The original Space Sheriff Gavan had the same idea, that the transformation itself took milliseconds, with the first episode showing the transformation in real time then going back to show the sequence. I only got to see the first episode of that so I don’t know if they kept the suit-up transformation in the rest of the series, but the change doesn’t happen in real time, like other Japanese and Power Ranger “morph” sequences in tokusatsu and anime. This is my theory on why the monsters never attack them mid-transformation, because it doesn’t last long enough in real time.
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