| Power Rangers | |
|---|---|
| Created by | |
| Original work | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993–1996) |
| Owners | Hasbro Toei Company |
| Years | 1993–present |
| Based on | Super Sentai byToei Company |
| Print publications | |
| Book(s) | List of books |
| Comics | List of comics |
| Films and television | |
| Film(s) | List of films |
| Television series | List of television series |
| Theatrical presentations | |
| Play(s) | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: World Tour Live on Stage |
| Games | |
| Traditional |
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| Video game(s) | List of video games |
| Audio | |
| Soundtrack(s) | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Album – A Rock Adventure Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie Best of Power Rangers: Songs from the TV Series Power Rangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always |
| Original music | "Go Go Power Rangers" "Power Rangers: The Official Single" |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Toy(s) | List of toys |
Power Rangers is an Americanmedia franchise, built around asuperhero television series. The firstPower Rangers entry,Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, produced bySaban Entertainment, debuted on August 28, 1993. It became a hit in ratings and toy sales, establishing the franchise into pop culture.[1]
ThePower Rangers television series adapts characters andfootage from the Japanesetokusatsu franchiseSuper Sentai for Western audiences, while also incorporating its own stories and characters. The original series ran for 30 seasons, which aired from 1993 to 2023, and it has expanded into other media, includingtheatrical films,comic books,novels andvideo games. A franchise reboot is currently in the works.
Despiteinitial criticism that its action violence targeted child audiences, the franchise has been commercially successful. By 2001, the media franchise had generated over $6 billion in toy sales.[2]
In 2018, Bandai parted ways withPower Rangers, and the franchise was subsequently acquired by American toy companyHasbro.[3][4]Toei Company handles the brand in certain Asian markets, including Japan.
SincePower Rangers derives most of its footage from theSuper Sentai series, it features manyhallmarks that distinguish it from other superhero series. Each series revolves around a team of youths recruited and trained by a mentor to morph into the eponymous Power Rangers, able to use special powers and pilot immense assault machines, called Zords, to overcome the periodic antagonists. In the original seriesMighty Morphin, the wizardZordon recruits "teenagers with attitude" againstRita Repulsa.[5]
When "morphed," the rangers become powerfulsuperheroes wearing color-coded skin-tightspandex suits and helmets withopaquevisors; identical except in individual rangers' color, helmet design, and minor styling such as incorporating a skirt. Morphed Rangers generally possess enhanced strength, durability, agility and combat prowess. Some possess superhuman orpsychic abilities such as super-speed, element manipulation,extra-sensory perception orinvisibility.[6] In addition, each individual ranger has a uniqueweapon, as well as common weaponry used for ground fighting.[note 1]When enemies grow to incredible size (as nearly all do), Rangers use individual Zords that combine into a larger Megazord.[citation needed]
Rangers teams operate in teams of three to five, with more Rangers joining the team later. Each team of Rangers, with a few exceptions, obeys a general set of conventions, outlined at the beginning ofMighty Morphin and implied by mentors throughout many of the other series: Power Rangers may not use their Ranger powers for personal gain or for escalating a fight (unless the enemy does so), nor may the Power Rangers disclose their identities to the general public.[note 2] The penalty for disobeying these rules is the loss of their power.
As inSuper Sentai, the color palette of eachPower Rangers team changes every series.[note 3] Only Red and Blue appear in every Ranger team. Other colors and designations also appear throughout the series.[note 4] A Rangers' color designation also influences their wardrobe throughout the series: civilian clothing often matches Ranger color.[note 5]
The idea of adapting Sentai series for America emerged in the late 1970s after the agreement betweenToei Company andMarvel Comics to exchange concepts to adapt them to their respective audiences. Toei, withMarvel Productions, created the JapaneseSpider-Man television series, and produced three Super Sentai series, which had great success in Japan. Marvel andStan Lee tried to sell theSun Vulcan series to American television stations includingHBO, but found no buyers and the agreement ended.[7][8]
Several years later, another idea to adaptSuper Sentai began in the 1980s whenHaim Saban made a business trip to Japan, in which, during his stay at the hotel, the only thing that was being transmitted on his television was the Japanese seriesChoudenshi Bioman. At the time, Saban was fascinated by the concept of five people masked in spandex suits fighting monsters, so in 1985, he produced the pilot episode ofBio-Man, an American adaptation ofChoudenshi Bioman, which was rejected by several of the largest American television stations.[9][10] His idea only took off in 1992, as Saban came toFox Kids, whose presidentMargaret Loesch had previously helmed Marvel Productions and thus was familiar withSuper Sentai.[11]
Production ofPower Rangers episodes involves extensive localization of and revision of originalSuper Sentai source material to incorporate American culture and conform to American television standards. Rather than making an Englishdub or translation of the Japanese footage,Power Rangers programs consist of scenes featuring English-speaking actors spliced with scenes featuring either Japanese actors dubbed into English or the action scenes from the Super Sentai Series featuring the Rangers fightingmonsters or thegiant robot (Zord and Megazord) battles with English dubbing. In some series, original fight scenes are filmed to incorporate characters or items unique to thePower Rangers production.[12]
Like many ofSaban Entertainment previous ventures inlocalizing Japanese television for aWestern audience, the plot, character names, and other names usually differ greatly from the source footage, though a few seasons have stayed close to the story of the original Super Sentai season. The American arm ofBandai, who co-produced the Sentai shows and manufactured its toys, worked with the adaptation of the Japanese names.
