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* When the Ranger suits were developed, the helmets were designed without visors or mouth pieces, intending on the heroes showing fear or worry. It wasn't until a little while later that they realized that they were meant to be a fearless force to be reckoned with and they remolded the helmets to include those missing pieces.
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* After production ended, art department electrician Paul Matthews [[http://schoolpa.com.au/~paul/Zordmaker/zordreal2015.pdf wrote a document which shed light]] on some of the problems the crew faced.
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* While ''Lightspeed Rescue'' overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the team-up with the previous season... On top of drawing heavily on ''Super Sentai'' footage from the counterparts' team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'', it was originally released as a video tie-in ''for UsefulNotes/McDonalds'', explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. Amy Miller, the actress who portrayed the villain Trakeena, left over a pay dispute after learning the two-parter was also being released on VHS for a McDonald's tie-in. Danny Slavin, who played the Red Galaxy Ranger Leo, stormed off the set with Miller in protest of her lack of a paycheck, and he was audibly redubbed with the voice of another actor at points.
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* While ''Lightspeed Rescue'' overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the team-up with the previous season... On top of drawing heavily on ''Super Sentai'' footage from the counterparts' team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'', it was originally released as a video tie-in ''for UsefulNotes/McDonalds'', explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. Amy Miller, the actress who portrayed the villain Trakeena, left over a pay dispute after learning the two-parter was also being released on VHS for a McDonald's [=McDonald's=] tie-in. Danny Slavin, who played the Red Galaxy Ranger Leo, stormed off the set with Miller in protest of her lack of a paycheck, and he was audibly redubbed with the voice of another actor at points.
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* While ''Lightspeed Rescue'' overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the team-up with the previous season... On top of drawing heavily on ''Super Sentai'' footage from the counterparts' team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'', it was originally released as a video tie-in ''for UsefulNotes/McDonalds'', explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. Amy Miller, the actress who portrayed the villain Trakeena, got screwed out of most her paycheck and left the set shortly after filming began when she learned that the ''Lost Galaxy'' characters were essentially cameos in their own team-up, and was replaced by another actress. Danny Slavin, who played the Red Galaxy Ranger Leo, stormed off the set with Miller in protest of her lack of a paycheck, and he was audibly redubbed with the voice of another actor at points.
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* While ''Lightspeed Rescue'' overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the team-up with the previous season... On top of drawing heavily on ''Super Sentai'' footage from the counterparts' team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'', it was originally released as a video tie-in ''for UsefulNotes/McDonalds'', explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. Amy Miller, the actress who portrayed the villain Trakeena, got screwed out of most her paycheck and left the set shortly over a pay dispute after filming began when she learned that learning the ''Lost Galaxy'' characters were essentially cameos in their own team-up, and two-parter was replaced by another actress.also being released on VHS for a McDonald's tie-in. Danny Slavin, who played the Red Galaxy Ranger Leo, stormed off the set with Miller in protest of her lack of a paycheck, and he was audibly redubbed with the voice of another actor at points.
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* Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40-episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes but were shot down every time. The producers brushed aside any concerns from the cast or crew about the show's lack of rhyme or reason with "[[CreatorsApathy Who cares?]] [[ViewersAreMorons The audience is five years old."
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* Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40-episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes but were shot down every time. The producers brushed aside any concerns from the cast or crew about the show's lack of rhyme or reason with "[[CreatorsApathy Who cares?]] [[ViewersAreMorons The audience is five years old.old]]."
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* Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
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* Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode 40-episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, scenes but were shot down every time.time. The producers brushed aside any concerns from the cast or crew about the show's lack of rhyme or reason with "[[CreatorsApathy Who cares?]] [[ViewersAreMorons The audience is five years old."
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* Producer Simon Bennett revealed that due to the contract with Nickelodeon being set for one year at the time production started, Dino Fury was originally written out as a single 22-episode season. When the second season was set up to be streamed solely to Netflix, the episode count doubled and in order to keep the structure of the seasons consistent a fair amount of filler episodes had to be slotted in.
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* Producer Simon Bennett revealed that due to the contract with Nickelodeon being set for one year at the time production started, Dino Fury was originally written out as a single 22-episode season. When the second season was set up to be streamed solely to Netflix, the episode count doubled and in order to keep the structure of the seasons consistent a fair amount of filler episodes and a major plot point ([[spoiler: the return of Lord Zedd]]) had to be slotted in.
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* The working conditions were less than savoury. Due to the show being a non-union production, it didn't have to follow the rules of the Screen Actors' Guild. The actors have described the process as five straight days a week of twelve hours filming, the Saturday being used for ADR, Sunday being their only day off and not getting any time off until Christmas (they were granted one week off for that). Haim Saban also pressured the young and inexperienced actors to sign contracts that meant they would make no money off merchandising that used their likenesses (which they still don't get residuals of), and they were paid only about $600 every two weeks. Creator/WalterEmanuelJones, the most experienced of the cast, persuaded the others to enter negotiations with Saban to make the show part of the union - especially once a $40 million [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie feature film]] (and potential trilogy) entered the equation. Negotiations started and, according to Creator/AustinStJohn, the entire cast were initially agreed to walk out together unless Saban budged - but Creator/JasonDavidFrank broke the strike, convinced David Yost and Amy Jo Johnson to stay, and negotiated his character becoming TheLeader. Eventually, Austin St John, Walter Jones and Creator/ThuyTrang walked off the set - and the series hired Steve Cardenas, Johnny Yong Bosch and Karan Ashley to play replacement Rangers. Until they filmed the power transfer episode, they made use of stock footage, body doubles and voiceovers to give the illusion that Jason, Zack and Trini were still there (and not particularly successfully in the eyes of many fans).
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* The working conditions were less than savoury. Due to the show being a non-union production, it didn't have to follow the rules of the Screen Actors' Guild. The actors have described the process as five straight days a week of twelve hours filming, the Saturday being used for ADR, Sunday being their only day off and not getting any time off until Christmas (they were granted one week off for that). Haim Saban also pressured the young and inexperienced actors to sign contracts that meant they would make no money off merchandising that used their likenesses (which they still don't get residuals of), and they were paid only about $600 every two weeks.weeks (and Audri [=DuBois=], who played Trini in the unaired pilot, was fired for asking for more money). Creator/WalterEmanuelJones, the most experienced of the cast, persuaded the others to enter negotiations with Saban to make the show part of the union - especially once a $40 million [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie feature film]] (and potential trilogy) entered the equation. Negotiations started and, according to Creator/AustinStJohn, the entire cast were initially agreed to walk out together unless Saban budged - but Creator/JasonDavidFrank broke the strike, convinced David Yost and Amy Jo Johnson to stay, and negotiated his character becoming TheLeader. Eventually, Austin St John, Walter Jones and Creator/ThuyTrang walked off the set - and the series hired Steve Cardenas, Johnny Yong Bosch and Karan Ashley to play replacement Rangers. Until they filmed the power transfer episode, they made use of stock footage, body doubles and voiceovers to give the illusion that Jason, Zack and Trini were still there (and not particularly successfully in the eyes of many fans). Austin St John would later return to the series for ''Zeo'' only after negotiating a significant pay increase.
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* Due to the fast-paced production schedule, the replacement Rangers had to start work and move to Los Angeles immediately. They weren't paid for their first two weeks of work, and Johnny Yong Bosch was already broke and couldn't afford food or bedding for that time. He was sleeping "in a pile of clothes" until Karan Ashley (whose family had helped set her up in advance) stopped by his apartment and gave him a pillow.
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* Due to the fast-paced production schedule, the replacement Rangers had to start work and move to Los Angeles immediately. They weren't paid for their first two weeks of work, and Johnny Yong Bosch was already broke and couldn't afford food or bedding for that time. He was sleeping "in a pile of clothes" until Karan Ashley (whose family had helped set her up in advance) stopped by his apartment and gave him a pillow. To add insult to injury, they were given the castoff suits from the previous actors, and Johnny Yong Bosch and Steve Cardenas had to have muscle suits built to fit into them. Karan Ashley likewise had to make do with boots two sizes too big for her, and was told to just wear three layers of socks.
* Amy Jo Johnson suffered several near death experiences due to the low budget stunts (that she had to perform herself), and the show not having to adhere to the SAG rules; including one incident where a malfunctioning prop nearly set her and David Yost on fire. Fears over her personal safety led to her leaving the series in the third season, although she was at least given a ten-episode arc to write Kimberly out, unlike the previous three.
* Karan Ashley decided she wanted to leave too at the end of the third season, unable to handle the hectic production schedule. Promised a ten-episode arc like Amy had been given to write Aisha out, it was cut down to two in favour of the plot point of the Zeo Crystal; resulting in Aisha suddenly deciding to stay in Africa to care for the wildlife and reverting to her adult self offscreen. To this day, the actress is still annoyed about it.
* Karan Ashley decided she wanted to leave too at the end of the third season, unable to handle the hectic production schedule. Promised a ten-episode arc like Amy had been given to write Aisha out, it was cut down to two in favour of the plot point of the Zeo Crystal; resulting in Aisha suddenly deciding to stay in Africa to care for the wildlife and reverting to her adult self offscreen. To this day, the actress is still annoyed about it.
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* Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, the original and final choice for Dulcea, was replaced partway by Creator/MariskaHargitay. However, after filming her scenes, which included a training sequence, they felt she wasn't the right one for the job and they rehired Gabrielle, dumping all of those scenes.
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* Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, the original and final choice for Dulcea, was replaced partway by Creator/MariskaHargitay. Creator/MariskaHargitay because she needed to have a cyst removed. However, after filming her scenes, which included a training sequence, they felt fired her because she wasn't the right one flew back to America to visit family for the job and Christmas rather than remaining on-call in Australia. Gabrielle was rehired, but they rehired Gabrielle, dumping all of those scenes.were unable to re-shoot the aforementioned scenes, resulting in an oddity where the Rangers seem to stare at the monument for a while before going (Dulcea was supposed to train them to be ready for it).
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* And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat.
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* And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat. Not helping matters was Eddie Guzelian's firing happening literally as he'd finished working out the direction the second half of the series would go in, and apparently Disney never bothered to contact him so that he could relay his planned storylines to Judd Lynn. Several cast members, most vocally Adelaide Kane and Ari Boyland, bluntly expressed their dislike of the direction the series went in.
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* Austin St. John (Jason), Creator/WalterEmanuelJones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) were fired halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out. David Yost (Billy), Creator/AmyJoJohnson (Kimberly), and Creator/JasonDavidFrank (Tommy) only discovered the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and found Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on set instead of St. John, Jones, and Trang.
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* Austin St. John (Jason), Creator/WalterEmanuelJones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) The working conditions were fired halfway through Season 2 due less than savoury. Due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show being a non-union production, it didn't have to follow the rules of the Screen Actors' Guild. The actors have described the process as five straight days a week of twelve hours filming, the Saturday being used for ADR, Sunday being their only day off and not getting any time off until Christmas (they were granted one week off for that). Haim Saban also pressured the young and inexperienced actors to sign contracts that meant they would make no money off merchandising that used their likenesses (which they still don't get residuals of), and they were able paid only about $600 every two weeks. Creator/WalterEmanuelJones, the most experienced of the cast, persuaded the others to write them out. David Yost (Billy), Creator/AmyJoJohnson (Kimberly), and enter negotiations with Saban to make the show part of the union - especially once a $40 million [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie feature film]] (and potential trilogy) entered the equation. Negotiations started and, according to Creator/AustinStJohn, the entire cast were initially agreed to walk out together unless Saban budged - but Creator/JasonDavidFrank (Tommy) only discovered broke the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' strike, convinced David Yost and found Amy Jo Johnson to stay, and negotiated his character becoming TheLeader. Eventually, Austin St John, Walter Jones and Creator/ThuyTrang walked off the set - and the series hired Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), Cardenas, Johnny Yong Bosch and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on to play replacement Rangers. Until they filmed the power transfer episode, they made use of stock footage, body doubles and voiceovers to give the illusion that Jason, Zack and Trini were still there (and not particularly successfully in the eyes of many fans).
