| TURBO MORPHERS AND KEYS |
| - devices used to tap Turbo powers to morph teens into Turbo Rangers | |
| First Appearance: | 500-TPRM |
| Last Appearance: | 1034-FRed |
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| Subcategories: | Morphing |
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500-TPRM.
- After the Turbozords
had been created, a stand appeared from the mist in the Turbozords' room; the circular platform on the
stand was divided onto five Ranger-colored sections, on each of
which lay each Turbo Morpher and key, including the as yet unused Blue Ranger's Morpher and key.
? All of the Turbo
Morpher keys were unfolded in the initial shot, but in the close-ups of
the keys, only the Red Ranger's
key was unfolded.
- At the base of each key was a gold triangular C emblem seen frequently on Turbo
equipment.
- Zordon told the teens, "Before you are your new Turbo Morphers,
five keys similar to Lerigot's Golden Key"; his wording implies that the keys
were themselves the main parts of the Morphers, with the wrist-mounted
devices being mere accessories; nevertheless, for the purposes of
clarity, this guide refers to the wrist devices as Turbo Morphers and
the keys as Turbo Morpher keys.
- As stated in the previous entry, the five Turbo
Morpher keys were supposedly similar to Lerigot's Golden Key.
- Individually, the keys/Morphers would power up
the Turbozords and give the teens access to their (new Turbo) morphing powers.
- Together, and only together, were the five keys
powerful enough to see the teens safely through
the Nemesis Triangle.
- As the four teens held
their hands on their keys and Morphers, Ranger-colored energy beams shot down
into them from above, suiting them up in their Turbo suits; this was verified by the
flashback in 501-SIT1.
- In the Power
Chamber, Zordon told the Rangers to take their Turbozords across the "great desert" to the sea; there they would find
the Ghost Galleon, a phantom ship which
would take them and their Zords to the Nemesis Triangle.
- Zordon said the combined
power of the Rangers' keys and the galleon would see them safely through the Nemesis Triangle.
- Alpha said the Rangers had to merge the power of their keys
at the moment they crossed the Nemesis
Triangle.
- On a podium on the upper deck of the Ghost Galleon was an ornate box; inside were
five keyholes.
- The teens removed their
Turbo Morpher keys from their pockets and inserted them in the
left-to-right order (facing the box) Tanya, Kat, Tommy, Adam, and Justin.
- Once the five keys (called "portal keys," the
only official name given to them) had been inserted into the keyholes
and turned left ninety degrees, white light shone up from the keyholes,
and the ship prepared itself for and embarked upon its voyage.
? A crooked key (Adam's) corrected itself between shots.
- Two days later, as the Ghost Galleon approached the Nemesis Triangle, Kat
had the teens go down below while she retrieved
the keys from the galleon's controls.
? Kat handed each teen a key,
but since the keys had no distinguishing features from one another, it
seems that she would have handed the teens
random keys.
- When the teens held
their keys toward the center of their circular group, Ranger-colored light glowed from each
key's blade, and the teens seemed to have
trouble holding them steady; an orange burst of light then flung the teens back, and the galleon passed through the wall of the Nemesis Triangle; the energy-combining scene
as the galleon approached the Nemesis Triangle was verified by the
flashback in 501-SIT1.
- Some time later, the galleon's control box was still open, and
the keys appeared to be back in the keyholes.
- The teens must have had
their keys in their possession by the time they came upstairs strapping
on their Power Boxes, since, after this
point, Adam, and soon the others, would leave the
soon-to-be-destroyed Ghost Galleon in
their Turbozords.
- So that they could morph to make a silent approach on Maligore's temple,
Tommy told the teens to
take out their "Morphers," at which point they removed their keys from
their pockets.
- When the teens assumed
their pre-morph stances, the four
older teens faced toward their right, with
their left arm flexed (as though in preparation to summon their Turbo
Morphers onto their wrists); Justin, however,
goofed by facing toward his left, with his right arm flexed (holding his
key in the foreground, as would become the new pre-morph stance in 516-Shr1); Tommy glared
at Justin with a look of disapproval and
annoyance until Justin turned around to match
the other teens' stances.
- Whenever the teens
summoned their Turbo Morphers, the devices would replace the communicators on the teens' wrists.
- After doing arm gestures while holding their
keys, the teens would insert the glowing keys
into the Turbo Morphers to activate the morph sequence; occasionally, they
would turn the keys after inserting them, but most often they would not
turn them.
- Occasionally, the keys wouldn't be glowing when
they were inserted into the Turbo Morphers, but there would always be a
glow after the insertion.
502-SIT2.
- The Turbo Morphers replaced each teen's communicator on his or her right wrist when
the teen did a wrist-twist motion as had been
done to summon the Zeonizers; the Morpher
would appear with a gleam of Ranger-colored light; meanwhile, the
summoning of the Turbo Keys into the left hand would never be shown,
unless it was a rare instance in which the teen
pulled out the key from his or her pocket.
503-SIT3.
- Once the five Turbozords were docked together, the Rangers would insert their Turbo Keys into
the controls in front of them; the keyhole for each Ranger was surrounded by a disc divided into
five Ranger-colored segments, of
which the respective Ranger's color, on the top for each Ranger, lit up when the keys were turned; the Turbo Megazord then stood up and completed
its transformation.
