Power Rangers first appeared in 1993
X-Bomber (Star Fleet) first appeared in 1980.
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Both rip off Himitsu Sentai Goranger
which first appeared in 1975.
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wikipedia sayz
Getter Robo pionered the concept of combining robots to form a giant robot in 1974.
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He used a time machine to go forwards in time
and stole the idea from Transformers.
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and i'm listening to the Brian May version of the theme right now!
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