Someone from RangerBoard did some research about this.

Character rights and TV show rights were two separate things during the Saban Entertainment days.

The rights for the VR Troopers TV show (and Saban's Masked Rider, which was abandoned by Disney during the 2000s) had to be renewed constantly, while the Power Rangers and Beetleborgs rights are for perpetuity. It's possible that Hasbro didn't renew the VR Troopers license, and now the three adapted Metal Hero shows are back with Toei.

But we won't know for sure what really happened until we see the back on the Shaider Blu-ray. If it just says Toei, then the rights are back in Japan. If it says SCG P.R. or Hasbro, then it was a collab with them.

More Showa Rider shows being available in the west is awesome!

If anyone watched the discotek stream, they also did a call to action and asked for people to purchase some of the currently available toku releases. They specifically shouted out the live action Cutie Honey series, which is pure kino, imho.

I guess the tokusatsu sets from them must be selling well since they keep doing them and making all these hype announcements, but, hey, there’s no way more people owning that cutie honey set could be bad.

Discotek hasn't gone after any of the Toei Manga Matsuri movies. The Kamen Rider Black, Message from Space, and Jiban boxsets are all missing them. Doesn't look like Kikaider or V3 will have them either, which is a real shame because the Kikaider movie DID get released by Generation Kikaida.

My hope is that maybe they'll do a boxset in the future with all of them, like how Shout released the Classic Tokusatsu Collection. I don't know how likely that is, however.

Yes give me the kikaider

I can’t wait for all of these.

Pre-orders for Kamen Rider V3 and Electric Dragon 80,000V are now open at the Crunchyroll Store.
https://store.crunchyroll.com/produc...707004220.html
https://store.crunchyroll.com/produc...707004626.html

Kamen Rider V3 is in stock at Crunchyroll. Mine is processing.