DATE REVIEWED: 6/8/25
TITLE: Rainbow Rangers – Welcome to Kaleidoscopia
BOX OFFICE RATED: N/A (This is not suitable for GOD’s children.)
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2019 Genius Brands International/Telegael Teoranta/Nick Jr./Kartoon Channel
RATING [1 LEAST FAVORITE TO 5 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]: 1
REASON: This review is a compilation of seven episodes from the kids’ cartoon TV series sold on one dvd. In Episode 1, Go with the Rainbow Floe, a baby polar bear on Earth was separated from its mother in the Arctic after a piece of the high ledge the baby stood alone on broke away. The mother stood a distance away and looked on as the baby bear fell far below on a piece of ice and drifted away in the ocean on the floe. The helpless mother roared for help and that cry traveled skyward in the form of a rainbow through outer space to the mythical world of Kaleidoscopia. Kaleidoscopia housed seven young girls called the Rainbow Rangers and they lived around the castle with universe dictating crown Queen Kalia (Ka-lee-a). Each young girl represented a different color of the rainbow and wore their colors proudly. They also had a super power when summoned to action to work as a team to do the queen’s bidding while everyone quickly dressed in their rainbow attire. Rosie Redd had strength power, Mandarin (Mandy) Orange had music power, Anna Banana had animal power, Pepper Mintz had inviso power, Bonnie Blueberry (BB) had construction and vision powers, Indigo (Indy) Allfruit had speed power and Lavender LaViolette had micro power. All the girls stopped whatever they were doing to transform into their short-skirted rainbow outfits, whenever rainbow-haired Kalia called them. On the first mission, the queen chose Rosie, Anna and Bonnie to rescue the baby bear with the help of their sidekick, Floof, a male pink Prismacorn (rainbow unicorn) whose only dopey vocabulary word was “Floof.” Soon after that the queen disappeared, her normal routine once she assigned a trio of girls to handle what the royal deemed as necessary saving in order for the earth to function according to the queen’s way. The foursome, (including Floof), then teleported to Earth in the Arctic using portals as they rode their three flying Spectra Scooters. Rosie, taking charge as leader, tried to rescue the bear cub by grabbing the cub off the patch of floating ice while Floof recklessly drove her flying machine. That didn’t pan out so well because Rosie never seemed to have the man strength she needed and couldn’t hold on to the cub very long. They crashed onto an ice floe, where ice broke off so the Rangers blamed it on global warming. Anna then used her powers to communicate with the cub, and told her sidekicks that the cub was too scared to move and fly again so BB made a tow device and the Rangers towed the ice floe to shore using their scooters. Baby Bear ran to Mama Bear once back on shore and that ended the mission for female gang of Rangers so they returned to Kaleidoscopia with Floof.
In Episode 2, Northern Lights, a seal and her pup at Lake Saimaa in Finland sent out rainbow distress signals to the unearthly queen in Kaleidoscopia. Kalia informed the Rangers that the weather in Finland was warmer than ever before (global warming) so the seals couldn’t build a snow den for safety. Kalia picked Rosie, Anna, Mandy and Floof for the next job and sent them to the specified area on Earth. The seals were too scared to go anywhere, so Mandy soothed them by playing her flute and then the Rangers took the seals to somewhere with plenty of snow and Anna quickly dug the den for them. However, the girls’ scooters were then stolen and it was too dark to go search for them. Young Anna was afraid of the dark and she didn’t want to stay on Earth overnight, but she agreed to have a sleepover with the girls and the seals. Mama Seal left the den to find food, but then the Rangers heard their scooters outside and went to get them back and took Baby Seal with them. They discovered that triplet bear cubs were joyriding on the scooters and couldn’t figure out how to stop, so Rosie handled the situation and she herself helped all three of triplets by landing each scooter safely back on the ground. The bears apologized for stealing the scooters. Mama Seal returned with a fish and the Rangers stuck around to watch the northern lights with their animal acquaintances.
