[dreamcastegirl]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Hasbro and Bandai have also been rivals in the toy market for ages

I remember some of the original Transformers line being pulled from Bandai properties, but I guess that's so old as to not be relevant in this situation. I still can't help but think that it seems like a considerable investment of resources and money, but I understand that I'm not privy to the full extent of information to really make a judgement on that.

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Originally Posted by Layton13

There's no way of sugarcoating it, Sentai's dying.

Gosh, this is some really sad news. It makes me feel that I should buy some Kiramager toys (though, of course, I'm not, that stuff is expensive, she said, cradling pointless idol merchandise that she paid far too much money for).

It surprises me that things are going so badly for them. I guess I always assumed that the brand was too big to fail. Certainly, whenever I see the stuff in toy shops, there's so much of it that I assume it must be doing well, whereas, by comparison, smaller toku franchises like the Girls x Heroine stuff take up far less space on shelves and have far fewer lines, which I personally think is sad, but that's me.

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Originally Posted by Layton13

And I wouldn't really say Rider is becoming that much more Sentai like. Or at least, only on a superfical level.

I mean, we each have different opinions, but if you'd shown me that first episode of Saber without the credits and asked me what it was, I would told you with the utmost conviction that it was a new sentai show.