The Power Rangers got screwed | Red Cow Arcade

[@quiltrowave]

History of Power Rangers HAS.NO.SET.SCHEDULE. The videos we'll be done when they're done

[@TheParappa]

good times. lets just ruin a nice video series by having a comically long and bitchy rant somewhere. :D

[@RedCowArcade]

🤣

[@DecadesApartProductions]

We like that, it'll be out when it's out. Such great work ethic.

[@quiltrowave]

Linkara. The great Linkara​@@DecadesApartProductions

[@hansjuker8296]

Never.... NEVER trust a man in a fedora ... especially one with a lisp.

[@AllardRT]

"Why not take care of people who made you successful" I'm reminded of a tale about the late Bond producer Albert Broccoli. When filming The Spy Who Loved Me on location in Egypt, the local food didn't do anything good for the cast and crew. Broccoli ordered an entire van full of food and catering supplies, but when it got into Egypt, all of the food was spoiled - they didn't turn the refrigerator on. So what did Broccoli do? He commandered a Jeep, rode into local markets, bought all the tomatoes and pasta he could get his hands on and personally cooked a spaghetti dinner for the entire cast and crew of over 100 people. Somehow I doubt Saban is cut from the same cloth.

[@georgecisneros5281]

Well, that would be a true Roman for you…😉

[@Paahtis]

You do realize that if Saban had given 100k to each of the kids for that movie he would have only had 999400000$ left in his pocket? The man has kids to feed!

[@juniorsanchez7441]

They took advantage of all these young actors. Power Rangers was the biggest thing in my childhood this realization just saddens me

[@hansjuker8296]

Yeah your life kinda just bummed me out too.

[@Fellipe2k5]

It's as if an alien race that considers itself superior and doesn't give a damn about the Earth's population landed in California and founded Hollywood.

[@JamesJohnson-tr1gu]

I’m a big fan of your uncle Dirty

[@Fellipe2k5]

It's as if an alien race that considers itself superior and doesn't give a damn about the Earth's population landed in California and founded Hollywood.

[@Fellipe2k5]

It's as if an alien race that considers itself superior and doesn't give a damn about the Earth's population landed in California and founded Hollywood.

[@robertduffing9927]

Black Ranger Walter Jones looks great for his age . Wikipedia says that he is 54. He barely looks older than he did in the Power Ranger days.

[@Linklex7]

Black don’t crack

[@LittleBrother-t6n]

He def looks older.

[@robertduffing9927]

Hyperbole, my friend. He doesn’t look 30 years older.

[@LittleBrother-t6n]

@@robertduffing9927 He certainly does. It seems like people who come up with this nonsense have never been around black people that much. He is clearly a young adult on that show and a middle age man on this interview.

[@LittleBrother-t6n]

Now, if you say he looks good for his age, I would agree. But he def looks older, in a natural way. No science behind it.

[@kcadventures1454]

I feel for em because I had the same thing happen to me at a job. You have all these people telling you they have your back and then all of a sudden it's just you up there haha.

[@DarkYamatoman]

Saban is a slimy bastard for sure, I remember like 10 years ago he forced the indie game Chroma Squad to add a "Inspired by Power Rangers" subtitle and give him royalty shares, when really the game was a homage to tokusatsu in general.

[@Linklex7]

You know how evil you have to be to make Disney seem like the good guys by comparison?

[@TheUltimateMarioFan]

Disney are still the bad guys

[@OSW]

To Saban, who mercilessly screwed his talent: Never in all my years, have I encountered such cruel and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in pro-wrestling?

[@bc5cd]

Chaim Sabban-always the 👃

[@shattaredentertainment4782]

Give him a wrestling company during the attitude era against the other big 3? Now we have a world War.

[@occisoft8082]

A guy named haim saban doesn't share your morals?

[@Mattened]

every.single.time

[@JohnSmith-yd5wq]

Casual racism never stops huh.

