I'm not surprised by this honestly, Hasbro has been slacking on PR's support since the beginning of their ownership. They never completed a single deluxe zord line. The QC was a joke, it's a shame PR goes out like this. Assuming it doesn't make a comeback somehow. Not getting all of Time Force sucks for me, it's my favorite season. Didn't buy blue cause of the QC problems. At least Dino Thunder(my 2nd favorite) got completed.
Hasbro completely mishandled Power Rangers and what fans wanted from the series in regards to toys. Focusing on Action Figures instead of Zords, Morphers and Roleplay and the offerings they did have for these items were overpriced and underbaked. I'm actually excited for Playmates to develop Power Ranger stuff after seeing their offerings for Voltron which has a very similar concept.
@@thunderstudent what they are saying is the fact they only did basically the same action figures, you arent wrong cause action figures of monsters and villains and well troop builders would be great but they didnt do much with it
@@thunderstudent That's fine and I'm glad you got them but the toys used to sell Power Rangers across every season and around the world was Zords, Morphers and Roleplay so putting those on the back burner for Action Figures was a gross mishandling of the franchise. It's akin to selling only R.E.D. figures for Transformers.
The didn't do too badly with the actual figures but they utterly botched the mecha and character selection while absolutely choking the line with the same MMPR characters we already have from a ton of other lines. Seems like they screw up everything everything that isn't one of their flagship franchises these days.
Lmao we got MMPR toys twice in one year. Then they announced the ninjetti figures thinking everyone would be excited. Honestly though, I blame influencers for this. TH-camrs like Bruno should have been more vocal about this stuff (especially the ZAP project when he noticed the materials was fragile and cheap compared to his Bandai stuff). Then you had Black Comedy nerd also pushing MMPR stuff and not being vocal. He was one of Hasbro's go to guys when they needed someone to promote toys and tv shows. Instead they just proudly accepted the MMPR slop until it was to late and then they started to say they were tired of MMPR a few months before the franchise was shelved.
MMPR is what sells. Transformers fans also bitch about Optimus Prime and Bumblebee toys for the same reason. Marvel fans bitch about Spider-Man and Iron Man toys. Star Wars fans bitch about Darth Vader and Boba Fett toys. and Gi Joe fans bitch about the ninja toys. Every Hasbro fandom bitches about Hasbro catering to normies and other fans instead of exclusively to them.
For a company that specializes in making toys of giant robots, Hasbro's Zord toys were always half-baked, when they even bothered to make toys of them at all (still mad they never made the Beast-X Lion Zord or the Dino Fury auxiliaries)
@@purplewolfranger22 wanna Know what would make you more Mad Revisiting this comment now and remembering the Beast X King zord never been made Let that live rent free in your head 😂
I've never understood why Hasbro bought the entire Power Rangers IP if they weren't interested in doing anything substantial with it. You don't get to complain about the brand not being profitable when you didn't put in the effort to make people give a rat's ass about it. They also completely misread the room when it came to the toys, what with the primary focus being on endless action figures of the same few characters instead of the big moneymakers, i.e. the Zords and the roleplay props.
@@MnemonicSyntax Never writing comments at 4AM again, I tend to confuse my Hasbro execs that way. I was of course referring to Goldner. In regards to Warden, though, I actually wonder what the hell HIS plan was before his untimely...reassignment. Bro was THE Transformers guy for years and proceeds to oversee like 3 Megazords and nothing else of note in regard to transforming robots.
@@Matt-cn2nn Ah, gotcha. Scared me for a second. As for Warden, who knows. I know he's done great stuff for Transformers so how he dropped the ball on PR is... bizarre.
I'd blame Saban themselves for that, as Hasbro owns everything that Saban Brands had, and they're stitting on everything from that deal. And I get why with Pretty Cure (Toei) and Next Mutation (because who the fuck would want to admit they own it), but Power Rangers? You'd figure the company that makes both collectible action figures AND transforming robots would be able to actually handle both with the Rangers, but nope! Disney and Tomy come first it seems, and even then they're corner-cutting and making things flimsy as shit.
As a Godzilla collector the Godzilla line is actually pretty good especially as a budget line we really don't get those for Godzilla and while the sculpting may be soft they're still fun toys
I can NOT believe that Hasbro, who has been making combing robots FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS couldn't do articulated combinable Megazords, specially when so, so many of them are just basic vehicles that don't even have individual robot modes. And also Hasbro, king of repaints and retools couldn't even complete squads of 5 or 6 that look super similar by design.
@@MarcosVelasquez-Sanchez Keep in mind, they'd rather focus on Marvel, Transformers and Star wars than literally anything else, it would seem. And they're fucking up all three lines to varying degrees. We don't need them continuing to fuck over Power Rangers. They had their chance, and here's hoping their outsourcing the franchise to Playmates actually yields something of worth.
@@Newsystuffs Who do you think will own the Power Rangers franchise so fans can get articulated megazords with good quality materials and good Rangers toys with proper accessories? And as for Marvel, Star Wars, and Transformers, they need more improvement in order to stay alive
@@Newsystuffs Can't wait for the next round of coping from this fandom when Playmates either ditches it after realizing Hasbro suckered them like Saban did Hasbro or follows Saban and Bandai's example and puts the bare minimum of effort into it.
Power rangers needs a beast wars, legendary defender, or friendship is magic. A drastic reinvention to bring it to a new generation and give it some new life. Do an animated mighty morphing remake. Do a series where the rangers turn directly into zords. Do a pacific rim style series where all the monsters are Kaiju and only the rangers can fight back. Do a series where there are no zords and the rangers turn directly into giants the same way the monsters do. Do a Godzilla minus one style horror series. Transformers has survived because they change and try new things. Some series might not be your cup of tea. But there’s tons of options. And great toys to support the series.
My assumption is that Hasbro acquired the Power Rangers license because of how old and enduring it is, and thought they could have the franchise rest on its laurels for the most part, ignoring that Power Rangers is far from the cultural juggernaut it used to be. It has dedicated fans, but I feel like Hasbro wanted a Marvel or Transformers, and they ended up with another G.I. Joe that they don't really know what to do with. Except with G.I. Joe, Hasbro put the effort into the merch at the very least, because it's targeted at adult collectors. With Power Rangers, their collector targeted toys still mostly feel like they're made for kids, just priced like they aren't. While G.I. Joe is pretty directionless these days other than "ride Transformers' coattails", it's at least *_a_* direction.
I personally don't have an attachment to the Power Rangers franchise, but with Playmates having their hand in this, I'm not seeing it go anywhere. Many Voltron fans have not been able to find the limb lions. The distribution between Target and Playmates are complete jokes.
Man, imagine, just IMAGINE, if Hasbro spent more than 10 dollars and the lint in their pockets to adapt each season of sentai and hired literate screenwriters. Kids today don't care about Power Rangers.
As a PR fan I hate to say it, but I think PR is pretty much on life support these days, if something big doesn't happen soon like PR in Space or RPM to make it huge again I feel like it will be completely dead in the next year or so or by 2030 at the latest, and this makes me as sad as when I found out JDF passed away!😢😭😢
What's crazy is in space and rpm were the series ending seasons. And yet cosmic fury, the series ending season, can't even hold a damned candle to those seasons. Power rangers truly died with a whimper instead of a bang.
PR has been on life support since 95. In Space and Lost Galaxy as well benefited from the late 90s sci-fi boom Star Wars' revival caused just like MMPR benefited from the dinosaur craze Jurassic Park kickstarted. RPM while fondly remembered by the fandom was a rating and toy sales failure.
The over reliant on MMPR from Hasbro was insane. Even Bandai of America tried to move away from MMPR towards the end. I'm still sad we didn't get the legecy shogun Zord. Everyone thought Hasbro would release the Shogun Zord lol
Lightning collection was a mess. I really hoped they would straighten out 😢 I have ZERO idea why they didn’t make Nerf MMPR blasters and melee weapons .
Yeah about that... During Beast Morphers they made the Gold Ranger morpher into a Nerf gun. Which would have been fine if they ever released a normal one to go with the rest of the team.
When trying to get the Zeo Rangers complete it was a slap in the face to buyers when you had to buy a Cog set just to get weapons that should have come with the correct ranger in the first place.
The comments so far have been about Hasbro fumbling the bag with Power Rangers (especially toy wise) but we also need to acknowledge that they adapted the only two viable sentai to about average quality. The remaining series including Kyuranger which got its fight scenes used for Cosmic Fury would fail as a show even if they did the toys right. The best option might've been to use the money they spent on Rise of the Beasts and the DnD movie to instead make a fully original Power Rangers show and toyline that actually tried to be what people want.
How so? Kyuranger was one of the more boom-boom things flying off all episode seasons. They just needed to localize the quirky parts away and it would've been perfect for kids.
I’m not a huge fan of PR but they didn’t even touch some of my favorite PRs. Jungle fury, Operation Overdrive, Mystic Force, and Ninja storm never had any figures. Luckily they finished Dino Thunder, but they only did a couple from Wild Force and just yellow from RPM. Just kinda disappointing I’ll probably never be able to get figures of lightning collection quality of those rangers.
Right like while I'm not a big power rangers fan I grew up with jungle fury and a couple others from that era and always liked yellow from that show, so like she would have been the only figure I'd have really bought and I'm sad we never got her
The fact that Hasbro's Transformers Design team couldn't legally work on Megazords (Because of the Partnership of Hasbro and Takara) really made it so that Hasbro was really screwed in that area. Maybe if ZAP was a success it would be have gotten a better budget to compensate for that but it failed.
