Power Rangers ditching tokusatsu is like Guy Fieri deciding he no longer likes food. The problem isn't the Sentai footage, the problem is writers and producers that don't want to put any effort into making it work.

I don't think Power Rangers need to ditch toku, it just needs to become its own distinct branch of it. Stop just being an adaption of sentai and do some trailblazing.

I don't know if Bugs and insects wouldn't sell well in the west. One of the biggest heroes is Spdier-man, a very clearly bug-themed hero. Then Again I guess that's more selling a character based on the insect rather than making toys of the bug itself 🤔

From day 1 that Hasbro bought the franchise I was scared of the Evergreenification of Power Rangers, where it's just MMPR forever. Where it's the equivalent of the usual 'Optimus/bumblebee/Megatron/Starscream' toy lines.

Honestly I don't buy the excuse of characters and designs being "too Japanese" when Demon Slayer, a very Japanese anime, is one of the most popular things with adults and kids.

(LONG POST ALERT) Here's my stance on the matter. There’s a big difference between Power Rangers abandoning Sentai/stock footage and abandoning tokusatsu. If it abandons the tokusatsu feel, it'll lose what made the franchise so much fun to begin with. The 2017 reboot film didn't have any tokusatsu feel and that's partially why it bombed. It didn't _feel_ anything like what Power Rangers was all about. It just felt like a haphazard MCU wannabe. I think the idea of adapting Sentai seasons could be phased out. They could just make their own stories using original suits or a hodgepodge of all Toei's old suits, or a mix of the two. Take a route similar to Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight. Previously I’ve said I’ve wanted to see certain seasons like Zyuohger, Kiramager, & King-Ohger get adapted, but I didn’t really mean “adapted". I moreso meant presence in Power Rangers in some way. Like, maybe the suits for Kiramager could appear somehow, or the mecha from King-Ohger, or the villains from Zyuohger - see what I mean? If Hasbro gave each show the budget of the average Sentai or Kamen Rider season, they could do a lot more. I also think that Power Rangers needs to appeal to more than just one demographic. It needs to tackle all age groups. There could be movies and shows, animated or live action, for various age demographics, like kids, tweens, teens, young adults, etc. I'm also open to animated Power Rangers so long as they don't get rid of live action Power Rangers content, because if Power Rangers were animated from the start, back when it debuted on Fox Kids, it wouldn’t have stood out. It would feel like a generic superhero show to a lot of kids and they’d just keep watching the X-Men cartoon instead. The show doesn’t need to be annual anymore either. Maybe instead of doing “seasons” of one show, you do multiple shows, and each one is treated as its own thing, while maybe set in the same canon, don’t treat it as a season of a show but rather a show in a universe. And don’t be afraid to do it with the level of maturity that Time Force or RPM had. Kids could watch and enjoy it but it can also be watched and enjoyed easily by older fans. So, does Power Rangers need to abandon Sentai? Maybe. But should it abandon the tokusatsu feel that made it stand out from most other superhero franchises? Absolutely not. That'd be like Batman if they took out the dark and gritty tone, it just rarely works anymore. Look, I love Power Rangers, and I want to see it succeed, but people are arguing left and right about what Hasbro should do, or if they’re making the right moves. Hell, there was hardly any development on the cinematic reboot between its announcement and the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes. Couple in the new Hasbro CEO treating the brand (as well as other Hasbro brands) like garbage, and I can see why a lot of people are worried. But nothing can kill a franchise that’s been around for 30+ years - or at least not permanently. Remember the gap between Kamen Rider Black RX & Kamen Rider Kuuga? Well, that’s all I gotta say. What do you think?

I think Power Rangers should be half original, and half sentai stuff. Just until Hasbro is ready to “leave the nest“ of sentai adaptations. for those who say that Hasbro should just do this immediately, I will say this. Hasbro, make these last few moments count, and let’s just let Hasbro take as long as they need to with the sentai adaptations. I really hope that cosmic fury opens the doors for fan adaptation inspiration. Speaking of which, my fan adaptations of the skipped seasons of sentai: ToQger, Zyuohger, fan adaptation of Kyuranger that drops the original suits, even though they look pretty decent for a first start by Hasbro in my opinion, Zenkaiger, and King-Ohger. I’m skipping Dan brothers because to me, it wasn’t that interesting.

