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12-17-2018, 01:41 AM | #1 |
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Ok so here's my thoughts:
Hasbro owns Transformers here in America. Takara Tomy owns transformers in Japan. To be clear this is brand ownership and not just toy licensing. Both are independent companies and from time to time release their own products and media with no plans of the other releasing the same product/media. For the most part they share designs/molds and release the same products in their main toy lines and even sometimes in their fringe adult collector lines. They recently have gone as far as homogenizing packaging and paint deco. Things are vastly different when it comes to Power Rangers and Sentai. In Japan Toei owns Sentai, PLEX develops the visuals, BOJ holds the master toy license. Hasbro owns Power Rangers outright while licensing Japanese footage and designs. It's more complicated and involves more companies but I think a partnership similar to the Has/Tak one could be feasible. It's known that Saban Brands and BOA worked on early production of Kyuranger with the Japanese companies. There is precedent for PR and Sentai working together and I don't see Hasbro being ok with zero say in the general designs of their future shows and toys. I don't believe Hasbro wants to be at the mercy of what Japan releases and I imagine Hasbro is leveraging hard to be a part of the design process if they aren't already. So here is my conspiracy theory lol: Dinosaurs. Yes it's tried and true, yes it must have been in production long before Hasbro officially bought the brand from Saban (or more accurately Saban Brands in its entirety). I still think Hasbro might have had a hand in our 2019 Sentai. Feb 2018, Hasbro announces they have acquired the master toy license for PR. That same month LuPat airs as our 2018 Sentai. Not much is known about when designs, toys and scripts are made for the next season but it can be assumed that as one officially airs the other is at least in early design stages.(I have vague memories of people throwing around months and how far along the next series would be by then but I can't find the posts or articles about it so If anyone has concrete dates to share please inform me) I think the timing is just right for Hasbro to have been involved in the creation of Ryuusoger. Now the toys are where I go completely locked in my basement, string theory crazy. We recently found out that Ryuusoger would be dinosaur and knight themed with a take apart and rebuild play pattern. Dinosaurs have done well for both Japan and America and knights have recently been used quite a bit on Hasbro's end with the Transformers Movie franchise which included dinosaurs that transform into knights! Hasbro has also just released their War for Cybertron: Siege toy line that has a very similar take apart and rebuild into armor and weapons play pattern. Huge coincidence I know but wouldn't it make sense for Hasbro to want the basis of their future products to fall in line with what they believe is marketable and profitable here in America? I can see the Japanese companies going along with this if it is also profitable in their markets and/or Hasbro is footing a substantial amount of the design, manufacturing and production costs. With toy sales and viewership being so poor lately the Japanese companies seem like they would be highly susceptible to an offer like this from Hasbro. Two things that immediately popped out to me with the Ryuusoger scans were the connection points for the auxiliary mecha and the use of weight/material reducing struts. As far as I can remember this style of connector has never been used in Sentai toys before. We usually get a complicated multi-piece bar and clip system, the hexagonal ratchet socket system, or a combination of the two. The connectors being used now seem to be a simple mushroom peg and tube system. This isn't unprecedented in BOJ toys i'm sure but it is way more common with Hasbro and American toys in general. There's also the use of very American-like material reducing struts in the hollowed out limbs of the green saber toothed tiger and i'm assuming they are also used on the other mecha (take note, we haven't seen the back of our t-rex yet, I'd bet he's very hollow back there). This can all be chalked up to the apparent Lego block theming, rising costs of oil and falling toy sales but having the toys designed and manufactured in this way also favors American consumers that are already used to these cost saving measures. I know it all seems a little crazy but these coincidences caught my attention and I want to know what all of you think. I don't think it's crazy to believe that if Hasbro isn't already in a partnership like this they will be eventually. I think one day we will have the same toys as Japan but more importantly they won't be purely a Japanese creation. Thoughts? Last edited by I3ra5s Beetle; 12-17-2018 at 04:26 PM.. |
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