That would be interesting, but like the issue with kamen rider adaption is the large amount of required original fights/obvious glaring background changes. Or maybe I'm over thinking it.

I think this is just so they can keep selling merchandise.

I always felt like Saban pretty much screwed up with Kamen Rider. Had so much potential but instead they put out Masked Rider, something so unbelievably bad that not even the popularity of Power Rangers could salvage it.

Shaider Revival is workable because it was used in VR Troopers, Season 2. Gavan and Sharivan never were so it gets dicey as to whether you could obtain rights to all of them. Metalder and Spielvan have gotten no Revivals, and neither have Janperson, and I include Janperson cause the Beetleborgs episode "Convention Dimension" technically included Janperson and Gun Gibson as comic book heroes!

I've been chastised for assuming Saban could back into that game, but the apparent "ban" by the Kamen Rider creator will stand indefinitely, and Saban will never work with the motorcycle bug-men again!

Saban isn't choosing to not adapt Kamen Rider because of some "ban" but because they don't want to probably because they don't really need to since they already have Power Rangers as a relative success.

um...where exactly did you hear that from?

It's an old rumor that says that Shotaro Ishinomori was so infuriated by Masked Rider that he banned Saban from ever trying another adaptation.

How one man has that much power over a company no one's explained nor why he cared that much in the first place since he was badly ill at the time.

Older threads here "informed" me of this one. Apparently, Ishinomori WAS unhappy and didn't want Saban to touch his creation, and Japan's "respect the elders" mentality will keep that matter in check for the foreseeable future. If the matter is true, and I can't honestly say it is, then it kinda makes sense. Speculate for a moment: Saban wants to use Decade for "Powered Rider" and capitalize on the Decade/Shinkenger crossover, but the "ban" stays in place and Saban is still unable to make things happen. That is mere assumption on my part, but the "ban" has been stressed before to me by people who honestly believe it.

I would like to believe the "ban" is real only so I can feel that Kamen Rider is fully safe from Saban. Imagine if they made a Masked Rider now. It woud probaby make the original look better.

Nothing can be a bigger screw up than Masked Rider. Though they'd have to rival with Dragon Knight as it was pretty alright