6:30 correction, Saban didn't sell Power Rangers directly, Disney acquired the franchise when they bought the FoxKids brand and all of Saban Entertainment. They got ALL their products. They got Power Rangers, Digimon dubs, Transformers RID, etc. They didn't LIKE the franchise, they felt it was 'too violent', but they produced cool show because they just let the team do whatever as long as they didn't spend too much or broke the standards.

Taking Tokusatsu out of PR, just gives you saved by the bell but in spandex

"Does Power Rangers need to ditch the Toku?" ... No. ... Hasbro needs to stop shoehorning other seasons into an original season and call it an "upgrade". And they need to stop being freaking cheap on the toys. Actually put some effort into making neat on-screen gimmicks that can be put into roleplay toys.

Lord Zedd is an example of Power Rangers being distinctly different from Super Sentai, he is a wholly original character created to serve as the boss of Rita Repulsa and as a new threat to the Power Rangers was awesome in his debut and while the Gorma triumvirate of Shadam, Gara and Zydos as well as the Emperor were interesting as well, I thank Shout Factory for giving us both Power Rangers and Super Sentai dvd collections, because now I like both equally.

Personal opinions: While I don't think that they need to keep adapting sentai, and think that varying up the designs would be fun, I don't want them to revert back to Mighty Morphin. I don't want PR to become a series that's trapped in Nostalgia for a show that came out before I was born.

I think the important thing Power Rangers should ditch is SHAME and this tendency to underestimate their audience. They should just DO Power Rangers, enjoy themselves and celebrate itself at every turn. There's this overwhelming feeling with Power Rangers is that they need to justify themselves at every corner, justify themselves to 'concerned parents' with heavyhanded morals, and trying to justify their legacy as grand and important, and justify their new products with SO MUCH NOSTALGIA. They're always going 'We were big in the 90s you know!' instead of trying to be big NOW. They just don't embrace their own tropes the same way tokusatsu shows do. Power Rangers would never have given us an Akibaranger. They wouldn't give us Zenkaiger. You can ditch Super Sentai without ditching tokusatsu and PR's identity to try to chase trend instead of standing out. At best, they need to take cues from Gridman/Dynazeon and have animated tokusatsu. Every monster in SSSS Gridman still looks like they could be a dude in a suit, ya know?

I don't want PR to ditch Toku because, for as well as Boom does, their costume design for original rangers is awful, and I don't want more of that.

I will be honest with you, I see both sides of the coin. Financial costs yes it’s easier to use half of sentai footage. Also I can see where Mr. Bennetts opinion too. Every year the adult fans (not all but some) get upset when they don’t adapt certain sentai seasons. The reason why season 2 went to Netflix because of the issue of Nickelodeon contract expired and also Nickelodeon never promoted it properly. As a dad with kids , watching the channel they promoted reruns of SpongeBob 100 times a day. I like to see how cosmic fury turns out. Dino fury was pretty good and compelling in my opinion.

I half agree on the challenge to appeal to US kids. Growing up with Marvel and Star Wars. But at the same time, Henry Danger was a superhero sitcom show that was always on Nickelodeon the same time Power Rangers was. And that show had a far cheaper budget than Power Rangers has. Yet that was more popular. Also helped it was a Nick original, so they promoted that more than PR which they just licensed to be on their channel. So I don't think kids ultimately care about how a superhero show looks. They just want to be entertained.

The train problem is companies refusing to have trains be cool. Look at how Mattel treated Thomas the Tank Engine during the Big World Big Adventures and the recent reboot of the show. Where prior to Big World Big Adventures, the stories were centered on the characters who were trains being trains. With Big World Big Adventures, there were dream sequences where the characters pretended to be superheroes or others things like an elephant. Back when Toys R Us was all over the country, several isles of the store were dedicated to Thomas and Friends Wooden Railway alone. Everyone was furious at Mattel about the announcement of the Thomas and Friends reboot due to it abandoning realism completely and reducing the show to a Paw Patrol copy with Looney Tunes lunacy. If we want more people to be interested in trains, we need a good entry point for kids to get into trains and Thomas used to function as that entry point with the Railway Series and early seasons of the show. I doubt that the reboot will be able to serve that function. Without kids who are passionate about trains that grow up to care about steam preservation, people will care less and less about trains with the exception being the Flying Scotsman, the first steam locomotive to officially reach 100 miles per hour. Also, America’s infrastructure requires cars in order to get anywhere. The only locations where trains are easily accessible are in major city centers like New York and Salt Lake City. Public transit in general is a major issue.