A brainstorming among executives led to "Power Rangers", and for the specific show that would be made,Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, evoking the transformation sequences. The meeting also brought up the term "Zord" for the giant robots, to invoke both thesword that the Megazord carried, and the dinosaurs that were the team's theme.[11]
Along with adapting the villains from the Super Sentai counterparts, mostPower Rangers series also feature villains with no Sentai counterpart. Generally, the primary antagonist of aPower Rangers series (for example, Lord Zedd, Divatox, etc.) are not adapted from the Sentai. Exceptions to this includesZeo,Lightspeed Rescue and a few others which only use villains adapted from the Japanese shows.
Thefranchise began withMighty Morphin Power Rangers (an American adaptation of the 1992 JapaneseSuper Sentai Series,Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger), which began broadcasting as part of theFox Broadcasting Company'sFox Kids programming block.[13]
In honour ofMighty Morphin Power Rangers' broadcast premiere,Hasbro announced "NationalPower Rangers Day" to be celebrated annually on August 28, 2018.[14][15]
Saban Entertainment produced and distributedPower Rangers from 1993 until the end of 2001, withFox Kids broadcasting the series in the United States until the Fall of 2002.The Walt Disney Company acquired the franchise as part of a larger buyout of Fox Family Worldwide that took place in 2001.[13][16][17][18] Fox Family Worldwide subsequently becameABC Family Worldwide Inc.[18] This buyout also saw Saban Entertainment become BVS Entertainment in 2002, fromNews Corporation, Fox's parent company, andHaim Saban.[18]
From September 2002,Power Rangers had aired on various Disney-owned networks, including theABC Kids program block onABC, theABC Family andToon Disney cable networks, andJetix-branded outlets worldwide.[13] Disney moved production of the franchise from Los Angeles toStudio West in New Zealand afterWild Force ended.[19][20] Several ABC affiliate broadcasting groups, includingHearst Television, declined to air the series due to the lack of FCC-complianteducational and informational content.[21]
2008'sPower Rangers Jungle Fury was originally set to be the final season, but due to obligations withBandai, Disney would produce 2009'sPower Rangers RPM.[22] An article inThe New Zealand Herald published on March 7, 2009, identifiedRPM as the last season of thePower Rangers run. Production manager Sally Campbell stated in an interview, "...at this stage we will not be shooting another season."[23][24] A September 1, 2009, revision toDisney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia by Disney's head archivistDave Smith states that "production of new episodes [ofPower Rangers] ceased in 2009".[25] Production ofPower Rangers ceased and the last[update] series by BVS Entertainment,RPM, ended on December 26, 2009.[23]
On October 1, 2009, Bandai released a press release stating that Disney would re-broadcastMighty Morphin Power Rangers in January 2010 onABC Kids in lieu of producing a new season. A new toy line accompanied the broadcast and appeared in stores in the later part of 2009.[13][26][27]
On May 12, 2010,Haim Saban bought back thePower Rangers franchise from Disney for $43 million and announced plans to produce a new season of the television series.[28][29][30] Beginning with the eighteenth season,Samurai (using footage from the 2009Super Sentai series,Samurai Sentai Shinkenger) the series would be produced underSaban Capital Group's newSaban Brands subsidiary and premiere onNickelodeon on February 7, 2011.[29][31] Reruns of previous seasons and episodes would also begin airing on sister channelNicktoons later that year.[31][32][33] In addition toSamurai, Saban announced plans to make a newPower Rangers film.[34]
On July 2, 2012, Saban Brands announced that would it launch a newSaturday morning cartoon block onThe CW, calledVortexx, on August 25, 2012, with reruns ofPower Rangers Lost Galaxy to air on the block.[35][36][37][38][39]
On October 1, 2013, Saban Brands announced that it had extended agreements for the franchise with Nickelodeon and Bandai America Incorporated through 2016.[40] In January 2016, Saban and Nickelodeon extended their broadcast partnership through 2018.[41] In February 2018, it was announced thatPower Rangers would continue airing on Nickelodeon through 2021.[42] That same month, Saban Brands appointedHasbro as the global master toy licensee forPower Rangers in April 2019 with a future option to purchase the franchise.[43] On May 1, 2018, Saban would agree to sellPower Rangers and other entertainment assets to Hasbro for US$522 million in cash and stock.[44][45] The Saban Brands subsidiary ended operations upon the closure of the deal on July 2, 2018.[46]
The twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh seasons,Power Rangers Beast Morphers, would be produced by Hasbro'sAllspark studio. Beginning with the twenty-eighth season,Power Rangers Dino Fury, the series is being produced byEntertainment One (which was acquired by Hasbro on December 30, 2019, and merged with Allspark in October 2020).
