[TheFightingSpirit]

To be honest, in order to adapt say Gaim for the Western market one would have to rewrite an awful lot.

In my experience, Kamen Rider often relies on the out of suit footage for story. More so than SS does at least. Then again that could also be see as a burden lifted. You could take a whole load of suit footage out of context and plug it into any story you wished. Especially when you realise that so much of Gaim is based on reused and recoloured monster costumes.

The whole thing is ripe with possibility yes, but at the moment I see the Rider franchise as something few companies would touch. Too much history, too many people to upset, not enough money to work with in relation to the lower ratio of footage to stuff they'd have to film...

For some reason power rangers just worked, lord knows how. Not a lot of stuff by Saban has fared quite so well. And who knows if anyone else would want to compete with them.