I think any Rider series would work well if it wasn't for Masked Rider.Because it was a failure,they've been extremely cautious on bringing another one over which is a shame.

Any of the series from W on would work because they all have a collectible gimmick and we know how Bandai loves to make money.

Boy do we...I'm looking at you Gundam...

They can try Den-O since the comedy and time travel theme could work. Den-O is known for it's light heart nature and the time travel plot has a lot of potential.

The plot for an American kid show of Den-O can deal with an unlucky boy in middle school has a tough life as he gets bad grades in school and has no luck with girls. One day, he finds a strange pass and things got stranger from a mysterious girl and a large time-traveling train. He makes contact with a mysterious red creature in order to become Power Rider and stop the evil creatures called "Imanie". Imanies are evil genies that come from the future having hopes of changing the past to alter the future for their desires.

Are trains as marketable in America as they are in Japan?

I would say so considering how many train museums, and shops there are. Plus of course there's Thomas the Tank. Throw in time travel and you're set. Not like it would be any sillier then a time traveling phone booth or police box.

I don't use the existence of museums for an indicator of popularity. I'm pretty sure you can find a museum for anything :lol
Thomas is still airing? I genuinely didn't know that.

I'm pretty sure it's still on TV in some capacity.

He has an animated face now, not 5 static grins.


Wait, trains? We talking Den-Liner or TokyuuOh with marketability here? Cause Den-Liner isn't really the main selling point of Den-O any more than the Aquabase was for Lightspeed Rescue.

Then again, I haven't seem Den-O...

And we have threads dedicated to Tokkyuger already.

I would love to see a Wizard adaption. while others are not a fan, so far I love it. I mean the magic theme is pretty popular here thanks to HP. plus rings are a pretty good gimmick to collect

With Den-O, there's a lot of footage to use. Den-O is nearly 7 years old, so maybe Saban wants something more new. I think Den-O can make a fun American Kamen Rider show. They could travel back in time better then they did in the show. Like they can go back to the 60's, 70's, or even long before like the 1700's. There's a lot of funny moments that they can do with the characters.

Are there any other companies besides Saban that Nockelodeon could hire to do this as to not violate Ishinomori's request of "Keep that man away from Kamen Rider at all cost!" while still creating a fun and high-quality series that we could all love as we do/did Power Rangers?
Maybe Amit Bauhmik could be the executive producer and a main writer and show Tzachor how you write good children's programming adapted from other good children's programming?

With Den-O, they can keep all of the belt sounds in English since the sounds are in English. Den-O came out seven years ago, so I think Saban wants something more new. It's a shame since I would love to see an American Den-O show.

If they make localized all-American Gentaro as 21st century Fonzie count me in.

Other than that I think Blade, Kabuto, W, OOO will work.

Actually I'm glad that after Masked Rider and Dragon Knight, we never got an adaption of Kamen Rider again. From the clips I've seen of Masked Rider, I felt the same as Ishinomori- I was completely disgusted. As for Dragon Knight, I think I watched some of it, but I don't remember anything. However, if the people who made it loved Kamen Rider, I'm sure it was great.

I think Kamen Rider is so hard to adapt because it's so special for the Japanese. While Sentai is known, but not as much, Kamen Rider is extremely famous and iconic (they have an Ichigo statue for a reason). To adapt this properly would take someone with high respect for the original work- which Saban hasn't, looking both at MR and Power Rangers. Also, Rider is generally much more dark than Sentai, except for maybe Fourze, but even there, the story is on a far higher level than most of Sentai. Leave that out and most Rider shows are crappy shit, because the action in Rider still isn't as important as storytelling.

I'm glad they won't adapt any Rider series anymore, because Rider just can't be adapted properly imho if you don't put an awesome story into it. And that's not quite something Saban does in Power Rangers, so...

I don't think Blade or Kabuto would be great choices either, sure they have lots of Rider's but neither had particularly great action sequences. Although out of the two I think Kabuto would do a lot better, the action was better (although not great) and it's much easier to adapt fight footage like Kabuto's as we already have stuff like Iron Man, so making a story about government issued super suits shouldn't be so hard.

I was disgusted when they mutilated B-Fighter and B-Fighter Kabuto like how Sid mutilated Woody with a magnifying glass.....*SHUDDER*
Dragon Knight was a good attempt though

Hard to say...yeah, there's Thomas The Train Engine, but it's target demographic is boys ages like 4-7. Power rangers is boys 9-12. I stopped caring about Thomas when I was like 7 or 8 years old. I was all into Pokémon and Bionicle by that point. (Though, when I was 4 or 5 years old; I LOVED Thomas, and just trains in general).

You make a good point.

Not even remotely. Trains are huge in Japan. In the US they're a much more niche interest.

I would watch the heck out of that! :lol

I don't think the problem of adapting Kamen Rider is cultural differences or toy marketability but the fact that nobody wants to take up the offer.

There's not really anybody with enough money or experience to adapt a toku besides Saban. Can you think of any companies? Adness is gone and nobody wants to jump back into toku adaptations.

Even if Saban wanted to do it and saw profitability in the offer, I'm sure as hell Nick is not going to allow it like the stupid asses they are. If Nick wants to LIMIT episodes of PR down to 20 per year (meaning that they are intentionally cutting down prime advertising time.) I'm sure that they will not allow this untested property to go past their radars.

Its also the fact that Rider needs different things put into it in order to make it good. Sentai/ Power Rangers has fight scenes all throughout the episode with minor story in between each fight. Whereas with Rider, there's fight scenes at the beginning and the end of the episode ( with maybe a fight in the middle) but most of the episode is talking. There often stretches in Rider episodes of 10-20 minutes without a costumed guy or a fight.


However, if there was no business involved and I could have a dream Rider adaptation series, I'd have Adness to all original HD footage for a Kamen Rider Blade adaptation that's 40 episodes with the actors for the original Blade Riders making cameos.

Personally? I don't think Kamen Rider would translate well to the audience as it suffers from 'Like Power Rangers, but not" syndrome.

If you asked someone about Kamen Rider, and what they thought. The initial response would be "That looks like power rangers...Gey".

That is what will always make Kamen Rider suffer, is that it is like Power Rangers... but not. On that note, it is hard to translate, as Kamen Rider is usually the more mature of the two Toei Brands mentioned.

From that, the translation is missed, as people just find there to be a show with bad actors, and bad Japanese footage attempting to be dark and missing the nuance.

Don't get me wrong, I would love for there to be an American Kamen Rider show that didn't flop (I'm looking at you Masked Rider, and Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight...)

But, if we are to do it? It would have to be all original content, which I don't think any production staff in the United States would want to undergo, especially with the struggles Saban and Disney have with the Power Ranger IP alone.