The Weird World of the Big Bad Beetleborgs: They Killed VR Troopers?

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Big Bad Beetleborgs (later Beetleborgs Metallix) is an American live-action television series by Saban Entertainment. Two seasons aired on Fox Kids from September 7, 1996, to March 2, 1998.
The series adapted combat footage from the Metal Hero tokusatsu-series Juukou B-Fighter (first season) and B-Fighter Kabuto (second season).
Big Bad Beetleborgs also had a cast of monsters as regular characters on the show including Flabber and Frankenbeans and helped to hasten the death of the show VR Troopers.
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@morbius101 3 года назад

Ah the memories of dragging my dad on a five hour hunt to every Toys R Us in a forty mile radius to find the short packed villains figures for my beetleborgs to battle. Good times, simpler times. I miss him.

@michaelleary9233 3 года назад

Same here, my dad was the greatest about hunting Power Rangers toys with me, I think he was sad when I outgrew it.

@morbius101 3 года назад

@@faselessnobuddy That's one thing, I never outgrew it, but I did lose my dad in 2012. I like to think he'd enjoy the assortment of dragons, robots, and werewolf toys that seem to populate my house now but all my toy hunting is now done with my spouse

@radartechnicianbob8208 2 года назад

With me, it was Masked Rider and Power Rangers hunts so I could continue to have them cross over. Didn't even know they made the villains from BBBB as figures though! Holy crap! One of my cousins gave me a Nukus from some kids meal so my totally blind since birth 90s kid self could appreciate his look. He's the only one I ever saw/felt in fig form.

@morbius101 2 года назад

@@radartechnicianbob8208 Oh man, those were the golden days of happy meal toys. I remember some prime figures I had as a kid from McD's.

@dix0n778 2 года назад

I know what you mean. My baby sis was crazy for the Power Rangers. She wanted the whole action figure collection from McDonald's. We spent a good chunk of one Sunday looking for the white ranger.

@mesicek7 3 года назад

Jay Leno will never admit it that it was actually him playing Flabber

@kevin10001 3 года назад

It wasn’t jay playing flabber Billy Forester did he did ha a jay type chin but not quite as pronounced so they probably enhanced it with prosthetics to give it the more jay leno looking chin flabber had in the series

@kevo23630 3 года назад

Aways thought that.

@mesicek7 3 года назад

@@kevin10001 it was a joke man :D

@davidjsaul 3 года назад

Nah, it was Jay's evil twin Hans Leno 😂

@DrathTengu 3 года назад

Lol are used to to he was Jay Leno for real though

@spacecowboyfpv5511 3 года назад

" Biiiiiig Badddddd Beeeeettttllleborgs " runs through my head randomly every few days for the last 25 years...

@lonesquiff6551 3 года назад

I never watched the show myself but that jingle plays every time I hear the name lol

@Dargonhuman 3 года назад

@@lonesquiff6551 Probably the second catchiest (and ear-wormiest) Saban theme song behind the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers theme song.

@ZigealFaust 3 года назад

And sometimes I also hear "METALIX!" afterwards.

@doolanthefox 3 года назад

Same

@babycacahuetas1318 3 года назад

True

@CharlesWorkPPL 3 года назад

I remember Jay Leno had a segment at the time where viewers would send in pictures of things that look like him. Somebody sent in a picture of Flabber, and Leno said they were just being cruel at that point.

@nathanforester5993 3 года назад

I've never been able to find that episode.

@JLvatron 3 года назад

Cruel from Truth!!

@greenrobot5 3 года назад

video or it didn't happen

@TheKing-uu7jn 3 года назад

I would love to see that

@danschuster5187 2 года назад

It never happened

@SpaceManKnight 3 года назад

I liked Big Bad Beetleborgs. I wasn't obsessed with it like I was with Power Rangers, but as a kid, it was cool seeing other kids as superheroes.

@robd1329 3 года назад

It was aweful. Lol

@doaldox 3 года назад

So true...i finally know why there was no season 3

@CircleFly 3 года назад

That was one thing I thought was pretty cool. Although, it really was bizaare.

@stanhenderson9928 3 года назад

Its probably why they had a kid in PR Turbo to capitalize on that idea from BB. I hate that didnt use the original footage from the Japanese series for the first two seasons and continue making more seasons, with their production team. Its stated that the viewers were watching BB more than PR Zeo and Turbo, which makes sense because at the time PR outgrew it's cool factor. Bb was refreshing and in a way so I can see why kids were watching it ag the time, hell I did.

@xmarksthespot1372 3 года назад

I liked the suits mainly why I bought the three toys, and teamed them up with the power rangers as a kid but I really didnt watch the show too much.

@rojui5912 3 года назад

I remember reading an interview from the early 2000s with a BBB writer who said the writers room enjoyed writing the Hillhurst monsters scenes and didn't really care about the fight scenes.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

Of course they didn't like the fighting scenes those were only put in there because they had to be because that's how you sell the toys.

