him in a time warp during their last battle, even as he sealed her away, so he recruits the teens to do it for him.

Which fretful robot assistant at the Power Rangers' base cries 'Ay-yi-yi' whenever danger strikes?

Alpha 5 eventually leaves Earth for the planet Eltar, and a successor robot, Alpha 6, takes over his post at the team's base.

Rita Repulsa is released after how many years imprisoned in a space dumpster on the Moon?

10,000 years pass before two astronauts exploring the Moon open the strange container, and the freed Rita at once sets about conquering Earth.

Which foot soldiers does Rita Repulsa send against the Power Rangers in the first season?

Putties are moulded from clay by Rita's monster-maker, who keeps up a steady supply: unlike her monsters, sculpted one at a time, they are pressed out in moulds and baked in large numbers.

The original Power Rangers' five Zords combine into a giant humanoid robot called what?

The Megazord is how the team fights back once Rita has made a beaten monster grow to enormous size.

The Green Ranger plays which weapon like a flute to summon his Zord from the sea?

The Dragon Dagger came from Rita along with the Green Ranger's powers, so when those powers faded, the dagger and the Zord it commands passed to Jason, the Red Ranger.

How does Rita Repulsa slowly drain Tommy of the Ranger powers she once gave him?

A magic green candle: as it burns down his powers drain away, and once it has burnt out he hands what is left of them to Jason so that Rita cannot claim them.

When Tommy returns as the White Ranger, which new Zord does he pilot?

The Tigerzord comes with a promotion: the newcomer who once fought the team under Rita's spell is installed as its leader.

Which villain, Rita Repulsa's superior, arrives in season two and throws her back into a space dumpster?

Lord Zedd ends up marrying the witch he threw out: she returns with a love potion, and when it is finally neutralised he finds that he loves her anyway.

Which three teens from Stone Canyon replace Jason, Zack and Trini in season two?

Rocky, Adam and Aisha inherit the powers because the three originals are chosen to attend a peace conference in Switzerland, leaving the team to find replacements.

Newcomer Katherine Hillard, while under Rita Repulsa's spell, could turn into which animal?

A cat: as a stray she is taken in by the very Rangers she is spying on, but when the spell breaks she gives back a stolen Power Coin and later joins the team.

Which original Power Ranger gives up her powers to train as a gymnast for the Pan Global Games?

Kimberly is spotted by a gymnastics coach and leaves for Florida to train full-time, choosing Katherine to take over from her as the Pink Ranger.

What are the full names of Bulk and Skull, the Power Rangers' comic-relief bullies?

Farkas Bulkmeier and Eugene Skullovitch outgrow the bully act: they sign up as junior police officers and later follow their lieutenant into a detective agency.

Zyuranger, the Japanese series that supplied the first Mighty Morphin footage, was built around which theme?

Dinosaurs: 'kyōryū' in its full title is Japanese for dinosaur, though two of the five heroes took a mammoth and a sabre-toothed tiger as their beasts.

Which actress is seen on screen as Rita Repulsa throughout the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers?

Machiko Soga's scenes were lifted from the Japanese original, in which she played the witch Bandora, and Barbara Goodson dubbed Rita's voice over them.

Which actor, who died in 2022, played Tommy Oliver, the original Green Ranger?

Jason David Frank had already shot the pilot of another series he was meant to lead when he was called back to Power Rangers to go on playing Tommy.

Tommy Oliver wore green, white and red before returning in Dino Thunder as which colour of Ranger?

Black: he starts the season as the teacher guiding three students who become Rangers, and only a few episodes in does a black Dino Gem put him back in a suit.

In Dino Thunder, Tommy returns with a PhD in which subject, teaching science at Reefside High?

Paleontology: the season's villain, Mesogog, turns out to be Anton Mercer, a scientist mutated by his own failed lab experiment.

Which actress, who played Trini in the original Power Rangers team, died in a car accident in 2001?

