Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Far shot exterior of Rita's Lunar Palace.

Recycled.

Close, slow pan up the main tower on Rita's Lunar Palace, stopping at the spinning globe.

Starting just after the "Bandra's Palace" sign is out of view, of course.

Rita crosses along empty balcony as the pendulum swings.

Rita happily talks over the side of the balcony.

Static shot of Earth from the Lunar surface.

Recycled. Fades to black.

Aerial view of the Youth Center.

Fades in from black. Fades into next shot.

Slow zoom in on the Youth Center sign as people enter building.

Recycled, shortened. Fades in from prior shot.

Zordon talks to our far left.

Zordon talks to our left a little less.

Rita turns around as camera pans from her, our right across balcony, to the image of the Earth at its edge.

Zoom out from small shuttle to Baboo & Squatt, the former smacking the latter in the head.

Rita standing in front of her pendulum looks from our right to nearly straight on and "thinks that's okay!"

Baboo, in workshop, motions hands then makes flapping gestures with them while talking.

Squatt, in workshop, points at nose, then twice the top of his head, while talking.

Baboo, in workshop, makes flapping gestures with hands, then motions hands, while talking.

Yes, it's that prior shot played in reverse.

Lunar Palace exterior, sharp zoom onto the upper tower.

Rita walks into workshop as Finster is working on Bones mold, talks to him, then turns to table of other molds.

Rita turns to table of various monster molds, calling them "the babies", as Finster works on Bones and Baboo & Squatt squabble in background.

Shot cuts before molds can start moving, since it was a crappy effect to begin with.

Pan left across close up of monster molds, four of them apparently alive.

Rita laughs and bats her eyelashes as she puts her hand out under the arms of the drumming mold.

Finster turns to look then goes back to working on Bones mold while talking.

Close up of Rita's feet as she steps on clay, taking it with her as she walks off in front of living molds on floor.

Rita approaches Finster, happily gesturing and talking to him as he finally picks up Bones mold and takes it off, Baboo & Squatt continuing their fight in the back.

Rita watches as Finster turns wheel, opening Monstermatic door, then prepares to place down Bones mold.

Finster places Bones mold onto conveyer belt, then turns wheel, sending it inside Monstermatic, as Rita smiles on.

Bones mold enters Monstermatic, then door closes.

Finster grips lever, pulls, then pushes back up.

Close up of Monstermatic exhaust pipe spewing smoke.

Monstermatic rumbles, pipe spewing smoke, as camera pans up the shaking exit tube.

Rita heads over to Monstermatic exit tube, Finster behind her, anxiously awaiting before bright light shoots out.

Baboo and Squatt turn from balcony, with the latter getting bonked on the head by pendulum.

As smoke clears, Bones steps out from under exit tube, thumping fist to chest.

Zoom out from Bones' head as he takes it off and holds it at chest level.

Cuts before Japanese writing can appear.

Finster rubs chin and ponders aloud.

Rita turns away from Bones, who puts head back on, then she walks out of workshop, onto steps, toward Squatt & Baboo, as Goldar walks up.

Zoom out from golden control box as Baboo picks it up and faces Rita, who walks in front of small Shuttle.

Close shot of Rita laughing with her mouth really wide.

Baboo messes with control box, leading to a sharp zoom in on Squatt, who plugs ears and closes eyes behind Shuttle.

Baboo nods head with a smile before reaching for control box.

Close up on Baboo's hand as he grips control box's stick forth.

Close up on Shuttle's main engines as they ignite.

Shuttle soars off balcony as Rita smiles, Squatt waves, and Baboo operates.

Shuttle flies through space toward Earth.

Rita walks up to Repulsascope, looks in it, looks out, then looks in again while adjusting it.

Slow zoom, within Repulsascope, in on cardboard cutout of Earth.

Given crosshairs in US. Shot fades into next one.

Slow zoom, within Repulsascope, in on close up of planetary view of Tokyo... I mean, Angel Grove.

