What Could Have Been / Power Rangers

A still with the promo for the show in 1992, with the original name "Galaxy Rangers" to boot.

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Before Power Rangers

• Saban (as well as Marvel beforehand) was trying to sell the Super Sentai series for years before it finally got picked up — when it was, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger was used because it was the most recent series. If it had been picked up earlier, another show would have ended up as the first Power Rangers series. Other Sentai seasons, such as Kousoku Sentai Turboranger and Choujin Sentai Jetman are rumored to have been considered as well.
• Saban had apparently been attempting to adapt Sentai over from Japan all the way back to Bioman (see source; Bioman was the eighth series made; for reference Zyuranger was sixteenth).
• The Bioman adaptation would've had Mark Dacascos as its Red Ranger, Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as its Green Ranger and Carrie Fisher's half-sister Tricia as its Yellow Ranger.
• One of Marvel's attempts at bringing over Super Sentai included adapting Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan on HBO, with Stan Lee personally involved in the attempt. Also involved in Marvel's attempt was the CEO of its TV show division, Margaret Loesch. By a twist of fate, she would leave Marvel to work on programming for Fox Kids, ending up being the executive who would accept Saban's pitch for Power Rangers.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

• At Power Morphicon I, Tony Oliver unveiled many unused ideas. From the bad runner-up cast, to the three different pilots of "Day of the Dumpster" (one featuring Audri DuBois as Trini and Bulk as a random mook that was later shown as the Lost Episode and the other two pilots shot with Thuy Trang, including a more violent confrontation with the newly upgraded Bulk and new addition Skull with a gang of mooks of their own that got cut by the network).
  • The original promo that was used to pitch the series (featured in the big box set Shout! and Time-Life offered) showed an odd transition. The Rangers (going by the collective name of "Galaxy Rangers") were known as "Biorhythm Users" (So, instead of "Red Ranger", it was "Biorhythm Red"). Jason was known as "Victor Lee", but was still a martial arts expert; Zach was "Zach Taylor", who was a detective, not a "hip-hop Kito expert"; Kimberly was "Kimberly Harte" (with an "E") and was an aerobics instructor; Billy was still "Billy Cranston"... In Name Only, because this version was a hunky, athletic heartthrob, a far cry from the nerd style he would later end up with; and Trini was "Trini Crystal", intellectual and struggling novelist. Combine the "Biorhythm" designations, the note that Zack is "Biorhythm Green", and the aged looking American footage, this suggests they cannibalized the failed Bioman pilot for this pitch reel.
• In earlier scripts, Tommy was going to be a biker named Rocky. The name was presumably repurposed for Rocky DeSantos.
  • In addition, originally Jason David Frank was going to star in VR Troopers (called Cybertron at the time), with Brad Hawkins going to play a new character that was going to become the White Ranger, but at the end the two swapped roles as Saban decided that it was too risky to replace Frank now that there was the opportunity to bring him back, so Hawkins went onto VR Troopers and Frank returned to Power Rangers.
• Dan Southworth, who eventually played Eric in Power Rangers Time Force, originally auditioned for the role that became Adam. This becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when you consider the relationship between Southworth and Johnny Yong Bosch's characters in the Devil May Cry series.^note For context, Southworth voices Vergil, and Bosch voices Vergil's son Nero.
• In the "The Green Candle" 2-parter, they briefly considered killing Tommy off like they did with his Sentai counterpart Burai, but that never left the writer's room.
• The 2-parter episode "Doomsday" was originally scripted with the Rangers sealing the villains away and deciding to continue on as Power Rangers to fight "other villains"; after the show become a huge success, it was decided that the Zyuranger suits needed to be kept to not hurt the status quo. Had the show only been a moderate success we may have gotten more straightforward adaptations of Gosei Sentai Dairanger and Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.
  • The original script also featured an evil child named Bubba piloting Cyclopsis instead of Goldar, a straight adaptation of Kai from Zyuranger.
  • Back when the series was young, there were plans for a conclusive series finale that would have involved the Rangers graduating from high school, only for Rita to invade their senior prom with an army of monsters. Saban was even reportedly looking into flying Machiko Soga (who played Zyuranger's Bandora, the source character for Rita) out to California so she could appear in person, marking the first time Rita would directly interact with the Rangers. However, when the show became an overnight success, these plans were scrapped in favor of keeping it going.
• A known fact of Power Rangers net fandom has it that Saban and Bandai, having ran out of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger footage and wanting to push product hot on the heels of MMPR Mania, custom-ordered original Sentai footage from Toei (complete with new monster costumes and incorporating several parts of the Power Ranger mythos into it) to fill in those episodes. Among the concept art for this later disseminated amongst the fandom were a series of unused Dinozord redesigns◊, complete with sketches of how they could combine with the Dairanger Tigerzord (or a remake thereof) and all of which are emblazoned with the MMPR lightning bolt. The sketches are now available in a compilation concept art book for Super Sentai, and some fans claim parts of the Dinozord redesigns were incorporated into Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger/Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, but imagine what could have been had the redesigns been used...
  • To clarify more thoroughly in the words of the fan who first identified and charted the production history of "Zyu2" (as the footage is dubbed): "Zyu2 comprises 25 monsters and original battles commissioned by Saban Entertainment from Toei and Plex to extend the first season of Power Rangers after the initial episode order of 40. It was produced concurrently to Kakuranger, and internal documents from Saban and Toei even list Zyu2 monster suits as being from Kaku. The hybridized Zyuranger/Dairanger mech designs appear to be control art for a theoretical Zyu3 which never materialized. It seems Dairanger was going to be gutted only for the White Ranger, skipping ahead to Kakuranger for the show's third season and feature film after this. As Zyu2 was prohibitively expensive due to Toei creating extensive new model work for the individual Dinozords, new assembly sequences, and even new finishers atop the usual FX done for the fights — expenses which Saban then had to pay for themselves, thus necessitating they adapt Dairanger for season two to sell more toys simply to offset Zyu2's cost — I'm not surprised." And now you know...
  • A Samuraizord, shown in the same image above with the Titanus redesigns, was considered for the second season as well. The Samuraizord would've been like the Red Dragon Thunderzord, in which it could transform between a Tyrannosaurus and a humanoid robot.
  • Plex also made designs for later series, like a modified Titanus for both Mighty Morphin Season 3 and Power Rangers in Space and a pair of stand-alone Zords for Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue's Red and Titanium Rangers. All three were released as part of the toyline, but only Lightspeed Red's zord made it into the show as the Red Mobile Armor Vehicle (the toy also had a humanoid warrior mode, but it was never seen in-series).
• In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Dulcea at one point was played by Mariska Hargitay after original actress Gabrielle Fitzpatrick was hospitalized. This didn't work out and Fitzpatrick returned to the set after she recovered. Several scenes of the Rangers being trained by Dulcea and revelations about Zordon's war across the universe were removed from the final cut. The ending was also switched around.
  • Catherine Sutherland auditioned for Dulcea (and obviously didn't get that part).
• One idea for season 2 had Goldar get fed up with Rita's failure and overthrow her, becoming the season's Big Bad instead of Zedd. This is actually an Aborted Arc of sorts, as one can notice since in the latter part of season 1 Goldar produces the plans and Rita just goes along. Tony Oliver said he needed to take a hatchet to the movie's script, partially because the movie folks made Goldar such a buffoon.
• Ernie was originally going to be Zordon in disguise, watching over the Rangers from the Juice Bar. This would've brought Zordon a bit more in-line with his Zyu counterpart Sage Barza (who is first introduced as an incognito school gardener).
  • Not only that but one script that ended up getting scrapped, for unknown reasons, involved a reveal that Ernie knew all along about the Rangers' true identities, which would explain why whenever they ordered anything at his juice bar, he would always tell them it was on the house.
• As shown in the unaltered Zyu2 footage provided by Jeff Pruitt, the Pirantishead Zord battle would have had the piranha monster use his flute to re-take control of the Dragonzord and use it to help himself fight the Megazord, with the footage implying that Titanus would come to the rescue.
• Original names for Goldar, Squatt, and Baboo were Dredwing, Grock, and Mongo.
• In the late '90s, an animated special featuring the Rangers alongside the X-Men: The Animated Series was proposed (since FK's ratings were falling and they needed events to boost them). It never got anywhere beyond conceptual art; per Will Meugniot, it was because one property was always more successful than the other.
• David Yost auditioned for the role of Jason before being cast as Billy, while Walter Jones auditioned for the role of Billy before being cast as Zack.
  • Like Jones, Jason Narvy also auditioned for the role of Billy before being cast as Skull.
• Jason David Frank revealed in a 1995 interview that Saban were originally casting Asian actors to play Tommy. Frank also reportedly auditioned for the Jason character but was eliminated.
• In addition to voicing Rita, Barbara Goodson offered to play her physically in season two. She auditioned because she thought "Well, I'm doing the voice. Let me audition for her". However, she was passed over because the costume was extremely heavy for her short stature (being five feet exactly) and she was noticeably smaller than Machiko Soga.
• In a 2019 interview, Paula Jai Parker revealed that she auditioned for the role of Aisha but turned it down, feeling that the show was too corny for her, which she later regretted.
• Bryan Dattilo auditioned for the role of Tommy Oliver but had to decline the role as he was cast as Lucas Roberts in another show Days of Our Lives, Jason David Frank was cast instead.
• Kevin James' future wife Steffania de la Cruz auditioned for the role of Trini.
• Maurice Mendoza's role as Trini's love interest Richie was originally going to be on a semi-regular basis with several storylines planned out for him, one of which would've focused on him and his father, who would've been played by his actual father Joe but this never materialised following the departures of Austin St. John, Walter Jones and Thuy Trang.

