Power Rangers Reuniting for 30-Year Netflix Special

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always reunites the archetypal squad for a caller Netflix special, retired April 19.

Power Rangers' Amy Jo Johnson Honors Late Jason David Frank

Once a Ranger, ever a Ranger.

Believe it oregon not, it's been 30 years since the Power Rangers archetypal mighty morphed their mode onto our TV screens.

So, to celebrate, Hasbro is reuniting astir of the squad for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always connected Netflix. The stand-alone peculiar is acceptable to aerial April 19.

Original stars David Yost, Walter E. Jones, Steve Cardenas, Catherine Sutherland, Karan Ashley and Johnny Yong Bosch are each returning, alongside voices from Richard Horvitz arsenic Alpha and Barbara Goodson arsenic Rita Repulsa herself. Additionally, Power Rangers Dino Fury star Charlie Kersh joins the cast.

Netflix dropped a trailer for the reunion peculiar connected Jan. 17, which sees the Rangers reunite 3 decades aft their archetypal enactment to tackle a planetary threat.

Yost, the archetypal Blue Power Ranger, honored the show's 30-year past pursuing the announcement. "It was large to enactment with Walter Jones again. We went done the audition process unneurotic and launched the Power Rangers franchise 30 years ago," helium shared successful a statement. "I americium truthful grateful to the fans of Power Rangers for their undying committedness to the archetypal cast."

His castmate Jones, the archetypal Black Power Ranger, echoed his sentiments. "It was specified a surreal acquisition to beryllium connected the acceptable of Power Rangers again aft 28 years! I was truthful astatine home. Can't hold for the fans to spot what they person waited truthful agelong for," helium added. "The ZackMan is backmost and acceptable to rock! Working with David Yost arsenic a Ranger again was amazing! Our Ranger household runs deep!"

Unfortunately, quality of the peculiar comes two months aft the passing of Jason David Frank, who played the archetypal Green Power Ranger. His erstwhile co-star Amy Jo Johnson remembered Frank arsenic "beautiful and genuinely unique" in a tribute to the precocious actor, noting: "My beingness conscionable won't beryllium the aforesaid without your frenetic, hilarious, caring, driven and originative shot of energy."

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers launched the Power Rangers universe erstwhile it initially premiered successful 1993 connected Fox. It ran for conscionable 3 seasons nether the archetypal title, but the communicative continues to this time arsenic Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, which volition besides instrumentality to Netflix successful 2023.

Morphin' clip is officially backmost erstwhile Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always airs April 19 connected Netflix.

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