The zords on their own werent too bad. They were good analogues to what Japan would get given very tight budgets. It was their bad distrobution, incomplete lines, terrible timing, and Cosmic Fury's ridiculous pricing that made the zord area suck so bad
Hasbro just wants to be an IP farm and doesn't really care about their toys. It's a small comfort that my favorite franchise, TF, is the least screwed up by them and, at worsr case, I can always go 3P.
I remember seeing the big Netflix Voltron and thought it was pretty dope, and I confess I did marvel at the quality of the movie TMNT movie figs upon seeing them on pegs, even if I wasn't motivated to buy any. I barely have room to display the 2003 and 2012 Turtle teams as is!
I was looking forward to a potential Lightning Collection Mystic Force Legend Pink and Jungle Fury Master Yellow, but seeing as how Hasbro has no problem kicking around their own brands, I'm not too surprised.
BUT TEEEEEEEEEJAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!! Other points you neglected to mention -Nostalgiabaiting. Majority of the merch made under Hasbro was MMPR. A lot of hardcore fans wanted other seasons. Bandai America had the same problem with the Legacy Collection. Which leads into the next point… -You wanna talk about incomplete teams? What about teams that didn’t even get a shot? I foolishly hoped that I’d get a set of Mystic Force rangers with maybe cloth capes. Nope :/ And speaking of unproduced teams… -How badly they botched Cosmic Fury. Its toyline had 3 items; the megazord, the morpher, and a cruddy mask/weapon set. The entire point of the making all new suits for Cosmic Fury over using the Kyuranger suits was to produce figures of the original designs. Figures that ultimately never saw the light of day. They also never made any of the extra zords beyond just the Cosmic Fury Megazord, so that lineup is also incomplete.
Words cannot describe how PISSED I was that they LC line dies right as they start Lightspeed Rescue. A Titanium Ranger figure would've been a great way to start the team and would've been the only way to get a figure of him period, since he was a PR original. And Blue should've came with his V Lancer!!
Some Ninja Storm figures would've been cool (even if Red is kind of a touchy subject), and regardless of the actual show's quality, I would've loved to have a full team of Super Megaforce/Gokaigers.
Interesting timing. I found out yesterday that the Power Rangers Boom Studios comics are coming to a close. And as far as the shows go. I can name 2 interesting things they did *SPOILERS FOR RPM, BEAST MORPHERS, AND DINO FURY* Towards the end of Beast Morphers season 2 they did what I consider a really good plot twist. Where they revealed that Nate had been experimenting with morpher technology. Which lead to the reveal that Evox (That series serpentine main villain who's also a computer virus) is Vengix from RPM (Resolving the cliffhanger that season ended on) and for Dino Fury they retconned the Morphin Masters into playing a role in the entire franchise (I will admit. This one is weird)
Man if only cosmic fury wasn't the last season to use sentai footage then we would've gotten the skipped super sentai seasons adaptations for America. But will wait and see if playmates can do a good job of making a toy line for mmpr like with ninja turtles, voltron, ben 10 and godzilla x kong.
maybe the weird issue with lack of certain characters was because of licensing issues with toei, since toei owns the designs that came from super sentai
The irony of them doing this the second Super Sentai actually has good series again after a mix of bad and meh with only the rare good show among them. Like, After Gokaiger I've only really liked Kyoryuger, Ryusoulger, Kiramager, King-Ohger and the current series BoonBoomger. That's 4 series that I've found good in 12 freaking years. Which admittedly is 4 more good series than Power Rangers had in that same span of time. Then again, I can't imagine an Adaptation of the modern Masterpiece that is King-Ohger being anything but garbage, as Power Rangers has been bad ever since Saban bought the show back; after Disney ended it because they didn't wanted to split profits with Bandai/Toei so had been slowly killing the show for years even when it WAS succeeding during the Disney run. The last time the franchise did anything innovative, the series was named "Power Rangers RPM", with everything from Samurai onwards finding new ways to insult the audience with how they kept screwing up; and nostalgia-baiting to just the MMPR-era in how they formatted things (even if they did on occasion reference the later series), and refused to ever grow up and try to change how things were handled as series past MMPR DID DO. it DID grow and change how it handled its format, serialization and characterization year over year from MMPR through RPM...and then Samurai hit the reset button and that reset button afterwards never stopped being pressed, even when the source material they utilized was screaming at them that they could have evolved again if they actually wanted to. Also to just contradict the assertion, PR's technically only been 'officially' cancelled Twice due to the franchise doing poorly; at the end of RPM, and now at the end of Cosmic Fury. The other times were intended conclusions that just never came. MMPR was PLANNED as 1 season, but was too popular to stop. Turbo did so poorly they PLANNED for In Space to be the final series, but then I.S. proved too viable and good to stop there. Wild Force was PLANNED as an ending with Saban selling their networks to Disney to the point they already started scrapping props and selling them at auction, but again Disney was seeing good viewership from the IP so continued it on after moving the production to New Zealand. Overdrive is CLAIMED as a series that was so rejected it should've ended there, but Europe showed there was still an audience for more so Disney agreed to do two more, but it was pre-ordained to stop after RPM long before RPM was made. Had the staff change on that series not happened...who knows; it might've been an even greater high that kept things going. But instead the franchise has been on life support ever since Samurai botched royally the IP's return, and as much as Hasbro REALLY screwed up with the brand, they didn't make any more of a mess than had already existed from when Saban bought the show back and Bandai of America (not the mostly-competent Japanese branch) made the same mistakes with it that Hasbro did in not knowing who their audience was so mistargeted and mishandled EVERYTHING to the point even their cost-cutting and pricegouging couldn't save their bottom lines. By the end of Dino Charge, the franchise was a zombie; waiting to be put out of its misery as the writing staff on it were just plain bad. The ZAP line, like the Legacy megazord line, consistently ended up inferior to the Minipla/SMP line, as the Minipla/SMP line actually focuses on things OTHER than just MMPR for far cheaper, and with better design sense and construction to their model kits. Bandai's Shokugan division is magic with their candy toys. And that's not even getting into how the Super Shodo's, while they haven't done anywhere near as many series as the lighting collection's put out, have been VERY Good for 4" figures. That QC issues are more rare from Bandai Japan (with some FIRM Exceptions, looking at the CSM Faiz Driver 2.0 or the Memorial King-Ohger keys for two of Bandai's major screwups) than Hasbro's shown themselves to have. The Fact we're JUST missing the SMP's for the Ohranger/Zeo and Carranger/Turbo mecha as well as Megavoyager and Winger from completing the Zordon-era Mecha line, while Shokugan's also done ones both before and after those years (the Gaoranger/Wild Force SMP's are AMAZING) showcases a level of Commitment to anything more than just ONE series that the PR rights-holders never seem to have any interest in...when that market has LONG been tapped out. But the issue with a lot of this is...a lot of people have less money than ever, so people need to get the bang for their buck. With Collectors still able to import from japan Quality content and figures, Hasbro (As well as Bandai America before and now Playmates) needed to compete as they still have active competition from companies that are outdoing them by not even Trying. the WORST Thing they could do now, is going back to the MMPR well again, as that's what killed things from the start. But in all of this, I don't think they consider at all how big and how accessible the import market actually IS these days to consider them the threat they are to their bottom line. As was the thing for Transformers figures literal Decades ago, people will pay the import costs for figures of a higher quality than what are available domestically. If we could actually get competent official imports of the super sentai series, it'd arguably end up the final nail in the coffin. Shout Factory's sets are NOT THAT, if anything they've gotten even worse with the Abaranger and Dekaranger Sets...which makes it frustrating as I keep wanting to watch Abaranger but the most competent Subtitles we've ever gotten for that show are from Hong Kong bootlegs...which is just sad.
The ZAP toys looked so good, especially the packaging. A shame Hasbro spent the majority of the budget on said pretty packaging and not on making sure the toy itself was as good as it could possibly be. Oh, and the whole NFT thing I'm pretty sure NO ONE liked.
At least Playmates makes good figures so we might still get some quality out of it. Sadly this does mean another reset for zords and role play so we’ll have to get four other Power Morphers made before the chance of a new Astro Morpher toy is even considered to be possible.
Yup. More figures of the mmpr characters, more mmpr Morphers, more mmpr again How about a new growl phone? Maybe a new lost galaxy morpher? Something other than the same fucking thing again
Sadly that Sentai was released during a time when people’s faith in the police was at an all time low, so much so that someone in charge of Power Rangers (forgot who) outright stated that all police themed ranger teams are off the table and all the ones that came before like Time Force and SPD should have never been made. Hell, Warden Garcia from Dino and Cosmic Fury was supposed to be the police chief but was changed to a warden for the same reason I mentioned earlier.
Personally I think they did a really good job with the shows (especially Dino Fury) but the toy arrangements had tons of problems. The comics also stayed pretty much the same as under Bandai: niche and fan-oriented with no directives aimed towards bringing in new audience members like say, the IDW or Skybound runs on Transformers
While I can agree to a point that Hasbro has mishandled Power Rangers, I'd like to say I've never really encountered a lot of the QC errors other folks have encountered. It would also be that I know how to easily get a joint moving again via a heat-gun or shock-oil, but I digress. I had fun with Power Rangers under Hasbro. I still have Lightning Collection figures I need to get my hands on/5 of them in fact & I'll be all caught up. My Astro Megazord doesn't have any bad clips or QC on it either. I've had many... "disagreements" with the PR fandom as of late, and because of the more toxic side of the fandom, I've felt burnt out. I want to have fun with Power Rangers again, and I hope that Playmates continues that fun thing. The press release did say Playmates would handle the kids line side of things so, we don't know if they'll also tackle the collectors as well/From what I've heard, Playmates' collector lines aren't the best so, perhaps Hasbro will still do Lightning Collection & ZAP for collectors? We just won't know until 2025 & ToyFair.
