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Originally Posted by TokuChris

If true, and Hasbro chooses to end their contract with Toei, they can easily create a new series on their own. The name "Power Rangers" is owned by Hasbro. They couldn't create new material of the old stuff but they could create new material and call it Power Rangers. If that makes sense.

I think this though is precisely why this can't be the case; at least not to the levels people are catastrophising it as.

Like. They'd be giving up Mighty Morphin'.

You all, like-- you all see how crazy that is, right? That's the bread and butter of the brand, the entire thing that they can bank on for nostalgia and pop culture relevance money that far outmatches any money they have to give to Toei for their deal. And they'd give up that for, what, a new original animated series featuring vaguely similar designs?

It's not even like they've been preparing for this -- in fact they've been heavily investing in exactly the opposite. The BOOM comics continue to go strong as a successful comic; the Lightning Collection has gone out of its way to introduce new team molds almost every wave; you've got returning actors in Beast Morphers and likely Dino Fury at this rate; general merchandising in smaller lines like Imaginext not just continues but has doubled down on legacy content; there's a wholeass live-action movie coming soon enough!


Worst case scenario, absolutely worst case scenario; they're forging a new deal with Toei that allows them access to all the legacy stuff but doesn't allow them access to new shows. But frankly there's no indication of even that especially with what little we have to go on.


Come back later this year and this'll all have been turned out to be a massive misinterpretation of something as simple and boring as not renewing the current deal because they're making a new deal that has a few legal terms and conditions changed.