In 2018, Hasbro bought Power Rangers from Saban. Then CEO Brian Goldner believed the franchise to have a lot of potential, seeing it as a brand with plenty of life and longevity.
Unfortunately, he was the only one at Hasbro that felt this way about the franchise, and with his untimely death came the seemingly untimely death of Power Rangers as we knew it.
Since then, the show has been taken off the air, the Lightning Collection line has been shelved, the rumored TV/Movie Reboot multiverse helmed by Brian Entwistle has been cancelled, the deal with Netflix to put new Power Rangers content on their streaming service has been reneged, 30+ years of props and costumes have been auctioned off, and the only things we have to look forward to in the foreseeable future is the Rita's Rewind game, the Boom! Comic series, and the Playmates toy line that will seemingly only pander to MMPR fans.
What do you think, at this point in time, the future of Power Rangers looks like? Do you think we will ever get a new season? A new Movie? Will the Lightning Collection come back? Will we continue to adapt Sentai, or are we past the point of no return and are going to go 100% American footage from here on out?
Personally, I hope Power Rangers comes back eventually, but I've also moved on to Super Sentai. I'll support the show should it come back, but I'm not holding my breath either.Move on please.>>22980251
No.It's Robotech now. Only a very small increasingly shrinking group of obsessed fans who are obsessed with the Americanized version and refused to move on will care while Hasbro bring out the franchise every couple years for a halfassed thing to try to fleece them for all their worth. Except probably worse because while Harmony Gold had the money power to keep Macross eternally fucked until recently through their real estate business Hasbro is getting increasingly broke year by year and they need to keep paying Toei for the rights.
Anyone who's geninuely likes the concept that isn't a racist or stuck in the 90s will have moved onto Sentai>>22980264
I hate to agree with you, but you're right. And at this point, I've moved onto Sentai myself. Hard to be sad about losing PR when Ninja Steel was ass and KingOhger was so damn good.There is a way to stimulate this franchise in an original way that can benefit the current rights-holder AND Toei, but neither side will do it.>>22980264 While I agree totally, it kind of sucks that who ever has the rights to Power Rangers, for some reason, also holds the rights to Western Releases of the Super Sentai series.>>22980328
I would love to hear your thoughts on this elaborated, please.>>22980336
I absolutely hate that the Shout Factory DVD releases have basically paused after Fiveman, and I'm also REALLY hoping that this isnt also somehow making the western releases of Kamen Rider slow down too. I'd REALLY love if we eventually got all of, if not most of the Heisei and Reiwa Rider series on physical media.
Us not having the OG Kamen Rider on DVD already is a crime.>>22980341 >Sentai and KR overseas releases have slowed down to halted This is the Robotech bullshit with macross all over again, a big reason we never got most of the SRW games
