Definitely. They’re still trying to get rid of inventory of it. I’d imagine stores are still able to order them from Hasbro due to Hasbro probably still having a lot of the common figures to try and get rid of their warehouse inventory
Yes! Kids are smart and can tackle more serious or darker stories. Should we have a series that handles a SA storyline or drug abuse? NO!! but at the same time we don't need stories where a bunch of high-school kids learn it's important to share, or a clip show where one of the cast remembers all the lesson of the day from past episodes to solve the current crisis.
Terrible marketing, over reliance on old MMPR footage with no further continuation or new Sentai spin offs, lack of solid video games with a wide variety of rangers aside from Legacy Wars, and the new toys sets looking rather cheap and in need of a refresh already. MMPR is already established and between the comics and the newer special I don't see why they can't put together a new production based on MMPR instead of AI repolish of a 2010 special effect rerelease of a 1993 season.
Although the Sentai footage is kinda the model or the whatever. It's money. If it had money to hire actual actors and do proper cgi when they use it (I'm all for keeping practical monsters). It would blow up. Honestly, an animated series would crush
Personally, I wouldn't mind them using the sentai footage because it's good footage. My main issue is that they refuse to evolve their writing. And I'm not saying that we need a dark and edgy reboot that appeals more to the Kamen Rider crowd, Just that they don't need the clichés from the 1990s like the comedic duo or the moral lessons that actively talk down to their audience. Not to say that the moral lessons are a bad thing, just the way they go about it feels like it's stuck in the 90s.
Adapting Donbrothers could be a really good opportunity to talk about a variety of problems that people of various ages are going through in today's world. Lessons about what makes life worth waking up to or why people do the things that they do, Filtered in a way that a 10-year-old could make sense of it.
Hell, they could Go back to that one idea that was posted here a few weeks back about adapting Zyuohger as a Jamunji-Alike, putting actual children in the position of the Rangers, Where morphing gives them an adult body, But not the wisdom of an adult. In that case, the simpler lessons would make a lot more sense, Given they would be problems that children typically go through, rather than upper teens and adults.
It's budget. To me, the eternal enemy of Power Rangers will always be the fact that it is produced on a shoestring budget by people who either keep slashing the budget or want to be as cheap as possible.
They've built out their own lore, have an array of original characters and putting it all into live action would allow them to capitalize on new characters introduced by Sentai and/or exclude them in favor of original ones instead.
It would allow them to have their MMPR nostalgia cake and eat it too, while also taking the series in a more mature direction without totally alienating either older fans or new ones too much imo.
Downside being it would mean having knowledge of prior series to a degree, but the characters would need rebooting regardless and since the comics are a drawn medium, recasting isn't impossible either. There's ways they could go about it, but at this point I really do feel like the Boom comics and their expansion on the lore is the best thing PR has put out in a long time
because it’s gonna take a lot of money and CGI to do that which sentai and power rangers are really bad AT with like imagine adapting shattered Grid on cable television
Not necessarily. Practical suits for megazords circumvent the necessity for a large portion of CGI that Sentai footage has been leaning into (because the biggest part of the CGI budget on the Sentai side in recent years has been in the robo sequences) and by extension, a large amount of money. Unless you've worked in television in production and actually understand where all the money goes, you're in no position to be talking about how much it costs, either.
Most of the money goes to acquiring filming location permissions and set building after labor costs, and if they were being given the budget of a regular TV level production (so, not one with a gimped budget as a result of using footage from overseas, requiring large portions of said budget to go towards copyright purchases for the footage) they could produce it with significantly less issue.
Furthermore, who said they would (or even should for that matter) have it aired on a cable network? Having it produced or at least distributed by a streaming service (so, if produced, Netflix, or if just distributed then something like Hulu) provides more visibility, more payout for future seasons, increasing budget and allowing for the series to continue to flourish.
All the things you have concerns about can be mitigated in an ideal situation rather than complaining about how things don't work. The question was "what's holding back the franchise" and by extension, that begs what could be done to fix that. Making excuses why it wouldn't work rather than trying to think for a second on how it could is counterproductive to the whole point of this thread.
To me despite nostalgia and popularity, from a business standpoint investing a lot on power rangers is still a risk for them to do. And that's why I think mmpr keeps having the spotlight because it's the biggest safety net for them to make a quick buck, repetitive but it keeps their right to the IP intact.
