History StockFootageFailure / PowerRangers

* The Green Ranger's shield is noticeably bigger in the American footage. Sometimes episodes will have Tommy's suit change shields multiple times from scene to scene or even shot to shot because of this.

* Characters that weren't adapted to ''Power Rangers'' had slipped into the used stock footage. Eg. [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger Zonnette]] was seen piloting ''[[Series/PowerRangersTurbo Divazord]]'', [[Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger Shibolena]] was clearly seen when [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Red Ecliptor]] was destroyed, some reported that [[Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman Shelinda]] was briefly seen on [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Mutiny's ship]] and [[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Basco]] was briefly seen in combat in his monster form while the [[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Super Megaforce Rangers]] were fighting Mavro [[https://youtu.be/gkK_sssoZEo?t=112 as shown here]].[[note]]this was due to the fact that in the corresponding ''Gokaiger'' episode, Basco betrayed Damaras[[/note]]

** Linkara notes in his commentary for [[spoiler: the end of the Mechakara arc]] in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' that it's OK that [[spoiler: his glasses reappear]] during the morphing sequence, [[ThrowItIn as that is what happens in the show]].

* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP2HighFive High Five]]", the shot of Dora Titan disappearing at the end of the previous ''Zyuranger'' episode is played backwards to show the giant arriving in the city. However, he's inexplicably holding the space shuttle/time warp device, and Rita's palace can be seen on Earth in the background. Also, there are a few quick shots of the rangers holding the space shuttle, which in ''Power Rangers'' is a time warp device that was already destroyed.

* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP3Teamwork Teamwork]]", although Kimberly's call for her Dinozord was unused because in ''Zyuranger'' there was a kid of the week in frame that would have confused viewers, said kid can still be seen in a single wide shot.

* It's been widely noted that the scene where he first sits up is definitely Burai: though Burai's got shoulderpads in civilian form they're nowhere near big enough to be the ones from the Ranger suit, and his hair can clearly be seen moving, so not a helmet. And if we were ''really'' supposed to take a silhouetted Burai for a morphed Tommy, then the ''next'' shot should not have had an ''unmorphed'' Tommy.

* One episode has Rita capture a girl and hold her captive. Although she wears the same clothes as her Japanese counterpart, she clearly becomes Asian in brief shots. One wonders why they didn't just hire an Asian child to play the part.

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* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP2HighFive High Five]]", the shot of Dora Titan disappearing at the end of the previous ''Zyuranger'' episode is played backwards to show the giant arriving in the city. However, he's inexplicably holding the space shuttle/time warp device, and Rita's palace can be seen on Earth in the background. Also, there are a few quick shots of the rangers holding the space shuttle, which in ''Power Rangers'' is a time warp device what was already destroyed.

* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP8IEyeGuy I, Eye Guy]]," footage of Eye Guy's Sentai counterpart capturing a young Japanese girl is treated as a {{Flashback}} to the creature's previous attack on an alien world called Redna 2 (why the alien child looks exactly like a human and is obviously wearing modern Earth clothing obviously isn't addressed). However, when Billy is later blasted by Eye Guy, the child in question can briefly be seen on the ground behind him, as she was actually the VictimOfTheWeek in the original ''Zyuranger'' episode that was adapted here.

* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP8IEyeGuy I, Eye Guy]]," footage of Eye Guy's Sentai counterpart capturing a young Japanese girl is treated as a {{Flashback}} to the creature's previous attack on an alien world called Redna 2 (why the alien child looks exactly like a human and is obviously wearing modern Earth clothing obviously isn't addressed). However, when Billy is later blasted by Eye Guy, the alien girl in question can briefly be seen on the ground behind him, as she was actually the VillainOfTheWeek in the original ''Zyuranger'' episode that was adapted here.

* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP8IEyeGuy I, Eye Guy]]," footage of Eye Guy's Sentai counterpart capturing a young Japanese girl is treated as a {{Flashback}} to the creature's previous attack on an alien world called Redna 2 (why the alien child looks exactly like a human and is wearing modern Earth clothing obviously isn't addressed). However, when Billy is later blasted by Eye Guy, the alien girl in question can briefly be seen on the ground behind him, as she was actually the VillainOfTheWeek in the original ''Zyuranger'' episode that was adapted here.

* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP2HighFive High Five]]", the footage of Dora Titan disappearing from the previous ''Zyuranger'' episode is played in reverse to show the giant arriving in the city. However, he's inexplicably holding the space shuttle/time warp device, and Rita's palace can be seen on Earth in the background. Also, there are a few quick shots of the rangers holding the space shuttle, which in ''Power Rangers'' is a time warp device what was already destroyed.

* ''Super Megaforce'' used some footage of the Gokaigers changing into certain unadapted Sentai teams from the 80s and 90s.[[note]]Specifically, Dynaman, Changeman, Flashman, Maskman, Fiveman, and the core Dairangers. Flashman and Fiveman would go on to have minor roles in the comics.[[/note]] ​Gosei {{Hand Wave}}s this by calling them "new powers never before seen on this Earth".

* In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP30TheRockstar]]", the unmorphed Blue Zyuranger, Dan, is plainly visible for several seconds, in the background of a shot with the Black Ranger in the foreground.

** The same episode also has Japan as the place where the rocket was launched when clearly the show takes place in the United States, or New Zealand [[CaliforniaDoubling in terms of where it was shot]]. This was because of the unedited transition between the local shots and the pool of stock footage that was found in ''Gokaiger'' (though this is far from the first time this has happened in the franchise's history). This happens again in "The Perfect Storm", blatantly obvious that the Q-Rex was tossed into space from Japan.

* ''Super Megaforce'' used some footage of the Gokaigers changing into certain Sentai teams from the 80s.[[note]]Specifically, Dynaman, Changeman, Flashman, Maskman, Fiveman, and the core Dairangers. Flashman and Fiveman would go on to have minor roles in the comics.[[/note]] Gosei {{Hand Wave}}s this by calling them "new powers never before seen on this Earth".

* ''Super Megaforce'' used some footage of the Gokaigers changing into certain Sentai teams from the 80s.[[note]]Specifically, Dynaman, Changeman, Flashman, Maskman, and Fiveman. Flashman and Fiveman would go on to have minor roles in the comics.[[/note]] Gosei {{Hand Wave}}s this by calling them "new powers never before seen on this Earth".

* ''Super Megaforce'' managed to turn this into an art form. On top of not explaining why female yellows from the original Saban era have skirts now, since those characters were female, the producers never cared about replacing (at least ''most'' the time) stock footage of unadapted ''Sentai'' teams present in the ''Gokaiger'' stock footage. However, they seem to do it especially selectively, as it appears they wanted to remove pre-mid 80s teams due to the difference in suit materials shifting more to spandex after the first several years. In episode 13, this came as a double whammy, when before a commercial break, we see four of the suits from ''Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman'', then after the commercial break, Troy's inexplicably the red ranger from ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'', since they excluded the footage of Marvelous changing to it from the original ''Gokaiger'' episode.

** The compass symbol on Mack's suit occasionally inverts the colors of the arrows in American footage. Oddly enough, this ''only'' happens with him and never with any of the other rangers.

* Particularly noticeable when the Rangers first use their Power Weapons in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. The [[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Zyurangers]] each used their respective weapons while unmorphed, which would then transform when they morphed. Thus the American series has the Rangers inexplicably holding random weapons that are then 'powered up'.

** As pointed out by [[WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers Linkara]], an attempted [[AvertedTrope aversion]] occurs in "Legendary Battle", where some of the past Ranger teams shown are edited to remove any instance of multiple Tommys from the ''Zeo'', ''Turbo'', and ''Dino Thunder'' teams... [[SubvertedTrope only to neglect doing the same]] for CJ, Carlos, Ashley and Cassie, who now have mysterious duplicates on both the ''Turbo'' and ''in Space'' teams.