In late April 2021, actorChance Perez announced in an interview that the second season ofPower Rangers Dino Fury (the twenty-ninth season overall) would premiere onNetflix in 2022; making it the first season of the series to premiere exclusively online through a streaming service. Meanwhile, new episodes of the series moved to the streaming service on June 15, 2021.[47][48][49][50]
On June 14, 2022, it was announced that Jenny Klein would serve as showrunner for aPower Rangers television series that is being developed by Entertainment One for Netflix. It was reported that she will work alongside Jonathan Entwistle, who is set to direct a second attempt at a film reboot (unrelated to the2017 film reboot).[51] Entwistle stated on his now-deleted Twitter page that the series he and Klein are developing was set to be part of the same canon as the upcomingPower Rangers film, which he described as a "cinematic universe".[citation needed] In June 2024, it was reported that none of those plans would move forward at Netflix; Hasbro Entertainment stated they were seeking a new partner to take the series in a new creative direction. No timeline was immediately announced.[52]
On June 28, 2023, Hasbro announced thatPower Rangers Cosmic Fury would be the final season to be filmed inNew Zealand.[53]
In December 2024, rumors surfaced that a newPower Rangers reboot film was being developed byParamount Pictures in partnership with Hasbro.[54][55]
In March 2025, it was announced thatHasbro Entertainment and20th Television would be producing a new live-actionPower Rangers series forDisney+ withJonathan E. Steinberg & Dan Shotz in talks to serve as writers,showrunners, and executive producers.[56] Steinberg and Shotz publicly confirmed they would be developing the series in December of 2025.[57]
On April 2, 2025, Toei Company president and CEO Fumio Yoshimura revealed that Toei Company is not involved in the live-actionPower Rangers reboot.[58]
| Series | Season | Episodes | Originally released | Showrunner(s) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First released | Last released | Network | |||||
| Mighty Morphin Power Rangers | 1 | 60 | August 28, 1993 (1993-08-28) | May 23, 1994 (1994-05-23) | Fox (Fox Kids) | Ann Austen & Douglas Sloan | |
| 2 | 52 | July 21, 1994 (1994-07-21) | May 20, 1995 (1995-05-20) | ||||
| 3 | 33 | September 2, 1995 (1995-09-02) | November 27, 1995 (1995-11-27) | ||||
| Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers | MS | 10 | February 5, 1996 (1996-02-05) | February 17, 1996 (1996-02-17) | |||
| Zeo | 1 | 50 | April 20, 1996 (1996-04-20) | November 27, 1996 (1996-11-27) | |||
| Turbo | 1 | 45 | April 19, 1997 (1997-04-19) | November 24, 1997 (1997-11-24) | Ann Austen & Douglas Sloan andJudd Lynn | ||
| In Space | 1 | 43 | February 6, 1998 (1998-02-06) | November 21, 1998 (1998-11-21) | Judd Lynn | ||
| Lost Galaxy | 1 | 45 | February 6, 1999 (1999-02-06) | December 18, 1999 (1999-12-18) | |||
| Lightspeed Rescue | 1 | 40 | February 12, 2000 (2000-02-12) | November 18, 2000 (2000-11-18) | |||
| Time Force | 1 | 40 | February 3, 2001 (2001-02-03) | November 17, 2001 (2001-11-17) | |||
| Wild Force | 1 | 40 | February 9, 2002 (2002-02-09) | November 16, 2002 (2002-11-16) | Fox (Fox Kids) /ABC (ABC Kids) | Jonathan Tzachor | |
| Ninja Storm | 1 | 38 | February 15, 2003 (2003-02-15) | November 15, 2003 (2003-11-15) | ABC (ABC Kids) | Ann Austen & Douglas Sloan | |
| Dino Thunder | 1 | 38 | February 14, 2004 (2004-02-14) | November 20, 2004 (2004-11-20) | ABC Family (Jetix) | ||
| S.P.D. | 1 | 38 | February 5, 2005 (2005-02-05) | November 14, 2005 (2005-11-14)[a] | ABC Family (Jetix) /Toon Disney (Jetix) | Bruce Kalish | |
| Mystic Force | 1 | 32 | February 20, 2006 (2006-02-20) | November 13, 2006 (2006-11-13) | |||
| Operation Overdrive | 1 | 32 | February 26, 2007 (2007-02-26) | November 12, 2007 (2007-11-12) | Toon Disney (Jetix) | ||