I mean, there's a lot of issues with Power Rangers. Attempts to bank on nostalgia, while still making something almost completely new (IE, the Power Rangers Movie) failed because, as you said, they really didn't know the assignment. And part of the problem is, that extended to the toys as well. Absurdly complicated designs, that didn't translate well to toys. What bugs me though, is the way Cosmic Fury is playing out. I get it when people are saying that many of the themes that pop up in Sentai wouldn't work. The problem is... the show they're taking the mechs from... is not very Japanese. In fact, it's very international. It's theme is literally SPACE. Space sells regardless of what country you're in. Don't tell me I'm wrong, because you know that would be a lie. They could have made it something big, but because they wanted to make it super original, and they had to make it a crammed in continuation of Dino Fury, they've kinda missed the chance to do one final proper Sentai adaptation... and do it right. In fact... I would have said that, with clever use of story writing, and a little new material with support from Toei... they could have made A LOT out of Cosmic Fury. Heck, they could have made a lot out of Dino Fury if they applied the same logic (and uh... did a bit more work to ensure the toys didn't break - seriously, Hasbro, you know how to make connectors that don't break, you've been doing it for YEARS). But they didn't. Speaking of King-Ohger, while yes, bugs don't sell nearly as well to kids, fantasy does. Magic. The fantastical. King-Ohger could absolutely work, but it requires them to actually commit to doing some work to make it interesting for an American audience. And they just don't want to do that. They want Toei to hand them an idea on a plate that they can do as little as possible with and then sell *that* to kids.

To answer the question, apparently alot say yes. I disagree but I grew up with Mighty Morphin so maybe the franchise DOES need the Beast Wars treatment and to your point about how things that work in Super Sentai that doesn't translate to the US, well, just look at how they had to adapt Shinkenger which was OVERTLY japanese into Samurai. But something that's often skipped over are the writers. Why are some seasons more beloved than others? Good writing.

Have you seen the Korean show miniforce? Haven't watched it, but it sounds like what you're looking for kind of It's basically animated super sentai from what I can tell, and they even do combining mecha. They do get weird though, with the characters seemingly being animals out of suit, but otherwise they're pretty much animated tokusatsu, and work pretty well, all things considered. I'm already looking forward to their new season of toys

Keep the toku. Ditch the current crop of writers and producers. The last few seasons have been a gaggle of dead eyed homunculuses with no souls blindly apeing mmpr without recapturing the actual charm. But Once and Always showed us that Power Rangers have have a story with an actual Emotional core. Take that quality of writing and direction and apply it to something new, and we may be onto something. Im all for power rangers doing its own thing independent of sentai, but the core of the franchise needs to stay live action. Maybe some animated spon offs sure Also, maybe all of the pop culture franchises are doing so badly these days because we've reached the point of capitalism where its becoming impossible to make all of the money this year and even more next year.

I've said it before; Just adapt/take inspiration from the Boom comics and do an animated show using that style as a branching off. Re; the GI Joe comment They TRIED a few times but it came down to the G1 problem again. I remember they tried going full anime with Sigma Six and that didn't pick up at all.

I feel like I have to ask, what does Power Rangers have going for it besides being tokusatsu? Admittedly, I never really got super into Power Rangers, but the little bits that I did watch, the thing that drew me in was the fact that it looked nothing like anything else on TV. If it were animated, I probably wouldn't have bothered at all, and just watched Spider-Man or Transformers instead. If there really is no way to make toku Power Rangers work, then I feel like it's just a lose-lose.

I'm glad there's at least one reasonable Power Rangers fan on the internet. I couldn't agree more with what you said, Power Rangers needs it's Beast Wars. As a Transformers fans, we know that reinvention is what keeps the franchise alive and Power Rangers has been spinning wheels for a very long time. It's ridiculous that it's existence is predicated on what another show is doing in a foreign country. Ninja Steel is a great example of this, it had bad designs for the mecha and a theme that barely appealed to Japan, let alone the west and both over here and Japan it did poorly but it was one of the few Sentai adaptations we had available so we didn't have little choice. We should be capable of making our own show but, as you said, when we do make (mostly) our own show like Cosmic Fury, it has to be 10 episodes long otherwise it's too expensive. That's unsustainable, we have to atleast try something new.