[@ChrisBeech-b5r]

Sounds like a bad guy in the actual show

[@matthewhibner1092]

If only Frankie would (((notice))) that everything he hates about the entertainment industry has the same root cause...

[@chapofabout6]

At this point there's no need to bother checking wiki 'early life' it's just the way they are. Vile.

[@MashedPotatoeComedy]

Hey Saban why is the pay so low in these contracts Saban : TAKE A WILD GUESS, do you want me to suffer? The rangers got the old Bootsy treatment

[@koalakoa]

Rita's rewind was really bad at launch like refund my money bad. but now its a fun little beat em up with the updates rolled out. Its getting better with each update as well.

[@viralmedianetwork415]

The term that applies here is "Pay It Forward" you reward those that helped you become successful and share in the profits, benefits of that success.

[@IgorsDen]

The episodes where those three had left but the characters had not, where they used stock footage and doubles in their place, were so shoddy, even by the show's standards, I can't believe I'm pretty sure I didn't notice them as a kid. I was 7 or 8 when I saw those episodes; I think if I were just a year or two older I would have noticed.

[@Linklex7]

Yeah cause even before they left I had started noticing you never saw Jason, Trini, or Zack around anymore until it was just them showing up already morphed and hardly talking.

[@JamesJohnson-tr1gu]

Let’s never forget that the black ranger had one of the worst hairlines in TV history

[@kumajin3621]

He was broke it was hard times

[@westywest4480]

Same thing happened to the American gladiators.

[@RetroCrisis]

OMG I had that 'study kit' at 6:34 - wow I've not seen that since I was a kid

[@Linklex7]

I think I remember why we got Robo Rita. It’s been awhile but if I remember correctly Rita Replusa turned out to be a curse. When Zordon died in the “in Space” it sent a beam with turned Rita into a normal person and ridding her of the curse of Rita. The person who was Rita went on to become the goddess of good magic in Mystic Force. In Once & Always the curse/spirit of Rita Repulsa returned to take a robot form. This way they could bring Rita back and still give the woman possessed her happy ending.

[@MichaelMichael-us6wq]

On an unrelated note, one of the late power rangers actor (green ranger) did a guest voice for a cartoon called We bare Bears

[@ChadSmith-ef4lu]

I watched a couple of the later seasons with my son when he was little. It tickled me how soapy it was - one of the villians or their top henchmen was ALWAYS a long lost/estranged son/daughter/sibling/cousin with a redemption arc.

[@keepinitGcode]

$40,000 in 1993 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $87,333.70 today, an increase of $47,333.70 over 32 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 2.47% per year between 1993 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 118.33%.

[@plick_srickfield]

I remember seeing Austin St. John at a car show signing autographs in the late 90s. Makes sense now.

[@skitswithextramayo6371]

I think the same thing happened with me as it did EJ. I think after the first season I was confused as to what happened to the original cast. I saw the movie and I was out after that. The best thing about it is the theme song. Fun story: I got in trouble at a friend's house because we were pretending to be Power Rangers in the basement and I yelled out, "White Power!!!!" My friend's mom had some questions for my dad, The Grand Wizard.

[@EudesConhecido]

In Brazil there was a lot of hate for Power Rangers because before that we were used to watch original sentai series like Changeman, Flashman, Goggle V, Maskman, so when PR came it meant that no more original sentai shows would be on TV. Masked Rider almost never aired in Brazil because Kamen Rider Black RX was licensed and airing at that time.

[@DaWho05]

I remember there was a Power Rangers fighting game a few years back called Battle for the Grid. Kinda got mixed reviews as well but might be worth checking out if you’re in the mood.

[@MustardTigerFan42]

The "magic" was the licensed footage from Japan. Nothing else. The kids were a dime a dozen back then and did next to nothing special before or after. When this argument first came up with people crying that they never made money on reruns, someone found out they at most filmed for 2 hours per episode. If anything they were overpaid and didn't use the "exposure" to further their careers. Hard to feel bad for them at all

[@fargoretro]

Weird that the millionaires and billionaires in charge of the project didn't share the wealth with the people that work for them.