Thuy Trang fled Vietnam as a small child, crossing to Hong Kong with her family aboard a cargo ship before joining her father in the United States.

Original Pink Ranger Amy Jo Johnson later starred as Jules Callaghan in which Canadian police drama?

Flashpoint put her on a Toronto police tactical unit and earned her a Gemini Award nomination, and she has since become a Canadian citizen.

Which musician wrote the theme song 'Go Go Power Rangers' for the original series?

Ron Wasserman was shown a rough cut one night, told to work in the word 'go' if he could, and had the song finished in about two and a half hours.

Which villain, played by Paul Freeman, traps Rita Repulsa in a snow globe in the 1995 Power Rangers movie?

Ivan Ooze then passes his ooze off as a toy, which hypnotises the town's parents into digging up his buried weapons of war.

In which country was the 1995 film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie shot?

Australia: production moved to Sydney for about four months, so the TV series kept going by filming episodes there that sent the Rangers on an Australian holiday.

In Power Rangers Zeo, King Mondo leads which invading force against the team?

The Machine Empire arrives in such force that the old villains on the Moon flee to another galaxy rather than face it.

Which Power Rangers season introduced Justin, a 12-year-old Blue Ranger?

Turbo brought in Justin when an injured Ranger had to step down; whenever the boy morphs, he grows to the size of his adult teammates.

In the Power Rangers in Space finale, what does the team's captured mentor ask the Red Ranger to do?

Shatter his energy tube: it kills him, but the wave of good energy it releases turns the invading monsters to sand and three of the chief villains into ordinary humans.

Which Lost Galaxy Ranger became the first ever to be killed off, after her actress left for leukaemia treatment?

Kendrix Morgan was not gone for good: Valerie Vernon's treatment succeeded, she came back for the finale, and her character was restored to life.

Lightspeed Rescue's Titanium Ranger was a franchise first for what reason?

He had no Japanese counterpart because the series being adapted had only five heroes, so the American producers had to create the Titanium Ranger's suit and weapon themselves.

In Power Rangers Time Force, which mutant criminal escapes from the year 3000 to 2001?

Ransik had been sentenced to be cryogenically frozen, but instead he seized the prison holding his frozen mutant army and took it back in time with him.

In Power Rangers in Space, the Red Ranger discovers that which villain is his kidnapped sister?

Astronema was born Karone: snatched as a small child and raised by a villain to lead the forces of evil, she is the person the Red Ranger has been searching for all along.

Which entertainment giant acquired Power Rangers in 2001 as part of a multibillion-dollar television buyout?

Disney got the Rangers as part of a much bigger deal for a cable channel, kept them for nine years and then sold them back to the man who had created them.

What relation is the skeleton warrior Rito Revolto to Rita Repulsa?

Her brother turns up in season three and, hopeless bumbler though he is, destroys the team's Zords in his very first battle.

Power Rangers RPM (2009) is set in Corinth, the last city standing against which AI virus?

Venjix was written by a captive young scientist as a tool for her own escape, but it slipped into the outside world and seized every computer on Earth.

Power Rangers Samurai in 2011 was the franchise's first season on which network?

Nickelodeon's deal revived a show that had gone quiet: no new episodes had been made since 2009, and its previous owner was airing recut reruns of the 1993 original instead.

Which toy company bought Power Rangers in 2018 for more than half a billion dollars?

Hasbro had been named the brand's next toy maker earlier that year, ending Bandai's 25 years in the job, and then bought Power Rangers outright.

Which Power Rangers series moved to Netflix for its second season in 2022, the first to premiere only on a streaming service?

Dino Fury spent its first season on cable television and jumped to Netflix when the franchise's long-running cable contract ran out in 2021.

Which 2023 season was planned as the last in the Power Rangers continuity that began in 1993?

Cosmic Fury took only its giant-robot footage from Japan: its Rangers fought in new suits made for the American show.

In the 2023 reunion special Once & Always, which robotic villain vaporises Trini?

