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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

That's utter bull****!!!!!

If they don't want to use the Gokaiger suits, THEN DON'T ADAPT GOKAIGER!!!!

You would also think that given how popular One Piece and the Pirates of the Caribbean series is, they would want to cash in on pirate rangers.

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Originally Posted by Sentai Tamashii

Kids can transition from the Zyuranger suits to Ninja suits, Saban is gotta give kids more credit, if the writing is done right, the suit change can be easily explained. What Saban needs to do is to train the US kids to accept that there will be a new ranger every year, just like they do in Japan, and that way they can sell more toys.

I was expecting this. Megaforce is only 20 episodes in season one, which will be all Goseiger footage. Goseiger had 50 episodes in Japan. I heard Nickelodeon only allows 20 episodes per season, a reason why Saban created the Vortex block to get back to the norm of 40-50 episode seasons. This has nothing to do with the costumes, it's all about telling a decent story within the span of only 20 episodes. The transition from Dino to Ninja in MMPR was over the span of 2 years and 100 episodes. Kids have no problem with suit changes seeing we have been doing it for the past 17 years since Zeo. And going off the popularity of One Piece and Pirates of the Caribbean is hardly a reason to adapt Gokaiger seeing Space Pirates is a different breed than normal Pirates. Not to mention that we are 2 series behind and Gokaiger alone isn't enough to sale on it's own. Gokaiger is based on a 35 anniversary of Super Sentai, Power Rangers is only HALF that, and as you can see, they are only using half of the show.

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Originally Posted by TimeFire302

Anyone else surprised Toei/Bandai went along with Saban to skipping Gokaiger suits? I mean that is losing out on a lot of money for firgures,keys,and the morphers. If all thier using is the mechas.

If you look at the Gokaiger toy line, it's not very big at all, it's all macha based and that's all we are using. I always doubt we were getting the Ranger Keys, if you look at BOA record of collectibles within any given season: Dinothunder's Dino Plates, NinjaStorm's Power Disks, RPM's Engine Cells, Samurai's Power Disk. We dot even have a full set of any of those in America. We have a little over 100 Power Rangers, I honestly doubt we would get a full set of Ranger Keys if Japan had a hard enough time, taking 2 years to put out about 200 keys. Bandai is pushing this card game hard, if Megaforce will be incorporating a "Gokai Change", putting them out in card form is much easier, not to mention we have 2 years of Megaforce to do it in.

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Originally Posted by Electric Turahk

You really don't think a simple explanation couldn't be given? And Knight and Silver don't have to be the same at all. They're completely allowed to change things. Five seconds of explanation would suffice. I don't think you're giving kids enough credit.

Heck, we actually had been getting new rangers every year for a good while. So they'd be the same actors now. Big deal! New Rangers is still something that should now be expected in the US as well.

Think of the average place in a story line in about episode 20 while watching Super Sentai or a regular series of Power Rangers. We are usually getting the 6th Ranger by then or around episode 13 or so. If everything is always drastically changing every 5-10 episodes; new villains, new Ranger, New Zords etc... So it's not even about having an explanation it's about having enough time to tell a good story and sale toys. I mean what's the point of introducing something new only to see it for 2 episodes and have something new again tossed in your face 5 episodes later? Then there is no room for character development because they're spending all the time explaining where all these new powers are coming from. Saban is finally aiming this show at us as well as kids, I want the best show possible regardless of what costume is being worn.

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Originally Posted by Den-O

It's not my personal opinion. I'm just giving you the exact logic Saban is using for this. That's exactly what's going through their heads here. Isn't that the same reason they skipped Dairanger suits originally, and had to use the Kakurangers as an entirely separate team of characters? In the context of them having done this before I can totally understand why they're doing it now.

There was no real reason for skipping Dairanger other than the Zyuranger suits are what's bringing in the money, so if it's not broken don't fix it. The only reason they used Alien Rangers the way they did was to test the waters to see if kids would be ok with a different style of Ranger on TV. We could still see the Gokaiger in the fashion of how the Alien Rangers appeared in MMPR.