Power Rangers Turbo, Part 1 - History of Power Rangers
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History of Power Rangers is a series where Linkara looks at every season of the show and offers critical analysis!
The History of Power Rangers shifts into turbo, subsequently also shifting into mediocrity. New cast, new rangers, same idiotic villain.
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Originally uploaded May 6th, 2010.
"She's not real... She's a robot..."
"Based on that line read, she's not the only one."
This killed me considering the actual plot of the episode
Having now seen the episode I can confirm: still more emotion then Justin usually held
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*Linkara:* Instead, we've got a friggin' twelve-year-old driving around in a supercar, the Rangers tossing the keys to their weapons over to a bunch of untested _newbies,_ our wise leader and quirky-but-intelligent robot buddy replaced with a woman _pretending_ to be deep and her jive-talking faux-street robot, intergalactic empires with armies of deadly soldiers replaced with a woman whose _mask_ doesn't fit right in a _submarine_ along with her incompetent nephew, and her tendency to _whine every five seconds_ *because she doesn't have the good sense to set her damn explosives for thirty seconds instead of an hour, AND WE HAVE A POLICE LIEUTENANT RUNNING A FREAKIN' JUICE BAR!!! GAAAAAHH!*
*Rita Repulsa: I have a headaaache!!*
This made the video hilarious lmao
I have a feeling he didn't like it.
Thanks for the transcript, I was laughing so hard to register ANYTHING in my head LMAO
That was just brilliant!!!!
he would have blown a brain stem if he remembered that the submarine was "hidden" in a lake.
I just noticed that Adam looked on the verge of tears when taking about Carlos replacing him. Johnny finding out that Saban found the veterans expendable must’ve really hurt him. He and Nakia Burrise both found out through gossip via the make-up and wardrobe department. Something similar happened when Aisha got written out.
Certainly Heartbreaking. Tho he would return in Space.
That always pisses me off as well. Johnny Yong Bosch had been right there since Season 2, and he had become one of the elder statesman anchors of the Power Ranger group. Only Jason David Frank had been on the show longer than Bosch. Another in a long line of damning things to happen on such a great show.
Sorry for a joke to a 5 year old video but I need to get it out of my Brian.
YO YO YO CAN THROW ALPHA 6 INTO THE TRASH. NO HACK/SCAM PRIZE
It’s a good thing Bosch found work immediately after this. Trigun for example among other things before Bleach.
Saban is probably the biggest most out of touch cheapskate who's ever worked in the entertainment industry
RIP to the one, the only, Jason David Frank. Gone way too soon, but forever preserved in the Morphin' Grid.
1973 - 2022
🙏🙏🙏
I miss him too
Rest In Peace Jason David Frank
@jeffreywilliams8499 I think all ranges miss him I sure do
Rest in peace Jason David Frank
Turbo is known as the season that almost ended power rangers and in space is known as the season that saved it but Zeo tends to not get much attention and is criminally under rated.
MoovieDude I can agree with that.
I think part of the reason is because Zeo more or less restores Status Quo is God after the arc heavy Season 3 of Mighty Morphin. Thus, not a lot happens during Zeo. It’s the Rangers back in action and not much else beyond new powers and villains.
I find it ironic that the Rangers that were in one of the worst of the zordon era were also in one of the best of the zordon era.
zeo is still top 3
Which is sad because I actually like Zeo more than Mighty Morphin
I know that it was unintentional but Dimetria replying to Tommy with "are you not more than the Power Rangers" takes on a whole different light considering what happens to Tommy way later.
Same with Fighting Sprit in Dino Thunder.
It's kind of funny how much some of this series issues would be solved by later ones. Jungle Fury would have a mentor that worked by providing clues rather than answers and RPM would adapt a particularlly goofy sentai series into a darker Power Rangers series.
both from disney. forgive my smugness.
What's RPM?
@@ianbyrne465 if your referring to the show, RPM was the last Disney era power rangers season focused on a world that was mostly destroyed by a AI named venjix ( Probably misspelled his name ) With the rangers trying to defend the last human city named corinth( Again Probably misspelled the name ). If your referring to the car thing... I couldn't tell you sorry.
@@somenimrod326 You spelled Corinth and Venjix right.
@@MegaAnimazing Oh... Yay I, Got it right. Also thanks for telling me!
Honestly I did kind of like how Zed and Rita ended up just settling down, especially after driving off in a camper. I secretly wanted to see more of their domestic life after the movie: mowing the lawn, walking in the park...in an evil way of course!
Forget Wandavision, I want a classic sitcom parody show staring those two
@@ryanmurphy8388 honestly i'd pay to see that lmao
"I, Lord Zedd, Emperor of Evil, have conquered this stretch of land, and subjugated its foliage to my desires!"
Never got around to writing it, but I had a fanfic idea of them both becoming forces for good after In Space, and Zedd going to Tommy to ask for help against a new evil threat
@@symantares9171I mean with Zedd we don’t know but mystic force confirmed before she died and got revived during once and always that Rita did become a sorceress of good
That rant at the end was nothing short of epic.
Let the hate flow through you
I was expecting the combine harvester meltdown but Rita saying she's got a headache is fine
whovianhistory buff 2345 Perfect way to end a rant.
The rant in megaforce was better
TheEman11910 Of course it was. Those rants were about how disappointing and frustrating the anniversary seasons were. But here, it's about how poorly handled theses changes in the show were.
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Lewis: "Otherwise Zordon can just whip up new powers out of nowhere"
Saban: (nervous Gosei sweating intensifies)
There’s a simple explication for that.
@@daelen.cclarkit’s far too complex for you to understand
At the risk of being call an idiot, I've never hated Justin. Yes the idea behind why he was created is asinine but blaming him for all the problems with this season that some fans do. I just don't think it's justified.
KidSnivy96 Plus he was a likely based adaptation of Tommy's Dairanger counterpart Kou (minus the mom abandonment* issues and pervert traits)
*with reason given he *SPOILER ALERT* is part Ganma
+kory stephens Gourma..
KidSnivy96 I just found him kinda annoying. The problems weren’t all on him. As a kid I just always cringed whenever he was on screen. Main problem with turbo is just what linkara said, we aren’t given any real reason why they stopped using the Zeo powers
And the thing is, it would have been EASY for them to have a reason for the switch to the Turbo Powers. Just tell the Rangers that the Zords were reverse engineered from the Zeo Zords, and the powers were derived directly from the Zeo Crystals. In fact, I think Linkara even mentioned this later in the video.
