What if Saban never pitched Power Rangers?

ryuuseipro · Jul 24, 2008

I figure I'd have to jump on the "What if" bandwagon that's been going on lately . . .

Thoughts?

Forever Knight · Jul 24, 2008

80% of us would not be here.

SapphireBlue · Jul 24, 2008

^ Exactly. If there was no Power Rangers, then there probably wouldn't be any American Toku fanbase like HJU.

Ryulong · Jul 24, 2008

I thought we were done with these shitty "What if..." threads.

KingRanger · Jul 24, 2008

SapphireBlue said:
^ Exactly. If there was no Power Rangers, then there probably wouldn't be any American Toku fanbase like HJU.

There wouldn't be as many people into toku on the net, but there was a toku fanbase in the US long before power rangers.

SapphireBlue · Jul 24, 2008

^ Really? I don't really know which Toku shows have already aired in North America before PR tho.

KingRanger · Jul 24, 2008

SapphireBlue said:
^ Really? I don't really know which Toku shows have already aired in North America before PR tho.

No one said anything about toku shows airing in North America. Ah I see you said American toku, my mistake. What I meant was this, even if there had been no PR there was a fanbase for toku itself in the US.

Ryulong · Jul 24, 2008

You mean like all of the Godzilla movies, the Ultraman dubs, that Dynaman dub, the boner Hawaii has for Kikaider (sorry, "Kikaida")...

ryuuseipro · Jul 24, 2008

Ryulong said:
You mean like all of the Godzilla movies, the Ultraman dubs, that Dynaman dub, the boner Hawaii has for Kikaider (sorry, "Kikaida")...

Yeah, man, it was all, like, totally cool and obscure, until The Man took it over! :buttrock:

Yes, tokusatsu fandom, even in the US, can survive quite healthily without Power Rangers. Before then, you had just about everything Ryulong described above, including the many Japanese sci-fi/horror stuff (I could go on and on about those). Other countries got into the game long before the US "caught on."

Kenori · Jul 24, 2008

Yes but a lot of us didnt know it existed.

I just happened to be on a nostalgia binge one day, and decided to watch some old PR episodes, which led me to toku. Its why I'm a fan to this day.

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