by Eric Francisco Is a Mighty Morphin’/Dino Charge ‘Power Rangers’ Special Happening?

We are just two episodes into Power Rangers Dino Charge and already fans are praising it for being an exceptionally better series than anything produced since the purchase from Disney in 2010. Fans had to wallow in the dark before the dawn, but Dino Charge is that dawn.

Right now that sun is shining brighter than ever, because a social media flub may have just unveiled HUGE news for Dino Charge: the return of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers!

The official Instagram account for Power Rangers uploaded the image below before being quickly deleted. This being the internet in 2015, of course you can still see it.

From Morphin’ Legacy on Facebook:

Take a moment to re-read it several times. You need to.

Seriously: Are we getting a Mighty Morphin’/Dino Charge crossover?

Let’s get some stuff out of the way.

First, team-up footage does exist thanks to the Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger movie featuring Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger and Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger. (I just lost like half the Geekscape audience now, didn’t I?) But as Dino Charge has proved just a few episodes in, they seem to not give many craps about Kyoryuger because the series has thus shown an overwhelming amount of entirely new footage. Executive producer and friend to all mankind, Judd Lynn, must have finally convinced Saban to really use that Saban money to make it rain up in the Power Rangers production offices!

Ahem. Basically, this means that just because there is existing footage of Mighty Morphin’ Rangers fighting with the current Dino Charge kids, that doesn’t mean a team-up was going to happen at all. But this Instagram gaff just made things a little more interesting.

Second, full disclosure: Karan Ashley, the actress who portrayed Aisha the Yellow Ranger in seasons two and three of the original series and the 1995 film, is a friend of mine. However, she has not spoken to me about any sort of team-up or return to Power Rangers in any capacity. If she is indeed signed on for a team-up special, I can only assume she signed very strict NDAs and thus wouldn’t tell her friend, a geek blogger who writes for a news website. If our roles were reversed, I wouldn’t tell her anything either!

Third, how free are the original actors? Between the convention tours and involvement in non-Power Rangers projects, I can’t imagine when they can spend a week or two shooting in New Zealand. They have a far easier shot at booking the actors of DinoThunder, at least one would presume.

In any case, a Mighty Morphin’ team-up with Dino Charge would just be flat-out AWESOME. There have been many crossovers in the show’s history — and we’re coming off Super Megaforce, which was supposed to be the biggest one of them all (spoilers: it kinda wasn’t) — but a total original team/rookie squad dynamic has never been done before. I don’t count Operation Overdrive‘s “Once A Ranger” special in that context, since none of those veteran Rangers served on the same team.

Not to mention, it’s the freaking original Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. No, this peculiar Instagram post didn’t feature Jason David Frank or Thuy Trang (of course, bless her soul). But this is about as close to the original team as possible, and seeing ALL of these Rangers back would make my heart sing.

What do you guys think? Are you excited for a possible, cross-generation team-up special? Let us know!