The worst part of Turbo was not Justin it was Divatox. She was a pathetic excuse for a villain! I know she was American made because her Sentai counterpart was too sexy for Fox Kids but they could have tried harder! Carol Hoyt was the better Diva of the two actresses, but that's all I can say.
"And we have a police lieutenant running a friggin juice bar!!!"
Pet shop owner : Well, I'd better replace it, then.
Linkara: "I swear if you want to get anything done in this country you've gotta complain to the old blue in the mouth.
Pet Shop Owner: Sorry squire we've run right out of good ideas for Power Rangers
Linkara: I see I see I get the picture.
PSO: I've got Operation Overdrive
L: Does it have good features to it?
PSO: Not really
L: Then it's scarce to replace Turbo then isn't it.
(I actually did the Dead Parrot script for a unit in drama this year for high school)
Lord Zedd was that dude! The ONLY Power Rangers villain that actually scared the shit out of children! Too bad they had to dial it down with him!
I’d like to introduce *lord Mesogog*
@@accidentalmadness1708 I LOVED Mesogog!
Only cause the parents complained about him. Honestly his first appearance in Season 2, Episode 1 - "The Mutiny, Part 1" was definitely my favorite. Especially the line he says to Rita. "Those Power Rangers are nothing more than mere infants! You were defeated by CHILDREN! You _dare_ call yourself an Empress of Evil!? You are not fit to destroy a COCKROACH!!!"
Because Parents couldn't be bothered to PARENT THEIR OWN DAMN KIDS and instead decide to try to baby proof the world.
As far as Power Rangers villains go, Lord Zedd was the GOAT. His design was genuinely the most convincing villain-design in any of the shows so far. His design as Master Zedd in Cosmic Fury wasn't bad either, but it's far from as iconic or intimidating as his original design.
Turbo had production troubles in its first half. Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage Gekisou Sentai Carranger's slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue Power Rangers Zeo's more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe Mood Whiplash, like a villain planting bombs that Rangers needed to deactivate before they blew up and kill people while having goofy concepts like Tommy reading the new Megazords' instruction manual. Eventually Doug Sloan left and was replaced with Judd Lynn right when it came time to jettison the old cast (save the new Kid-Appeal Character they just brought in) and replace them with a new cast. Then the crew didn't even have the decency to tell the actors they were all about to lose their jobs, until some of them overheard the makeup team gossiping about it. As Judd Lynn was in agreement on playing closer to Carranger's comedy, the product became a lot more cohesive in the show's second half.
And boy did the idiot Tzachor ever do just that, embrace the Sentai, in Power Rangers Megaforce and Super Megaforce.
Ah, Jonathan Tzachor, the worst thing to ever happen to the Power Rangers Franchise.
@@taylormansonshadicstorm9008 that goes without saying. Given his profound laziness and lack of ingenuity when it comes to Power Ranger adaptations, I refer to him as Tzachor the Slacker.
@@bobbyshaddoe3004 His approach of directly adapting the Sentai only really worked with Time Force and Wild Force, though the latter depends on who you ask, since Wild Force is more divisive.
@@taylormansonshadicstorm9008 there was no need for a direct adaptation fpr Wild Force honestly. There was a lot that just annoyed me abiut Wild Force, the ides that Taylor, the one that led thr team successfully before acole arrived suddenly has to stand down becquse some off the stteet jungle boy is the red ranger and thr luon is king of thr jungle so that means red ranger equal leader. Also, the thing with Merrick.... i wanted to shoot myself mosr of the time. Cuz we get no resolution to his inner conflict, nor anything regarding thr 'will they wont they' romance between him and shalya. I mean they were togwther before he became Zen Aku but after he is free auddenly its inappropriate becaude of their stations in life!?!? Wtf!?! Its so contrived it hurts
My theory is that the Zeo Powers were killing them like the Gold powers were killing Jason but at a slower rate, so Billy made the Turbo powers
that would make sense
That’s a cool theory
Considering it’s cannon that the Zeo powers get stronger the longer they are used, this would work well. Eventually the Zeo powers would become too powerful for the rangers to handle and would eventually destroy them.
And could be why in the movie, the pink zeo powers started to falter
That actually makes complete sense. Why he’d tie them into cars is a little weird, but I guess we did to Dinosaurs to ninjas to.....Egypt I guess. Maybe he just needed to base them on something he has access to so, possibly in a rush, he went with “powerful” cars.
For those woundering what happened to Rocky:
DG: There are conflicting reports surrounding your departure from the series. For a long time, it was stated that you had injured yourself, and Rocky’s injury was written in to mirror that. Recently, however, you’ve said that you left, at least in part, due to disagreements behind the scenes. Right here, right now, without naming any names, what’s the full story?
SC: There was no injury. That was the way they came up with to write me out. It came down to it was a non-union show, and though it was wildly popular, they didn’t have to adhere to union rules about residuals and salaries. After I’d been there for a couple years and I felt I’d proven myself, I thought I’d get Favored Nations, but some people were getting paid more than others. At that point, I knew that they had the means to pay us all what we were worth, but they didn’t.
I wasn’t thinking along the lines I should have, that I should have stayed on another season for the fans, but I’d put a lot of time and energy into the show, and they weren’t willing compensate me. They really didn’t see my value at all or appreciate what I brought to the show. It really just came down to being treated fairly.
Damn
oof
No wonder. Rocky was such a shit character and nobody liked him. Not like his replacement was any better, lmao!
@@blyzer7373 But he wasn’t to blame for the destruction of the Thunder Zords, it was Tommy
@@blyzer7373 Rocky wasn't that bad of character I think he's a lot better than some other
I'm so glad the ending rant is still here. The 'AND WE HAVE A POLICE OFFICER RUNNING A JUICE BAR' bit always cracked me up in the original.
The transition to a vehicle based theme actually works when you consider the previous themes established. Mighty Morphin season 1 had an ancient dinosaur theme, season 2 had an ancient mythological theme, season 3 introduced ninja powers while the zords were themed after modern animals, Zeo introduced a more technological/religious/civilization theme, and Turbo introduced a modern vehicle based team with cars and rescue based vehicles as Zords. There was a natural progression of themes throughout time that would even be continued with Space Exploration. While Turbo may not have been executed to the standard the fans would have hoped, the theme progression did make sense.
