Does VR Troopers take place in the same timeline as Power Rangers?

PRangerX · 01/08/11, 10:06 PM

With VR Troopers being from Saban Entertainment and basically marketed as a spinoff of Power Rangers... You have to wonder if VR Troopers is in the PRU.

There is no real evidence to indicate this. Besides the similarity in the show's premise and its creators. The VR Trooper powers work differently then the Power Rangers powers. They don't seem to work off the Morphing Grid. We never saw any instance of the Rangers or Troopers knowing of each other in either show. Of course the Space Rangers and Ninja Turtles didn't know about each other before "Shell-Shocked". But hiding in the sewers is a little bit different than saving the world. It is pretty wierd how the general public knows about the VR Troopers. Since they mainly fought in virtual reality. Yet the show makes it clear that the public is aware of them.

One can point to the orginal plans for the Gold Ranger. With Ryan Steele orginally being planned as the Gold Ranger. And Brad Hawkins actually doing the ADR work for Trey. But the storyline with Ryan was dropped and never happened. So that can't be used as evidence.

While you could probably find a way to retcon VR Troopers into the PRU.... I don't think you could say that they are the same universe at this point. There just isn't enough evidence to do so. But at the same time its never been definitively shown to be different. So the option is always there for that retcon.

01/08/11, 10:06 PM	#1
PRangerX Administrator Join Date: 12/04/00 Posts: 4,004	Does VR Troopers take place in the same timeline as Power Rangers? With VR Troopers being from Saban Entertainment and basically marketed as a spinoff of Power Rangers... You have to wonder if VR Troopers is in the PRU. There is no real evidence to indicate this. Besides the similarity in the show's premise and its creators. The VR Trooper powers work differently then the Power Rangers powers. They don't seem to work off the Morphing Grid. We never saw any instance of the Rangers or Troopers knowing of each other in either show. Of course the Space Rangers and Ninja Turtles didn't know about each other before "Shell-Shocked". But hiding in the sewers is a little bit different than saving the world. It is pretty wierd how the general public knows about the VR Troopers. Since they mainly fought in virtual reality. Yet the show makes it clear that the public is aware of them. One can point to the orginal plans for the Gold Ranger. With Ryan Steele orginally being planned as the Gold Ranger. And Brad Hawkins actually doing the ADR work for Trey. But the storyline with Ryan was dropped and never happened. So that can't be used as evidence. While you could probably find a way to retcon VR Troopers into the PRU.... I don't think you could say that they are the same universe at this point. There just isn't enough evidence to do so. But at the same time its never been definitively shown to be different. So the option is always there for that retcon.