Trying to recreate the success of Power Rangers, combining US and Japanese footage, has not been very successful. Saban themselves couldn’t recapture the magic, though they did choose genres that died out in Japan like Metal Hero or went into a hiatus like Kamen (Masked) Rider. Well, somebody’s always out to try things, and with the future of the mighty morphers in doubt under current owners Hasbro, Disney decided to give it another shot, being one of the franchise’s previous owners. This time they went to Korea.
Armored Saurus is a 2021 Korean attempt at sentai, using the idea of humans bonding with armored dinosaurs to stop an alien invasion. It lasted for two seasons and even received a Japanese dub. Rather than redub it into English, Disney XD has just dropped Armorsaurs. It also has an alien invasion fought with armored dinosaurs against robot dinos, but completely changed the premise. Also, the T-Rex appears to be more important in the Korean version than the English one. Also, Korea’s version seems to have been released in segments with some half-hour compilations while the English version is a 45 minute debut episodes.
Tonight I bring you both, though you will have to play games with the captions to get them in English, and being auto-translated from auto-generated Korean, you’ll just about get what’s going on maybe until the captions stop. Also, this could just be a catch-up thing considering all the cuts, but you can still compare the two versions. Armored Saurus comes from their official YouTube channel while Armorsaurs, is on the official Disney Channel…channel, though it’s credited as a Disney XD show and will probably air on Disney Channel and Disney+ (and being modern Disney we can wait to see who the gay one is since neither girl is a tomboy…and the only white guy needs to get out of the house…at all). Compare the two and decide what’s your favorite. With all the CG, especially in the American version, you’ll wonder why they didn’t just make a cartoon. Enjoy.
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