Power Rangers Zeo

• The Gold Ranger was originally supposed to be Ryan Steele from VR Troopers, hence Brad Hawkins doing the voice. This was scrapped for the triplet Triforians, and then the returning Jason. Billy was also supposed to be the Gold Ranger at one point, but it too was scrapped due to growing tension behind the scenes (later discovered to be David Yost's being gay-bashed). Yost would confirm that the producers and other staff members' gay prejudice against him meant that Billy never had a true shot at being the gold Ranger and the series' acknowledgement of the possibility was merely a formality.
• Solicitations were sent out for a comic book crossover between the Zeo Rangers and Youngblood (Image Comics), but various issues with the comic studio kept it from happening.
• Tanya was going to be named Kenya according to an early promo sheet for the Alien Rangers saga.
• Jason David Frank mentioned at one point that it's possible that David Trueheart would've inherited the Gold Ranger powers if Austin St. John had declined to return.
• Theories abound that Billy's unexplained absences during the times he was suspected to be the Gold Ranger were him working on the creation of the Turbo powers.
• One of the ideas to work around David Yost's departure was for Billy to turn back into a kid and bring back the same child actor.

Power Rangers Turbo

• Rocky was originally planned to be the Blue Turbo Ranger but due to failed salary renegotiation, Steve Cardenas decided to leave, hence Justin was created in his place.
• The original planned mid-season finale was called "Rangers in Concert", which would've involved the current Turbo Rangers fighting a cockroach monster named Rockin' Roach (presumably using the suit for Carranger's Space Cockroach Goki-chan), as well as focus much on Carlos (whose surname was originally "Chavez") and Ashley (who was originally named "Missy"), along with Lt. Stone's niece Jenny Hunter (from "Cars Attacks", and she was originally called "Ashley"), and introduce Tanya's intern at KAGV, Michael (who was basically a prototype of T.J. minus the baseball skills). At the end of the episode, the Blue Senturion would be fixed, and show Tommy, Kat, Adam, and Tanya the full Millennium Message, revealing Michael, Ashley, Carlos, and Missy as the next Power Rangers and the ones who save the world from the united villains. But Doug Sloan and Ann Austen were both fired by Jonathan Tzachor before the script could be filmed. However, despite the ditching of this script, the second part of "Passing the Torch" does work on the possibility that the retiring Rangers did see the full Millennium Message.
• Thuy Trang was going to reprise her role of Trini in the episode "Passing the Torch."
• The Turbo writing staff was apparently split 50-50 between those who wanted to retain the parody aspect of Gekisou Sentai Carranger and those who wanted the season to be serious. While some of the silly bits were unavoidable (like the infamous "baked into a pizza" moment), the series stays mostly serious. Tony Oliver wished to keep the tone as a campy live-action cartoon and felt the series was becoming too grounded and realistic, but he was outvoted and stepped down from the producer's chair.
• Originally only Jason David Frank was supposed to leave, having expressed interest in leaving since Zeo. Saban convinced him to stay through the first half of Turbo to let them write out his character properly while they looked for his replacement. Next thing you know, Catherine Sutherland announced that she planned on leaving and moving on to other projects as well; and so, the writers thought of perhaps having Johnny Yong Bosch and Nakia Burrise stay until the end of Turbo with their characters serving as the more seasoned, veteran Rangers (along with Blake Foster's character) who help out the two new team members and with either one of them becoming the leader (meaning that we could have had 6 Red Rangers up to date who were not leaders if this had happened back then; this is also why JYB grew his hair out during this season, as, as he puts it, they wanted to trick kids into thinking Tommy had suddenly become Asian"). Eventually, during production of the first half of Turbo, the executives decided to get rid of all the veteran Rangers except for Justin, much to the shock of Bosch and Burrise (as with Foster, who was very sad to see all of them leave at once; he eventually grew to be just as fond of his newer cast mates though — but, that's another story) who found out about it through an ad on a newspaper — calling for auditions to fill in 4 Ranger spots: Red, Pink, Yellow, and Green — that someone from the hair and makeup department had shown them. Ouch...
• It was originally going to be revealed that Divatox and Dimitria were twin sisters. With the mid-season Ranger change, this got demoted to an Aborted Arc (especially since Hilary Shepherd Turner had returned as Divatox; Carol Hoyt, who'd played Divatox and Dimitria for the first half, was a substitute while Turner was pregnant). The closest we got to resolving this was Divatox getting purified by the Z-Wave at the end of In Space and wearing a gown nigh-identical to Dimitria's.
• A different actress was originally cast as Cassie before being replaced by Patricia Ja Lee, as confirmed by Ashley's actress Tracy Lynn Cruz.

Power Rangers In Space

• None of the cast for Turbo were told that they were contracted for this series until it was about to go into development, suggesting the plan at one point was to introduce an entirely new cast.
• Johnny Yong Bosch wanted to kill off Adam just for the fun of it when he cameoed in both "Always a Chance" (in Power Rangers in Space) and "Once A Ranger" (in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive). He was shot down both times.
• In Space was supposed to be the end of the series, but it did so well in ratings that it got picked up for another season.
• The pre-series bible reveals that, among other things, the original intent was to keep Justin (no Andros), the suit for Carranger's Emperor Exhaus would've been used for Dark Specter (as opposed to what actually happened, using Exhaus' costume for Turbo's Giant Space Flea from Nowhere and recycling the Maligore costume from the Turbo movie), the Megaranger mooks would've been kept instead of replacing them with the Quantrons, and the Phantom Ranger's identity would've been revealed in the finale^note something that didn't happen because Fox ended up cutting the finale of In Space from 3 episodes to 2, Darkonda was to be named Spike, and Bulk and Skull were going to start a Civil Defense Force with the Rangers away.
• Rita, Zedd and Divatox were supposed to die in the finale because of the Z-Wave. However, the Fox Kids censors did not like this, so they were spared.
  • Also, originally all the villains were going to be turned human. This was eventually simplified to just Zedd, Rita, Divatox and Astronema with the rest turned into sand for two reasons (time constraints and wanting to end the Zordon arc).
    • Rito Revolto was going to appear and become human alongside his sister and Zedd. Unfortunately, his suit had almost completely deteriorated by the end of Zeo, and thus he didn’t return.
• Christopher Khayman Lee's sister Chyler Leigh was considered for the role of Astronema. Had this happened, then the Real-Life Relative trope would come into play.
• The show's entire premise was due to Saban believing that Megaranger would be space-themed, but after realizing it was video game and device themed, they decided to stick with their original plans. It's possible we would've gotten a hugely different show had Saban either known about the real theme beforehand or had decided to keep the theme in the adaptation.
• Judd Lynn had originally intended for Billy to be the true identity of the Phantom Ranger; however, this plot was eventually dropped. David Yost visited the Astro Megaship set at one point, but refused to return unless they met his conditions, which they wouldn’t do.
• "Countdown to Destruction" was supposed to be a three-parter. It was shortened to two parts, and as a result, many scenes got cut, including Andros and Ashley's kiss, as well as the reveal of Phantom Ranger's identity. It's also been rumored that Silver Titanus, a space-themed retool of the MMPR Titanus toy would've made an appearance in said third part.
• Patrick David auditioned for the role of Andros before being cast as Psycho Red.

Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

• During pre-production of Gingaman, there was a proposal to do away with the Humongous Mecha and have the heroes fight with kaiju, explaining the initial organic look of the Galactabeasts, which would of course have had massive ramifications for Power Rangers.
• Erin Simms was originally cast as Maya but left a couple of episodes in.
• Cassie Chan (Patricia Ja Lee) was supposed to take over Kendrix's spot as the Pink Galaxy Ranger at the end of "The Power of Pink", due to Valerie Vernon's fight with leukemia, with the handoff already filmed. Unfortunately, due to the uncertainty of Vernon's cancer fight at the time (she later won, hence her sudden resurrection in the finale), the crew was unable to drop Vernon from her spot in the opening in order to pay Lee the same rate and benefits (since PR was SAG union at the time) instead of sticking her in the back end for much less. Lee quit, necessitating a re-shoot of the ending using stuntmen for stand-ins and Melody Perkins (Astronema/Karone) was hired becoming The Atoner.
  • But before Lee walked, they shot an episode described as "Air Force One on the Megaship." All that expensive footage had to be trashed and, presumably, that played a role in the rangers spending so much time with Captain Mutiny and his weird Gingaman footage.
• Due to some Executive Meddling, there were also a lot of last-minute script changes, such as the Lights of Orion being on a cave on some forest planet, rather than on Terra Venture (which would've made a lot more sense).
• Per a pre-series bible, Mirinoi was supposed to be inside the Lost Galaxy (and shots of Mirinoi in "Quasar Quest" supported this original plan), and there were conceptual plans to bring the Phantom Ranger back again as a full-time sixth ranger.
• There was supposed to be a set of Ancient Rangers who would have played a part in the series. Interestingly, they would have donned the costumes from Gosei Sentai Dairanger. However, Valerie Vernon's leukemia fight caused it to be scrapped. The only thing that's left from these plans is the Magna Defender's morpher, which was the one used in Dairanger (his Sentai counterpart transformed using his sword).
• The cast was originally going to reunite for a full-length movie. Instead, they got a mediocre 2-parter with the Lightspeed Rescue team. Interestingly, there was barely any drama (if any at all) with the Lightspeed cast and crew — except with the two-parter team-up production, and that drama was due to Danny Slavin and Amy Miller's previous falling-out with executives.
• The Fox Kids website described Bulk and Professor Phenonmenous as getting into wacky misadventures in the GSA's Science Division. It's possible they were intended to have a larger role before the production issues happened (as a result, they got Demoted to Extra, and could've easily been cut from the show completely with minimal changes).
• Jason Faunt had auditioned for the role of Leo. Rhett Fisher also auditioned for the role.
• The writers planned to make Leo and Kendrix an Official Couple, and in the story, they made several hints to try and establish it, but this was, like many other things, derailed by Valerie Vernon's leukemia treatments.
• Amy Adams auditioned for a role in the series, possibly for the role of either Maya or Kendrix, as confirmed by Damon's actor Reggie Rolle in a 2023 interview.

Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue

• The series was planned as a continuation of Lost Galaxy.
• It was stated that originally the Zords in this season were made from destroyed Zords from the earlier seasons (including the original Rescuezords from Turbo) that were found over time and were reverse engineered into the Rescuezords, but the idea was scrapped to keep most of the continuity from the other seasons distant from the later ones.
• Rhett Fisher (Ryan/Titanium Ranger) originally auditioned for the role of Carter. Interesting if you think about how, in the show, Carter originally tried to use the Titanium Ranger powers, but couldn't handle it.
  • Jason Faust also auditioned for the role of Carter before being cast as Wes in the following season.
• Deborah Estelle Phillips was approached for Lightspeed Rescue (likely for the role of either Kelsey or Dana), but she didn't think herself ready for the job and would later play Katie in the following season.
• The role of Dana was almost given to Amy Adams, but her agent said it would ruin her career and she passed.
• Toei and PLEX produced entirely original Zords for the Red and Titanium Rangers, but Saban declined to use them due to the expense. The Red Mobile Armored Vehicle only appears in its debut, a brief scene in "Wrath of the Queen", and both parts of the finale.
• Another toy concept that didn't make it was an interactive Omega Megazord toy. They planned to modify the DX Victory Mars with electronic components and a special base, to download phrases into the toy from VCR recordings of the show, much like the old "ActiMates" toys, as Microsoft was behind both. But late in the game, they decided to ditch all the electronic gimmickry in favor of the plain Omega Megazord. It was so last-minute, the sticker sheet still said it was for the "Deluxe Interactive Omega Megazord", and the box had the toy packed in robot mode (it was supposed to be far wider, to fit the special gear).
• Phillip Jeanmarie auditioned for the role of Joel before being cast as Max in Wild Force.
• Daniel Southworth auditioned for the role of Chad before being cast as Eric in Time Force.

Power Rangers Time Force

• The writers originally planned out a series where the Rangers traveled through time and fought across different time periods. Then they discovered that Mirai Sentai Timeranger didn't actually feature the characters actively travelling through time: they travel once to the year 2000AD and stay there^note and briefly the Mesozoic Era and early 18th century. The writers would later indulge their desires for historical crime-fighting in the two-part Trapped In Movie Land episode "Movie Madness", scenes from which would later be spliced into the opening sequence to imply that... yes, the Rangers actively travelled through time and fought across different time periods!
• Alex was originally supposed to become the Quantum Ranger, but this was changed to Eric, who was a more straightforward adaptation of his Sentai counterpart.
  • Fridge Brilliance: In Timeranger, Ryuya Asami (Alex's counterpart) is the original TimeFire.
• Daniel Southworth was offered the role of Wes; but, as fans already know, Jason Faunt got that role instead. Interesting to note in the show, the team was hoping that the Quantum Morpher would go to Wes.
  • Just before that, he auditioned for Lucas. But apparently, the crew thought he was "a little too intense" to be the Blue Ranger.
• There was talk of a movie, but a possible SAG strike (which ultimately didn't happen) as it would have entered pre-production resulted in the studio opting to play it safe and cancelled it (it's likely that the sale of Fox Kids/Fox Family Worldwide to Disney at the time also played a role). This also cut an extra episode order, leading to a discrepancy in the capture of mutants (Ransik had one left in his prison in the episode "Circuit Unsure", yet the next episode opens with the prison empty and the Rangers declaring every mutant except Ransik recaptured).
• Rick Medina (later Cole in Power Rangers Wild Force and Deker in Power Rangers Samurai) auditioned for the role of Eric, right after the man who would get it, Daniel Southworth.
• Eric was supposed to die like his Timeranger counterpart Naoto. Thankfully, he was Spared by the Adaptation.
• The mutants were originally going to be portrayed more sympathetically, and the racism they face in the 30th century explored in more detail. Then 9/11 happened.
• Also allegedly, because the cast's chemistry was so good, the main six were almost brought back for Wild Force. A follow up to this series would eventually happen in form of Power Rangers Hyperforce sixteen years later.
• Allegedly, the show's Darker and Edgier nature nearly led to it airing on Fox primetime alongside The X-Files! (The only other time that happened were a few sporadic Primetime Power Rangers airing during MMPR season 2, alongside episodes of X-Men: The Animated Series.) It ended up on Fox Kids in the end, though, to "maintain brand consistency".
  • Ironically, Kamen Rider Kuuga, which ran alongside Timeranger for the majority of the latter's run, can essentially be described as "Kamen Rider X Files".
• Also, the originally planned ending had Jen staying in 2001 with Wes to keep the recurring theme going. But due to this trope this was thrown out the window, resulting in writer Judd Lynn quitting the show.
• Ransik was originally named "Morbus".
• According to Katie's actress Deborah Estelle Phillips in an interview with the Toku Ladies podcast, Saban Entertainment originally planned to have Trip being Time Force Yellow (which would've made him a Composite Character of both Domon and Sion) and Katie being Time Force Green (had this happened, we would've gotten our first female Green Ranger two decades earlier) to the team as they felt the Time Force Yellow suit was too tall to be given the gender flip due to Sentai footage but the production crew loved her audition so much that due to the actress being too tall to don the Time Force Green suit, it was decided to have Katie become Time Force Yellow and Trip become Time Force Green instead.

