The Power Rangers are back. Next month, the legendary group of heroes will celebrate 30 years since their birth on the Netflix screen with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, a special that will bring back part of the original cast along with several of the stars who appeared throughout the years, to be part of an epic adventure.

Once And Always will feature David Yost (Billy) and Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack), as well as Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam), Steve Cardenas (Rocky), Karan Ashley (Aisha), and Catherine Sutherland (Kat). They will also be joined by a new addition to the franchise, Charlie Kersh, who will play Trini’s daughter.

However, the special will feature some significant absences. Jason David Frank, who gave life to the Green Ranger, aka Tommy Oliver, passed away last year at the age of 49. Another who will not be part of the anniversary is Amy Jo Johnson, the legendary Kimberly/Pink Ranger.

Through Twitter, the actress explained the reason why she would not participate:

“Please stop saying I didn’t do the reunion because of money. Simply not true. Maybe I just didn’t want to wear spandex in my 50s or couldn’t go to NZ for a month. Or none of ur beeswax JDF & I both chose not to for our own reasons. They filmed before he passed.”

Johnson has already been part of many Power Rangers projects beyond the original show. Back in 2016, she appeared alongside her co-star Frank for a brief cameo as a townsperson in a Power Rangers movie reboot directed by Dean Israelite.

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The Story of the Power Rangers

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The Power Rangers series is based on Super Sentai, a Japanese television series of the Tokusatsu genre (which includes live-action series and movies that use a large number of special effects) that was born in 1975.

The plot presents five powerful young people who join forces against those who dare to disturb our planet, the same line that followed the version popularized for the whole world since 1993.

In 2021, Netflix announced that a new cinematic and television universe was in development for the franchise. Jonathan Entwistle, the creator of the series The End of the F***ing World, is in charge of supervising said universe under the supervision of Michael Lombardo, CEO of EOne, a company owned by Hasbro, which is the current owner of the characters’ rights.