Given crosshairs in US. Shot fades in from prior shot and out into next one.

Repulsascope aerial view of busy downtown LA... I mean, Angel Grove.

In Repulsascope vision with crosshairs. Shot fades in from prior shot.

Repulsascope is somehow able to follow Shuttle perfectly as it speeds down the road.

Given crosshairs in US.

Bunch of Asians gather around a crummy looking TV in a store window to see footage of child size Shuttle.

Why, here's what they were watching! It's child size Shuttle flying down the road, as seen on TV.

People on sidewalk are amazed by smoke-spewing kiddie Shuttle driving cheaply in the middle of the wrong side of the road, as it turns across crosswalk.

Zoom in on Shuttle as it drives down the pavement.

Zoom out from Shuttle as it drives further down the street, riding the center line as a commuter train passes up ahead.

Another close up of Shuttle driving down pavement.

Shuttle POV of the drive, narrowly avoiding getting flattened by two vehicles on the road.

The Lunar Palace balcony, with Rita standing at the front, smiling as her four Evil Space Aliens, lined up in a row behind her, are visibly excited by what they see going on planetside.

Side angle of Shuttle driving down the road, passing cars narrowly on their left.

Another damn zoom in on Shuttle driving down the pavement.

POV shot of Shuttle zooming through construction site full of Asians.

Shuttle soars across and over the camera.

A pair of Asian construction works stumble as Shuttle makes a pathetic attempt at hovering on its trip.

By popular demand, yet another shot of the Shuttle driving down the pavement!

POV shot of Shuttle driving on the sidewalk, with Asian people frozen in terror, including a pair of flashers.

Static shot of downtown LA/Angel Grove as Time Warp is unleashed atop the Library Tower.

Could be original footage, but I doubt it. Time Warp effect added.

Close-up shot of Zordon talking straight on, deviating his gaze just a little to our left briefly.

Could be recycled from ep 1.

Close-up shot of Alpha flicking switch on console, then pressing button.

From same shoot as similar shot in MMPR 101, though different buttons pressed.

Rita is looking in scope, looks out agape then turns around.

Recycled.

Rita turns around and talks to Goldar while Squatt & Baboo mess around with remote.

Recycled.

Bones teleports out of workshop with purple streaks.

Bones drops onto the ground in a smoking heap of bones.

Bones' smokey bones float up and re-form into his skeleton.

CU of Zordon talking at us.

Same as last shot but shortened?!

Bones leaps into air and stabs sword forth.

Altered to fit in Viewing Globe.

Bones gestures sword and hand before shooting eyeball beams of energy.

Altered to fit in Viewing Globe.

Explosion of sparks.

Altered to fit in Viewing Globe. Actually from an attack against Bones by unmorphed Blue & Black.

Bones readies sword and dashes ahead.

Altered to fit in Viewing Globe.

Bones drops down from upper scaffolding with sword drawn.

Altered to fit in Viewing Globe.

Bones rides horsey on carousel, then makes himself invisible to likely avoid embarrassment.

Altered to fit in Viewing Globe.

CU of Zordon talking at us, raising his eyebrows early on and keeping them that way.

Column blink count: lower is 5 and upper is 4.

MMPR 101.

The full standard original morphing sequence.

Recycled, but shortened slightly from the first use. Fades into Red helmet shot.

Zoom out from Red Ranger's helmet as team stands fully morphed, then briefly give a small pose that sends off energy.

Red helmet formation shot is directly connected to the start, since it comes from here.

Red Ranger poses.

Unlike source, only one gesture is used per Ranger instead of two.

Black Ranger poses.

Unlike source, only one gesture is used per Ranger instead of two.

Blue Ranger poses.

Unlike source, only one gesture is used per Ranger instead of two.

Yellow Ranger poses.

Unlike source, only one gesture is used per Ranger instead of two.

Pink Ranger poses.

Unlike source, only one gesture is used per Ranger instead of two.