@justinweber4977 3 года назад

The Hillhurst scenes were always some of the most fun to watch.

@USSMariner 3 года назад

@@justinweber4977 Looking back, the monster sitcom was such a genius idea

@nlee4566 2 года назад

They didn't have to write fighting sevens at all lol The sictom/ monster mash idea for the show was amazing.

@monkeyscientist9913 3 года назад

"After an accident where he turns the kids into ACTUAL beetles..." Oh god, I can't believe I'm about to correct details on a show that's LITERALLY been the bane of my existence since childhood (along with being there during all the bad moments in my life), but they are turned into rats and not beetles during the first episode. The beetles thing doesn't happen until season 2.

@BigBadBeetleBros 3 года назад

See here I was thinking I had to be only BUGGED by that mistake... I'll see myself out

@kevinalford 3 года назад

What has your life been that a forgotten 90s kids show has been the bane of your existence?

@NavySharkz 3 года назад

He was also wrong about Flabber being a genie, he was a ghost which is clearly stated several times in the show.

@BigBadBeetleBros 3 года назад

@@NavySharkz he was a phasm but basically a genie for all intents and purposes. Stuck in an object, grants a wish when freed, performs magic and such. He's 100% inspired by Aladdin's genie lol it's a fair description

@NavySharkz 3 года назад

@@BigBadBeetleBros And in the theme song, the lyrics clearly say "freed a ghost".

@wstine79 3 года назад

I remember watching a few of the episodes. What really stood out for me was the theme song and the Jay Leno alien.

@dragonmaster613 3 года назад

A glorious earworm that will never leave my ear!

@InfernitBlu88 3 года назад

Jay leno character was a ghost

@jrandt08 3 года назад

@@InfernitBlu88 genie*

@InfernitBlu88 3 года назад

@@jrandt08 if we're being technical he's a phantasm.. "flabber the ghost with the most"

@RoadAveku 2 года назад

@@InfernitBlu88 you are correct, I also heard him as a child day "I'm flabbergasted!" Pun intended!

@rafacastillo9611 2 года назад

I loved beetleborgs when I was a kid, but I rewatched it as an adult and honestly? I was looking forward to the monster antics of the episode more than the actual fighting. They did a pretty good job at making them funny and charismatic, like bulk and skull x10

@darthgiggity7948 3 года назад

Ah, the 90s, a decade filled with super sentai live action stuff. I love it.

@mr.awesome6011 Год назад

Just like the 2000's, 2010's and now 2020's?

@eduardoherrera2368 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, instead of the animated originals, you know, _Kamen Rangers._

@sirdaveysockrocker 3 года назад

Once again, another ghost from my childhood can rest, as ToyGalaxy's History vid artfully tells its story, and completes its unfinished business. *beetleborgs bow at Toygalaxy and disappears*

@psuley1977 3 года назад

You summed up my feelings on so many of these episodes, perfectly.

@KyosukeShigeru 3 года назад

Let's just hope nobody frees this ghost anytime soon.

@Wolfman7870 3 года назад

It is weirdly cathartic to watch RU-vidrs talk in depth about the silly and highly entertaining shows you loved as a kid. Gives you a sense of closure and valuation that others liked it and maybe it all means something.

@ErwalDeeas 3 года назад

Well said! This channel does great work and I am eternally grateful for it!

@micheljavert5923 3 года назад

Gonna be honest, the idea that someone fed all of Saban's other properties into an AI/ML system and told it to make a new show makes way more sense than anything else.

@melvinshine9841 3 года назад

Beetleborgs was weird. One thing that always bugged me, was that during the Shadowborg "arc" they introduced a new, white Beetleborg and he may have been in four episodes and *never* showed up again.

@chameleonhrt 3 года назад

* giggles * Bugged

@gtf234 3 года назад

That was because there wasn't much footage of him to use; the Extradimensional Supplier Kabuto was only in 4 episodes, 5 if you count him showing up for the finale of B-Fighter Kabuto. He wasn't a 6th ranger/extra rider character, he was just a very minor support character who kinda was more of a nuisance than a boon; trying to turn him into a new major character wasn't a feasible idea on their part. The other problem was his main weapon was just straight up a revolver, which wasn't going to fly on US television and his appearances in the last two episodes of B-Fighter heavily featured him with the cast of Blue Swat, an unadapted Metal Heroes show B-Fighter's cameos of Blue Swat and Jansperson posed more than a few problems of trying to use the footage in that regard- they snuck in Jansperson and Gun Gibson as characters from a different comic summoned to help them- but that was using footage from the finale to make a middle episode (ie, 52 and 53 becoming episode 19)

@melvinshine9841 3 года назад

@@gtf234 Well that's certainly a valid reason. I seem to remember Beetleborgs hyping the kid up as their version of a "sixth ranger", but then he just vanished after he beat Shadowborg.

