for the longest time i wasn't sure if this had actually existed or just some weird dream i had. No one would talk about it but i remembered it very vividly. Today i can finally rest easy knowing i was not the only one that knew this was real.
Kinda disappointed you guys didn’t mention how they used beetleborgs costumes years later for villains in the Forever Red episode of Power Rangers Wild Force
Such a blast of ancient memories. I had action figures of these guys but remember no actual episodes, only small things that happened in them. Glad to know it wasn't just some fever dream.
I swear this show inspired Saban to add a kid to Power Rangers in the form of Justin in PR Turbo. Which was the wrong move. Kids hated the fact that another squeaker got to be a ranger and not them. Beetleborgs was appealing because the main protagonists were closer to our age as oppose to people in their early 20's.
@@GayLPer same with me I know a few other people that didn’t like Justin because back then when Justin came on Power Rangers I was excited about it because I was like hey I get to be a parrot or now you know that’s what I thought on my mind and I had some friends I thought the same thing that gave us hope that we could be Power Rangers yeah but I get some kids probably didn’t like it
Yup. And Justin was the first and only tween to be in PR Turbo. That’s the type of kid he was. And Beetleborgs has tweens as main protagonists. Love both shows and the original Japanese shows they’re based on. Super Sentai and Juukou B-Fighter
Probably because the first 2 seasons took stock footage from the Japanese tokusatsu series, "Metal Heroes: B Fighter," and "Metal Heroes: B Fighter Kabuto," and the Metal Heroes series after that, "B Robo Kabutack was considered too lighthearted to be adapted.
Right in the last episode, les was tired of being mistreated by the crustaceans, so he left and promised to find a way to send them back to being art, the kids got a boost in power by obtaining boron along with roboborg, so it seemed the borgs kids were ready for one final battle, but no. Wish they went all out to make a proper finale, but I guess power rangers were more important at that time
Fact: for the _Power Rangers_ 10th anniversary special, “Forever Red”, that aired as part of Wild Force, General Venjix (no, not the Venjix Virus - he debuted 7 years later) and the Machine Empire survivors had their suits recycled from Beetleborgs and their Japanese counterpart shows. Venjix’s suit was taken from Shadowborg, Gerrok’s was from Green Hunterborg, Tezzla’s was from Ladyborg (minus the antennae), Steelon’s was from Dragonborg (minus the dragonfly wing emblem on the helmet), and Automon’s was a hodgepodge of the body of Lightningborg and the head of Fireborg.
To Piggyback off your post. In one of the later episodes Bulk and Skull were shown reading a Beetleborg comic book. So the Beetleborg franchise is fictitious in the Power Ranger's universe, however despite the Beetleborg characters being fictitious there were generals of the Machine Empire who looked almost exactly like them? Try and wrap your head around that one guys lol akirakan.tumblr.com/image/164496281768
Power Rangers on Acid = Beetleborgs Power Rangers on Steroids = Kamen Rider Power Rangers on Ecstacy = Tattooed Teenaged Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills
Ughh Vegeta, just what are we in for......Oh *%&$^@@$&%^! Man I love DBZA, still kinda lowkey pissed we wont get anymore but I will thoroughly enjoy what we were given :)
BLAKE DA GREAT Yes If only because when I was younger me and my ex at the time cosplayed as Jack Spicer and Wuya and everyone loved that shit cause we owned it She was a huge TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) I heard she's a Nazi now or at least dating one.
There was a segment from when Jay Leno hosted The Tonight Show that fans send him items and pics that "look like him" and someone sent him a Flabber doll in its package.
Everyone says that. They call him that IN the video. If you search the internet enough there's a clip where someone sent Leno a picture of Flabber on his show.
The toys were really cool back then. I'm glad I grew up in a generation that had a physical element to my childhood. I know children aren't completely digital, but apps are taking over at a younger and younger age.
Stranger still when you consider that the original novel "Starship Troopers" was heavily based around facist ideology. A heavy military industrial complex, citizenship based on loyalty to the state or military servitude, etc etc.
Then the Beetleborgs turned evil... joined the Machine Empire... and then they were killed off by the Red Rangers in Wild Force. That is a really dark way to end the Beetleborg series.
