Fun fact: Ryan was supposed to originally be the Gold Ranger in Power Rangers Zeo. It was a way of connecting the two series together and the actor even voiced the Gold Ranger for the first episodes he appeared.
VR Troopers is an adaptation of 3 separate unrelated seasons of the long dead baby brother series of Masked Rider and Super Sentai, (the franchise that became Power Rangers in the West.) The source material is significantly darker in tone and themes, I recommend you check it out.
Originally a vehicle for former Green Ranger Jason David Frank, a short pilot using footage from the Metal Heroes series Chōjinki Metalder called Cybertron was filmed with him alone. However, his immense popularity as Tommy led to Saban deciding to pull him back to Rangers. As such he switched places with Brad Hawkins (who was originally supposed to be the White Ranger during the second season of MMPR,) who became Ryan Steele. This alone led them to believe the show was beyond hope, but because of commitments to broadcasters, they had to press on. Since they didn't have Frank's Green Ranger star power to support the show, they decided to expand it, buying up a second Metal Heroes series, Jikuu Senshi Spielban, hired two more actors, and made the show about a trio. Since the two series were completely unrelated, the only footage they had off all three Troopers together and morphed were things they filmed themselves, which they didn't have the time or budget to do a lot of, so the majority of episodes involved finding new and unique ways to split Ryan away from Kaitlyn and J.B. While filming the show, they noticed several new problems. Alongside the fact that the Metal Heroes footage was almost a decade old (unlike Sentai footage, which is never more than a year or two old, Metalder and Spielban were from 1987 and 1986), the shows in question also used a lot of unmorphed battles, meaning the usable footage was thin to begin with. Stock Footage was abused, with the same scenes of a drill driving through the wall of an underground lab seeming to be in almost every episode. Despite all this, the show was a hit and a second season was ordered. The second season had the Metalder footage (Ryan's armor) run out fast, so they had him get an upgrade to new armor, this time from Space Sheriff Shaider, an even older series (1984). The second season limped along with its endlessly repeated Stock Footage, until, by the end of the season, both Shaider and Spielban footage had run dry. Per producer Robert Hughes, bad toy sales were the defining factor in Saban giving up on Troopers and instead they bought and turned a much more recent Metal Heroes show, Juukou B-Fighter, into Big Bad Beetleborgs.
Ultraman, a super hero show made by the same guy who made Godzilla special effects, was started in the late 60's After Ultraman was a hit Tokusatsu (special effects shows) became a big thing. After Ultraman, Kamen Rider (masked rider) was the next big hit in the early 70's, and then about 5 years later the first Super Sentai show took off, and loosely all the Super Sentai are still part of the same universe, and once in a while all 3 shows have now and again crossed over as they are now on the same channel in Japan.
16:40 That show was a bad adaptation of Kamen Rider RX Black. The form you're talking about is Blue Agony. That Bio-gel form is near unbeatable. That's more agile, but it has less armor.
@@Devilsblight86 very accrute how do you fuck up something as amazing as a group of space pirates trying to find the greatest treasure and in doing so help save the world and meet the previous Super Sentais earning their Respect and all that ...... Instead they decided to make it the continuation of megaforce probably the worst way to go
I actually kinda liked Battle Borgs as a kid. Didn't remember the name until today though. Mystic Knights was also a thing. Don't remember much though.
Saban’s masked rider is an awful adaptation of the sequel to Toei’s Masked Rider Black, taking the lighter tone of Black RX and removing anything good about it, I recommend you check it out on your own time.
@@justabitrandom1128 I wouldn't say "any" Hesei. Kiva, Decade, and half of Hibiki are pure garbage, and there are some other meh ones as well. Personal favorite is Fourze.
Also it had a kickass theme song ~WAKE UP! WAKE UP wake up wake up...~ Personally my favorite one was OOO, and am currently enjoying Zero-One right now actually!
Fun fact like with power rangers this was based on a Japanese series. Only this time it's 3 different shows from the Metal Heroes Series. There's Choujinki Metalder, where Ryan's first suit, Grimlord, and some of the monsters come from. Ziku Sebshi Spielvan, where JB and Kaitlin's suits, the spaceship and tank, the Skugs and other monsters come from. And finally Uchu Keiji Shaider, where Ryan's new suit and the new main villain comes from. That's why we don't really see all three of them fight together, cause they're from separate shows.
Yes well put.this video got me thinking of that episode specifically cuz well that's what got me hooked on anything saban in the 1st place was the cheesiness.
