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10-15-2014, 12:27 AM | #1 |
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Both Saban and Disney have shown they cannot to continue the series for so long without it getting stale and repetitive. By the time the show starts getting dry they both show they ran out of ideas and are just bleeding as much money out of it that they can until it's used up and sold again. Is it about time that this show be put to rest for awhile and revisited when a studio can actually do this series justice obtains the rights to it?
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10-15-2014, 12:49 AM | #2 |
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Story-wise, yes. Merchandise-wise, no. If the show weren't bringing in enough sales for Toei & Bandai to feel content then we wouldn't still have PR today. The fact that they keep moving forward shows they're happy with sales, so they don't need to make the show good since it's already done it's job as a commercial for the toys. Really, if they want more sales they'll make the show better since stories with actual plot & characters tend to draw in huge amounts of people that are willing to throw their money at them. But they feel satisfied with what they have at the moment, so until sales drop we won't see PR leave.
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10-15-2014, 01:16 AM | #3 |
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Story-wise, yes. Merchandise-wise, no. If the show weren't bringing in enough sales for Toei & Bandai to feel content then we wouldn't still have PR today. The fact that they keep moving forward shows they're happy with sales, so they don't need to make the show good since it's already done it's job as a commercial for the toys. Really, if they want more sales they'll make the show better since stories with actual plot & characters tend to draw in huge amounts of people that are willing to throw their money at them. But they feel satisfied with what they have at the moment, so until sales drop we won't see PR leave.
I work at ToysRus and the toys are not selling well at all. And many other stores in my area have stopped selling power rangers toys altogether. I think Bandai is barely making even with these toys right now and I think the Legacy line and Dino Charge are their last hope. That's why I think they went to Dino Charge and not GoBusters because Dinosaur-themed toys sell well. |
10-15-2014, 01:23 AM | #4 |
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The Legacy line itself has been shelf-warming recently from what I've gathered. And that's not even considering all the sales they're gonna lose when the Legacy line does anything not MMPR-related. A good chunk of Legacy sales just comes from nostalgia folk that give no other PR season a fair chance & even then I have friends who fit that bill & refused to pay the prices the Legacy Morphers & Megazords were marked at. I don't doubt that that happened elsewhere too. So once things like the Thunderzords come into play we'll see the beginning of the downward slope for the Legacy line. I think the MMPR movie also has various issues about it, it's sequels & future toy line as well. But Dino Charge can help things a bit, hopefully more than projected.
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10-15-2014, 01:37 AM | #5 |
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The Legacy line itself has been shelf-warming recently from what I've gathered. And that's not even considering all the sales they're gonna lose when the Legacy line does anything not MMPR-related. A good chunk of Legacy sales just comes from nostalgia folk that give no other PR season a fair chance & even then I have friends who fit that bill & refused to pay the prices the Legacy Morphers & Megazords were marked at. I don't doubt that that happened elsewhere too. So once things like the Thunderzords come into play we'll see the beginning of the downward slope for the Legacy line. I think the MMPR movie also has various issues about it, it's sequels & future toy line as well. But Dino Charge can help things a bit, hopefully more than projected.
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10-15-2014, 05:08 AM | #6 |
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Dino Charge. I will decide after it is over.
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10-15-2014, 05:37 AM | #7 |
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Both Saban and Disney have shown they cannot to continue the series for so long without it getting stale and repetitive. By the time the show starts getting dry they both show they ran out of ideas and are just bleeding as much money out of it that they can until it's used up and sold again. Is it about time that this show be put to rest for awhile and revisited when a studio can actually do this series justice obtains the rights to it?
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10-15-2014, 06:53 AM | #8 |
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I think it is not necessary to put it to rest. If the thing is doing poorly, the solution is to try something that works.
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10-15-2014, 09:18 AM | #9 |
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I woulnt mind if they took a year or two off as long as they still sold the merch from that year. I belive the toys and merch can stand on its own without having the show on the air.
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10-15-2014, 09:44 AM | #10 |
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I think another issue is the fact that SM was a failure anniversary series. I doubt that many people that grew up watching certain seasons went out & looked for the episodes & merchandise. And the crossover wasn't built up right. My little brothers watched Samurai (for some reason they never asked for the toys), Mystic Force, Jungle Fury, Ninja Storm, Lost Galaxy & Dino Thunder. Even then they weren't able to comprehend what was going on in Megaforce & SM. They have to repeatedly ask me if some things are important or not & why certain things happen in certain episodes. Plus only one of them wants to get the Keys & that was before he ever knew about SM. He saw me looking at SDCC pics of when the Keys were revealed. That's when he decided to buy the toys, and only the keys at that.
Not to mention the fact that the show was inconsistent as all Hell. Having Sentai-exclusives made people look for toys that didn't exist & characters that aren't good won't make people watch the show. But of course, from what you've seen & said it seems like your area is down PR-wise. How about everyone else? I myself have lots of PR toys on the shelves of stores that I look at like once a week. But I hardly, since last Winter, saw other people going to the PR section for toys. Now that could just be the fact that I'm not in these stores 24/7 so I might not see these sales, plus I doubt kids & parents like having a scraggly, geek-looking dude near them in a children's toy aisle. XD So maybe when I'm out of the way they head to the PR stuff. But those are just my experiences. |
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