the main cast can afford to lose some screen time. the fact theyre our anniversary team disgusts me to no end

In fairness of the Megaforce Rangers, I love how Gia functions as like the second in command and Noah is the stereotyped nerd but he has also been matched up with a sentai character who kicks loads off ass.

I think this is pretty positive for the kids considering the nerd and female characters have become more tacked on tropes in the franchise than actual characters.

Emma is the only member of the Megaforce team I actually straight dislike.

Abarekiller did de-transform in the scene in which they gave Gai their powers, so there's that.

My assumption, based on Ahkim B's statement that budgets don't control guest appearances, the E.P. does (Tzachor), is that they decided to cut Rhett's part out of the anniversary because they don't have the Titanium suit (as Japan never had it, it was made strictly for the USA). If you don't have a suit for a cool little "one-over" image on the actor, or for Megaforce Silver to morph in to, why have the actor return?

Nearly all the props they're getting are from Toei. I doubt Toei kept anything other than a design sheet for the suit, and even then, who knows what happened to it.

Don't get me wrong - I want Rhett Fisher back badly. So badly. But that's the only reasoning I can think of is that they wouldn't have a suit to represent his Ranger, thus, why bring him on?

I do not doubt the possibility of the Titanium Ranger suit having been lost. However, I think the likelier answer is Jonathan Tzachor wanting to stick closer to the story of Gokaiger. The closest thing we got to a GoGo-V tribute was a brief appearance by GoGreen in the final episode. Why would Tzachor put the Titanium Ranger in the show, especially when it would require all-new footage?

Except for that entire GoGo-V tribute episode which heavily featured GoPink and ended with Gokaioh getting a GoGo-V themed finisher, you mean. GoGo-V DID get a tribute episode.

Well, I haven't watched Gokaiger, and only learned about the GoGreen thing after a quick Google search. :p But the footage/adherance to script thing still stands.

The one thing I don't understand is how Super Megaforce can stick close to Gokaiger?

Although we can argue it (but don't, please) Power Rangers and Super Sentai are very different shows and products, especially in the early days a lot of changes were made and since Gokaiger is a celebration of a history of stories and characters that don't exist in Power Rangers, I can only see this working at all if they actually do something original with it.

Not to mention the fact that Gokaiger was a fully fledged series with an actual developed plot that spanned 51 episodes, while Super Megaforce will be a crammed 20 episode season.

But that probably won't work for any Gokaiger-Super Megaforce episode, because Gokaiger was very character-driven. With Samurai, the characters were like very (emphasising very) neutered versions of their Shinkenger counterparts so the basic plot could often be followed. The Megaforce characters are almost polar opposites to their Gokaiger counterparts in most cases (Marvelous/Troy, Joe/Noah, Doc/Jake and Ahim/Emma have nothing in common rather then being Pink and Gia doesn't resemble Luka much at all), even ignoring the fact that all of the Megaforce cast have the personality of a rock.
Also, like Locke said, many tributes are impossible to adapt because of the changes. Carranger, Ohranger and Megaranger's tribute episodes, for example, have nothing that could tie into a Turbo, Zeo or In Space tribute. There's basically no way that Gokaiger can be simply adapted by just changing things like Samurai.

It's Tzachor. He will find a way. Isn't that right, Power Rangers (Super) Samurai?

Although I did read an interview between Fury Diamond and Alison MacInnis (Dana Mitchell/Lightspeed Rescue, Pink Ranger), and she expressed an interest in returning.