• Fanedit Title: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Baliscon Edits

• Original Movie Title: Friday the 13th/ Friday the 13th Part 2/Friday the 13th Part III/Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

• Premiere Release Date: August 28, 1993

• Fanedit Release Date: April 27, 2025

• Synopsis: A closeknit band of teenagers in fictional Angel Grove, Calif., transforms into a uniformed team of superheroes ready to take on any villains. Their primary focus is Rita Repulsa, a space villainess captured long ago by the wise sage Zordon and inadvertently freed by astronauts. Zordon recruits the teens to help him recapture Rita, and later to battle against Lord Zedd, Rito Revolto, and Master Vile.

• Thoughts and Intentions: Previously, I've been cobbling down the careers of two infamous killers - Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, and before that making the Burton and Schumacher Batman films as grim as possible, and before that spending time with another killer in Michael Myers and before him, Godzilla and his cadre of kaiju.

In short, I needed some comfort food away from all the grim mayhem- that's why I decided to spend time editing Power Rangers.

I don't remember life before Power Rangers. My first birthday cake was decorated as the red ranger. Some of my earliest memories are of the watching the shift from Mighty Morphin Power to Alien Rangers to Zero Rangers as it aired on TV. All my other favorite childhood shows like the animated Spider-Man, Hulk, and X-Men all came and went, but Power Rangers has of course ran continuously ever since it began. With the show's status somewhat up in the air with Disney reacquiring the series and possibly without the use of Japan's Super Sentai footage, I was curious to return its original episodes.

To put it kindly, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers hasn't aged quite as well as my memories of it have. While later seasons would more seamlessly merge Super Sentai action sequences with American narratives - even going so far as adapting the original Japanese story arcs, these early seasons definitely demonstrate a learning curve when it comes to offering serious and captivating stories. For every "Green with Evil" arc, there are a handful of episodes where the rangers fight the Frankenstein monster or become baked in a giant pizza.

It's a silly show, but I grew to learn that its goofy, hammy stories are part of the charm. My childhood memories of the show were of teamwork and determination overcoming evil. My current impressions are that Power Rangers offers a balance of so many moods, encompassing absurdity, action, drama, and horror, which actually more accurately reflects my current view of the world.

So, I decided to start combing through the episodes, combining the most memorable episodes together. When Power Rangers ran back in the day, my parents would record a run of episodes onto a single VHS - no commercials and no credits. Harkening back to that era, I wanted to combine episodes together, editing only when pacing can be improved.

I offer the first three edits in this series, details listed below. I'll undoubtedly edit more Power Rangers episodes together. 

Change List/Edit Log:

Power Rangers 1 - Teenagers with Attitude

• Original Broadcast Episodes: Day of the Dumpster, Teamwork, Pressing Engagement, Food Fight, and bits from High Five

• Original Runtime - 1 hour, 40 minutes

• Fanedit Runtime - 1 hour, 7 minutes

Power Rangers 2 - Friends in Need

• Original Broadcast Episodes: Happy Birthday Zack, No Clowning Around, Peace Love and Woe, Switching Places

• Original Runtime - 1 hour, 20 minutes

• Fanedit Runtime - 1 hour, 12 minutes

Power Rangers 3 - Green with Evil

• Original Broadcast Episodes - Green with Evil parts 1-5

• Original runtime - 1 hour, 38 minutes

• Final runtime - 1 hour, 24 minutes

General Edits:

• Cut all opening and end credits besides the first opening and final end, per edit

• Remove dated transitions between scenes

• Remove the hints of commercial breaks between scenes

• Eliminate needless repetition of plot

• Reduce repetitive zord-combining sequences

• Cut many of Rita's reactions to her many defeats