So my idea for Turbo is that Zed and Rita resume their attempts at conquering Earth, but Divatox comes along and decides that she also wants to conquer Earth so she can sell of its resources on the intergalactic black market. Because there are two different villain factions terrorizing Earth, the rangers decide that they need a second team of Rangers to help out. They decide to recruit TJ, Cassie, Carlos, Ashley, and Justin in the same way that Zordon had chosen the original five. The Zeo Rangers would work alongside the Turbo rangers and act as mentors, kind of giving them on the job training. Zed and Rita would then team up with Divatox to destroy the Command Chamber. The Zeo Rangers are kidnapped along with Zordon and Alpha. The Turbo Rangers are on their own with no allies and no mentors. This is like their final exam. They go into space and thus the events of In Space take place.
Why did no one on the staff think of this!?
no sentai footage for them to use with the 2 teams
They've done plenty of original footage at this point, plus they even asked the creators before to produce more footage.
at this point they where heavily switching over to using as much sentai footage as possible
just look at zeo. it;s the reason for the suite change
Unfortunately, Power Rangers likely doesn't have the budget for that. It's essentially doubling the cast on a show notorious for having a minimal budget. Shame too, because it'd make for a good story.
Head-cannon: Billy DID make the Turbo powers. He realized that with all the threats that the Rangers faced they couldn't fight all of them, even with the power of the Zeo Crystal, and perhaps was planning on expanding the team in a way. Unfortunately, he was unable to finish them completely when he accelerated (ha, unintended pun) in age. Alpha probably kept working on them in the background. To get to the Island of Mystery Zordon realized he would need to use an immense source of power to break through the island's magical barriers. Zordom used the Zeo Crystal to do this. which either destroyed the crystal outright or rendered it near useless, hence why Kat couldn't morph. Because the Rangers still needed powers to fight Divatox he presented them with the Turbo Powers, describing them as a necessary upgrade to down play the sacrifice that he had to make.
Don’t care ..
@@MrAjking808 Didn't ask and I DO care.
That would at least makes the most sense also with some help from Lerigot's wand which could explain the key aspect of the morpher. Plus how Justin Kat and TJ later became Turbo Rangers again after the season. Since Zordon was eventually captured and later was destroyed.
I have a headcanon that after In Space they told all of Tommy's friends embarrassing stories about him while he was under Rita's control.
@@MrAjking808look, almost nobody cares about fan theories when official explanation should exist, but screw off, this person put more thought into this movie then the entire writing staff by covering one plot hole, not just that they added extra context to make it work better, that is dedication and passion, don’t knock it till you’ve tried it
I'm so glad you kept in the ''I have a headache'' gag.
I agree, it sells the frustration that he had during the change over.
He actually seems angrier in this version.
Well the Combine Harvester bit is an AT4W thing. This is Lewis doing this retrospective as himself.
Regardless, this was something Lewis said hinself.
13:04
Tommy: What the hell, Kim?! We were together for nearly 3 years!
Kim: Tommy, I understand that you're upset and you have every right to be, but there's a simple explanation for this...*pulls out MMPR Pink comics*
I haven’t read the comic so please elaborate
@@alankrumwiede2670 Read it online. Google the comic.
Ok, but the comics aren't canon to the show
Kim- It's far to complex for you to understand.
Kim: “There’s a simple explanation for that”
My, Zordon does collect some junk doesn't he?
Zordon: "Alpha, has Nasada called back yet?"
Alpha: "Not yet Zordon."
Zordon: "Well, keep an eye on the phone. Also get me a spooky pirate ship with extra cobwebs. It's vital to the fight against evil."
Alpha: "Right away, Zordon."
Zordon: "And lastly make sure you hide the Rubber Ducky of Power. The time may come when the rangers have to call upon it's might."
Zordon: And you hid Gosei away, right?
Alpha: Yes, Zordon, I did.
Zordon: What did you tell him?
Alpha: That he needed to stay in the cave with that science fair project I made just in case a time came when the keys would need to be used.
Zordon: And he bought it?
Alpha: Hook line and sinker, big guy!
Zordon: *chuckling* That guy will believe anything.
Oh, Gosei. You know that you are the worst mentor in the history when there was a guinea pig that was doing better job than you.
SnowWolfAlpha
Gosei: All set Tensou!
Tensou: Yay! Now what?
Gosei: We just wait!
*Years pass by*
Tensou: Gosei! Demons are on a loose!!!
Gosei: *Sleeping* Go to sleep!
Tensou: Mutants!!!
Gosei: Go to sleep!
Tensou: Orgs!!!
Goesi: Sleep Tensou!
Tensou: Space Ninja! Prehistoric Creatures! Mystical Beast! Outer Space Monsters! Spirit Animals! Nylock!
Gosei: Shut the f*ck up Tensou and go to damn sleep!
*Insects arrive to Earth*
Gosei: *Waking up* Wha-- Insects! Tensou! Wake up!
Tensou: Bout time idiot!!!
Luis Hernandez and this is why to me Gosei is actually a kid in his species and the Megaforce Command Center actually belonged to someone else who knew Zordon, and he left to fight some great evil and Gosei just decided to use the stuff left behind whenever he felt like it, and decided to rename everything and say that the Pirate powers they found from a missing Ranger team was an upgrade to the powers that the real owner of the Command Center made
Also
Zordon: "alpha, did you hide the quasar sabers on a distant planet, to hide from divatox??"
Alpha: " Yess, Zordon, i also placed them in hard stone.."
Zordon: "and what about the aquabase ??? "
Alpha: " Oh, Shit!! ""
To be fair, the Zeo Crystals "Always getting stronger" was an issue in itself as either the Rangers would have been too powerful for threats or everything would have escalated to ridiculous levels. Still could've offered a better or any reason for the switch.
Personally. The explanation I would go with is that the Zeo Crystals became corrupted. Meaning they took on the Turbo powers because using their old powers would consume them.
One of my problems with Justin is that they wanted a 12 year old for kids to relate to... then they said he was a genius who's in high school. That's not relatable to kids. Either go full in "He's a 12 year old in middle school" or don't do it at all.
Agreed.
