One very strange change made in production was the comic relief.
However, there were some drawbacks to being made Fox Kids afforded Power Rangers a tiny budget for a television series because they didn't want to lose a lot of money since they assumed that MMPR would bomb. Why this was rejected is unknown but he implies it was because it was very bad quality so they went with a different pilot episode to pitch it properly to get green-lit as a show. According to voice actor Michael Sorich at Power Morphicon 2018, there was a first pilot for the series which was originally called Metalheads and combined footage from both Zyuranger and Superhuman Machine Metalder (which was later the primary source for VR Troopers). In the series proper, the Rangers were, Jason Lee Scott, Zack Taylor, Billy Cranston, Trini Kwan and Kimberly Ann Hart. One element carried over from the failed Bio-Man pilot however were the names of the Rangers in the pilot they were Victor Lee. By the time that Fox Kids executive Margaret Loesch finally approved it for thier children's block in 1992, Bioman was outdated so Saban went into production using footage from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger from 1992.
However, it was consistently refused by TV executives because every adaptation of dubbed material up until this point were massive failures (note: this was around ten years before Pokemon or Dragon Ball Z). Seeing it as an opportunity to make a lot of money, Haim approached the makers of Super Sentai Toei and got the rights to adapt Bioman so they made a pilot episode to pitch to executives. The earliest iteration of Power Rangers dates back to 1986 when future co-creator of Power Rangers Haim Saban was in Japan on a business trip and happened to turn on television to see the eighth Super Sentai series Choudenshi Bioman.
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