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The End of the Power Rangers?
I’m not sure whether this is true, but the website has been on the ball with every other news related to PR recently. https://t.co/peqHUp4IJC
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It wouldn't be the end of Power Rangers, it would just mean that Hasbro would be taking it in their own direction instead of being reliant on whatever Japan did 2-5 years ago. Knowing Hasbro, that probably means all MMPR, all the time. Why make new stuff when you can make bank off of nostalgia?
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Well I'd forsee it more like Boom. MMPR but it would move away from the Zyuranger designs. Boom is doing plenty of new things without banking on nostalgia alone. The Omega Rangers maybe have Jason, Zack, and Trini but they aren't exactly the ones from the show.
Also changing teams/cast/characters every year does not help maintain a fanbase. They may make new transformers cartoons but it always follows some kind of Optimus Prime(but never primal...........), Bumblebee, Megatron, and the real lead, Starscream. A lot of times keeping the same voice actors. So it wouldn't hurt Power Rangers as a brand to stick to one group for a bit.......and then spin off like they were Stargate/Star Trek. |
Yeah this would basically mean all original stuff from end of Dino Fury onward.
Given the reception of the BOOM! Studio comic continuity, I wouldn't be surprised if they went that direction -- Creating totally original powers, suits and team names. Granted the comics are also heavily MMPR-reliant so that'd be the main drawback I'd say. But if they utilize what seasons they already did it could be fine. Imagine Shattered Grid adapted into a multi-episode season arc. That said, ending the partnership could mean something like that they could lose the right to depict Toei-created suits, monsters, etc.in future projects. Who knows. Gotta wait for confirmation. |
The article in question is incredibly vague on what their sources actually say -- there's no direct quotes, only their own extrapolation. "From what we've been told, I think this and that will happen", etc.
Don't think it's worth taking much from until we get more confirmation. Even though they contradict it in the article, I really think this is a similar thing to the Nick deal; contract's due to end but they're probably just going to edit or make a new one. |
It's not impossible for Power Rangers to do stuff without Super Sentai. Robotech and Voltron both did original content without stuff from Macross and GoLion. Those two are similar to Power Rangers on how they were adapted for an western auddience.
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This isn't worth much until there's actual confirmations. Just vague sources that guess at things.
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Curious to learn more.
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Chances of it being true are low, but I really, really hope it isn't.
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I don't remember where I saw it, but the article is misleading. From what people are saying is that Hasbro is parting ways with Toei's animation department.
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And since the PR movie Hasbro is cooking up seems to be related to nostalgia baiting with 90s MMPR, I highly doubt that they would just end their relationship with Toei, the people who own nearly thirty years worth of suits, designs, and footage. Toei will always be related to PR because PR is literally built upon Sentai. You can't turn on MMPR without seeing a lot of Zyuranger footage. |
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Which seems, uh, an extremely specific mistake to make when talking about a partnership and franchise that doesn't use animation at all...? |
If true, and Hasbro chooses to end their contract with Toei, they can easily create a new series on their own. The name "Power Rangers" is owned by Hasbro. They couldn't create new material of the old stuff but they could create new material and call it Power Rangers. If that makes sense.
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Plus wouldn't it also impact the comics? Since technically the designs sans stuff like the Omega Rangers are based on Toei's property.
Essentially chances are if they do end their partnership Toei's not just gonna let them use any footage or design from any of their adapted works. Which would mean everything from MMPR to Dino Fury becomes off the table...Thinking of the potential specifics is weird. |
Another side to the "Hasbro-breaks-with-Toei" theory is what that would mean for Transformers, as the original series used Toei's Animation Studio, in addition to Akom and another mysterious company (look it up)!
Say they separate, but would that nix everything related to Toei including decades-old animation, or would it remain solely based on Sentai and live-action!? In addition, the animation flub that was mentioned and then pulled is also curious. There have always been rumors of an animated Power Rangers, but little has been said over the legitimacy of such a project. I'm wondering if maybe the earlier "flub" wasn't really a flub, but rather a sensitive piece of the puzzle. Perhaps Hasbro IS planning an animated series and broached the subject with Toei, either to use their animation studio or to work out an international distribution deal where Toei can overdub such a cartoon, only for the deal to falter and lead to total separation between Hasbro and Toei at worst, or it's just a failure with the animated series deal that's been blown out of proportion! A cute little theory on my end, but in the long run, it would be a fatal and self-destructive blow to the franchise if Hasbro cuts all ties with Toei! Does Hasbro really want to be forever demonized as "The Entertainment Company Which Murdered Power Rangers"!? The Transformers Wiki has a page denoting times when that franchise was almost "Ruined Forever" in the eyes of the fandom. I would hate for Power Rangers to suffer a similar fate! |
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yeah not shocked something like this would happen in this god forsaken year
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Like. They'd be giving up Mighty Morphin'. You all, like-- you all see how crazy that is, right? That's the bread and butter of the brand, the entire thing that they can bank on for nostalgia and pop culture relevance money that far outmatches any money they have to give to Toei for their deal. And they'd give up that for, what, a new original animated series featuring vaguely similar designs? It's not even like they've been preparing for this -- in fact they've been heavily investing in exactly the opposite. The BOOM comics continue to go strong as a successful comic; the Lightning Collection has gone out of its way to introduce new team molds almost every wave; you've got returning actors in Beast Morphers and likely Dino Fury at this rate; general merchandising in smaller lines like Imaginext not just continues but has doubled down on legacy content; there's a wholeass live-action movie coming soon enough! Worst case scenario, absolutely worst case scenario; they're forging a new deal with Toei that allows them access to all the legacy stuff but doesn't allow them access to new shows. But frankly there's no indication of even that especially with what little we have to go on. Come back later this year and this'll all have been turned out to be a massive misinterpretation of something as simple and boring as not renewing the current deal because they're making a new deal that has a few legal terms and conditions changed. |
Why not a original live-action season ?
