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Originally Posted by Librarian

This is extremely promising.

If Hasbro gets in this good with Toei longterm, that bodes well for Takara and Toei too.

It also now means we can officially see Hasbro Universe stuff in power rangers, like Rom or Micronauts, and more. Even Jem cameos.

This bodes extremely well for the movies as well. Sequel, no reboot, and it'd be easy to write GI Joe or larger HCU in since the first movie was self-contained as an incident that yet to have any larger oversight/investigation into it in the movie itself. That would be sequel content. The only draw back there is that in the PR movie universe the Bay movies are fiction. So that precludes that from being included. But they can do the rest of the HCU, and even the bayverse movies could be written into the world as fiction hiding reality like the conspiracy theory the films started to push as marketing.

We can now actively have Dire Wraiths and Power Rangers crossover in tv form too. GI Joe and Lightspeed Rescue. Rom and Lost Galaxy or In Space.

And of course the backbone of Hasbro itself, Transformers.

Hasbro is the perfect place to salvage Power Rangers into something new and even bigger than it ever was.

After Beast Morphers, expect some great things in the works. Beast Morphers was in motion before the acquisition, so we won't see the full benefits of this purchase until after it.

More curious how much original content this could mean. Hasbro has a wide area of designs that Transformers and GI Joe haven't used like Sari, Cutting Edge, and Ginrai or Minerva. Kind of curious what they could do with that in the future, especially since in Japan such rights combinations are a more common thing as companies do work together on more friendly terms in various areas.

This also means on the toy side, likeliness for Battle Fever J getting a remake and including that Spider-man increased. Hasbro has the Marvel toy rights. We could very well see the Marvel/Toei shared stuff now. At least in Toy Form.



Hasbro does both. Newest Rescue Bots is non-union.

Bandai Japan still owns the rights to Sentai, however - so any collaboration between Toei and Takara on Super Sentai designs is impossible. Unlike most other JP companies, Bandai and Takara can't stand each other and Toei is very much tied to Bandai. Although Toei and Hasbro are likely to become close, I wouldn't count on the same going for Toei and Takara.
Assuming, of course, that Hasbro continues to rely so heavily on the source footage - there is every chance that the relationship between Power Rangers and Super Sentai will become more distant, though not outright disappearing.