VR Troopers

1994
VR Troopers

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Mutant Mutiny Sep 11, 1995

Amphibidor's mutiny against Grimlord to become master of Virtual Reality is redirected into an attack on the VR Troopers.

EP2 Trooper Out of Time Sep 12, 1995

Ziktor tries to destroy Ryan's past with a time machine.

EP3 Secret Power Sep 13, 1995

The Troopers show how to combat stage fright and stop a plot to steal energy from the Power Plant at the same time.

EP4 Quest for Power (1) Sep 18, 1995

The Troopers attempt to rescue Tyler from Grimlord's dungeon and the evil war lord's plan to steal all his knowledge.

EP5 Quest for Power (2) Sep 19, 1995

The Troopers are forced to infiltrate Grimlord's dungeon in their efforts to rescue Tyler.

EP6 Quest for Power (3) Sep 20, 1995

Ryan loses his VR powers as he tries to rescue his father and the other Troopers.

EP7 Quest for Power (4) Sep 21, 1995

Tyler attempts to create a new virtual armor to defend the Troopers against Grimlord's new army in outer space.

EP8 Quest for Power (5) Sep 22, 1995

Tyler's new technology is put to the test when Grimlord has a new mutant created to destroy the Troopers.

EP9 Fashion Victims Sep 25, 1995

Ziktor uses a fashion show as an opportunity to try to catch the Troopers in his silk "capture" cocoons.

EP10 Game Over Sep 26, 1995

Grimlord launches the Troopers' new video training game into a real battleground and forces the Troopers to face their most awesome opponent ever.

EP11 Watered Down Sep 27, 1995

Ryan is trapped underwater by Octobot and is unable to use his powers to save himself.

EP12 The Negative Factor Oct 02, 1995

Ryan rushes to try to save J.B. and Kaitlin who are headed for The Negative Zone after being zapped by the Doom Master into phantoms on Earth.

EP13 Kaitlin Through the Looking Glass (1) Oct 03, 1995

Grimlord steals Kaitlin's image to create an Anti-Kaitlin programmed to destroy the VR Troopers.

EP14 Kaitlin Through the Looking Glass (2) Oct 04, 1995

Grimlord's creation, the Anti-Kaitlin, turns against him, and steals his Virtual Mirror Program to help reunite the two Kaitlins.

EP15 Kaitlin Goes Hollywood Oct 09, 1995

Kaitlin is forced to choose between the VR Troopers and a movie career as Grimlord creates Photobot to destroy them.

EP16 Grimlord Takes Root Oct 10, 1995

Grimlord's killer plants come alive and destroy the Troopers' motorcycles as they plan on taking over the Earth.

EP17 The Disk Oct 11, 1995

Grimlord tries to steal new scientific computer programs which threaten the Troopers' powers.

EP18 Virtual Venom Oct 16, 1995

J.B. and Kaitlin face old age before their time after Doom Master's Virtual Spider bites them.

EP19 New World Order Oct 17, 1995

Ryan falls victim to a mind-control motorcycle helmet and threatens Kaitlin's safety.

EP20 Grimlord's Children Oct 18, 1995

Grimlord attempts to enslave Ryan, Kaitlin and the play center kids with his magic balloons.

EP21 The Millennium Sabre Oct 24, 1995

The Troopers race to block Lizardbot's plan to destroy them using the stolen energized Millennium Sabre.

EP22 Grimlord's Dark Secret (1) Nov 02, 1995

Ancient digs unearth a portal to worlds unknown -- except by Grimlord!

EP23 Grimlord's Dark Secret (2) Nov 03, 1995

A pyramid in another time hides deadly secrets for the Troopers.

EP24 On the Wrong Track Nov 06, 1995

Grimlord sabotages athlete's gold medals in World Games with plans for global domination.

EP25 Forward into the Past Nov 07, 1995

Grimlord tries to banish all to prehistoric Earth using his magic time bracelets.

EP26 Into Oraclon's Web Nov 08, 1995

Ryan unknowingly falls for Alexis, a beautiful mutant, who tricks him into a trap.

