According to the friend who informed me, this was revealed in a shareholders call.
Habro bought the IP under the previous CEO; who didn't consult R&D about it. The current CEO and the rest of the company now have an IP they absolutely do not want, don't want to invest money in and don't understand.
Toy rights were sold to Playmates so they don't have to invest money in it. The props of any given show (other than the suits) were destroyed rather than let the actors (like JDF) have any of them; when previous companies would allow at least the helmets to be taken home as a token of thanks for working on the shows.
Rights to the comic books are still with Boom Studios, but this is up in the air. After a young-adult reboot with Netflix fell through, Hasbro seems content to vault the IP in the future.
Even future blu-ray releases of Super Sentai are iffy as Shout! Factory would have to go through them since they inherited Saban's stranglehold on western releases.
And here's the kicker - Hasbro may not have the legal right to sell these costumes. I'm told they were loaned out from Toei; who insisted on having any damaged ones returned to be replaced with fresh ones.
According to the friend who informed me, this was revealed in a shareholders call.
Habro bought the IP under the previous CEO; who didn't consult R&D about it. The current CEO and the rest of the company now have an IP they absolutely do not want, don't want to invest money in and don't understand.
Toy rights were sold to Playmates so they don't have to invest money in it. The props of any given show (other than the suits) were destroyed rather than let the actors (like JDF) have any of them; when previous companies would allow at least the helmets to be taken home as a token of thanks for working on the shows.
Rights to the comic books are still with Boom Studios, but this is up in the air. After a young-adult reboot with Netflix fell through, Hasbro seems content to vault the IP in the future.
Even future blu-ray releases of Super Sentai are iffy as Shout! Factory would have to go through them since they inherited Saban's stranglehold on western releases.
And here's the kicker - Hasbro may not have the legal right to sell these costumes. I'm told they were loaned out from Toei; who insisted on having any damaged ones returned to be replaced with fresh ones.
That shouldn't be legal.
I hate it too, but if it's made illegal, it WILL be weaponized against those who gatekeep their IPs from those who would destroy them.