Unmasking the Fakes: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Rip-Offs 

Just wanted to point out that Ultraman is not a Power Rangers rip off. It actually predates Power Rangers by about 20-30 years.

I wouldn't consider Saban/Bandai made shows as rip offs. That's like calling the Whopper Jr a rip-off of the Whopper.

Saban didn't rip off its self, they just made clones. Their competitors did the rip offing 😜

Are we not going to bring up how this dude with the most confidence said Saban wrong everytime?

Considering vr troopers, mmpr, beetleborgs are from the same saban umbrella and all those shows are from toei companies zyuranger, metaldar, Jikuu Senshi Spielban, Space Sheriff Shaider, and B-Fighter i would hardly call it a rip off. Vr troopers also had their own video game aswell. Plus superhuman samurai was part of the ultraman family.

You literally putting Saban shows on the list is a weird thing considering Power Rangers is also Saban.

21:37 Again, wrong! VR Troopers had several fights songs just like Power Rangers did!

Mystic Knights wasn't a rip off,it was Sabans attempt to create an original live action show. But it just didn't have the same impact as PR. Beetleborgs, VR troopers and Masked rider were Saban's attempt to recreate the same success using other popular tokusazu genre shows such as Kamen rider and the metal hero based shows. some ended up working,last more than one season,while some ended up being one season wonders.SSSS was based on the Tsuburaya show Lighting Superhero Gridman the Hyper agent,and that show was based around the concept of the then growing computer age

Ah yes Saban ripping off its biggest rival at the time….Saban!

Beetle Borgs was by Saban as well. Also, shame on you for not mentioning Masked Rider.

God i would love for them to remaster Mystic knights and even give it another try. With today's tech i feel it would be liked more. As for VR Troopers, there is a funny connection to PR where Roy's actor was the red herring about who would become the white ranger. Then when it was made Tommy he went off to do VRT instead.

You could have added Saban's Masked Rider. Not only a PR Ripoff but literally took place in the same universe as they promoted the show in Power Rangers

The level of uneducated babble this video has is astounding. Power rangers, beetleborgs, vr troopers and Mystic knights were all made by saban entertainment and beetleborgs even had a comic book crossover with power rangers. This is like calling a trex a rip off of Godzilla…

“It poses the question, can you rip off yourself? I say yes, I did earlier in this video.” Bro your writing is top tier, seriously, youre my new favourite youtube channel. I hope you get big. This has been such a trip revisiting all these old memories you’ve managed to dig up.

Fun Fact: JDF was suppose to star in the original version of VR Troopers called Cybertron and Ryan's actor was supposed to come in as the White Ranger. But Tommy was so popular that Saban re negotiated the contracts and we got Tommy's return and VR Troopers

I will not stand for anyone dissing American Gridman.

Thats definitely a new pronunciation of Zyuranger

Wouldn't MMPR be the Rip-off? It is ripping off Super sentai

Being a Power Rangers and wrestling fan myself the Los Luchadores looks like a fun watch.

The irony. Power rangers is a rip off from a Japanese show.

"Also there's an adorable chihuaha and he looks terrified in every scene. And I love him." 😄

So for VR Troopers there is a pilot episode where Ryan Steel was play by Jason David Frank the GREEN Rangers and it so funny cause the actress in VR trooper made a cameo on Power Rangers Zeo.And for the "Masked Rider / Kamen Rider that more of a fail spin-off then a Rip-off for america but Toei loved the idea of their sentai and rider series to crossover that it the normal in Japan now.