The Beetleborg Armors that were used in Forever Red were the Shadow Borg, the Green Hunter Borg, Dragonborg, Ladyborg and the combination of Fireborg and Lightningborg.
I remember that episode, and I like that they actually had an in-universe reason for it. It was a stupid reason, but it was a reason. Most shows would just change the actor and hope no one would notice.
As a 90s kid I legit couldn’t remember this show... that is until the theme song started playing LOL and then it all started coming back. The Genie Jay Leno guy, the weird monster mash people haha. Thanks for reviving my lost memories!!
The show was okay. I kinda couldn't gey in ro it like i did power rangers but i did get to see some episodes! I did like super human samurai. Not many people did lol
I'm from Los Angeles and all the kids (myself included) would talk about this show all the time and watch all the episodes on TV back then. Even got the McDonald's toys.
FYAHH WITHIN ME!!! AIR ABOVE ME!! WATER AROUND ME!!! EARTH BENEATH ME!! FOREST BEFORE ME!!! I SUMMON PYRE, THE FIRE DRAGON OF DARE!! I remember it all!!!
The problem was they ran out of useable footage from the two seasons they were adapting, “Juko B-Fighter” and it’s sequel “B-Fighter Kabuto”. And since Kamen Rider wasn’t back yet, there were no bug themed heroes to keep the show going. To continue, Saban would have had to make the show with completely American footage. Which is where “Mystic Knights” came in, to do exactly that.
My Uncle happened to be friends with the actor who played Flabber. I still have signed toys and a cast pic sitting in my attic somewhere lol. I've never actually met anyone that has seen this
I did not realize how batshit this show was. Although I do remember every single scene shown here, except have no recollection of the white beetleborg strangely.
It's funny, the only episodes I do vividly remember of that show were the Shadowborg Arc. As an inpressional kid, seeing an outsider not only get accepted into the tight knit group of protagonists, but also single-handedly save all of them, only to be depowered and quickly forgotten about for his efforts legitimately messed me up.
It wasnt the power rangers in space series. I'm pretty sure it was the power rangers jungle fury series, bc it was during that series where they had the episode with the 10 red rangers teaming up, going up against the forgotten generals of the machine empire who were trying to unearth Lord Zedd's ultimate Zord, Serpentera for their purposes, and they were the ones who looked like the beetleborgs. The battle part of the episode just took part on the moon and in the moons gravity.
Any Kamen Rider being "Saban-ed" with Western Actors would be hot trash, especially cause Saban is hot trash itself anyway. Like, imagine a random Western actor replacing Masahiro Inoue as Decade? That's just not Decade.
@@kcmark1 probably wouldn't be as entertained by it as someone who haved watched it growing up; But, its fun to watch cartoons and anime from the good ol days
I rented all the bettleborg like a 100 times from blockbuster as a kid. I even remember when they were bad guys in power rangers shit was crazy duuude but their costumes were so fuckin cool as a kid way cooler than power rangers.
Typhus was the green dude with Noxic and Jara. The red dude at the end of s1 and the rest of s2 is Nukus. The leader of Noxic, Typhus, and Jara is Vexor
My favorite thing about this series was how they disregarded the transformation sequence of the beetleborg robots. I remember an episode where the villains attack the beetleborgs in the middle of the transformation and they blow up the robots lol. That was insane to me cause every other show like power rangers, you just see the megazords transforming and everyone waits for it to finish.
I really loved Beetleborgs as a kid. Totally forgot about it until last year when I discovered it was on netflix. I binged the entire series within a few weeks xD Still fun to watch. I really like Horribelle. She was (in my eyes) a decent bad guy. And her motto "If you want something done right, have a woman do it" xD she was awesome. So sad they stopped after 2 seasons. What also made me like Beetleborgs more than Power Rangers or VR Troopers was because it had monsters in it. I was the type of kid that read all the goosebumps books, so having a show with monsters in it, even if it was for cheap slap stick comedy, just added an extra element that appealed to what I liked.
I remember watching Big Bad Beetleborgs when I was a kid, still remember the iconic theme song to the intro. Plus flabber looks like Jay Leno and Beetlejuice had a baby together.
Thank you so much for this video! This was one of my favorite shows as a kid in the 90s. I had forgotten so many of the characters, it was great to see them again.