@bootsthecat6718 3 года назад

It's weird, while I love the Green ranger, in beetleborgs I kind of resented a new kid showing up and worried that he would take over as the leader

@BigBadBeetleBros 3 года назад

Head canon? Josh(white blaster borg) kept his power to turn invisible and is actually in every episode after the shadowborg arc but is just invisibility creeping around.

@wickedfeylady 3 года назад

I was obsessed with the show when I was Jo's age and loved that the girl (like me) got to have super strength. Loved that "Power Rangers Meets Scooby-Doo" vibe

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

Power rangers meet Scooby-Doo is probably the best description of the show I could possibly think of. I mean the level of cheesiness with the monster segments is off the freaking charts.

@Quintesson05 3 года назад

Given her power was super strength, wouldn't that be Power Rangers meets *Scrappy-Doo* ?

@bidenistechnicallyadictato738 3 года назад

@@DisobedientSpaceWhale *She’s **_Pippi Longstocking._* :D

@MiiDev69 Год назад

You had super super strength as a child?

@PlayingGamesPoorly247 Год назад

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@RandomBlackGamer 3 года назад

If this series had an extended library of stock footage like PR had it would've been a mainstay. 1 thing that it had over PR was relatability. Because the main cast was closer to the age of its core audience. Something tells me that Saban saw this and tried to inject that same appeal in PR Turbo when he introduced a younger member in the form of Justin.

@andrewtaylor940 3 года назад

I’m not sure that having the performers/characters being the same age as the target audience has ever actually worked real well? Kids tend to find kids on tv annoying. Their escapist fantasy is to be the older kick ass characters.

@RandomBlackGamer 3 года назад

@@andrewtaylor940 worked for me. Not to mention these kids were a little closer to their teens than I was. They weren't squeakers.

@juice2307 3 года назад

@@andrewtaylor940 Definitely. As a kid I wanted someone to look up to and challenge me to grow. Not someone as new to life as I was lol.

@Captain_Chaz86 3 года назад

Actually from what I remember of the old interviews, he had the idea for a kid ranger first. He used BBBs to test if it would work.

@ratzelbarreto2070 3 года назад

The only problem was, That everyone wanted to be justin in PR. So he was hated to death...I wanted to be justin ok.

@jamesbounds 3 года назад

This is like Power Rangers fused with Goosebumps.

@PowerRangersLostGalaxyFanFilm 3 года назад

To me, Beetleborgs was like Power Rangers fused with: Addams Family Batman 1966 Goosebumps

@locomadman 3 года назад

Ha, good one!

@ZigealFaust 3 года назад

@@PowerRangersLostGalaxyFanFilm It def was goth power rangers.

@lamtsang3236 3 года назад

LOL. What about Scooby doo Fused with Goosebumps?

@jamesbounds 3 года назад

@@lamtsang3236 That works too.

@scottlandano3819 3 года назад

"the wild storm that was Extreme Comics..." I see what you did there.

@PirateJohnson 3 года назад

Yeah... Ahhhhhhhhh Real Monsters, too.

@SketchSanchez 3 года назад

He's so good at that lmao

@azazelgrigori9244 3 года назад

5 year old me: Wow, this is awesome! 23 year old me: Wow, this is terrible!

@megamax6004 3 года назад

Apparently he didn’t mention that there was a forth beetle borg, Josh as the White Blaster Borg. Also there were other characters called Astro Borgs which they summon to aid them.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

Somebody mentioned the white borg in the comments. Apparently he basically used a revolver as his main weapon and that would have been a big No-No for TV for kids. Also apparently there was very little footage of him from the original series they were pulling from so he didn't last long as a character on the show. Although apparently at the end of it he "turned invisible" or something like that. Essentially some clever writing to work around the obvious issue.

@VenomousX 3 года назад

he also forgot to mention the Astro Borgs are the other members of the Machine Empire in "Forever Red"

@kirbyfanprime 2 года назад

White borg was also a movie exclusive suit AFAIK, which is why he only exists for the 3-4 episodes with the Shadow Borg. The reason for writing him out was actually really interesting (the hero narratively cannot exist if the villain he exists to fight is vanquished; the comic would "end")

@charlesminor6279 2 года назад

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu No on Beetle Borgs the White Blaster Beetle Borg shot out Ryu style fire balls not a gun. And when he was in his regular normal kid form he could turn his self invisible. Because each kid had a unique power, one was super speed, oe had super strength and one had telekinesis.

@justbuggin67 3 года назад

Seems like every week or so Dan likes to find childhood me and say, “remember that show you loved? Here’s the history.” From M.A.S.K to Gobots to now Beetleborgs, your videos never disappoint. Thank you for your high quality videos as usual.

@ObsoleteVodka 3 года назад

I'm still sad Metal Hero died off while KR and SS continue strong. I was introduced to the series with Jiban, and most of the suits still look awesome today, they are works of art!

@christiandacanay3086 3 года назад

I will still stand on the hill that Robotack was the last Metal Heroes show before the new Gavan movie.