* Filming in the Command Centre setinstead was a nightmare for everyone because of St. John, Jones, how cold it would often get - especially for the actors wearing nothing but thin spandex. Austin St John recalls he and Trang.Thuy Trang literally hugging to stay warm between takes.
* Due to the fast-paced production schedule, the replacement Rangers had to start work and move to Los Angeles immediately. They weren't paid for their first two weeks of work, and Johnny Yong Bosch was already broke and couldn't afford food or bedding for that time. He was sleeping "in a pile of clothes" until Karan Ashley (whose family had helped set her up in advance) stopped by his apartment and gave him a pillow.
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* Due to the fast-paced production schedule, the replacement Rangers had to start work and move to Los Angeles immediately. They weren't paid for their first two weeks of work, and Johnny Yong Bosch was already broke and couldn't afford food or bedding for that time. He was sleeping "in a pile of clothes" until Karan Ashley (whose family had helped set her up in advance) stopped by his apartment and gave him a pillow.
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* David Yost was bullied relentlessly behind the scenes when crew members started to suspect he was gay, overhearing homophobic slurs from the production team, and even being demoted from Ranger to tech advisor in ''Zeo'' because the production team didn't think a gay man could be a superhero. He began to contemplate suicide multiple times because of this and, initially planning to wait it out until his contract expired, walked off the set for good when he discovered the producers had been questioning the other cast and crew about his sexuality.
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* During the production of ''Zeo'', Steve Cardenas found out about a pay discrepancy between some of the cast members and, knowing everyone's contracts expired after ''Turbo'', tried to appeal to producers that he and his fellow cast would be paid the same. When they refused, he quit the series, and they wrote Rocky out anti-climactically by getting an injury in a karate competition.
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* According to [[https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/power-rangers-dino-fury-new-rules-show-premiere?amp an interview]], Dino Fury ended up experiencing some difficulty in being written since it was being written while the Sentai was still airing and they didn't know how the footage would play out. This is an issue the franchise has had in the past, with the hiatus between ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' and the seasons from there on being stretched out over two years giving more of a gap for production to use until ''Dino Fury'' skipped over several Sentai to use the most recent one.
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* According to [[https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/power-rangers-dino-fury-new-rules-show-premiere?amp an interview]], Dino Fury ended up experiencing some difficulty in being written since it was being written while [[Series/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger the Sentai Sentai]] was still airing and they didn't know how the footage would play out. This is an issue the franchise has had in the past, with the hiatus between ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' and the seasons from there on being stretched out over two years giving more of a gap for production to use until ''Dino Fury'' skipped over several Sentai to use the most recent one.
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* Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was ''more popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked Toei to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''[[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Dairanger]]''[='=]s monster and Megazord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
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* Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was ''more popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked Toei to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two four [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] episodes]], two of which used Zyuranger episodes they initially skipped over, while the others recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''[[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Dairanger]]''[='=]s monster and Megazord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
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* Director Bryan Spicer didn't see the actual series when he was hired. As such, he did a quick "fast-forwarding" run of the series, ensuring things would go wrong.
* When the Ranger suits were developed, the helmets were designed without visors or mouth pieces, intending on the heroes showing fear or worry. It wasn't until a little while later that they realized that they were meant to be a fearless force to be reckoned with and they remolded the helmets to include those missing pieces.
* Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, the original and final choice for Dulcea, was replaced partway by Creator/MariskaHargitay. However, after filming her scenes, which included a training sequence, they felt she wasn't the right one for the job and they rehired Gabrielle, dumping all of those scenes.
* The filming for the final scene where the team is thanked turned into a disaster area when local radio shows caught wind of it and tried to turn it into a "Meet the Power Rangers" contest.
* Originally, Ivan Ooze was meant to mutate a bunch of rats for the Rangers to fight. However, the rat costumes proved to be too low budget even for the actual series, leading to the creation of the Ooze Men. However, the suits were spared and used in "The Return of the Green Ranger" three-parter.
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* Initially envisioned as a reunion of the original MMPR cast teaming up with the new Turbo team, it fell apart when Walter Jones and Thuy Trang refused to give up their Guild membership cards to film. The explanation of the Turbo powers was dropped when David Yost left near the end of ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''. The original cut was actually over ''three hours long'' and they were forced to trim it down to under two. Beyond all of that, it was no wonder the movie flopped!
* Director Bryan Spicer didn't see the actual series when he was hired. As such, he did a quick "fast-forwarding" run of the series, ensuring things would go wrong.
* When the Ranger suits were developed, the helmets were designed without visors or mouth pieces, intending on the heroes showing fear or worry. It wasn't until a little while later that they realized that they were meant to be a fearless force to be reckoned with and they remolded the helmets to include those missing pieces.
* Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, the original and final choice for Dulcea, was replaced partway by Creator/MariskaHargitay. However, after filming her scenes, which included a training sequence, they felt she wasn't the right one for the job and they rehired Gabrielle, dumping all of those scenes.
* The filming for the final scene where the team is thanked turned into a disaster area when local radio shows caught wind of it and tried to turn it into a "Meet the Power Rangers" contest.
* Originally, Ivan Ooze was meant to mutate a bunch of rats for the Rangers to fight. However, the rat costumes proved to be too low budget even for the actual series, leading to the creation of the Ooze Men. However, the suits were spared and used in "The Return of the Green Ranger" three-parter.
! ''Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie
* Initially envisioned as a reunion of the original MMPR cast teaming up with the new Turbo team, it fell apart when Walter Jones and Thuy Trang refused to give up their Guild membership cards to film. The explanation of the Turbo powers was dropped when David Yost left near the end of ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''. The original cut was actually over ''three hours long'' and they were forced to trim it down to under two. Beyond all of that, it was no wonder the movie flopped!
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* Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) were fired halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out. David Yost (Billy), Creator/AmyJoJohnson (Kimberly), and Creator/JasonDavidFrank (Tommy) only discovered the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and found Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on set instead of St. John, Jones, and Trang.
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* Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Emanuel Jones Creator/WalterEmanuelJones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) were fired halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out. David Yost (Billy), Creator/AmyJoJohnson (Kimberly), and Creator/JasonDavidFrank (Tommy) only discovered the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and found Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on set instead of St. John, Jones, and Trang.
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* When Hasbro bought the franchise in 2018, its first adaptation was of the 2012 Sentai, ''Go-Busters''. But because the series ended five years before production of ''Beast Morphers'' began, many of the monster suits had significantly deteriorated in the meantime or had possibly been repurposed into other monsters leading for many of them to be completely remade. According to a director, the Ranger suits suffered from this too as, by the time they filmed the finale, the pants of two of them were being held together with black tape because they had literally come apart at the seams.
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* According to [[https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/power-rangers-dino-fury-new-rules-show-premiere?amp an interview]], Dino Fury ended up experiencing some difficulty in being written since it was being written while the Sentai was still airing and they didn't know how the footage would play out. This is an issue the franchise has had in the past, with the hiatus between ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' and the seasons from there on being stretched out over two years giving more of a gap for production to use until ''Dino Fury'' skipped over several Sentai to use the most recent one.
* The series is filming during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. While New Zealand has been lauded as having some of the best responses and recoveries from the pandemic, those are due to its strict lockdowns--two have which went into effect during filming as a precaution, causing production to shut down for three days and later one week.
* When Hasbro bought the franchise in 2018, its first adaptation was of the 2012 Sentai, ''Go-Busters''. But because the series ended five years before production of ''Beast Morphers'' began, many of the monster suits had significantly deteriorated in the meantime or had possibly been repurposed into other monsters leading for many of them to be completely remade. According to a director, the Ranger suits suffered from this too as, by the time they filmed the finale, the pants of two of them were being held together with black tape because they had literally come apart at the seams.
! ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury''
* According to [[https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/power-rangers-dino-fury-new-rules-show-premiere?amp an interview]], Dino Fury ended up experiencing some difficulty in being written since it was being written while the Sentai was still airing and they didn't know how the footage would play out. This is an issue the franchise has had in the past, with the hiatus between ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' and the seasons from there on being stretched out over two years giving more of a gap for production to use until ''Dino Fury'' skipped over several Sentai to use the most recent one.
* The series is filming during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. While New Zealand has been lauded as having some of the best responses and recoveries from the pandemic, those are due to its strict lockdowns--two have which went into effect during filming as a precaution, causing production to shut down for three days and later one week.
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! ''Before Power Rangers''
* It began when Haim Saban caught an episode of ''Series/ChoudenshiBioman'' during a business trip to Japan. Saban immediately saw potential for an American adaptation of ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and produced a short pilot for an adaptation of ''Bioman.'' He spent nearly five years pitching the concept to any interested networks, but none were sold until he pitched it to Margaret Loesch of Fox Kids in 1992. He re-edited the pilot with footage from the most recent series, ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger.'' The network greenlit the show for a 40 episode run:
* It began when Haim Saban caught an episode of ''Series/ChoudenshiBioman'' during a business trip to Japan. Saban immediately saw potential for an American adaptation of ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and produced a short pilot for an adaptation of ''Bioman.'' He spent nearly five years pitching the concept to any interested networks, but none were sold until he pitched it to Margaret Loesch of Fox Kids in 1992. He re-edited the pilot with footage from the most recent series, ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger.'' The network greenlit the show for a 40 episode run:
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* Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was ''more popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked Toei to make new fight footage from ''[[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''[[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Dairanger]]''[='=]s monster and Megazord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
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* Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was ''more popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked Toei to make new fight footage from ''[[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''[[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Dairanger]]''[='=]s monster and Megazord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
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* When production ran longer than expected for TheMovie, the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center. Several episodes that had been scripted were scrapped due to the revised schedule.
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Power Rangers The Ultimate Visual History, P. 202, has this tidbit about the marketing concerns.
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* ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material after the delay in bringing ''Samurai'' to television and forcing the ''Super Samurai'' second season. The next shows in line were ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'', a rather mediocre season whose theme was guardian angels protecting the Earth from alien invaders, and ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', the Japanese franchise's 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
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* ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material after the delay in bringing ''Samurai'' to television and forcing the ''Super Samurai'' second season. The next shows in line were ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'', a rather mediocre season whose theme was guardian angels protecting the Earth from alien invaders, and ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', the Japanese franchise's 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration.MilestoneCelebration featuring pirate-themed rangers [[PowerCopying who could morph into past rangers and use their powers]]. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. Furthermore, the production staff was concerned that ''Goseiger's'' angel-motif and ''Gokaiger's'' pirate one weren't viable for a two-year shelf life. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
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* Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past Super Sentai Rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ''Super Sentai'' teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers". On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Power Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it. It should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show moved production to New Zealand 10 years prior. An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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* Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past Super Sentai Rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, ''Gokaiger's'' past Ranger morphs along with several ''Super Sentai'' teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers". On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Power Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it. It should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show moved production to New Zealand 10 years prior. An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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* The original plan was for Patricia Ja Lee (Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger from the 2nd half of ''Turbo'' and ''In Space''), to take over, and for that, Saban filmed a hand-off and an entire episode without ''Gingaman'' footage [[FanNickname sometimes called]] "''Film/AirForceOne'' [[DieHardOnAnX on the Megaship]]", but Patricia soon walked out due to a pay dispute. She was quickly swapped in with Melody Perkins ([[TheAtoner Karone]]), which required ''two more'' episodes with a lot of US-exclusive footage.