I blame John Warden for this. While I’m admittedly kinder towards Warden than most (he gave us 5/7 good toylines; ya’ll are just mad about Power of the Primes and Earthrise), it’s clear the man likes playing favorite. If G1 was the thing he catered towards most with Transformers to the detriment of everything else, In Space was what he catered towards most with Power Rangers to the detriment of everything else. With so few teams being focused on, Sentai adaptations being reduced to “well, what’s most like MMPR?” (a problem that pre-Hasbro Power Rangers shows suffered from as well; oh hai Megaforce) despite some like seeming like slam dunk adaptation material, and Warden somehow failing to apply what he learned from a near-decade of experience of Transformers brand managing to Zord design, it’s a miracle the franchise made it to Cosmic Fury and Once and Always before finally wheezing out a final breath. Hasbro’s ownership of Power Rangers started so promising with Beast Morphers, and then they crapped the bed so hard that somehow Bandai of America’s Ninja Steel Zords looked like Soul of Chogokin models by comparison. And now it seems like the franchise is going to surrender to MMPR nostalgia bait again if the animated reboot rumors are true. What Power Rangers needs is to rest and recover from the damage done by Warden, figure out which Sentai series would adapt well to an American audience (Lupinranger vs Patranger, Kiramager, King-Ohger and Zenkaiger have my vote), and market the Morphin’ Grid out of whatever they come up with. Give them their Beast Wars, not the Action Masters that the toku-less animated reboot seems to be.
Is Power Rangers still strong in the USA? because here in Mexico, its fame declined years ago, the only moment I have seen Power Rangers toys is when Walmart makes a bing tent in the parking lot from Septembe-January to sell toys for the holidays.
I don't think it's been strong in the USA since Dino Charge, from what I can tell. Funnily enough, it's mainly been the UK keeping it afloat for a long time - the Disney era only happened because of demand from Jetix UK, and later Bandai. I remember Beast Morphers getting far more of a push by UK broadcaster POP than US broadcaster Nickelodeon ever gave it, but even that didn't last.
@@purplewolfranger22 I was so upset when I saw the QC problems because I really wanted to get it. But I was not going to buy an item that expensive if it was 100% guaranteed that clips would break.
@@FireFury190 yeah, I bought one. And mine was broken out of the box. And to add insult to injury when I reported it to hasbro the "replacement" I was sent was a stupid freaking power ranger x tmnt 2 pack. Not even close to equivalent value, and I also can't stand the turtles anyway so they really pissed me off with that one.
I got the 5 primary Dino Fury Zords and they are fun. I didnt really go crazy with making wild creations, I just went for the official formations. Decent articulation, but not at the level of Transformers. I though they were a step in the right direction. Then they released the Cosmic Fury Zord set, big downgrade. However, ill have to look at what Playmates produces before judging the new Power Rangers toys.
See what drives me even more insane about this is hasbro legitimately made the cosmic fury suits look as crap as they did so that they could reuse dino fury molds for figures. The low and behold the only cosmic fury merch that was put out was the stupid morpher before the brand went on hiatus. They completely screwed over everyone just for the sake of corporate greed and even then couldn't even do that right. I truly look forward to the day hasbro goes bankrupt. May they rest in piss.
Because Marvel, Star Wars, Transformers and GI Joe fans all deserve to suffer because Goldner got suckered into buying the trojan horse that is Power Rangers. Are you also hoping Disney goes bankrupt? Because their tenure on the franchise ended the same way.
I really wish we would’ve gotten a blue ranger version of the character specific Morphers. They could’ve put the line “it’s time for molecular transmutation“ in there and would’ve been screaming with joy. Oh well, at least we got a master Morpher out of it.
I collected Lightning figures for a time, mostly red rangers, but there were two teams I wanted to complete: MMPR (duh), which was a hassle thanks to distribution (ironic, for how often those guys got re-released) and Beast Morphers. Didn't care for the show, but I got into Super Sentai with Go-Busters and could make do with the LC figures. There's 5 rangers: red, blue, yellow, gold (Beet), and silver (Stag). Red and Gold came out pretty early, giving me the impression that the rest were on the horizon. Blue came and shelf-warmed. I even got Blaze cuz I liked Enter/Dark Buster. Yellow took FOREVER to get released, and by that time, they switched to windowless boxes, so she didn't match the others at all... and then this happens. They were ONE figure away. WE JUST NEEDED SILVER. Disappointing.
Hasbro era of PR toys have been an absolute disaster. I'm glad they decided to sell the rights to Playmates. Its a joke how they treated the brand with overpriced deflective toys. No excuses, Bandai had QC issues too but they didn't double the prices at least. I wish Bandai got it back.
Some stuff from the comics, they did period other stuff from the comics like the Dino charge dark ranger who is now a canon part of the show, they didn’t even bother with it and that’s a combination of my favorite suit variants from Kyoryuger.
Another thing about the Dino Fury zords, they put rounded pegs where you don’t need them. On the no, no spot of the T-Rex, I get that.. But on the two back spots of the tiger claw zord, that just doesn’t make sense to me.
I've gotta say, the megazord I own is decent. And I think it was made by Hasbro. I bought the zords packaged separately a few years ago but they combined perfectly and standing on my shelf now. Yes I normally collect transformers but I wanted a copy of the og zord I grew up with in the early 90's to have on my shelf
Lightning collection sales have been pretty miserable lately. The legacy characters sell well but everything else just doesn't. I wish they traded power rangers for Voltron cuz I would love some 6-inch figures from both the original and legendary defender.
Very disappointed that Bandai gave the license away before they finished the Legacy collection. I was hoping to see a Legacy Samurai Megazord because the White Falconzord had the connections already set up on the wings!!
I only got two Lightning Collection figures: SPD Green and Shadow Ranger. I don't like the hand feel of them. Everything is stiff and the plastic feels gummy. Why do people like these flexible plastic guys like Marvel and Star Wars? I also got two of those VHS Series of Megazord, I dunno if you remember them? I got the Mega Thunderzord and Galaxy Megazord and they were fun... but then I stopped seeing them and they stopped at wave 2, which was like full on MMPR. All I want is a damn, inexpensive, Astro Megazord! GIMME! I don't need the expensive fancy one, and don't even need it to transform! I really hope Playmates brings back Imaginext scale little guys because I would love a little Astro Megazord.
I don’t mind if they do Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to start off. The one thing I will say is that playmates should do regular team packs. That way, people can get their favorite team all in one go.
The Lightning Collection wasn't perfect, it's had plenty of faults, but the one good thing I can say about it was that it actually gave us some figures from other later seasons. I'm not looking forward to anything Playmates does because I'm not looking forward to getting even more lines of MMPR shoved down our throats...
Mmpr fatigue is so damned real. Everyone I've talked to about it are taking a hard stance of not getting anything from it since we have legacy, 4 or 5 complete mmpr teams in the lightning collection, basic figures, etc. It's way too damned much.
@@purplewolfranger22 oh I know. In the video TJ mentions no one buying the monster figures, but I don't think it's for the reasons he talked about. The figures themselves were good, but only the hardest of hardcore MMPR fans want figures of a monster that only appears in one episode. The monster figures of main character villains usually sold great. It was such a missed opportunity to not give us figures of characters that had never had figures before. Trakeena, Prince Olympius, literally anyone from the Machine Empire, etc.
@@purplewolfranger22 I wanted both. Lol. Definitely main villains like Zen Aku, but the army builder figures should have been such easy choices. A lot of collectors will buy multiple figures of the generic soldiers. We should have had one from every season, it's crazy the only non-MMPR grunts we got were Cogs and Putrids.
I was skeptical because they already had Transformers and the Disney licenses which do the same thing. And if they wanted more "in house" brands why buy PR instead of reviving GI Joe or one of the dormant Kenner brands they already own? But I figured hey we'll at least get some good toys and we did.
When you say the show hasn’t evolved are you referring to the format of them adapting Super Sentai or the writing of the shows overall? Cause the latter most would agree ever since Samurai.
I truly hope that Playmates makes some awesome Zords especially the Wildforce zords, because I want to see them give us the Elephant zord that becomes a sword and shield combo that we never got back in the day.
Don't hold your breath. In the press release Playmates specifically says they're making MMPR stuff. It'll be a miracle if they ever move past that and start working on later seasons.
@nocturnalnathan well at least I'll save a bunch of money on that. I refuse to spend more money on being force fed even MORE mmpr. I'd sooner see the brand officially die.
Been pretty much been confirmed now this was Goldner going rogue. PR was bought without Hasbro's approval and everything since then has been Hasbro's bean counters trying to get some value out of it. The reboot was just canceled because Netflix wanted to do a grim and gritty reboot in the vein of the 2017 movie which would lead to a new cinematic universe * tv/film is still chasing that dead horse after it nearly killed Hollywood apparently *. Hasbro * wisely imo * thought this was a terrible idea and an expensive disaster waiting to happen in light of that movie's failure and wanted to do a MMPR reboot instead, and Netflix said no killing the project. Now the word is that Hasbro is looking to sell the entire brand and offload it onto the next sucker by next year. And ofcourse PR fans are coping saying the reboot wouldn't have been a complete disaster and are in denial that the franchise is a trojan horse that burns everyone that tries to do anything but the bare minimum with it saying that it only needs someone "who cares" and will "take it seriously" despite the fact that even both the largest American media and toy companies respectively couldn't make it work.
King Ohger on the sentai side was an incredible production and a great story (it was the previous sentai before the current boonboomger). Meanwhile, hasbro has pooped the bed with all the concepts, engineering, and story handed to them on a silver platter by japan. So dissapointing.
