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residentgrigo



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:24 pm Reply with quote
I lived through the 90s arm of the Saban empire and Beetleborgs was so bad that even kids knew. Power Rangers and Masked Rider make sense but the 80s coke must have run dry when they reached Beetleborgs.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:48 pm Reply with quote
This is where I remembered the company the most during my childhood with Power Rangers, Spider-Man: TAS and the pre-FUNimation DBZ English dub. Some of the shows like Technoman (Tekkaman Blade), Mystic Knights, VR Troopers and Beetleborgs from this era I don't remember at all since they flew under my radar as a kid but I distinctly remembered Masked Rider but never watched the show but only for that crossover with MMPR. I didn't get into Kamen Rider until Dragon Knight in the 11th grade.

As for the other shows, I recently checked out their dub on the first three Digimon shows on Hulu and enjoyed them regardless of how edited they were, mostly the original Adventure and Tamers, didn't like 02 all that much. I really wanted to check out The Vision of Escaflowne but I just never did especially the whole isekai genre wasn't in full swing back then during the 1990s and early 2000s.

I have to say that I missed out of some of the shows during Fox Kids' final years of existence such as Mon Colle Knights, DinoZaurs and Transformers: RID (2000) due to the fact I was watching shows on Kids WB and Toonami at the time.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:58 pm Reply with quote
residentgrigo wrote:
I lived through the 90s arm of the Saban empire and Beetleborgs was so bad that even kids knew. Power Rangers and Masked Rider make sense but the 80s coke must have run dry when they reached Beetleborgs.


Yeah, I tried to get into it a second time through the Shout DVDs to see if it held up better than the first time I watched on Fox Kids back then and nope, it didn't so I didn't buy more past the first set.

Ironically, I had similar issues with Justin in Power Rangers Turbo but watching that a second time through those DVDs, he held up better as a character than the rest of the cast before they left the show.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 4:29 pm Reply with quote
Wait, Tifanie Christun was Haim Saban's stepdaughter?!
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