Power Rangers Wild Force

• The tenth anniversary team-up episode "Forever Red" was initially planned as a two-parter/hour-long special climaxing with an all-CGI battle between Serpentera and ten Megazords, one for each Red Ranger present, the budget was repeatedly slashed by Disney executives who argued "Why should we spend money advertising old toys?" The result? The run time was cut down to a half-hour, leaving many scenes either cut or shortened, the CGI was done in-house literally weeks before it aired^note As an aside; this was also the first season not to use, or at least credit, Modern Video Film, the studio that had done the effects for the previous seasons. Likely due to the budget cuts the season faced., and the climax rewritten to pimp the latest season's newest toy bike, so that Bandai would pay the cost of completing the episode.
  • There were four separate outlines: one by Koichi Sakamoto, one by Jonathan Tzachor, and two by Amit Bhaumik. The first outline involved the villains (who have already destroyed a colony) planning to attack Earth and assaulting various Red Rangers, whose introductions are staggered throughout the story. The second outline had all the Red Rangers, introduced in brief showcase scenes, being separately gathered by Alpha 5 to Angel Grove, where they surprise the "Five Metallic Warriors" upon arrival. The third had Andros gathering the Red Rangers (via Tommy) after discovering a cult are trying to resurrect Dark Specter and involves all ten fighting a resurrected Specter; this draft brought all the Rangers together early on, so they could interact more. Most of the elements from this draft would survive into the fourth. Bhaumik hoped to include a reference to Maligore — Specter and Maligore used the same costume — and claim Dark Specter was an adult of the same species. It is unknown how Alpha 5 survived the attack on Eltar in this draft of the script, but it is known that in this case he was to serve as the mentor in place of Tommy.
  • Bulk (without Skull) appeared in the third outline. In the second, Tommy was going to pass up a T-shirt of "the famous two-man rock band Bulk & Skull".
  • Conspicuous by his absence is Rocky. Steve Cardenas was called and had agreed to appear in the episode, but he was in the process of moving at the time and the producers lost contact with him. If he did make it, he either would've taken Jason's spot if Austin St. John wasn't available or become Tommy's butler if he was.
  • Reportedly, the final fight was not going to be against Serpentera, but rather, Dark Specter, who would've been revived and fought all the Red Rangers. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when Toei ends up doing the same thing with Black Cross Führer in the crossover between Tensou Sentai Goseiger and Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
  • During an online interview, Amit Bhaumik revealed that he wrote a falling out between Jason and Tommy and that Jason would have "turned punk" sometime after the events of Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie and before the events of "Forever Red", only to have Jason reunite with Tommy and become friends again. This would explain why Jason comes off as arrogant during this episode. However, the scene was cut out to keep the episode 22-minutes long.
  • Either Leo or Aurico was going to be killed off.
  • Scenes that never made it to filming, but can be seen in a draft script online, include:
    • The reason why Bulk and Skull were intimidated by Tommy was because he was their boss and the real owner of the bar.
    • Cole met Alpha 7 on the Megaship. It involved Cole being scared and surprised he was in space, and Alpha 7 saying "Ay yi yi! Where'd you grow up, in the jungle?" and as Cole was going to tell him he was born in a jungle, he came face-to-face with Alpha 7 and jumped startled. As Alpha 7 introduced himself, Cole wanted to know "Wha-What is a Alpha 7" but said it as if he was scared; and Alpha 7 said he was "a fully sentient, multi-functional automaton and a walking database of everything relating to the Power Rangers" and Cole said (looking scared and sick), "I think I liked it better when I was on earth..." This and the next scene would have allowed Richard Steven Horvitz to record more lines for the Alpha 7 character.
    • A scene between Tommy and Alpha 7 on the Megaship was cut that involved asking Tommy what was wrong, and Tommy replying that things have been awkward between him and Jason since they found those stories on the internet, in a reference to slash fanfiction featuring them together. Also, during this scene, T.J. and Eric were having drinks by the synthetron and talking (As if like old friends), and Cole is trying to talk up an enthusiastic Jason.
    • Venjix blasted Cole and Leo and Aurico arrived on the Red Jet Jammer and then blasted the Machine Empire generals. But in Amit's final draft, they arrived and blasted Venjix out of the hangar of the moon base. Tommy acknowledged them by saying, "The Red Galaxy Ranger and the Red Alien Ranger!" and Leo said, "This battle isn't just for the Rangers of Earth," and Aurico added, "This is for heroes everywhere!" Not to mention, Leo (Like Aurico) didn't appear unmorphed in Amit Bhuamik's final draft.
    • Other materials cut from Amit Bhaumik's final draft include: Steelon originally said "Zedd was a fool to leave this buried here." Andros recorded a message on his Astro Morpher saying, "Andros here. This is worse than I thought, they've almost finished digging it out."; Andros originally said his morphing call "Let's Rocket!" before leaving the moon; Bulk and Skull originally both answered the call; when Cole first met Carter he added "Who are you?"; Wes's Ranger title was addressed as "Time Force Red"; T.J.'s middle name "Jay" was censored, Carter was tongue-tied when trying to say T.J.'s full name and T.J. winced when his name was heard; Automus saluted at the speech and said "For the glory of the Royal House of Gadgetry!"; Alpha 7 originally didn't say "It's all ready Tommy!"; Venjix alternatively said "Excellent work. At last King Mondo, we can finally avenge you. The Earth and all their Rangers will pay for what they did to you and our glorious evil empire!"; Jason cracked his knuckles as he said his "Miss King Mondo" remark; Steelon pointed out "Red Rangers! Eight of them?"; and the Generals originally joined in the Cog battle. Also, they had alternate pair-ups. Jason and Cole paired up against Venjix like in the episode, T.J. and Wes fought Automus, Andros and Eric fought Gerrok, Carter and Aurico fought Steelon, and Leo and Tommy fought Tezzla.
  • It is rumored, but unconfirmed, that Amit's plans included:
    • Catherine Sutherland was supposed to make an appearance at the end of this episode as Tommy's wife picking him up from the NASADA space port with Kimberly confirmed to be now married to Skull. A draft of this scene, confirmed by Amit Bhaumik on Facebook when asked, also had Kimberly pick Tommy up and be confirmed to be his wife as well.
    • Wes and Eric originally contacted Trip in the future to see if the future had changed in one draft.
    • In one draft, Ryan Mitchell, the Titanium Ranger, was going to be the new captain of the rebuilt Lightspeed Aquabase.
• The teaser for this season shown after "The End of Time, Pt. 3" showcased an opening theme completely different from the final, presumably not used due to rights issues from the Power Rangers franchise's sale to Disney.
• Summer Glau auditioned for the role of Alyssa but didn't get it (and instead did another Fox sci-fi show). It was rumored that Sandra McCoy was then cast but was replaced by Jessica Rey for unknown reasons (Sandra instead played Kendall, Danny's love interest in a couple of episodes) before both McCoy and Rey debunked said rumor in 2020.
• There are officially one hundred Power Animals, but we only ever see twenty-two. Toei designed and detailed about a dozen more exclusively for Wild Force, including a peacock with many weapons as its tail feathers and a wallaby with a baby in its pouch. These can be found in the artbook Super Sentai Robot Art Collection.
• The writers were only allowed to include the horrific death of Cole's parents if they were brought back to life later. Then the franchise switched from Fox Kids to Disney mid-stream and the writers were able to keep them dead, with ABC Kids standards and practices none the wiser.
  • According to one rumor, the identity of the parents would have been Jindrax and Toxica, who'd been transformed into Orgs themselves.
• Much of the Ship Tease in this season was supposed to have an actual payoff, with Danny going back to the flower shop with Kendall and Cole and Alyssa being married in a Distant Finale.
• "Reinforcements From the Future" was supposed to use the Three Org Brothers suits from the Gaoranger movie as the Mutorgs, but they were unfortunately destroyed in a fire before this could happen.
• Princess Shayla's song was originally meant to be in Gaelic to fit with Animarium's decidedly Celtic-inspired aesthetic.
• As mentioned, the show was originally supposed to end here, hence the finale being called "The End of the Power Rangers". Disney was content to simply let reruns air on its cable channels. However, they were convinced to move production of the show to Auckland, New Zealand to cut costs and keep it going.
• Chille DeCastro was originally cast as Danny, while Natasha Allas was originally cast as Shayla.
• According to this post, Viacom, USA Networks and NBC were interested to buy Fox Family, the Fox Kids library and Saban Entertainment from News Corporation prior to the Disney acquisition. One would wonder if the franchise would've been had either of the three acquired them instead of Disney.

Power Rangers Ninja Storm

• Before the decision to move filming locations from Los Angeles to New Zealand, then-story editor Amit Bhaumik put together a pitch for what has been dubbed "Hexagon," effectively scrapping the Sentai's structure and turning the Wind and Thunder Ranger rivalry into two sets of Ranger teams, one led by Tommy in a Zordon-like mentorship role (alluded to during Wild Force in his echoing of some of Zordon's lines), the other as a rebellious, anti-authority group led by Jason. The idea was to feature several veteran Rangers in guest roles as well, and even feature several villains whose fates had been left up in the air, such as Gasket, Archerina, Scorpina, and Lokar. Whether or not the budget would have existed for this version of events is a mystery for the ages, but the moment production changed continents and the production staff changed, the entire idea was scrapped.
• Very early materials suggested that the rivalry between the Wind and Thunder Rangers was supposed to play out a lot longer than it did (and possibly be the central conflict of the series, rather than a traditional villain), with kids even being encouraged to pick sides for themselves.
• According to Doug Sloan, he wanted to avert The Smurfette Principle by doing a Gender Flip of one of the Rangers (most likely not Red or Yellow), but Disney vetoed it. Had this happened, then we might've seen the first female non-Yellow Ranger with a male Sentai counterpart. (Which would ultimately happen many seasons later, in Dino Fury, where a Green ranger gets turned female.)
• The Tori character may well have become a carbon copy of her Hurricanger counterpart (aspiring Idol Singer Nanami) had Emma Lahana, who auditioned for this role before becoming Kira in the following season, gotten the part instead of Sally Martin.
• Plans for a crossover with Wild Force were scrapped due to the move to New Zealand. Besides the distance, the show went non-union with the move and has remained so ever since, so a teamup was out of the question; interestingly, unlike with "Reinforcements from the Future", they would've been able to use stock footage, as there was a crossover between the two sentai teams, so presumably the costs from moving the cast of Wild Force to New Zealand for filming wouldn't have been offset by what they could've saved using stock footage.
• Jason Chan auditioned for the role of Dustin before being cast as Cam.
• James Napier was offered the role of Shane but scheduling conflicts with his role in The Tribe prevented him from accepting it, though he would be cast as Eric in the finale before playing Conner in the following season.

Power Rangers Dino Thunder

• Rumors have swirled for quite some time that Zeltrax was going to be revealed to not be Smitty but instead one of the Zordon-era Rangers. Jason and Billy are the two names that commonly pop up, though some also claim Kat would have become Zeltrax had she been on the show and the character given a female voice^note Geildon, Zeltrax's Abaranger counterpart, had his armor inherited by a woman upon his defeat meaning this was in the realm of plausibility. One has to wonder how much of an impact that would have had with Tommy, now a mentor to a team, fighting a brainwashed friend that the audience knew instead of some guy we only meet in flashbacks.
• There were plans for Kira and Trent to become an Official Couple, and the relationship was teased throughout the first half of the season. However, according to Trent's actor, the higher-ups at Disney worried that young boys wouldn't be interested in a Romance Arc, and so the relationship was quietly dropped. Reportedly, it got so bad that the network expressly prohibited any physical contact between Kira and Trent.
• Devin was going to be the Triassic Ranger, but as Abaranger continued, it became apparent that rather than a separate hero it was just another Super Mode for Red, meaning these plans had to be discarded entirely.
• Had Jason David Frank not returned for this season, the Black Ranger would have been named Edward Payne. Because little was changed outside of the name, this led to the canon issue of Tommy becoming a Mad Scientist in seven years.
  This is doubly true with his Ph.D. in paleontology, a degree that is supposed to take anywhere between 8 and 11 years to actually get. Tommy gets his in 6 years or less depending on when he actually starts college and how many classes he takes per semester (and even how many semesters he takes to complete each degree).
• In a 2014 interview, producer Jackie Marchand revealed that she and the writers discussed implying that Hayley was a lesbian. In the finale, she would ride away on her next adventure with a woman implied to be her partner, but time constraints and the politics of early 2000s children's television kept this from happening.
• According to Catherine Sutherland, who played Kat Hillard, the Pink Ranger from the end of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers to the first half of Power Rangers Turbo, they were going to bring her back, but couldn't because of cost. Presumably, she would have been Tommy's wife and likely filled Hayley's role.