You do realize that prior to Hasbro Power Rangers was seen as a franchise for literal toddlers right? And the last couple of Sentai series have been very zany and Japan-centric which is hard to translate to an American audience. An ex BOA rep talked about the team's frustrations with translating PR in the later years before the Hasbro buyout because of those two reasons and Hasbro likely ran into the same issues but also already have franchises that appeal to both toddlers and can retain them as kids: Transformers and the Disney licenses making PR even more redundant for them.
@@wolfman210 you do realize that power rangers is more than a kid's franchise at this point right? It has an entire tie in comics multiverse and produces collectors items. Just like transformers, it has adult fans and balances the interests of its multiple demographics. Third party companies have also produced power rangers figures. Compared to the quality that Japan puts into sentai (toy engineering, show production, call backs to previous years), power rangers has bee lacking. You can reason away poor quality with the notion that it's "meant for kids" but compared to other kids franchises, not even that logic holds up.
Is warden the reason the combiners from COmbiner wars released a body and three limbs, then a fourth limb for another combiner instead of giving us a full set in one wave?
To be fair I enjoyed the Zord Builder system. But I will admit plastic quality was atrocious and my DX Megaforce Zords were floppier than insert inappropriate joke
We'll see next year with Playmate and Power Rangers. I hope they don't just do it for kids, Playmates are known making toys for kids. I don't see kids nowdays being crazy for power rangers to be honest. I hope playmates do figures for adults collectors, hopefully the same scale as Mcfarlane toys DC figures then I get a Green ranger Tommy Oliver by Playmates
Playmates are Less Stingy in making Molds just made for Remolds,Look at TMNT Mutant Mayhem line they made Figures of everyone from the movie no one was left out. If this was Hasbro some would be just Remolds or just skipped.l Playmates do not have much of a record with Transforming or Robot Toys though.
Power Rangers collectors always want them to move on from Mighty Morphin, the problem is that Mighty Morphin is the era that sells the best. You start to talk about this at the end of the video but the problem with Power Rangers is that the shows go through teams so quickly that that don't have the same nostalgic staying power as MMPR because they didn't last as long and because their weren't the original team. So while later seasons do have their fans it just isn't on the same level as MMPR and those later seasons don't have enough fans to keep the line going. So producing a Power Rangers toy line starts to become a catch-22 situation pretty quickly. Also Dino Fury did do the Dimetro zord so they did do at least one auxiliary zord from the show.
Incorrect. MMPR doesn't sell. Jason and Tommy sell. They're the most popular rangers and casuals will always buy merch of them. Kimberly, Trini, Billy and Zack? Nope. They're not nearly as popular and as desired aside from those that want a complete team.
@@FireFury190 Whut? They all sold out and were scalped like crazy until Hasbro did a reissue. even that Walgreens exclusive Dragon Shield Zack was selling for stupid amounts of money for something that only happened in the show once. This fandom is so fucking deluded lmao.
Honestly it would have been easier if they just did freaking waves of each season like the show did……release toys with each season…not this random dice roll of figures to make cause then you had to *wait and wait and wait* and now some teams you can’t ever complete…..trying to get a Billy ranger is a fucking pain! Same with a Tommy! I have Jason Zak Kimberly and trini! But Billy and Tommy?! Forget it! I get Tommy cause god rest his soul but dammit! I just need Billy and Tommy and now a days scalpers fucking rise the prices….
There's a barefaced disdain with how Hasbro handled PR. Like they let TF have all the meat and then begrudgingly hand us the bone after we complain about being too weak to lift our arms. I have no doubts that Playmates will handle PR *SO* much better than Hasbro did. To the point that I wish Playmates would just have the rights entirely, since Hasbro doesn't care about them.
Behind the scenes, supposedly Hasbro didn’t understand that Toei retained ownership of certain designs and that they couldn’t be used in new content. (Hasbro should have read the fine print if this is true) The toys themselves were mismanaged with frequent QC issues. Sadly Hasbro wants to be an IP farm more than a toy company, which isn’t great long term.
@@FireFury190 it’s an unclear rumor, but possibly anything originating from the Japanese footage, so most of them! In other words a new ranger show, would need all new designs.
I was so damn lucky. Grew up watching Dino thunder and they finished that team before dropping power rangers. Remember Tj how you used to say cosmos was a transformers toy-line killer? I believe Dino thunder is following cosmos. Finish Dino thunder, Legacy gets canceled. Finish Dino thunder, Lightning gets canceled. Bad rap man, bad rap.
You're lucky. I couldn't get Dino Thunder Black at retail. So now I have to go on the aftermarket and pretty much pay double for him. I was hoping the line would go on hiatus and when it came back would release Black in a vehicle set with his ATV. But that's no longer gonna happen and I'm upset since Dino Thunder was my favorite season.
My thing is Power Rangers was just an easy cash maker with how much content it has But Hasbro didn’t really go all in besides the legacy toy line replacement (Lightning Collection) And honestly the Zords could have been great with how their Transformers team is. But they stuck to gimmicks like Bandai and didn’t change anything besides “modern toy” It sucks man, hasbro was doing so good but let down power rangers fans
Power Rangers is only an "easy cash maker" if you literally have nothing else and don't put any money into it. That's how Sally Campbell suckered Disney into keeping it going after they got it as a package deal with Fox Family. Then Disney bought Marvel and Star Wars so they didn't need it anymore. Hasbro only has it because Brian Goldner was delusional and thought he could use it as leverage to play hardball with Disney over the after mentioned franchises' toy licenses.
I'm not surprised by this honestly, Hasbro has been slacking on PR's support since the beginning of their ownership. They never completed a single deluxe zord line. The QC was a joke, it's a shame PR goes out like this. Assuming it doesn't make a comeback somehow. Not getting all of Time Force sucks for me, it's my favorite season. Didn't buy blue cause of the QC problems. At least Dino Thunder(my 2nd favorite) got completed.
Hasbro completely mishandled Power Rangers and what fans wanted from the series in regards to toys. Focusing on Action Figures instead of Zords, Morphers and Roleplay and the offerings they did have for these items were overpriced and underbaked. I'm actually excited for Playmates to develop Power Ranger stuff after seeing their offerings for Voltron which has a very similar concept.
Speak for yourself, I've wanted action figures of monsters and villains for ages!
@@thunderstudent what they are saying is the fact they only did basically the same action figures, you arent wrong cause action figures of monsters and villains and well troop builders would be great but they didnt do much with it
@@thunderstudent That's fine and I'm glad you got them but the toys used to sell Power Rangers across every season and around the world was Zords, Morphers and Roleplay so putting those on the back burner for Action Figures was a gross mishandling of the franchise. It's akin to selling only R.E.D. figures for Transformers.
The John warden effect
And yet the monsters failed miserably @@thunderstudent
The didn't do too badly with the actual figures but they utterly botched the mecha and character selection while absolutely choking the line with the same MMPR characters we already have from a ton of other lines.
Seems like they screw up everything everything that isn't one of their flagship franchises these days.
the Geewunner curse killed Hasbro Power Rangers
Instead of maybe filling out the rest of the other ranger teams, they decide to push out the same 6 mighty morphin characters over and over
Lmao we got MMPR toys twice in one year. Then they announced the ninjetti figures thinking everyone would be excited. Honestly though, I blame influencers for this. TH-camrs like Bruno should have been more vocal about this stuff (especially the ZAP project when he noticed the materials was fragile and cheap compared to his Bandai stuff). Then you had Black Comedy nerd also pushing MMPR stuff and not being vocal. He was one of Hasbro's go to guys when they needed someone to promote toys and tv shows. Instead they just proudly accepted the MMPR slop until it was to late and then they started to say they were tired of MMPR a few months before the franchise was shelved.
MMPR is what sells.
Transformers fans also bitch about Optimus Prime and Bumblebee toys for the same reason.
Marvel fans bitch about Spider-Man and Iron Man toys.
Star Wars fans bitch about Darth Vader and Boba Fett toys.
and Gi Joe fans bitch about the ninja toys.
Every Hasbro fandom bitches about Hasbro catering to normies and other fans instead of exclusively to them.
For a company that specializes in making toys of giant robots, Hasbro's Zord toys were always half-baked, when they even bothered to make toys of them at all (still mad they never made the Beast-X Lion Zord or the Dino Fury auxiliaries)
God why did you remind me? The beast x king zord not being made pisses me off so damn much.
@@purplewolfranger22 wanna Know what would make you more Mad Revisiting this comment now and remembering the Beast X King zord never been made Let that live rent free in your head 😂
@whitegoku9918 buddy it is a permanent tenant living in my head rent free.
@@purplewolfranger22 the fact you actually responded made me smile😂AT least hasbro gave us dark ranger
@@whitegoku9918 or idk finish one of the most fan loved seasons that was started all the way back in wave 2. Time force.
I've never understood why Hasbro bought the entire Power Rangers IP if they weren't interested in doing anything substantial with it. You don't get to complain about the brand not being profitable when you didn't put in the effort to make people give a rat's ass about it.
They also completely misread the room when it came to the toys, what with the primary focus being on endless action figures of the same few characters instead of the big moneymakers, i.e. the Zords and the roleplay props.
Really makes me wonder what -John Warden's- Brian Goldner's "plan" was before his untimely demise.
@@Matt-cn2nn Demise? John Warden isn't dead.
@@MnemonicSyntax Never writing comments at 4AM again, I tend to confuse my Hasbro execs that way. I was of course referring to Goldner.
In regards to Warden, though, I actually wonder what the hell HIS plan was before his untimely...reassignment. Bro was THE Transformers guy for years and proceeds to oversee like 3 Megazords and nothing else of note in regard to transforming robots.