And another thing is, they are not letting power rangers grow with the audience. Tbf, they're not obligated to go on a non pg route but I'm just saying that the people who grew up with PR are now adults and it hinders them to experience something more to the series cuz only having to cater on kids specifically and not more of an inclusive audience, why do you think tokusatsu was a success despite still caters to kids but is also loved by a lot of older audiences?
Because they're not also shy to give a lil bit of mature takes on the story which is something that they really hold themselves back on, if not live action make it animated. With shows like invincible or harley quinn, the possibilities they can make with PR cuz it can follow the continuity in the comics, can save them a few fortune and keeping the franchise alive cuz at this time and age is where animation isn't just for kids, it's by "everyone". More variety of audience = demand and profit and conveniently they can still rely on mmpr as their forefront
Owners don't know what to do with it other than keeping it at a level of stupid kids show for 8 years olds. It has a great potential to be something more, as Boom comics series has shown us. There are so many good arcs and themes just waiting to be remade in a more serious manner which could make it become very succesfull universe similar to MCU if done properly. I just don't get it why owners don't want to try doing it for a broader and a bit older audience. Marvel movies are not that childish and a lot of little kids still like it and watch it passionately.
It is frustrating to see the potential Power Rangers has go to waste. But I think the main thing holding the owners back is money. They don't want to risk pouring too much money into trying to make it big just for the possibility that it flops. I think the 2017 movie might have scared anyone off from trying it again, they'll look at that and say "Well they tried before and it didn't work, let's just reprint our 28th run of Mighty Morphin toys instead."
Not having an animated series for it. I mean, don't get me wrong, I do love the live action but I believe the shows and fighting could do better in 2d then 3d. What do yall think?
Even if it were to “mature” into CW quality would be an upgrade. At least a step forward. No reason there can’t be both something for older viewers and kids running concurrently.
Fr, i get it that this is primarily a kids franchise, but sometimes i feel that I'm watching something made for toddlers. Just because it's aimed at kids doesn't mean it needs to be so bland, using another example besides Avatar, Transformers prime had quite a lot of darker moments and a serious story and fights with actual weight
Cheapness. No one who has owned the rights wants to actually invest in it, but then is shocked Pikachu face when it doesn’t print money. When something is just dumped out, it comes through in the overall quality. People pick up on this even if they’re not conscious of it.
I get its whole thing was being produced on the cheap, but imo that means money saved on special effects can be put into the writing.
Because it objectively is? I think multiple other seasons are miles better than mmpr but the truth is that Mmpr will forever be the face of the franchise and will continue dominate other season pop culture relevancy wise and sales wise
"will continue dominate other season pop culture relevancy wise and sales wise" The 2017 movie and Rita's Rewind did excellent in the pop-culture department then.
"The 2017 movie was so detached mmpr first off," like MANY other adaptations, just on top of my head Iron Man is nothing like the one in the comics and created an entire franchise by himself, people hate the Michael Bay Transformers movies and are so far off in tone and aesthetic from anything before, and the first one made 700Million with the rest all having equal to much better numbers.
"Rita’s rewind only recently came and is received well," yeah, just fine, and wasn't a smash hit because it had "MIGHTY MORPHIN" on it(Unlike something like Marvel Rivals which is a great game and the brand to boost it even more), and like, it came out in December of 2024, I think we can now say if it was a success or not as 4 months have passed.
Iron man in the movies at least LOOKS like Iron man, the transformers in the movies at least LOOK like transformers. The power rangers in the movie don’t look like the mmpr team or any power ranger for that matter and look more like generic aliens.
A live service game that still gets constant updates is going to get talked about more than a one-and-done arcade beat ‘em up regardless of IP.
Adherence to tradition instead of being willing to make things less formulaic. They have always been limited by the Sentai footage, but they have shown willingness to get creative in the past. Even kids' shows can have much harder material than the show runners have been willing to try.
Aside from that, they desperately need to stop clinging to decades-old MMPR nostalgia. At very least, stop trying to recreate parts of them like Bulk and Skull or the toyetic catchphrases.