In Episode 3, Uninvited Guest, an alligator took a nap in a Florida pool belonging to the wealthy Preston Praxton, high on the queen’s watch target list. A rainbow was sent from Earth to Kaleidoscopia, where Kalia then summoned the girls for another mission just as the females weren’t exactly playing nice with each other and invading personal spaces. Rogue Queen Kalia chose Rosie, Mandy, Pepper and Floof to go to Florida and warn Preston and his young daughter, Patty, about the alligator at the bottom of the pool and return the animal to its home. The Rangers saved Patty from diving into the pool and then confronted, Preston who was distracted with his tablet and ignored his daughter (Patty had no mom and Preston was a single dad). Preston was angry to see the Rangers on his property again and put them inside his newest booby trap, a soundproof glass dome. Preston had designed many booby traps for the young Rainbow Ranger females. Preston and Patty couldn’t hear the warnings from the Rainbow Rangers since they were silenced inside the dome so the father daughter duo went for a swim in their pool where the alligator chased them around once in the water. Rosie’s strength wasn’t enough to break the glass, so Mandy shattered it with her loud music. Pepper put a cloak of invisibility around Preston and Patty so the alligator couldn’t see them, and then Rosie tackled the savage beast while Mandy hypnotized it with her music. Patty demanded to hug the sleeping gator while Preston planned to call animal control but the Rangers wouldn’t let them so Preston threatened to make the Rainbow Rangers pay in cash for stealing the alligator off his property. The Rangers tried to take the alligator to the well-known Florida swamp, but Preston had destroyed it to build suburban housing that made him rich so they returned to Praxton’s house with gator. Rosie then took Preston for a personal ride to see from above all the houses in the hood, and he rode on the front of her scooter with his backside in Rosie’s face. They discovered that each home had an alligator in every pool because the gators no longer had anywhere to live because the swampland was developed. The Rainbow Rangers convinced Preston to tear down all the mansions in the neighborhood and build an alligator reserve called Gator World where people would pay Preston bucket-loads of money to see the gators. The Rainbow Rangers knew greedy Praxton would agree to their plan, which he did, so they returned home to their queen.
In Episode 4, Rangers Raise A Condor, a California condor chick fell out of its nest and was left dangling from a tree branch after a drone rammed into the bird nest. The chick’s distressed cries sent a rainbow from the USA to the queen in outer space Kaleidoscopia, where the Rainbow Rangers realized that the condor was an endangered species that could go extinct if one chick died. Kalia picked Anna, Bonnie, Lavender and Floof for the third Earth mission. They arrived in time for Floof to catch the chick after it fell from the branch. But, then the Rainbow gang fled from the drone that started following aggressively after them. The chick fell, but Anna caught it and gave it her stuffed bunny Mr. Stuffie-Wuffie for comfort as she always did with scared baby animals. The Rainbow Rangers discovered that the drone belonged to whiny Patty Praxton now in California, whose dad Preston spoiled her with all the gadgets she craved funded with his mega millions. Patty soon apologized for flying her demolition drone recklessly and agreed to help the Rangers save the chick once she learned her drone caused bad things to happen to others. The mother bird wouldn’t accept the chick back if it was in the presence of strangers, so Anna and Lavender tried to teach the chick how to fly but it couldn’t because the baby bird was too young. Patty offered up her drone, and the girls harnessed the chick to the drone and followed the chick’s directions until it found its mom. Blueberry released the chick from its harness by copying a boobie trap mechanism from Praxton so the chick landed in the nest and was reunited with its mother without being touched by the Rainbow Rangers. That ended the mission and the Rainbow gang returned to the queen while Patty remained behind in California a bit more drone sense and new understanding how misusing a drone could harm nature and have a negative impact on the environment and animals. In Episode 5, S’no Problem, Preston and Patty were skiing on their own private Praxton Mountain possibly in or near the state of Colorado. Preston didn’t notice when Patty got stuck in a tree well, so she cried for help and a rainbow alerted queen Kalia. The female in charge dispatched Rosie, Blueberry, Indigo