| Jungle Fury | 1 | 32 | February 18, 2008 (2008-02-18) | November 3, 2008 (2008-11-03) | |||
| RPM | 1 | 32 | March 7, 2009 (2009-03-07) | December 26, 2009 (2009-12-26) | ABC (ABC Kids) | Eddie Guzelian and Judd Lynn | |
| Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (re-version) | RV | 32 | January 2, 2010 (2010-01-02) | August 28, 2010 (2010-08-28) | Haim Saban &Shuki Levy | ||
| Samurai / Super Samurai | 1 | 23 | February 7, 2011 (2011-02-07) | December 10, 2011 (2011-12-10) | Nickelodeon | Jonathan Tzachor | |
| 2 | 22 | February 18, 2012 (2012-02-18) | December 15, 2012 (2012-12-15) | ||||
| Megaforce / Super Megaforce | 1 | 22 | February 2, 2013 (2013-02-02) | December 7, 2013 (2013-12-07) | |||
| 2 | 20 | February 15, 2014 (2014-02-15) | November 22, 2014 (2014-11-22) | ||||
| Dino Charge / Dino Super Charge | 1 | 22 | February 7, 2015 (2015-02-07) | December 12, 2015 (2015-12-12) | Judd Lynn | ||
| 2 | 22 | January 30, 2016 (2016-01-30) | December 10, 2016 (2016-12-10) | ||||
| Ninja Steel / Super Ninja Steel | 1 | 22 | January 21, 2017 (2017-01-21) | December 2, 2017 (2017-12-02) | |||
| 2 | 22 | January 27, 2018 (2018-01-27) | December 1, 2018 (2018-12-01) | ||||
| Beast Morphers | 1 | 22 | March 2, 2019 (2019-03-02) | December 14, 2019 (2019-12-14) | |||
| 2 | 22 | February 22, 2020 (2020-02-22) | December 12, 2020 (2020-12-12) | ||||
| Dino Fury | 1 | 22 | February 20, 2021 (2021-02-20) | October 15, 2021 (2021-10-15)[b] | Nickelodeon /Netflix | Simon Bennett | |
| 2 | 22 | March 3, 2022 (2022-03-03) | September 29, 2022 (2022-09-29) | Netflix | |||
| Cosmic Fury | 1 | 10 | September 29, 2023 (2023-09-29) | ||||
The first six seasons (beginning withMighty Morphin Power Rangers and ending withIn Space) followed an overarching, evolving storyline. The second season began the annual tradition of the Rangers acquiring new Zords to battle enemies while the core suits from the first season were used, except for that of the White Ranger. With the fourth season,Zeo,Power Rangers began following theSuper Sentai series' practice of annual Ranger suit changes.
Although the seventh season,Lost Galaxy, had ties with the preceding season, it was otherwise the first season to follow a self-contained story, as would later seasons of the show up until the seventeenth,RPM. The season also began the tradition of team-up episodes featuring Rangers, villains, and other characters from past seasons. Beginning with the eighteenth season,Samurai, the show returned to a multi-season format similar toMighty Morphin Power Rangers, with self-contained storylines told across two seasons each. The thirtieth season,Cosmic Fury, is a continuation ofDino Fury's story.[59][60][61]
According to executive producer Simon Bennett,Cosmic Fury was planned to be the final season set within the canon established sinceMighty Morphin Power Rangers, with Hasbro instead opting for a franchise reboot; this reboot was originally set to be produced in partnership with Netflix; however, in 2024, Hasbro and Netflix ended their partnership, with the former opting to search for a new creative partner.[62] In December 2024, rumors surfaced thatParamount would be partnering with Hasbro to produce futurePower Rangers content.[54][55] In March 2025, it was announced thatHasbro Entertainment and20th Television would be producing a new live-actionPower Rangers series forDisney+ withJonathan E. Steinberg & Dan Shotz in talks to serve as writers,showrunners, and executive producers.[56] In early December of 2025, Steinberg and Shotz publicly confirmed that they were developing the new live-actionPower Rangers series.[63]
Power Rangers has been adapted into three theatrical motion pictures. The first two are distributed by20th Century Fox, while the third film was released in 2017 byLionsgate.