[@PrincipalButtsavage]

These people don't get rich by sharing.

[@ZeroBusterXX]

I think SPD was the last PR season I watched. Once my internet was good enough to download the original Sentai versions, I switched to that. Still, sad to see PR die.

[@Justin-ic3hw]

Too much cutting in clips

[@TheSuckoShow]

I watched a video recently on how almost EVERY episode of MTV's Cribs was fake, because most artists can't actually afford to live like that, even famous rappers and pop stars. There's a lot of money coming in, but very little of it makes its way into the artist's wallet. Even within the 1% of artists, actors, musicians who "make it," you still need to be in the lucky 1% of THAT group to reap the rewards of your success.

[@hamupinhere]

Yeah like that famous Robbie Williams episode; apparently that was just Jane Seymour's house and she let them use it for the show or something like that.

[@SuperNicktendo]

Taking advantage of young naive actors in Hollywood. Classic. I remember seeing Zach on American Gladiators and was so thrilled to see him. I had stopped watching power Rangers shortly after they left. Really enjoyed that show. Would try not to misbehave in fear that they would bust in and make a psa about it and embarrass the hell out of me.

[@KingRey2001]

Would any of you gentlemen happen to know when the next History of Power Rangers will be done?👀

[@RedCowArcade]

THEY WILL BE RELEASED WHEN THEYRE DONE

[@danielgraham1082]

12:22 that’s not why they bought it 😂. They wanted Fox Family, when they bought it they got all of Saban’s catalog. Disney never really wanted Power Rangers to begin with.

[@RedCowArcade]

Right. Well, whatever.

[@linuxwinbingingdunlopy5159]

Franky, something being profitable doesent make it not slimey

[@Weird_VHS]

This would be an interesting Lifetime movie or something based on the making of this show and the homophobia of David Yost, firings, Thuy Trang’s death etc. I think she was also in scientology

[@mikecoolgreen]

imagine if james rolfe was the owner of the power rangers brand?

[@alain99v6]

beeing a non union tv serie was probably hell on set for the actors but also for the technicians, I"m sure they did more than 12 hours a day

[@UndrAttack]

The best Saved by the Bell episode was when Mr Belding turned into a rapping pumpkin and performed at the Max.

[@intothezombieapocalypse]

I remember the first day the first episode hit the tv screen. My mom took my siblings and I to walmart that day. didnt see anything different in the toy isle that day. went home, had dinner then this show hit tv. I remember looking at my brother and saying, "watch.... Theres going to be a ton of toys at walmart tomorrow" the next day him and I went to walmart and Power Rangers was everywhere lmao Thats how smart Haim Saban was.

[@TheUltimateMarioFan]

14:27 is that adjusted for inflation?

[@RedCowArcade]

Let's double it - let's say in 2025, they made $1,400 per episode instead of $700. That's $56,000 for a season. For the movie, the salary was $20,000 then. Let's say it was $40,000 now. For being a lead on the #1 show on network television and the most famous teen stars in the world...it's peanuts.

[@AdamKNAC]

Audri Dubois did not get fired, she just decided that she did not want to relocate from Arizona to Los Angeles at the time. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqjbYoakZZqiq80

[@SimonStrange]

What does Saban's early life say?

[@ReaperCH90]

If you have a good thing going , I would do everything in my power to make sure it runs as smooth as possible. If that means I have to reduce my income by 5% in the short run to keep everything going, why not?

[@SKMCTV]

This would've been the perfect time to do a collab with Linkara.

[@Linklex7]

No. Dear god, no!!!

[@SKMCTV]

@@Linklex7 You don't like the Lightbringer?

[@DaWho05]

And the perfect time to ask him what he thinks of Muppets and the green M&M

[@Henskelion]

It'll be out when it's out!

[@shattaredentertainment4782]

When the 3 left was about the time I stopped watching. I just started growing out of it.

[@Shifty1940]

Such a stereotypical story with “certain” business men.