You know I thought I was going crazy I remembered van pires but could never remember the name. Man started to believe it was a show I imagined 😂.

oh hey, a bad list based on bad lists that promote this idea without research. There is only ONE Ripoff of Power Rangers, and that is "Tattooed Teenage Alien fighters from Beverly hills". A Ripoff is "an inferior imitation of something", one which deliberately does not use its own idea's. Similarities in ways shows are made (I.e adapting anotehr liscensed series) does not make one qualify. And this argument is frequently stupid when it's asserted, as the ill-informed WRONGLY think that ANY form of Henshin Hero (transforming hero) series is just power Rangers...when that is far from so, and the concept pre-dates Power Rangers by *Literal* decades. As Power rangers is part of A larger genre of Tokusatsu shows that utilize special effects and stunts for telling live-action superhero stories. VR Troopers, Beetleborgs and Saban's masked Rider were all done by Saban (the company who originally made power rangers by taking footage from Toei's Super Sentai Series, thus ANYTHING ELSE THEY DO cannot qualify AS a ripoff) in similar veins TO power rangers because those three series are based on taking footage from Toei's sibling series to super sentai; that footage gathered from the Metal Heroes Series and Kamen Rider Black RX, respectively. Kamen Rider Pre-dates Super sentai, and the metal heroes were first created as a replacement for Kamen rider. Saban using different source material to produce companion series, with masked rider even having a backdoor pilot produced for it as part of Power Rangers? Yeah, those aren't ripoffs. And to pre-empt, this also means 2009's Kamen Rider Dragon knight is Similarly NOT a ripoff; it is an adaptation of Kamen rider Ryuki (one which is in fact considered by many better than its source material) that was done at a time when Power Rangers was NOT doing well and was about to face its third (technically fourth) cancellation. Shows produced in similar ways despite having entirely different means of telling stories with the footage they gather does not quality for being a Ripoff. Hell, Dragon Knight won an Emmy for its original stunt-work and direction that WAS NOT from footage they took and adapted; which is something Power Rangers can Never claim to despite Power Rangers being the origin of the directorial careers of Koichi Sakamoto and Makoto Yokoyama; who are high-demand directorial talent in japan now for Tokusatsu series due to them proving themselves extensively. Super human Samurai Syber Squad? Again, not a ripoff. Tsuburaya had worked with American companies to produce and import their ultra-series franchise before; doing so with Ultra Q, the original ultraman, and UltraSeven. because of Legal Disputes they were having difficulty doing much in that vein in the 90's, but still produced a couple American co-production ultra series in the 90's; some done EVEN BEFORE Power Rangers was made, so it's hard to dispite THEM ripping off Saban's work when they were doing it before Haim Saban was. Taking the route of creating an Adaptation like Power Rangers had done with one of their series (in this case, SSSS was adapted from Hyper Agent Gridman) was just another avenue to get their work out there; and the format they chose was again only superficially similar to power rangers simply due to the nature of the threats in the series. Thus Again, that's not a ripoff. As For Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, which was even used for the title image? That was made by Saban as a Power Rangers REPLACEMENT; one greenlit because Power Rangers Turbo was so poorly received that Saban was going to scrap production of the franchise after Power Rangers in Space. However, In Space was SO WELL RECEIVED that the plan to introduce and then fold production assets into Tir Na Nog was scrapped, and Tir na Nog was cancelled instead because Saban wanted to continue to bank on brand recognition. Tir Na Nog has so few similarities to Power Rangers beyond being another Henshin Hero show (it's set in the past, focuses on more fantasy powers than a mix of magic and technology, draws basis from celtic lore that PR's never touched) it CANNOT qualify as a ripoff. Los Luchadores? Liscensed from Canada, that's more a take on just urban fantasy with Lucahdores, there's again barely any resemblance to PR. Like, I could go on with other examples. Tattooed Teenage alien Fighters was the only one to legitimately take Power Rangers format while neither basing itself on a prior Japanese work for its base footage/materials/story, being done by Saban, or acting as just a generalist henshin hero show. it was genuinely made to just cash-in on something popular with no effort put into it; while everything else was trying to be a genuine show with a desire for it to stand on its own.

Superhuman samurai cyber squad is not a rip off. It’s literally a adaptation of a completely separate Tokusatsu series called Gridman.

Ultraman is from WAY B4 but i love your vids keep em up i was born in 89 this channel is me

I'll give this guy credit for trying to pronounce an Irish title like Mystic Knights Of Tir Na Nog since most people outside of Ireland can't say it properly anyway.