Power Rangers SPD

• Cory Monteith auditioned for the role of Jack alongside Brandon Jay McLaren and Chris Violette.
• Producer Greg Aronowitz planned for the season to have the first full-fledged female Red Ranger in the franchise's (including Sentai's) history, but since this is a series designed to sell toys to little boys, he was quickly shot down by higher ups from both sides of the Pacific. He made the A-Squad Red Ranger a woman instead.
• Bruce Kalish had plans for an SPD movie in which Jack rejoined the team, but was vetoed by Disney. Ironically Toei would start a series of Super Sentai films for the 10th Anniversary of an series with Dekaranger being the second with basically the same plot concept.
• Jack and Z were originally going to be brother and sister, sharing the last name of Manners before being cast apart.
• According to Greg Aronowitz during RangerStop 2015, his original plans for "History" were for Broodwing to use the Dino Gems to create clones of the Dino Thunder Rangers. However, Disney told him to use the time travel dynamic since they were concerned about the audience being confused on whether or not those were the actual team members.
• Jason Bischoff, a former Global Franchise Director for Power Rangers, stated on Twitter in 2020 that there had been a pitch idea for "S.P.D. Fire Squad". Like Kalish's movie pitch, Jack would return to S.P.D., but as a covert agent who worked the streets. The main focus would be a Power Trio comprised of Jack, Sky, and Bridge, with all three being a type of Red Ranger. Jack being "Ranger Prime"^*A color inverted version of his Red Ranger form, Sky being "Deka Ranger"^*As first depicted in Power Rangers: Soul of the Dragon, and Bridge remaining "S.P.D. Red Ranger".^*As established in Once A Ranger, but with an upgraded suit to match Banban's "DekaFire" mode.
• Brandon Jay McLaren was shortlisted for the Green and Blue Ranger roles before he was chosen to become the Red Ranger.

Power Rangers Mystic Force

• Madison and Vida Rocca were not originally written as sisters (Madison's last name was Grey), but ended up cast as such.
• Greg Aronowitz was filming Labou in New Orleans during the break between SPD and Mystic Force when Hurricane Katrina hit and delayed production of the film. Aronowitz stayed behind to finish the film in early 2006, leaving many to wonder what Mystic Force would have been like co-penned by him along with Bruce Kalish, which was finally revealed in 2022 when Aronowitz said at Power Morphicon that his original proposal had it set before Mighty Morphin with the Rangers being in a Hogwarts-type school, thus deviating away from the Sentai footage/plots but Disney vetoed it.
• Ron Wasserman originally submitted two potential theme songs for the show, a rock theme and a rap theme, both of which were rejected in favor of what we got.
• Leelee Pimvare was meant to be cast as twins like her Sentai counterparts.
• Like the other Disney series since the transition to New Zealand, Mystic Force was planned to have 38 episodes. Disney, who at this point were beginning to grow tired of the franchise, cut the budget to 32 instead at some point. One of the planned episodes was confirmed to be a crossover with S.P.D. The closest we got with a crossover to the previous season was a cameo by Piggy.
• Firass Dirani and Richard Brancatisano, who played Nick and Xander respectively, actually tried out for each other's parts.

Power Rangers Operation Overdrive

• The series had a far more ambitious pitch that was retooled after getting a reduced budget, as the original premise of the show would have been more similar to Boukenger.
• Samuel Benta (Will) wrote & submitted a theme song for the series which ultimately was never used.
• There were deleted scenes from "Once A Ranger" which explained the Rangers' jealousy towards their predecessors.
• Brandon Jay McLaren (Jack from SPD) was invited back for "Once A Ranger", but declined, wanting to avoid Working with the Ex (he and Emma Lahana had dated for a while, then broke up).
• Around the time of Operation Overdrive, Disney repeatedly tried to cancel the live-action Power Ranger series and replace it with an animated one, with one incarnation having Doggie Kruger as mentor to a new team. Toei vetoed that. Disney also wanted more control over Super Sentai's production, wanting to make it less violent, which angered Toei and is occasionally thought to be the cause of Shinkenger's heavy Japanese influence^note although that's likely Toei being Misblamed; RPM was only made either because original producer Guzelian convinced Disney that he could make a darker series that would appeal to a wider audience or Disney was contractually obligated to make 1 more season after Jungle Fury, which would've been the last season had they gotten their way; what's more likely is that Toei made Shinkenger under the then-correct assumption that it wouldn't be adapted, a mindset that continued into the production of Goseiger, but Saban just had the misfortune of buying the franchise back after Shinkenger had finished.
• Samuell Benta (Will) and Caitlin Murphy (Ronny) were supposedly invited to come back for Super Megaforce, but couldn't. Considering Benta's history with the franchise, it could be possible he was lying in order to rile up fans.

Power Rangers Jungle Fury

• There was a rumor that Camille was going to be played by Ria Vandervis, who played Miratrix in Operation Overdrive. But Vandervis turned down the part because she "didn't want to be two different villainesses in two seasons," so Holly Shanahan got the part.
• A different theme tune was recorded for the show, which was rejected in favor of the final version.
• Before being cast as Dillon in RPM, Dan Ewing auditioned for the role of Casey.

Power Rangers RPM

• Summer was originally named "Kayla". Kimberley Crossman, the New Zealand actress who played Lauren Shiba in Super Samurai, stated that she auditioned for the role of Summer in an interview with RangerCrew. Interestingly enough, Kimberley worked with both Ari Boyland and Olivia Tennet during her tenure on Shortland Street.
• The executive producer, Eddie Guzelian, was fired midway through the season due to Executive Meddling. When Judd Lynn took the helm the plot shifted from Guzelian's original plan. One example being that Tenaya was not supposed to be Dillon's sister. This twist was very similar to In Space's Andros and Andromeda reveal. Guzelian has been on the record as still in possession of the notes and has promised the actors that he'd reveal his ideas over a drink if they wanted to.
• The ending revealed that Venjix didn't die and had transferred its consciousness into the Red Ranger morpher. This plot line was setting up for a future RPM crossover that would have seen the next season of Rangers team up with the RPM team to defeat Venjix for good. Sadly Disney sold the rights to Power Rangers back to Saban and Judd Lynn wasn't brought back on for Samurai. Instead the RPM/Samurai crossover involved fighting a newly introduced villain, Professor Cog, without resolving the Venjix storyline.
  • With the reveals that Dr. K and Colonel Truman were returning in Power Rangers Beast Morphers, speculation began with the loose threads finally being tied up, including theories that Evox was an evolved version of Venjix, and that Scrozzle was in fact a Venjix-built robot — which would explain why he looks almost nothing like the Go-Busters monsters in Beast Morphers, rather resembling the Go-Onger monsters from RPM. It was ultimately confirmed that series Big Bad Evox was indeed Venjix, who'd escaped from Scott's morpher and into Grid Battleforce's computers as a result of Nate experimenting with the morpher in an attempt to create a new way of morphing.
• The series originally had a MUCH darker ending (at least allegedly -- no one is sure whether or not this is real). After Venjix was destroyed in Danger & Destiny, the series' true finale Ranger Black would begin; Dillon would be revealed as a cyborg sleeper agent created to infiltrate the Rangers, gain their trust/access to the morphing grid, and ultimately serve as Venjix's final host. Everything about his human existence, up to and including Tenaya being his sister, was fiction created by Venjix in order to lure the Rangers into trusting him. The series would then end with the rest of the team being forced to kill Dillon in order to save humanity and destroy Venjix once and for all.
• Johnny Yong Bosch apparently turned down the chance to reprise his role as Adam. What kind of role he would have played is unknown though common speculation is that he'd have filled a role similar to Tommy in Dino Thunder.
• Tenaya was going to get a morpher at the end of the season had Eddie Guzelian stayed on, presumably becoming a Ranger. There are rumors that she would have become the Orange Ranger, and helped control the unpiloted Croc Carrier, and in turn the ValveMax Megazord with Dillon and Ziggy (there was no Orange Ranger in Go-Onger, or even in the RPM toyline, which did give the PaleoMax Zords counterpart Rangers; same thing goes for the Whale Jumbo Jet.)
• According to Eka Darville, RPM the series supposed to make the Channel Hop when Toon Disney became Disney XD, but somewhere along the way it was decided it wouldn't, and became ABC Kids exclusive.
• In an episode of Game Grumps, co-host Dan Avidan reveals that he recorded a demo for the show’s opening, which can be heard here.
• Colonel Truman's actor James Gaylyn revealed in a 2021 interview with Morphin Network that his character was planned to have a backstory episode as well as that the show was planned to have a film before both plans were discarded after Guzelian's dismissal.
• Ari Boyland auditioned for the roles of Scott and Dillon before being cast as Flynn, while Mike Ginn auditioned for the role of Ziggy before being cast as Gem. He also recalls trying "about three different accents" before they decided on making the character Scottish. During his audition, they also tested out Flynn being completely mute. He apparently did something that they loved, but they went with Scottish.
• Flynn was almost called Floyd.
• Jackie Marchand revealed in March 2021 that she was going to be the sole showrunner of the series after serving as co-showrunner for most of her time on the show but Disney opted to bring in Eddie Guzelian and was later dismissed two months into production. One would wonder what RPM would've been like Marchand stayed on.