Sometimes when I take mushrooms I randomly tap into memories that were long lost. And today's epiphany: "what ever happend to beatle borgs?" RU-vid did not disappoint; I remember having the green and blue action figures. 22 years I had this memory barried in the deepest part of my brain. I miss being a kid in the 90s!
RIGHT?! Nukus is the main villain of season TWO! This guy spent all this time to make an elaborate video on the Beetleborgs, yet couldn't even get the names of the villains straight????
That's not all he got wrong actually... He says the Shadowborg was Season One's ending arc, but it wasn't: at the end of that arc, Blue Stinger got the Mega Blue Beetleborg mode, which was his powerup for the remainder of the season, and the season only really ends after Nukus shows up, necessitating the power change in first place. Also, "season 2 is where it got sitcom"? Nope, the whole show was ALWAYS sitcom XD In fact, the whole "Lost comic" storyline from Season 2 is the show trying to do a myth arc. He also didn't mention how they created original american-only costumes for Season 2's power up mode.
I really liked this show as a Kid, the fact they were kids and not teens was way more relatable than with power rangers. Besides that BBB was also sillier and funnier than power rangers. To this day I still have a notebook from the Beetleborgs I bought for my first year of school. Good times!
The Beetleborgs IP was locked behind a long forgotten door in my mind that just got kicked down like a firefighter was trying to rescue a screaming baby
I remember this show recently and it’s actually on Netflix. I did remember how absolutely crazy of show it was but honestly it was good for the reuses scenes and budget they had. I always honestly thought Flabber was Jay Leno actually too though. 😂
This deadass was one of my favorite shows as a kid and it didn’t even come out when I was alive my parents had both seasons on tape and I would watch both all day
Whats up, its Juan! My bad, you guys ARE right! Vexor is the big bad villain, Typhus is the 🐳 headed villain, and Nukus is the red triceratops-like villain... still gotta admit, they all sound like Mortal Kombat characters 😂🤷♂️
It was one of those things that was really cool as a kid but when I watched it as an adult??? I don't know. Watched it on Netflix some months ago maybe a year ago and after stuff like Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, the flaws of Beetle Borgs and Power Rangers can be glaring. Kamen Rider Dragon Knight was probably the best acted, directed, and written of any of the sentai-esque tokasatsu shows that I've seen. It was very mature in it's presentation and felt crazy realistic due to the realistic portrayal by the actors and the commitment to characterization and development. It was as much a character drama as it was a superhero show I think and pretty convincing as one I think. All the shows probably would have benefitted from their design.
I showed a Japanese friend of mine an episode of Beetleborgs, and holy crap was it terrible. It's interesting that you mention Kamen Rider though. I understand that in Japan, Kamen Rider tends to be a lot more serious (save for a few really gonzo seasons). A lot of the Metal Hero shows and other toku offerings also seem to be more serious as well, making Super Sentai a bit of an outlier for being as silly as it is.
I liked the dichotomy of horror and/or dark themes matched up against kids who beat evil doers. For lasting only two seasons, it did well at balancing the scales.
I remember loving the first season as a kid and then the second season came out and I just lost interest. It’s an amazing to me how few people remember this show.
Oh my gosh. I remember this. I saw like one or two episodes back in the day and was always confused about the monsters. I mean, I'm glad this existed, it's so weird but cool.
This was the weirdest show I ever saw as a kid. But it’s very nostalgic to me and I have to say because of all the comic book art influences I am now a sketch artist and working on my own comic.
14:05 Actually, the Shadowborg storyline finished midway through the first season. The remainder of the season, bout 20 episodes, was all one-off stories. The Borgslayer storyline was what ended the first season.
The theme song is hella catchy. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I instantly remembered it even though I haven't thought about this show in literal decades
I wouldn't go that far, though I admit a spinoff series starring Flabber and the monsters could be fun to watch. TBH, I always thought they were the best part of the show.
I was a Power Rangers fanatic and I actually really liked VR Troopers as well, but my favorite was always Beetleborgs. All my friends used to make fun of me and I ended up with more Power Rangers toys and playing Power Rangers more often on the playground because that's all my friend's wanted to do, but Beetleborgs were way more my jam. It was a delight to see someone else remembers them and to get a RU-vid feature to boot!
