  big bad beetleborgs (later beetleborgs metallix) is an american live-action television series. the series is a co-production of toei company and bugboy productions.  it aired for two seasons on fox kids between september 7, 1996 and march 2, 1998. reruns later aired on upn kids from 1998 to 1999. on may 7, 2010, as part of the sale of the power rangers franchise, the copyright for beetleborgs was transferred from bvs entertainment to saban capital group. the series adapted combat footage from the metal hero tokusatsu-series juukou b-fighter (first season) and b-fighter kabuto (second season).http://www.cinelinx.com/tv/item/2404-dvd-review-big-bad-beetleborgs-season-one-volume-one.html ==synopsis== ===season 1=== set in the fictional town of charterville, three "typical average kids", drew (wesley barker), jo (shannon chandler/brittany konarzewski), and roland (herbie baez), enter the supposedly haunted hillhurst mansion after accepting a dare from rich snobs van and trip. the house is revealed to be the home of real monsters when the kids accidentally bump a pipe organ, releasing a phantasm named flabber (billy forester). he proves to be friendly, and in return for releasing him, offers to grant them one wish. they wish to become their comic book heroes, the big bad beetleborgs. however, this also brings the beetleborgs' sworn enemies to life: the magnavores, led by the evil vexor, who would summon mon
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