Full team poses in front of boat rocking ride.

Shorter than source.

Bones takes off his head and tosses it skyward as he turns invisible.

Bones' head heads up.

Rangers gather underneath floating head, looking up at us.

Bones' floating head spins around.

Initial freeze in source is cut.

Screen spins around as Rangers stagger about on the cement below the head.

Scene is given an added psychedelic trailing effect to fit the Time Warp.

Red Ranger flips into Time Warp dimension, landing on his back.

Scene is given an added psychedelic trailing effect to fit the Time Warp.

Bones' floating head spins around some more.

Blue & Black Rangers flip into Time Warp dimension, landing in front of Red.

Scene is given an added psychedelic trailing effect to fit the Time Warp.

Bones' floating head spins around one last time.

Pink & Yellow Rangers flip into Time Warp dimension, landing in front of Red, Blue and Black.

Scene is given an added psychedelic trailing effect to fit the Time Warp.

Rangers recover to their feet in dimension, zoom in on Red, who spots something.

Bones leaps across screen to our left, slashing sparkily into Rangers on his way by.

He went both ways in source.

Zoom out from Bones as he lands and turns to face recovering Rangers.

Bones wields his green bladed sword.

Close up of Red Ranger unholstering his Blade Blaster.

Close up of Red Ranger's Blade Blaster extending into Saber Mode.

All five Rangers ready their Blade Blaster Sabers then charge ahead.

A pair of Skeleton Warriors leap over each of Bones' shoulders.

Cuts out first two and cheap "appear out of nowhere" effects.

Rangers bound into battle against Skeleton Warriors.

Zoom in on Squatt pushing over giant green bell pepper and looking around the dimension.

Red Ranger and Bones go blade to blade.

Bones slashes Red Ranger in the chest sparkily.

Squatt pulls a bomb out of his bag and walks off as Baboo emerges behind him.

Black and Yellow Rangers battle the boney boys.

Pink and Blue Rangers flip into action against the marrow marauders.

Squatt places bomb in tree beside Shuttle.

Squatt follows the long fuse of the bomb and once at the end, is joined by Baboo, who pulls a box of matches out of his pal's pouch.

Baboo lights fuse, which Squatt holds until it burns his hand.

Fuse burns up at a quick pace as camera follows along.

Cuts off before we can see the tree or shuttle.

Squatt hops up and down happily, as Baboo applauds excitedly.

As fuse burns in the foreground, Pink & Blue Rangers cease fighting the Skeleton Crew as they notice it, with Red soon joining.

Red Ranger reaches out in protest.

Bones swings sword around and aims it downward.

Close up of Bones' sword stabbing into the ground and causing a bursting.

Mist covered ground soon breaks open a fault quakingly.

Five Rangers are knocked off their feet by the quaking, with Red recovering into a jump.

Red Ranger leaps through the dark air with blade drawn.

Red Ranger lands in combat with Bones, locking blades and holding him in place as he turns and calls his teammates.

Close up of Black Ranger snapping Blade Blaster around into blaster mode.

Four Rangers fire Blade Blasters.

Bones is struck by four red beams, Red Ranger rolls out of the way as the monster explodes.

Bones tumbles into a pile of bones.

Four Rangers holster their Blade Blasters.

Bones pulls himself back together.

Four Rangers look stunned, zoom in sharply on Blue who gestures and leaps.

Blue Ranger jumps through the dark air with fist out.

Blue Ranger swoops by Bones, grabbing his head before it can reconnect with the body, leaving it reaching at empty neck stump.

Blue Ranger rolls to a landing, wraps cape around Bones' head, then tosses it.

Yellow Ranger catches the wrapped head and gives a thumbs up.

Four rejects from a Day of the Dead festival charge toward us.

Yellow Ranger dashes through the four Lovely Boners, slashing sparkily each one with her Blade Blaster.

Pile of bones drop to the foggy ground.