EP27 Santa's Secret Trooper Nov 13, 1995

Otto, one of Santa's elves, rescues the Troopers in time for Christmas.

EP28 The Charmeeka Invasion Nov 14, 1995

A new type of pet transformers themselves into an invasion of monsters which threaten the whole town.

EP29 Dream Battle Nov 15, 1995

Grimlord traps the Troopers in a dream of his own making.

EP30 A Hard Day's Mutant Nov 20, 1995

Grimlord attempts to steal the musical talents of a popular young rock group.

EP31 Magnetic Attraction Nov 21, 1995

Oraclon creates a powerful magnet monster to destroy the VR Troopers.

EP32 Get Me to the Lab on Time Nov 27, 1995

Grimlord creates a powerful love potion for Kaitlin and Percy who plan their wedding.

EP33 Grimlord's Big Breakout Nov 28, 1995

Grimlord frees an evil convict and transforms him into an anti-Trooper weapon.

EP34 Field and Scream Feb 05, 1996

Knighttime launches a city attack while the Troopers are and Ziktor are on a nature trip.

EP35 The Duplitron Dilemma Feb 06, 1996

Grimlord's Duplitron machine multiples trouble for the Troopers.

EP36 Despera Strikes Back Feb 07, 1996

Despera sends her evil sister, Desponda, to be the secret weapon in Grimlord's plot to destroy the Troopers.

EP37 The Ghost of Cross World Forrest Feb 12, 1996

The Troopers stumble onto Grimlord's secret weapons factory and are caught in a deadly fog which keeps them from transforming.

EP38 Grimlord's Dummy Feb 13, 1996

Grimlord transformers a ventriloquist dummy into a life-size monster who attacks the Troopers.

EP39 Time Out Feb 20, 1996

The Troopers and Grimlord are forced to join forces against Knighttime who has stopped the Earth.

EP40 Galileo's New Memory Feb 21, 1996

The Troopers have to rescue a new robot from Grimlord who wants to steal its memory.
5.6| 0h30m| TV-Y7| en| More Info
Released: 03 September 1994 Ended
Producted By: Saban Entertainment
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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Join the VR troopers as they use `Virtual Reality' to stop the evil GrimLord creating havoc.