Power Rangers Samurai

• Reportedly, Judd Lynn was offered a chance to work on the season after RPM, but declined because he would have less creative control than he did before.
• Originally Amit Bhaumik proposed that this series was to take place in Stone Canyon and Mia would be a relative of Cassie but Jonathan Tzachor decided not to go with this idea.
• Early casting calls included a comedy duo called "Skinny Mack and Big Jack", who were ultimately replaced by Bulk and Spike.
• Antonio's name was originally Wesley.
• Shinkenger, Samurai's source material, had a crossover arc with Kamen Rider Decade. Suppose Saban had decided to adapt said arc^note Ironically, when Decade premiered in South Korea, the Shinkenger tribute was included in the dub...despite Shinkenger not being dubbed and released in Korean; the team was known as Power Rangers Samurai Force. Would this have led to a possible Reboot of Masked Rider? There was some speculating that this would also lead them to retroactively include Kamen Rider Dragon Knight in canon should that be the case (Dragon Knight had adapted Kamen Rider Ryuki). It's worth noting that the Decade only appeared transformed during his half of the Shinkenger crossover, not to mention the role he had been given to fit in (one of the Kuroko) had been Adapted Out, meaning that if an adaptation had been pursued, the crossover would've been a Pragmatic Adaptation^note reportedly, Saban did purchase the rights to the Decade portion of the crossover, although whether they did so with the intent to use them in a crossover that they later decided against or if they did so merely because it had footage of the Shinkengers in it is unknown.
• Had Jonathan Tzachor gotten his way, the rangers would've been more sequestered than they are in the finished product. Fortunately, this was rejected.
• If Paul Schrier had been able to relocate to New Zealand, it's very likely that he would've had a much bigger role in Samurai, possibly even a role in Megaforce.
• According to James W. Bates, "Clash of the Red Rangers" was originally going to be 75 minutes long and that the other RPM Rangers were going to appear and interacting with the Samurai Rangers, though like Scott, they would remain in morphed mode and would be voiced by their actors instead due to actor unavailability. In fact, the infamous line "Your team says hi" is in a fact a nod to that deleted scene.
• Emily was almost played by Ciara Hanna, they even had the contract ready, but she backed out before signing. She would return to play Gia in Power Rangers Megaforce. Mia's actress Erika Fong also auditioned for the role.
• Spike's actor, Felix Ryan actually tried out for the part of the Gold Ranger.
  • Which would be hilariously ironic if he succeeded because Skull, Spike's father, was one of the red herrings for the Gold Ranger in Zeo.
• Damien Haas, now known for So Random! and Smosh, also auditioned for the role of Antonio and got a decent way through the process.
• In a vlog Brennan Mejia, who would later play Tyler Navarro in Dino Charge, auditioned for the role of Jayden, but was cut after the third callback.
• One planned episode would have seen Bulk try to become the Brown Samurai Ranger, based on an unadapted episode of Shinkenger where a Funny Foreigner makes himself the "Shinken Brown".
• According to a recent interview, during the audition process, at one point, they moved Hector David, Jr. over to the Gold Ranger.

Power Rangers Megaforce

• Many fans have been utterly vocal over the fact that a number of former Rangers didn't return for Super Megaforce, mostly due to the fact that they weren't asked or they declined the invitation. Among those who didn't return were David Yost (declined because of how he felt the invitation was an insult because it was the same as everyone else's and felt that they should at least have apologized for harassing him during filming of MMPR), Walter Emanuel Jones (Out of support for David in regards to how he was treated), Steve Cardenas (declined due to the low pay for the brief cameo, which is a reason many others declined), Rhett Fisher (invited, then uninvited due to budget constraints), and almost everyone from the Disney era (most of them were never tapped) and others still were adamant about saying their issue wasn't specifically money, but other extenuating circumstances (Valerie Vernon wanted to do it, but now has children and wasn't given enough time to prepare arrangements to allow her to make the trip to New Zealand. Erin Cahill also wanted to return, but had to refuse because Rangers is a non-union production and she is currently a SAG member). Amy Jo Johnson was also contacted, but her agent didn't give her the invitation because it was the same as everyone else's. Johnny Yong Bosch was also contacted and he responded, but they never replied back. Christopher Khayman Lee (Andros) was contacted as well and expressed interest, but he couldn't make it either due to scheduling conflicts and because he also wasn't given enough time to prepare.
  • Speaking of low-pay, Austin St. John and Karan Ashley, two major MMPR names (especially the former), were also contacted — and like Cardenas plus a number of others, they also declined for this reason. It's not that none of the three didn't want to come back (they really did, and they want the fans to be happy), but the pay barely covered the plane ticket expenses to-and-from New Zealand and they just didn't think the long trip was worth the brief cameo. They also didn't feel respected by the company executives. Austin also clarified why he didn't come back for it at a panel in 2022 and said that not only was he in Iraq being an army medic when he got the invite, which would've required him to break his contract and thus he would've gotten him in big trouble with the military and not be able to do anything else for them, but the pay was only $2000, making an earlier comment he had about the pay not being enough to pay for the plane ticket make more sense.
• There's a lot of ideas for Megaforce and its second season, Super Megaforce, that were proposed but shot down by producer Jonathan Tzachor^note although it's never been officially explained why, if Tzachor's original plans for Samurai, which would've kept it even closer to the source material than it already was because he thought Shinkenger was a good show, are any indication, it's likely because he thought the source material was good and didn't need to be changed. Several of those ideas were mentioned by James Bates in his interviews with Den Of Geek.^note The short version is that Bates wanted to show more of the Rangers' personal history and time outside the suits, and Tzachor didn't.
• It's been rumored that Saban wanted to skip adapting Goseiger and go straight to Gokaiger for the 20th anniversary, but Executive Meddling prevented that.
• If the casting sheet is to be believed, there was originally going to be a subplot where Jake wanted to tell everybody he was a Power Ranger, only to be stopped by the secret identity rule.
• Early press releases describe the non-high school side of the plot as being nearly beat for beat the same as Goseiger with the three different villain factions instead of the first villain faction being the main one, the second being reduce to side villains and the third faction being reduced to an emissary for the new villains in Super Megaforce.
• Basco from Gokaiger was nearly adapted — the only evidence left of him in the show is his ship is reused for Orion plus many fans hoped that his actor Kei Hosogai would play him in this adaptation as it was revealed that the Japanese actor spent most of his childhood and early adult life in Seattle and Hawaii, which is why many Gokaiger fans outside of Japan were surprised by his fluent unaccented English. 
• One wonders what could have been if Toei had let them skip Goseiger so that Saban and Nick could adapt Gokaiger with 40 episodes instead of 20 or better yet what if Saban had just spread out the Goseiger adaptation over 40 episodes instead of a compressed 20 episodes and THEN adapt Gokaiger for 2015 and 2016 especially since then we would of had Judd Lynn as EP by then...
  • It hurts worse because the season Judd got his hands on ended up skipping Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters. Let's just say Irony is a bitch.
• According to writer James W. Bates, there had been plans for Vrak and Vekar to interact, along with Robo Knight returning earlier in Super Megaforce.
• Casting sheets suggested that when making Super Megaforce, there were plans to adapt Basco (and presumably Sally) and the Greater Powers from Gokaiger in the form of a character named Silas and items named the Zaferia Stones. If he had been adapted, the footage where the team would do full-team morphs into Lightspeed Rescue and In Space to fight against him could have been used. Not to mention one of the examples under the "They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot" example on the YMMV page, regarding the battle where Basco brings all the Sixth Ranger Keys to life, could have been used. Ironically enough, if the Zaferia stones had been used, they would have had to have focused more on the Zaferia stones of the pre-Zyuranger teams (and possibly the PR version of the Dairangers)^note assuming they still kept the pre-Zyuranger teams, since Basco never got his hands on a greater power of a Sentai that was adapted into Power Rangers^note he did attempt to, but none of his attempts were successful — the only powers he was able to successfully obtain were those of the Dengeki Sentai Changeman, Choushinsei Flashman, Hikari Sentai Maskman, Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan, and the Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman. Instead, it seems that Vrak was chosen to fill his role instead, and as a result, they ended up wasting one of the easiest methods of paying homage to what's regarded as one of the best Power Rangers series...
• In the corresponding Gokaiger episode that A Lion's Alliance was adapted from, Gao Red is the returning cast member. As that episode was adapted, it's possible that at one point, there were plans for Richard Medina, Cole's actor, to reprise his role^note He'd played Dekar in Samurai, so he was available and at the time, he was not facing legal problems. The reason for this change, however, is likely due to the fact that the Samurai tribute episode used Jayden instead of Lauren^note in the corresponding Gokaiger episode, Lauren's sentai counterpart, Lady Kaoru, was used instead of Jayden's sentai counterpart, Takeru, and the producers not wanting to have 2 Red Ranger cameos in a row. It's unknown, however, if there was an attempt to get another ranger or Princess Shayla (Ann Marie Crouch) to replace Cole but were unable to due to the actors declining/being unable to make the trip, or if they decided to scrap a cameo from a Wild Force character outright afterwards.
• Speaking of Gokaiger, much like with Machiko Soga, had Richard Genelle not died of a heart attack in 2008, it's possible that he would have returned to reprise his role, and we would have seen the actual Ernie run Ernie's Brain Freeze, instead of a character named Ernie.
  • Similarly, in Time Force and Mighty Morphin, Eric and Tommy were supposed to die like their sentai counterpart, but the decision was made not to kill them. Had they been killed off like in the Sentai, it's possible that Orion might have received the Sixth Ranger powers from them in a dream, similar to the source material^note in the source material, Gai received them from the deceased Abarekiller, but Naoto and Burai were also present, albeit with no speaking lines.
  • As noted by Linkara, there were many plans that were scrapped due to Jonathan Tzachor vetoing them — for example, Troy was originally going to be The Chosen One^note he was going to be linked to the Morphin Grid, and his infamous Super Saiyan Punch was going to be part of his powers; similarly, Robo Knight would be linked to him as well, and Mr Burley was originally going to be replaced by a Ranger Alumni^note specifically, the plans were for David Yost to come back and play Billy, acting as a mentor to Noah.
• Andrew Gray revealed that a few backstory scenes were filmed for his character but were cut, they would've shown that Troy had a father in the military and he was being sent to live with an uncle because his dad was being stationed elsewhere.
• Orion's actor, Cameron Jebo, originally tried out for the part of Troy.
• Noah's actor John Mark Loudermilk auditioned for the role of Jake. Peter Sudarso also auditioned for the role.
• Emma's actress Christina Masterson auditioned for the role of Gia, while Gia's actress Ciara Hanna auditioned for the role of Emma.
• America's Next Top Model Cycle Thirteen contestant Sundai Love said she was told that they couldn't cast her in the show, since they already cast a Black actor. Had she been cast, it would've been the first team to feature two black Rangers.