If you're going to adapt Power Rangers to an animated format, better ask Studio Trigger for help. They made SSSS.GRIDMAN pull off the classic Tokusatsu aesthetic in anime format.

22:26 you say that but that’s one of the reasons Kyuranger wasn’t adapted. They didn’t want to make all those unique molds. They wanted to have all the rangers share molds for the same budgetary reasons that’s TF and their other action figures lines have.

Ditching the sentai footage is the wrong take-away. Instead they should be improving the writing, making it feel less like the kids watching it are being written down to. Saying that a sentai is unadaptable just sounds defeatist at best, and lazy at worst. Case in point: Gingaman become Lost Galaxy, a very nature/spiritual heavy season becoming a space opera with hints of Star Trek. Or hell, while the execution fell a bit flat, they were still able to use a bunch of yokai in Ninja Steel, and yokai are as Japanese as they come. While I agree that trains might be a tough order, I think even they could have a place if the writing around them is interesting enough (and the toy line gimmick is handled properly)

Absolutely not. Power Rangers IS toku, end of story. How someone running the show can have this deluded of a view on it is beyond me. But tbh, it makes me happy the main show is gonna end after Cosmic Fury. If this is how they're gonna treat the brand, they might as well just put it out to pasture. Hoping that after this reboot inevitably flops that'll be the case.

I don't usually leave comments, and I'm a fan of the channel (Thanks for the content and keep up the good work.); You're solution to the problem is to do the same thing that Playmates and Netflix did with Voltron (2016), the same thing Bandai America and Saban did with Power Rangers (2017), & Mattel and Cartoon Network did with The Thundercats (2011). Rebooting a product and expecting different generations of fans to embrace it equally, is wishful thinking at best, and brand damage at worst.

One good example of animation Tokusatsu it's the anime SSSS Gridman and Dynazenon,the Kaiju and mecha battles lokks and feel like people in suits,they made then in a way that works in the animation format,if hasbro does something like that it could really work for a Power Rangers Animated project

Personally I would love to see an animated power rangers reboot! For the same reasons you mentioned, with animation the possibilities are endless. If people are afraid that doing so would abandon its toku roots, id like to remind people that ssss gridman exists.

The problem is that if you change too much it stops feeling like the Power Rangers brand. I stopped watching Enterprise because it didn't feel like I was watching a Star Trek show, in ways The Orville can't replace. It didn't feel like the same universe. Change too much and it stops being Power Rangers and just seems to be a namesake for marketing purposes. With Transformers there were other stories set away from the regular cast even before the fanfics showed up. However, there were still basic aspects of the brand that stayed in place. My lack of interest in EarthSpark comes from not seeing those aspects either, and it just feels like a show about transforming robots that's at best better made than the Tobot shows on KZfaq. Change is fine and they could do interesting things on their own (though having to work with the Sentai footage does provide an interesting challenge I like seeing them work around and not straight-up adapt), but some of his comments, like complaining about the rubber suits and stuff, reminded me of what a certain BBC higher-up said about the original Doctor Who before it was canceled. I'm not so much angry as I am confused and concerned they'll change too much and it will stop feeling like Power Rangers. Change is good, but only when the change itself is good.

One thing I never hear is people talking about the problems modern power rangers has with production, Adr and direction. The overall lower budget has resulted in a lot of poor direction (particularly for voice actors) and the adr/sound effects are just so badly handled. The show screams no money

I almost want to see the figures dip into the different soldiers of Lord Drakkon. The Red Ranger with a medieval cloak- kind of militarize them and have the black bull Ranger be a hulk size character. Get a blue ranger with a sniper rifle and a hood, really specialize each character.

It's been clear for years that Super Sentai and Power Rangers have been going in different directions. I think that when Hasbro brought it they always intended to break it off and make it a more independent franchise seeing the interesting directions the Boom studios comics are going with Power Rangers when they're not forced to use sentai footage. This also gives Toei more freedom to make Super Sentai more unique and focus more on their market without haveing to worry about if it can be remade into a Power Rangers season. So at this point they have to split up in order to keep both franchises going. Like I said I'm betting Hasbro has wanted to do this since the they brought it but I'm pretty sure that things like the pandanmic and Hasbro's CEO passing away slowed things down.

Power Rangers is still stuck in the Diaclone days.

