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Originally Posted by timothyR

And let's face it, the spider-man suit is FAR more iconic than the ranger suits are. I don't think there's as much of a desire to be faithfully accurate to the source material here as there is with something like spider-man. Especially since every iteration of the rangers have had different suits.

Not a fair assessment. You have to consider Spider-Man is more iconic in America, because it's an American property with American history... Power Rangers will never mean the same to Americans that Super Sentai does to the Japanese. I'm sure some American's could give a crap less if Power Rangers is faithfully accurate to the source material, but that's probably because it wasn't theirs to begin with. I am confident American fans would be pretty upset to see Spider-Man undergo such a significant transformation.

Also, Sentai have different suits because it's basically a different universe with each installment (they're not connected, or at least they're not supposed to be). This new movie is clearly a retelling of Zyuranger (the source material for the original MMPR), and it's straying from that significantly. I didn't expect spandex (I'm not that daft). I was willing to accept and was looking forward to new, updated suits, but not these.