@@Matt-cn2nn Ah, gotcha. Scared me for a second. As for Warden, who knows. I know he's done great stuff for Transformers so how he dropped the ball on PR is... bizarre.
I'd blame Saban themselves for that, as Hasbro owns everything that Saban Brands had, and they're stitting on everything from that deal.
And I get why with Pretty Cure (Toei) and Next Mutation (because who the fuck would want to admit they own it), but Power Rangers? You'd figure the company that makes both collectible action figures AND transforming robots would be able to actually handle both with the Rangers, but nope! Disney and Tomy come first it seems, and even then they're corner-cutting and making things flimsy as shit.
As a Godzilla collector the Godzilla line is actually pretty good especially as a budget line we really don't get those for Godzilla and while the sculpting may be soft they're still fun toys
I can NOT believe that Hasbro, who has been making combing robots FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS couldn't do articulated combinable Megazords, specially when so, so many of them are just basic vehicles that don't even have individual robot modes. And also Hasbro, king of repaints and retools couldn't even complete squads of 5 or 6 that look super similar by design.
Probably because Hasbro is mostly interested in over-gimmicking the zords and reduce their sizes
@@MarcosVelasquez-Sanchez Keep in mind, they'd rather focus on Marvel, Transformers and Star wars than literally anything else, it would seem. And they're fucking up all three lines to varying degrees. We don't need them continuing to fuck over Power Rangers.
They had their chance, and here's hoping their outsourcing the franchise to Playmates actually yields something of worth.
@@Newsystuffs
Who do you think will own the Power Rangers franchise so fans can get articulated megazords with good quality materials and good Rangers toys with proper accessories?
And as for Marvel, Star Wars, and Transformers, they need more improvement in order to stay alive
@@Newsystuffs Can't wait for the next round of coping from this fandom when Playmates either ditches it after realizing Hasbro suckered them like Saban did Hasbro or follows Saban and Bandai's example and puts the bare minimum of effort into it.
@@wolfman210
I mean, they're successful with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so who won't want to do Power Rangers?
Transformers needs a sign like the "no gurlz alowd" fort we had as kids. Except have it say "no jonz alowd"
Power rangers needs a beast wars, legendary defender, or friendship is magic. A drastic reinvention to bring it to a new generation and give it some new life. Do an animated mighty morphing remake. Do a series where the rangers turn directly into zords. Do a pacific rim style series where all the monsters are Kaiju and only the rangers can fight back. Do a series where there are no zords and the rangers turn directly into giants the same way the monsters do. Do a Godzilla minus one style horror series. Transformers has survived because they change and try new things. Some series might not be your cup of tea. But there’s tons of options. And great toys to support the series.
If you want flashy and reinventions of stereotypical plots, just keep reading the Boom Studio comics
Legendary Defender didn't exactly put Voltron back on the map dude.
My assumption is that Hasbro acquired the Power Rangers license because of how old and enduring it is, and thought they could have the franchise rest on its laurels for the most part, ignoring that Power Rangers is far from the cultural juggernaut it used to be. It has dedicated fans, but I feel like Hasbro wanted a Marvel or Transformers, and they ended up with another G.I. Joe that they don't really know what to do with. Except with G.I. Joe, Hasbro put the effort into the merch at the very least, because it's targeted at adult collectors. With Power Rangers, their collector targeted toys still mostly feel like they're made for kids, just priced like they aren't. While G.I. Joe is pretty directionless these days other than "ride Transformers' coattails", it's at least *_a_* direction.
Hasbro didn't, Goldner did.
I personally don't have an attachment to the Power Rangers franchise, but with Playmates having their hand in this, I'm not seeing it go anywhere. Many Voltron fans have not been able to find the limb lions. The distribution between Target and Playmates are complete jokes.
@devenanderson2413
TMNT and Godzilla is distributed just fine. It sounds more like a Voltron problem.
@@bigboi5545 gotta blame the makers and distributors, so you're response is invalid
@@devenanderson2413 I'm sorry that Target sees no value in Voltron, but that sounds like the problem to me
Man, imagine, just IMAGINE, if Hasbro spent more than 10 dollars and the lint in their pockets to adapt each season of sentai and hired literate screenwriters.
Kids today don't care about Power Rangers.
They did, it was called Cosmic Fury/Once and Always.
Coincidently afterwards Hasbro realized Saban suckered Goldner and dumped it.
As a PR fan I hate to say it, but I think PR is pretty much on life support these days, if something big doesn't happen soon like PR in Space or RPM to make it huge again I feel like it will be completely dead in the next year or so or by 2030 at the latest, and this makes me as sad as when I found out JDF passed away!😢😭😢
There's so, so much potential for it, I can bet that a good number of fans could write a decent story, how did Hasbro drop the ball so hard?
What's crazy is in space and rpm were the series ending seasons. And yet cosmic fury, the series ending season, can't even hold a damned candle to those seasons. Power rangers truly died with a whimper instead of a bang.
PR has been on life support since 95.
In Space and Lost Galaxy as well benefited from the late 90s sci-fi boom Star Wars' revival caused just like MMPR benefited from the dinosaur craze Jurassic Park kickstarted.
RPM while fondly remembered by the fandom was a rating and toy sales failure.
Such incompetentance on their part. They never even made the Qauntum Ranger. The zords also suck
I mean how can you sell a Green Ranger figure without it’s Dragon Shield?! That’s selling an incomplete figure! 😂💀
They did it to make you buy the Red Ranger too.
The over reliant on MMPR from Hasbro was insane. Even Bandai of America tried to move away from MMPR towards the end. I'm still sad we didn't get the legecy shogun Zord. Everyone thought Hasbro would release the Shogun Zord lol
I just bought a shieldless green ranger. I wanted it but I have the red ranger with shield. But the price has to be right.
...So you'll also buy the Red Ranger?
This has been a thing since the late 90s.
I'm still mad we didn't get a new figure of the Titanium Ranger
Or the jungle fury spirit rangers.
But no, we get like 18 different Tommy figures
Never before have I felt such a strong urge to yell at people *"I TOLD YOU SO!"*
"Stop, he's already dead!"
I called it as well
I said this same thing too back on a Power Rangers Tube video. Many fans of other Hasbro brand toys tried to warn people.
@@yep_itsmeagain Meh I got what I wanted: ML style MMPR.
Hasbro didn't do any worse by the franchise then Saban and Disney.
Lightning collection was a mess.
I really hoped they would straighten out 😢
I have ZERO idea why they didn’t make Nerf MMPR blasters and melee weapons .
Yeah about that... During Beast Morphers they made the Gold Ranger morpher into a Nerf gun. Which would have been fine if they ever released a normal one to go with the rest of the team.
When trying to get the Zeo Rangers complete it was a slap in the face to buyers when you had to buy a Cog set just to get weapons that should have come with the correct ranger in the first place.
I really don't like playmates because of their Godzilla Figs...
They're certainly affordable, but bad.
But they made skin suit godzilla!
Really annoyed that the lightning collection died before we got a Beast Morphers Silver/Stag Buster
We were one away from the whole team. Even if we did get him though, he and Yellow would've been in the windowless boxes that don't match the rest.
@@trewerdthis collection is one of the worst collection Line!😂
@@trewerdthe line truly went to the shitter once they went to the horrible plastic free packaging and got rid of Tom walens artwork.
The comments so far have been about Hasbro fumbling the bag with Power Rangers (especially toy wise) but we also need to acknowledge that they adapted the only two viable sentai to about average quality. The remaining series including Kyuranger which got its fight scenes used for Cosmic Fury would fail as a show even if they did the toys right. The best option might've been to use the money they spent on Rise of the Beasts and the DnD movie to instead make a fully original Power Rangers show and toyline that actually tried to be what people want.
How so? Kyuranger was one of the more boom-boom things flying off all episode seasons. They just needed to localize the quirky parts away and it would've been perfect for kids.
Why shouldn't all Sentai be viable?
The problem with your logic is what "people" want is different from what the fandom wants.
I’m not a huge fan of PR but they didn’t even touch some of my favorite PRs. Jungle fury, Operation Overdrive, Mystic Force, and Ninja storm never had any figures. Luckily they finished Dino Thunder, but they only did a couple from Wild Force and just yellow from RPM. Just kinda disappointing I’ll probably never be able to get figures of lightning collection quality of those rangers.
Right like while I'm not a big power rangers fan I grew up with jungle fury and a couple others from that era and always liked yellow from that show, so like she would have been the only figure I'd have really bought and I'm sad we never got her
Guess we won't be getting that movie and TV show connected universe. 😢
The fact that Hasbro's Transformers Design team couldn't legally work on Megazords (Because of the Partnership of Hasbro and Takara) really made it so that Hasbro was really screwed in that area. Maybe if ZAP was a success it would be have gotten a better budget to compensate for that but it failed.
The zords on their own werent too bad. They were good analogues to what Japan would get given very tight budgets.
It was their bad distrobution, incomplete lines, terrible timing, and Cosmic Fury's ridiculous pricing that made the zord area suck so bad
Hasbro just wants to be an IP farm and doesn't really care about their toys. It's a small comfort that my favorite franchise, TF, is the least screwed up by them and, at worsr case, I can always go 3P.
Goldner wanted Hasbro to be an ip farm entertainment company, Hasbro wanted to focus on core brands like Transformers,Marvel,Star Wars and GI Joe.
I remember seeing the big Netflix Voltron and thought it was pretty dope, and I confess I did marvel at the quality of the movie TMNT movie figs upon seeing them on pegs, even if I wasn't motivated to buy any. I barely have room to display the 2003 and 2012 Turtle teams as is!
