Trivia / Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills

• Colbert Bump: The series gained some attention due to people not believing it actually exists after receiving a Shout-Out in Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged at the end of a list including Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in an attempt to describe the Ginyu Force.
• Enforced Method Acting: The scene in the first episode where Nimbar gives the cast their titular tattoos with a mangled, slimy hand didn't require much acting — the cast had no idea what the hell that goop was, and were understandably squicked out.
• Follow the Leader: This series was created following the success of Power Rangers. As such, it contains several similarities.
• He Also Did: Richard Nason once showed up as a contestant on The Price Is Right where he and Bob Barker got a chuckle out of discussing this show.
• Money, Dear Boy: Jill Urbach (then known as K. Jill Sorgen) has more or less admitted that she was just happy to be working by the time she got the role of Drew.
• No Budget:
  • For starters, the Monsters of the Week were recurring villains so that the producers wouldn't have to pay for new costumes every episode.
  • The most damning evidence of this is the fact they didn't even have film, and instead recorded on videotape.
  • The entire 40 episodes of the show are confined to just seven sets, reused over and over: a backyard, a hallway, the heroes' lair, the coffee shop, the bad guys' hideout, a quarry, and a city.
• Prop Recycling: The Predaraptor suit is actually made from, of all things, an unused suit that was meant to be used as Koopa’s last form in the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie, the head being recognizable from one of its de-evolved forms seen briefly in the movie.
• Stunt Double: For all the heroes in their giant forms. Seriously, they go from normal to ripped:
  Laurie: (when they first transform) This would take years of working out!
• What Could Have Been: Rumor has it that the show was originally supposed to be an adaptation of the Ultra Series spinoff Andro Melos, but these plans were cancelled. These rumors likely stem from a combination of the fact that Super Human Samurai Syber Squad, another DiC production, was made by Tsuburaya Productions, the producers of Andro Melos, and that Andro Melos features four main characters, who presumably would've been used for the four main characters of this show.

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