@QMarkMan 2 года назад

I’m actually friends with one of the actors from BBB. Todd Hurst, the actor who played Trip, the rich snobby bully. He was shocked when I told him I used to watch it as a kid. He figured nobody ever saw it. He also played the kid who pukes in the beginning of Adam Sandlers “the wedding singer”.

@Cardigen 3 года назад

So if you are now covering BBBB that means Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog may be within sight of possibly coming down the pipeline?

@Roofgeese 3 года назад

PLEASE

@locomadman 3 года назад

I positive he had an episode about MK years ago; I’m either hallucinating or it was taken down.

@Cardigen 3 года назад

@@locomadman May have gotten taken down if it existed at all. Thus the asking.

@locomadman 3 года назад

@@Cardigen I was wrong (I asked).

@nathanforester5993 3 года назад

@@locomadman Poparena did one.

@Lana_Del_SugarRay 3 года назад

As a kid who loved watching the Terminator and RoboCop movies, I ate up anything shiny and robo looking so BBBB was a shoo in. The vac metal toys looked awesome too

@plastikhabit4983 2 года назад

I agree with you on the toys I am currently trying to get the complete set and I love vac metal look , the figures for metallix is a thing of beauty!

@hatchetmouth8211 3 года назад

VR Troopers was a saga focused on Ryan finding his father. BBB was a sitcom, by comparison.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

Considering the whole monster/haunted house thing a character granting wishes that turn the main characters into comic book heroes. It's hard to take any of it even remotely seriously for even a split second.

@redragon1990 3 года назад

Technically could have had a power rangers crossover several times.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

@@redragon1990 I mean did they have footage that would have made that work?! Usually that's the single limiting factor was their footage from original Japanese shows they could splice together to make that work?!

@BagOfMagicFood 3 года назад

Okay, but remember how they tried to turn Masked Rider into a sitcom?

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

@@BagOfMagicFood I barely remember that show. But yes I believe that's true.

@christiandacanay3086 3 года назад

Little trivia: Kabutack was planned to be the 3rd Beetleborgs series but it was too kiddy, so Saban said "screw it" and abandoned the idea.

@kamal_jab 3 года назад

Ironic..

@brianmartinez5453 3 года назад

I never know that Saban was going bring Kabutack.

@christiandacanay3086 3 года назад

@@brianmartinez5453 was going to. Found out that out on TV Tropes.

@BigBadBeetleBros 3 года назад

The call to skip Kabutack was made super early and by the very high ups at Saban cus even Gabe Torres who directed the most episodes of BBB didn't know of any planned 3rd season or spin offs. They shipped him off to ireland for Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog and wiped their hands clean of all things borg I guess lol

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

@@BigBadBeetleBros I mean by the end of the '90s all the other offshoot wannabe power rangers shows were long gone and forgotten. I don't think it's a coincidence that not a single one of the offshoot shows has ever been brought up or considered for a reboot or continuation of any kind. I feel like that was a moment in time that's long past and they don't feel like doing things that way anymore.

@stevencooper564 3 года назад

And as a kid who devoured all of the American Tokusatsu shows I could find, I was very confused to see Shadow Borg on power rangers. I always wanted that crossover.

@geardog24 3 года назад

Big Bad Beetleborgs is what happens when you try to take an idea and make it TOO original.

@Chimpbot 3 года назад

There are certainly plenty of ways they could have adapted those two series without involving ripoffs of the Universal monsters.

@gapsule2326 3 года назад

Nothing is too original for a JoJo fan

@Filterdeez 3 года назад

It was still good though

@lucency 3 года назад

@@Chimpbot I'll always wonder how American writers were handed a story about crime-fighters in metal armor and went "haunted house, perfect!"

@Wolfman7870 2 года назад

Lookin back yeah, there were alot of premises going on at once but it worked for me as a kid.

@Chill59190 3 года назад

I LOVED Big Bad Beetleborgs.... They were super unique at the time. I was the kid that was OBSESSED with Power Rangers but HATED VR Troopers. Beetleborgs I embraced them with open arms. Especially their action figures, best shiny toys ever 😂

@michaelleary9233 3 года назад

Same here, VR Troopers was just too cut up, it was like the couldn't decide which show they wanted to adapt. I remember thinking Ryan and friends looked like Beetleborgs: The college years, so why couldn't the footage look as good as BBB?

@ZigealFaust 3 года назад

I couldnt stand VR Troopers. Def loved Beetleborgs more than Power Rangers doe. Just seemed... alternative somehow.

@Eternaldarkness3166 3 года назад

I never got into VR Troopers either

@olschoolTonyCarter 3 года назад

@@Eternaldarkness3166 I loved VR Troopers

@jeremyarroyo360 2 года назад

Think all of us did lol

@burntmarshwigglestudio597 3 года назад

Toy Galaxy: this existed. Me: I don't believe you TG: here's proof Me: I still don't believe you

@Dargonhuman 3 года назад

Me: I've actually seen the show and I _still_ don't believe them... Every time I convince myself that was some bizarre fever dream, I'm reminded that it was a thing that actually existed and I have to start the process of self-delusion all over again.

