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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

I mean... it's kind of necessary to have one if long-term survival of the series is on the table.

No, it doesn't. Plenty of franchises survive without having such a niche to fill. Mazinger Z, for example, is still very much around despite super robot shows now being nothing new.

Franchises live or die based on how much money they make as well as anyone in a company who's willing to keep them going.

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I hope none of this comes across as too gloomy. I'm a total outsider to the PR fanbase, but I hope that also means I might be able to offer a slightly different perspective. Gotta change with the times!

No offense, but yeah, you show you very much are an outsider because Power Rangers has infact changed and evolved over time.

If one compares MMPR to Dino Fury, outside of the general theme of dinosaurs, the two are basically night and day. The themes, the tone, the style of action, it's all different and alot of things were done very much due to fan demand. Heck, as much as I personally dislike the guy's' social media presense, Simon Bennett did try to appease the older fanbase when he did work on the show.

One must also take into account that PR isn't just the live-action Toku anymore and hasn't been for basically a decade now. Thanks to Saban we got the comics and the video/tabletop games, both of which have been very successful with who they set out to appeal to. Heck, Battle for the Grid is still a rather popular fighting game with pro players, thanks in part to them getting pro players to help develop the game itself.

And of course, the show has always been and continues to be profitable. Even under Hasbro, the show made money, it's just that the current president doesn't care about the franchise and thus it's getting torched. One of the reasons many people are upset about the situation.

The short of it is that it's not because of stagnation, or lack of innovation or whatever, it's literally the doing of a company that doesn't care for it. Power Rangers continued to exist and be successful because people liked it and cared about it, no different from, say, Ultraman or whatever.