[@11gingin]

i had 2 paranormal experiences about power rangers recently, so seeing this makes me understand there was a reason

[@DaWho05]

Not something you hear everyday, tell us more

[@RoninBat274]

Hey tell us what happened

[@beauleidig8670]

This kind of reminds me of what happened with Three's Company. Suzanne Somers wanted to renegotiate her contract when it ended around season 5. She had been making $30K an episode, but wanted $150K. Keep in mind, that was $100K more than John Ritter (the shows top billed star) was making per episode. It was obvious that CBS wan't going to bump her pay that high, but had Ritter and Joyce DeWitt held out with her they could have all squeezed the network for more money. However, the other two wouldn't join Somers and CBS fired/replaced her after her contract was up. As a result Somers didn't speak with Ritter or DeWitt for decades.

[@Henskelion]

"Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire."

[@frankie0414]

Yeah, the original cast of Power Rangers were really taken advantage of by Haim Saban. Jason David Frank, Amy Jo Johnson, and David Yost put up with the bad contract terms as they just wanted to keep their jobs. I have seen interviews in which JDF stated, "they would have fired us anyway, so why rock the boat". I think the other remaining cast felt the same. This caused some bad blood between them as the entire cast was originally going to stand up to Saban together, but at the last minute JDF, Amy, and David backed out. In all honesty, this type of abuse was pretty commonplace in the 90s. The original cast of American Gladiators have a similar story with Samuel Goldwyn. They wanted more money and a piece of the merchandise sales. Goldwyn simply stated, "no, and we don't renegotiate contracts". In subsequent seasons a lot of the gladiators were replaced if they felt as if the pay wasn't enough(it wasn't). There was also no union and inadequate medical staff on hand the first season. Most if not all of the gladiators sustained some pretty serious injuries. It's a sad story.

[@DarthDoodie]

if another reboot is made we should petition Kieran for bulk and skull. lol.

[@danielgraham1082]

1:42 they still were making episodes of it up until 2023 so it definitely would 😂

[@Syfcobra8549]

Austin saying the movie "bombed because they where not in the movie is CAP Film had a budget of 15 million and did 68 million at the box office, not to mention all the insane revenue in merch

[@takerdust]

by time that movie was released they were pretty much into their 3rd cast of characters on tv.

[@halcyonways1476]

The game an update that makes the combat play more fluently and shooting lvl a bit more forgiving. I’d recommend it. Also During the Zords or the Dinosaurs shooting em up lvls… the pink range’s dinosaur is the only vehicle that can fly. The rest of the dinosaurs are pretty much the same.

[@DanielSchmidt94521]

You'd think that as time went on the billionaire creator would have donated some of his wealth to them. What a cheap scumbag.

[@deepood6392]

Way to keep a stereotype alive haim

[@bc5cd]

Stereotypes are shaped by truths

[@ZeeBeeZB]

Makes me wish Stan Lee was the guy to bring power rangers over to the west

[@lightningsamurai4134]

Saban made billions off toy sales. They weren't all onboard. If you watch The Real Showcast Walter Emanuel Jones said that it was the 3 of them when discussing the contracts & ASJ said the same thing when doing a tribute for Thuy Trang. JDF said on No Pink Spandex Episode 103 that he couldn't afford to go on strike because he had a family to feed. AJJ said on Pink Spandex that Walter Emanuel Jones, Thuy Trang ASJ wanted Union.

[@takerdust]

Namco Bandai got a large chunk of that toy sales revenue.

[@RetrofIex]

What did you think of the new AVGN BTS video on the Glitch Gremlin episode? Analysis time?