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* The original plan was for Patricia Ja Lee (Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger from the 2nd half of ''Turbo'' and ''In Space''), to take over, and for that, Saban filmed a hand-off and an entire episode without ''Gingaman'' footage [[FanNickname sometimes called]] "''Film/AirForceOne'' [[DieHardOnAnX on the Megaship]]", but Patricia soon walked out due to a pay dispute. She was quickly swapped in with Melody Perkins Creator/MelodyPerkins ([[TheAtoner Karone]]), which required ''two more'' episodes with a lot of US-exclusive footage.
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* Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was ''more popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked TOEI to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''Dairanger''[='=]s monster and Megazord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
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* Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was ''more popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked TOEI Toei to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' ''[[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyuranger]]'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''Dairanger''[='=]s ''[[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Dairanger]]''[='=]s monster and Megazord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
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* Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) were fired halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out. David Yost (Billy), Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly), and Jason David Frank (Tommy) only discovered the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and found Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on set instead of St. John, Jones, and Trang.
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* Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) were fired halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out. David Yost (Billy), Amy Jo Johnson Creator/AmyJoJohnson (Kimberly), and Jason David Frank Creator/JasonDavidFrank (Tommy) only discovered the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and found Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on set instead of St. John, Jones, and Trang.
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* Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was more ''popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked TOEI to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''Dairanger''[='=]s monster and Megazord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
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* Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was more ''popular'' ''more popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked TOEI to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''Dairanger''[='=]s monster and Megazord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
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* ''Turbo had production troubles in its first half. Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'''s slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''[='=]s more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe MoodWhiplash, 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 KidAppealCharacter 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.
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* ''Turbo ''Turbo'' had production troubles in its first half. Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'''s slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''[='=]s more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe MoodWhiplash, 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 KidAppealCharacter 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.
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* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'':
** Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was more ''popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked TOEI to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''Dairanger''[='=]s monster and zord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
** Season 2 had it even worse. The last ten episodes spilled over to Season 2, which created a new problem when Saban and Bandai wanted to introduce new zords to get new toys on the shelves in time for the holidays. The decision was made to hack the ''Dairanger'' mecha footage prematurely, resulting in two different sources of footage being spliced together for the zord battles. The mecha from ''Dairanger'' would launch an attack and then cut to footage of the [=Zyu2=] monster taking the hit and vice-versa. After the [=Zyu2=] footage was bled dry, the situation was completely reversed. Now, the monsters came from ''Dairanger'', meaning the zord battle didn't have to be spliced together, but since most of the ''Dairanger'' monster costumes were unusable for American footage and ''Power Rangers'' continued to use the ''Zyuranger'' costumes, the majority of ''Dairanger'' monsters never once appeared on screen with the Rangers. Instead, most of the ground fights were Rangers fighting Z-putties in American footage with the ''Dairanger'' monster barking orders in completely isolated footage before Zedd made the monster grow. To top it off, Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) were let go halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out. David Yost (Billy), Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly), and Jason David Frank (Tommy) only discovered the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and found Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on set instead.
** When production ran longer than expected for TheMovie, the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center.
* ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' had production troubles in its first half. Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''[='=]s slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''[='=]s more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe MoodWhiplash, 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 zords' 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 KidAppealCharacter 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.
* ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' had a bumpy ride as well.
** The show was first planned to be another space-themed series to follow up the success of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', only for the crew to find that ''Lost Galaxy'''s source material, ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'', was themed around wildlife and nature.
** The Lights of Orion arc, early in the season, turned out be nearly incomprehensible because episodes were still being filmed a week before airdate.
** That arc would have been followed by the Galaxy Book arc, which would have tied into the Galactabeast carrier Zords, and the Pink Galaxy Ranger, Kendrix Morgan, would've been heavily involved in the story. But then her actress Valerie Vernon developed leukemia, so the writers had to find a way to write her off the show to allow her a medical leave and the Galaxy Book arc had to be rewritten in a hurry. Worse, the Galactabeasts themselves hardly showed up in ''Gingaman'', so there wasn't much to work with.
** The original plan was for Patricia Ja Lee (Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger from ''In Space''), to take over, and for that, Saban filmed a hand-off and an entire episode without ''Gingaman'' footage [[FanNickname sometimes called]] "''Film/AirForceOne'' [[DieHardOnAnX on the Megaship]]", but Patricia soon walked out due to a pay dispute. She was quickly swapped in with Melody Perkins ([[TheAtoner Karone]]), which required ''two more'' episodes with a lot of US-exclusive footage.
** Still trying to do something resembling the original plan, the final arc had Terra Venture sent to the Lost Galaxy [[ArtifactTitle the series had been titled after]]: it turned out as essentially {{filler}}, likely shoving in as much ''Gingaman'' footage as possible to save money for the finale. To add insult to injury, the series was pulled before the finale could air; it was later put out as a "special presentation" with little promotion.
** It's likely that Saban suffered some serious financial losses from ''Lost Galaxy'''s production -- the second season of ''Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog'' had been cancelled and its budget reshuffled towards ''Lost Galaxy'', and it still didn't help.
* ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': While the show overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the team-up with the previous season... On top of drawing heavily on ''Sentai'' footage from the counterpart team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'', it was originally released as a video tie-in ''for UsefulNotes/McDonalds'', explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. Amy Miller, the actress who portrayed the villain Trakeena, got screwed out of most her paycheck and left the set shortly after filming began when she learned that the ''Lost Galaxy'' characters were essentially cameos in their own team-up, and was replaced by another actress. Danny Slavin, who played the Red Galaxy Ranger Leo, stormed off the set with Miller in protest of her lack of a paycheck, and he was audibly redubbed with the voice of another actor at points.
* ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': The anniversary episode "[[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceForeverRed Forever Red]]" was rife with problems. Originally conceived as a cult attempting to revive Dark Specter, the need to use abandoned ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' costumes and the want of a super weapon led to the usage of the Machine Empire and Serpentera. Scenes were filmed and cut out (including a bigger role for the Wild Force team outside of their brief cameo) and a major battle between classic Megazords and Serpentera were scuttled when Bandai insisted that Cole use a vehicle he gained just an episode earlier, leading to a CurbstompBattle. Also, as mentioned above, Leo's actor Danny Slavin, who generally had a pretty sour case of CreatorBacklash due to his experiences on ''Lost Galaxy'' and the ''Lightspeed Rescue'' team-up episode, had only agreed to appear after the producers called in some personal favors, where by then, most of the episode had already been shot. Hence his very late arrival, and the awkward bit where he demorphs just so the big morphing sequence can include all ten Rangers.
* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Not as bad as most, but Creator/JasonDavidFrank wanting to spend some time back with his family and run his martial arts school in the United States (filming had moved to New Zealand since ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'') forced them to create a scenario where Tommy is trapped in his morphed state, then invisible. Like the Karone incident, it did lead to an awesome moment. Production also had to change course when ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'''s apparent SixthRanger, [=AbareMax=], turned out to be a powerup for the Red Ranger instead of giving the powers to Devin as reportedly planned.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the SWAT Megazord . However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' was hit by budget cuts from Disney, forcing the creators to make more Sentai footage-heavy episodes.
* ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' was hit by the Writer's Strike. Unlike other examples that were affected by the strike, several non-union writers (scabs) were hired by Disney to finish most of the show with the WGA writers returning with four episodes remaining to write. It actually worked out fairly well as ''Jungle Fury'' is (at least) seen as a step back in the right direction after years of declining quality.
* As a whole, the Disney-era ''Rangers'' series suffered from Troubled Production. It was bought up when Disney attempted to get the Fox Family Channel and Saban's collection of series (specifically ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'') and the series as a whole clashed with Disney's family-friendly attitude. While they did show some care during the early years, their apathy soon started to show. They attempted to shut down the series at least three times and even attempted to start up an animated version to avoid paying Toei money.
** This came to a dramatic end with the production of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Chronicled in part in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', Bruce Kallish had decided to move onto a new project, and Disney planned on ''finally'' cancelling ''Power Rangers'', but Bandai Europe had Disney under contract for one more season. To that end, a new producer was brought on: Eddie Guzelian. The only problem? Guzelian was primarily an animated creator, putting him into a new role entirely with not only dealing with live action conventions, but the unique production way the ''Super Sentai''/''Power Rangers'' transition works.
*** To his credit though, Guzelian did watch several episodes before production began, getting a feel for the show, and trying to take the franchise in a new direction by pitching a DarkerAndEdgier post-apocalyptic series to try and revitalize interest among not only boys, but also to an older audience as well. The only problem? The ''Super Sentai'' series they were working off of, ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' was comedic (all the Engines were sentient vehicles with chibi anime spirit selves), so they ended up in a similar situation to ''Lost Galaxy'' in trying to splice one series into another entirely different situation.
*** On top of this, there were script delays going into production, in part due to the difficulty in writing around the ''Sentai'' footage, and rumors of production overshot in part due to a higher use of live footage instead of stock footage.
*** And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'': A feature on ''Website/DenOfGeek'' with story editor James W. Bates [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/power-rangers/261159/power-rangers-samurai-lost-in-translation confirmed]] that Jonathan Tzachor was responsible for the extensive rewrites of fifteen episodes to make it a carbon copy of ''Shinkenger''.
* ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': James W. Bates stayed on for this season, which was hit by problems in about every area ''except'' the filming.
** When the ''Power Rangers'' franchise was bought back by Saban Brands, it {{channel hop}}ped over to Nickelodeon, where it was slapped with a "20 episodes per season" limit that split each adaptation in half, [[note]]''Rangers'' is one of the few shows to exceed the typical 22-episode limits of American television, often having 32 to 40 episodes per season, which is still less than ''Super Sentai'''s typical 50[[/note]] and a ''massive'' summer hiatus. This didn't affect ''Power Rangers Samurai'' too badly, but it created a cascade of problems that piled up and broke the back of ''Megaforce.''
** ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material. Furthermore, the next seasons in line to be adapted were ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', a rather mediocre season, and ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', a 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
** Bates was not keen on this approach, but relished the opportunity to write original stories. Unfortunately, [[ExecutiveVeto Jonathan Tzachor shot down many of his ideas]], such as his plans for the Rangers' civilian lives. Furthermore, other members of the production staff were on board with [[ShotForShotRemake carbon-copying Sentai plots]] rather than make their own. During ''Super Megaforce'', he faced new complications such as which footage to use and editing scripts he had no prior knowledge of. He resigned as story editor, but was persuaded to compress ''Goseiger's'' five-part finale into the two-parter "Vrak is Back". [[note]]Bates planned to have Vrak as a recurring villain; his departure scrubbed those plans.[[/note]]
** Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
** Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ''Super Sentai'' teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers". On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
** Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was more ''popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked TOEI to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''Dairanger''[='=]s monster and zord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
** Season 2 had it even worse. The last ten episodes spilled over to Season 2, which created a new problem when Saban and Bandai wanted to introduce new zords to get new toys on the shelves in time for the holidays. The decision was made to hack the ''Dairanger'' mecha footage prematurely, resulting in two different sources of footage being spliced together for the zord battles. The mecha from ''Dairanger'' would launch an attack and then cut to footage of the [=Zyu2=] monster taking the hit and vice-versa. After the [=Zyu2=] footage was bled dry, the situation was completely reversed. Now, the monsters came from ''Dairanger'', meaning the zord battle didn't have to be spliced together, but since most of the ''Dairanger'' monster costumes were unusable for American footage and ''Power Rangers'' continued to use the ''Zyuranger'' costumes, the majority of ''Dairanger'' monsters never once appeared on screen with the Rangers. Instead, most of the ground fights were Rangers fighting Z-putties in American footage with the ''Dairanger'' monster barking orders in completely isolated footage before Zedd made the monster grow. To top it off, Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) were let go halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out. David Yost (Billy), Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly), and Jason David Frank (Tommy) only discovered the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and found Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on set instead.
** When production ran longer than expected for TheMovie, the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center.
* ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' had production troubles in its first half. Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''[='=]s slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''[='=]s more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe MoodWhiplash, 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 zords' 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 KidAppealCharacter 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.
* ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' had a bumpy ride as well.
** The show was first planned to be another space-themed series to follow up the success of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', only for the crew to find that ''Lost Galaxy'''s source material, ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'', was themed around wildlife and nature.
** The Lights of Orion arc, early in the season, turned out be nearly incomprehensible because episodes were still being filmed a week before airdate.
** That arc would have been followed by the Galaxy Book arc, which would have tied into the Galactabeast carrier Zords, and the Pink Galaxy Ranger, Kendrix Morgan, would've been heavily involved in the story. But then her actress Valerie Vernon developed leukemia, so the writers had to find a way to write her off the show to allow her a medical leave and the Galaxy Book arc had to be rewritten in a hurry. Worse, the Galactabeasts themselves hardly showed up in ''Gingaman'', so there wasn't much to work with.
** The original plan was for Patricia Ja Lee (Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger from ''In Space''), to take over, and for that, Saban filmed a hand-off and an entire episode without ''Gingaman'' footage [[FanNickname sometimes called]] "''Film/AirForceOne'' [[DieHardOnAnX on the Megaship]]", but Patricia soon walked out due to a pay dispute. She was quickly swapped in with Melody Perkins ([[TheAtoner Karone]]), which required ''two more'' episodes with a lot of US-exclusive footage.
** Still trying to do something resembling the original plan, the final arc had Terra Venture sent to the Lost Galaxy [[ArtifactTitle the series had been titled after]]: it turned out as essentially {{filler}}, likely shoving in as much ''Gingaman'' footage as possible to save money for the finale. To add insult to injury, the series was pulled before the finale could air; it was later put out as a "special presentation" with little promotion.
** It's likely that Saban suffered some serious financial losses from ''Lost Galaxy'''s production -- the second season of ''Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog'' had been cancelled and its budget reshuffled towards ''Lost Galaxy'', and it still didn't help.
* ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': While the show overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the team-up with the previous season... On top of drawing heavily on ''Sentai'' footage from the counterpart team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'', it was originally released as a video tie-in ''for UsefulNotes/McDonalds'', explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. Amy Miller, the actress who portrayed the villain Trakeena, got screwed out of most her paycheck and left the set shortly after filming began when she learned that the ''Lost Galaxy'' characters were essentially cameos in their own team-up, and was replaced by another actress. Danny Slavin, who played the Red Galaxy Ranger Leo, stormed off the set with Miller in protest of her lack of a paycheck, and he was audibly redubbed with the voice of another actor at points.
* ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': The anniversary episode "[[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceForeverRed Forever Red]]" was rife with problems. Originally conceived as a cult attempting to revive Dark Specter, the need to use abandoned ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' costumes and the want of a super weapon led to the usage of the Machine Empire and Serpentera. Scenes were filmed and cut out (including a bigger role for the Wild Force team outside of their brief cameo) and a major battle between classic Megazords and Serpentera were scuttled when Bandai insisted that Cole use a vehicle he gained just an episode earlier, leading to a CurbstompBattle. Also, as mentioned above, Leo's actor Danny Slavin, who generally had a pretty sour case of CreatorBacklash due to his experiences on ''Lost Galaxy'' and the ''Lightspeed Rescue'' team-up episode, had only agreed to appear after the producers called in some personal favors, where by then, most of the episode had already been shot. Hence his very late arrival, and the awkward bit where he demorphs just so the big morphing sequence can include all ten Rangers.
* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Not as bad as most, but Creator/JasonDavidFrank wanting to spend some time back with his family and run his martial arts school in the United States (filming had moved to New Zealand since ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'') forced them to create a scenario where Tommy is trapped in his morphed state, then invisible. Like the Karone incident, it did lead to an awesome moment. Production also had to change course when ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'''s apparent SixthRanger, [=AbareMax=], turned out to be a powerup for the Red Ranger instead of giving the powers to Devin as reportedly planned.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the SWAT Megazord . However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' was hit by budget cuts from Disney, forcing the creators to make more Sentai footage-heavy episodes.
* ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' was hit by the Writer's Strike. Unlike other examples that were affected by the strike, several non-union writers (scabs) were hired by Disney to finish most of the show with the WGA writers returning with four episodes remaining to write. It actually worked out fairly well as ''Jungle Fury'' is (at least) seen as a step back in the right direction after years of declining quality.
* As a whole, the Disney-era ''Rangers'' series suffered from Troubled Production. It was bought up when Disney attempted to get the Fox Family Channel and Saban's collection of series (specifically ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'') and the series as a whole clashed with Disney's family-friendly attitude. While they did show some care during the early years, their apathy soon started to show. They attempted to shut down the series at least three times and even attempted to start up an animated version to avoid paying Toei money.
** This came to a dramatic end with the production of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Chronicled in part in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', Bruce Kallish had decided to move onto a new project, and Disney planned on ''finally'' cancelling ''Power Rangers'', but Bandai Europe had Disney under contract for one more season. To that end, a new producer was brought on: Eddie Guzelian. The only problem? Guzelian was primarily an animated creator, putting him into a new role entirely with not only dealing with live action conventions, but the unique production way the ''Super Sentai''/''Power Rangers'' transition works.
*** To his credit though, Guzelian did watch several episodes before production began, getting a feel for the show, and trying to take the franchise in a new direction by pitching a DarkerAndEdgier post-apocalyptic series to try and revitalize interest among not only boys, but also to an older audience as well. The only problem? The ''Super Sentai'' series they were working off of, ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' was comedic (all the Engines were sentient vehicles with chibi anime spirit selves), so they ended up in a similar situation to ''Lost Galaxy'' in trying to splice one series into another entirely different situation.
*** On top of this, there were script delays going into production, in part due to the difficulty in writing around the ''Sentai'' footage, and rumors of production overshot in part due to a higher use of live footage instead of stock footage.
*** And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'': A feature on ''Website/DenOfGeek'' with story editor James W. Bates [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/power-rangers/261159/power-rangers-samurai-lost-in-translation confirmed]] that Jonathan Tzachor was responsible for the extensive rewrites of fifteen episodes to make it a carbon copy of ''Shinkenger''.
* ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': James W. Bates stayed on for this season, which was hit by problems in about every area ''except'' the filming.
** When the ''Power Rangers'' franchise was bought back by Saban Brands, it {{channel hop}}ped over to Nickelodeon, where it was slapped with a "20 episodes per season" limit that split each adaptation in half, [[note]]''Rangers'' is one of the few shows to exceed the typical 22-episode limits of American television, often having 32 to 40 episodes per season, which is still less than ''Super Sentai'''s typical 50[[/note]] and a ''massive'' summer hiatus. This didn't affect ''Power Rangers Samurai'' too badly, but it created a cascade of problems that piled up and broke the back of ''Megaforce.''
** ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material. Furthermore, the next seasons in line to be adapted were ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', a rather mediocre season, and ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', a 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
** Bates was not keen on this approach, but relished the opportunity to write original stories. Unfortunately, [[ExecutiveVeto Jonathan Tzachor shot down many of his ideas]], such as his plans for the Rangers' civilian lives. Furthermore, other members of the production staff were on board with [[ShotForShotRemake carbon-copying Sentai plots]] rather than make their own. During ''Super Megaforce'', he faced new complications such as which footage to use and editing scripts he had no prior knowledge of. He resigned as story editor, but was persuaded to compress ''Goseiger's'' five-part finale into the two-parter "Vrak is Back". [[note]]Bates planned to have Vrak as a recurring villain; his departure scrubbed those plans.[[/note]]
** Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
** Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ''Super Sentai'' teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers". On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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! ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''
*''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'':
**Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was more ''popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked TOEI to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''Dairanger''[='=]s monster and zord Megazord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
** Season 2 had it even worse. * The last ten episodes of the [=Zyu2=] footage spilled over to Season 2, which created a new problem when Saban and Bandai wanted to introduce new zords Zords to get new toys on the shelves in time for the holidays. The decision was made to hack the ''Dairanger'' mecha footage prematurely, resulting in two different sources of footage being spliced together for the zord Megazord battles. The mecha from ''Dairanger'' would launch an attack and then cut to footage of the [=Zyu2=] monster taking the hit and vice-versa. After the [=Zyu2=] footage was bled dry, the situation was completely reversed. Now, the monsters came from ''Dairanger'', meaning the zord Megazord battle didn't have to be spliced together, but since most of the ''Dairanger'' monster costumes were unusable for American footage and ''Power Rangers'' continued to use the ''Zyuranger'' costumes, the majority of ''Dairanger'' monsters never once appeared on screen with the Rangers. Instead, most of the ground fights were Rangers fighting Z-putties in American footage with the ''Dairanger'' monster barking orders in completely isolated footage before Zedd made the monster grow. To top it off, grow.
* Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) werelet go fired halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out. David Yost (Billy), Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly), and Jason David Frank (Tommy) only discovered the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and found Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on set instead.
**instead of St. John, Jones, and Trang.
* When production ran longer than expected for TheMovie, the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center.
! ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''
*''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' ''Turbo had production troubles in its first half. Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''[='=]s ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'''s slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''[='=]s more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe MoodWhiplash, 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 zords' 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 KidAppealCharacter 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.
! ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''
*''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' had a bumpy ride as well.
** The show''Lost Galaxy'' was first planned to be another space-themed series to follow up the success of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', only for the crew to find that ''Lost Galaxy'''s source material, ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'', material ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'' was themed around wildlife and nature.
** * The Lights of Orion arc, early in the season, turned out be nearly incomprehensible because episodes were still being filmed a week before airdate.
** * That arc would have been followed by the Galaxy Book arc, which would have tied into the Galactabeast carrier Zords, and the Pink Galaxy Ranger, Ranger Kendrix Morgan, Morgan would've been heavily involved in the story. But then her actress Valerie Vernon developed leukemia, so the writers had to find a way to write her off the show to allow her a medical leave and the Galaxy Book arc had to be rewritten in a hurry. Worse, the Galactabeasts themselves hardly showed up in ''Gingaman'', so there wasn't much to work with.
