Wizard 101 Pop Culture – Lemuria – The Power Grazers

Power Grazers – The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Go,_Go_Power_Grazers
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Green_Power_Grazer
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Pink_Power_Grazer
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Purple_Power_Grazer
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Gray_Power_Grazer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Rangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHalaFUqnTI

Thank you to Darren W. for his help on this one.

Exploring the Heap in Lemuria, your wizard stumbles across Peter Z. Putaski, Putty to his friends. His friend Goldaur has been kidnapped by a new gang in town, the Power Grazers. The Power Grazers have taken Goldaur to their Command Center. It is up to your wizard to defeat this new gang and free Goldaur.

THEY. ARE. THE. POWER GRAZERS!

The quest name Go, Go Power Grazers is pulled from the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV theme song.

Power Rangers is an entertainment and merchandising franchise created by Haim Saban, Shuki Levy and Shotaro Ishinomori and built around a live-action superhero television series, based on Japanese tokusatsu franchise Super Sentai and currently owned by American toy and entertainment company Hasbro through a dedicated subsidiary, SCG Power Rangers LLC. It was first produced in 1993 by Saban Entertainment (later BVS Entertainment), which Saban sold to the Walt Disney Company and then brought back under his now-defunct successor company Saban Brands within his current company, Saban Capital Group, the Power Rangers television series takes much of its footage from the Super Sentai television series produced by Toei Company. The first Power Rangers entry, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, debuted on August 28, 1993, and helped launch the Fox Kids programming block of the 1990s, during which it catapulted into popular culture along with a line of action figures and other toys by Bandai. By 2001, the media franchise had generated over $6 billion in toy sales.

Despite initial criticism that its action violence targeted child audiences, the franchise has been commercially successful. As of 2023, Power Rangers consists of 30 television seasons of 22 different themed series, three theatrical films released in 1995, 1997, and 2017 and a television special released in 2023.

Since Power Rangers derives most of its footage from the Super Sentai series, it features many hallmarks that distinguish it from other superhero series. Each series revolves around a team of youths recruited and trained by a mentor to morph into the eponymous Power Rangers, able to use special powers and pilot immense assault machines, called Zords, to overcome the periodic antagonists. In the original series Mighty Morphin, the wizard Zordon recruits “teenagers with attitude” against Rita Repulsa.

When “morphed,” the rangers become powerful superheroes wearing color-coded skin-tight spandex suits and helmets with opaque visors; identical except in individual rangers’ color, helmet design, and minor styling such as incorporating a skirt. Morphed Rangers generally possess enhanced strength, durability, agility and combat prowess. Some possess superhuman or psychic abilities such as super-speed, element manipulation, extra-sensory perception or invisibility. In addition, each individual ranger has a unique weapon, as well as common weaponry used for ground fighting. When enemies grow to incredible size (as nearly all do), Rangers use individual Zords that combine into a larger Megazord.

Rangers teams operate in teams of three to five, with more Rangers joining the team later. Each team of Rangers, with a few exceptions, obeys a general set of conventions, outlined at the beginning of Mighty Morphin and implied by mentors throughout many of the other series: Power Rangers may not use their Ranger powers for personal gain or for escalating a fight (unless the enemy does so), nor may the Power Rangers disclose their identities to the general public. The penalty for disobeying these rules is the loss of their power.

As in Super Sentai, the color palette of each Power Rangers team changes every series. Only Red and Blue appear in every Ranger team. Other colors and designations also appear throughout the series. A Rangers’ color designation also influences their wardrobe throughout the series: civilian clothing often matches Ranger color.

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The current list of all the Lemuria references can be found here.

Power Grazers images are from Wizard101, and are (c) KingsIsle Entertainment, they are being used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.

Image combination by Alien Graphics.

All Mighty Morphin Power Rangers images are copyright Hasbro, SCG Power Ranger LLC

Mighty Morphin Power Ranger cast photo is borrowed from Entertainment Weekly.