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I hope it's not the end of new adaptations. Even if they end up making, like, an animated remake of Mighty Morphin', I think that would be missing a lot of the fun of a whole new team and show every year or two.
And practically, I don't think Hasbro would want to miss out on having a whole new team (and batch of toys) to sell every couple years. Legacy content is all well and good (I'm still holding out hope for a Dino Morpher), but they can't make it last forever. At least not without reaching the bottom of the barrel at some point. If they keep on adapting new Sentai seasons however, they could never run out of brand new toys to sell. |
I see only one way this could go. Hasbro does what Saban did when they made Mystic Knights Of Tie Na Nog and create and rebuild from the ground up with new US footage at 100% and Rangers like Titanium Ranger and the Spirit Rangers Jetix created.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Hasbro actually decides to try a stunt like that. So not an end but a fresh new Power Rangers without adapting anything. Nobody laugh as it may happen. |
hasbro is literally incapable of marketing anything successfully without nostalgia so yeah i do think this is bogus, unless they're actively killing the franchise intentionally
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Hasbro isn't the only person/company who's been accused of intentional self-destruction in 2020. It's becoming a tired little pattern! |
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I seem to remember how the 2005 IDW Continuity of Transformers actually did do a crossover with New Avengers several years ago! If only Hasbro and Marvel would allow for something similar. I have my doubts as to whether it would work, but I do think it could make for some interesting match-ups: - Magneto VS. Lord Zedd - Thanos VS. Sentinel Knight - Iron Man VS. King Mondo - Rhino VS. Jungle Fury Rhino Ranger - Galactus VS. "Shattered Grid" Mega Megazord If Hasbro screws this franchise up, someone make an online petition begging Disney to buy it back! |
40 year old Transformers fan talking. I think PR will be fine. More then likely it will be closer to how Hasbro runs Transformers every year. Put out legacy Toys from Past Shows like G1, Beast Wars, E CT. Put out a new original PR cartoon here and there. Depending on how Popular the new PR movie is, ride that for a lot of years or totally forget about it, can go either way. Maybe sign a new contract with Toei only when they think a Super Sentai could be adapted. No point paying for Sentai Footage you can't use. Honestly besides Ryusoulger I don't think any of the other skipped Super Sentai could be adapted well. At least not well enough to make money off of them.
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How quickly we forget that the higher-ups at Disney were doing everything they could to screw the show over and outright get it canned. Opinions on their seasons aside, if Disney had kept PR, the franchise would've outright died after RPM. So no, Disney keeping the show most certainly was not for the best.
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Hell, what if all this is because Super Sentai's going away? What if there isn't any new Sentai for Hasbro to use?
What if the next Power rangers show is an adaptation of Ryukendo?! |
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I think that's pretty fair in regards to Sentai, but even in the worst case scenario of Sentai taking a very very long break after Kiramager ends; there's still a lot of material Hasbro can use, especially if they continue to follow the current format and stretch each season out to 2 years. Lupat and Kiramager alone, for instance, would take them up all the way through 2026.
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It has to be a fake. This report is lame!
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To be frank, I don't want Disney to handle Power Rangers, I just want the Marvel division to. Sure the comics nowadays are a hit and/or miss (to be fair they are getting better ever since CB Cebulski took over), but at the very least to have Power Rangers being oversee by people like Kevin Feige is a dream. |
Hasbro making a live action show with entirely new footage and designs seems plausible but ...
theres NO way they can continue making Lightning Collection figures, zords, morphers etc. without SOME kind of sign off from Toei right ? |
Would not be surprised if they decide to stick to the first season of MMPR as the source and just rinse-and-repeat every few years like Transformers making an adjustment or two.
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What people are forgetting is that if this is true then Hasbro loses all image rights to anything Sentai related. This included all past Power Rangers stuff. They won't have MMPR to use for anything. Especially nostalgia, which is the bread winner of Power Rangers.
Secondly! People shouldn't look into this too much. Why? Because Hasbro hasn't come forward about this or made any statements. This should be looked at with extreme scrutiny as everything else PR related is. Especially when the times of contract endings is approaching. |
On the one hand, I've always felt that Power Rangers would be more successful if it pursued its own storyline instead of just adapting Sentai every year. On the other hand, Toei makes money off of PR as well, right? So if they stopped adapting Sentai, then Sentai would struggle even more than it already is.
Anyways, neither of those really has to do with this. I guess we'll see what happens? |
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