Yellow Ranger reaches edge of cavern, spikes Bones' wrapped head into it.

Bones' cranium plummets further down.

Bones' noggin drops through reddish mist at the bottom of the crevasse, causing an explosion.

Bones' body collapses onto its back and explodes brightly into a swell of sparks.

Lunar Palace exterior, quick zoom onto tower area.

Not the same as earlier one, as this focuses on more of tower than globe.

Rita walks onto balcony from our left side and stands in front of cardboard cut-out of Earth.

Rita looks at us while laughing.

Recycled.

Storm clouds race at us on the horizon, blue lighting erupting amid.

Giant materializes in the middle of the city, alongside the skyscraper-straddling Lunar Palace.

Footage plays in reverse of the source.

Giant's hand smashes through building wall.

Red Ranger is snatched by Giant's hand.

Slowed down.

Squatt hops up and down happily, as Baboo applauds excitedly.

Recycled.

Red Ranger is lifted out of Time Warp dimension by Giant as the other Rangers rush to the spot he was taken from.

Blue & Pink Rangers approach torn area of wall just as Giant peeks inside.

Red Ranger struggles in Giant's hand.

Fuse burns up at a quick pace as camera follows along.

Recycled.

Squatt and Baboo flee from the Time Warp dimension.

Kablooey!

Source is the explosion that precedes the return of the Dragonzord.

Kaboomy!

Source is the explosion that precedes the return of the Megazord.

Four Rangers are looking upward as bomb behind them explodes sparkily.

Pink, Black and Yellow Rangers are flipped through the air.

Scene is given an added psychedelic trailing effect to fit the Time Warp and footage slowed a little.

Blue & Pink Rangers flail about as they fall over the side of a cliff.

Scene is given an added psychedelic trailing effect to fit the Time Warp.

Yellow & Black Rangers flail about as they fall over the side of a cliff.

Scene is given an added psychedelic trailing effect to fit the Time Warp.

Four Rangers hit the ground in a quarry, with Black first to recover.

Scene is given an added psychedelic trailing effect to fit the Time Warp.

Red Ranger continues his futile struggle in Giant's hand.

Far shot of Rangers gathering below the Red-holding Giant.

Giant stamps down his foot as camera pans up to show him gripping Red.

Red struggles helplessly.

Recycled, but longer than prior shot.

Close up of Giant menacing action figure-looking Red Ranger with his left hand.

Red reaches down and pulls out Blade Blaster then fires a red beam into Giant's face.

Upward shot of Giant holding Red Ranger in his hand.

Recycled without pan, so as to censor shot of Giant's eye bursting with flames.

Red Ranger, with Blaster, finally shakes loose of the distracted Giant's grip.

Red Ranger drops out of Giant's hand and falls away from him.

Red Ranger falls through the air, arms stretched out, kinda Superman style.

Giant pulls out his sword and slashes it downward.

Huge sword narrow avoids chopping Rangers into bits as they roll away from it.

Having failed with the sword, Giant proceeds to start stomping his feet toward the teens.

Red Ranger reaches skyward, summoning his Zord.

Close up of ground breaking open to reveal bursting flames within a fault line.

Same thing, only a little farther away from the Earthquake.

Crack in the ground spreads open, releasing a fireball, shown from within the crack.

Tyrannosaurus Dinozord's head slowly rises from the molten red ground.

Recycled.

Close up of Tyrannosaurus Dinozord's hands as it rises up.

Close up of Tyrannosaurus Dinozord's knees as it rises up.

Tyrannosaurus Dinozord rises up above flames and smoke, facing us.

Recycled, but since it's sourced from Zyu #2, it cuts short to avoid Japanese writing.

Five Rangers get a closer look as the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord stands in the near distance.

Closer view of what they were looking at, the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord standing and growling while atop the crimson mist.

Red Ranger, with Blue Ranger behind him, looks upward, steps ahead a little and nods head.

Shortened from source to try to ignore Blue holding Shuttle.