Robo-Rita's blast is aimed at a teammate, but Trini dives in front of it; a year later her daughter Minh takes up her mother's powers to face the robot.

Who played Rita Repulsa in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Elizabeth Banks plays a Rita with a new past: in this version she was once the team's Green Ranger, until she turned on her fellow Rangers.

In the 2017 Power Rangers film, the Zeo Crystal turns out to be buried beneath which business?

A Krispy Kreme: the doughnut chain was an advertising partner of the film, and Rita even pauses there to eat a doughnut while hunting for the crystal.

Which Breaking Bad star played the Rangers' mentor in the 2017 Power Rangers film?

Bryan Cranston was returning to the franchise: early in his career he had voiced two of the monsters in the show's first season.

Starting with Ninja Storm in 2003, which country became the production home of Power Rangers?

New Zealand replaced Los Angeles when the show's new owner found it could be made more cheaply there, and it stayed for two decades, until the end of filming there was confirmed in 2023.

Which of Rita Repulsa's minions makes the monsters she sends to Earth?

Finster models each monster by hand and bakes it in an oven he calls the Monster-Matic; when a new master arrives who conjures his own, the little craftsman is left pining for the old days.

Zack, one of the original five Rangers, invents his own fighting style by mixing martial arts with what?

Hip-hop dance: he names the result Hip Hop Kido, a string of dance moves finished with fast strikes, and even teaches it to others.

In season two, what do Bulk and Skull make it their mission to discover about the Power Rangers?

Their secret identities stay safe all season, and when the pair do finally watch the Rangers unmask, a blow to the head wipes the memory.

In season three, Master Vile's Orb of Doom changes the Power Rangers into what?

Children: the Orb turns back time, and as the young Rangers' powers no longer work, Alien Rangers from the planet Aquitar have to guard the Earth until it is undone.

In Power Rangers Zeo, the mysterious Gold Ranger is revealed to be an alien from which planet?

Triforia's ruler, Trey, is split into three separate selves in battle, so he has to lend his Gold Ranger powers to an Earth hero until he can be made whole.

What do the initials in Power Rangers S.P.D. stand for?

Space Patrol Delta polices an Earth where aliens have settled among humans, and its rookie B-Squad gets the Ranger powers only because the elite A-Squad vanishes in battle.

In the Japanese footage reused for the first season, which colour of Ranger was a man, though a woman in America?

Yellow: the Japanese hero, Boi, was male, which is why the Yellow Ranger's suit has no skirt while the Pink Ranger's does.

Which hangout, run by Ernie, do the original Power Rangers teens gather at between battles?

The Juice Bar sits inside the Youth Center, and Ernie serves behind its counter until he leaves for volunteer work in South America and a police lieutenant takes it over.

What does Rita Repulsa hurl down to Earth to make her beaten monsters grow into giants?

Her wand, thrown with the cry 'Magic wand, make my monster grow!', splits the ground open, and the force that pours out turns the loser into a giant.

Which Marvel Comics legend tried and failed to sell a Japanese Sentai series to American TV, years before Power Rangers?

Stan Lee could not sell Sun Vulcan to a single network, but a colleague who watched him try later became a network executive and gave Power Rangers its chance.

Which original Ranger is the team's science whiz, inventing the wrist communicators they use to teleport?

Billy outlasted every other member of the first team, and when the rest became Zeo Rangers he stepped back to be their technical adviser instead.

In Power Rangers Zeo, the former bully Skull turns out to have which hidden talent?

The piano: he had hidden his classical playing for fear of mockery, but when he performs Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, Bulk is moved by the music and congratulates him.

Why was Power Rangers briefly banned in Malaysia?

'Morphin' was linked to morphine, so officials said the show could return only if the word was cut, and it came back as plain Power Rangers.

Which 2008 season was originally meant to be the last, before Bandai obligations forced RPM?

Jungle Fury's ratings had sunk so low that its owner was ready to stop, yet the one extra season it was obliged to make has since been hailed as one of the show's best.