Man I loved beetleborgs, VR troopers and Mystic knights . I thought van Pires was a hallucination lol

I definitely recall the producers of Beetleborgs saying Flabber was based on Elvis (I theorize they'd likely get Austin Butler to play him if they did a reboot, or Rami Malek) and I definitely remember Los Luchadores, also you can't forget a show that has Otho from Beetlejuice voicing the alien mentor.

Too bad we still don't have a complete series of Mystic Knights or Los Luchadores on dvd or blu ray

Great video. Very nostalgic. I remember Big Bad Beetle Borgs, Mystic Knights, and VR Troopers as a kid. :)

Los Luchadores wasn't a Power Rangers rip off, dude. It was a Batman 66 rip off.

Unless i'm mistaken VR troopers was originally gonna crossover with power rangers, i think the plan was halfway into vr ryan loses his 1st suit and gets a new one, but it was originally gonna be tommy joining the team while ryan goes to PR to become the white ranger

Finally somebody remembers Van Pires!

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Van-pires before this video… 😅

Bookmarks should always be a standard for lists so we can skim to the parts we want since most people on RU-vid don’t sit and watch a whole video of a topic they have fleeting curiosity for.

You say that as if power rangers isn’t a rip off itself.

The Japanese yellow ranger wasn't a guy, he was a... Boi. 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

Logical half human Star Trek character from Vulcan.

Bruh, there's a lot of tokusatsu, not just Power Ranger, besides Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad, there's nothing similar to Power Ranger, he's more like Ultraman, but he's still made by Tsuburaya, so he's another hero made by Tsuburaya. THEN SINCE WHEN DOES POWER RANGER HAVE GIANT SIZE AND FIGHT A KAIJU LIKE GODZILLA

1993: when side7(deviantart's predecessor) is born Superhuman samurai cybersquad was like Digimon, when dealing with digital technologies Big bad beetleborg was about comic book fans become superpowered heroes in real world from asking a literal genie

I'm just gonna go ahead and ask the questions that some were either too afriad to ask or didn't think to ask. Which of these shows had actors/actresses that: - Posed nude or did adult related material? - Eventually became big or known stars in Hollyweird? - Died in real life? - Went to prison or got into some kind of trouble? I asked those questions because throughout it's long history, the Power Rangers franchise had nearly all of that in multiple instances.🤷🏿‍♂️

Mystic Knights of Tir na Nog deserved more love than it got. It was a pretty good show

How are shows produced by Saban/Bandai rip-offs? Mystic Knights is severely underrated for being an original production.

i don't mind the mispronunciation of names and proper nouns of the shows. but in wrestling terminology they call it "checking your oil" when a wrestler does a kancho as a reference to something a commentator said when Andre the Giant stuck his giant's thumb up someone's ass to get a reaction from the crowd. kancho literally means enema and probably is used for any finger in the butt techniques (to be used offensively or defensively which is why i didn't say attacks) but the main one people think of is the two handed gun stance, the one from Naruto uses 4 fingers by clasping the hands together and extending the pointer and middle finger on both hands.

Power rangers & vr troopers have more of a connection, behind tbe scenes. After Tommy lost his green ranger powers, JDF was asked to star in a pilot for Cybertron. Many fans were upset that Tommy was no longer in the show, parents wrote in to put him back. Cybertron later became VR Troopers. The actor for Ryan Steele was originally planned to replace JDF as the white ranger, before their roles were switched

I was 16 when I saw SUPERHUMAN SAMURAI & I like it sure it was a POWER RANGER Rio off but it's like the cartoon REBOOT

Only thing I remember was Beetleborgs which minus the Jay Leno-looking guy was actually good. Thankfully that’s all I remember because the other ones look trash!!!

I loved Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighting!!! Movie title: Bad hockey player, plays golf, to pay grandma’s taxes.

Wow, the nostalgia...

Not sure what to call that pro wrestling move either, but I'm sure it ends with "oscopy".

8:54 Yes there was!

All these shows are 90s/early 00s favorites! What a time to be alive.

To be honest, I thought Mystic Knights was a better show than Power Rangers. It was much less formulaic and the acting wasn't bad at all. Plus it's based on real Celtic mythology--the show's kingdoms of Kells and Temra were loosely inspired by the mythical realms of Ulster and Connacht.