** * The original plan was for Patricia Ja Lee (Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger from the 2nd half of ''Turbo'' and ''In Space''), to take over, and for that, Saban filmed a hand-off and an entire episode without ''Gingaman'' footage [[FanNickname sometimes called]] "''Film/AirForceOne'' [[DieHardOnAnX on the Megaship]]", but Patricia soon walked out due to a pay dispute. She was quickly swapped in with Melody Perkins ([[TheAtoner Karone]]), which required ''two more'' episodes with a lot of US-exclusive footage.
** * Still trying to do something resembling the original plan, the final arc had Terra Venture sent to the Lost Galaxy [[ArtifactTitle the series had been titled after]]: it turned out as essentially {{filler}}, likely shoving in as much ''Gingaman'' footage as possible to save money for the finale. To add insult to injury, the series was pulled before the finale could air; it was later put out as a "special presentation" with little promotion.
** * It's likely that Saban suffered some serious financial losses from ''Lost Galaxy'''s production -- the second season of ''Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog'' had been cancelled and its budget reshuffled towards ''Lost Galaxy'', and it still didn't help.
! ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue''
*''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': While the show ''Lightspeed Rescue'' overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the team-up with the previous season... On top of drawing heavily on ''Sentai'' ''Super Sentai'' footage from the counterpart counterparts' team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'', it was originally released as a video tie-in ''for UsefulNotes/McDonalds'', explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. Amy Miller, the actress who portrayed the villain Trakeena, got screwed out of most her paycheck and left the set shortly after filming began when she learned that the ''Lost Galaxy'' characters were essentially cameos in their own team-up, and was replaced by another actress. Danny Slavin, who played the Red Galaxy Ranger Leo, stormed off the set with Miller in protest of her lack of a paycheck, and he was audibly redubbed with the voice of another actor at points.
! ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''
*''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': The anniversary episode "[[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceForeverRed Forever Red]]" was rife with problems. Originally conceived as a cult attempting to revive Dark Specter, the need to use abandoned ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' costumes and the want of a super weapon led to the usage of the Machine Empire and Serpentera. Scenes were filmed and cut out (including a bigger role for the Wild Force team outside of their brief cameo) and a major battle between classic Megazords and Serpentera were scuttled when Bandai insisted that Cole use a vehicle he gained just an episode earlier, leading to a CurbstompBattle. Also, as mentioned above, Leo's actor Danny Slavin, who generally had a pretty sour case of CreatorBacklash due to his experiences on ''Lost Galaxy'' and the ''Lightspeed Rescue'' team-up episode, had only agreed to appear after the producers called in some personal favors, where by then, most of the episode had already been shot. Hence his very late arrival, and the awkward bit where he demorphs just so the big morphing sequence can include all ten Rangers.
* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Not as bad as most, but Creator/JasonDavidFrank wanting to spend some time back with his family and run his martial arts school in the United States (filming had moved to New Zealand since ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'') forced them to create a scenario where Tommy is trapped in his morphed state, then invisible. Like the Karone incident, it did lead to an awesome moment. Production also had to change course when ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'''s apparent SixthRanger, [=AbareMax=], turned out to be a powerup for the Red Ranger instead of giving the powers to Devin as reportedly planned.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the SWAT Megazord . However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' was hit by budget cuts from Disney, forcing the creators to make more Sentai footage-heavy episodes.
* ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' was hit by the Writer's Strike. Unlike other examples that were affected by the strike, several non-union writers (scabs) were hired by! Disney to finish most of the show with the WGA writers returning with four episodes remaining to write. It actually worked out fairly well as ''Jungle Fury'' is (at least) seen as a step back seasons in the right direction after years of declining quality.
general
* As a whole, the Disney-era''Rangers'' ''Power Rangers'' series suffered from Troubled Production.TroubledProduction. It was bought up when Disney attempted to get the Fox Family Channel and Saban's collection of series (specifically ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'') and the series as a whole clashed with Disney's family-friendly attitude. While they did show some care during the early years, their apathy soon started to show. They attempted to shut down the series at least three times and even attempted to start up an animated version to avoid paying Toei money.
** This ! ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''
* ''Dino Thunder'' didn't get hit too bad as the rest of the seasons, but Creator/JasonDavidFrank wanting to spend some time back with his family and run his martial arts school in the United States (filming had moved to New Zealand since ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'') forced them to create a scenario where Tommy is trapped in his morphed state, then invisible. Like the Karone incident, it did lead to an awesome moment.
* Production also had to change course when ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'''s apparent SixthRanger, [=AbareMax=], turned out to be a powerup for the Red Ranger. The initial plans were that Devin was going to be the Triassic Ranger.
! ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''
* ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the ''SPD'' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the SWAT Megazord. However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''.
* When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
! ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive''
* ''Operation Overdrive'' was hit by budget cuts from Disney, forcing the creators to make more Super Sentai footage-heavy episodes.
! ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury''
* ''Jungle Fury'' was hit by the Writer's Guild of America Strike. Unlike other examples that were affected by the strike, several non-union writers (scabs) were hired by Disney to finish most of the show with the WGA writers returning with four episodes remaining to write. It actually worked out fairly well as ''Jungle Fury'' is (at least) seen as a step back in the right direction after years of declining quality.
! ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''
* Disney's apathy towards ''Power Rangers'' came to a dramatic end with the production of''Series/PowerRangersRPM''.''RPM''. Chronicled in part in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', Bruce Kallish had decided to move onto a new project, and Disney planned on ''finally'' cancelling ''Power Rangers'', but Bandai Europe had Disney under contract for one more season. To that end, a new producer was brought on: Eddie Guzelian. The only problem? Guzelian was primarily an animated creator, putting him into a new role entirely with not only dealing with live action conventions, but the unique production way the ''Super Sentai''/''Power Rangers'' transition works.
*** * To his credit though, Guzelian did watch several episodes before production began, getting a feel for the show, and trying to take the franchise in a new direction by pitching a DarkerAndEdgier post-apocalyptic series to try and revitalize interest among not only boys, but also to an older audience as well. The only problem? The ''Super Sentai'' series they were working off of, ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' was remarkably comedic (all in nature, even compared to other series. For example, all the Engines were (Zords) are sentient vehicles with from a parallel universe and they appear as unique characters that have chibi anime spirit selves), so spirits. So they ended up in a similar situation to ''Lost Galaxy'' in trying to splice one series into another entirely different situation.
*** * On top of this, there were script delays going into production, in part due to the difficulty in writing around the ''Sentai'' ''Super Sentai'' footage, and rumors of production overshot in part due to a higher use of live footage instead of stock footage.
*** * And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat.
! Nickelodeon seasons in general
*''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'': When the ''Power Rangers'' franchise was bought back by Saban Brands, it {{channel hop}}ped over to Nickelodeon, where it was slapped with a "20 episodes per season" limit that split each adaptation in half, [[note]]''Rangers'' is one of the few shows to exceed the typical 22-episode limits of American television, often having 32 to 40 episodes per season, which is still less than ''Super Sentai'''s typical 50[[/note]] and a ''massive'' summer hiatus. This didn't affect ''Power Rangers Samurai'' too badly, when it retitled itself as ''Super Samurai'' for a 2nd season, but it created a cascade of problems that piled up and broke the back of ''Megaforce.''
* Since Nickelodeon took over, several ''Super Sentai'' series have been skipped entirely for ''Power Rangers'' adaptations:
** ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'' (initially skipped over after ''Super Megaforce'' to jump to ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' for ''Dino Charge''/''Dino Super Charge'', though later revisited for ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'')
** ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger''
** ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger''
** ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger''
** ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger''
! ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai''
* A feature on ''Website/DenOfGeek'' with story editor James W. Bates [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/power-rangers/261159/power-rangers-samurai-lost-in-translation confirmed]] that Jonathan Tzachor was responsible for the extensive rewrites of fifteen episodes to makeit ''Samurai'' a carbon copy of ''Shinkenger''.
! ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce''
*''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': James W. Bates stayed on for this season, which was hit by problems in about every area ''except'' the filming.
** When the ''Power Rangers'' franchise was bought back by Saban Brands, it {{channel hop}}ped over to Nickelodeon, where it was slapped with a "20 episodes per season" limit that split each adaptation in half, [[note]]''Rangers'' is one of the few shows to exceed the typical 22-episode limits of American television, often having 32 to 40 episodes per season, which is still less than ''Super Sentai'''s typical 50[[/note]] and a ''massive'' summer hiatus. This didn't affect ''Power Rangers Samurai'' too badly, but it created a cascade of problems that piled up and broke the back of ''Megaforce.''
*** ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material. Furthermore, material after the delay in bringing ''Samurai'' to television and forcing the ''Super Samurai'' second season. The next seasons shows in line to be adapted were ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'', a rather mediocre season, season whose theme was guardian angels protecting the Earth from alien invaders, and ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', a ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', the Japanese franchise's 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
** * Bates was not keen on this approach, but relished the opportunity to write original stories. Unfortunately, [[ExecutiveVeto Jonathan Tzachor shot down many of his ideas]], such as his plans for the Power Rangers' civilian lives. Furthermore, other members of the production staff were on board with [[ShotForShotRemake carbon-copying Super Sentai plots]] rather than make their own. During ''Super Megaforce'', he faced new complications such as which footage to use and editing scripts he had no prior knowledge of. He resigned as story editor, but was persuaded to compress ''Goseiger's'' ''Goseiger'''s five-part finale into the two-parter "Vrak is Back". Back".[[note]]Bates planned to have Vrak as a recurring villain; his departure scrubbed those plans.[[/note]]
** * Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
** * Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past rangers Super Sentai Rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ''Super Sentai'' teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers". On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Power Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it it. It should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in moved production to New Zealand).Zealand 10 years prior. An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
*
**
* Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) were
**
* When production ran longer than expected for TheMovie, the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center.
! ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''
*
! ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''
*
** The show
! ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue''
*
! ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''
*
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the SWAT Megazord . However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' was hit by budget cuts from Disney, forcing the creators to make more Sentai footage-heavy episodes.
* ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' was hit by the Writer's Strike. Unlike other examples that were affected by the strike, several non-union writers (scabs) were hired by
* As a whole, the Disney-era
* ''Dino Thunder'' didn't get hit too bad as the rest of the seasons, but Creator/JasonDavidFrank wanting to spend some time back with his family and run his martial arts school in the United States (filming had moved to New Zealand since ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'') forced them to create a scenario where Tommy is trapped in his morphed state, then invisible. Like the Karone incident, it did lead to an awesome moment.
* Production also had to change course when ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'''s apparent SixthRanger, [=AbareMax=], turned out to be a powerup for the Red Ranger. The initial plans were that Devin was going to be the Triassic Ranger.
! ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''
* ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the ''SPD'' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the SWAT Megazord. However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''.
* When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
! ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive''
* ''Operation Overdrive'' was hit by budget cuts from Disney, forcing the creators to make more Super Sentai footage-heavy episodes.
! ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury''
* ''Jungle Fury'' was hit by the Writer's Guild of America Strike. Unlike other examples that were affected by the strike, several non-union writers (scabs) were hired by Disney to finish most of the show with the WGA writers returning with four episodes remaining to write. It actually worked out fairly well as ''Jungle Fury'' is (at least) seen as a step back in the right direction after years of declining quality.
! ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''
* Disney's apathy towards ''Power Rangers'' came to a dramatic end with the production of
! Nickelodeon seasons in general
*
* Since Nickelodeon took over, several ''Super Sentai'' series have been skipped entirely for ''Power Rangers'' adaptations:
** ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'' (initially skipped over after ''Super Megaforce'' to jump to ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' for ''Dino Charge''/''Dino Super Charge'', though later revisited for ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'')
** ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger''
** ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger''
** ''Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger''
** ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger''
! ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai''
* A feature on ''Website/DenOfGeek'' with story editor James W. Bates [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/power-rangers/261159/power-rangers-samurai-lost-in-translation confirmed]] that Jonathan Tzachor was responsible for the extensive rewrites of fifteen episodes to make
! ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce''
*
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*** When the ''Power Rangers'' franchise was bought back by Saban Brands, it {{channel hop}}ped over to Nickelodeon, where it was slapped with a "20 episodes per season" limit that split each adaptation in half, [[note]]''Rangers'' is one of the few shows to exceed the typical 22-episode limits of American television, often having 32 to 40 episodes per season, which is still less than ''Super Sentai'''s typical 50[[/note]] and a ''massive'' summer hiatus. This didn't affect ''Power Rangers Samurai'' too badly, but it created a cascade of problems that piled up and broke the back of ''Megaforce.''
*** ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material. Furthermore, the next seasons in line to be adapted were ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', a rather mediocre season, and ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', a 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
*** Bates was not keen on this approach, but relished the opportunity to write original stories. Unfortunately, [[ExecutiveVeto Jonathan Tzachor shot down many of his ideas]], such as his plans for the Rangers' civilian lives. Furthermore, other members of the production staff were on board with [[ShotForShotRemake carbon-copying Sentai plots]] rather than make their own. During ''Super Megaforce'', he faced new complications such as which footage to use and editing scripts he had no prior knowledge of. He resigned as story editor, but was persuaded to compress ''Goseiger's'' five-part finale into the two-parter "Vrak is Back". [[note]]Bates planned to have Vrak as a recurring villain; his departure scrubbed those plans.[[/note]]
*** Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
*** Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ''Super Sentai'' teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers". On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
*** ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material. Furthermore, the next seasons in line to be adapted were ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', a rather mediocre season, and ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', a 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
*** Bates was not keen on this approach, but relished the opportunity to write original stories. Unfortunately, [[ExecutiveVeto Jonathan Tzachor shot down many of his ideas]], such as his plans for the Rangers' civilian lives. Furthermore, other members of the production staff were on board with [[ShotForShotRemake carbon-copying Sentai plots]] rather than make their own. During ''Super Megaforce'', he faced new complications such as which footage to use and editing scripts he had no prior knowledge of. He resigned as story editor, but was persuaded to compress ''Goseiger's'' five-part finale into the two-parter "Vrak is Back". [[note]]Bates planned to have Vrak as a recurring villain; his departure scrubbed those plans.[[/note]]
*** Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
*** Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ''Super Sentai'' teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers". On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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** Season 2 had it even worse. The last ten episodes spilled over to Season 2, which created a new problem when Saban and Bandai wanted to introduce new zords to get new toys on the shelves in time for the holidays. The decision was made to hack the ''Dairanger'' mecha footage prematurely, resulting in two different sources of footage being spliced together for the zord battles. The mecha from ''Dairanger'' would launch an attack and then cut to footage of the [=Zyu2=] monster taking the hit and vice-versa. After the [=Zyu2=] footage was bled dry, the situation was completely reversed. Now, the monsters came from ''Dairanger'', meaning the zord battle didn't have to be spliced together, but since most of the ''Dairanger'' monster costumes were unusable for American footage and ''Power Rangers'' continued to use the ''Zyuranger'' costumes, the majority of ''Dairanger'' monsters never once appeared on screen with the Rangers. Instead, most of the ground fights were Rangers fighting Z-putties in American footage with the ''Dairanger'' monster barking orders in completely isolated footage before Zedd made the monster grow. To top it off, the actors playing the Red, Black, and Yellow Ranger were let go halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out.
** When production ran longer than expected for [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie the movie]], the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center.
** When production ran longer than expected for [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie the movie]], the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center.
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** Season 2 had it even worse. The last ten episodes spilled over to Season 2, which created a new problem when Saban and Bandai wanted to introduce new zords to get new toys on the shelves in time for the holidays. The decision was made to hack the ''Dairanger'' mecha footage prematurely, resulting in two different sources of footage being spliced together for the zord battles. The mecha from ''Dairanger'' would launch an attack and then cut to footage of the [=Zyu2=] monster taking the hit and vice-versa. After the [=Zyu2=] footage was bled dry, the situation was completely reversed. Now, the monsters came from ''Dairanger'', meaning the zord battle didn't have to be spliced together, but since most of the ''Dairanger'' monster costumes were unusable for American footage and ''Power Rangers'' continued to use the ''Zyuranger'' costumes, the majority of ''Dairanger'' monsters never once appeared on screen with the Rangers. Instead, most of the ground fights were Rangers fighting Z-putties in American footage with the ''Dairanger'' monster barking orders in completely isolated footage before Zedd made the monster grow. To top it off, the actors playing the Red, Black, Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack), and Yellow Ranger Thuy Trang (Trini) were let go halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out.
out. David Yost (Billy), Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly), and Jason David Frank (Tommy) only discovered the recasting when they went to Australia to film ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' and found Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Creator/JohnnyYongBosch (Adam), and Karan Ashley (Aisha) on set instead.
** When production ran longer than expected for[[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie the movie]], TheMovie, the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center.
** When production ran longer than expected for
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* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Not as bad as most, but Creator/JasonDavidFrank wanting to spend some time back with his family and run his martial arts school in the United States forced them to create a scenario where Tommy is trapped in his morphed state, then invisible. Like the Karone incident, it did lead to an awesome moment. Production also had to change course when ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'''s apparent SixthRanger, [=AbareMax=], turned out to be a powerup for the Red Ranger instead of giving the powers to Devon as reportedly planned.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the [=SWAT=] Megazord . However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the [=SWAT=] Megazord . However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
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* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Not as bad as most, but Creator/JasonDavidFrank wanting to spend some time back with his family and run his martial arts school in the United States (filming had moved to New Zealand since ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'') forced them to create a scenario where Tommy is trapped in his morphed state, then invisible. Like the Karone incident, it did lead to an awesome moment. Production also had to change course when ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'''s apparent SixthRanger, [=AbareMax=], turned out to be a powerup for the Red Ranger instead of giving the powers to Devon Devin as reportedly planned.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the[=SWAT=] SWAT Megazord . However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the
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* As a whole, the Disney-era ''Rangers'' series suffered from Troubled Production. It was bought up when Disney attempted to get the Fox Family Channel and Saban's collection of series (specifically ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'') and the series as a whole clashed with Disney's family-friendly attitude. While they did show some care during the early years, their apathy soon started to show. They attempted to shut down the series at least three times and even attempted to start up an animated version to avoid paying TOEI money.
** This came to a dramatic end with the production of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Chronicled in part in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', Bruce Kallish had decided to move onto a new project, and Disney planned on ''finally'' cancelling ''Power Rangers'', but Bandai Europe had Disney under contract for one more season. To that end, a new producer was brought on: Eddie Guzelian. The only problem? Guzelian was primarily an animated creator, putting him into a new role entirely with not only dealing with live action conventions, but the unique production way the ''Sentai''/''Power Rangers'' transition works.
** To his credit though, Guzelian did watch several episodes before production began, getting a feel for the show, and trying to take the franchise in a new direction by pitching a DarkerAndEdgier post-apocalyptic series to try and revitalize interest among not only boys, but also to an older audience as well. The only problem? The ''Sentai'' series they were working off of, ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' was a parody series, so they ended up in a similar situation to ''Lost Galaxy'' in trying to splice one series into another entirely different situation.
** On top of this, there were script delays going into production, in part due to the difficulty in writing around the ''Sentai'' footage, and rumors of production overshot in part due to a higher use of live footage instead of stock footage.
** And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat.
** This came to a dramatic end with the production of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Chronicled in part in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', Bruce Kallish had decided to move onto a new project, and Disney planned on ''finally'' cancelling ''Power Rangers'', but Bandai Europe had Disney under contract for one more season. To that end, a new producer was brought on: Eddie Guzelian. The only problem? Guzelian was primarily an animated creator, putting him into a new role entirely with not only dealing with live action conventions, but the unique production way the ''Sentai''/''Power Rangers'' transition works.
** To his credit though, Guzelian did watch several episodes before production began, getting a feel for the show, and trying to take the franchise in a new direction by pitching a DarkerAndEdgier post-apocalyptic series to try and revitalize interest among not only boys, but also to an older audience as well. The only problem? The ''Sentai'' series they were working off of, ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' was a parody series, so they ended up in a similar situation to ''Lost Galaxy'' in trying to splice one series into another entirely different situation.
** On top of this, there were script delays going into production, in part due to the difficulty in writing around the ''Sentai'' footage, and rumors of production overshot in part due to a higher use of live footage instead of stock footage.
** And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat.
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* As a whole, the Disney-era ''Rangers'' series suffered from Troubled Production. It was bought up when Disney attempted to get the Fox Family Channel and Saban's collection of series (specifically ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'') and the series as a whole clashed with Disney's family-friendly attitude. While they did show some care during the early years, their apathy soon started to show. They attempted to shut down the series at least three times and even attempted to start up an animated version to avoid paying TOEI Toei money.
** This came to a dramatic end with the production of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Chronicled in part in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', Bruce Kallish had decided to move onto a new project, and Disney planned on ''finally'' cancelling ''Power Rangers'', but Bandai Europe had Disney under contract for one more season. To that end, a new producer was brought on: Eddie Guzelian. The only problem? Guzelian was primarily an animated creator, putting him into a new role entirely with not only dealing with live action conventions, but the unique production way the''Sentai''/''Power ''Super Sentai''/''Power Rangers'' transition works.
** *** To his credit though, Guzelian did watch several episodes before production began, getting a feel for the show, and trying to take the franchise in a new direction by pitching a DarkerAndEdgier post-apocalyptic series to try and revitalize interest among not only boys, but also to an older audience as well. The only problem? The ''Sentai'' ''Super Sentai'' series they were working off of, ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' was a parody series, comedic (all the Engines were sentient vehicles with chibi anime spirit selves), so they ended up in a similar situation to ''Lost Galaxy'' in trying to splice one series into another entirely different situation.
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*** On top of this, there were script delays going into production, in part due to the difficulty in writing around the ''Sentai'' footage, and rumors of production overshot in part due to a higher use of live footage instead of stock footage.
** *** And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat.
** This came to a dramatic end with the production of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Chronicled in part in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', Bruce Kallish had decided to move onto a new project, and Disney planned on ''finally'' cancelling ''Power Rangers'', but Bandai Europe had Disney under contract for one more season. To that end, a new producer was brought on: Eddie Guzelian. The only problem? Guzelian was primarily an animated creator, putting him into a new role entirely with not only dealing with live action conventions, but the unique production way the
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** When the ''Power Rangers'' franchise was bought back by Saban Brands, it {{channel hop}}ped over to Nickelodeon, where it was slapped with a "20 episodes per season" limit that split each adaptation in half, [[note]]''Rangers'' is one of the few shows to exceed the typical 22-episode limits of American television, often having 32 to 40 episodes per season, which is still less than ''Super Sentai'''s typical 50[[/note]] and a ''massive'' summer hiatus. This didn't affect ''Power Rangers Samurai'' too badly, but it created a cascade of problems that piled up and broke the back of ''Megaforce.''
** ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material. Furthermore, the next seasons in line to be adapted were ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', a rather mediocre season, and ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', a 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
** Bates was not keen on this approach, but relished the opportunity to write original stories. Unfortunately, [[ExecutiveVeto Jonathan Tzachor shot down many of his ideas]], such as his plans for the Rangers' civilian lives. Furthermore, other members of the production staff were on board with [[ShotForShotRemake carbon-copying Sentai plots]] rather than make their own. During ''Super Megaforce'', he faced new complications such as which footage to use and editing scripts he had no prior knowledge of. He resigned as story editor, but was persuaded to compress ''Goseiger's'' five-part finale into the two-parter "Vrak is Back". [[note]]Bates planned to have Vrak as a recurring villain; his departure scrubbed those plans.[[/note]]
** Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
** Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ranger teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers" On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
** ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material. Furthermore, the next seasons in line to be adapted were ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', a rather mediocre season, and ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', a 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
** Bates was not keen on this approach, but relished the opportunity to write original stories. Unfortunately, [[ExecutiveVeto Jonathan Tzachor shot down many of his ideas]], such as his plans for the Rangers' civilian lives. Furthermore, other members of the production staff were on board with [[ShotForShotRemake carbon-copying Sentai plots]] rather than make their own. During ''Super Megaforce'', he faced new complications such as which footage to use and editing scripts he had no prior knowledge of. He resigned as story editor, but was persuaded to compress ''Goseiger's'' five-part finale into the two-parter "Vrak is Back". [[note]]Bates planned to have Vrak as a recurring villain; his departure scrubbed those plans.[[/note]]
** Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
** Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ranger teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers" On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'':
** Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was more ''popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked TOEI to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''Dairanger''[='=]s monster and zord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
** Season 2 had it even worse. The last ten episodes spilled over to Season 2, which created a new problem when Saban and Bandai wanted to introduce new zords to get new toys on the shelves in time for the holidays. The decision was made to hack the ''Dairanger'' mecha footage prematurely, resulting in two different sources of footage being spliced together for the zord battles. The mecha from ''Dairanger'' would launch an attack and then cut to footage of the [=Zyu2=] monster taking the hit and vice-versa. After the [=Zyu2=] footage was bled dry, the situation was completely reversed. Now, the monsters came from ''Dairanger'', meaning the zord battle didn't have to be spliced together, but since most of the ''Dairanger'' monster costumes were unusable for American footage and ''Power Rangers'' continued to use the ''Zyuranger'' costumes, the majority of ''Dairanger'' monsters never once appeared on screen with the Rangers. Instead, most of the ground fights were Rangers fighting Z-putties in American footage with the ''Dairanger'' monster barking orders in completely isolated footage before Zedd made the monster grow. To top it off, the actors playing the Red, Black, and Yellow Ranger were let go halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out.
** When production ran longer than expected for [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie the movie]], the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center.
* ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' had production troubles in its first half. Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''[='=]s slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''[='=]s more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe MoodWhiplash, 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 zords' 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 KidAppealCharacter 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.
* ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' had a bumpy ride as well.
** The show was first planned to be another space-themed series to follow up the success of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', only for the crew to find that ''Lost Galaxy'''s source material, ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'', was themed around wildlife and nature.
** The Lights of Orion arc, early in the season, turned out be nearly incomprehensible because episodes were still being filmed a week before airdate.
** That arc would have been followed by the Galaxy Book arc, which would have tied into the Galactabeast carrier Zords, and the Pink Galaxy Ranger, Kendrix Morgan, would've been heavily involved in the story. But then her actress Valerie Vernon developed leukemia, so the writers had to find a way to write her off the show to allow her a medical leave and the Galaxy Book arc had to be rewritten in a hurry. Worse, the Galactabeasts themselves hardly showed up in ''Gingaman'', so there wasn't much to work with.
** The original plan was for Patricia Ja Lee (Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger from ''In Space''), to take over, and for that, Saban filmed a hand-off and an entire episode without ''Gingaman'' footage [[FanNickname sometimes called]] "''Film/AirForceOne'' [[DieHardOnAnX on the Megaship]]", but Patricia soon walked out due to a pay dispute. She was quickly swapped in with Melody Perkins ([[TheAtoner Karone]]), which required ''two more'' episodes with a lot of US-exclusive footage.
** Still trying to do something resembling the original plan, the final arc had Terra Venture sent to the Lost Galaxy [[ArtifactTitle the series had been titled after]]: it turned out as essentially {{filler}}, likely shoving in as much ''Gingaman'' footage as possible to save money for the finale. To add insult to injury, the series was pulled before the finale could air; it was later put out as a "special presentation" with little promotion.
** It's likely that Saban suffered some serious financial losses from ''Lost Galaxy'''s production -- the second season of ''Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog'' had been cancelled and its budget reshuffled towards ''Lost Galaxy'', and it still didn't help.
* ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': While the show overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the team-up with the previous season... On top of drawing heavily on ''Sentai'' footage from the counterpart team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'', it was originally released as a video tie-in ''for UsefulNotes/McDonalds'', explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. Amy Miller, the actress who portrayed the villain Trakeena, got screwed out of most her paycheck and left the set shortly after filming began when she learned that the ''Lost Galaxy'' characters were essentially cameos in their own team-up, and was replaced by another actress. Danny Slavin, who played the Red Galaxy Ranger Leo, stormed off the set with Miller in protest of her lack of a paycheck, and he was audibly redubbed with the voice of another actor at points.
* ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': The anniversary episode "[[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceForeverRed Forever Red]]" was rife with problems. Originally conceived as a cult attempting to revive Dark Specter, the need to use abandoned ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' costumes and the want of a super weapon led to the usage of the Machine Empire and Serpentera. Scenes were filmed and cut out (including a bigger role for the Wild Force team outside of their brief cameo) and a major battle between classic Megazords and Serpentera were scuttled when Bandai insisted that Cole use a vehicle he gained just an episode earlier, leading to a CurbstompBattle. Also, as mentioned above, Leo's actor Danny Slavin, who generally had a pretty sour case of CreatorBacklash due to his experiences on ''Lost Galaxy'' and the ''Lightspeed Rescue'' team-up episode, had only agreed to appear after the producers called in some personal favors, where by then, most of the episode had already been shot. Hence his very late arrival, and the awkward bit where he demorphs just so the big morphing sequence can include all ten Rangers.
* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Not as bad as most, but Creator/JasonDavidFrank wanting to spend some time back with his family and run his martial arts school in the United States forced them to create a scenario where Tommy is trapped in his morphed state, then invisible. Like the Karone incident, it did lead to an awesome moment. Production also had to change course when ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'''s apparent SixthRanger, [=AbareMax=], turned out to be a powerup for the Red Ranger instead of giving the powers to Devon as reportedly planned.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the [=SWAT=] Megazord . However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' was hit by budget cuts from Disney, forcing the creators to make more Sentai footage-heavy episodes.
* ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' was hit by the Writer's Strike. Unlike other examples that were affected by the strike, several non-union writers (scabs) were hired by Disney to finish most of the show with the WGA writers returning with four episodes remaining to write. It actually worked out fairly well as ''Jungle Fury'' is (at least) seen as a step back in the right direction after years of declining quality.
* As a whole, the Disney-era ''Rangers'' series suffered from Troubled Production. It was bought up when Disney attempted to get the Fox Family Channel and Saban's collection of series (specifically ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'') and the series as a whole clashed with Disney's family-friendly attitude. While they did show some care during the early years, their apathy soon started to show. They attempted to shut down the series at least three times and even attempted to start up an animated version to avoid paying TOEI money.
** This came to a dramatic end with the production of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Chronicled in part in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', Bruce Kallish had decided to move onto a new project, and Disney planned on ''finally'' cancelling ''Power Rangers'', but Bandai Europe had Disney under contract for one more season. To that end, a new producer was brought on: Eddie Guzelian. The only problem? Guzelian was primarily an animated creator, putting him into a new role entirely with not only dealing with live action conventions, but the unique production way the ''Sentai''/''Power Rangers'' transition works.
** To his credit though, Guzelian did watch several episodes before production began, getting a feel for the show, and trying to take the franchise in a new direction by pitching a DarkerAndEdgier post-apocalyptic series to try and revitalize interest among not only boys, but also to an older audience as well. The only problem? The ''Sentai'' series they were working off of, ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' was a parody series, so they ended up in a similar situation to ''Lost Galaxy'' in trying to splice one series into another entirely different situation.
** On top of this, there were script delays going into production, in part due to the difficulty in writing around the ''Sentai'' footage, and rumors of production overshot in part due to a higher use of live footage instead of stock footage.
** And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'': A feature on ''Website/DenOfGeek'' with story editor James W. Bates [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/power-rangers/261159/power-rangers-samurai-lost-in-translation confirmed]] that Jonathan Tzachor was responsible for the extensive rewrites of fifteen episodes to make it a carbon copy of ''Shinkenger''.
* ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': James W. Bates stayed on for this season, which was hit by problems in about every area ''except'' the filming.
** When the ''Power Rangers'' franchise was bought back by Saban Brands, it {{channel hop}}ped over to Nickelodeon, where it was slapped with a "20 episodes per season" limit that split each adaptation in half, [[note]]''Rangers'' is one of the few shows to exceed the typical 22-episode limits of American television, often having 32 to 40 episodes per season, which is still less than ''Super Sentai'''s typical 50[[/note]] and a ''massive'' summer hiatus. This didn't affect ''Power Rangers Samurai'' too badly, but it created a cascade of problems that piled up and broke the back of ''Megaforce.''
** ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material. Furthermore, the next seasons in line to be adapted were ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', a rather mediocre season, and ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', a 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
** Bates was not keen on this approach, but relished the opportunity to write original stories. Unfortunately, [[ExecutiveVeto Jonathan Tzachor shot down many of his ideas]], such as his plans for the Rangers' civilian lives. Furthermore, other members of the production staff were on board with [[ShotForShotRemake carbon-copying Sentai plots]] rather than make their own. During ''Super Megaforce'', he faced new complications such as which footage to use and editing scripts he had no prior knowledge of. He resigned as story editor, but was persuaded to compress ''Goseiger's'' five-part finale into the two-parter "Vrak is Back". [[note]]Bates planned to have Vrak as a recurring villain; his departure scrubbed those plans.[[/note]]
** Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
** Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ranger teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers" On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'':
** Season 1 hit its troubles when it turned out the series was more ''popular'' than anticipated. So when Fox Kids ordered an additional 20 episodes for Season 1, Saban asked TOEI to make new fight footage from ''Zyuranger'' exclusively for ''Power Rangers'', known to fans as [=Zyu2=], due to the original usable ''Zyuranger'' being exhausted (even so, they made two [[PostScriptSeason Post Script episodes]] which recycled a lot of already used footage in different context to kill time until they got the [=Zyu2=] stuff). The original plan was to do even more exclusive footage for ''Power Rangers'' and introduce upgraded Dinozords, but because of the cost, it was decided to just adapt ''Dairanger''[='=]s monster and zord footage instead with only 25 [=Zyu2=] fights filmed.