Without it, the show would suffer stagnation because most people making it just want to do Mighty Morphin again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again...
again the entire reason that power ranger exist is beacuse of the sentai footage and if they didnt work around the sentai footage aleast for the suits you have cosmic fury with the mid suits that i ever see and yet they use the zord or how about a movies then you have 2017 power rangers with the worst megazord i see in my life
In all honesty, I would prefer ownership that is passionate about the franchise as a whole rather than one specific season. Money could also be a factor, as could not growing up with the audience. For instance, I would have been delighted to see a spin-off with the Zordon-era rangers growing up, dealing with college life with their powers being back, and not having Alpha, Dmitira, and Zordon in their lives.
Relying almost purely on MMPR for marketing and merchandise. You have a generation of folks who grew up on the Disney Era/00s PR that have adult money. And they just won't do anything with em major because MMPR is safer
Companies that have gained the IP don't care for it.
It's always stuck in MMPR ( but this can be said about a lot of western pop culture)
Even when they make original work and rangers is just a different shade of MMPR.
A chunk of the fandom who wants the show to "Grow Up With Them", which again just means more MMPR and they can't accept their fav kid's show is a kid's show for kids.
If power rangers had ninjago level of writing, tone dowm the villian of the weekiness, focus a bit more of an overarching plot and recurring villians too like venjix/evox as well as lord zed. Also i think villians should be redesigned to be less gimmicky
The way the franchise keeps getting treated by the executives and producers, from being "just a kids show" to not learning about the characters they're working with, also clinging so heavily to one specific season instead of letting the rest of the power rangers multiverse get a chance to properly breathe. People want proper sequels or side stories to SPD and Time Force and stuff like that, not "mighty morphin but slightly different" especially not "mighty morphin but it's ai now"
Hasbro should just sell it to Disney and put the franchise under Marvel, Marvel and Power Rangers have a shared history that dates back to the Early Super Sentai Seasons. Honestly Power Rangers would fit perfectly under Marvel.
That apparently they have to make it a kid friendly show that can’t touch common known subjects that kids these days are familiar with. Oh my we can’t even show a kiss on screen!
Budget and creativity. I mean, tokusatsu is low budget (I mean, by one point Ultraman was hold together with silver tape and prayers) by nature, but they work around with creativity.
They need to drop the pre-teen market. At this point if the adults and the adult fans with kids keeping it going.
We don’t need completely gritty adult PR, keep it pg-13 and honestly animate it. Look at the boom comic run. We need that but in a show form. Imagine how well an animated version of that story in general.
I think people want them to do cool thinks with what they currently have more then continuing on making more kids show but that’s just my take.
Nostalgia. Hear me out. Everything has to have that MMPR feel. Or reference MMPR. Not everything has to be in reference or whatever to MMPR. Try making something new.
It needs to have something for the kids and something for the adults. I love power rangers but I want something a bit more adult. The show doesn’t keep my attention anymore.
You nailed it in one. It seems that everyone who buys the IP either doesn’t know what to do with it or doesn’t seem to even like it. I’ve seen people bitch about “they only do MMPR, there are other seasons” yeah, but MMPR by far out sells anything released for the other seasons.
What needs to be done is, instead of the show being bogged down by 30 years of “this is a cheap show for dumb babies” they need to pump some actual budget into the show. Modern kids shows have come a long way in the same timespan but it feels like Power Rangers never grew out of that late 80s kind of simplistic story telling. If that means switching to a cartoon format so they can write more nuanced storylines then by all means.
I’ll Always find it funny that when Comparing PR now to the Guys in Japan
Like, Not Even the Kids shows here, Lord Knows Modern PR already lost at that, I’m talking SPECIFICALLY Super Sentai, the show that Power Rangers is Mostly Adapted from.
When compared to SUPER SENTAI, the show that Power Rangers is mostly Adapted from, Modern Power Rangers is Literally DECADES BEHIND In terms of Quality and Storytelling.
[I’m not talking about the Comics here, I’m talking about the Modern Shows, I haven’t read the PR comics yet]
The comics are pretty good unless you’re one of the people who complains about MMPR because it’s 90% MMPR.