[@chase36chase]

16:05 Yes thats so weird. why the f were they so cheap. show number 1 worldwide, and like you said, the first cast is the cast everyone remembers. the cheapness is over 9000

[@jamespetkwitz8737]

I feel like the older I get...and perhaps the longer I have been working for myself and not for someone else, The more I side with SABAN. Sure, some of this stuff is pretty petty. They should have been given toys, they should have gotten raises, or bonuses. But Seriously...Saban was going around and hustling for years trying to make Power Rangers a thing! He busted his ass making deals, shooting a ton of different pilots with his own money..or scraping together the money to film pilots to try and sell the idea of wrapping old Japanese shows with American footage to air on TV. Nobody thought it would work. They made $700 an episode..but they only filmed at most 1/2 an actual episode of material, depending on the episode. And to be honest for how much I loved the OG cast...at the time I watched it, when ASJ, Walter, and Thuy left...as a kid, I hardly noticed. At that point, Saban rightfully knew that the Suit is what was famous, not the actor. JDF and AJJ eventually overcame that..but they stuck around, and in the case of JDF he came back a lot. But that is the name of the game with this show.

[@CreepyBoris]

Crazy how we never noticed that Walter Jones was missing a finger

[@EudesConhecido]

That scottish guy from the first Star Trek series also had that... or didn't have...

[@0Aberration]

"That scottish guy from Star Trek", if only I could remember his name... 😉

[@joshtoten]

Surprised you didn't talk about Hasbro auctioning off ALL the old Power Rangers props back in November. Shit was wild. I think it all went for something close to 3 mil. Power Rangers is pretty much dead now, kinda sad to see. I think that game may be the last thing we get (aside from the comics) and... I was pretty disappointed by it. But I guess I expected it to be as polished as Shredder's Revenge was and that's my own fault lol.

[@postgotham]

I love PR (my channel has transformed into a pr interview archive recently), but it pains me to see all this basically destroyed any chance of western tokusatsu making a resurgence. At least we're still getting yearly 50-episode Kamen Rider & Super Sentai seasons....which are very niche + have to rely on fans to translate

[@tommyjones1357]

I didn’t realize Power Rangers was a publically traded company.

[@adamdravian]

If the rangers were only making $700 per episode, Bulk and Skull must've just been getting paid in free craft services

[@EudesConhecido]

The worst thing they did with Bulk and Skull was turning their antics unfunny, because in events they are really funny together.

[@Linklex7]

It’s crazy to think that while we often view Disney as the evil entertainment corporation (and they are) , they actually treated their than Saban did. Which tells you just how crooked Saban was to make Disney look like the heroes by comparison. I remember hearing decades ago how awful they treated the original cast. If you were Jason David Frank (aka Tommy) they didn’t give a crap about you. They bullied poor David Yost (aka Billy) into leaving the series once he came out as gay. It’s just insane to look into it.

[@Evil_Befall]

Frankie : It's morphing time *Red cow ranger* BImmy : It's morphing time *No time muh kids mmm hmm, yeah,uh-huh ranger*

[@reiddutchess9955]

I watched this and was bummed at how half of the rangers didn’t stick to their strike, but I also would have been super sad if every ranger got replaced. Every possible outcome sucked other than all 6 of them getting paid more for their roles.

[@EggTatoh]

They lied about half of what they was saying on here. I know they were treated badly b/c of union shit. But the other actors of the show basically said, No, we're not walking out with you. They NEVER agreed to walk out with them. JDF talked about it, David Yost talked about it, and Amy Jo. In fact, DY talked about it RECENTLY after all this was put out!!

[@EggTatoh]

I ain't discounting what they went thru btw, these companies are full of assholes, I ain't surprised they got treated like shit. I was just saying they shouldn't have lied bout saying they was all gonna walk out when that wasn't the case.

[@tziirkq]

Maybe Yost is lying? Who knows, it's a whole lot of "Who shot John."

[@MonoGrinded]

One group's word against the other I guess

[@AllardRT]

@@EggTatoh It seems to me like a case of DY, AJJ and JDF making them them think that they were going to walk out as well without giving any solid promise. Y'know, like nodding along when WJ and ASJ spoke about it, but never outright stating they are committed.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

The entire cast of M*A*S*H threatened to walk off the show unless they got a full syndication cut after they knew the show was a hit. They weren't gonna get Brady Bunched... They broke ground by doing that.