Fox Kids was a huge part of my after school childhood happiness lol. Power Rangers was so great. even BeetleBorgs was fun and good (at the time) all the episodes are on YT and it's soooooo badddddd but entertaining to my 9 year old self lol

I grew up in the 90s, and I enjoyed watching most of the shows in this content. However, I did not know about Los Luchadores and Van Pires; honestly though, they are way too cheesy for me.

I would only Really Include shows that wherent made By saban and when u concider they made power rangers, beetle borgs, vr troopers, mystic knights it doesn’t leave a lot lol

Oh the irony of making a list of ripoffs of a ripoff XD

VR troopers was cool

I'm sure you know this. But, Power rangers is a rip off of Zyuranger. But, what you don't know is. It's supposed to be a team version of a series called Kamen Rider and both Super Sentai and Kamen Rider is created by a famous manga artist named Shotaro ishinomori. Famous for making Cyborg 009, Skullman, Android Kikaider, Robot Detective and many others. Hell, in Japan Shotaro ishinomori was famous enough to get his own channel in Japan.

I loved Mystic Knights!

You do know the super sentai mechs predate Gundam right? Not sure if calling them Gundam fights is just a joke or an implication that they "ripped off" Gundam

Technically VR Troopers & Beetleborgs are not rip offs as they also were produced by Saban and are adaptations of the Metal Heroes series, Mystic Knights & Los Luchadores which are original shows based on Tokusatu but not adaptations of Japanese shows also were never rip offs like the former the latter also was produced by Saban. Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad is a adaption of the Ultraman franchise series Gridman while yes Van-Pires & the Alien Fighters are true rip offs while the former are not especially the non Power Ranger shows produced by Saban.

yeah Van-pires! I still shudder a the thought of that one. I though tattooed teenage alien fighters was almost as bad Superhuman samurai was well veryy so so. I like los Luchadores but never thought of it as an PR rip off. Mystic knights was good. Beetleborgs was kinda fun I admit! I liked VR troopers! An entertaining feature. Thanks!

Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad was a knock-off of Ultraman not MMPR

i think beetle borgs should get the gundam fight points because they later get a giant beetle that transforms in to a robot

Mystic Knights and Beetleborgs were the best of these knockoffs.

I have a suggestion for a review SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH episode where she goes to SALEM KEVIN NASH guest stars in the opening scene and no he doesn't tear his quads 😂

🙁😒 That's Not How Vampirism Works I get why they can't turn the teenagers into real vampires But Still Van-pire is dumb who came up with that show

They are all a direct rip-off of the versions of them made in Japan

The fact I’ve seen most of these ripoffs and was into Power Rangers, I was a very gullible kid.

I thought we are troopers. Came out before Power Rangers by 1 year. Especially given the fact that the VR trooper helmet from the lead character was reused and painted red to make the red ranger helmet.

Ultra man is not a power rangers rip off he is a kaiji like Daimajin

Calling SSSS a rip-off is so off the mark. It is from the creators of Ultraman and was originally going to be named PowerBoy, but was renamed during production to avoid confusion with Saban Entertainment's American tokusatsu series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It was made to capitalize on the upsurge in popularity of imported Japanese monster-robot shows which could be adapted with new, regionalized live-action footage. #GridmanLivesMatter

Beatle Borgs did have giant robots added in close to the end of the shows run.

Vr Troopers' battle grid suits had MMPR red's helmet cause Saban was cheap.

I would say Servo from superhuman samurai syber squad was not a power rangers rip off, but a Ultraman or Specterman Ripoff.

''A show by say-ban'' 💀💀💀

I watched vr troopers

Superhuman Samurai it's more like a rip-off of Ultraman from Japan. not Power Rangers.

