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Anybody a fan since the beginning?


Not quite sure how I found myself on this board, but here goes.

My best friend and I at the time loved the X-Men cartoon series. He'd spent the night Friday night and we watched Saturday morning cartoons as we typically did. I remember, at that time at least, X-Men came on at 11am. The very first episode of Power Rangers debuted next with the Pudgy Pig. We loved it from the get go. We both became Power Ranger nuts after that.

I think I was a dedicated fan until around 1997, when I was now 14 and getting to be too old for the show (I think I was too old for it as a 10 yr old in '93 too, but whatever.) That year my friend Shawn and I had sort of gone different ways as we were going to different high schools, and the last memory I have of him was going to see the Spawn movie with him one weekend. It'd been a few months since I'd seen him prior to that, and we discussed Power Rangers but I could tell we were both developing other interests.

And, the magic was gone. I'll always have those memories of Power Rangers for those first few years and how everyone in school acted like they didn't watch it, but secretly everyone did, lol.

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I was first introduced to it in the after school program, where teachers showed it on a rainy day. This was when the series was just getting popular. After that. I was a fan that watched through to the midpoint of the Lord Zedd arc. Stopped watching for awhile, then got back into it during the middle of Zeo. Stopped again, the saw Turbo in theaters and started watching through the Turbo Season. At the end of Turbo, with such a long gap between Turbo and Space, I had outgrown it. Then, about 2 or 3 years ago, I decided to do a nostalgic binge watch on NetFlix, watching all the way through from the first episode of Mighty Morphin to the end of Space. I considered that to be "the end" of the series, but about a year ago, out of curiosity, I watched the first one or two episodes and the Season finales of all the other Seasons.

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I started watching it in late Season 1 with Fowl Play and Two Heads Are Better Than One, but I didn't really become officially hooked until Rocky, Adam and Aisha came along with Rocky Just Wants to Have Fun being the first episode of that era I watched, and I've continued to watch ever since.

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I started in the summer of 94 when Fox kids was airing re runs of season 1. The reason I started watching it was because my good friend was telling me the story of the GreenCandle episode and there was just something about it that captivated me and decided to tune in.

The first ep I ever saw was Clean up Club. Nothing monumentous bout that ep but I continued watching. And to this day... Well let's just say I'm eagerly awaiting a trailer for the new movie

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I started watching it from episode one. Watched it until about 95 after the movie. By that time, it wasn't cool to watch it. Loved it.

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I was into it from the beginning, from the first airings back in 1993. I would collect the toys (I had all the Zords from the first season through Zeo), the SNES games, I may've had all the Mighty Morphin VHSes at one time, hell I got to go to one of the live stage plays that came to Cleveland. I also saw both films when they came to theatres, I was pretty big into it!

Around the time of Turbo my interest was severely waning, which it kinda already started doing later in Zeo, maybe it was just because I was getting older and other things were getting my interest. I watched a bit of the early portion of Turbo's season, though sadly I just stopped caring to watch the episodes as they continued to air. The last time I tuned in with a genuine interest was the first or second part of "Passing the Torch", my last memory of the series as I totally dropped interest being Tommy tied up over the vortex Divatox created. After that I somehow caught wind that the four mainstay Rangers got replaced by new characters and that cemented me in keeping my distance.

Crazy enough, it was later in 2004 when Dino Thunder was airing for the first time when I got interested again, thanks in part to Tommy's return on top of a mixture of fresh witty elements and many nostalgic bits. After finishing that season, though SPD didn't keep my interest, I read and heard many good things of seasons after Turbo like in Space, Lost Galaxy, and Time Force all of which I enjoyed once looking up. I've picked up on the team-up stories in seasons I didn't really have interest in otherwise, also checked out RPM and loved it.

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Saw the promo of it a long time ago, then I came interested in it.

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I've been a fan since the beginning and love it still.

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I didn't know about it right away but I did get into it sometime during season 1. I think the firsy episode I saw was the one where Zack taught the kids his Hip-Hop-Kido and blew up the fake statue and the monster came out. The next episode - which may have been the next day - was Day of the Dumpster.

Once I got into it I was hooked. I had probably most of the videos, around 95% of the zords, even a few action figures. I stayed hooked all the way until some point in Time Force when my interest in Yu-Gi-Oh! began to overtake it as my number one show. I may have seen other episodes if my sister rented a tape of them or something but otherwise I didn't watch it any more until Dino Thunder - and even that was more like a show I watched while waiting for the commercials for the other show to end.

Now I'm rewatching the Power Rangers again on Netflix and seeing what I missed. I'm almost midway through Dino Thunder now. I can see now how kiddy the shows are, whereas I didn't as a kid. There are a couple of series that I thought weren't great upon rewatch but overall I'm still a fan of whatI saw.

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