Power Rangers Dino Charge

• With the series adapting Kyoryuger and fully skipping over Go-Busters, who knows what a full top-down adaptation of the latter would have been? While we know now what it will be, what would it have been like if it hadn't been skipped initially?
• Like with Samurai, there were rumors that Saban was intending on attempting another adaptation of Kamen Rider, this time using Kamen Rider Wizard — unlike with Samurai, however, these rumors came from the trailer announcing Dino Charge at Power Morphicon, which had a Freeze-Frame Bonus of Wizard^note unlike Shinkenger and Decade, Wizard and Kyoryuger had no proper TV crossover, instead meeting in the second Super Hero Taisen movie.
• Early casting calls show that Riley was originally named Ryan, Tyler was originally called Lucas, and that Kendall was going to be called Kiera. All three were changed due to being previously used.
• Riley's brother Matt was originally the Graphite (then called Gray) Ranger, rather than Prince Phillip.
• Early in the show, the Dino Charge morpher was hacked and one of the voice clips was for a Talon Ranger, many assumed that the Deathryuger/Kyoryu Navy suit was going to appear in the show as that Ranger and Heckyl was hinted at obtaining those powers. It's been theorized that the reason this fell through is because production was unable to get the rights to the suit (things that appear only in Sentai movies have to negotiated separately unless they happen to appear in-show, like with the Spinozord which happened to be Deathryuger's Zord) or they didn't have the budget for it having spent it getting the rights to Snide's suit which was also movie exclusive.
  • The suit did end up showing up in an unexpected way: as part of a new team of Rangers in the comic following the events of Shattered Grid, unsurprisingly wielded by Heckyl.
• For a while, it was speculated that Saban might attempt at adapting Kyoryuger vs Gobusters, due to using Snide's suit (which comes from that movie), suggesting that Saban had the rights to the footage, as well as the fact that it featured the sentai counterparts of 2 of the most popular Ranger teams, Mighty Morphin and Dino Thunder. However, it turned out Gobusters would end up having to still be adapted before adapting the film.
• Brennan Mejia auditioned for the roles of Chase and Riley before being cast as Tyler.
• Yoshi Sudarso's brother Peter auditioned for the role of Riley. He would later go on to play Preston next season.
• Nico Greetham, who would go on to play Calvin next season, also auditioned and got a callback - but slept through it and missed out on a role.
• Robert Baldwin (Kyoryu Cyan) wanted to play a PR counterpart to Ramirez in the show after hearing that Kyoryuger would be adapted as Dino Charge.

Power Rangers Ninja Steel

• The series is mostly adapting Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, though this time with some elements of the skipped Ressha Sentai ToQger. One can't help but wonder what a full-blown ToQger adaptation would have been like.
• At Power Morphicon 2018, Judd Lynn revealed that it was due to Executive Meddling that most of the comedy that was seen as juvenile by fans was added to both Dino Charge and Ninja Steel, and his team had wanted to be more serious, pursuing a tone that was akin to In Space. It's unknown if he was just talking about Ninja Steel in regards to the tone he wanted to pursue, or if he was including Dino Charge in that statement, but just how different would either series have been if said meddling hadn't occured?
• Chantz Simpson was originally announced as the Yellow Ranger at Power Morphicon 2016, but left for undisclosed reasons and was replaced by Nico Greetham.
• According Nico Greetham, a kiss scene was filmed between his character and Hayley Foster in "Reaching the Nexus", however it was cut due to unknown reasons.
• "Dimensions in Danger" almost became a longer episode. Notable scenes were cut before production started, as revealed in the script under Wes' actor Jason Faunt's possession such as:
  • Gemma originally had more lines, with some of them ultimately given to Wes in the final version.
  • While it had the third-largest number of Rangers teaming up with 16 ("Legendary Battle" and Shattered Grid had more), it was originally going to be 21 with the inclusion of Ninjor, Phantom Ranger, Ryan, Eric and Doggie.

Power Rangers Beast Morphers

• Hasbro tried to get at least one Role Reprise from Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, but unfortunately they had no luck getting any of the five Rangers to come back. ^note James Napier and Emma Lahana have since distanced themselves from the franchise and were doing other things on TV, Kevin Duhaney and Jeffrey Parazzo expressed a willingness to return but were unable to, and Jason David Frank did not return due to retiring the TV role of Tommy after his appearance in Ninja Steel.
• Toy-related example: Saban ended their contract with Bandai on February 15, 2018, choosing to partner with Hasbro the following day. Aside from the obvious one (Saban choosing to stick with Bandai), Saban could've just as easily partnered with Mattel^note ironically, this will mean that Bandai of America, who was heavily involved in the production of Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger, won't be involved in the production of the Power Rangers adaptation. Also related to this: What if Saban went with Hasbro but kept the franchise as opposed to selling it to them?
• With the series being a Gobusters adaptation, there are three "What ifs": The first two (What if Saban (now Hasbro) had gone with Zyuohger or Kyuranger instead) being obvious, and the third is what if Hasbro had instead adapted the other skipped Sentai, Ressha Sentai Toqger, instead of Gobusters?
• Jason Bischoff confirmed that he and Melissa Flores did some redubbing work for "Making Bad" before they left and their ADR work was replaced.
• Liana Ramirez (Roxy) initially auditioned for the role of Zoey, which adds irony to her character being the intended Yellow Ranger.
  • Hunter Deno who would later play Amelia Jonas the Pink Ranger in Dino Fury also mentioned that she had auditioned for the role of Zoey.

Power Rangers Dino Fury

• Much like with Beast Morphers, many what-ifs pertain to the four skipped Sentai (Toqger, Zyuohger, Kyuranger, and Lupinranger vs Patranger).
  • Jason Bischoff, one of the show's former brand managers, revealed after his departure from the franchise in early 2020 that he had done a proposal for a possible adaptation of Kyuranger titled Supernova. Blaze and Roxy (as in the real ones, not their evil counterparts) were going to become Rangers in this adaptation.
• Izzy was originally played by Alexandra Nuñez; however between the leaked cast info and the official announcements she was replaced by Tessa Rao.
• The season name was almost the much speculated Dino Knights, but, according to a response from executive producer Simon Bennett, Hasbro had final say on the matter.
  • No crossover for Dino Fury ended up being filmed owing to the pandemic.
  • Simon Bennett confirmed on Twitter that Kyuranger was skipped for having too many Rangers, even stating that it would be nearly impossible to thoroughly develop and tell the stories of that many rangers within a season of Power Rangers. He also confirmed that LupinRanger VS PatRanger was skipped because Rangers can't be criminals (the LupinRangers) and that Rangers as cops, as he states, are "problematic in today's climate" (the PatRangers).
• According to Bennett, it was originally planned to be a single 22-episode season due to the forthcoming project from Jonathan Entwistle but when that was postponed, it was given another season.

Films

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

• In March 1994, Steve Wang was announced as the director of the film. However, by July, Bryan Spicer took Wang's place.
• The film was originally planned to be filmed in Canada and the United States. However, with the help of 20th Century Fox executive vice president Jon Landau, the crew decided to film it in Australia instead.
• When the crew moved to Australia, they planned to shoot the film at Warner Movie World/Village Roadshow Studios at the Gold Coast in Queensland, but it was booked for Street Fighter. At art director Colin Gibson's suggestion, the crew used the Sydney Showgrounds, which would later become Fox Studios Australia three years after this film was made. Warner Movie World/Village Roadshow Studios would eventually become the location where the jungle scenes were filmed towards the end of its production.
• The producers originally intended for the Rangers' masks to not have their visors and mouth pieces, feeling that it removed any sense of personality. They realized that their changes were counter-intuitive to the point of wearing a helmet because they were supposed to be an elite, faceless fighting force. They went overbudget and over schedule to refilm the necessary scenes. This actually resulted in the second season of the show overlapping with the film production (they were supposed to finish filming it when they returned home to America), the last few episodes were filmed in Australia.
• Ivan Ooze was originally conceived as an animalistic and grotesque but charismatic creature inspired by Klaus Kinski's performance and character in Nosferatu the Vampyre, down to using an army of plague-ridden, mutated rat-men to brainwash Angel Grove's adult population into servitude; a Knight of Cerebus to exemplify the raised stakes the Rangers faced. This angle was dropped in pre-production due to fears of frightening the intended target audience, and the rat-men were later dropped and replaced with the Tengu warriors.
• Austin St. John (Jason), Walter Jones (Zack), and Thuy Trang (Trini) were originally slated to appear in the film, but due to their contract dispute halfway through Season 2, they were dropped. In relation to that, Maurice Mendoza was also slated to reprise his role as Richie for the film with the plans to have him becoming a Ranger.
• After Ivan blew up his Tengu Warriors for failing, he originally created a colorful-feathered "Queen Tengu" out of their feathers. Its worth noting that the character still appears as a boss in the Game Boy version of the movie's video game adaptation.
• Catherine Sutherland (Katherine Hillard, the second Pink Ranger) auditioned to play Dulcea. Evidently they liked her enough to bring her to America for a role. Sutherland has lived in America since.
• Mariska Hargitay was cast to play Dulcea after the original actress, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, had to back out due to a scheduled surgery. However, Fox and Saban didn't feel that Hargitay was working out and was replaced with Fitzpatrick after she recovered. Due to budget issues, she wasn't able to refilm an extended sequence where Dulcea trained the Rangers in their ninja outfits at her home. As such in the movie the Rangers seem to just sit and stare at the monument for a time before deciding to go.
• Dulcea's backstory was in the script, but cut from the film. It's explained that she is the sole survivor of an alien race from "another time, another dimension" who created the power in the Ninjetti Temple. She and Zordon were also members of the same order that imprisoned Ivan Ooze in the first place.
• Ooze originally created a team of rat-men to battle the Rangers at the construction yard. Spicer and the producers felt they looked horrible and very low-budget (their goal was to create a high-budget looking movie) and such convinced 20th Century Fox to replace them with the more creepy looking Ooze-men. The rat-men costumes were later used in the "Return of the Green Ranger" three-parter on the TV series.
• Instead of the gargoyles guarding the temple, the Rangers would have fought another set of Tengu warriors — and their queen. The battle was supposed to happen on a long rope bridge on the way to the monolith. The set was built and put in front of a greenscreen but never used.
• Dulcea would have had an annoying alien sidekick who picked on Kimberly. Around the time Fitzpatrick returned to play Dulcea, they decided to drop it.
• The final Megazord battle was planned to be achieved via suits and miniatures, similar to the TV show. The special effects team convinced the production to use CGI instead. The idea would be used for the Power Rangers Turbo movie.
• Rowan Atkinson, Tim Curry, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and even singer/songwriter Phil Collins were considered for the role of Ivan Ooze. Bob Hoskins, Jon Voight and Dennis Hopper were also considered the part.
• Jennifer Connelly and Denise Richards were considered the role of Dulcea.
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt was considered for the role of Fred Kelman.

