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[-tetsuo-]

Damn Billy didn't age well.

Meanwhile Zack looks 25

 

[Parallax]

Hell no. I've been trying to block that show out of my memory.

So has jdf, which is a shame, because dino thunder was fun.

And kira? Good god.

 

[WillyFive]

He seems more of a "you had to be there" guy to me. He gets way too much attention, he's the William Shatner of Power Rangers. Except unlike Shatner, he didn't play a character, he played a guy who turned into a guy in a suit who was filmed a year earlier.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Couple years ago

I wonder who is drunker

Is his arm stuck that way?

 

[Marky Mark]

Couple years ago

I wonder who is drunker

Brilliant. Thank you.

 

[MechaX]

Seems like he's the Shatner of the group.

This is exactly what it comes down to; Jason David Frank is literally the William Shatner of Power Rangers.

Hell, for laughs, people should listen or read up briefly on his recent ridiculous beef with Austin St.John (original Red Ranger).

 

[MrChocolate]

The first season of Mighty Morphin' uses, like 98% of the time, stock footage for the fights in suit and Megazords, you can clearly see the change in image quality. When season 2 started, the original Super Sentai that PR is based off, already ended, so Saban asked TOEI to create monsters and record in-suit battles for them.

But When Tommy got the White Suit, it was either mix of Super Sentai's next season DaiRanger( the only thing it had in common with MMPR was the White Ranger suit and the Thunder Zords), the new footage that TOEI made for Saban, and reused shots of previous battles. So whenever the MMPR (aka the suits we all know) appeared on screen with the White Ranger, it was new footage.

And then, you can tell if the footage was recorded by Saban, check if the helmets used by the rangers have locks in the sides, if so, those are the suits made by Saban.

Now to answer your question, no, most in-suit battles were done by stunt doubles.

EDIT: You can even tell by Rita's face, the original Rita is obvioulsy Asian, after season 2, somehow she looked younger. Also Lord Zedd is 100% American, he doesn't exist in Super Sentai.

I KNEW IT!!!! Now I can rest in peace.

 

[inm8num2]

Is his arm stuck that way?

I was thinking the same thing. Always ready for putties!

 

[Zeus Molecules]

Here's some simple math for you:

White Ranger > Green Ranger.

White Ranger = GOAT

I don't know what show you were watching but Green Ranger was goat. He came in as a bad guy, got the pink ranger, became a good guy, and from that moment until his downgrade into white ranger kicked ass.

 

[jwk94]

I don't know what show you were watching but Green Ranger was goat. He came in as a bad guy, got the pink ranger, became a good guy, and from that moment until his downgrade into white ranger kicked ass.

White Ranger had Saba and dethroned Jason as leader. You don't get much better than that in MMPR.

 

[Zeus Molecules]

White Ranger had Saba and dethroned Jason as leader. You don't get much better than that in MMPR.

Green Ranger had Dragonzord.... Basically a mecha Godzilla with a drill for a tail..... that he used to impale enemies with. Just thinking about it is blowing my mind

 

[Sephzilla]

White Ranger had Saba and dethroned Jason as leader. You don't get much better than that in MMPR.

I actually think Jason was more or less dethroned when Tommy was still the Green Ranger.

Also, MechaGodzilla > Saba

When Green Ranger showed up (either as a bad guy or a good guy) it was usually a big deal because he was always a game changer. When he was a bad guy he wrecked the other rangers. When he was a good guy he'd show up and promptly wreck the bad guy and/or save all the other rangers. Hell, the main villains of the show (Rita/Zedd) pretty much devoted a ton of time to destroying Green Ranger specifically.

White Ranger, outside of the initial hype of his build up and reveal, was more or less just another Ranger. He didn't carry that game-changer mojo.

 

[Sou Da]

This is exactly what it comes down to; Jason David Frank is literally the William Shatner of Power Rangers.

Hell, for laughs, people should listen or read up briefly on his recent ridiculous beef with Austin St.John (original Red Ranger).

He's a lot worse. He literally rigged a contest because all of the rangers he played weren't winning. It was a dream Ranger team/ Top 5 thing and basically everyone figured out that it was being used to create a set of Ranger Keys (toys). So people decided to do the smart thing and vote for female and generally obscure rangers who would never get a key in America.