Y’know, with the way Tzachor ran the Neo-Saban era, I have to wonder if the stuff in Turbo (no explanations for the powers switch or why Bulk and Skull aren’t in France, the sudden removal of Zordon and Alpha with no buildup) was the dry run for his later tenure on the Neo-Saban era. I mean I know not EVERY negative thing was his fault but seriously with how he ran things then (and presumably in Turbo) THIS GUY wrote the Changing of the Zords 3-parter AND Countdown to Destruction. Dude’s apparently got more ups and downs than a roller coaster.
Also it seems to set the precedent of Judd Lynn coming in and salvaging as best he can. I mean it says something about Judd when even if his finishing up of RPM wasn’t what Eddie Guzelian would’ve done, still kept the tone and themes and he at least wrapped things up in a satisfying way.
Again I know it’s not ALL Judd just like it’s not ALL Tzachor but in terms of Power Rangers showrunners, he’s probably the one I like the most
Oh no Judd lynn will be the first to tell you johnathon Tzachor was a major pain in the ass during these days too. The difference is that he alot more actually smart people around him to keep him in check. Tv tropes says Judd Lynn was in agreement with Tzachor on how to proceed with the series but I don’t think that’s accurate. I noticed on a rewatch that Judd Lynn wasn’t too high up on the food chain in the early days of power rangers. So I think it was more of a case of him just picking his battles so he can salvage the mess that Tzachor had created since the guy had no trouble firing two long term producers of the show being Doug saloan and Ann Austin just for not agreeing with him.
@@Cloud-dt6xb Too bad we didn't get that for Megaforce where the order of the day was "Use as much sentai footage as possible regardless if it makes sense or not!"
A couple comments:
I love your reference to Team Skull of Pokemon Sun and Moon.
And I died laughing at the ending.. "AND WE HAVE A POLICE OFFICER RUNNING A FRIGGIN JUICE BAR!!!"
I HAVE A HEADAAAAAACJE
DJ Oshawott
Power rangers megaforce in a nutshell.
I can't personally verify the sources, but on IMDb's trivia section for the Turbo movie, it explains that Lerigot's magic was the source of the Turbo powers. It also explained that the Zeo powers were irreparably damaged by an encounter with one of Divatox's minions, and that the movie's finished runtime was over three hours- and among scenes and subplots axed for the final cut was a mostly naked space mermaid that was an ally of Zordon's who would help the ranger. The trivia blurb goes on to state that she/it was the one who helped Kimberly and Jason escape Divatox's bilge- and that you can spot the slight continuity error from her scenes being cut when they all wash up on the beach.
Damn.
That's very interesting. Thanks.
That's a fact. It was explicitly stated in the film that they need the Turbo powers to cross the barrier to Maligore's island, and that the Turbo powers work for that because they were made using Lerigot's power.
I would've loved to see the mermaid...
@@sougotokiwa8439 weirdo
Would have been nice for any of that explanation to, you know, be stated in the movie.
Funny how all these kids just walk into power plants or oil refineries without alarms going on. Like could they at least act like something's would need to make sense.
The “great wizard” seems stoned off his ass when ever we see him
Same could be said about the writers.
I think with the new Boom Studios Comics and the unexplained nature of not knowing why they cannot use the Zeo Powers and the origin of the Turbo Powers is great untapped potential for writers to exploit
Yeah, I really want them to explore that gap.
Mathieu Leader I wish they make comic book adaptions of Go Buster and Toqger since they aren't gonna adapt those seasons
Also don't forget Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger their skipping the last sentai to create an english version of the current sentai Uchu Sentai Kyuranger as this is the first sentai that TV Aashi and Saban are working together on
Mathieu Leader Bandai America. They're the ones who had their input included to catch up with the Marvel money
imdb88 Because of Saban, Nick and Bandai (especially Bandai's US branch) agreeing to it due to the sins of Megaforce. Plus w/ Jurassic World filming and its release date, it was another plus for the show to do Dino theme again (though Kyoryuger had flaws). ToQger was skipped due to the feeling Trains aren't marketable or profitable which some can declare bull since some kids still play with trains as toys like this one two year old boy at my local mall or considering Lightspeed Rescue had rescue trains that became their megazord, IIRC.
Personally, I think skipping Sentai seasons is stupid but it's sadly a necessary evil due in part to BoA's hunger for competing with Super Hero toys from Marvel (& DC to some degree) and Nickelodeon's stupid 20 episode a year clause which could and should easily be fixed with either airing the show twice a week or take a page from Disney and trim the episode count to 32 so future seasons can start either in the fall or January simultaneously
I think “cars attacks” highlights what the first half of the series could’ve been. The whole group actually hanging out together, a fairly mature side plot with stone and his niece, the civilian plots smoothly blended into the villain plan, good character development with a Ranger (kat) trying to start the next phase of her life and worrying about her Ranger duties, and some damn good fight scenes between the rangers and divatox’s forces. Probably not a coincidence there is very little Carranger footage. I actually thought the story got better starting there rather than after the cast change. The episodes before it all felt ridiculously low stakes, with ineffective use of the supporting cast, the civilian plots mostly meandering for the veterans, and the footage splicing on par with masked riders
Am I the only one that thinks that Divatox's theme is desperately trying to be The Imperial March?
I was about to say..
"It's sounds like the Imperial March, except 4 seconds long and half-assed by a high school student trying to conduct for the first time".
Dairanger zord fight theme deserves that call much more
But i agree
Am I the only one who thinks the theme of Dr. Weird from Aqua Teen aka Captivity by Tim Souster would fit well for someone like Divatox?
I knew it sounded familiar. Just childish and half assed instead of menacing and sounding like marching soldiers
Something odd I noticed. When the Rangers see that it's Jason and Kimberly who were kidnapped, the zoom in on Tommy has the green colored tube directly behind them. Is that a reference to his time with Kimberly as the Green Ranger?
The monster Malikor looks a LOT like Dark Spectre.
it's maligor.
Same costume
Out of universe explanation: they used the same costume for both characters.
In universe explanation: Maligore and Dark Specter are from the same species, possibly even family...
@@Morgil27
Fair enough. But it would make sense.
Coincidence? 🤔
...Carranger I have no idea but, right now I'm kinda mad at their Red accusing their Phantom Ranger of forcing him to drive a Firetruck.
Still kinda mad.
Anyway, Jetman: 😱Oh dear. The Vyram Empire would definitely be a threat compared to Divatox not to mention it would give Power Rangers (the show) a way of giving tribute to Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (or G-Force, Battle of the Planets or etc.)
It might even give them an excuse to have Bulk become a Ranger.
Tbh the vyram would honestly be too scary for power rangers.
