History Trivia / PowerRangersTurbo

* NamesTheSame: Let's see… T.J. is friendly, easygoing, protective of his friends, the leader, his first initial stands for Theodore, the "J" part is an EmbarrassingMiddleName and instead goes by his initials. [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} Sounds familiar, huh?]]

* CreativeDifferences: There was a dispute between Jonathan Tzachor and story editor Doug Sloan about the tone of the series - the former wanted to embrace the comedic elements of the source material, and the latter wanted to make a serious story. Judd Lynn's thoughts were similar to those of Tzachor's, but suppose that Sloan had been on board with playing up the comedic elements from the get-go or Judd Lynn had been on board since day 1. What would the season have turned out like then?

* TheOtherDarrin: Divatox. She was portrayed by Hilary Shepard Turner in TheMovie, but while she was on maternity leave, she was subsequently replaced by Carol Hoyt in the television series for the first half of the series. During the second half of the season, Turner reprised her role, continuing well enough into ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''.
** The change in actresses between the film and the show also brought about a change in costume and personality. Divatox's costume in the film was much more revealing and exposed a lot of cleavage, while her costume in the show was a little more covered up. Hoyt's Divatox was more calculating and evil while Turner portrayed Divatox as more of a hysterical diva.

** John [=McGee=] played Adam's boss Mr. Peabody in "Glyph Hanger" before he portray General Norquist for the season final plus for three episodes in the succeeding season.

* FollowTheLeader: The decision to have a twelve-year old as a Power Ranger was made due to [[Creator/SabanEntertainment Saban's]] success with ''Series/BigBadBeetleborgs''.

* TroubledProduction: Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''[='=]s slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''[='=]s more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe MoodWhiplash, like Divatox planting bombs that the Rangers needed to deactivate before they blow up and kill people while having goofy concepts like Tommy reading the new zords' instruction manual. Eventually Doug Sloan left and was replaced with Judd Lynn right when it came time to jettison the old cast (minus Justin) and replace them with a new cast. As Judd Lynn was in agreement on playing closer to ''Carranger''[='=]s comedy, the product became a lot more cohesive in the show's second half.

** Creator/TonyOliver didn’t care for the series moving away from the campy "live-action cartoon" direction that he enjoyed about it when Lynn took the reigns. He felt the show was getting too grounded and moved on to produce some direct-to-video projects for Saban. He was also against the concept of having a preteen kid (Justin) be a ranger as he felt it too pandering. Most fans agree on the latter, but considering the former led the franchise going on to what is now the present day…

** Creator/TonyOliver didn’t care for the series moving away from the campy "live-action cartoon" direction that he enjoyed about it when Lynn took the reigns. He felt the show was getting too grounded and moved on to produce some direct-to-video projects for Saban.

!!'''General Trivia''':
* ''Chase into Space'' is the second time that footage from [[Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger the sentai]] [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace adapted into the following Power Rangers series]] is used in the previous one - the first being the abandoned theater shot from "The Wedding" in season 2 of ''Mighty Morphin'', which was from ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''. [[note]]"The Wedding" was not the finale of season 2 of ''Mighty Morphin''[[/note]]. The shuttle launch footage in question would get used a second time in episode 4 of ''Lightspeed Rescue''.

!!'''Trope related trivia''':

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: As with ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'', ''Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie'' is currently owned by {{Creator/Disney}} due to their buying out [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] in March 2019.

* ShootTheMoney: The morphing sequence introduced for the first five Turbo Ranger in the movie is pretty much the most advanced morphing sequences in both ''Power Rangers'' and ''Super Sentai'' at that point and likely the most expensive. Considering Saban's propensity for cheapness, it's no surprise it got reused in the series. Unfortunately, it was usually used in its complete form (with the Ranger yelling "(Vehicle's name), Full Power!" and the suit coming on in stages before a CG helmet formed on their head), taking up time a movie could spare but not a half-hour TV episode and throwing and dragging on during what should be the episode's big action moment. The production team seemed to learned their lesson because when the 2nd set of Turbo Rangers get THEIR morphing sequence, it's less flashy but also quicker. Later seasons would make better looking morphs without dragging out the length.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** There were originally plans for Bulk and Skull to get their own ''Series/FawltyTowers''-esque spin-off series, where they run a hotel with a Mexican ElvisImpersonator called "El Vez". This explains why both Paul Schrier and Jason Narvy left the series so that the producers could add chimpanzees to the show roster (with Schrier and Narvy still providing voices, though).
** Somewhere exists a directors cut of the Turbo movie. Around forty minutes of footage cut from the final product...
*** The fifth revision of the script gave Justin a lot more motivation, explained the Turbo powers, explained why after they didn't pass the powers off to someone else. Oh sure, there are still some {{plot hole}}s but it mostly patched them all up...
** Originally only Creator/JasonDavidFrank was supposed to leave, having expressed interest in leaving since Zeo. Saban convinced him to stay through the first half of Turbo to let them write out his character properly while they go look for his replacement. Next thing you know, Catherine Sutherland announced that she planned on leaving and moving on to other projects as well; and so, the writers thought of perhaps having Creator/JohnnyYongBosch and Nakia Burrise stay until the end of ''Turbo'' with their characters serving as the more seasoned, veteran Rangers (along with Blake Foster's character) who help out the two new team members and with either one of them becoming the leader (meaning that we could have had 6 Red Rangers up to date who were not leaders if this had happened back then). Eventually, during production of the first half of Turbo, the executives decided to get rid of all the veteran Rangers except for Justin, much to the shock of Bosch and Burrise (as with Foster, who was very sad to see all of them leave at once; he eventually grew to be just as fond of his newer cast mates though -- but, that's another story) who found out about it through an ad on a newspaper -- calling for auditions to fill in 4 Ranger spots: Red, Pink, Yellow, and Green -- that someone from the hair and makeup department had shown them. Ouch...
** Divatox was supposed to be revealed as Dimitria's twin sister--see AbortedArc on the main page.
** In an podcast interview with a fansite in 2014, Hilary Shepard Turner revealed that Divatox was originally written with Creator/GraceJones in mind.

'''General Trivia''':

'''Trope related trivia''':

* TroubledProduction:
** Producer Jonathan Tzachor wanted to embrace the source footage ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''[='=]s slapstick comedy and then story editor Doug Sloan wanted to continue ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''[='=]s more serious bent of the franchise growing up. This led to severe mood whiplash, like a villain planting bombs that Rangers needed to deactivate before they blew up and kill people while having goofy concepts like Tommy reading the new zords' instruction manual. Eventually Doug Sloan left and was replaced with Judd Lynn right when it came time to jettison the old cast (minus Justin) and replace them with a new cast. As Judd Lynn was in agreement on playing closer to ''Carranger''[='=]s comedy, the product became a lot more cohesive in the show's second half.

* YouLookFamiliar: The uncredited actor who played one of the drag racers, Robert, in "Built for Speed", also appeared in a later episode, "The Rival Rangers", as a new school student called Bobby.