@CharlesWorkPPL 3 года назад

Dan should do an episode for April Fool's where he talks about a show and toy line that never actually existed. Reproducing it would be crazy expensive and probably bankrupt the channel, but it would be worth it.

@lopeza.8046 Год назад

KB Toys for me

@michaelwiseman4334 2 года назад

Man I miss the 90s. Such a simpler time, sure I was a kid but in comparison to the hellscape of the 2020s I’d take the 90s any day. Loved Beetleborgs, Power Rangers, and VR Troopers as a kid. I hope Toy Galaxy does a retrospective on Digimon someday (unless it already exists).

@sensaiko Год назад

Kamen Rider, Super Sentain and Ultraman are still going strong and it's pretty good.

@TomMSTie1138 3 года назад

The drinking game for this episode is TAKE A SHOT EVERY TIME DAN SAYS 'LEGALLY DISTINCT!'

@StrikeNoir105E 2 года назад

Actually funny describing the Metal Heroes as "Robocop-ish", because according to what we know, the concept for Robocop being a shiny, silver armored hero was inspired by Space Sheriff Gavan. Toei would later reciprocate the inspiration for their two robot detective shows, Kidou Keiji Jiban and Tokusou Robo Janperson, with the creators for both admitting to being heavily inspired by Robocop, especially Jiban which was also in black and silver.

@Klonoahedgehog 3 года назад

The way they explained that casting change is so genius lol

@MattHall 3 года назад

So wild to learn all of this. As a kid who was way into all of these series at the time, I felt the presence of some strange link between all of the shows but never really understood how it all worked aside from some vague notion of some of the footage being from Japan.

@darktoylord 3 года назад

I'm more emotionally invested into this video about the Beetle Borgs than I was for the actual Beetle Borgs :D

@GeonBell 3 года назад

Welp. After this there's only one thing left: Saban's Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog. (Also, dangit MagicSpoon made me hungry)

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

A shame considering they sound expensive AF. Anytime you get $5 off an order of four boxes of cereal you know that's about to be damn expensive.

@colinkeane7539 3 года назад

I came here to leave this same comment

@tonyjackson4078 3 года назад

Nope there's still Los Luchadores and TMNT: The Next Mutation.

@locomadman 3 года назад

Didn’t he already do a Mystic Knight’s video years ago? I swore he did.

@stanleypressley2197 3 года назад

I loved that show! My afternoons personified until toonami came along

@tyr0n313 3 года назад

I had the blue one and remember watching the shows. That Flaber guy did always remind me if Jay Leno. I remember living the show at the time… when I was 10.

@johnbeaudoin7820 3 года назад

I had a BeetleBorgs Metallics pencil-topper that was a giveaway from Blockbuster; you could pivot the “body” (it was only waist-up) 90 degrees to reveal a wheel. If you rolled the wheel along a surface, a mechanism made the arms pump up and down.

@tempexrer5627 3 года назад

I wondered when we'd get to this one. What's next, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills?

@tacoenvy 3 года назад

Oh lord. As soon as I seen the thumbnail the theme song started playing in my head. " Bigggg baddd beeettllleee borggs "

@Dargonhuman 3 года назад

That's about the only thing I remember from the show.

@InconspicuousBot 3 года назад

I remember watching this when I was 6. I think I was just mesmerized by how baffling it was. It’s like a train wreck in a fever dream-you can’t look away because you have no choice and no escape. Fun times.

@sinswhisper9588 3 года назад

i felt the same way watching this ... especially for the first time when i stumbled across it during the transformation sequence ... it truly was a trainwreck in a fever dream of almost Nic Cage levels

@ViccVegaa023 3 года назад

This show is pretty disorienting when you come across it unexpectedly while channel surfing. "Did I just see an undead Jay Leno?!"

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

@@ViccVegaa023 I get some real LazyTown vibes from the character designs I swear.

@locomadman 3 года назад

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu “You gotta do the cooking by the book!”-Dammit!!! Now that songs going to be living rent free in my house for the next bloody month! ..Again!!! 😝

@co81385 3 года назад

I have always been fascinated by, not so much how Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers came to be, but how shows like this, and VR Troopers, sprung in its wake! I also love how the inclusion of the Flabber figure is a big selling point for the haunted house playset!

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

I'd love to know how they came up with the name flabber for the ghost. Like everything else in the show it sounds like a knock off of flubber.

@co81385 3 года назад

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu That certainly is a great question!

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

@@co81385 I'd love to see a documentary about the behind the scenes stuff behind all these Saban shows where they talk to people who worked on them during the years I bet there's some hilarious stuff and some real eye-opening stuff that would definitely raise a few eyebrows at least for sure. I mean things were a lot more fast and loose during the 90s then they would be just a few years into the 2000's.

@KruxisV 3 года назад

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Flabber is short for Flabberghast.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

@@KruxisV And I have to say now that is a good pun. Then again I'd say the "legally distinct" monsters like frank'n beans weren't bad either.

