[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

And Saban doesn't love high schoolers. It's that high school was successful, so why change what made money?
If Power Ranger's first big money maker was a military season like Lightspeed, then 80% of Saban seasons would be military based.

Well yeah, I don't mean they literally love high schoolers, that would be creepy. They love high school because MMPR made them gobs of money, and they don't want to diverge from a tried and true formula.

Saban doesn't strike me as a particularly risk-taking company, and it easy to see why they keep everything so stagnant. When the PR franchise started to diverge from the MMPR template, ratings tanked. I personally don't think the ratings dive was caused by the franchise's mid-period experimentation -- logic would indicate that the series was getting old, so its appeal was wearing thin with kids who love the next, new thing (also, it was bone-headedly buried by Disney on Jetix during this period, that had to play a major part in the decline). But Hollywood logic doesn't work like normal people logic, and accordingly, I predict we'll get a stream of HS-based teams for the foreseeable future.