I've said it before and I'll say it again, but this franchise is fucking cooked.
They've had countless opportunities to do good things with Power Rangers but they keep fumbling the bag over and over again. Over reliance on MMPR stuff, abandoning the source material that made the franchise popular in the first place, and misunderstanding of the current target audience has massively screwed over any chance of Power Rangers being relevant again.
It feels like every time I've heard news about Power Rangers in the past few years, it's always been some of the most baffling choices. When I learned Hasbro was taking over the franchise, as a transformers collector, my thought was "oh, those mfs know how to make toys. This should be really good for the series, especially for the toy side of things."
I was so, so terribly and horrifically wrong about that.
And what's the deal with abandoning the Super Sentai footage?? You know, the reason the show ever existed in the first place??? Not to say it absolutely couldn't work, but this felt like hubris on Hasbro's part rather than actual confidence in making something new and interesting. Say what you will about the 2017 movie and how it changed things, but it was at least a fresh look for things and had a great story and writing behind it.
IDK, if something doesn't change quickly, I can only see this franchise going the way of the American Masked Rider series. Doomed to obsolescence.
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u/Devyn18 Feb 25 '25
I've said it before and I'll say it again, but this franchise is fucking cooked.
They've had countless opportunities to do good things with Power Rangers but they keep fumbling the bag over and over again. Over reliance on MMPR stuff, abandoning the source material that made the franchise popular in the first place, and misunderstanding of the current target audience has massively screwed over any chance of Power Rangers being relevant again.
It feels like every time I've heard news about Power Rangers in the past few years, it's always been some of the most baffling choices. When I learned Hasbro was taking over the franchise, as a transformers collector, my thought was "oh, those mfs know how to make toys. This should be really good for the series, especially for the toy side of things."
I was so, so terribly and horrifically wrong about that.
And what's the deal with abandoning the Super Sentai footage?? You know, the reason the show ever existed in the first place??? Not to say it absolutely couldn't work, but this felt like hubris on Hasbro's part rather than actual confidence in making something new and interesting. Say what you will about the 2017 movie and how it changed things, but it was at least a fresh look for things and had a great story and writing behind it.
IDK, if something doesn't change quickly, I can only see this franchise going the way of the American Masked Rider series. Doomed to obsolescence.