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We already discussed this, Power Rangers would've happened since it's very different and Saban had been pitching the show for many years, it was finally picked up because of the Dinosaur theme when prior pitches didn't have it.
The martial arts of the TMNT didn't have a big effect on Power Rangers being picked up because of its martial arts, that 80s boom of martial arts had already finished and PRs started it again. The only influence from TMNT is the long title of "Mighty Morphin" since many shows included long descriptive titles because of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but that's about it.
I wish the anime craze hadn't happened in the US, after that happened the US multi-nationals started acquiring the worldwide license rights for dubs and the rest of the world started getting censored dubs because of Americanized standards. Before that the rest of the world would get uncensored/original soundtrack faithful adaptations. Thankfully DBZ had already finished around most of the world when it began its popularity in the US, but Pokemon wasn't so lucky, we all got the crappy 4Kids version and everything after that pretty much. At last at animes aimed at kids, only exception I can think of is Digimon which did get uncensored dubs around this time.
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