and Floof to a state in the USA again to rescue Patty. Bonnie’s vision power didn’t work, so Rosie used her rainbow vision to look under the surface to find Patty hidden beneath the whiteness. Blueberry gave everyone snowshoes so they wouldn’t cause an avalanche, and Floof gave Patty air in the form of a bubble. Rosie was unable to pull Patty out of the hole, as she didn’t have enough strength again, so Indy rescued Rosie and then Indy used her speed power to quickly dug a tunnel from a different area under the snow to the tree well. Indigo and Rosie carried Patty through the snow tunnel to safety. Preston came on scene and found the Rainbow girls and used another booby trap to trap the Rainbow Rangers and Floof on his personal ski lift. Preston then summoned Big Gold Preston, his giant gold robot look-alike to prove that the snow would do as he commanded it and not create an avalanche. The robot gold Preston snowboarded down the mountain as Preston and Patty followed with an avalanche in their wake. Rosie couldn’t free the Rangers from the trap using her strength again, so Bonnie built a wall between the Praxtons and the avalanche to save them. Preston tried to take credit for building the wall. Patty took the controller from her dad and freed the Rainbow Rangers and Floof from the ski lift. Preston was upset that he lost his big gold robot, so Indy suggested that Preston build an own personal army of gold robots so he agreed and immediately got to work on plans for his robot factory on his mountainous land. The Rainbow gang then returned home to their universal palace out of this world. In Episode 6, Icebreakers, two orca whales were trapped under the ice in the Russian Arctic and struggled to share one small breathing hole. Kalia explained that the orcas traveled further north than usual because their home waters were now too warm, and the ocean froze over them. The ruler Kalia chose Indigo, Mandy, Rosie and Floof to save the whales. Rosie widened the breathing hole for the whales, but then it froze back over. Indigo found the open ocean, but the only way there was covered with ice so the orcas couldn’t make it without air. The breathing hole kept shrinking, so the Rainbow Rangers took their mission underwater where they could still breathe and talk underwater. Indy tried to use her speed to push the whales out to the ocean, but she couldn’t move them. Mandy hypnotized the orcas with music to keep them calm. Rosie used her strength to get the whales to move and then Indigo used her speed to push the whales through the water. However, the orcas stopped moving so Floof created a trail of bubble fish to help lead the whales safely out to the open ocean away from the ice. The Rainbow teamsters left Earth again since that mission was accomplished. In Episode 7, Monkey Business, a baby pygmy marmoset in the South American Amazon was caught and put inside a small cage. Lavender captured a tiny dragonfly from outside her home and wanted to keep it as a pet and she named it Snowy, but the other Rainbow Rangers discouraged her as wild things had wild families. Queen Kalia sent Rosie, Lavender, Pepper and Floof to the Amazon to rescue the marmoset. The Rainbow Rangers discovered that Preston was in South America and he was responsible for capturing the marmoset. Preston was upset when he ruined his expensive Italian boots in the mud when the noisy marmoset wanted out of the cage. Rosie hung from a tree branch and tried to grab the marmoset’s cage, but she couldn’t and she fell into quicksand below. She held onto Floof’s horn and he and the Rainbow gang pulled Rosie free. They followed Preston’s footprints to his camp, where he gave the marmoset to daughter Patty as a pet and she named it Piggles. The girls wondered if they should let Patty keep Piggles because they seemed to bond together. Pepper turned herself invisible and went to free Piggles, but Lavender believed that Patty and Piggles had a bond and should stay together. Lavender tripped Pepper so her invisibility was exposed, so Preston could see Pepper and caught Pepper. Preston then put the Rainbow Rangers (except Lavender) in another one of his expensive booby traps for the queen’s girls. One of Piggles’ family members appeared, and Lavender told Patty that she decided she would release Snowy back into the wild where he belonged. Patty agreed with Lavender and then let Piggles run off with his wild monkey gang. Lavender and Snowy freed the other Rainbow Rangers and Floof. Patty and Preston left on their private helicopter while the Rainbow bunch left Earth and returned to their own home with their rainbow universal monarch. This entertainment for children had a commonsense selectionseal for families.