Jetman was still lighthearted by Western standards (and also darker by Western standards as well)
I don’t think it would’ve been as popular as people make it out
@@emaam considering how they nurtured mondo and the machine empire (who were legit genocidal revenge and power hungry robots) I'm sure they could make it work
Damn Kat was a hottie back in the day
CRocketSlim "Was"? Go look up recent interviews on TH-cam with her actress, Catherine Sutherland. I mean she's not exactly ugly these days.
CRocketSlim look her up. She looks amazing today as well.
but not as hot as Kimberly
Daniel Swain while there are hot girls from the franchise, no one is as hot as Kimberly.
Everyone can have Kimberly, I thought Kat was a breath of fresh air and a major Aussie hotty. Her accent to say the least.
Basically it was due to Jason David Frank's desicion to leave was why they were replaced. Catherine and Nakia practically confirmed this on their video for their TH-cam channel to explain (unless they misremembered the events) why they left. They thought that they were going to stay till at least the end of the season, but when JDF was going to leave Saban then decided to replace the other 3 at the same time.
It wasn’t JDf’s decision to replace the cast. That decision was all on Saban. The producers could have given the red Turbo powers, and brought in a new character to replace Tommy. I don’t blame JDF for wanting to leave the show. He wanted to leave at the end of the Zeo series.
@alainaswain4348 I would at least argue that his decision to leave did at least indirectly influenced Saban and company to make the cast change.
17:45The sad thing is you wouldn't even need to change much if you wanted there to be a slightly darker theme thanks to the Rangers growing up, The villain who are pirates could be more sly more devious, and a good writer would've play something like the Rangers were too overconfident thinking Devatox wasn't going to be much of a threat with their zeo Powers, one of her monsters which is actually part of a Trap, tricks them into using their maximum power right away with the zords the power is quickly redirected at them shattering the zeo Crystal and disrupting their powers so that the only way they can reestablish them is with a whole new revamping
26:05 The two-parter of "honey I shrunk the Rangers" was actually a big deal at the time the first part was part of a cliffhanger and a long hiatus and the second part was only aired on TV once. As a kid I remember the commercials for the episode where they said specifically that "it was only going to be aired one time and if you miss it you're going to hate yourself"
Nazo- kage h
Cameron Heaton huh?
Or make them a natural consequence of using the Zeo crystal.
It would've also had some viewer interest in how the inherited power could toll on the new cast since we know the crystal has unlimited power and we saw what it did with Jason. It could also be a plot point to ditch the power or find a way to salvage an adaptable part of it to the cast.
Nazo- kage what
I loved Turbo as a kid. The blue ranger being a kid actually made me excited because it made me think I could be a Power Ranger.
Me too I would love to be a power rangers
Same even if its real XD
Him and young Anakin Skywalker really connected to me as a kid. It made me wonder if I could be a Power Ranger or Jedi.
Well, since James Rolfe begun his own HOPR from his newbie perspective and he praises that your own series helped him shape his opinions, I can't imagine how much proud you could feel just because you helped to spark a great passion for a new fan.
In part, this is one of the reasons why I love watching your reviews and story stuff. You are very Inspiring Mr Lawhaug. Never change.
Wasn't the reason why Steve Cardenas left was cause he had to take care of his Karate school? That could have been it.
Oh and I enjoyed Beetleborgs. Beetleborgs Metallix was my favorite.
Jetman was one of the darkest Sentai in the franchises history and it would have had the same problems with adaptation that Turbo had with Carranger if not worse. It had swearing, blood, violent love triangles, brainwashing, cigarette smoking, and the black ranger Gai was murdered at the end by a mugger.
The violent love triangle was mostly outside the suits, so I think they could walk around that. And Power Rangers have had brain washings in its first two seasons, so I don't think there would be any trouble with that.
The blood and cigarette smoking would have been a problem though (unless they keep it in just to show that Grey's PR counterpart is evil, because only villains smokes in American kids media).
aliastheabnormal Jetman is also a giant plot reference to the anime Gatchaman (a favorite of Alex Ross of all people, who drew the box art for the DVD and Blu Ray releases). Like how Gokaiger was a giant reference to One Piece, this would be completely lost on US audiences.
A lot of that is stuff outside of the suits. Though that does raise the much bigger issue of Jetman having a LOT of out of suit stuff.
Dynaman21 Oh yeah, forgot about that. But Gokaiger isn't as blatant as Jetman with its references.
Don't forget Radiguet, the most noble, sympathetic and endearing villain in Super Sentai's history.
The joke is that Radiguet is scum.
i liked trini
i wish she came back to the show
what happened in 2001 was sad
1:44 - I think that's where I think Samurai and Megaforce failed while Dino Charge and Ninja Steel actually have something to them. The former felt like it was forcing itself to be more childish and "for kids." The latter is still "for kids" but feels like they're still trying to make a good story out of it and not trying too hard. Let's not forget that RPM wasn't exactly all "dark and edgy."
Of course, not everyone's going to like the same thing and while I get a kick out of Ninja Steel's silliness, I get why it doesn't work for others. Nonetheless, I think the new Lynn seasons has a lot more going for it compared to the Neo-Saban era's weak opening acts.
No, Samurai and Megafarce failed because they didn't have Judd Lynn.
SBaby Well that (not to mention any of the crew who made Power Rangers likable and enjoyable from Jackie Manchard to Douglas Sloan/Ann Austen to RPM Crew, etc) but also the problem of trying to hard to be like MMPR for late 2000 kids which doesn't work in the slightest
29:06 I more imagine it's like watching a mashup of Operation Overdrive and Megaforce in an endless loop. 😅
My theory is that the Zeo powers weren't removed at all, and that the Turbo powers were just an add on.
DarkHero Gamer I was thinking the same thing
How come TJ was able to morph alongside Tommy in Forever Red then?
Realshow Because... he was using the other Zeo powers?
Because fanservice
That was a common theory way back, to me it was because the colours are identical, the turbo grid was mentioned so I assumed it was like a side tap into the turbo grid rather than morphin grid, as for Tommy morphin it can either be a retcon, fan service or as it was never explained they didn't need to find a reason after I rewatched the series I saw it as more the powers came direct from Eltar (which maybe had a link to the grid) since they only lost the powers after Eltar was captured, also the robot rangers needed a power source.
