Thread:MametchiforMarioKart9/@comment-44454273-20191205014859

I am mostly foreign to Power Rangers, but I figured I'd come here anyway to talk about the franchise's former master toy licensee; Bandai America.

As you can probably tell by my name and avatar, I am a supporter of Tamagotchi, a Bandai-original franchise, and I too am grateful that Power Rangers switched over to Hasbro, not because Bandai America seemingly crunched out mediocre-at-best toylines during the Neo-Saban era and persumably the Disney era, but because they ignored their own IPs (such as Tamagotchi) in favor of Power Rangers.

That being said, even devoting themselves to Power Rangers, Bandai America couldn't even get decent articulation down. Hasbro, on the other hand, had basic & lightning figurines that were on par with what Bandai Japan is offering through Super Sentai.

Hasbro also balances out attention to their IPs. They focus on Power Rangers as much as they do Transformers, My Little Pony, etc. If Power Rangers fans are wondering about the whereabouts of Bandai America, they're still alive and well, but they have shifted their addiction to Dragon Ball, Godzilla, and, I kid you not, DIY Erasers (AKA Pretty Pixels), and have made some distribution agreement with The Loyal Subjects.

Now Bandai America has been treating Tamagotchi better since losing Power Rangers through the release of Tamagotchi ON, a color-screen release that fans have been clamoring for over a decade, which is great, but what I want from Bandai America more than anything else is to use the money they received from two-and-a-half decades worth of Power Rangers merch on an English adaption of the 2009-2015 anime based on Tamagotchi.

That's all I've got to say about Bandai America and Power Rangers. Anyone who wants to comment on this message wall is welcome to do so. 