JDF saw that none of his characters were winning (because there's already a MMPR green and white ranger key) so he bitched on Facebook about it and tried to get people to vote. Still wasn't enough, so then he said on Twitter (Tweet now deleted) that he's going to call Namco America and 'work' it out. Suddenly every character he played got 30k votes, and funnily enough only one of his characters managed to win. It wasn't as bad as it could have been but Jesus Christ this guy is an asshole.

EDIT: It was worse than him just telling people to vote, he made a post telling them how to delete cookies and rig it. This was all cataloged on /m/ but the images expired on the archive.

 

[Bubbavelli]

If he doesnt walk to the ring in a full-blown power ranger suit then whats the fucking point.


Fun Fact: the black ranger went to my high school

 

[boiled goose]

Trini died.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuy_Trang

 

[FlashbladeGAF]

Daaayum. You kind of just took a huge shit on my childhood

This will fix it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-edHjylhsfg

 

[Cow Mengde]

Man, I never knew there was so many Power Rangers stuff. I changed channels the minute I saw 3 fingers on their T.rex.

 

[Lum1n3s]

I don't know if y'all have seen the little special about his faith but it talks about why he has that tattoo of JESUS DIDN'T TAP. I thought it was really nice and maybe y'all should watch it if you're interested? It's like 4 minutes long.

Link to video

 

[JackLongRod]

This is exactly what it comes down to; Jason David Frank is literally the William Shatner of Power Rangers.

Hell, for laughs, people should listen or read up briefly on his recent ridiculous beef with Austin St.John (original Red Ranger).

Link ?

 

[Zee-Row]

The beef JDF has with ASJ is so stupid. Wish they would work that shit out and do a panel together.

 

[nictron]

Jesus didn't tap is apparently his website

https://www.jesusdidnttap.com/

I'm going down the rabbit hole guys.

Take this, just in case.

 

[xezuru]

Mah boi Rocco Botte staring into the sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHGSrXL-aYo&html5=1

Iunno, JDF seems like an alright guy

 

[CrashSimonFaye]

Jason was a better ranger than Tommy ever was.

Jason fought Goldar unmorphed while Tommy was off being emo about Kimberly.

Jason>>>>>>>Tommy

 

[Malvingt2]

Jason was a better ranger than Tommy ever was.

Jason fought Goldar unmorphed while Tommy was off being emo about Kimberly.

Jason>>>>>>>Tommy

without any doubt.

 

[Ishida]

I used to be a huge fan of him, but after joining his Facebook page and knowing of his attitude I came to respect him less. He's kind of a douchebag.

Jason (Austin St. John) >>>> Tommy (Jason David Frank).

EDIT:

Yep. He's a super competitive jerkass who starts shit for the smallest things. And he still has beef with Austin St. John. Really lame.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

One of my cousins loves JDF and pays like 80 dollars every con to get a picture with him.

$80 per person..

I think that's probably why he still lives in his Green Ranger suite. The guy seems nice enough though so whatever makes him money.

 

[Slayven]

The beef JDF has with ASJ is so stupid. Wish they would work that shit out and do a panel together.

It seems totally one sided.

 

[Ishida]

He's a lot worse. He literally rigged a contest because all of the rangers he played weren't winning. It was a dream Ranger team/ Top 5 thing and basically everyone figured out that it was being used to create a set of Ranger Keys (toys). So people decided to do the smart thing and vote for female and generally obscure rangers who would never get a key in America.

JDF saw that none of his characters were winning (because there's already a MMPR green and white ranger key) so he bitched on Facebook about it and tried to get people to vote. Still wasn't enough, so then he said on Twitter (Tweet now deleted) that he's going to call Namco America and 'work' it out. Suddenly every character he played got 30k votes, and funnily enough only one of his characters managed to win. It wasn't as bad as it could have been but Jesus Christ this guy is an asshole.

EDIT: It was worse than him just telling people to vote, he made a post telling them how to delete cookies and rig it. This was all cataloged on /m/ but the images expired on the archive.

Yeah, I remember that.

It actually made me sad that the guy who played such an iconic character of my childhood ended up being a complete jackass.

The beef JDF has with ASJ is so stupid. Wish they would work that shit out and do a panel together.

Can you imagine how awkward it was for both to make that Forever Red episode, and shake hands like if they were best pals? Austin seems to be over the rivalry, but we all know that Jason Frank must have been burning with anger during the production of that episode.