Hey if they do animation, then let's hope it's going to be like TF Animated

Simple solution, make Power Rangers gritter, more realistic, and get rid of the cheap looking spandex and give them real armor, make the fights more realistic. Stop using any of the stock footage. There was a fan film of the rangers that made it's rounds among the youtubes. Not saying go that dark, but use that style. Have a villain that we hate to love to hate.

I tend to prefer animated media, like you said it’s easier to get different things fitted in compared to live action.

I feel like there's a difference between "ditching Tokusatsu" and "ditching the Japanese footage." Tokusatsu is a genre. I wouldn't be opposed to an animated series, and I think some cool designs could come of it, but I don't like the idea of JUST doing MMPR. Part of the fun of PR/SS is legacy, so an animated sequel to MMPR where the designs are similar, but you can have legacy characters pop in for an episode to mentor the team. Trini's kid is the new yellow; make it her team of younger rangers that've inherited the powers. But, yo, you make me a cool, original robot, and you can do whatever you want with the franchise in my book. You're right, I'm not gonna watch it.

I commented on a FB fan page post with this exact opinion and got insulted for having that opinion. I love the live action aspect of PR/Sentai/Roku. But PR is an American show and they have to aim for the general audience as well as the long time fans for it to continue. Maybe a mix of live action shows and animation can work. But some change is necessary to a 30 year old show to continue

19:40 I feel your pain. I'm waiting on an updated Shogun Zord as well

I'd LOVE an animated Power Rangers series, DO IT HASBRO.

I always the wish they make 2 power rangers seasons per year. 2 26 episodes seasons. 1 more serious story driven seasons (kyuranger, zyuohger) and 1 more lighthearted season (toqger and kirameiger)

Mini Force of Korea is Both Power Rangers, Transformers, and Furries all in one And its still on going till this day So yeah there is a way to make an all original Power Rangers away from Japanese Tokusatsu After all, may be its time to fully differentiate Super Sentai to Power Rangers

Why is wild force memorable to people. What about it. 😮

Celebrating a non-Transformers video as always. Would have been nice to get something for Kaixa Day, but I'll take what I can get. To respond to the central question of the video, and I may restate certain things that were said in the video, it's definitely one that will get a lot of different answers. The most pressing thing on my mind is that it feels like we're on the cusp of a big change. Power Rangers has been changing things up since Hasbro obtained the IP, a lot of them for the better, a handful for the worse. So Power Rangers is open to big changes at the moment. A big reason why Power Rangers has stayed the same is because Sentai has stayed the same. For the most part, it's the same tropes in both year after year. But lately, Sentai has been changing things up a lot, and that's been great for Sentai. However, it creates the possibility that these newer Sentai seasons are "less adaptable" for Power Rangers. This leaves Power Rangers with two options if it wants to continue. Option 1, the more unique Sentai will force Power Rangers to change up its formula and embrace a more dynamic structure, or Option 2, Power Rangers abandons Sentai altogether and creates its own unique seasons, which opens the floodgates to a lot of potential new creative decisions, which could be good or bad. There's one thing that concerns me greatly. Power Rangers action figures, from the early years, have always had this consistent look of the male Rangers being big and buff, and the female Rangers being paper-thin and busty. It's like they're trying to mimic the look of comic book heroes. And now that original suits are being made for Cosmic Fury, it seems as if an effort is being made to give the suits that kind of look. It seems like often times, when Power Rangers is allowed to deviate from its source, it tries to become comic book superheroes, and that scares me to death, that they may trend in that direction. Personally, I feel like that's not in line with the identity of Power Rangers. I'm open to reinventing the franchise, and embracing new sensibilities, but I feel like this direction is something I would greatly disagree with. Power Rangers AREN'T comic book heroes, and I feel as if it would be reductive to the identity of Power Rangers if they were turned into that.

I would actually make these “what if“ scenarios compatible with whatever new version of the Dino Megazord that comes out next. You could even introduced something that Transformers has been doing for years with different size classes and price points.

From a perspective from someone outside looking in, It could work. You could remove the element of the monster part and have the rangers fight something else like evil knights or other people in spandex. Maybe rangers of that year or years are human sized zoids that fight normal criminals. I think straying so far away from the orginal idea could also be a negative thing for the franchise.

15:16 Or maybe because they don’t like Nightshade. That's could be a reason why (I'm not saying they're in the right, but I am bringing up another possible reason why people might be avoiding it).

All we know going forward with the reboot is that it’s still live action and it’s going to be an original team that isn’t MMPR based. We’ll see how the brand is once that’s ready. That being said if we do go animated I’d like it to be a little similar to the Ultraman anime. As that show captured the toku style in animation form perfectly.

