[Bandaiman]

@tailsman so pretty much what you're saying is Power Rangers was going to fail regardless?

[Matrixbeast]

Power Rangers wasn't set to fail, it's that Saban's desire to pinch as many pennies as possible led to it's failure.

[Talisman]

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Originally Posted by Bandaiman

@tailsman so pretty much what you're saying is Power Rangers was going to fail regardless?

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Power Rangers wasn't set to fail, it's that Saban's desire to pinch as many pennies as possible led to it's failure.

Pretty much that. From the perspective of an executive, why should we pay more and try harder when we've already been this successful operating on the slimmest budget possible? And the fact that at no point in the 30 years did anyone with the power to make a change see fit to argue otherwise meant that Power Rangers was ultimately living on borrowed time, that it had a built-in expiration date. It managed to cling to life from around Wild Force onward as the kids who grew up with it at its start and height aged out of the franchise, and got a boost with Samurai and Megaforce/Super Megaforce, but after Dino Charge things died down considerably.

Running a piece of media is no different from caring for a plant. You have to actually nurture it, feed it, allow it room to grow, or it will inevitably die, even the ones that are sold as low-maintenance. Nobody who owned Power Rangers was really interested in doing that, and that's why we're here having this discussion.

[Bandaiman]

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Pretty much that. From the perspective of an executive, why should we pay more and try harder when we've already been this successful operating on the slimmest budget possible? And the fact that at no point in the 30 years did anyone with the power to make a change see fit to argue otherwise meant that Power Rangers was ultimately living on borrowed time, that it had a built-in expiration date. It managed to cling to life from around Wild Force onward as the kids who grew up with it at its start and height aged out of the franchise, and got a boost with Samurai and Megaforce/Super Megaforce, but after Dino Charge things died down considerably.

Running a piece of media is no different from caring for a plant. You have to actually nurture it, feed it, allow it room to grow, or it will inevitably die, even the ones that are sold as low-maintenance. Nobody who owned Power Rangers was really interested in doing that, and that's why we're here having this discussion.

Okay what if Saban sold Power Rangers to Newscorp/FOX instead of Disney. Do you think the franchise would be in a bettter place? I know Murdoch did want to buy Saban a few times.

[Talisman]

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Okay what if Saban sold Power Rangers to Newscorp/FOX instead of Disney. Do you think the franchise would be in a bettter place? I know Murdoch did want to buy Saban a few times.

I really don't. You're missing the forest for the trees; it's not a matter of who owned the show. It changed hands multiple times and the only significant change to production was moving to New Zealand to make it even cheaper to produce.

Giving it to another big, or bigger, company wouldn't have equated to a higher budget because, and I cannot stress this enough: Why fix what ain't broke?

[Bandaiman]

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I really don't. You're missing the forest for the trees; it's not a matter of who owned the show. It changed hands multiple times and the only significant change to production was moving to New Zealand to make it even cheaper to produce.

Giving it to another big, or bigger, company wouldn't have equated to a higher budget because, and I cannot stress this enough: Why fix what ain't broke?

Ok so then what happens now? The franchise dies out and we don't discuss about it anymore.

[Talisman]

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Ok so then what happens now? The franchise dies out and we don't discuss about it anymore.

If that's ultimately the root of all your concerns and questions, I've got good news because here's the thing about media of any kind: It never really goes away. It may not be in production anymore, it may be IP camped until the heat death of the universe.

But stories never really die. Even after Power Rangers is well and truly dead we'll be here, or there, or somewhere, talking about it. I say this from the experience of being in a fandom that's not had any real movement since 1991, and while it's a small one, there's still plenty of people talking about it, breaking it down, analyzing it, and reconstructing it.

Power Rangers will always be around. Just not in the way we were used to for 30 years.