** Season 2 had it even worse. The last ten episodes spilled over to Season 2, which created a new problem when Saban and Bandai wanted to introduce new zords to get new toys on the shelves in time for the holidays. The decision was made to hack the ''Dairanger'' mecha footage prematurely, resulting in two different sources of footage being spliced together for the zord battles. The mecha from ''Dairanger'' would launch an attack and then cut to footage of the [=Zyu2=] monster taking the hit and vice-versa. After the [=Zyu2=] footage was bled dry, the situation was completely reversed. Now, the monsters came from ''Dairanger'', meaning the zord battle didn't have to be spliced together, but since most of the ''Dairanger'' monster costumes were unusable for American footage and ''Power Rangers'' continued to use the ''Zyuranger'' costumes, the majority of ''Dairanger'' monsters never once appeared on screen with the Rangers. Instead, most of the ground fights were Rangers fighting Z-putties in American footage with the ''Dairanger'' monster barking orders in completely isolated footage before Zedd made the monster grow. To top it off, the actors playing the Red, Black, and Yellow Ranger were let go halfway through Season 2 due to contract disputes with the producers and during the interim of writing the replacements into the show, the production team had to use stand ins and recycled footage from earlier episodes to make it seem like the departed cast members were still on the show until they were able to write them out.
** When production ran longer than expected for [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie the movie]], the TV series production was forced to film in Australia, leading to heavy use of stock footage for scenes that required sets they couldn't access at the time, such as the Command Center.
* ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' had production troubles in its first half. Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''[='=]s slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''[='=]s more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe MoodWhiplash, 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 zords' 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 KidAppealCharacter 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.
* ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' had a bumpy ride as well.
** The show was first planned to be another space-themed series to follow up the success of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', only for the crew to find that ''Lost Galaxy'''s source material, ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'', was themed around wildlife and nature.
** The Lights of Orion arc, early in the season, turned out be nearly incomprehensible because episodes were still being filmed a week before airdate.
** That arc would have been followed by the Galaxy Book arc, which would have tied into the Galactabeast carrier Zords, and the Pink Galaxy Ranger, Kendrix Morgan, would've been heavily involved in the story. But then her actress Valerie Vernon developed leukemia, so the writers had to find a way to write her off the show to allow her a medical leave and the Galaxy Book arc had to be rewritten in a hurry. Worse, the Galactabeasts themselves hardly showed up in ''Gingaman'', so there wasn't much to work with.
** The original plan was for Patricia Ja Lee (Cassie Chan, the Pink Ranger from ''In Space''), to take over, and for that, Saban filmed a hand-off and an entire episode without ''Gingaman'' footage [[FanNickname sometimes called]] "''Film/AirForceOne'' [[DieHardOnAnX on the Megaship]]", but Patricia soon walked out due to a pay dispute. She was quickly swapped in with Melody Perkins ([[TheAtoner Karone]]), which required ''two more'' episodes with a lot of US-exclusive footage.
** Still trying to do something resembling the original plan, the final arc had Terra Venture sent to the Lost Galaxy [[ArtifactTitle the series had been titled after]]: it turned out as essentially {{filler}}, likely shoving in as much ''Gingaman'' footage as possible to save money for the finale. To add insult to injury, the series was pulled before the finale could air; it was later put out as a "special presentation" with little promotion.
** It's likely that Saban suffered some serious financial losses from ''Lost Galaxy'''s production -- the second season of ''Series/TheMysticKnightsOfTirNaNog'' had been cancelled and its budget reshuffled towards ''Lost Galaxy'', and it still didn't help.
* ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': While the show overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the team-up with the previous season... On top of drawing heavily on ''Sentai'' footage from the counterpart team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'', it was originally released as a video tie-in ''for UsefulNotes/McDonalds'', explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. Amy Miller, the actress who portrayed the villain Trakeena, got screwed out of most her paycheck and left the set shortly after filming began when she learned that the ''Lost Galaxy'' characters were essentially cameos in their own team-up, and was replaced by another actress. Danny Slavin, who played the Red Galaxy Ranger Leo, stormed off the set with Miller in protest of her lack of a paycheck, and he was audibly redubbed with the voice of another actor at points.
* ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': The anniversary episode "[[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceForeverRed Forever Red]]" was rife with problems. Originally conceived as a cult attempting to revive Dark Specter, the need to use abandoned ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' costumes and the want of a super weapon led to the usage of the Machine Empire and Serpentera. Scenes were filmed and cut out (including a bigger role for the Wild Force team outside of their brief cameo) and a major battle between classic Megazords and Serpentera were scuttled when Bandai insisted that Cole use a vehicle he gained just an episode earlier, leading to a CurbstompBattle. Also, as mentioned above, Leo's actor Danny Slavin, who generally had a pretty sour case of CreatorBacklash due to his experiences on ''Lost Galaxy'' and the ''Lightspeed Rescue'' team-up episode, had only agreed to appear after the producers called in some personal favors, where by then, most of the episode had already been shot. Hence his very late arrival, and the awkward bit where he demorphs just so the big morphing sequence can include all ten Rangers.
* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': Not as bad as most, but Creator/JasonDavidFrank wanting to spend some time back with his family and run his martial arts school in the United States forced them to create a scenario where Tommy is trapped in his morphed state, then invisible. Like the Karone incident, it did lead to an awesome moment. Production also had to change course when ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'''s apparent SixthRanger, [=AbareMax=], turned out to be a powerup for the Red Ranger instead of giving the powers to Devon as reportedly planned.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'': ExecutiveMeddling led to a good chunk of the series' budget being placed onto the series finale, which had a major CGI battle with the [=SWAT=] Megazord . However, this led to them being unable to do a number of things, including hiring an actor for SixthRanger Sam, the Omega Ranger. As well, many episodes were taken wholesale from its ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' counterpart ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''. When Canada accidentally aired the second crossover episode between ''SPD'' and ''Dino Thunder'', ABC held back that part for a good length of time before finally letting it air. Speaking of that episode, budget problems led to them to not even consider bringing back Jason David Frank who was back in the States. Frank has stated he was never asked to return. He was never seen out of his suit, and his voice was [[FakeShemp shemped]] by Trent's actor Jeffery Parazzo, as they couldn't afford to bring in a specially cast voice actor and Parazzo was already available.
* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' was hit by budget cuts from Disney, forcing the creators to make more Sentai footage-heavy episodes.
* ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' was hit by the Writer's Strike. Unlike other examples that were affected by the strike, several non-union writers (scabs) were hired by Disney to finish most of the show with the WGA writers returning with four episodes remaining to write. It actually worked out fairly well as ''Jungle Fury'' is (at least) seen as a step back in the right direction after years of declining quality.
* As a whole, the Disney-era ''Rangers'' series suffered from Troubled Production. It was bought up when Disney attempted to get the Fox Family Channel and Saban's collection of series (specifically ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'') and the series as a whole clashed with Disney's family-friendly attitude. While they did show some care during the early years, their apathy soon started to show. They attempted to shut down the series at least three times and even attempted to start up an animated version to avoid paying TOEI money.
** This came to a dramatic end with the production of ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. Chronicled in part in ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'', Bruce Kallish had decided to move onto a new project, and Disney planned on ''finally'' cancelling ''Power Rangers'', but Bandai Europe had Disney under contract for one more season. To that end, a new producer was brought on: Eddie Guzelian. The only problem? Guzelian was primarily an animated creator, putting him into a new role entirely with not only dealing with live action conventions, but the unique production way the ''Sentai''/''Power Rangers'' transition works.
** To his credit though, Guzelian did watch several episodes before production began, getting a feel for the show, and trying to take the franchise in a new direction by pitching a DarkerAndEdgier post-apocalyptic series to try and revitalize interest among not only boys, but also to an older audience as well. The only problem? The ''Sentai'' series they were working off of, ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' was a parody series, so they ended up in a similar situation to ''Lost Galaxy'' in trying to splice one series into another entirely different situation.
** On top of this, there were script delays going into production, in part due to the difficulty in writing around the ''Sentai'' footage, and rumors of production overshot in part due to a higher use of live footage instead of stock footage.
** And to top it off, Guzelian was fired during production and two of the writers quit in protest. Old ''Power Rangers'' alumnus Judd Lynn was brought in to help finish the production, forcing him to do a behind-the-scenes episode to buy himself some time to catch up with the work. All in all, not exactly the easiest production to do, only compounded by the fact Disney kept hiding ''RPM'' in its scheduling due to its lack of edutainment and higher violence levels putting some executives off. Even though ''Power Rangers'' wasn't renewed under Disney's management afterwards, the fact that this production could even be finished with all the issues it had, and be well regarded by older fans as well is quite the feat.
* ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'': A feature on ''Website/DenOfGeek'' with story editor James W. Bates [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/power-rangers/261159/power-rangers-samurai-lost-in-translation confirmed]] that Jonathan Tzachor was responsible for the extensive rewrites of fifteen episodes to make it a carbon copy of ''Shinkenger''.
* ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': James W. Bates stayed on for this season, which was hit by problems in about every area ''except'' the filming.
** When the ''Power Rangers'' franchise was bought back by Saban Brands, it {{channel hop}}ped over to Nickelodeon, where it was slapped with a "20 episodes per season" limit that split each adaptation in half, [[note]]''Rangers'' is one of the few shows to exceed the typical 22-episode limits of American television, often having 32 to 40 episodes per season, which is still less than ''Super Sentai'''s typical 50[[/note]] and a ''massive'' summer hiatus. This didn't affect ''Power Rangers Samurai'' too badly, but it created a cascade of problems that piled up and broke the back of ''Megaforce.''
** ''Power Rangers'' found itself slipping further behind the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' source material. Furthermore, the next seasons in line to be adapted were ''Tensou Sentai Goseiger'', a rather mediocre season, and ''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'', a 35th anniversary MilestoneCelebration. Although ''Gokaiger''[='=]s 35th anniversary would dovetail nicely with the 20th anniversary of ''Power Rangers'', Saban was apparently not allowed to simply skip ''Goseiger'' and go straight to ''Gokaiger''. In an attempt to square the circle and catch up to ''Sentai'', Saban decided to fold together the two series, starting with ''Goseiger'' for ''Megaforce'' and moving to ''Gokaiger'' for the second half of the season, ''Super Megaforce'' to line up the respective anniversaries.
** Bates was not keen on this approach, but relished the opportunity to write original stories. Unfortunately, [[ExecutiveVeto Jonathan Tzachor shot down many of his ideas]], such as his plans for the Rangers' civilian lives. Furthermore, other members of the production staff were on board with [[ShotForShotRemake carbon-copying Sentai plots]] rather than make their own. During ''Super Megaforce'', he faced new complications such as which footage to use and editing scripts he had no prior knowledge of. He resigned as story editor, but was persuaded to compress ''Goseiger's'' five-part finale into the two-parter "Vrak is Back". [[note]]Bates planned to have Vrak as a recurring villain; his departure scrubbed those plans.[[/note]]
** Furthermore, [[CompressedAdaptation squeezing 100 episodes of two different shows into a single 40 episode show]] created massive pacing problems. Episodes typically crammed in loads of StockFootage, resulting in fights that could take as much as fifteen minutes. This left little for CharacterDevelopment. Additionally, combining the StockFootage of the LighterAndSofter ''Goseiger'' with the DarkerAndEdgier ''Gokaiger'' created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). The cast ''begged'' the producers to let them do more than fight scenes, but were shot down every time.
** Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ranger teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers" On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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