JonTron made a video on that dumpster fire?! We watched that in Civics before Christmas break, and I have never seen a Christmas comedy so bad, unfunny, and totalitarian in my life
I know this video is from a while ago but I’m a nerd and I wish to spread some of my dumb “knowledge.” So Masked Rider was one of the last kamen rider shows like how power rangers has many seasons with new characters. In japan it was known as Kamen Rider (means the same as masked rider). It came out before super sentai and the whole concept of super sentai was what if one of these seasons of kamen rider was a team of riders but eventually became sentai. Kamen rider had a couple movies in the 90s after its last tv show ended after the main creator’s death which was known as the showa era because of the president’s last name but in 2000 and ever since then the show has been airing new seasons with 2019 marking the last of the heisei era. With a new president of the company now it is the Reiwa era with Kamen Rider Zero One and it’s awesome. In Japan sentai is almost always on the face of cancellation but it never happens while Kamen Rider no matter what they do now seems to always popular. Welp sorry for the long comment even though you guys probably won’t see it. Peace
Now that I think of it, I have heard some people complain about Fallen Order ripping off Jedi Knight, just because the main character's name starts with the same letters as Kyle Katarn
Hey Renegades. Since it is the Christmas season, you guys need to react to a Nostalgia Critic Christmas review. This year... Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe In Santa. Hope you have a blast with this one 😊
Masked rider or Kamen rider barely lasted here in the west if I remember but honestly I've watched a bunch of the subbed Kamen rider series and it's pretty too it's ends up more about characters and they didn't have giant robot fights but they did have pretty awesome fight choreography for people fighting each other. A lot of them are even on youtube I suggest Kamen rider gaim everyone's powers are based off of fruits lmao.
Anyone else remember the Saban show Mystic Knights? I'm pretty sure that was the only Saban series made that didn't use stock footage from Japanese shows. From what I remember, it was pretty epic! Sucks it only lasted one season, though.
It must be a southern thing my friend's dad made him a toy rifle out of wood and my dad made me a keyblade out of wood because we couldn't afford to but them."
Pausing during the intro to say that while I get why you’d say the other shows were “knock-offs” of Power Rangers, that’s both right and wrong. It’s wrong in that each series (Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, whatever I might be forgetting) are actually adapted from other Japanese shows in the tokusatsu genre like how Power Rangers was adapted from Super Sentai. However you’re still right in that the way they were adapted basically made the adaptations PR ripoffs- since they basically used the formula they established with PR to adapt the other shows.
I'm sad to tell you, but Hawken has been shut down some time ago.. at leat on PC, you can still play it on PS4 tho.. or you can play Mechwarrior Online on PC, that one's good too
I would definitely recommend Hawken to anybody out there who wants to play something that's a hundred times better than war robots, but be warned though, it can be pay-to-win with the special credits that they have so you can buy all the Mechs and all the upgrades, But the matchmaking should prevent you from getting lobbied with OP players. Really fun game
JonTron: We need a 'Julius Combs, 10 Hours Dead and Emotionless Compilation
IT EXISTS
is it bad that i watched that after seeing this... its the same image over and over again
what is my life rn
Fun fact: Ryan was supposed to originally be the Gold Ranger in Power Rangers Zeo. It was a way of connecting the two series together and the actor even voiced the Gold Ranger for the first episodes he appeared.
DrknssRules1 and now he’s Goblin Slayer.
I thought he was supposed to be the White Ranger in MMPR Season 2 and JDF would have been in VR Troopers
The opening bit kills me every time. It's just too insane.
VR Troopers is an adaptation of 3 separate unrelated seasons of the long dead baby brother series of Masked Rider and Super Sentai, (the franchise that became Power Rangers in the West.)
The source material is significantly darker in tone and themes, I recommend you check it out.
Metal Heroes right?
@@sonicheroxd5767 correct
Masked Rider is the western adaptation of Kamen Rider
Originally a vehicle for former Green Ranger Jason David Frank, a short pilot using footage from the Metal Heroes series Chōjinki Metalder called Cybertron was filmed with him alone. However, his immense popularity as Tommy led to Saban deciding to pull him back to Rangers. As such he switched places with Brad Hawkins (who was originally supposed to be the White Ranger during the second season of MMPR,) who became Ryan Steele. This alone led them to believe the show was beyond hope, but because of commitments to broadcasters, they had to press on.
