Power Rangers

So I've seen around online that the last episode of Super Sentai aired in Japan. The rumbling is that it's more of a hiatus for a few years to totally revamp and retool the show, similar to what has been done with Ultraman and Space Sheriff Gavan. Curious to see what happens and how it will play out stateside.
 
Sentai will likely come back in some form, but this is probably where Power Rangers and Sentai separate officially, even though it pretty much already happened years ago.
 
Spongyblue said:
So I've seen around online that the last episode of Super Sentai aired in Japan. The rumbling is that it's more of a hiatus for a few years to totally revamp and retool the show,
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Basically what they are doing with it here in the US as well.

I honestly don't know how I want Power Rangers to go forward.

Once and Always left me cold. It was neat seeing Billy and Zach again, but with JDF, AJJ, and ASJ bowing out and then having them incorporating the real-life death of Thuy Trang into the storyline all while the audience knows they lost JDF during the production.....it's just over. No one wants to watch a Friends reunion and have them explain away the death of Chandler. I think we have to leave the original cast in the past.

I think it's highly likely they will recast the original cast which I'm not overly excited about. They did it for the 2017 movie and it fell flat. But that's where the nostalgia bait lies so you have to assume it's the most likely scenario.
 
Such a bummer too, because I actually liked the 2017 movie for the most part.
 
I'm not the biggest Power Ranger dude, when it debuted I was in 8th grade so it seemed a bit out of my wheelhouse, but I have grown to appreciate it for what it is. To me the biggest thing that weighed PR down, and I know I've said it on here before, is that the Sentai series have next to nothing to do with each other each season, where as American audiences want the continued connections so I can see on the adaptation side it being a total nightmare after a while to get things to gel well season to season. Nothing really feels connected so even when they do move on to a new cast it felt very jarring as it wasn't just the people, but the setting and tones always felt out of left field to me. Again, I very rarely watched the show and I was aware of in the earlier seasons how one kinda sorta lead into the other.

I really dig the Power Rangers comic from BOOM and kinda hope they go that way with the overall lore.
 
Some chatter says Toei is looking to ditch the giant robot fights at the end of each episode which I think is half the fun (at least). I've no source for that, so it could just be BS.

As far as Power Rangers goes, I can't seem to muster much excitement over any kind of Mighty Morphin' reboot. It was fine, but far from my favorite series, and it's weird to me that people will only accept five rainbow-ninjas piloting giant robots if they're named Tommy, Jason or Kimberly.

It felt like right at the end of Once a Ranger, we had a good launching point that kept fan-favorite characters like Billy and Adam as mentors to any new teams going forward with whatever concept they put together (in what looked to be a search for Zordon). Hasbro had just figured out how to make their own original tokasatsu stuff (with some relatively good original action scenes in Cosmic Fury), so I figured we were in for some fresh new stuff with just enough old-school presence to please the Gen-Y fans. But I guess that was overly optimistic, because we all know Power Rangers won't work without a Tommy and some dinosaurs.
 
Are the Zords the problem?

I know this would never fly because merchandise sales, but the Power Rangers themselves are basically eliminated from all of their fights in the final battle because they have giant robots. I know why the show was like this - but does it have to be? Why make the Rangers basically useless for the last fight of *every* episode? Just... don't make the villains large. Let the Rangers keep fighting as themselves and don't do robots.

But then, I'm also a person who can't grasp the basis of Transformers lore, so robots aren't really for me.

Found single-packed Re-Ignition Goldar at Target yesterday for $6.99 on clearance. I think it was just this smaller store. He's the first of the new stuff I've seen.
 
Toy companies: eVeRyThInG gEtS a CrOsSoVeR!!!!!!! wE aRe OuT oF iDeAs!!!!!!

These kind of remind me of the Legend of the White Dragon costumes. (That movie is never going to see the light of day, is it?)
 
They got me to pick up Ninja Turtles but I don't see that happening here.

It's just one pic, but they look pretty lazy and, colors aside, they don't seem very representative of the kaiju they're supposed to portray.
 
yojoebro82 said:
Toy companies: eVeRyThInG gEtS a CrOsSoVeR!!!!!!! wE aRe OuT oF iDeAs!!!!!!

These kind of remind me of the Legend of the White Dragon costumes. (That movie is never going to see the light of day, is it?)
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There WERE comics these toys are based on, so it's not JUST toy companies "out of ideas". Godzilla's had a LOT of crossovers in the last year or so.
 
I read a few of those issues and they where exactly what they should be: kids on a playground with all there toys mashing them together and letting their imaginations go wild. No super deep plot. No character development.
It's "Hey my dad gave me his old Godzilla!"
"I got my Power Rangers!"
"Godzilla should wear a Zord as a power suit!"
"YEAH!"
And fun shenanigans ensues.
 
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