Over here, we typically see bugs as villains. Ex. Insecticons.

I think the fundamental problem with the idea that Power Rangers must continue to be toku is that toku simply is no longer trendy among kid-oriented media. Doing something original within Toku, or increasing the writing quality for an audience that probably cannot entirely appreciate it is not going to bring back the golden age when a million Power Ranger copycats existed because the market suddenly decided toku was fresh and interesting

It's crazy how america, a country built around railroad, have some of the worst railnetwork in the western world lmao.

For what it’s worth the only reason I haven’t been buying PR is the NFTs. I’ve been a fan for basically my whole life but just can’t give money to a company that sells NFTs.

I agree, as long as the reboot PR is cool I'll buy it

I'd love to see PR make their own thing as long as they keep the toys in mind, so we get accurate and articulated ones, specially the Megazords

PR shouldn't ditch the Tokusatsu based elements in it. Because the Tokusatsu based elements in PR is what makes PR unique.

I heard that Zyuranger was supposed to originally have 10 rangers. Plus, there is someone out there that has created original Dinozords(stegosaurus, dimetrodon, plesiosaurus, spinosaurus, etc.) that are well built. A reboot of the original MMPR could use that along with new original rangers.

Animated is the best route for vast levels of creativity and resources.

Personally I think it should be allowed to do its own thing with the occasional nod to tokusatsu roots (using beast wars as an example: finding the ark and g1 characters in stasis)

Still haven't heard anything form that Tigerzord Zord Ascension Project yet

As far as GI Joe, yeah, not much new media, but Classified is on fire.

Me over here just sadly waiting for a Figure of Koragg from Mystic Force.

I always tbought we didnt get the Legacy Shogun was due to the license being sold. I remember Legacy in general sold alot

But I'm also flip flopping between moving away and coming back to it

26:21 At least GI Joe is still getting new toys at the moment... :/

Not a lot of kids watch tv shows anymore….and adults too. more and more we are just watching short form media content or video clips on youtube and other internet platforms. I personally don’t watch any movies in theaters and just watch contents on the stream apps I paid for. Times have changed. This could be one of the problems that power rangers shows are dealing with…. Paid Streaming platforms or even free ones.

The current Super Sentai should be adapted to a Power Rangers series. A bug-inspired series would be new and fresh. Getting away from Nickelodeon is a good idea(they were ruining the franchise).

power rangers may need to try a new formula or format traditions are made to change

If they are gonna ditch the tokusatsu, they should not use tge old costumes for future shows. Maybe a reboot. Make their own costume, robots, morphers.

All I really want from PR right now is Reunions SPD, RPM, Mystic Force, Time Force SPD especially since the cast keep in contact and can adapt Dekaranger 10 years after I'm Nostalgic for Power Rangers but not MMPR, MMPR was before my time, and when it randomly aired on Nicktoons in the UK, I found it boring because it wasn't my beloved spd or other Disney seasons I'm a little sick of the MMPR Mentality that has kind of poisoned the well of the franchise since Samurai

Power rangers could go in interesting direction if they tried something completely new. DOA voltron/mech series were the rangers never fight outside the zords. Do a series where the rangers a mantle or green lantern and we’re on the 4th or 5th version. Do a set of alien rangers not set on earth Have a series where there are multiple teams at the same time and they are rivals each trying to capture/defeat more monster Have a series that vastly expands the powers/ mythology of each color and what makes them unique. Just do something fresh and original

Maybe a video on what went wrong with the 2017 movie

If it is for the kids, which is correct, then why all the callbacks to MMPR? Why cater to kidults in such a way?

I think what power rangers really need is be animated, a full length animated movie or maybe the Netflix he-man treatment

They should do an animated MMPR reboot but use the dinosaurs from Dino Charge.

I'd be very interested in a Power Rangers animated series (as long it's not like Teen Titans Go).

I'm bored of the MMPR rehash

to be fair, i haven't watched your earthspark reviews because i don't have paramount+ and am avoiding spoilers...

Idk, this feels kinda defeatist. Like yeah, I understand the concern of the team concepts not appealing to American kids, but I think that should overcomable by a good show. Like, if Train Ranger comes to the US and every episode is great, kids will probably want the zords regardless of whether the they liked trains prior.