Since they didn't have Frank's Green Ranger star power to support the show, they decided to expand it, buying up a second Metal Heroes series, Jikuu Senshi Spielban, hired two more actors, and made the show about a trio. Since the two series were completely unrelated, the only footage they had off all three Troopers together and morphed were things they filmed themselves, which they didn't have the time or budget to do a lot of, so the majority of episodes involved finding new and unique ways to split Ryan away from Kaitlyn and J.B.
While filming the show, they noticed several new problems. Alongside the fact that the Metal Heroes footage was almost a decade old (unlike Sentai footage, which is never more than a year or two old, Metalder and Spielban were from 1987 and 1986), the shows in question also used a lot of unmorphed battles, meaning the usable footage was thin to begin with. Stock Footage was abused, with the same scenes of a drill driving through the wall of an underground lab seeming to be in almost every episode. Despite all this, the show was a hit and a second season was ordered.
The second season had the Metalder footage (Ryan's armor) run out fast, so they had him get an upgrade to new armor, this time from Space Sheriff Shaider, an even older series (1984). The second season limped along with its endlessly repeated Stock Footage, until, by the end of the season, both Shaider and Spielban footage had run dry. Per producer Robert Hughes, bad toy sales were the defining factor in Saban giving up on Troopers and instead they bought and turned a much more recent Metal Heroes show, Juukou B-Fighter, into Big Bad Beetleborgs.
Ultraman, a super hero show made by the same guy who made Godzilla special effects, was started in the late 60's After Ultraman was a hit Tokusatsu (special effects shows) became a big thing. After Ultraman, Kamen Rider (masked rider) was the next big hit in the early 70's, and then about 5 years later the first Super Sentai show took off, and loosely all the Super Sentai are still part of the same universe, and once in a while all 3 shows have now and again crossed over as they are now on the same channel in Japan.
16:40 That show was a bad adaptation of Kamen Rider RX Black. The form you're talking about is Blue Agony. That Bio-gel form is near unbeatable. That's more agile, but it has less armor.
@Tim yep, the Prince of Anger.
Ironically they took one of few Sequel shows for very first adaptation.
10:07 That video was from one of Jameskii’s VRchat in a nutshell (I believe it was VRchat in a nutshell 4)
The bloopers they made were hilarious
For those out of the loop, Masked Rider is also known as Kamen Rider in Japan.
@KGK Skull Unfortunately.
@KGK Skull You're not wrong. Being a Super Sentai fan myself, I was furious at how they bastardized Gokaiger.
@KGK Skull Accurate.
@@Devilsblight86 very accrute how do you fuck up something as amazing as a group of space pirates trying to find the greatest treasure and in doing so help save the world and meet the previous Super Sentais earning their Respect and all that ......
Instead they decided to make it the continuation of megaforce probably the worst way to go
Brad Hawkins, the lead in VR Troopers plays Goblin Slayer in the English Dub
Really!?
PhantomofMalus radical
He's also the mocap actor for Doom Slayer.
@@MisterX867 this dude is a badass!
Also played Gold Ranger in Zeo
I looked up Brad Hawkins. Holy shit, I had no idea this guy would go on to voice for anime. He voiced fucking Goblin Slayer. What a world we live in.
I think he also voiced Wolfwood in Trigun. If not the tv series, at least the Badlands Rumble movie.
27:06 I'm surprised these guys didn't have a mental flashback of a talking c-
Nate: NEVER. MENTION. THAT. SHITTY. DVD. AGAIN!
I love this vid really takes me back.anyone remember when JB turned evil and they made his character turn into wolverine and try to destroy Ryan?
My guy Nate out here preaching about the concept of originality.
...Also, "multi-grain cracker." 😂
I actually kinda liked Battle Borgs as a kid. Didn't remember the name until today though.
Mystic Knights was also a thing. Don't remember much though.
Don't forget superhuman samurai cyber squad.
Dang it you guys paused right in the middle of "We must inform Pooh."!
22:40 Damn, I didn't think anyone could make Honoka scary, but Jon found a way. XD
12:46 I really couldn’t stop laughing at this. Jon really decided to insert himself as a random side character
Great reaction! Can’t wait for your Thanos versus Oppenheimer ERB reaction
Saban’s masked rider is an awful adaptation of the sequel to Toei’s Masked Rider Black, taking the lighter tone of Black RX and removing anything good about it, I recommend you check it out on your own time.
Or any of the Hesei era as well. I wasn't expecting to see another Rider fan here.
