Why did the mighty morphin power rangers reboot fail?

I think there are several reasons why the franchise has derailed a bit. When the show first started out, it was on Monday through Friday with a new episode every day until reruns came around. In that time, you didn't have the internet to watch them and they weren't replayed several times over on different channels. The original series also had a main cast that carried over from season to season. The writers and production team worked very well in how they developed each season to maintain the cast as well as be able to utilize the sentai footage that they had.

After Power Rangers In Space, the cast changed every year and there were new powers. The show took itself more seriously though in relation to the sentai that PR is based on, doesn't always take itself so seriously so there's a disconnect between the mood/tone of the show and the actual look and feel of the rangers and the villains. Soon after the show was no longer shown five days a week but once a week at noon. Most children can't keep up with a time like that on a weekend, especially with church or just plain sleeping in.

As far as the "reboot" - being an original fan, I found it very hard to watch. I realize that it's campy now compared to what I thought as a child, but I just didn't like all of the "pows" and "bangs" and assorted graphics that were added in. To me it wasn't a "reboot" but just a showcase to fill a season why they really tried to figure out what to do with the series. Given how different the tone of the original series was to the last installment, children probably didn't know what to think of it.

Now that PR Samurai is running but on a different channel that has a completely different base age group, it's unknown how well it will fair. It does seem like PR is fading in it's popularity and personally I would like a pure reboot of the original US series but a little more mature.

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Anyone else?

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A reboot to me is when you start things from stracth based on the original concept. This wasn't a reboot. It was a re-airing, that edited and added unesscisary things to the show which made it look worse than it may have already been. Not that it was bad before, but adding cartoony effects doesn't help things.

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//I heard the reboot bacame the one on Nickelodeon.//

Actually, the reboot aired on ABC last year. Nick is playing the original episodes that played on Fox in the early 90s.

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But, in the United States, it seems that power rangers is quickly fading in popularity with the American people.

Obviously, power rangers (at least in the United States) has been suffering a serious drop in popularity in the last several years. RPM wasn't as popular as Bandai hoped and last year's mighty morphin reboot, which was designed to respur interest in the waning American series, died off before the end of the year with Saban purchasing the dying franchise from Disney. The reboot mighty morphin toys didn't sell well at all, and in fact are very common these days in many second hand clothing stores such as Ross. I picked up a several of them on clearence for $1.00 each and they are easily found.

Even the new series, power rangers samarai, doesn't seem to have built up much interest on the Nicktoons channel at all. The toys don't seem to be attracting much interest from toy buyers at all. Has power rangers finally come to an end in the United States? Super Sentai, which power rangers is based on, is more popular than ever in Japan however. But, in the United States, it seems that power rangers is quickly fading in popularity with the American people.

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I cannot speak for anyone else but once Zack left (in 1994 i was 8 at the time) I decided than and there that I would no longer watch power rangers faithfully and I have stuck to my guns after all these years.