I'm betting Toei pre-planned all this stuff for the show before any of the series was shot, let alone aired, let alone turned out to be a massive dud. It's the only explanation I can come up with for why all the Busters and even the friggin' Buddyroids are getting FiguArts. It's clear from the pre-release marketing hype that with Go-Busters, Toei was planning to try and create a hit out of it through sheer force of marketing. I can't fault Toei's logic there, as Toei's managed to turn any number of mediocre or outright bad Rider shows into financial successes purely through heavy marketing. There was no reason for Toei to think they couldn't do the same for a Sentai season.
Go-Busters was supposed to lead Sentai into a new era of popularity, and I'm sure part of that was Toei deciding to update their DVD release style and begin making them more fan-friendly. It only seems to have been in the last five years that Toei's figured out that adult Sentai fans will spend money on nice things from shows they like, after all. On the bright side, if this is going to be Toei's new standard treatment for Sentai going forward, then we can expect nice things for future shows, and we may get some nice bonuses when vintage shows are inevitably pushed out to Blu-Ray in the coming years. On the downside, Toei investing all this effort into Go-Busters discs that won't move may convince the company it's not worth the cost.