Tyrannosaurus Dinozord leans down, chomping and rocking side to side a little.

Red Ranger, looking straight up, gestures fist then leaps skyward.

Red Ranger leaps up through the sky.

Recycled.

Red Ranger continues leaping up, passing beneath Tyrannosaurus' jaw.

Recycled.

Red Ranger lands on top of Tyrannosaurus' head then drops inside.

Recycled.

Red Ranger drops into his cockpit seat, gestures arm then looks down to our right

Recycled.

Red slaps his left hand down on palm activator.

Recycled.

Display of Red Ranger's helmet lights up.

Recycled.

Red slaps his right hand down on other palm activator.

Recycled.

Console display of Red helmet and Red Zord face shoot energy to the TRex symbol at the top which glows brightly.

Recycled.

Red sits in cockpit, moving head and operating controls out of frame.

Zoom out from T-Rex as Giant steps into the foreground to face him.

Close up of Giant gesturing arms then marching forth.

Pan up from Giant's feet as he lumbers onward in quarry.

T-Rex also lumbers toward camera in quarry.

Giant and T-Rex collide into a struggle of grips, with the camera panning underneath the Dinozord and back to its tail.

Giant staggers back then unsheathes sword and rushes forth.

Giant slashes T-Rex three times in the chest.

Pan up from the smoking body of the T-Rex, which rages and swing around.

Close shot of T-Rex's tail whipping about.

Giant gets smashed sparkily in the chest by T-Rex's tail.

T-Rex bends over in the other direction this time..

Giant gets smashed sparkily in the smoking-chest by T-Rex's tail again, knocking him away.

Giant tumbles for ya, but rolls back to his feet.

Tyrannosaurus leans forward and marches into action.

Giant tries to slash Tyrannosaurus with his sword, but the Zord blocks it .

Close up of Red Ranger in cockpit, looking down to the side at his teammates on the ground before resuming focused operation.

T-Rex grapples Giant's right arm and pins him in front of him.

Black Ranger responds to Red, gesturing arm and giving those behind him a thumbs up.

Source went on longer to show whole team, but since Blue had the Shuttle they were trying to ignore...

Tyrannosaurus leaps up into the air before Giant.

Why was the shot of the T-Rex's tail hitting ground to aid in lifting the Zord up cut out? No idea.

Close up as T-Rex kicks Giant in the chest with both feet.

Giant staggers back as T-Rex remains in the air.

Giant flips repeatedly backward through the air, body smoking.

Giant tumbles for ya again, but takes a little longer to get back up, smoking and stagger with his blade drawn.

Close up in cockpit, Red Ranger makes a fist then presses controls.

Cockpit console palm control switch on the left hand is slid to the right.

T-Rex, still floating in the air, spreads out his arms and legs, before returning to the regular position and finally lowering to the ground.

Close up of T-Rex's feet as they pound down against the ground, kicking up dust.

T-Rex spreads arms and looks directly at the ground.

The earth shoots out a rolling wave of erupting dirt in the ground in front of the T-Rex

Why was the shot of T-Rex firing the blast into the ground cut? No clue.

Giant is caught up amid the flying boulders, rocks, dirt, and wind

Close up as Giant literally turns to dust and blows away in the wind!

Pile of rocks are disturbed by the wind.

Zoom in across the settling dirt wind on Tyrannosaurus Dinozord as it fidgets about.

Upward angle of T-Rex leaning down a little, chomping and opening hands .

Less excited in this shot than earlier similar looking one.

Red Ranger exits cockpit and stands atop Tyrannosaurus Dinozord's head, pumping fist into the sky as the Zord opens and closes jaw .

Rita looks out from Repulsascope in anger, camera zooms out and she kicks large globe of Earth into Baboo & Squatt, knocking them down.

Rita puts her hand to her head, wincing and whining about her headache.

Squatt clasps head in pain while Baboo cowers behind the globe they were hit with.