@christophernewby3296 2 года назад

One of my favorite saban style show, every episode was packed with stuff from monsters, to comic enemies and yes childhood problems through which to teach obvious lessons. Yeah it was super cheesy but 90s were full of metal claddened super heros that it just became normal. Also BBBG had flabber which made it so much more fun and as the viewer you could tell the actor who played flabber was all in and well invested in the final product that it just made you, as the viwer, just smile. Even today as a 30 year old I still find myself remembering the good old days of waking up early just to watch the morning cartoons with a bowl of cereal and sitting way too close to the screen for my own good then getting home from school and catching up on the latest goosebumps, power ranger, beetleborgs in the era before streaming where we used tv guides to keep track of what and when to watch any given show.

@Faizrider 3 года назад

Now i wait for the Mystic Knights Video.

@olschoolTonyCarter 3 года назад

Facts. Thats my show

@garrettmckellar 3 года назад

I don't hate Beetleborgs, but I do hate that the licensing means B-Fighter episodes on the Toei Toku YT channel are blocked in the US.

@SecretGalaxyTV 3 года назад

Yes this.

@christiandacanay3086 3 года назад

Two words: ONORE HASBRO!!!

@oxleymations 3 года назад

I remember really liking this show when I was little, I didn't really have much of the merchandise though, I got one figure who came with a motorcycle for a birthday one year but promptly wound up breaking it that same day when I went to toss it onto my bed, it bounced off the side of the mattress and one of the legs snapped off at the knee, I was devastated and after that the figure disappeared and was never replaced......we then fast forward years into the future where I wound up finding one of the VHS tapes of the show, it was of the "movie" where they took the last episode of season one(big bad beetleborgs) and edited it together with the first episode of season two(beetleborgs metalics) and stitched them together, it was a real trip going back and watching that. This show was right up my alley, it had a cool theme song, it had monsters and creepy things, I was hooked! Probably an unpopular opinion here but I didn't really like the power rangers show other than the theme song and Alpha.

@tyradina 3 года назад

Really glad you guys did this one!! So many memories at friends houses in the afternoon

@SuperCosmicMutantSquid 3 года назад

The theme song to this show stuck with me longer than any memory of the episodes.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

The theme is definitely the best part no question. The show itself is forgettable and pretty ridiculous to be honest. Then again this is also the folks that gave us TMNT the next mutation. If you value your sanity you won't look that up.

@SuperCosmicMutantSquid 3 года назад

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I lived through it.....(pained laughing)

@adampoole948 3 года назад

I remember really liking big bad beetleborgs as a kid in the 90's alongside power rangers

@muttrogers6586 3 года назад

I remember being the one of the few kids in my neck of the woods who knew about/enjoyed this show, and being in the even smaller group of kids who genuinely loved watching the monsters of Hillhurst get up to mischief. Come to think on it, I'm pretty sure those guys were what got me into things like The Addams Family and The Munsters.

@ChaosFox0 3 года назад

The Genie thing is killing me. Flabber's a ghost! ...a weird ghost, but a ghost.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

Who lives in an organ, in a "haunted house" that's inhabited by various other monsters. The problem is ghosts don't typically grant wishes so I do get the confusion there.

@nathanforester5993 3 года назад

He's a phasm, basically a ghostly genie who grants wishes, or basically just a spectral magical trickster.

@NavySharkz 3 года назад

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu You must have never watched the Beetlejuice cartoon. He was always using his magic to do stuff like that.

@NavySharkz 3 года назад

@@nathanforester5993 No, he's a ghost, which is clearly said throughout the series.

@NavySharkz 3 года назад

Exactly. They say that all through the show. I love Dan and this series but every blue moon you can tell that he didn't do all of his homework for a review.

@RFSKannon 3 года назад

Biiiiiiiiiiig Baaaaaaaaaaad Beeeetle Borgs.. Once you get by the opening theme it goes downhill from there.

@JohnSmith-lt1ck 3 года назад

I’m actually tempted to buy Magic Spoon now

@ryantwombly720 3 года назад

That ad was my most perfect engagement with marketing ever. What is it? Why do I want it? Wow, where do I get it? One credit card entry later and we are done.

@emerje0 3 года назад

If Simon Whistler can't get me to spend $10 on a box of cereal nobody can!

@Baatosanabe 3 года назад

Same

@thatguyenmn7476 3 года назад

The fruity one is the best.

@jessragan6714 3 года назад

Whatever else can be said about this cereal, it's got a great name.

@Lo_Key90 3 года назад

I really hope Shout Factory can get a hold of the B-Fighter series one of these day. Looks like it's something right up my alley.

@TheVirtualBomb 2 года назад

I remember watching this with my cousin, I had it on VHS so I just assumed it was a movie and not a show split into parts lol. We would watch it every time he came over. Great times

@RyanRead 3 года назад

My brothers loved the Beetle Borgs and was so sad there wasn’t a third season.

