[Electric Turahk]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

Yeah but each year Japanese kids get a brand new group of heroes with their own costumes and mecha. In the US they stretch out the same characters and scenarios for 2 seasons now. Kids won't get why the exact same characters have completely different costumes. Especially like Gosei Knight to Gokai Silver and Gosei Black to Gokai Green.

You really don't think a simple explanation couldn't be given? And Knight and Silver don't have to be the same at all. They're completely allowed to change things. Five seconds of explanation would suffice. I don't think you're giving kids enough credit.

Heck, we actually had been getting new rangers every year for a good while. So they'd be the same actors now. Big deal! New Rangers is still something that should now be expected in the US as well.

[Destroyman]

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Originally Posted by Sentai Tamashii

Kids can transition from the Zyuranger suits to Ninja suits, Saban is gotta give kids more credit, if the writing is done right, the suit change can be easily explained. What Saban needs to do is to train the US kids to accept that there will be a new ranger every year, just like they do in Japan, and that way they can sell more toys.

Actually they didn't if your talking about the Kakuranger costumes (who eventually became the Alien rangers. And if your talking about the ninja costumes they wore before they changed again into the Zyu suits, first off they still used the same costumes with just an extra transformation included, & second I personally feel that modern day Ninjas as a concept can be taken WAY more seriously than modern day Pirates. But hey, that's just me.

[Den-O]

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Originally Posted by Electric Turahk

You really don't think a simple explanation couldn't be given? And Knight and Silver don't have to be the same at all. They're completely allowed to change things. I don't think you're giving kids enough credit.

It's not my personal opinion. I'm just giving you the exact logic Saban is using for this. That's exactly what's going through their heads here. Isn't that the same reason they skipped Dairanger suits originally, and had to use the Kakurangers as an entirely separate team of characters? In the context of them having done this before I can totally understand why they're doing it now.

[Electric Turahk]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

It's not my personal opinion. I'm just giving you the exact logic Saban is using for this. That's exactly what's going through their heads here. Isn't that the same reason they skipped Dairanger suits originally, and had to use the Kakurangers as an entirely separate team of characters? In the context of them having done this before I can totally understand why they're doing it now.

Fair enough. But I'd also thing that given the number of seasons since then they'd realize the original thinking was proven wrong and that kids can handle it.

[TimeFire302]

Rember Saban the same company that months ago had a rep at an Expo say pirates are to scary for children only to go into damage control a few days later. This news makes me think that maybe they were two-faced on that.

[Destroyman]

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Originally Posted by Electric Turahk

Fair enough. But I'd also thing that given the number of seasons since then they'd realize the original thinking was proven wrong and that kids can handle it.

Okay, yes we have had costume changes in the past. Eg. MMPR-Zeo, Turbo-In Space, & that hasn't destroyed the franchise. Aside from Turbo, the changes were never too drastic. And as I've pointed out "Mystical/Technological warriors" to "Space Pirates" is just such a jarring change that doesn't make any real sense thematically other than "We're just changing costumes because that's the Sentai after Goseiger". Also, I think you'l remember that Power Rangers have never handled "Space Pirates" too well *cough*Divatox*cough*.

[PkmnMstr]

I'm totally not okay with this. I was hoping to be able to get Ranger Keys for a decent price. I guess not. I hope they'll still be able to transform into past forms somehow......even though so much new footage would be needed for that. Because that way at the very least we would get Ranger Power Cards.

Actually, they should make the American Tensouder with tons and tons of different sounds. Charge $100, I don't care, just make a different sound for every card and also give us Ranger Power Cards. They're never going to do this though. Because apparently they've become allergic to money.

[Destroyman]

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Originally Posted by PkmnMstr

I'm totally not okay with this. I was hoping to be able to get Ranger Keys for a decent price. I guess not. I hope they'll still be able to transform into past forms somehow......even though so much new footage would be needed for that. Because that way at the very least we would get Ranger Power Cards.

Actually, they should make the American Tensouder with tons and tons of different sounds. Charge $100, I don't care, just make a different sound for every card and also give us Ranger Power Cards. They're never going to do this though. Because apparently they've become allergic to money.

Actually, we've pretty much confirmed the the US Tensouder is bigger due to the Megaforce cards not being able to fit in the Jap one. So that's something to take into account.

[KRX]

But I wanted a Mobirates...

Oh well- at least it smooths out the transition from RoboKnight to Megaforce Silver.

[ZeoRangerV]

Looks like my theory of ranger cards rather than keys might happen after all...