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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Rito had a tendency to call Zedd "Ed". The guy who wore the Zedd costume was named Ed Neil.
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Because of Thuy Trang's death in 2001, we'll most likely never see Trini again.
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: [[Johnny Yong Bosch]] has said that people are always asking him to say "[[Totally Radical|Morphinominal]]
* [[The Danza]]: Catherine Sutherland as Katherine Hillard.
** Arguably Austin St John, who revealed at Power Morphicon that "Austin" is a stage name, and that his real name is Jason.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Do you honestly know any high schoolers that look that old? Well, out of the original five, Austin St John was 18 and Thuy Trang was 19, but Walter Emanuel Jones and Amy Jo Johnson were 22 and David Yost was 24. It would have been much more believable if they made them in college.
** Made worse by the fact that the characters were retroactively de-aged from seniors to freshmen after the first season was a success. Originally Austin St. John and Thuy Trang (and Jason David Frank (19 at the time)) were going to be plausibly the same age as their character.
** The second season wasn't as bad, but still fairly notable. Of the four (including Kat) replacements, Johnny Yong Bosch was 18, Karan Ashley was 19, Steve Cardenas was 20, and Catherine Sutherland was also 20. Add in the remaining 2, and you get another 20-year-old (Jason) and a 25-year-old (David). Before Kat, however, Amy was 23 and still on the show.
* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: A few episodes were directed by Paul Schrier (Bulk).
* [[Direct to Video]]: ''Alpha's Magical Christmas'', ''Lord Zedd's Monster Heads'', and ''The Good, the Bad and the Stupid: The Misadventures of Bulk & Skull''.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Not of their own choice but parents found Zedd to be too scary at the start (who could blame them, in the introduction in addition to his appearance. The guy had a snake wrapped around his arm.) Thus, the producers had to tone him down later to make him more of a laughable villain. It wasn't too much to dampen his character as he was still a force to be reckoned with however.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Tommy is "Jeebus".
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]!:
** See [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/YMMV|the Retroactive Recognition listing]].
* [[Missing Episode|Lost Episode]]: The original [[Pilot]] for ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' was advertised as such on Fox Kids. Notable changes include the casting of the Yellow Ranger as Audri DuBois as opposed to Thuy Trang, Zordon being known as "Zoltar", and the Zords being referred to as "Droids".
** There's also a second variation on the pilot, which Tony Oliver shows exclusively at conventions.
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** Pirantishead, RoboGoat and Turbanshell were repainted and had a bunch of crap added to them to become random alien monsters in an episode of ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]''.
** Primator was painted whitish and had extra fur added to him to become the yeti-like Snow Monster.
** Salaguana was chopped into little bits and used as reptilian armor for
** Silver Horns was painted green and
** The Wizard of Deception's rat monsters were actually leftover, unused suits from the movie
** Inciserator was made up from the head of an unused ''[[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger|Kakuranger]]'' monster and the body from Merrick the Barbaric (whose own episode hadn't even aired yet).
** Tube Monster was Pipebrain repainted white and blue, but that is actually from ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]'' to show the cycle starting all over again with an almost identical type of monster.
* [[Schedule Slip]]:
** The last four episodes were preempted on the West Coast for Little League. They can't be shown at a later date, because Nickelodeon took over the broadcast rights before the episodes could be re-scheduled.
* [[Science Marches On]]: The Tyrannosaurus Dinozord has an outdated "kangaroo" upright stance.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: It's a product of the 1990s and it shows.
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]: The long-persisting rumors of Lokar appearing during the unaired Bloom of Doom Zord battle were finally put to rest when stunt coordinator Jeff Pruitt released the unaired Zyu2 footage in February 2014.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: At some point before Season 2, there were plans to introduce new versions of the Dinozords, as well as various different takes on the White Tigerzord ([http://multiply.com/mu/alphabetho/image/11/photos/7/1200x1200/31/1031.jpg?et=f1Q7u4PLc%2Bxqg9ynzzCmkw&nmid=68959525 as can be seen by these pieces of concept art]{{Dead link}} from a ''Super Sentai'' Giant Robot artbook). These plans were aborted when it turned out that adapting mecha footage from another ''Sentai'' proved to be more economical for Saban than commissioning Toei to make more new footage for them
** A redesigned version of Titanus the Carrier Zord was also planned to be introduced for Season 3. [http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5461/070ed.jpg Various concept arts] were drawn, but Titanus was left mostly unchanged in Season 3 (aside for the addition of the Dragonzord's chest plate, since the Dragonzord was absent during Season 3). Some of those designs were made for ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'', and indeed a "Space Titanus" toy was in fact released, though it was never used in the show.
** A Samuraizord (shown in the same image above with the Titanus redesigns) was considered for the second season as well. The Samuraizord would've been very similar to the Red Dragon Thunderzord, in which it could transform between a Tyrannosaurus and a humanoid robot. Another reject concept art shows a robot that was formed from three bikes.
** Dan Southworth (Eric Myers on ''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]'') stated at Power Morphicon that he had auditioned for the role of Adam back during production of the second season.
** Saban originally considered adapting other ''Sentai'' seasons prior to ''Zyuranger'' into ''Power Rangers'', as early as ''[[Choudenshi Bioman]]'' ([http://articles.latimes.com/1986-08-12/business/fi-18776_1_haim-saban source]). Other ''Sentai'' seasons, such as ''[[Kousoku Sentai Turboranger]]'' and ''[[Choujin Sentai Jetman]]'' are rumored to had been considered as well.
** At one point, the writers actually considered having Goldar eventually overthrow Rita instead of creating Lord Zedd
** Producer Johnathan Tzachor originally wanted Tommy to die in Jason's arms at the end of The Green Candle part 2 to match ''Zyuranger''. He was overuled and this idea never made it to scripting
=== With regards to [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (film)|the 1995 movie]]: ===
* [[Deleted Scene]]: Actors at Conventions have commented on various scenes filmed that didn't make it into the movie, such as the Rangers doing some preliminary training between being given the ninja robes by Dulcea and traversing into the forest. In particular, Tommy's was apparently seen practicing some superhuman kicks similar to the corkscrew kick he used to finish off the last gargoyle.
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