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie

• As per this fansite full of old PR scripts, earlier drafts had tons of changes:
  • The fifth revision of the script gave Justin a lot more motivation, explained the Turbo powers, and afterwards explained why they didn't pass the powers off to someone else. Oh sure, there are still some plot holes but it mostly patched them all up...
  • A mermaid character named Mandika was in early versions of the script, and apparently may have made it as far as filming before they cut her entirely.
  • In an podcast interview with a fansite in 2014, Hilary Shepard Turner revealed that Divatox was originally written with Grace Jones in mind. In earlier drafts, her name was "Darivia".
  • Early ideas were for the movie to feature all of the original five Rangers returning. David Yost walking off the set near the end of Power Rangers Zeo trashed that concept early on and only Amy Jo Johnson and Austin St. John returned.
• Johnny Yong Bosch revealed that the film was originally about 3 hours long before being cut down in editing with a lot more developments on things that went unexplained in the final product.

Power Rangers (2017)

• Max Landis wrote a script for the film with a deliberately campier 80s action-comedy feel (for example: Zack as the Pink Ranger). Landis had speculated after the first trailer came out that the producers were expecting him to make a script similar in tone to Chronicle.
• Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz (Thor, X-Men: First Class) were the original writers for the screenplay before they were dismissed and replaced by John Gatins, Burk Sharpless, Matt Sazama and the Creator Couple Kieran and Michele Mulroney, who are better known for writing the screenplay for George Miller's failed Justice League: Mortal film.
  • Roberto Orci was going to produce the film but left to focus on Star Trek Beyond.
• In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Amy Jo Johnson (who played Kimberly in the original) said she wanted to play Rita in the reboot. This would have been a funny Mythology Gag as one episode of the original series put Kimberly in Rita's role temporarily thanks to Goldar (which would end up Foreshadowing Rita's later return to the series and marriage to Zedd) — especially considering Amy Jo does a flawlessly PERFECT impression of Rita!
• Naomi Scott (Kimberly) originally auditioned to be Trini (though the self tape she did had her doing all the Ranger roles).
• Jason David Frank and Amy Jo Johnson shot a cameo scene, with JDF even sporting longer hair like his Tommy days. That scene was cut, and their appearance in the final film was a later addition.
• Mauricio Ruiz revealed concept art of the Sabertooth Tiger and Triceratops Zords, which was more akin to the original Zyuranger designs.
• KJ Apa auditioned for the role of Jason.
• There were plans to have all the Rangers' personal weapons but there wasn't enough budget for them, since they would've been physical props enhanced with CGI.
• The opening prologue would've been a bigger battle between Zordon and his Ranger team against Rita.
• One behind-the-scenes feature shows that Trini and Kim's doughnut fight would have ended with the two of them partially morphing their arms, then quickly hiding them. It was also the original cameo scene of Amy Jo Johnson and Jason David Frank.
• A lot of Zack's backstory was cut out, including him trying to become a YouTube star doing tricks and stunts as a way to raise more money to support his mom.
• The original stinger was set in the cafeteria where a fight would've broken out, instigated by "crazy new student, Tommy Oliver". It was changed since the director felt it was more appropriate to have it occur in the detention classroom instead.
• Plans were in place for as much as five sequels, presumably distilling the key elements of subsequent seasons.
• The novelization (which was written using early drafts of the script) showed that Alpha 5's character was much more snarky, bordering on patronizing at times. For example: the scene when the teens are first learning about them becoming Power Rangers, in the movie he comments that "[Jason]'s smart" when originally he said "[the teens] are small but stupid". This made the character annoying at best, unlikable at worst and he was changed to having a more cheery attitude.
• Peter Sudarso auditioned for the role of Zack before playing Preston in Ninja Steel.
• Before the sequel was cancelled, the cast was campaigning for Tommy to be female to balance out the gender ratio of the team.

Comics

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios)

• In an interview just before Issue #32 was released, Marguerite Bennett revealed that when creating the team for Beyond the Grid she had a list of Rangers or archetypes she wanted. One those was for a "man out of time" and had chosen Koda for the role but was denied. Heckyl was then offered up as a replacement, since he also fit the role and with him being a relatively unexplored character gave her a lot more room to work with.
• Solarized versions of the Ranger's personal weapons were designed for Beyond the Grid but were unused.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Shattered Grid

• One idea for the Free Comic Day issue was that Zordon's story was being told to the reader and that a later issue of the main comics would have revealed that Zordon was talking to the Phantom Ranger.

Other

Power Rangers Super Legends

• There were plans for a Gamecube version, but it was canceled and development shifted to the Wii, but that port ended up canceled too.

Power Rangers Hyperforce

• Ciara Hanna (the Yellow Ranger from Power Rangers Megaforce) was originally slated to play a Ranger, but eventually declined due to scheduling conflicts.

Other unrealised projects

• Saban had on separate occasions considered crossovers between Power Rangers and its Metal Heroes adaptations VR Troopers and Beetleborgs. Despite loose talk during production of both shows neither materialized as anything filmed, likely due to a lack of useable source Japanese footage to keep costs down. That said, Beetleborgs Metallix did crossover with Turbo in a comic book published in 1997 which is about the closest any of it got.
• The Masked Rider series finale "The Invasion of Leawood" was supposed to feature an appearance from the Rangers themselves just as Dex appeared in their show. To keep the budget low however, this idea was dropped in favor of using stock footage of the Legendary Riders appearance in Kamen Rider BLACK RX.
• According to Alan Palmer (Corcus the Black Alien Ranger), the Alien Rangers almost got a spinoff set on Aquitar that would have ran concurrently with Zeo. It got scrapped when negotiations fell through. It's possible that had said spinoff happened, the crossover between the Alien Rangers and the Zeo Rangers would've been bigger.
• According to Trey's actors, he was originally intended to appear in far more episodes of Zeo and star in a Spin-Off set on his home planet, but neither panned out.
• There were originally plans for Bulk and Skull to get their own Fawlty Towers-esque spin-off series, where they run a hotel with a Mexican Elvis Impersonator called "El Vez". This explains why both Paul Schrier and Jason Narvy left the series during Turbo so that the producers could add chimpanzees to the show roster (with Schrier and Narvy still providing voices, though). Narvy claimed at Power Morphicon 2010 that the Compilation Movie The Good, The Bad, and the Stupid: The Misadventures of Bulk And Skull released on VHS was created as a test run to see if kids would be interested.
• Back when Disney still owned the franchise, there were plans for an animated series, which would be made by Nerd Corps Entertainment. Unfortunately, Toei vetoed the project. Development had only gotten as far as the design concept◊ for the Ranger team.
• A Zagtoon produced CGI animated film of MMPR was in development during 2012 before it was nixed for unknown reasons. Here's the teaser trailer for it.
• According to Kyle Higgins, there was a Power Rangers series set in the World of the Coinless in the works. Jason David Frank would have reprised his role as Lord Drakkon and Higgins wanted to bring in other past Ranger actors to go along with this. Sadly, plans were ultimately scrapped when Saban sold the franchise to Hasbro.
• There were plans for a spinoff focusing on Ninja Steel characters Victor and Monty which never materialised beyond a pilot script written by the actors who played them.
• Jason Bischoff, former Director of Global Franchise at Saban Brands & Hasbro, did make a first draft of a plan for adapting Uchu Sentai Kyuranger, called Power Rangers Supernova. Notably, it would have included Blaze and Roxy (the real ones) from Beast Morphers as the Silver and Pink Rangers, a robot in the Alpha series named Alpha-9 as the Skyblue Ranger, and the Yellow Ranger would have been an Aquitian poet.
  • Not just that but he also revealed another scrapped project for the franchise from him was a third Megaforce season in form of a graphic novel series from Boom!, which would've explained the source of the Ranger Keys.
• Remember Nintendo's infamous Virtual Boy? It almost got a game based on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, but never got very far before everyone realized it was a doomed failure. Alternately, as it was to be released in 1996, it may have been scrapped due to the upcoming shift to Zeo.
• After her departure from Hasbro and before replacing Ryan Parrott as writer of the Boom! Studios comics, Missy Flores revealed that she had an interesting idea for the franchise, which would've been an animated Continuity Reboot for the show in order to make it easier for new fans than just relying on 25+ years of the show.

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