Power Rangers could go away for now and maybe stir interest again by having a new show, whether Sentai-adaptation or fully original, or just have the series be continued with movies every few years. But with movies, you either once again reimagine Mighty Morphin, which would sell but annoy fans because it's Mighty Morphin, or make a team with wholly original Ranger suits, Zords, and villains, which would get interest because it's something new and original while familiar, but would have a fair chance of failing because of that, since if it's not MMPR, the general audience wouldn't care.

They should try just an english dub with no large changes and just see how it goes. Maybe the train one?

sorry from everything that has come out, we aren't getting mighty morphin again. remember what happened when nick tried to re releas mighty morphin. it failed. didn't even get to lord zed. while i disagrea that japines esteics don't sell in america. i mean theirs a reason manga has taken the western comics crowd. i do agrea that whats being done in the sentai series is not accetpable to the older people controling what gerts adapted. theirs a differnce between what the market wants and what people think the market want. Finally hasbro isn't going to make more intricit suits, a single most with a different pain job is the cheapest way to make toys. the smartes way hasbro could do power rangers toys is license them out to other companies with stric rules and ;et the other companies rake the risk.

What about animation go and animate the dragon saga the coin less or the power ranger crossover. All you need is voices

As much as I love Power Rangers, I'm honestly ok with it fading outta the public eye for a while. The show always captivated me with every changing of the setting and tone (and the nutty toku action ofc), though obv the overall format/formula of the episodes was always the same lol But that doesn't at all mean PR can't be reintroduced sometime in the near future, with perhaps a brand new way of storytelling and world building X3 For now tho? I think the franchise deserves a nice and peaceful hiatus...

Instead of “adapting” super sentai, why not just directly translate it?

Power Rangers without tokusatsu is like Transformers without transformation. You’ll end up with something like the Action Masters- well designed action figures with fun converting vehicles, but they’ve sacrificed what makes the franchise itself. To strip the Rangers of their toku roots will sink the franchise… then again, with Hasbro’s garbage quality control and comical prices, perhaps it’s for the best.

By looks of these comments your voice fell on deaf ears TJ. For some reason people are afraid of change and to let the new gen have something new. Yeah it could go bad if you change things…..but if could go good, like beast wars did. I agree with you but for some reason a lot of these guys don’t wanna let some things go. I hope PR takes your advice because I think you’re spot on.

I mean… they could try to adapt Kamen Rider… I’m just kidding, please don’t do that. Not yet at least.

My answer is no. Tokusatsu is the soul of the franchise

I try every new series but drop it after 10 episodes or so it just can't keep my attention and I hate it I still like power rangers

Um…The MCU and Star Wars ARE Tokusatsu. Not traditionally so, but they still fit the original definition pretty well, same with Doctor Who.

Well... I'm not going to watch this one because Power Rangers but here's a comment for the Algorithm. Hello Fancy Tony!

Can't we just watch the reruns? and Re-release the old toys? Better than what we have now.

The only people that I know that have seen a Power Rangers 2017 movie, they only thought it was a good movie in general. Seriously?

It's a hard pill for me to swallow for sure, but I admit you and Simon Bennett make some good points. I do think the series could be left mostly unchanged. The biggest adjustment, I think, would be switching gears to frequently reimagining MMPR after 30 years of following the Sentai formula of rebooting the show ever year or two, but between the toy sales and the comic books, it's clear that Mighty Morphin', for better or worse, is THE Power Rangers series. How I see it, they could keep the Zords, full-body suits and unified team look. The core aesthetics and concepts can be maintained. That, I personally think, is a major part of Power Rangers' identity in contrast to Marvel and DC. They could, however, give the suits more armour to further differentiate the Rangers in appearance from each other. I've also been in favour of making Power Rangers animated by default for quite some time now. So I think it could work. My main draw is not wanting Power Rangers to become the Avengers.

i think we need to be careful with with that implication with oh marvel style stuff sold good so clearly we need to MCUify Power Rangers. No, that'll seal the the franchises fate for good, Marvel is on its way out for being the big thing people are tired of it, so trying to ride its coat tails now is far too late and it was lame back then too to ape it. I would still go in a comic book style approach, but more akin to animated DC and Ben 10. That'd be the best fit, IMO.

Idk why they aren't doing what the comics are doing and trying to set up the call backs to the older series more. Do a live action shattered grid or something similar.

i agree, when a tradition is broken it is time to fix it