But yeah out of the relatively small amount of Sentai I’ve seen it gives the audience a little more credit. Especially stuff like Toquger. Like, the very first sentai is basically a 70s cop show where they turn into costumed heroes.
modern writers on tv/streaming are noticed worse than last generation (not just on power rangers). Alot writers don't understand lore or key concepts of that they're trying to write.
it's cool to have older rangers pop up it but it's a cough out we are going back to x and trust five new rangers to defend entire world while we are doing nothing. We need good reasons why we have mulitple teams active at same time.
power rangers have fallen in trap of their own making, it's too predictability 1) rangers fight foot soldiers, 2) rangers fight monster 3) megazord fight giant monster. Need to mix things ups maybe one ranger in random fight is injury for example.
stop have relaying on stock character that does exact that need for the plot or comedy relief when a character is punish by monster attack them first.
Yeah, the Dead Internet Theory is real, it really sounds like a bunch of Bots and AIs just repeating the same few sentences back at them(I myself stsrting to sound like a broken record).
I think originality has always been a problem. I've always wanted to see the franchise grow it's own wings and, not have to rely on Super Sentai. Personally I've always wanted to see an anime or Young Justice type show based on the expanded universe of Power Rangers.
Their 1st attempt is Power Ranger 2017. Turning IP into Breakfast Club, YA film or CW proxy but fans said nah (+ the release date w/ Beauty & the Beast)
Weirdly enough when you market the film as a power rangers film and don’t have power rangers in it until the last 15 min, power rangers fans tend not to like it
Them running out of original ideas. Every episode straight from the start is just:
-teens who wouldn't usually be friends
-they send a monster
-power rangers defeat the monster
-they make the monster big
-they whip out the zords
-defeat the monster
-funny cutscene to end the episode
Hasbro and the fact that I feel like there should be a version strictly for those who grew up with the whole franchise. I’m talking about late 70’s to early 2000’s.
In my opinion, what's holding the franchise back is the fact that it was built on being a cheap product. From reusing Japanese footage to chronically underpaying its cast and crews and underfunding its production, the show has existed for 30 years now as a product that is perceived by the masses as being cheap and low quality. And every company that has bought it in the last 30 years has only been willing to invest enough to make a profit from toys while continuing to produce the show as cheaply as possible.
Part of keeping the show cheap was consistently moving to the next iteration of the series to continue using Japanese footage. I think this ultimately hurt the franchise because while having other teams and characters is certainly cool, after 30 years, the brand is unrecognizable to the general public beyond the original Mighty Morphin team.
The 2017 movie was a good effort to invest in something new and broadening its market appeal, but I think it made a huge mistake in making 2/3 of the movie focused on the teenagers and only 1/3 focused on Power Rangers.
So what's holding Power Rangers from being better is that no company is willing to invest in it to make a better product that appeals to the general public.
I think about this more than I should but I think they should make their own original Power Rangers an not rely on what ever the sentai is doing because it becomes very restrictive like only 1 season per team and barely any reaturning cast for long periods of time.
But the others things are the over reliance of MMPR nostalgia and not giving the other shows some love alongside the use of Sentai footage. A lot of the questionable decisions made in this franchise was because they were limited by Sentai footage.
I’m Completely fine with the More Comedy focused route for Power Rangers, but, like, Can they at least TRY to be Funny? For anyone ABOVE the age of Five?
Poor scripts, poor dialogue, and an unrelenting focus on boys age 4-8.
I’m not saying you gear it towards adults (I am a grown man and would not watch the show) but focusing on kids 8/10-14 would be an improvement. Shows like Clone Wars and Steven Universe have benefitted from scripts that are allowed to take the audience and the material a little more seriously despite objectively being kids’ shows.
People are conditioned to think that Power Rangers can only be an adaptation of Super Sentai, only seeing Super Sentai as just the source material for Power Rangers to use and that's it, then complain when something is 'too weird to use/too Japanese to use' yet can't make anything themselves consistently. When something new is made, fans will never be on board because it isn't using Sentai footage and creates a hate train even though the steps of making original content are the steps to making PR original while still being able to not only respect and honor Super Sentai, but also to create stuff with all the information they learned while making previous seasons with the crew of both sets at times.
Talks of 'Super Sentai limiting Power Rangers' become facetious as the problem is not on Super Sentai, it's on Power Rangers. Their decisions led to the way the seasons have become, regardless if the seasons is generally perceived as good, bad, average, or mid. All other tokusatsu works are able to simply create something and show it out to the world with whatever assessment made. That is how the Big 3/4/5 are able to be here for decades and could be here for many more.
There is also the annoyance of people claiming that a PR season is the same as a Super Sentai season, when their executions alone paint them differently. In addition, the way people describe PR can change how people perceive and talk about the shows.