@@justabitrandom1128 I wouldn't say "any" Hesei. Kiva, Decade, and half of Hibiki are pure garbage, and there are some other meh ones as well. Personal favorite is Fourze.
@@rottenbutter360 Yeah. Or how about Ghost? That was a whole mess and I have a soft spot for Kiva.
Also it had a kickass theme song
~WAKE UP! WAKE UP wake up wake up...~
Personally my favorite one was OOO, and am currently enjoying Zero-One right now actually!
@@justadude3659 Same here. Zero-One is fun.
Forces of darkness-!
Mom: NOPE! Thasa Satan!
That's what always amazes me about those kinds of people. "The obvious bad guy is doing bad things so that the heroes can stop him? That's evil!!"
@@freedantheeternal Maybe everyone of the mom's generation, no doubt also involved in the satanic panic, where just victims of lead poisoning.
Reaction at 8:34
Thanks, dude.
I pulled my phone out and voiced commanded "VR Troopers" on google and it gave me "Strippers" lmao.
OMG I just looked it up. I used to watch Masked rider all the time and forgot about it. I loved it like beetle borgs.
16:31 Masked Rider? You mean Kamen Rider? That franchise is just as big as the Super Sentai are across the pacific
Masked Rider is the name here in the US
But Masked Rider Absolutely sucked
Wow nick that was perfectly timed 21:09
Ya'll triggered the Kamen Rider fans either anger or nostalgia senses with that tanget.
Fun fact like with power rangers this was based on a Japanese series. Only this time it's 3 different shows from the Metal Heroes Series.
There's Choujinki Metalder, where Ryan's first suit, Grimlord, and some of the monsters come from.
Ziku Sebshi Spielvan, where JB and Kaitlin's suits, the spaceship and tank, the Skugs and other monsters come from.
And finally Uchu Keiji Shaider, where Ryan's new suit and the new main villain comes from.
That's why we don't really see all three of them fight together, cause they're from separate shows.
I had that same Megazord toy where only the legs came off, but mine had a manufacturing error. I had a Yellow Triceratops and a Blue Saber-tooth Tiger
Yes well put.this video got me thinking of that episode specifically cuz well that's what got me hooked on anything saban in the 1st place was the cheesiness.
If i may ask, what happened to the starcade reactions?
Reaction starts at 8:35
Ty caleb
The first Power Rangers were referred as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
20:42 & 21:58- LOL
WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT MASKED RIDER
Can you react to jontron Christmas with the Kranks
He chose me, he chose meeeeeee
@@sailorgallifrey1365 Don't tell them! Not yet...
They still have StarCade to get through.
JonTron made a video on that dumpster fire?! We watched that in Civics before Christmas break, and I have never seen a Christmas comedy so bad, unfunny, and totalitarian in my life
I know this video is from a while ago but I’m a nerd and I wish to spread some of my dumb “knowledge.” So Masked Rider was one of the last kamen rider shows like how power rangers has many seasons with new characters. In japan it was known as Kamen Rider (means the same as masked rider). It came out before super sentai and the whole concept of super sentai was what if one of these seasons of kamen rider was a team of riders but eventually became sentai. Kamen rider had a couple movies in the 90s after its last tv show ended after the main creator’s death which was known as the showa era because of the president’s last name but in 2000 and ever since then the show has been airing new seasons with 2019 marking the last of the heisei era. With a new president of the company now it is the Reiwa era with Kamen Rider Zero One and it’s awesome. In Japan sentai is almost always on the face of cancellation but it never happens while Kamen Rider no matter what they do now seems to always popular. Welp sorry for the long comment even though you guys probably won’t see it. Peace
Now that I think of it, I have heard some people complain about Fallen Order ripping off Jedi Knight, just because the main character's name starts with the same letters as Kyle Katarn
That last part needed Oblivion music
Both super sentai, Karen rider and ultraman…the gold 3
Finally someone who knows Hawken, best fuckin mechas game before titanfall
Pr dino charge was filmed in New Zealand
25:25 Grimlords most powerful minion
Super Sentai debuted in 1975 your welcome 🙃 .
Hey Renegades. Since it is the Christmas season, you guys need to react to a Nostalgia Critic Christmas review.
This year... Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe In Santa. Hope you have a blast with this one 😊
Have you watch any Metal Heroes show, the franchise that give us VR Trooper and Big Bad Beetleborgs
Fun fact masked rider is called kamen rider rx in japan
And I'm now just finding out kamen rider rx had a English version called masked rider.