21:06 Elgar's appearance changes depending on which footage is used. US footage shows Elgar as a little goofy looking, while Sentai footage shows a more evil face. This parallels the difference between Zelmonda and Elgar's personalities; Elgar's running gag of ruining his aunt Divatox's plans makes him look comically idiotic, while Zelmonda's ruthlessness was emphasized.
the super sentei was about car safety
Nair Williamson
Traffic safety rather.
sry traffic safety
Nair Williamson even pizzas stop at the traffic lights
Nair Williamson even pizzas stop at the traffic lights
At least Carranger saved Super Sentai after Ohranger almost caused it's cancellation. Course it was because of the seran gas attacks during the time and the theme of destruction.
You forgot an obvious question involving dimiteria:
If they wanted the rangers to figure things out on their own, why do they even have a new mentor?
28:12 PIRRANATRONS ON MOTORCYCLLLLLES!!!!
@CWDTrixie - I wouldn't mind seeing that.
"I'm sorry, Dan! I'm really sorry! I didn't know! I'm sorry! I didn't...I didn't know!"
1TrulyMad I prefer Grinders on motorcycles better
+Luis Hernandez But sandwiches can't drive!
1TrulyMad Which is more deadly: Pirranatrons or Sandwiches?
My big issue with the Passing The Torch episodes is just how rushed it is. Apparently it's common knowledge amongst the Rangers that their time is almost up - none of them question what's going on or have any objections (although check out Adam's face when he's passing his power on...JYB ain't happy!!)
It's like:
"Here's a magical timer, it's your last mission and you're going no matter what"
"Yeah ok"
There's no mention of it beforehand and in the episode afterwards, all the newbies are already best friends and seem experienced with morphing & the Ranger powers!
It just *drives* me nuts
That and the rushed introduction to both TJ and Cassie. With them becoming rangers in the same two parter along with Carlos and Ashley both of whom at least appeared earlier in the season.
Linkara has transcended to a new level and has become a Super Saiyan 3 after his rage at the end
Die hard fans: turbo nearly killed power rangers.
Operation overdrive: hold my beer
Megaforce:
ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT???
@@kokoro_gospel lolololol
Neither are as bad as MegaForce
11:02 To be fair, the Sentai version of the second season of Mighty Morphin used a kid for the white ranger. And he was much worse in terms of character because he used his position of the white ranger for personal gain. Something that Zordon always discouraged. Justin on the other hand, never did anything like that. He was just underutilized.
I do like how when Linkara was talking about Carlos and Ashley and how Divatox wanted to destroy them to avoid the prophecy, it does foreshadow Power Rangers in Space.
Considering Jetman is one of the single most successful and fan favorited seasons of Super Sentai, I'm pretty sure that could have worked. Only Jetman though, the two before that wouldn't work and going any further back the age of the footage would start affecting things.
To be fair though, think about going from Dinosaurs, to a mystical crystal...to BIRDS. It's equally as complicated to explain.
I would guess that most of the Jetman props and costumes probably didn't exist anymore, or weren't in good enough shape by that point (they were looking pretty rough by the later episodes). So that could be a reason why not to use it, cool as it might be.
Also, as someone pointed out in a different comment. Saban was probably contractually obligated to adapt current sentai.
Dinosaurs ARE birds. And several other zords before Turbo were more
obviously birds. They are in no way as drastic a change as cars. It's
still a change, since Jetman is much more earth and science based, but
it would have avoided the insanity of Carranger at least. The comment
was more in response to Linkara not knowing whether or not Jetman was
any good.
+Gadzinisko We'll never know what was in the contracts. Heck for years people were saying they weren't allowed to skip series and that went out the window. However from a practicality standpoint there are reasons to stay current. Obviously, the Japanese costumes, props and models would still be available in good condition. They wouldn't have to remake anything. Also, there's toy production. The molds and processes would still be in place and you could just repackage existing stock that didn't sell. Recreating the merchandise from a 6 year old Sentai series would have cost more than just using the more recent equipment.
Another thing from a business standpoint is the "Zord creep". By the time of Turbo, a full second set of Zord toys to sell had become standard.
Re-watching this, there are some ways they could have justified the shift in powers in-universe.
The first would be to make Divatox's monsters faster and more agile, requiring the Rangers sacrifice strength for speed. That would also harken back to the Ninja powers vs the Dino powers.
The second is to have the Zeo powers grow too strong for the Ranger's bodies. Pull a *My Hero Academia* and have Rocky break his arm throwing a punch while morphed.
Finally, make it a question of balance in the fight between good and evil. The Rangers getting stronger invites stronger threats, so they switch to weaker powers to prevent Angel Grove/Earth from being too damaged in the crossfire.
I'd still watch this season over Megaforce because at least they tried most of the time to make the Sentai sort of work in the new context & I can't, for the life of me, figure out, or bare, how badly they botched the adaptation of Gokaiger.
Scsigs Gaming I know how they botched it: Laziness
Actually, "how" isn't really the question. It's more of "why" now that I think about it.
Scsigs Gaming I still have a love for turbo
Turbo only had adapted one sentai that while doesn't have the right tone for the series it could have still worked if handle better since RPM was adapted from another parody sentai but was still edited well enough to be considered one of the darkest and best series of the show. Megaforce on the other hand was edited together by 2 completely different sentai's together the former not being considered all the great to begin with and wasting time of the anniversary by sentai only teams and completely rushing things by making a 50 episode show to 20, making an incoherent mess.
You are far from the only person to do this, but it kind of bugs me when people say "Megaforce=Gokaiger". I don't find that fair not just because it's technically inaccurate (Megaforce was GOSEIGER, it was SUPER Megaforce that was Gokaiger), but because it lumps the first season in with the second. A little while back I ranked the seasons, and actually decided to separate Megaforce and Super Megaforce for ranking. Why? Because taken on its own, Megaforce (Goseiger) is pretty DECENT. Not my favorite season, the pacing isn't great, characterization is bad, etc. But it made good use of the Sentai footage even while rushing and had its own interesting story. Super Megaforce's misuse of the Gokaiger footage was so criminal that I just can't stand people lumping the two seasons together. Super Megaforce must stand on its OWN as the failure it is, while Caffeine-Free Vanilla Megaforce can stand with Lost Galaxy and Lightspeed Rescue as kind of dry boring seasons that definitely weren't THAT bad.
Actually I like Justin as a kid back then and have no problems with him at all.
A kid as a Power Ranger! As a kid, how can you not love that??
