Monday, October 11, 2010

Power Ranger Girl: Karan Ashley


35 year-old Texan actress, best known as Aisha Campbell in Power Rangers.

Before MMPR, she was part of a girl musical group KRUSH.

Since then, Ashley has made guest appearances in TV shows such as Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Kenan & Kel, and The Parkers, just to name a few, and acted in a few minor films like Taylor's Wall.





While she also co-wrote Devon's Ghost, her first writing staple came with the film Unto Thee in 1997. She co-wrote the film with Gia and Tim Grace, and also starred in the movie.

He was in "Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy" with Johnny Yong Bosch ("Adam"), who directed.

VR Trooper Gal: Sarah Brown


35 year-old American Actress

Her first big role was as Kaitlin Star on "VR Troopers."

She went on to play Carly Corinthos in 'General Hospital' from 1996 to 2001, and which earned her three Daytime Emmy Awards.

From 2008-2009, she returned to 'General Hospital' in a different role, Claudia Zacchara. She then went on to play Sandy Sommers in 'The Bold and the Beautiful.'

She played Heather Thompson in a three-parter of 'Power Rangers Zeo' as a potential love interest for Tommy after he receives a 'Dear John' letter from Kimberly. He later fell for Katherine in place.

She was in a relationship and engaged with Israel composer Shuki Levy (a former executive producer on VR Troopers and the Power Rangers franchise). They have a daughter, Jordan Alexandra Judith, who was born in 1998.

She has been diagnosed with Celiac Disease, an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine that occurs in genetically predisposed people of all ages.




She recently played Amanda Livingston in "Castle."

Heronies in other Saban Tokusatsu

Kaitlin Star (VR Troopers, 1994-1996)
Kaitlin was the only female part of the VR Troopers. She wore white, red, and yellow. In her other VR form, she had the helmet of the Red Ranger with white, red and yellow. In the second season, her mirror twin became her Double mode, which was footage of another hero Helen Lady in Speilban. My personal theory as to why VR Troopers was canceled because they didn't have footage of a girl hero anymore. I don't know why they didn't just use the B-Fighter footage, it was team of three as well, I guess Saban wanted to start fresh with Beetleborgs. And fans arguably liked that more than VRT.

Red Striker Borg (BBB, 1996)
The sole female in Big Bad Beetleborgs, it was the same as Reddle in B-Fighter. As I have mentioned before, the actresses were switched on both shows, as a coincidence and not planned.

Plantinum Purple Borg (Beetleborgs Metallix, 1997)
The Beetleborgs Metallix were unique to the B-Fighters Kabuto that they had Mega Spectra Armor (Mega Sector Armour) like the Power Rangers' Battlizers. The armors didn't appear in the original B-Fighters. There was also the Ladyborg but she had no human counterpart. She is the only female purple warrior in the Saban camp.

Deirdre, Mystic Knight of Air (Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, 1998)
Mystic Knights was an original production by Saban, not related to a Japanese Tokusatsu show at all. Her armor was white. She like the other females in this post were by themselves. She was a fiercely independent princess.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Girl Power Week: The Power of Pink

Going over the female Rangers by colors, if they had skirts and what about their costumes were different. I left pink for last because it is the color most used for females and exclusively so.

Momo Ranger (1975)
The original Pink Ranger. No skirt.

Heart Queen (1977)
The first to get a skirt, no trim.

Miss America (1979)
The majority of her costume was pink, so I will count her. She had no skirt.

Denzi Pink (1980)
She had a skirt with a large white trim.

Goggle Pink (1981)
No skirt, just like her male counterparts.

Dyna Pink (1983)
No skirt, white legs with stripe, same as the males. The year before Sun Vulcan, skipped girls and pink all together.

Pink Five (Bioman, 1984)
She was the first pink Ranger to have a female partner. Like her, she had an underwear-like like shape unlike the male rangers that had a short-shape, but no skirt to speak of.

Change Phoenix (1985)
She had pink underwear-like thing.

Flash Pink (1986)
She and Yellow were like the Bioman women that had underwear-like shapes, but had white legs, unlike their male counterparts. Their male counterparts had ranger-color legs with black stripes. They only had ranger-color at the crotch area for a lack for a better term.

Mask Pink (1987)
She had white trim on her skirt like Yellow.

Turbo Pink (1989)
The year before, there was a female blue. She had a gold trim on her skirt.

Five Pink (1990)
No skirt.

Pteraranger (1992) / Pink Ranger (1993-1995, 2010)
The first Pink Ranger for MMPR. She had a triangular skirt with white trim.

Pink Ninja Ranger (1995)
For the movie and 3rd season, the Pink Ranger and Yellow had skirt sheets with white underneath in this PR-exclusive costume.

Houhouranger (1993)
She had a white skirt with silt and gold trim, with pink legs. For those who don't know, her show Dairanger, their zords were used for the Thunderzords of Season 2 and their suits were not used for PR.

Sakura (Kakuranger, 1994)
I don't usually mention the flower ninja much in my list of Rangers because I do not consider her or the Hana Rangers as part of the other good sentai. It is like counting the Nejiranger/Psycho Rangers. They go with the evil Sentai. She had no skirt, she was the closest thing to have a Pink ranger in Kakuranger.

Oh Pink (1995) / Zeo Ranger I Pink (1996)
In Ohranger, she and Yellow had a skirt with gold trim, same color throughout. The team before Kakuranger had white instead Pink.

Pink Racer (1996) / Pink Turbo Ranger (1997)
Skirt with no trim.

Mega Pink (1997) / Pink Space Ranger (1998)
Skirt, no trim. In one episode, she became Super Miku with gold squares on her chest, this did not appear in PR.

Neji Pink (1997) / Psycho Pink (1998-1999)
Heck, if I counted the Hanarangers, might as well count Neji Pinkie. No skirt. Psycho Pink was used in the episode "The Power of Pink" of Lost Galaxy when Valerie Vernon had to leave the show and they needed a reason why. Psycho Pink survived 10 Rangers destroying her team and she inadvertently lead to the death of Kendrix.

Ginga Pink (1998) / Pink Galaxy ranger (1999)
She got a skirt but with no trim.

Go Pink (1999) / Pink Lightspeed Ranger (2000)
Skirt, no trim.

Time Pink (Timeranger, 2000) / Pink Ranger (Time Force, 2001)
Skirt, no trim. In Disney World, she had a meet and greet character.

Deka Pink (SPD, 2004) / Pink Ranger (SPD, 2005)
First Pink Ranger in both franchises in 4 years, she like the other SPD gals had no skirt. There was also the Pink A-Squad Ranger.

Magi Pink (Magiranger, 2005) / Mystic Pink Ranger (Mystic Force, 2006)
White legs, skirt with stripes and no trim. In Disney World, she had a meet and greet character.

Bouken Pink (2006) / Pink OO Ranger (2007)
Skirt, no trim, continuous same color.

Shinken Pink (Shinkenger, 2009) / Pink Ranger (Samurai, 2011)
She had a skirt with no trim, black designs on top and black legs, just like Yellow and Red.

Gosei Pink (Goseiger, 2010)
All her teammates had white legs, she was no exception, she has a white skirt with pink trim.