I was looking forward to a potential Lightning Collection Mystic Force Legend Pink and Jungle Fury Master Yellow, but seeing as how Hasbro has no problem kicking around their own brands, I'm not too surprised.
BUT TEEEEEEEEEJAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!
Other points you neglected to mention
-Nostalgiabaiting. Majority of the merch made under Hasbro was MMPR. A lot of hardcore fans wanted other seasons. Bandai America had the same problem with the Legacy Collection. Which leads into the next point…
-You wanna talk about incomplete teams? What about teams that didn’t even get a shot? I foolishly hoped that I’d get a set of Mystic Force rangers with maybe cloth capes. Nope :/ And speaking of unproduced teams…
-How badly they botched Cosmic Fury. Its toyline had 3 items; the megazord, the morpher, and a cruddy mask/weapon set. The entire point of the making all new suits for Cosmic Fury over using the Kyuranger suits was to produce figures of the original designs. Figures that ultimately never saw the light of day. They also never made any of the extra zords beyond just the Cosmic Fury Megazord, so that lineup is also incomplete.
Words cannot describe how PISSED I was that they LC line dies right as they start Lightspeed Rescue. A Titanium Ranger figure would've been a great way to start the team and would've been the only way to get a figure of him period, since he was a PR original.
And Blue should've came with his V Lancer!!
Some Ninja Storm figures would've been cool (even if Red is kind of a touchy subject), and regardless of the actual show's quality, I would've loved to have a full team of Super Megaforce/Gokaigers.
@@trewerdif red is a touchy subject then not a single tommy figure should come out ever again.
@@purplewolfranger22its probably more the domestic assault that makes it touchy
I was optimistic when i heard Hasbro had the Power rangers under his belt, but now I'm quite disappointed with the way they handled the IP
Interesting timing. I found out yesterday that the Power Rangers Boom Studios comics are coming to a close. And as far as the shows go. I can name 2 interesting things they did *SPOILERS FOR RPM, BEAST MORPHERS, AND DINO FURY*
Towards the end of Beast Morphers season 2 they did what I consider a really good plot twist. Where they revealed that Nate had been experimenting with morpher technology. Which lead to the reveal that Evox (That series serpentine main villain who's also a computer virus) is Vengix from RPM (Resolving the cliffhanger that season ended on) and for Dino Fury they retconned the Morphin Masters into playing a role in the entire franchise (I will admit. This one is weird)
Man if only cosmic fury wasn't the last season to use sentai footage then we would've gotten the skipped super sentai seasons adaptations for America.
But will wait and see if playmates can do a good job of making a toy line for mmpr like with ninja turtles, voltron, ben 10 and godzilla x kong.
I still think maybe adapting Kyuranger properly would've been better
maybe the weird issue with lack of certain characters was because of licensing issues with toei, since toei owns the designs that came from super sentai
The irony of them doing this the second Super Sentai actually has good series again after a mix of bad and meh with only the rare good show among them. Like, After Gokaiger I've only really liked Kyoryuger, Ryusoulger, Kiramager, King-Ohger and the current series BoonBoomger. That's 4 series that I've found good in 12 freaking years. Which admittedly is 4 more good series than Power Rangers had in that same span of time.
Then again, I can't imagine an Adaptation of the modern Masterpiece that is King-Ohger being anything but garbage, as Power Rangers has been bad ever since Saban bought the show back; after Disney ended it because they didn't wanted to split profits with Bandai/Toei so had been slowly killing the show for years even when it WAS succeeding during the Disney run. The last time the franchise did anything innovative, the series was named "Power Rangers RPM", with everything from Samurai onwards finding new ways to insult the audience with how they kept screwing up; and nostalgia-baiting to just the MMPR-era in how they formatted things (even if they did on occasion reference the later series), and refused to ever grow up and try to change how things were handled as series past MMPR DID DO. it DID grow and change how it handled its format, serialization and characterization year over year from MMPR through RPM...and then Samurai hit the reset button and that reset button afterwards never stopped being pressed, even when the source material they utilized was screaming at them that they could have evolved again if they actually wanted to.
Also to just contradict the assertion, PR's technically only been 'officially' cancelled Twice due to the franchise doing poorly; at the end of RPM, and now at the end of Cosmic Fury. The other times were intended conclusions that just never came. MMPR was PLANNED as 1 season, but was too popular to stop. Turbo did so poorly they PLANNED for In Space to be the final series, but then I.S. proved too viable and good to stop there. Wild Force was PLANNED as an ending with Saban selling their networks to Disney to the point they already started scrapping props and selling them at auction, but again Disney was seeing good viewership from the IP so continued it on after moving the production to New Zealand. Overdrive is CLAIMED as a series that was so rejected it should've ended there, but Europe showed there was still an audience for more so Disney agreed to do two more, but it was pre-ordained to stop after RPM long before RPM was made. Had the staff change on that series not happened...who knows; it might've been an even greater high that kept things going. But instead the franchise has been on life support ever since Samurai botched royally the IP's return, and as much as Hasbro REALLY screwed up with the brand, they didn't make any more of a mess than had already existed from when Saban bought the show back and Bandai of America (not the mostly-competent Japanese branch) made the same mistakes with it that Hasbro did in not knowing who their audience was so mistargeted and mishandled EVERYTHING to the point even their cost-cutting and pricegouging couldn't save their bottom lines. By the end of Dino Charge, the franchise was a zombie; waiting to be put out of its misery as the writing staff on it were just plain bad.
The ZAP line, like the Legacy megazord line, consistently ended up inferior to the Minipla/SMP line, as the Minipla/SMP line actually focuses on things OTHER than just MMPR for far cheaper, and with better design sense and construction to their model kits. Bandai's Shokugan division is magic with their candy toys. And that's not even getting into how the Super Shodo's, while they haven't done anywhere near as many series as the lighting collection's put out, have been VERY Good for 4" figures. That QC issues are more rare from Bandai Japan (with some FIRM Exceptions, looking at the CSM Faiz Driver 2.0 or the Memorial King-Ohger keys for two of Bandai's major screwups) than Hasbro's shown themselves to have. The Fact we're JUST missing the SMP's for the Ohranger/Zeo and Carranger/Turbo mecha as well as Megavoyager and Winger from completing the Zordon-era Mecha line, while Shokugan's also done ones both before and after those years (the Gaoranger/Wild Force SMP's are AMAZING) showcases a level of Commitment to anything more than just ONE series that the PR rights-holders never seem to have any interest in...when that market has LONG been tapped out.
But the issue with a lot of this is...a lot of people have less money than ever, so people need to get the bang for their buck. With Collectors still able to import from japan Quality content and figures, Hasbro (As well as Bandai America before and now Playmates) needed to compete as they still have active competition from companies that are outdoing them by not even Trying. the WORST Thing they could do now, is going back to the MMPR well again, as that's what killed things from the start. But in all of this, I don't think they consider at all how big and how accessible the import market actually IS these days to consider them the threat they are to their bottom line. As was the thing for Transformers figures literal Decades ago, people will pay the import costs for figures of a higher quality than what are available domestically.
If we could actually get competent official imports of the super sentai series, it'd arguably end up the final nail in the coffin. Shout Factory's sets are NOT THAT, if anything they've gotten even worse with the Abaranger and Dekaranger Sets...which makes it frustrating as I keep wanting to watch Abaranger but the most competent Subtitles we've ever gotten for that show are from Hong Kong bootlegs...which is just sad.
The ZAP toys looked so good, especially the packaging. A shame Hasbro spent the majority of the budget on said pretty packaging and not on making sure the toy itself was as good as it could possibly be. Oh, and the whole NFT thing I'm pretty sure NO ONE liked.
At least Playmates makes good figures so we might still get some quality out of it. Sadly this does mean another reset for zords and role play so we’ll have to get four other Power Morphers made before the chance of a new Astro Morpher toy is even considered to be possible.
Yup. More figures of the mmpr characters, more mmpr Morphers, more mmpr again
How about a new growl phone? Maybe a new lost galaxy morpher? Something other than the same fucking thing again
Hasbro has an easy gold mine if they adapted lupin ranger vs patranger. It basically advertises itself due to playground debates
Sadly that Sentai was released during a time when people’s faith in the police was at an all time low, so much so that someone in charge of Power Rangers (forgot who) outright stated that all police themed ranger teams are off the table and all the ones that came before like Time Force and SPD should have never been made. Hell, Warden Garcia from Dino and Cosmic Fury was supposed to be the police chief but was changed to a warden for the same reason I mentioned earlier.
@@Arthus850 it could work actually. Have it be a sort of game between two teams. Sorta like the DGP
@@Arthus850 Well fuck that one person in particular since the police themed shows are some of the best seasons.
@@Arthus850Imagine pandering to a bunch of crying manchildren on Twitter instead of actual children.
Kid's don't give a shit about politics especially involving police
Personally I think they did a really good job with the shows (especially Dino Fury) but the toy arrangements had tons of problems. The comics also stayed pretty much the same as under Bandai: niche and fan-oriented with no directives aimed towards bringing in new audience members like say, the IDW or Skybound runs on Transformers
While I can agree to a point that Hasbro has mishandled Power Rangers, I'd like to say I've never really encountered a lot of the QC errors other folks have encountered.
It would also be that I know how to easily get a joint moving again via a heat-gun or shock-oil, but I digress.
I had fun with Power Rangers under Hasbro. I still have Lightning Collection figures I need to get my hands on/5 of them in fact & I'll be all caught up. My Astro Megazord doesn't have any bad clips or QC on it either.
