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Power Rangers Turbo – 1997

The Power Rangers returned for their fifth season in 1997, and once again, the team evolved into a different theme. This time, the team was revealed as the “Turbo Rangers”, with each Ranger having a unique vehicle to pilot. The Turbo Rangers were featured in the second feature length Power Rangers movie, which prefaced the series. This series introduced several new characters, including a new main villain, Divatox, and said goodbye to favorites, Zordon and Alpha 5.

For more information about Bandai’s Power Rangers Turbo line, see bottom of the page for a complete summary.

Power Rangers Turbo Key Double Action (1997): Basic 5″ Figures (2780)

The first series of Turbo Ranger figures released in 1997, featured all five Rangers, along with the Blue Senturion, who was an intergalactic Police Officer from the future.

Scarcity Factor: The Turbo Key Double Action series can still be found, but it’s getting tougher each year.
Notes: The Turbo Key Double Action series included all Ranger characters, and were produced in a 5 inch format. Each figure had “double action”, meaning they each had two different action features. This was the first series of figures released for the Turbo Rangers line.

Action Feature Evil Space Aliens (1997): Basic 5″ Figures (2766)

A new Power Rangers season means new Evil Space Aliens, with a brand new lineup featuring Divatox and Elgar as the new big baddies in the Rangers world.

Scarcity Factor: Most of the Evil Space Aliens can be found, but a few can be difficult to track down.
Notes: The Action Feature Evil Space Aliens series included many of the Ranger’s biggest villains, and were produced in a 5 inch format. Each figure had a different action feature. The most popular characters from this series were definitely Elgar, Rygog, and of course, Divatox

Power Rangers Turbo Shifter (1997): Basic 5″ Figures (2790)

The Turbo Shifters series featured all five Turbo Rangers and the mysterious Phantom Ranger. These figures advertised “Double Turbo Shifter Action” which basically gave them two different action features.

Scarcity Factor: The Turbo Shifter series can be found, but it may take some patience.
Notes: The Turbo Shifter series included all of the Ranger characters, and were produced in a 5 inch format. Each figure had “double action”, meaning they each had two different action features.

Power Rangers Turbo Triple Action (1997): Basic 5″ Figures (2993)

The Triple Action Turbo Rangers had…………yep, you guessed it, triple action features, but they were basically similar to the Auto-Morphin figures of the last two lines.

Scarcity Factor: The Turbo Triple Action series can be found, but it may take some patience.
Notes: The Turbo Triple Action series included all of the Ranger characters (minus Phantom Ranger), and were produced in a 5 inch format. Each figure had “triple action”, meaning they each had three different action features.

Power Rangers Turbo Repeat Action (1997): Basic 8″ Figures (2980)

Bandai released the Turbo Repeat Action figures in the Fall of 1997. This series included all five Rangers, plus the Phantom Ranger and Blue Senturion. The all had a special action feature that allowed to punch multiple times at once, hence the Repeat Action title.

Scarcity Factor: The Turbo Repeat Action series can be found, but it may take some patience.
Notes: The Turbo Repeat Rangers were released in the Fall of 1997, and produced in a 8 inch format. This was an unusual size for the Rangers line. These figures can certainly be found on the secondary market with a little patience.

Action Feature Turbo Zords (1997): Basic 5″ Figures (2950)

This new series featured the various Zords from the show in a smaller form. Each Zord came with a special action feature that was unique to that Zord.

Scarcity Factor: The Turbo Micro Zords can be found, but it may take some patience.
Notes: The Micro Zords are always popular in every Rangers line, and the Turbo Zords were no exception. Most from this series can be found with a little hunting, but the Turbo Megazord remains the most popular from the series.

Power Rangers Turbo (1997): Accessories

Bandai released four different role play accessories for kids to imitate their favorite Turbo Ranger character.

Scarcity Factor: The Turbo Rangers Accessories can be found, but the Turbo Morpher will be difficult to locate.
Notes: Like other Morphers from Ranger lines, the Turbo Morpher is tough to find on the secondary market. The other items, such as the Turbo Navigator, Senturion Synergizer and Auto Blaster/Turbo Blade can still be located.

Power Rangers Turbo (1997): Multipacks

Like the previous year, Bandai released Multipacks to go along with their sub-sets. These multipacks were basically boxed sets of each main Turbo Rangers series, with all the Rangers in one box.

Scarcity Factor: The Turbo Rangers Multipacks can be tough to find on the secondary market.
Notes: The Turbo Power Rangers line only produced three multipack sets, with all three being collections of various series from the line. They tend to be difficult to find on the secondary market.

Power Rangers Turbo (1997): Vehicles

With much of the focus for the Turbo Rangers being on vehicles, there was certainly no shortage of awesome looking and unique vehicles for the Turbo Rangers to battle liens with. In addition to the Turbo carts, four scaled vehicles and several small scale vehicles were released for the line.

Deluxe Vehicles

Turbo Carts

Turbo Charged Zords

Scarcity Factor: Most of the Turbo Vehicles can still be found, but it’s getting tougher each year.
Notes: The Turbo Carts and Deluxe Vehicles can be found on the secondary market with some patience, but the Turbo Charged Zords can prove difficult to find still in package.

Power Rangers Turbo (1997): Zords

Despite releasing several large scale Zords in the past, Bandai only released four for their Turbo Rangers line. This was due to the main focus of the series being on the team’s unique vehicles.

Scarcity Factor: Most of the Turbo Zords can still be found, but it’s getting tougher each year.
Notes: The Turbo Power Rangers line was among the smaller when it came to the always popular Zords. There were only four produced for the line, with the Deluxe Turbo Megazord being the most popular.

The Power Rangers continued to follow a continuous story line that evolved with each new season. The 1997 version was of course, the Turbo Power Rangers. This team still had a couple of the older and known characters, but there were several new additions. This would also mark the last season of fan-favorite, Tommy Oliver. Vehicles were heavily featured in this season, and we also saw the second feature length Power Rangers movie with the “Turbo Power Rangers Movie”. The design of the Power Rangers outfits also changed a bit for this season, to fit the Turbo Ranger design.

The Turbo Rangers consisted of five Power Ranger characters, Blue Ranger, Green Ranger, Pink Ranger, Red Ranger, and Yellow Ranger. They would be joined by the mysterious Phantom Ranger and the Blue Senturion, an intergalactic police officer from the future. Once again, these Rangers would battle various villains called “Evil Space Aliens”, but this time they were led by the evil Divatox and Elgar. Like past versions, multiple waves of Turbo Rangers would fill retail toy aisles in 1997, featuring the Rangers and evil aliens.

The Turbo Ranger figures and accessories proved to very popular with the kids who were watching the show at the time. The release of teh Turbo Power Ranger feature movie certainly assisted with that popularity. Toy sales and show ratings were still both going strong and the lineup changes didn’t seem to hurting the brand. New uniforms and Zords just meant more new action figures and toys to sell. Most items from the Turbo Ranger line of 1997 can still be easily found on the secondary market nowadays, with the bigger Zords being among the more coveted items.