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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Are trains as marketable in America as they are in Japan?

Hard to say...yeah, there's Thomas The Train Engine, but it's target demographic is boys ages like 4-7. Power rangers is boys 9-12. I stopped caring about Thomas when I was like 7 or 8 years old. I was all into Pokémon and Bionicle by that point. (Though, when I was 4 or 5 years old; I LOVED Thomas, and just trains in general).

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Originally Posted by Suzu

Actually I'm glad that after Masked Rider and Dragon Knight, we never got an adaption of Kamen Rider again. From the clips I've seen of Masked Rider, I felt the same as Ishinomori- I was completely disgusted. As for Dragon Knight, I think I watched some of it, but I don't remember anything. However, if the people who made it loved Kamen Rider, I'm sure it was great.

I think Kamen Rider is so hard to adapt because it's so special for the Japanese. While Sentai is known, but not as much, Kamen Rider is extremely famous and iconic (they have an Ichigo statue for a reason). To adapt this properly would take someone with high respect for the original work- which Saban hasn't, looking both at MR and Power Rangers. Also, Rider is generally much more dark than Sentai, except for maybe Fourze, but even there, the story is on a far higher level than most of Sentai. Leave that out and most Rider shows are crappy shit, because the action in Rider still isn't as important as storytelling.

I'm glad they won't adapt any Rider series anymore, because Rider just can't be adapted properly imho if you don't put an awesome story into it. And that's not quite something Saban does in Power Rangers, so...

You make a good point.