I've had many... "disagreements" with the PR fandom as of late, and because of the more toxic side of the fandom, I've felt burnt out. I want to have fun with Power Rangers again, and I hope that Playmates continues that fun thing. The press release did say Playmates would handle the kids line side of things so, we don't know if they'll also tackle the collectors as well/From what I've heard, Playmates' collector lines aren't the best so, perhaps Hasbro will still do Lightning Collection & ZAP for collectors?
We just won't know until 2025 & ToyFair.
i remeber as a kid i looked forward to megazords as much as transformers, now i often forget powerrangers is even still around
I blame John Warden for this. While I’m admittedly kinder towards Warden than most (he gave us 5/7 good toylines; ya’ll are just mad about Power of the Primes and Earthrise), it’s clear the man likes playing favorite. If G1 was the thing he catered towards most with Transformers to the detriment of everything else, In Space was what he catered towards most with Power Rangers to the detriment of everything else.
With so few teams being focused on, Sentai adaptations being reduced to “well, what’s most like MMPR?” (a problem that pre-Hasbro Power Rangers shows suffered from as well; oh hai Megaforce) despite some like seeming like slam dunk adaptation material, and Warden somehow failing to apply what he learned from a near-decade of experience of Transformers brand managing to Zord design, it’s a miracle the franchise made it to Cosmic Fury and Once and Always before finally wheezing out a final breath. Hasbro’s ownership of Power Rangers started so promising with Beast Morphers, and then they crapped the bed so hard that somehow Bandai of America’s Ninja Steel Zords looked like Soul of Chogokin models by comparison. And now it seems like the franchise is going to surrender to MMPR nostalgia bait again if the animated reboot rumors are true.
What Power Rangers needs is to rest and recover from the damage done by Warden, figure out which Sentai series would adapt well to an American audience (Lupinranger vs Patranger, Kiramager, King-Ohger and Zenkaiger have my vote), and market the Morphin’ Grid out of whatever they come up with. Give them their Beast Wars, not the Action Masters that the toku-less animated reboot seems to be.
I was so excited for the Zord Ascension Project
I am so disappointed in the Zord Ascension Project
Is Power Rangers still strong in the USA? because here in Mexico, its fame declined years ago, the only moment I have seen Power Rangers toys is when Walmart makes a bing tent in the parking lot from Septembe-January to sell toys for the holidays.
I don't think it's been strong in the USA since Dino Charge, from what I can tell. Funnily enough, it's mainly been the UK keeping it afloat for a long time - the Disney era only happened because of demand from Jetix UK, and later Bandai. I remember Beast Morphers getting far more of a push by UK broadcaster POP than US broadcaster Nickelodeon ever gave it, but even that didn't last.
Aside from In Space and Lost Galaxy benefiting from the late 90s Sci-Fi boom not really.
Even Beetleborgs was beating Zeo/Turbo in ratings in 96/97.
I remember seeing videos about the QC issues on the ZAP zords and was like..."nope"
The astro megazord was an absolute nightmare.
@@purplewolfranger22 I was so upset when I saw the QC problems because I really wanted to get it. But I was not going to buy an item that expensive if it was 100% guaranteed that clips would break.
@@FireFury190 yeah, I bought one. And mine was broken out of the box. And to add insult to injury when I reported it to hasbro the "replacement" I was sent was a stupid freaking power ranger x tmnt 2 pack. Not even close to equivalent value, and I also can't stand the turtles anyway so they really pissed me off with that one.
I got the 5 primary Dino Fury Zords and they are fun. I didnt really go crazy with making wild creations, I just went for the official formations. Decent articulation, but not at the level of Transformers. I though they were a step in the right direction. Then they released the Cosmic Fury Zord set, big downgrade. However, ill have to look at what Playmates produces before judging the new Power Rangers toys.
Green Helmet wouldve sold like crazy
See what drives me even more insane about this is hasbro legitimately made the cosmic fury suits look as crap as they did so that they could reuse dino fury molds for figures. The low and behold the only cosmic fury merch that was put out was the stupid morpher before the brand went on hiatus. They completely screwed over everyone just for the sake of corporate greed and even then couldn't even do that right.
I truly look forward to the day hasbro goes bankrupt. May they rest in piss.
With how often Transformers are being sold, it's going to take a while for that to happen
Because Marvel, Star Wars, Transformers and GI Joe fans all deserve to suffer because Goldner got suckered into buying the trojan horse that is Power Rangers.
Are you also hoping Disney goes bankrupt? Because their tenure on the franchise ended the same way.
I really wish we would’ve gotten a blue ranger version of the character specific Morphers. They could’ve put the line “it’s time for molecular transmutation“ in there and would’ve been screaming with joy. Oh well, at least we got a master Morpher out of it.
I collected Lightning figures for a time, mostly red rangers, but there were two teams I wanted to complete: MMPR (duh), which was a hassle thanks to distribution (ironic, for how often those guys got re-released) and Beast Morphers. Didn't care for the show, but I got into Super Sentai with Go-Busters and could make do with the LC figures. There's 5 rangers: red, blue, yellow, gold (Beet), and silver (Stag). Red and Gold came out pretty early, giving me the impression that the rest were on the horizon. Blue came and shelf-warmed. I even got Blaze cuz I liked Enter/Dark Buster. Yellow took FOREVER to get released, and by that time, they switched to windowless boxes, so she didn't match the others at all... and then this happens. They were ONE figure away. WE JUST NEEDED SILVER. Disappointing.
Hell I wanted a Roxy figure to go with blaze too but nope. Hasbro drops the ball. AGAIN.
It would be a miracle if Hasbro would lose all the rights to Power Rangers.
They would have to sell those rights, they own them.
@@NerdRahtio The only way I see that happening is if Hasbro is on the verge of bankruptcy
Hasbro era of PR toys have been an absolute disaster. I'm glad they decided to sell the rights to Playmates. Its a joke how they treated the brand with overpriced deflective toys. No excuses, Bandai had QC issues too but they didn't double the prices at least. I wish Bandai got it back.
Some stuff from the comics, they did period other stuff from the comics like the Dino charge dark ranger who is now a canon part of the show, they didn’t even bother with it and that’s a combination of my favorite suit variants from Kyoryuger.
Another thing about the Dino Fury zords, they put rounded pegs where you don’t need them. On the no, no spot of the T-Rex, I get that.. But on the two back spots of the tiger claw zord, that just doesn’t make sense to me.
Never been a MMPR collector but I was wondering what was going on with Hasbro. Thanks for the video.
I've gotta say, the megazord I own is decent. And I think it was made by Hasbro. I bought the zords packaged separately a few years ago but they combined perfectly and standing on my shelf now. Yes I normally collect transformers but I wanted a copy of the og zord I grew up with in the early 90's to have on my shelf
Lightning collection sales have been pretty miserable lately. The legacy characters sell well but everything else just doesn't. I wish they traded power rangers for Voltron cuz I would love some 6-inch figures from both the original and legendary defender.
I wish we would have gotten a new GI Joe cartoon or Action Man revival for the money that was wasted on PR.
Very disappointed that Bandai gave the license away before they finished the Legacy collection. I was hoping to see a Legacy Samurai Megazord because the White Falconzord had the connections already set up on the wings!!
I only got two Lightning Collection figures: SPD Green and Shadow Ranger. I don't like the hand feel of them. Everything is stiff and the plastic feels gummy. Why do people like these flexible plastic guys like Marvel and Star Wars? I also got two of those VHS Series of Megazord, I dunno if you remember them? I got the Mega Thunderzord and Galaxy Megazord and they were fun... but then I stopped seeing them and they stopped at wave 2, which was like full on MMPR. All I want is a damn, inexpensive, Astro Megazord! GIMME! I don't need the expensive fancy one, and don't even need it to transform!
I really hope Playmates brings back Imaginext scale little guys because I would love a little Astro Megazord.
Mattel owns Imaginext, not Playmates.
@@collegerebel yeah I realized later.
I don’t mind if they do Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to start off. The one thing I will say is that playmates should do regular team packs. That way, people can get their favorite team all in one go.
The Lightning Collection wasn't perfect, it's had plenty of faults, but the one good thing I can say about it was that it actually gave us some figures from other later seasons. I'm not looking forward to anything Playmates does because I'm not looking forward to getting even more lines of MMPR shoved down our throats...
Mmpr fatigue is so damned real. Everyone I've talked to about it are taking a hard stance of not getting anything from it since we have legacy, 4 or 5 complete mmpr teams in the lightning collection, basic figures, etc. It's way too damned much.
@@purplewolfranger22 oh I know. In the video TJ mentions no one buying the monster figures, but I don't think it's for the reasons he talked about. The figures themselves were good, but only the hardest of hardcore MMPR fans want figures of a monster that only appears in one episode. The monster figures of main character villains usually sold great. It was such a missed opportunity to not give us figures of characters that had never had figures before. Trakeena, Prince Olympius, literally anyone from the Machine Empire, etc.
@@nocturnalnathan it still infuriates me that hasbro made putrids instead of making zen aku.
@@purplewolfranger22 I wanted both. Lol. Definitely main villains like Zen Aku, but the army builder figures should have been such easy choices. A lot of collectors will buy multiple figures of the generic soldiers. We should have had one from every season, it's crazy the only non-MMPR grunts we got were Cogs and Putrids.
@@nocturnalnathan you forgot we got tengus as well. Gotta milk that mmpr cow even though nothing but dust is coming out of that tit.
And people thought that I was crazy when I was extremely sceptical about the Hasbro buyout. And I was right.
I was skeptical because they already had Transformers and the Disney licenses which do the same thing. And if they wanted more "in house" brands why buy PR instead of reviving GI Joe or one of the dormant Kenner brands they already own?
