Well it's true, a big majority of PR fans don't even care about it's Japanese counterpart. Don't believe me check a board like Rangerboard or something similar that's primarily centered around PR. Compared to HJU which is primary a toku board.
Besides there's only been 2 Powermorphicons and they were a couple of years apart. And from all the reports the panels dealt with the PR shows themselves not the Sentai it was based on. There might have been a question is the cast seen the original version but they were few and far between from my understanding.
You are obviously brain dead, sir. Power Rangers is American Tokusatsu and thus , it makes Tokusatsu popular in the States. Power Rangers and the first Ultraman are just the face of it.
It's obvious. Voice actors for TV shows are paid less , especially when we deal with non-union productions. Look at anime productions and other animated ventures and you'll see that save for the big names we know of, many are not paid well as per say their live action counterparts.
Now let's go to the fact that all they have to do is edit out objectionable footage , digitally alter it . But save for any efforts to radically change the source series , you don't have to film anything at all. This would probably be sort of costly , but hell, it's easy to do these days and much cheaper. Naruto Shippuden at Dis.XD would love to talk to you as its a novel way to altering footage. Mind you ,you can also alter it in your favor by using dialogue to Kimba-ize it . If you are wondering what that term means, it means you can kill off people as long as they need to "lie down" or "rest. They are never seen again, but hey, it downplays any controversy while bringing a corny style to it .
Then there's the cheapness factor. With no new footage to film, all you need really is scripts for the localization and promotion. Going by exec's logic, kids , largely boys , will buy into anything as long as it is action packed, shiny,and most importantly , explosivey. Story isn't as much of a concern to the target audience as is the ass kicking that entails.
As I recall, Godzilla 1985 was a fairly cheap film to make, possibly the cheapest Godzilla film to date. All they did was dub the footage ,rearrange some of it and add a few American actors and bam! , isn't that profitable? Ultraman was popular because of dubbing , many shows we know and love are too.
Just straight dubbing a series with few alterations is far more profitable than hiring live action actors, creating props, allocating sets and spaces for filming ,editing that in the course of matching up with the Japanese footage and somehow hoping it be profitable at the end. While Power Rangers has that power now to keep on with their adaptations due to the popularity and ratings, it'd be wiser for lesser known tokusatsu to just be dubbed seriously and or comedically with most of the footage intact than taking a gamble with a straight up remake with new actors and whatnot unless you know for sure it will be a great sell.
I do remember the Ultra7 series , a 1967 series dubbed in the 90's nonetheless, was popular too. If such an old series can be that popular with an audience , it goes to show what dubs of other tokusatsu could make ground.
If they honestly think that, Toei and Saban are EXTREMELY ignorant of the fanbase
Over 50% of the fanbase are grown adults who know what SS is and enjoy it on a weekly basis through means of fansubs
If Bandai and Toys R Us can release SH Figuarts Shinkenred and Shinkengold and greatly profit from it, I don't see why Saban can't release the original footage subbed in English
Think of all the money he could make!
Subbed? There's many English dubs of Sentai they could release and patch together on the cheap. I know there are dubs of Goranger , JAKQ, Bioman,Jetman and possibly many other English releases done over the course of the 80's and 90's that it would be better to just take from them and give them some polish for release for fans. Bioman, as far as I know was uncut both in its French and English dubs so a trilingual set would do favors for it while Jetman and the Malaysian English dubs might have to be redubbed since they are not among the decent of them.
They should also release them subbed , that's not for doubt. But for just that when there are dubs existing? Why waste that chance? I can see Saban wanting to do something with Bioman and Jetman coming with the Anniversary and it would be wise to release the dub/sub of Bio/Jet with the MMPR sets and their sentai counterparts as a test market for more releases come Gokaiger.