504-Shad.
- The teens were still
wearing their Turbo Morphers on their wrists after being demorphed by the Shadow Rangers' creation.
505-TrIm.
- Although she wasn't shown summoning her Turbo Morpher before her morph, Tanya's
wrist glowed with yellow light as she performed her pre-morph pose.
512-Al&D.
- As it seemed Reggie was about to beat him up, Justin reached into his back pocket and pulled out
his Turbo Key, flipping out its blade and causing it to glow with blue
light behind his back.
513-MiMe.
- On Blue Senturion's left wrist was a silver device which looked similar to a Turbo Morpher.
516-Shr1.
- Morphing
alone, Justin first used the new pre-morph stance of facing left with his
right, key arm flexed, holding his key in the foreground, with the
Morpher-summoning on his left wrist never shown; elsewhere, the other
four teens assumed the same pre-morph stance without having seen Justin's.
517-Shr2.
- Before calling his morph, Justin
pulled out his key (perhaps from his right pocket) and clicked out the
blade.
- Justin appeared to click
out the blade of his key by squeezing the C emblems on the bottom, wide
surfaces of the key.
518-PTT1.
- As Piranhatrons on
bikes shot at them, Kat dropped her Turbo Key upon leaping out of the
truck on Tommy's insistence.
- Justin pulled out his
key, apparently from his right pocket, and held it out to morph, but Flamite knocked the key from his
hand.
- After Tanya and Adam had pulled out their keys from their right
pockets to morph, Flamite kicked the keys from their
hands as well.
- The keys, lying on the ground next to a fire
started by Flamite, quickly became
hot, as though made of metal; Adam picked up two
of them off the ground.
519-PTT2.
- Justin, Adam, and Tanya ran from Flamite with their Morphers on their
wrists and their keys in their hands; Tanya said
she'd gotten her "Morpher" (presumably referring to her key), and that
was all of them.
520-StWi.
- Beginning with this episode, when a morph preparation would not include a key
insertion, the key, held in the teen's hand,
would often glow with Ranger-colored light, blending into a
light in front of the Ranger for his or
her morph; similarly, key insertions
would frequently do the same.
- Despite the infrequent insertion of the keys into
the Turbo Morphers as of the introduction of the new preparation stance, as well as the lack of
involvement of the Turbo Morphers in the new morph sequences, the Turbo Morphers
would still be on the new teens' wrists during
the morph sequences.
523-PhPh.
- While fighting Piranhatrons, Justin told Alpha over
the communicator to send the other Rangers, and he then instantly morphed (and grew) with a flash of blue
light in the middle of punching a Piranhatron; neither his key nor his Morpher
was visible at the time.
530-Robo.
- The robot teens
were able to morph with the keys and
Morphers.
? Robot Carlos wasn't holding a key when he
flexed his right arm for his pre-morph pose, but he was as he and robot Justin did their key insertion
gestures.
- The robot teens
weren't shown giving the keys and Morphers back to the real teens, but the real teens
were able to summon them and morph
as usual.
541-LSMn.
- Confronted by Piranhatron, super-strong Justin pulled out his key and tried to morph, but his Morpher didn't appear,
and his arm holding his key appeared to be in pain.
- Dimitria told Justin that his super strength, apparently given
to him by being bitten by an ant doused with chemicals, was incompatible
with his Ranger powers.
617-RMVy.
- On a balcony area overlooking the Mega Vehicles' hangar in the moonbase on Jupiter's
moon Ganymede was a table apparatus very
similar to the stand from which the Turbo
Rangers had gotten their Turbo powers
in the Power Chamber in 500-TPRM.
- At this table, the Rangers exchanged Zordon's keycards from Eltar with new keycards which actually operated
the Mega Vehicles.
618-TBTR.
- As Storm Blaster
raced toward a warehouse to help the captured Space Rangers, with Justin in the driver's seat, its glove compartment
opened, revealing a Turbo Morpher and key which Justin excitedly exclaimed were his.
- Justin was driving Storm Blaster as the Blue Turbo Ranger when it crashed
into the warehouse.
| - Phrases used for Rangers to insert Turbo Keys into controls | |
| 503-SIT3 503-SIT3 504-Shad 508-BBFB 509-WLie 510-GlHa 511-Wt&S 513-MiMe 526-DrkD | Rangers: "Initiate Turbo Megazord!" |
| 507-BFSp |
Tommy: "All right..." Rangers: "Turbo Megazord!" |
| 520-StWi 536-Conf | T.J.: "Initiate Turbo Megazord!" |
| - Phrases used as Rangers turn inserted Turbo Keys | |
| 503-SIT3 504-Shad 507-BFSp 509-WLie 511-Wt&S |
Tommy: "Turbo up!" other Rangers: "Turbo up!" |
| 503-SIT3 508-BBFB 510-GlHa 513-MiMe | Tommy: "Turbo up!" |
| 520-StWi | Rangers (as T.J. inserts key): "Turbo up!" |
| 526-DrkD 536-Conf | T.J.: "Turbo up!" |
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