But I figured hey we'll at least get some good toys and we did.
When you say the show hasn’t evolved are you referring to the format of them adapting Super Sentai or the writing of the shows overall? Cause the latter most would agree ever since Samurai.
I truly hope that Playmates makes some awesome Zords especially the Wildforce zords, because I want to see them give us the Elephant zord that becomes a sword and shield combo that we never got back in the day.
Don't hold your breath. In the press release Playmates specifically says they're making MMPR stuff. It'll be a miracle if they ever move past that and start working on later seasons.
@nocturnalnathan well at least I'll save a bunch of money on that. I refuse to spend more money on being force fed even MORE mmpr. I'd sooner see the brand officially die.
Been pretty much been confirmed now this was Goldner going rogue.
PR was bought without Hasbro's approval and everything since then has been Hasbro's bean counters trying to get some value out of it.
The reboot was just canceled because Netflix wanted to do a grim and gritty reboot in the vein of the 2017 movie which would lead to a new cinematic universe * tv/film is still chasing that dead horse after it nearly killed Hollywood apparently *.
Hasbro * wisely imo * thought this was a terrible idea and an expensive disaster waiting to happen in light of that movie's failure and wanted to do a MMPR reboot instead, and Netflix said no killing the project.
Now the word is that Hasbro is looking to sell the entire brand and offload it onto the next sucker by next year.
And ofcourse PR fans are coping saying the reboot wouldn't have been a complete disaster and are in denial that the franchise is a trojan horse that burns everyone that tries to do anything but the bare minimum with it saying that it only needs someone "who cares" and will "take it seriously" despite the fact that even both the largest American media and toy companies respectively couldn't make it work.
Bandai’s full action dx line is closer to what zap should’ve been and for half the price. Hasbro dropped the ball big time.
King Ohger on the sentai side was an incredible production and a great story (it was the previous sentai before the current boonboomger). Meanwhile, hasbro has pooped the bed with all the concepts, engineering, and story handed to them on a silver platter by japan. So dissapointing.
You do realize that prior to Hasbro Power Rangers was seen as a franchise for literal toddlers right?
And the last couple of Sentai series have been very zany and Japan-centric which is hard to translate to an American audience.
An ex BOA rep talked about the team's frustrations with translating PR in the later years before the Hasbro buyout because of those two reasons and Hasbro likely ran into the same issues but also already have franchises that appeal to both toddlers and can retain them as kids: Transformers and the Disney licenses making PR even more redundant for them.
@@wolfman210 you do realize that power rangers is more than a kid's franchise at this point right?
It has an entire tie in comics multiverse and produces collectors items. Just like transformers, it has adult fans and balances the interests of its multiple demographics. Third party companies have also produced power rangers figures. Compared to the quality that Japan puts into sentai (toy engineering, show production, call backs to previous years), power rangers has bee lacking.
You can reason away poor quality with the notion that it's "meant for kids" but compared to other kids franchises, not even that logic holds up.
It's been a while since I've seen Power Rangers. It's never been on T.V. since Fox Kids evolved.
The thing I hated about Lightning Collection is that they never touched Mystic Force. The one series I wanted figures of.
Man i just wanted to finish some of the teams and they even made finishing the Remastered MMPR impossible to complete. It was such a mixed bag
Is warden the reason the combiners from COmbiner wars released a body and three limbs, then a fourth limb for another combiner instead of giving us a full set in one wave?
I have to tell the pterodactyl to stay in place and hold it there for a few seconds for it to actually stay in place.
I’m still mad that there are no Morpher remakes.
To be fair I enjoyed the Zord Builder system. But I will admit plastic quality was atrocious and my DX Megaforce Zords were floppier than insert inappropriate joke
We'll see next year with Playmate and Power Rangers. I hope they don't just do it for kids, Playmates are known making toys for kids. I don't see kids nowdays being crazy for power rangers to be honest.
I hope playmates do figures for adults collectors, hopefully the same scale as Mcfarlane toys DC figures then I get a Green ranger Tommy Oliver by Playmates
Jetman of course was never adapted
So nothing for me to worry about here 😂
wonder if you have any interest in the articulated Sentai mecha stuff Bandai's been doing like the SMP kits
...... Dang.... Hoping for the quantrons from PRIS to troop build.
I would really like a Lord Drakkon from playmates.
No 😭 I was hoping for more troops for Lord Drakkon
Playmates are Less Stingy in making Molds just made for Remolds,Look at TMNT Mutant Mayhem line they made Figures of everyone from the movie no one was left out. If this was Hasbro some would be just Remolds or just skipped.l Playmates do not have much of a record with Transforming or Robot Toys though.
Power Rangers collectors always want them to move on from Mighty Morphin, the problem is that Mighty Morphin is the era that sells the best. You start to talk about this at the end of the video but the problem with Power Rangers is that the shows go through teams so quickly that that don't have the same nostalgic staying power as MMPR because they didn't last as long and because their weren't the original team. So while later seasons do have their fans it just isn't on the same level as MMPR and those later seasons don't have enough fans to keep the line going. So producing a Power Rangers toy line starts to become a catch-22 situation pretty quickly.
Also Dino Fury did do the Dimetro zord so they did do at least one auxiliary zord from the show.
Incorrect. MMPR doesn't sell. Jason and Tommy sell. They're the most popular rangers and casuals will always buy merch of them. Kimberly, Trini, Billy and Zack? Nope. They're not nearly as popular and as desired aside from those that want a complete team.
@@FireFury190 Whut? They all sold out and were scalped like crazy until Hasbro did a reissue. even that Walgreens exclusive Dragon Shield Zack was selling for stupid amounts of money for something that only happened in the show once.
This fandom is so fucking deluded lmao.
@@FireFury190 Have you seen the number of Kimberly action figures and toys. She’s the third most popular after Jason and Tommy.
I thought Adam was like the 3rd favorite
John Warden came in well after power rangers were underway. It’s very unfair to blame him. He was sent in to try and right the ship.
They botched them for they're 30 anniversary
They're coming back next year!
Honestly it would have been easier if they just did freaking waves of each season like the show did……release toys with each season…not this random dice roll of figures to make cause then you had to *wait and wait and wait* and now some teams you can’t ever complete…..trying to get a Billy ranger is a fucking pain! Same with a Tommy! I have Jason Zak Kimberly and trini! But Billy and Tommy?! Forget it! I get Tommy cause god rest his soul but dammit! I just need Billy and Tommy and now a days scalpers fucking rise the prices….
They did it that way because the fandom bitched about Bandai front loading Legacy with MMPR.
Never try to please this fandom.
I wonder if Hasbro could just Haslab complete teams?
Playmates can't really do any worse...
There's a barefaced disdain with how Hasbro handled PR. Like they let TF have all the meat and then begrudgingly hand us the bone after we complain about being too weak to lift our arms. I have no doubts that Playmates will handle PR *SO* much better than Hasbro did. To the point that I wish Playmates would just have the rights entirely, since Hasbro doesn't care about them.
Behind the scenes, supposedly Hasbro didn’t understand that Toei retained ownership of certain designs and that they couldn’t be used in new content. (Hasbro should have read the fine print if this is true)
The toys themselves were mismanaged with frequent QC issues.
Sadly Hasbro wants to be an IP farm more than a toy company, which isn’t great long term.
What designs are you talking about that they couldn’t use?
@@FireFury190 it’s an unclear rumor, but possibly anything originating from the Japanese footage, so most of them! In other words a new ranger show, would need all new designs.
That's all Brian Goldner's fault.
Chris Cocks is righting the ship.
If they were gonna do this, then why the actual hell did they buy out the entire Power Rangers brand in the first place?!
because Brian Goldner was deluded.
I was so damn lucky. Grew up watching Dino thunder and they finished that team before dropping power rangers. Remember Tj how you used to say cosmos was a transformers toy-line killer? I believe Dino thunder is following cosmos. Finish Dino thunder, Legacy gets canceled. Finish Dino thunder, Lightning gets canceled. Bad rap man, bad rap.
You're lucky. I couldn't get Dino Thunder Black at retail. So now I have to go on the aftermarket and pretty much pay double for him. I was hoping the line would go on hiatus and when it came back would release Black in a vehicle set with his ATV. But that's no longer gonna happen and I'm upset since Dino Thunder was my favorite season.
TJOmega saying "I'm easy to please" is the epitome of character development LMAO, something I never thought the plastic addict would say
My thing is Power Rangers was just an easy cash maker with how much content it has
But Hasbro didn’t really go all in besides the legacy toy line replacement (Lightning Collection)
And honestly the Zords could have been great with how their Transformers team is. But they stuck to gimmicks like Bandai and didn’t change anything besides “modern toy”
It sucks man, hasbro was doing so good but let down power rangers fans
Power Rangers is only an "easy cash maker" if you literally have nothing else and don't put any money into it.
That's how Sally Campbell suckered Disney into keeping it going after they got it as a package deal with Fox Family.
Then Disney bought Marvel and Star Wars so they didn't need it anymore.
Hasbro only has it because Brian Goldner was delusional and thought he could use it as leverage to play hardball with Disney over the after mentioned franchises' toy licenses.
Well that was quick.
Well go back to Bandai with Kamen Rider!!!!
If Hasbro wants to give me the property, I’ll do something with it….. I got so many ideas 😫😫😫
They are about to fuck up the Star Wars brand too
Apparently, they've been doing that for quite some time now...
TBH, this franchise wouldn't live long enough before reaching its 35th Anniversary.
the sad part is that they never even did anything we wanted them to do: a crossover.
I gave up on hasbro power rangers after they stopped making decent zords. The action figures were okay I guess but they weren't for me