[@lurkchan]

the real shame is most seasons of super sentai are much better than any season of power rangers, especially jetman, the rendition before zyuranger where saban got all his initial footage

[@angiead]

Saban was incredibly resourceful doing that. Minimal input for maximum returns. But yeah that is pretty sketchy working practices for the cast and crew alike. Like you're not hugely surprised for season 1 but beyond that especially after that return on investment they should have been open to actually taking care of the cast and crew. That's some scummy practices right there. Jeepers. Another great clip from RCA.

[@Spudcore]

Damn. Those poor naive kids got reamed to Betsy. I'm glad they eventually made out well doing cons and that.

[@danielgraham1082]

16:27 he sold the brand to Hasbro back in 2018

[@danzig3764]

The original cast is the best!! Once they replaced Jason, Triny, and Zack I thought the show declined quite a bit! I lost a lot of interest and the show was never the same. The replacement actors didn’t have the charm as the originals.

[@MazinGo-1972]

American companies playing hot potato with this property, while Super Sentai has to change its production to circumvent piracy of the series in Asia, leading to their 50th anniversary series. It might have been an initial hit in the USA, but Mighty Morphin Power Rangers actively killed interest in the original Japanese show that made it to several non-Asian countries before Saban claimed near worldwide distribution rights and forced his version onto foreign audiences who didn't care about American high school antics. The Power Rangers brand is dead weight that has long outlived its purpose.

[@710moose8]

Say what you want but they definitely should of just took whatever. They were so young why would another 20k change your life at that time?? They literally lived off it their entire lives anyways and guess what?? Never got to see themselves in a big mainstream movie and do all the other dope shit the others got to do around that time.

[@joeyisjustso]

I'm having a party for my friend group on Saturday for this game. Using gamecube controllers to play the steam version. Iv made mmpr controller skins and got all 6 colors for the controllers. So hyped.

[@diesirae3505]

Kieran had to work with Ryan and Justin though.

[@apolloforabetterfuture4814]

Did you know Triny? From Power Rangers? Well yeah she died.

[@hansjuker8296]

If you nose, you nose!

[@HeroJournalism]

Am I the only one uncomfortable with how much Walter is dominating the table and Austin's personal space?

[@Linklex7]

No, it’s just cause Walter is the oldest, and probably was better speaker than Austin was.

[@MonoGrinded]

I just thought it was weird how close together they were sitting, like its not a big deal but a bit distracting when watching the video

[@Marc_Araujo]

Haim Saban and Shuki Levy

[@Iridium-77-g]

Saban is one of the scummiest corpo execs in media.

[@tziirkq]

My favourite episode was when they all put beans in their shoes and when they fought the monster the blue one crouched behind it and the green one pushed the monster and he fell over and then they all shouted IT'S BEANING TIME and kicked the monster mercilessly and then the pink one started crying and the blue one said what's wrong and the pink one said I just love beans so much but I must kick and they all laughed apart from the monster it was a great episode.

[@JoshAdcock-z9w]

Fun fact: my elementary school principal was roommates with the guy who played Zordon in college. I did not know he made $1000 from that entire series

[@onkkell]

another generic middling-good throwback brawler to slop onto your switch?

[@RedCowArcade]

It sucks for sure 🤣

[@Richard24777]

600 bucks

[@roneteus]

It was like Twin Peaks for kids!

[@hakaigonzalez7253]

Even as a child I had an issue with its repetitive nature. It was basically the 1st show were my baby brain noticed this and I didnt like it.

[@MazinGo-1972]

You were a lame baby then.

[@Weird_VHS]

20k in the 90s wasn’t bad

[@courve]

“Super ruthless capitalistic” and yet no one ever has uttered “super [insert anything remotely positive] socialistic or communistic, etc.

[@Mrajtheartist]

✨⭐✨💖💗💖💗💖💗💖💗💖💗💖💗💖💗✨⭐✨

[@shioq.]

They didnt get screwed. They got a job.