Trivia / Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger

TV Series

• Bonus Episode: Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger Dino Video is the very first "Super Video" created in association with a Super Sentai and Shogakukan publication Terebi-Kun, which are used to promote and show off aspects of the currently-airing series.
• Making Use of the Twin: Episode 35 stars twin sisters Chiharu Tomita and Akiyo Tomita as Chisato Kameda, a kid ninja who employs Self-Duplication. They would later be cast for the same trope albeit a different context in Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger.
• No Export for You: Defied. Normally, Sentai doesn't get a release outside of Asia in its original form, with the Power Rangers adaptations being released instead. But Saban actually agreed to sub-license Zyu out to Shout Factory, who has released it on DVD and also streams the show at times on their website. (Outside of the US and Canada, it's still ultimately played straight.)
• The Original Darrin: Tsutomu Tareki, the narrator of the previous Sentai series Choujin Sentai Jetman, was replaced by Tōru Ōhira, who narrated Kagaku Sentai Dynaman nine years earlier.
• Prop Recycling: The Daizyujin cockpit set is in fact the Jet Icarus cockpit set from last season, redressed only a little. Also, the glowing blue atom model orb thing appears again, this time appearing in Bandora's castle.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Zyutei Daizyuzin barely appears in show on it's own compared to the other mecha modes because the shoulder appliance made was so heavy it actually risked injuring the suit actor.
• Refitted for Sequel:
  • When it was in development under the Working Title Kyōryū Sentai Saurusman, the team was originally going to be comprised of were originally going to be comprised of 3 boys and 2 girls (Red Tyranno (male), Black Brachio (male), Green Tricera (male), Yellow Stego (female) and Blue Ptera (female)) and their secondary mech was originally going to be a Mammoth. A team with Yellow and Blue being the two females wouldn't happen until 20 years later.
  • Early concept art shows that the Zyuranger suits were originally going to have diamond patterns on the arms. This idea would latter be utilized for the Abaranger suits.
• Role Reprise: Tōru Ōhira narrated Kagaku Sentai Dynaman in 1983, and reprised that role nine years later.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Saban originally considered adapting Jetman for the first season of Mighty Morphin instead of this series; while it's likely that Zyuranger would've still made it stateside if Rangers had been a success, it's likely that only the mecha and Sixth Ranger costume would've appeared, given what happened when Gosei Sentai Dairanger was adapted into season 2 of Mighty Morphin. And of course, there's the eternal question of whether a Jetman-centric MMPR (if it was even called that!) would've caught on in the same way as the show did historically.
  • This series was initially developed under the Working Title Kyoryu Sentai Saurusman. The team was originally going to be comprised of 3 boys and 2 girls (Red Tyranno (male), Black Brachio (male), Green Tricera (male), Yellow Stego (female) and Blue Ptera (female)) and their secondary mech was originally going to be a Mammoth. A team with Yellow and Blue being the two females wouldn't happen until 20 years later, though said series is unofficial, but still.
  • Early concept art shows that the Zyuranger suits were originally going to have diamond patterns on the arms. This idea would latter be utilized for the Abaranger suits.
  • Not so much for this series but for all the ones that would follow. The introduction of a recurring Sixth Ranger was an experimental gambit which at one point was planned to be a one-off before Burai's popularity paved the way for the concept to continue in Dairanger and beyond.
• Working Title: Kyōryū Sentai Saurusman
• You Look Familiar:
  • The child actress who played Clotho shows up in the final story arc as one of the schoolkids who adopt the dinosaur eggs.
  • Hideki Fujiwara (Dan) previously played the Birdman, also named Dan, from Choujin Sentai Jetman.
  • Burai is also played by the same actor who was Change Pegasus.

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Video Game

• Fan Translation: Two different varieties exist, one that just translates everything into English, and one that replaces all of the names and terminology with their American counterparts (and also replaces the Barza sprite seen in cutscenes with Zordon, which technically makes it a ROM Hack).