@@Kato83849 True, especially since Super Sentai has its own Kid Rangers before.
He was my favorite ranger. As a small kid, it was really fun to watch him.
Unlike everyone else I didn't have a problem with Justin being a ranger or the movie mainly because I only saw it briefly and proceed to watch the series first I'm sorry but I like Justin
Same although I will admit that making kids into power rangers doesn't really work despite Justin being the exception.
Billy should have become Zordon or something. He had an almost instinctive knowledge of the command center and the ranger equipment, and was frequently shown to be the smartest ranger.
Genuinely the best rant I've ever heard in any review at the end of this video. Thank you for the coherency and quality Linkara.
The things that hurt Turbo the most was failure to properly go from Zeo to Turbo, having a kid as a power ranger, repetitive detonator episodes, getting rid of your veteran rangers for rookies, having the power rangers mentor and alpha leave, and etc.
Seeing your complaints with this one makes sense and a lot of the solutions you suggested were done later on with a silly sentai about cars in rpm
Skull doesn't need to become a ranger. He became a kick-ass kamen rider with a fedora.
The rant at the end was pure gold.
I agree 100% I absolutely love Zeo was the season that basically made MMPR even better. Rocky was never good as a leader Red Ranger but he was amazing as a Blue Ranger and his character evolved much more by Zeo which I grew a great like for him by then, Tommy becoming Red Ranger made perfect sense because he fit that role best. And finally bringing Jason back was well "Gold". Jason was always a great leader and for him and Tommy to lead the Zeo team was amazing. The Machine Empire was a great add of new enemies not only of the Rangers but of Zedd and Rita as well! Because by season 3 Zedd and Rita yes we're the villains but basically became likable too! I also loved the new Command Center aka Power Chamber and the Zeozords which are upgrades to the Ninjazords which were also awesome! Turbo got better when TJ and the newer cast joined second part in the season but yeah only thing I enjoyed about Turbo was the Zords and Divatoxs big boobs. Thankfully Power Rangers In Space was a huge improvement and went back to the original roots and had a bit of Star Wars feel to it as well.
wow. i was rewatching the history of power rangers series yesterday and when i came to turbo i thought, man im really looking foreward to seeing the re-edited version of this, wonder when that will be.
thank you louis, for these wonderfull retrospective videos. im looking foreward to seeing future re-uploaded versions of the other series.
Dude, forward. Just, forward.
The one thing I will definitely agree with is changing the team in the middle of a conflict. Not just changing the team but replacing them with inexperienced people! I did enjoy the second half even though I missed most of it due to after school PTA meetings but what I saw was enjoyable.
Adapting Jetman after Zeo could work. After defeating the machine empire, Rita and Zedd stole batteries to upgrade Serpentera and immediately strikes the Zeo rangers immediately after machine empire was defeated. All Zeo zords but Tommy's red falcon was destroyed, which diminished the Sri crystals and will take forever for it to regrow back to what it was. Zordon amd Alpha decided to expand the red falcon zord and developed Jetman powers.
hunterkiller1440 I would have gone with adapting Bioman or Flashman or Maskman, instead of Jetman. But, oh well.
@@xgray2012 the main problem with that is the mechas
@@thehellslayer300 What's wrong with the Mechas?
@@luishernandezsoto they have good designs, but the color scheme they use, and the formation scenes makes them look way older than those of ohranger, plus i dont know what they would use for a sixth ranger because jetman was the last season before that concept beign introduced.
@@thehellslayer300 I don't think not having a 6th Ranger won't be much of an issue but hey it's just my opinion.
They could have easily made a few clever changes to keep things from getting off kilter
1. The Zeo powers were weakened/damaged and unable to be used for the Turbo movie, hence why new powers had to be used.
2. The passing of the torch episode could have basically involved Zordon requesting assistance off world (and providing restorations to the Zeo powers). Tommy and crew pass along their Turbo powers and the Zeo team heads to Space (it would also explain where they'd be next season).
This might cause some issues with the Zeo team in Countdown to Destruction but makes sense
Linkara,in Geekdom 101's podcast with Dan from Dan's Toku rants,it is revealed by Dan that reason of why they could not use the Zeo powers was because they were were bonded to the turbo keys and they only had a limited time to unbond which was why they were desperate to get Tommy back
Zetaforce 2500 I don't understand. Can u please explain simplier?
If that was the case, then Kathryn wouldn't have been able to start transforming into the Pink Zeo Ranger in the movie.
Not to mention they had the Sword of Light, an artifact that was supposed to be able to transfer powers, which got conveniently forgot about from the writers who couldn't keep track of their own writing leading to all sorts of plot holes and continuity issues.
Michael Hewitt-Clarke that’s why TJ has Turbo Red since Tommy unbonded himself from those powers and could re assume Zeo Red
SBaby that was before she obtained Turbo pink
Every time I see Elgar's sword I just end up asking why. Like yeah power rangers always has goofy stuff but often not without context and to my memory Elgar doesnt have any card playing backstory or connection to cards or wonderland or anything. The closest thing I could maybe find was his Sentai counterpart was a "wild child" maybe pointing to living on the streets before teaming up with the others villains and gambling might have found a way to be there. But if anyone has a more concrete answer I dont remember and cant find on the bloody wiki my headache over it would apprecitae it.
Here’s my take on why the zeo powers weren’t used anymore: since the zeo powers keep on growing: what would happen if they had became obsessed with the power and would try to force good into the world like the justice lords in the justice league animated series? I know it wouldn’t matter since they’re pure of heart, but two of the rangers were evil before although Tommy was under a spell but Kat wasn’t for a while and she was put under a spell when she was having second thoughts but that’s my head cannon.
My head canon on the switch to Turbo was that the Zeo crystal just kept building up energy and got unstable, so the Turbo powers were like a vessel to dump the accumulated energy into and let the Zeo crystal reset. Nothing to back it up of course, just something that I think makes sense.
17:31 this and the comment about the writing disagreements made me realize that turbo could've been like rpm, a car themed comedic sentai getting adapted into a dark, serious and mature season, another thing is that if they didn't have the budget and the sentai footage wouldn't allow them to add serious themes they could've easily grabbed jetman or an older sentai like you mentioned, as from what little i know about sentai is that they were usually more darker and adult compared to power rangers
15:31-15:40, what the heck!?!? I didn't even notice that until now you've mentioned it!!