@Sea-Salt 3 года назад

Honestly, the biggest highlight of the show for me was when me and my brother won a couple of free Beetleborgs action figures from a giveaway our local Fox station was doing. Might still have them tucked away somewhere.

@TysonASMR 2 года назад

The theme song absolutely HYPED me as a kid. Good times 😂

@ndlmous 3 года назад

I've been waiting for you to cover this series, I loved this show as a kid

@anthustenebris9202 3 года назад

They were turned into actual Beatles, but sadly there were no instruments so they were unable to summon their Yellow Submarine.

@Alteringrealitystudios 3 года назад

One of my fav. Sure I was 30 something when it came out. Buuuuuut I'm a Gen-X saturday-morning cartoon kind of guy. And even though this is not a cartoon it had that kind of vibe.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

I have to ask were you 🥴 while watching it.

@LOH3NGR1N 2 года назад

Ill never forget blockbuster giving me Beetleborgs when all the transformers were checked out....I remember throwing a lil fit as you do but then 2 decades later I wish I could thank the clerk who got me into Beetleborgs which led to power rangers and basically everything that made my childhood.

@BPD308 2 года назад

Great video! Man, really glad I found this channel, the nostalgia is through the roof. Forgot about a lot of these shows I used to love as a kid

@KEVMAN7987 3 года назад

So this wasn't a fever dream I had. Good to know.

@Anon26535 3 года назад

I always thought it'd be interesting to do a remake that takes elements from both the American and Japanese versions. Like the main characters are part of a research institute and the wolf man and vampire and stuff are genetic experiments from there.

@1blakklab1 Год назад

The rapping granny being in beetleborgs is such a left curve connecting things to my past

@Dead-Pool3_II_Sij6 2 года назад

I was too young to know where the original source was and the internet was super limited developmently wise BUT both Big Bad Beetlborg series did help cement my love for the Tokusatsu genre

@MisterSouji 3 года назад

I have those sh figuarts. So yeah, there was an interview with the creators online years ago. Apparently they wanted to make 2 different shows, one a comedy about a haunted mansion and the other a different show. The comedy was deemed a bit too adult and word from the higher ups made them combine the two shows. At its height, Beetleborgs was outdoing power rangers, but when Saban ran out of footage, they went to Mystic Knights to try and cut Toei out of the equation, instead of trying to do new stuff (they had most of the stuff needed to produce more beetle borg material).

@bootsthecat6718 3 года назад

The haunted house thing always seem to come out of nowhere but now it makes perfect sense

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

I forgot until somebody mentioned this was right around the same time they decided to do the worst idea Saban ever came up with which was TMNT the next mutation. A show so dumbed down it actually makes things like this and practically everything else Saban did at that point look like a brilliant well written masterpiece.

@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639 3 года назад

The show's crucial flaw: If "three typical average kids" went "inside a haunted mansion" and they "just by chance freed a ghost", they'd sooner screen their heads off and call the Ghost Busters!

@ekahnoman7331 Год назад

Looking back, I remember liking it mostly for the Beetleborg designs, the goofy monster scenes, and the toys as a kid. Didn't come across alot of action figures that were metallic.

@drewe2331 2 года назад

I'm glad Forever Red was mentioned. I sat through the whole episode waiting for it.

@DontFightDucks 3 года назад

Aha! I had been hoping you'd get to this show someday. I had already moved on from Power Rangers by time Beetleborgs came out, but I loved it all the same. It was honestly the Haunted House aspect that drew me in because I was obsessed with Halloween and all things spooky. Karate and giant robots were just icing on the cake.

@eastcumbriancollector983 3 года назад

I don't know what I like more the history lesson or your dulcet tones.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu 3 года назад

I remember this show in that I distinctly remember it basically being one of the ridiculous amounts of power ranger-ish shows back in those times. I'll admit I'm impressed by just how much content they've been able to create just using footage that had already been made and working around it. Still a lot of these shows are pretty forgettable once you're over the age of 10.

@burnoutjunkie42 2 года назад

That’s my hometown! 4:45 I also remember this show and collected one of the figurines. The metallic suits was 🔥

@Gappasaurus 3 года назад

Lol, i had a Fangula in my “Weird Unidentified Figures” bin for years before i found out what it was 😄

@dragonmaster613 3 года назад

Did you cover Mystic Knights of Tír Na Nog?

@bootsthecat6718 3 года назад

Just rewatched that series on RU-vid, still worth watching if you can forgive the lame CGI and fight scenes

@davidromeroblaya7920 3 года назад

Rob Liefeld: "Beetleborgs need more muscles! MORE MUSCLES!"

@Facade953 3 года назад

And less feet.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@nickpossum3607 3 года назад

I did like when Power Rangers recycled the Big Bad Beetleborgs into the made for TV movie. Where all the past and present Red Rangers fight the last of the Machine King Generals over Serpentera, Lord Zedd's personal Zord.

