The problem is that in 90s, Americans studios always wanted to adapt everything. Meanwhile, in Latin America, we watched everything dubbed and were having a blast.

Huggbees casually revealin his mad guitar skills and being a fan of kamen rider blade honestly had me in a bit of a whiplash

Furbies being a rip-off of a horrendus character from a Kamen Rider localization is some deep lore I wasn't expecting.
It's like the exact opposite vibe of "super sentai's giant robots are a result of Japanese Spiderman"

On the other hand, the localization of Kamen Rider Ryuki was SO good, the people in Japan loved it enough to give it it's own dub AND original theme. Dragon Knight was an example on how to do a localization right and it saddens me that we missed out on a movie.

Y'know I've actually wondered before why we never got a Kamen Rider localization when Power Rangers was so successful. Now I know.

You gotta watch the episode where his adopted grandma comes for a visit
she gets kidnapped but she doesn't have her glasses on, so she just thinks the insect monsters are "hooligans"
she wanders around the alien ship and starts breaking Dregon's shit
and they seemingly have no other way of stopping her, so they turn her into a statue to shut her up

Its interesting that Super Sentai and Kamen Rider got adaptions made up of reused footage but Ultraman got two completely original series co-produced with Australian and American studios. The first of those two shows, Ultraman Great, is pretty widely liked by the fandom.

Wish you brought up a big reason why this show focused so much on the comedy. That being the fact unlike Super Sentai, where the monster costumes were only a year old, so they were readily available to Power Rangers, Kamen Rider Black RX came out in 1989, so the costumes for the monsters were either too decayed to use or were outright destroyed. Basically they only had the Masked Rider suit, Draegon's suit, his lady assistant's suit, and some foot soldiers. This is also why Dex wears a copy of Kotaro;s suit.

I remember this show fondly as a child. Not because it was good, but because of what my siblings and I did to make it a fun show. Over time, we would actually add fart noises anywhere and everywhere during the show. It became the funniest show ever.

Reminder, this is a franchise that eventually involved plots where the powers ended up coming from playing cards, video games, train demons, fruit, usb sticks, and toy cars.

Not to mention that there was also one that involved a cross between a rabbit and a tank.

And, of all things, the ones with the rabbit-tank, video games, and the the fruit are the ones with some of the darkest plots in the franchise.

The really bizarre thing is that when Masked Rider first showed up on Power Rangers, the story was surprisingly dark for Power Rangers with them talking about how Edenoi had been rendered toxic by Count Dregons' attacks and how it couldn't be saved.

Then that's totally dropped in his own show. Ferbus wasn't in that story either.

Hearing Huggbees talk about Kamen Rider is something I was not expecting out of this year

Rest in peace Jason David Frank, you will forever be the true green Power Ranger in my mind

I'm surprised that Saban managed to get 40 episodes out of this show, considering that they had so little budget that they literally had to make sure the protagonist would wear the same outfits and sport the same haircut as the original one, just so that they could use as much footage as possible (it boiled down to "if you can't see the hero's face, then you can use it in the footage"). It helped that Kamen Rider Black RX had 47 episodes, and that they had most of the show like a family sitcom, but it's still impressive

0:25 good enough, whats up Rob Wasserman how's it going

Fun fact, the suit actor for Ferbus was the late Verne Troyer, better known as Mini Me from the Austin Powers movies.

Having his arm look like Mike Meyers' Dong in silhouette was definitely the more dignified role.

Huggbees revealing he's a toku fan has just made me love him even more.

The guitar shredding was just a shred, a morsel of Hugbees' immense power

Another thing that makes Masked Rider stand out is how different the footage quality is when they use the original Kamen Rider one. That is because Kamen Rider Black RX aired in 1988-89, so Masked Rider was using 6-7 years old footage

Saban's Masked Rider was the first American adaptation of a season of Kamen Rider, but it wasn't the last. The second attempt at Americanizing Kamen Rider didn't come until 2008, at which point the show had been cancelled in 1982 and replaced with Metal Heroes (which recieved several of its own Saban adaptations) before being revived in 2000. This second attempt was Kamen Rider Dragon Knight presented by Adness Entertainment.

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, which first aired as a teaser in December 2008 before officially runnning from January to December of 2009, was an adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki, the third installment of Kamen Rider since its revival, from 2002. The show features generally the same base plot as Ryuki, and the main characters have similar names (Shinji KIDO/KIT Taylor; REN Akiyama/LEN), but there are also differences. The main villain of Dragon Knight has a significantly different goal than that of Ryuki, and the main characters have different reasons for Contracting with Dragreder to become the titular Advent Rider (Shinji does it to get more information on the disappearances for his job as a journalist, while Kit is trying to find his missing father).

Dragon Knight, despite ending prematurely, was so well-recieved internationally that it got an official Japanese dub by Toei, featuring Satoshi Matsuda, who had previously portrayed Ren Akiyama (Kamen Rider Knight) in Ryuki, as Ren's counterpart Len (Kamen Rider Wing Knight). Casting the original Japanese actors as their American counterparts for the Japanese dub is commmon practice by Toei when producing the Japanese dubs of Power Rangers seasons.

Additional fun fact: the casting team for Kamen Rider Dragon Knight came close to casting the legendary Jason David Frank as Len (the deuteragonist), but ultimately selected Matt Mullins for the role instead because they figured that having JDF on the show would result in fans associating it too much with Power Rangers.