Take this information with a grain of salt. The company name POWER RANGERS PRODUCTIONS SOUTH AFRICA LLC was filed March 19th. This could be for a production office, or a branch office for Saban.

Perhaps it's even cheaper to shoot in South Africa than it is in New Zealand? Onl time will tell what this means.

It could turn out like the Power Rider file for all we know.

South Africa has been becoming a popular destination for foreign productions. The advantages of the low labor costs, and government incentives has lead to movies like Dredd or District 9 filming there.

It's not clear if production is actually moving there though, as I said. Saban files patents all the time. We'll see what happens.

Why the hell would Power Rider be filmed in South Africa? You'd think that they'd keep production in the same cheap countries for financial purposes.

This filing thing is just odd enough to tip my radar. I'm still waiting for something to turn up for a "Power Rider" production, but all we've been catching is news of a dead trademark. Even if its not Power Rider, I don't know why a specific South African branch is needed. If its for all of Africa its fine, but its for one country.

I was saying that this could turn out like Power Rider did, ie it sits in a cabinet for several years and then expires without anything ever coming of it.

Power Rider trademark expired at the end of last year. When we spoke to Bandai of America at Toy Fair in February, we were given a very quick "No plans, not happening" in regards to a possible future adaption of Kamen Rider.

It would appear that the stories of TOEI being so upset at the adaption of "Masked Rider" by Saban are true, and that they will never allow Saban to adapt Kamen Rider ever again (and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight didn't help either).

South Africa has a lot of jungle stuff that they can film with. The jungle feel can work for flash backs during the age of the Dinosaurs or maybe they will film some flash back scenes of the Blue Ranger's past.

I thought DK was successful in Japan? And it was moderately successful stateside too, at least at the time of airing.

Wasn't DK made by Toei?

Dragon Knight was produced by Adness. Toei dubbed it in Japan.