I wouldn't call the saban shows that are based on tokusatsu rip-offs, it's pretty much more of the same after all.

it really says something when Saban has like, FOUR shows (technically FIVE if you count "Masked Rider") ripping-off Power Rangers which is originally their show too! XD they just had to cash-in super early before anyone else i guess XD though funny enough, just like Power Rangers, most of their rip-offs are "adaptations" to other Toei owned Tokusatsu shows. i put it in quotations because they've REALLY dropped the ball on adapting them. heck, VR troopers was pulling from MULTIPLE tokusatsu shows from the "Metal Heroes" series, the footage dating earlier than Zyuranger's. also, that awkward moment i get when my username is the same wording as the giant knight robot from tattooed teenage alien fighters from Beverly hills, only i think they officially call theirs "Knight-Tron"

but those aren't fake power ranger series. They're Super Sentai somethin or other series that is canonically from the same series as power rangers. Just they were bought by someone else and localized as something other than power rangers because they were distinct enough to try to compete. But technically they'd just be lost and weirder power rangers series if they were localized by the same people. Remember before power rangers got localized there was all kinds of Power rangers like shows in the Super Sentai series and others that are basically the same thing as power rangers (just with less Americanization and more filler). Even Spider man had his own series (you can watch that and probably others on youtube and other places)

The peoblem with the equation is that it points at too many genre standards that predate power ranger. The ones that are best are the hangout spot and martial arts spot.

Everything that u mention is rip off from japanese show. Even power ranger is rip off from japanese show called super sentai. Saban never knew word of originality, they just steal the concept and add some spice called storyline. Unbelivable, you should read more.🤣

I highly recommend looking up the german intro of mystic knight, specially the extended version, it's pretty epic

Every show produced by Saban is a rip-off off the tokusatsu series: super sentai, Kamen Rider, heavy-shell B-Fighter/ Kabuto, Metal Heroes and Gridman. The only show produced by Saban that's an entire original is Mystic Nights. Dino Fury is a rip-off of the Korean tokusatsu: Dino Force Brave. Saban made money off of Toei & Daewon media companies. At least Marvel co-produced: Denjiman and Battle Fever J. Also, the first "super sentai" was based on Supaidaman. (japanese spiderman). Supaidaman was the first series to use "zords."

Los Luchadores is more of an Adam West's Batman rip-off than anything else.

yeah I remember this!..... AND I ALSO DON'T MISS IT EITHER! Sorry but I was NEVER a Fan of Power Rangers and even when the Different Versions/Spinoffs came out I just didn't watch them either so the only one I did watch was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers but I just don't understand why everyone likes this show so much? OK I GET IT! IT'S COOL BEING A SUPERHERO! BUT COME ONNNNNNN! THERE'S BETTER SHOWS OUT THERE TOO! GO WATCH SAILOR MOON!

Big bad bettle borgs was a fun kids show

I do not appreciate all the VanPire hate 😂 discovered this show around two years ago and watched it on shrooms and became very invested. There’s a creepy love triangle that unfolds. They definitely overcooked the show itself with so many elements being shoehorned in but it makes it such a weird watch. Also, fun fact, nobody knows who plays “Van He’llsing” but there are many theories. Also Jonathan Davis of Korn does a voice on it. So so so many weird facts about this show.

Big bad Beetleborgs isn’t a Power Rangers ripoff

I love all power ranger rip offs .

What about my guy " the masked rider" ? No love huh 😢

Not really a ripoff since this show never got any kind of Western release until a few years ago, but there was a Japanese live-action version of Spider-Man in the 70's most just call Japanese Spider-Man nowadays. It turned the wallcrawler into a Japanese motorcycle racer who gets a bracelet that pops out the Spider suit he then puts on when he goes into battle. He even has a flying car and a giant robot. Spider-Man with a giant robot.

I loved the Mystic Knights growing up, too bad you can't find it on DVD. Same for the Beetle Borgs series but I don't know if you can find it on DVD but I also love the Power rangers series.

I always just thought it(power rangers) was a live action ripoff of Battle of the Planets, aka, Gatchaman.

It's Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, not Kayurayu Sentai Zayuranger. And, Beetleborgs are rip-offs of B-fighter, Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad are rip-offs of Gridman, not Power Rangers. Watching halfway, not sure if you included VR Troopers, but you get my drift.

Thank u for this

Man I loved mystic knights. I have a few action figures and a dragon from that show. My fave knock off