Trivia / Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue

• Banned in China: "Go Volcanic" was not shown on the UK Fox Kids channel, due to the appearance of a realistic firearm. (Weirdly, it wasn't skipped by ITV when they broadcast it as part of their GMTV morning show.)
• Cast the Runner-Up: Rhett Fisher (Ryan/Titanium Ranger) originally auditioned for the role of Carter. Interesting if you think about how, in the show, Carter originally tried to use the Titanium Ranger powers, but couldn't handle it.
• Defictionalization: Bandai released interactive CD-ROM minigames called "Datazords" with action figures of each ranger, to give the impression of using computers from the show.
• In Memoriam: The episode "The Fifth Crystal" was dedicated to the memory of Bob Manahan, who voiced the original Power Rangers' mentor Zordon from after the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers episode "The Green Candle" to the character's death in the finale of Power Rangers in Space.
• Late Export for You: Lightspeed Rescue didn't reach Japan until March 2003, three years after its American premiere.
• No Dub for You: Only 24 episodes made it to the 2003 Japanese-dubbed broadcast on Super Channel.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Jennifer Burns takes over the role of Trakeena from Amy Miller in the Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue crossover, due to Miller's disgust with her contract resulting in her departure partway through filming her scenes.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub:
    • Carlos Águila replaced Jinxer's usual voice actor, Luis Alfonso Padilla, in "Strength of the Sun".
    • For the final four episodes, Bansheera was voiced by Isabel Romo instead of Rebeca Manríquez.
• The Other Marty: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Víctor Delgado originally voiced Loki in "Operation Lightspeed". For the rest of the series, he is voiced by Jorge Ornelas.
• Promoted Fanboy: Rhett Fisher was a fan of Power Rangers that had actually auditioned for the show twice before landing the part of Ryan.
• Prop Recycling:
  • The first monster the Rangers fight, Ghouligan, seems to have been Psycho Red's monster form. The monster version of the cobra that Ryan fights to get rid of the cobra tattoo on his back is Snizard from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers season 1, repainted, sans Zapper Apple, and given a cobra hood. Several previous monsters, most obviously Eye Guy from Season 1 of MMPR, can also be seen among the monsters attacking Bansheera when she falls into the Shadow World in the last episode.^note Which implies that the Shadow World is the final resting place for the monsters and villains.
  • Also, quite a few of the control panels and screens around the Aquabase and in the Max Solarzord's cockpit were recycled from the Astro Megaship's bridge set and/or the Terra Venture sets, as was the elevator in the Aquabase set.
  • In another episode, the Aquabase model used for the exterior shots is seen as an in-universe model, to display where a rockslide had disabled several security cameras.
  • The Train Bay model seen in US footage emerging from the Aquabase is actually the (unreleased in the US) Bay Area 55 playset from the GoGoFive toyline.
  • If you look closely in the lab area of the Aquabase, the Power Boxes from Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie can be seen (with Lightspeed symbols slapped on them) in the background. Mint, the Robot Buddy from GoGoV, is also seen a few times hanging around in the transport bay (though he doesn't do or say anything; most likely the Japanese producers had shipped the prop to Saban in the US and they put it on the set for lack of anything else to do with it).
• Sequel Gap: The video game is the first Power Rangers game since Power Rangers Zeo: Battle Racers in 1996, four years prior.
• Troubled Production: While the show overall didn't seem to suffer massive issues, the Lost Galaxy team up ran into more than enough problems to compensate. On top of drawing heavily on Sentai footage from the counterpart team-up special, which is rarely done for any team-up, given the diverging plots between Power Rangers and Super Sentai, it was originally released as a video tie-in for McDonald's, explaining why the episode focused more on a child actor than, say, the two teams teaming up. After Amy Miller learned that the contract would only pay her for one of two episodes, she left the series once and for all, and the role was recast with Jennifer Burns. While he remained for filming, some of Danny Slavin's lines were looped at points due to dissatisfaction with the production.
• Underage Casting: Ron Roggé (who played Captain Mitchell) was only 31 when the series began airing, making him only 12 years older than his onscreen children played by Alison MacInnis (Dana) and Rhett Fisher (Ryan).
• What Could Have Been: Enough for its own page.
• You Look Familiar: Marina's actress, Kamera Walton, had previously voiced Psycho Yellow (and played her when the Psycho Rangers took up human appearances).

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