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Terryfan You know everything is really strange even when you look back on it. It always seems when there is a popular movie or TV Show just around the corner there is something trying to cash in on it success.Even as a kid I felt that V.R.Troopers were more or less a copy cat of the already popular Mighty Morphin Power Rangers which I was a huge fan of. But as a kid of the 90s I have to say there were endless shows that you could get hooked on it's just that Mighty Moprhin Power Rangers won me over because it had more to offer to me and it had my interest more than this series did.It just hard to even consider this show to be on the same network let alone the same level as the Power Rangers were. This show was doom from the moment it aired I mean I try to watch the show I really did and there was only one episode that I purely remember the movie and a few other episodes that were shades of gray in terms of memoryAlso the characters just didn't stick out to me sure they might have had their interest to viewers but V.R.Troopers really had nothing to offer that much it was just more or less a cash in on Power Rangers.Only watch it if you're curious otherwise it is not worth your time
movie_show_critic "VR Troopers" (Virtual Reality Troopers) was a syndicated live action show produced by Saban from 1994 to 1996. Saban also created the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series.The series hoped to profit from the obsession with virtual reality in the early 1990s as well as the success of Power Rangers. It featured early video effects and CGI mixed with Japanese stock footage from three different Metal Hero Series: Superhuman Machine Metalder, Dimensional Warrior Spielban, and Space Sheriff Shaider. This kind of adaptation technique, turning multiple shows into one show, was originally used in anime with shows like Robotech and Voltron. This was the first and only time this was used for a Tokusatsu adaptation. On May 7, 2010, the copyright for VR Troopers was transferred from BVS International to SCG Power Rangers.The series was deemed successful, but not as successful as the Power Rangers franchise. Unfortunately, for the series, the Japanese footage was quickly exhausted due to extreme cases where multiple Tokusatsu scenes were put together in a single episode to the point stock footage had to be reused multiple times throughout the series. Similarly, another Saban program, Big Bad Beetleborgs, would do well but ultimately end quickly due to a lack of stock footage. Both series were adapted from the Japanese Metal Hero genre, which ended in Japan around the same time. The show spawned a toy line and a video game for the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive).PLOT SUMMARYSaban's VR Troopers was the first official "sister series" to the most popular "action fighting kid show" at the time, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Much like it, this was an Americanization of a Japanese Tokusatsu children's program by Toei Company LTD.The show focused on three young adults in their late teens, Ryan Steele, Kaitlin Star, and J.B. Reese, living in the fictional West Coast town of Cross World City. They regularly attended and were teachers at "Tao's Dojo", a karate studio. Ryan was the most focused martial artist; J.B. was the computer wizard; while Kaitlin was a photographer & budding reporter for the local newspaper, the Underground Voice Daily. One day, Ryan's search for his long- missing father led him and his two friends to a strange laboratory. Inside, a digitized head of Professor Horatio Hart, a friend of Ryan's father Tyler, explained the truth about his life's work of having developed extremely advanced virtual reality technology in secret. "VR" is a dimension existing alongside our own; within it lie mutants and monsters bent on conquering both worlds. The main ruler of these is a creature known as Grimlord, who, unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, has a human identity as billionaire industrialist Karl Ziktor. As Karl Ziktor tries to overcome the barriers of the true reality to allow his armies easy passage from virtual world, the responsibility falls to Ryan, Kaitlin, and J.B. of defending the planet on both sides of the dimensional barrier. They have assistance in the form of armored bodies having incredible firepower. This included eventual additions to their arsenal, such as a Turbo Cycle, Techno Bazooka, and a flying, laser-blasting Skybase.Other regular characters on the show included Jeb, Ryan's hound dog, who, after an accident in Prof. Hart's lab, is now capable of human speech; Woody Stocker, Kaitlin's wacky hat-loving boss at the Underground Voice Daily; Percy Rooney, the local mayor's nephew and Kaitlin's bumbling rival reporter; and Tao, the wise martial arts sensei who owns the dojo and a family friend of the Steele Family. Recurring villains include General Ivar, a vicious rocket-shaped monster with his own tank; Colonel Icebot, a cold-blooded virtual menace; Decimator, a sword-wielding warrior; the Skugs, gold-headed foot soldiers, and more throughout.During the second season, the show changed format very slightly. Ryan's father was finally found (having been restored to normal off- camera) and quickly left to help the government research further Virtual Reality-based technology. With him came Ryan's new V.R. armor and an upgrade to his powers. Grimlord's base of operation switched from a dungeon to a massive spacecraft, and added new Generals such as Doom Master and his Vixens, Oraclon, and Despera. The Skugs now had the ability to become more powerful in the form of Ultra-Skugs.
manwithabigCOCACOLA As you will see in my biography, I wrote my doctoral thesis on this show and found it enlightening. Not to mention the eye candy cast and lovable animal sidekick. If i had one wish, it would be to be a VR trooper. Grimlord was soooooooooooooooooooooo evil that I still have nightmares. I couldn't believe the twist ending to series - I couldn't believe it had to end that way, but it did, and I had to live with it. In the end, I think the show is better for it, and could only have been improved by an extended transformation sequence. Nonetheless, If you enjoyed Steel Magnolias or Remains of the day or even that travesty My Dinner with Andre, you will die for the vr troopers.
gingared25 There is something interesting about it: If anyone here Knows the Japanese Metal Hero shows, then you know the three shows involved. First season: Jiku Senshi Spielvan (Dimensional Warrior Spielvan), Choujinki Metalder (Super Man Machine Metalder).Second Season: Jiku Senshi Spielvan (Dimensional Warrior Spielvan), Uchuu Keiji Shaider (Space Sheriff Shaider)The Interesting Part: On the first season, They used Metalder battle scenes for when Ryan Steele fights. On the Second Season, they turn back the clock and use Shaider scenes for Ryan Steele battle sequences.Oh well, I just want to point out something.