Call it a hunch, but I don’t think Lewis liked this season.
My theory is that Zordon used the zeo crystals to restore the original Dino power coins. The original coins were damaged but still working. The zeo crystals energy was drained off to restore some of the original power. The only coins that couldn't be restore were the white and black power coins because there was no zeo crystal of those colors.
Hence why in forever red Jason has his old Tyrannosaurs morpher working. The process to restore the power coins probably drained most of the zeo energy, now naturally the zeo crystals would restore themselves but that could take time. That why they switched to their "back-up" powers.
As for why the zords are cars, Zordon suggested making the powers car-themed so that earth can create it own power rangers.
Since Justin still had his powers after "True blue to the rescue", my theory is that Justin became a solo hero. During this time he let his farther who works for the government scan his morpher. People begin to reverse-engineer his morpher, and due it being connected directly into Storm Blaster (a car) it was easy for them to make the new powers tied into vehicles like the Turbo Powers.
Thus we get what I like to call "military' power Rangers, I.e. Light speed rescue, S.P.D, and Time Force .
Turbo had a kickass theme song
It had a kickass soundtrack.
I feel like what they should've done with Turbo is start with the successors (TJ, Ashley, Carlos, Cassie) and have Billy be the Blue Ranger. Obviously, this wouldn't have happened given what we know now and what happened with David Yost but I think that would've been better than, "hey, you got new powers now. They're cool. Forget the other ones."
Here's the scenario I have if Billy stayed (no aging or whatever): Billy left the Rangers at some point getting a job at NASA. He's an engineer and works on the ships and such, with him are his crewmembers and assistants (the aforementioned team), the Zeo Rangers are attacked and taken hostage, Billy then brings out the Turbo powers and recruits the others. Billy takes the Blue Ranger powers because that's how he is, he gives the Red Ranger powers to TJ because he's seen him act as a leader with the team (and add in some back story about him being a pilot or something).
Basically have Billy be the creator of the Turbo powers. Again, given what happened in real life it probably never would've happen but I think this would've been better than the official transition we had.
So, technically Justin is now part of the whole teenagers thing from the past few seasons.
Given the bird motif on Jetman they might have been worried about getting in trouble with Hannah Barberra over looking like G-Force
Excellent job, Linkara. I really enjoy these. I don't even have that much nostalgia towards Power Rangers, since i only saw a bit of the first season as a kid, but i find your analysis and commentary on production and behind-the-scenes-info absolutely fascinating. I've watched all your original videos - very happy to see your new rundown of the series.
I subscribe to the theory that Billy created or helped create the turbo powers
After creating the rad bug the next logical step was car zords
I find it halarious that power rangers started out as a bunch of teenagers randomly being selected with no prior experience in the field to begin with LMAO!!! And y'all do realize that the second wave of turbo rangers are the space rangers right.#IllTakeThisOverMegaforceAndSamurai
But the most bizarre episode on Turbo was the Robot Ranger
I just finished re-watching all 45 Episodes of Power Rangers Turbo, and here are my thoughts:
PROS:
- The Theme Song,
- The Turbo Megazord's Savage Spin-out Finisher Move,
- The Turbo Rescue Megazord,
- The Blue Senturion
- Robo Racer,
- The Phantom Ranger,
- It got better during The Second Half of the Series.
CONS:
- Divatox is a Crappy Villain,
- Elgar is Annoying as Hell,
- They made a "Kid" the Blue Ranger,
- No Turbo Ultrazord,
- The Phantom Ranger hardly got any screen time,
- Dimetra wasn't as great a mentor as Zordon.
- Alpha 6's Catch-phrase is "Yo, Yo", instead of "Ai-yai-yai".
I always thought the Turbo power source was specifically needed to get to the island, and they just connected new suits and zords to it
Turbo was my first Power Rangers season I watched as a kid. I barely remember Zeo and MMPR (as a kid mind you because Zeo is my favorite as an adult) but I was born in 92 so I didn’t get sucked in until later in the early series life. Strangely I also only remember the new cast halfway through the series and the rescue zords. I remember seeing the movie and being confused as to why the old shows cast was in it. So I am probably biased but this is the season I loved the most as it was my first. Also my dad works on cars for living and seeing my heros using powered up versions of cars was just magical to me at that age. Also I liked Justin because it made me feel like as a kid I could make a difference in the world and that really inspired and left an impression on me.
His huge fit in the ending was priceless. I love it!
I alway found it funny that PR used the kid ranger concept that Sentai did for the white ranger in Dairanger.
Justin Stewart is my favorite Ranger in Turbo, I didn't think he was annoying like people say. Him being the replacement for Rocky actually solidified how much Rocky sucked as a Ranger for me at least. Justin was cute and much more helpful to the Rangers than Rocky, being kinda the Billy of the team with his many gadgets and gizmos that he can make. So Linkara, I liked Justin and I still like him now
The change up would have been better in the movie. Could have said that the Zeo powers were bonded to the Rangers DNA, so they had to use the turbo powers.
I just thought of this: How can Divatox ruin a graduation that's taking place outside?
Supposedly they actually did say in the movie why the Zeo powers were lost. In a deleted but filmed scene the powers were actually destroyed by Water, not kidding.
You forgot my favorite part of the Turbo movie, Divatox calling Rita and then Rita telling her to give up run away.
When Rita Repulsa tells you to give up because she couldn’t win and neither will you, take the hint and give up!
“Why wasn’t this a thing at the beginning of the season when they graduated”
In my opinion they should have had the first half of the season take place in summer and then after that they go off to college.
Huh.... JonTron has the same issue with Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.
WILL ALWAYS *LOVE* YOU-I-CANT-BELIEVE-YOU-DID-THIS-TO-ME-GODDAMMIT-HOW-COULD-YOU-DO-THIS-TO-ME?!
Lightning Blast and Turbo is the 3rd part. Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts is the 3rd game.
Ray Fanning (Extreme nerd voice) This is all part of my theory that they're in the same universes.
you mean a shallow wrong opinion that doesn't actually have anything to do with the actual gameplay
also being racist
6:55 You know what I love... how ridiculoussly piss easy this sort of thing is to write around, off the top of my head 'Only dark magic works on the island' so no Zeo crystal, or 'It gets destroyed' or 'The lava demon who's name I don't remember is imune to the zeo power because of plot so we need something different' Like their were ways of justifing a jump to cars and machinery over the semi magic shape things.