@AaronWaller 3 года назад

I loved Big Bad Beetleborgs growing up! The comic style and overall weird but awesomeness of it had me hooked!. Sometimes I wonder if I was the only person who remembered them. Looks like I'm not!

@RetroSegaDev 3 года назад

When I watched this as a kid. I found young kids being super heros rather than teens weird. I had the same problem with Power Rangers Turbo introducing Justin the kid Blue Power Ranger.

@sinswhisper9588 3 года назад

dont worry EVERY PR fan had a problem with Justin whether or not they had seen the Turbo Movie Tie-In they released in theaters where it explains how Justin meets the other Rangers ... or whether you just went along with it like most because you either had no idea they made Power Rangers A Turbo Movie or maybe missed the pilot were Justin for no reason whatever randomly shows up instead of Rocky

@RetroSegaDev 3 года назад

@@bm1747 kid that magically grew in height lol

@josephjones7828 3 года назад

It was actually because of Beetleborgs that Justin happened. Beetleborgs was the more popular show at the time and the general public's interest in Power Rangers had been waning following Zeo. Seeing how well Beetleborgs was doing in comparison with younger kids as the protagonists Saban thought that Power Rangers could be revitalized in a similar manner. So to capitalize on the potential Justin was added to the Power Rangers Turbo movie and season.

@RetroSegaDev 3 года назад

@@josephjones7828 Ha is that seriously what happened? Seems like an error. How was Turbo received overall?

@michaelleary9233 3 года назад

I liked Justin, but when I found out the White Ranger was a kid in Japan, I was like "Why didn't they just use him then?" .

@suryans5851 3 года назад

OMG! You actually pronounced "Zyuranger" the proper way instead of how it's spelled! Great work guys!!!

@oneproudbrowncoat Год назад

I remember that! Song stuck with you, I'd be humming the Bad Bad Beetles for hours at work. Never did like that Chubber fella, though.

@fcm3d 3 года назад

Ahh man I loved that show!

@snukastyle 3 года назад

Ah yes, Marvel vs. Liefeld over The Fighting American-whom was originally created by Captain America's creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby) after Marvel/Timely claimed ownership of the first star-spangled man. What a weird mess that was.

@LPOband 2 года назад

me (a 90’s kid): “hmm i was a big fan of power rangers but i don’t remember anything about this vr troopers” (see’s a single frame and a whole wave of nostalgia hits) “oh fuck...”

@isaidwhatIsaid86 Год назад

I would so love to see a darker revamp of the beetleborgs. As a kid they were my second favorite after power rangers. I love the suits they used, their individual powers they had as kids. The show was creative and I liked the concept.

@Nix-uo4vj 2 года назад

the original version in Japan feels more like Iron man cops team.（B-Fighter & B-Fighter Kabuto） Yep, u didnt get it wrong, the heros didnt injured like Robot Cop's Murphy and with ten more members manipulating all kinds of giant robots/machines fighting villains acrossed the cities (just like power rangers) If this version can remake in Hollywood today , u cant imagine how cool it is😂 But turns out the US version is bit like Shazam lol.

@Sieg15 3 года назад

"Saban entertainment did so much to create the world, one wonders if they needed Japanese footage at all?" So Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog?

@codybk91 2 года назад

That show is such a deep memory

@RichardAcevedo2814 Год назад

I loved beetle borgs and I tracked down the b-fighter shfiguarts figures a while back. they're incredible.

@kaihedgie1747 3 года назад

Before, I remembered it as that weird Power Rangers-esque show But after looking at its original source material, now it's "that show that had Dante from DMC in it"

@changsiah2 3 года назад

also nero and vergil were power rangers before DMC

@nathanforester5993 3 года назад

I was wondering when you'd get to talking about Beetleborgs, Beetleborgs was my favorite out of the shows that I watched. And yes I am obsessed with it, especially the house monsters including Flabber. There were comics in the UK though and a sticker album. One of the people on Dinosaurdracula is obsessed with Flabber, he's brought it up a few times.

@lovetrain2455 3 года назад

Random bit of trivia, the voice actor of Dante from Devil may Cry, Reuben Langdon, was part the main cast in B Fighter Kabuto

@informationnotfound 3 года назад

I remember owning the Metallix Movie on VHS. Man this show brings back old memories

@corvus1970 3 года назад

Power Rangers never caught on with my daughter, but she really enjoyed Beetleborgs. I knew you'd get to them eventually, and here we are! :D

@LikaLaruku 3 года назад

I remember absolutely hating this show as a kid. That guy looks like the lovechild of Jambi & Jay Leno.

@VOAN Год назад

Big Bad Beetleborgs which is famous for being at a haunted setting, had kids as superheroes, use comic book reference, and had characters wearing armor eventually gave birth to four other popular tv series: Goosebumps, which delivered on the haunted part, Power Rangers Turbo, which had a kid as a superhero in the team, Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, which is based on a comic book property, and Mystic Knights of Tir Nag Nog, which succeed on the armor part featuring five warriors who wore different color armor even one resembling Shovel Knight.