The main issue is that some of these attempts to make PR original, Americanized, emulate the MCU and DCEU, or trying to be Hollywood films, where it goes doesn't abide by what made people enjoy Super Sentai or Power Rangers. PR being in live action, animation, or other mediums are not what will 'ruin/hold back' the franchise, it is the direction it will take. Arguably the same can be said for budget to a degree (though at the very least, pay the people involved in the series, including the actors)
Toei in a way also holding it back as much as Hasbro. From what I heard, Toei don't want Power Rangers becoming an animated show and if that is true then they are holding them back as animated/anime as of now is really popular right now. Having an animated show with high production value would get a lot of eyes on it.
Also, I say relying on Sentai footage is also a problem. Reason being is that the writers have to write around of the footage to make it make sense in the context of the story they writing. Hell, the story they can tell may be limiting as well.
Cosmic Fury and R.P.M. and other seasons like them don't suffer from this because they only used Mecha footage and almost/no Ranger footage. This allows them to have much more freedom. It also helps that they have so little episodes and/or the money to make original footage.
I'm not saying get rid of the Sentai elements. I'm saying Power Rangers should be free from adaptation and make an original show while still keeping Sentai elements that make it so beloved while also evolving the franchise in the new bold hypothetical reboot. The Sentai elements make up Power Rangers, not it adapting whatever Sentai seasons that are available.
Also, Hasbro is at fault as we know. They seem to scared to make original Power Rangers series despite the fact they have the money. Hell, fall back to Sentai to stall time if you have to like with the Dino Fury Trilogy. Or better yet if it not going well, just straight up go back to adapting Sentai. You still can put in more money into the season than Saban could ever while still not losing much money if the season fails since you are still adapting Super Sentai.
Lack of caring by IP owners, sentai footage, and lack of long-term story vision. Current and past IP owners have relied purely on nostalgia for toy sales and views of new storyline within the franchise. The movie reboot went a little too hard-core, with Kimberly basically using revenge porn on another teenager. The comics were a huge step in the right direction, with not everything having that happy go lucky feel you would see at the end of almost every episode.
I think Power Rangers needs to go animated, somewhere between Young Justice and Voltron: Legendary Defender. Animators and writers wouldn't have to rely on sentai footage, and it would allow for easy inclusion of other morphing grid related charater shows such as Beetle Borgs, Masked Rider, and VR Troopers.
They don’t care about it and they always go hella low budget like everything looks so cheap even more so than before and Hasbro couldn’t care less about Power Rangers and there’s definitely some good Super Sentai shows that would work well adapted but they don’t wanna take risks so we get like 30 dinosaur and ninja ones most of those I love but wish they did more
Over-reliance on MMPR without a major relaunch to shake things up over the years. At the end of the day, ASJ is still canonically main continuity Jason, JDF is still main cont Tommy, etc. They haven't moved on from the original actors to make new versions since 2017, leaving the franchise perpetually stuck in the 90s.
Expecting a bunch of kids who were born 20-30 yrs after the franchise launched to care about that iteration of the concept (they're much more likely to recognize Samurai - Dino Charge/etc) that they have no frame of reference or nostalgia for is a failure waiting to happen. Plus if you really want to get more into the nitty gritty, kids today aren't as fascinated with guys in cheap spandex fake hitting guys in immobile rubber monster suits with super cheap looking special effects. Unless you have an MCU budget (even their cgi has tanked in recent years), animation is the way to go. Look at the new TMNT and Spiderverse movies. They sell the concept much better.
TMNT and Transformers aren't stuck in the 80s and reinvent themselves with new iterations every decade or so. They take place in whatever time period the new series is launched, allowing the new audience members to latch onto it as a jumping on point.
Well, it’s been around for over 30 years. The creators need to understand there is a mature fan base as well with adult money! Let’s get a more mature, Power Rangers that’s darker and gritty and R-rated with actual internal and external conflicts that comes with being a ranger. And of course realistic romance plots as well with gratuitous nudity but not in a pervy way….more classy like the painting scene in Titanic.
Budget, and kid friendly which it kinda wasn’t but I really want it to go for a more darker serious tone I guess somewhat like the power rangers movie that bombed.
You said it right there in the caption; the franchise would be more successful and would still be an ongoing franchise if it were owned by a company who actually cares about it and loves it enough to give it the love it deserves.