It’s bad
Masked rider or Kamen rider barely lasted here in the west if I remember but honestly I've watched a bunch of the subbed Kamen rider series and it's pretty too it's ends up more about characters and they didn't have giant robot fights but they did have pretty awesome fight choreography for people fighting each other. A lot of them are even on youtube I suggest Kamen rider gaim everyone's powers are based off of fruits lmao.
Anyone else remember the Saban show Mystic Knights? I'm pretty sure that was the only Saban series made that didn't use stock footage from Japanese shows. From what I remember, it was pretty epic! Sucks it only lasted one season, though.
It must be a southern thing my friend's dad made him a toy rifle out of wood and my dad made me a keyblade out of wood because we couldn't afford to but them."
Pausing during the intro to say that while I get why you’d say the other shows were “knock-offs” of Power Rangers, that’s both right and wrong. It’s wrong in that each series (Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, whatever I might be forgetting) are actually adapted from other Japanese shows in the tokusatsu genre like how Power Rangers was adapted from Super Sentai. However you’re still right in that the way they were adapted basically made the adaptations PR ripoffs- since they basically used the formula they established with PR to adapt the other shows.
Also masked rider teamed up with power rangers before masked rider came out
I'm sad to tell you, but Hawken has been shut down some time ago.. at leat on PC, you can still play it on PS4 tho.. or you can play Mechwarrior Online on PC, that one's good too
Merry Christmas renegades have a good one drone me to you merry Christmas
yes!
i was hoping you guys would react to this someday, my wishes have been answered.
Power Rangers Time Force was fucking dope and tbh it kinda still is
Starcade
I would definitely recommend Hawken to anybody out there who wants to play something that's a hundred times better than war robots, but be warned though, it can be pay-to-win with the special credits that they have so you can buy all the Mechs and all the upgrades, But the matchmaking should prevent you from getting lobbied with OP players. Really fun game
Could have called this episode "A Talking Dog!?!"
28:53 Metroid prime 2 sound
Ah a jameskii referenced
start button > 8:34
They stopped listening to our suggestions after a talking cat.
Alot of people where telling them about this in a video that mentioned vr troopers so this counts as one
I remember Kamen Rider.
Another awesome reaction! Thank you renegades!
The way to be a 90's douchebag: wear a leather jacket and look into the distance for no reason. Yea.
The kermit clip is from a youtuber and twitch streamer jameskii.
25:23 is so funny.
Am I first?
Also at 8:34
No.
Thanks.
Thanks Caleb. I owe you one.
Thanks caleb
Thx caleb
Will you be reacting to the new Nostalgia Critic commercials?
I thought he meant kamen rider for a sec. 16:12
Can you guys react to Nostalgia Critic: Kim Posable Live-Action Movie?
I'm sorry, what?
Kamen Rider (Masked Rider) is the best, man.
Superhuman samurai cyber squad. Is another.
Tattooed teenaged alien fighters from Beverly hills. Is yet another.
You guys went down a bit of a rabbithole near the end
8:34 TO START THE ACTUAL REACTING. WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Y’all gotta react to Thanos vs J Rober Oppenheimer!!!!!!
Culling Bullshittery part 2 when?
We do live in a paranoid time lol liking star wars racist.
masked rider= kamen rider black and kamen rider black rx
you guys should react to Joshdub's funniest vr moments 2019
You guys should watch pink elephants on parade or Benny and the ratbox
Requests go on discord
Ok. Thank you 👍
How to do go from talking about Power Rangers to race without bringing the black and yellow rangers?
You guys should check out DevilArtemis. He's gold bois!!
Am I the only one who has the same shirt Nate is wearing
Wait, Hawken is still a thing!?
it's dead on pc
Mask rider aka Kamen rider black rx
PLEASE do more Carson and Badger
Just an fyi. Hawken cannot be played on pc anymore. The devs shut down the pc servers and abandoned it in favour of the console versions
React to kamen rider is basically masked rider but better and darker
I agree with him
React to Metal Family, please.
Too bad you couldn't get micah for this
Um Actually, the Pterodactyl was the Breastplate, not the Head.
Titanfall 2 is the greatest Mech fighter of all time! Change my mind.
as much as I love Titanfall, I'll have to say no. Not because it's not a great game, but because It's not a Mech game
Please react to Dragon Shortz episode 1 Two and a half saiyans by TeamFourStar.
Ok.
Kamen rider 4ever
React to Arma 3 HAARP series
Do the new erb
13:10