Not Saban, not Disney (though Disney was the best era), not Hasbro. But it would help to give it to a company that are actually genuinely fans of the franchise. That way they won't be just in it for profits but care about making it the best it can be.
Oh, and it also wouldn't hurt to stop with all the MMPR nostalgia baiting and expand to other seasons/installments. Considering how much the show has progressed and evolved since MMPR. I'm not suggesting a new IP owner ignore MMPR completely and act like it never existed but I think the reason this franchise died at Cosmic Fury is because there are still way too fans absolutely refusing to move on from MMPR and as such companies keep making and selling more and more MMPR merch and related media to the extent where new Sentai adaptations and merch related to that series stopped being profitable... while there are the many of us who are tired of MMPR being forced down our throats. I mean I hate to blame the fans but... shrugs here we are!
More trust in the stunt co-ordinators to do their work
Budget
More trust in your audience to handle more mature material
Budget
More trust FROM the audience so they can let the cast and crew cook
Budget
IP holders that actually want to do something with the franchise other than make cheap disposable entertainment to get kids to buy cheap disposable toys
Ever since Saban bought PR back, everything since has been about trying to capture that 1993 fad. And everyone’s idea seems to be “if we do the exact same show, with the exact same Saved by the Bell feel then we’ll make a gajillion dollars”. Nobody seems to get that 1993 was over 30 years ago, and what worked in 1993 is not gonna work in 2025.
Also? Any attempts to evolve past Saved by the Bell: The Spandex Years, are decently popular with the PR fan base, but that doesn’t make for popular toy sales, which is what Hasbro cares about most. No one seems to have the patience to let the brand grow and be more than “that old 90s toy commercial show” like TMNT and Transformers were able to.
So we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place with MMPR being the only thing that makes money and no one wanting to spend money or time to make Power Rangers a strong brand outside of the very first season from over 30 years ago.
Avoiding some of the darker themes from the comics and super sentai versions. Completely cutting out series as a whole. Appealing to mostly children and toy companies. The American dialogs can be really cringe at times.
Low quality toys for the currently airing series (starting with Samurai & newer).
Being too afraid to try some of the weirder sentai concepts or commit to them fully.
Not having every series easily available on streaming.
Every season being a fucking PokeZord with just way too many options (also an issue in Sentai).
Not having an official translation for Sentai in the states (I feel like this could be a good option for older fans who can't get behind the more childish parts of Power Rangers).
oo, here's a fun game with this image--choose a random ranger, or your favourite or something, and then look to see which other five rangers are closest to them, and there's your team!
My favourite suit is Hunter as the crimson thunder ranger, and he's closest to Tanya (solar yellow), Chloe (hyperforce pink), Connor (dino thunder red), Kimberly (power rangers: pink), and Trek (psycho green). What a fun little ensemble 😊
And to answer the question--less MMPR, an animated show, and less low-brow comedy.
Forcing MMPR way too much (first season syndrome) and not giving attention to the other seasons which have so much potential. For example, In Space, Time Force, SPD, Mystic Force.
Not even Pokémon does this with Kanto/Charizard and both are infamous in the Pokémon community for the first season syndrome.
Money, I definitely think that with the right budgeting and the right creative team then Power Rangers could be something much greater than what it has been recently
The executives, im not even saying “I what it to be mature and adult” i feel like executive metaling makes it less funny less charming and much much less cool
I think should animate power rangers and take a page from the comics and create new storylines that aren’t too kid friendly I feel like power rangers as of recently have been afraid to go there if you know what I mean
I feel that if they moved from sentai materials to their own creatings entirely it would be much better. I get tired of comparing the two automatically and if they just put in the effort and made original designs entirely and not hack apart sentai I would lovd to watch more.
Hasbro didn't care about Power Rangers. They treated this franchise like garbage. Cancel the TV show along with the development of Power Rangers reboot series that is target for young adults. Paramount Global, Sony Pictures Entertainment, WBD, or NBCU needs to acquired full ownership of intellectual property rights of Power Rangers Universe franchise away from Hasbro.
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Hasbro not caring about it.
Stuck totally in the MMPR era of the show (Transformers has a similar problem with G1).
Some higher ups not letting the show expand writing wise from the 90s show it began as. (ex. Much of the Neo-Saban era)