In May 2014, Saban Brands andLionsgate announced that they were planning to produce a newPower Rangers feature film.[64] The film, titled simplyPower Rangers, was released on March 24, 2017, to mixed reviews and a low performance at the box office. A fourthPower Rangers film was announced to be developed byEntertainment One and Netflix.[65][66][67][68] On July 11, 2019, during aReddit AMA, Dacre Montgomery revealed that the studio had plans to produce a second reboot, without him and the rest of the cast and the director returning.[69] On December 13, 2019, it was reported that Jonathan Entwistle is in early talks to direct the reboot, withPatrick Burleigh being set to write the screenplay. The plot will reportedly involve time travel and will be set in the 1990s.[70] These plans were scuttled in 2024,[52] although, in December of the same year, reports surfaced that a new reboot film was being developed byParamount Pictures in conjunction with Hasbro.[54][55]
On April 19, 2023, a special film titledMighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always was released. It serves to commemorate the 30th anniversary of bothMighty Morphin Power Rangers and thePower Rangers franchise.
| Film | Release date | Box office revenue | Director | Company | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Foreign | Total | Production | Distributor | |||
| TV series franchise | |||||||
| Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie[71] | June 30, 1995 | $38,187,431 | $28,245,763 | $66,433,194 | Bryan Spicer | Saban Entertainment Toei Company Fox Family Films | 20th Century Fox |
| Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie[72] | March 28, 1997 | $8,363,899 | $1,251,941 | $9,615,840 | David Winning andShuki Levy | ||
| Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always | April 19, 2023 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Charlie Haskell | Hasbro Entertainment One | Netflix |
| Reboot | |||||||
| Power Rangers[73][74] | March 24, 2017 | $85,364,450 | $57,167,102 | $142,531,552 | Dean Israelite | Lionsgate SCG Films Temple Hill Entertainment | Lionsgate (USA) Toei (Japan) |
| Total | 1995–2017 | $131,915,780 | $86,664,806 | $218,580,586 | |||
This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in multiple media within the franchise.
Power Rangers has long had success in international markets and continues to air in many countries. As of 2006,Power Rangers aired at least 65 times a week in more than 40 worldwide markets.[75] Many markets carry or have carried the series on their respectiveFox or laterJetix/Disney XD channels or have syndicated the program on regional children's channels or blocks, either dubbed into the local language or broadcast in the original English. After the 2010 acquisition by Saban Brands, international television distribution rights for Power Rangers have been managed byMarVista Entertainment until 2014.[76][77][78] Saban took over international distribution until Hasbro's acquisition.
Broadcast in East Asian territories has been treated differently from in other international markets due to the prevalence and familiarity of 'theSuper Sentai brand originating in Japan.Power Rangers was briefly banned in Malaysia for supposedly encouraging the use of drugs because it contained the word "Morphin'" in its title, which could be associated withmorphine. The show eventually aired without the offending word.[79] In Japan, manyPower Rangers television seasons and films were dubbed into Japanese for television and video with the voice actors often pulled from pastSuper Sentai casts, leading to the English-dubbedaction sequences being "re-dubbed" or "restored" back to Japanese as well.Power Rangers Mystic Force is the latest season to be broadcast in Japan on Toei Channel in January 2014, with another cast voicing the American counterparts. After broadcast ofPower Rangers ended in South Korea withWild Force, Bandai of Korea started airingdubbedSuper Sentai series under the파워레인저(Power Ranger) brand on JEI TV. Some seasons ofSuper Sentai broadcast in South Korea have similarly named titles as their American counterparts, such asPower Ranger Dino Thunder[80] forAbaranger in 2007 andPower Ranger S.P.D.[81] in place ofDekaranger.
OnVHS,3 millionPower Rangersvideo cassettes had been sold in the United States by early 1994.[82]
As of October 2009[update], 33Power RangersDVD collections have been released in the United States:
On March 12, 2012,Shout! Factory announced a home video distribution deal with Saban, which includes the first 17 series of Power Rangers. Shout! Factory released the first seven seasons on DVD in August 2012,[89] seasons 8–12 in November 2013,[90] a 20-year collection in December 2013,[91] and seasons 13–17 in April 2014.[92]
On March 22, 2012Lionsgate Home Entertainment reached a home media distribution deal with Saban to releasePower Rangers Samurai to DVD and Blu-ray.[93]
Internationally, additional DVD releases have occurred (such asLightspeed Rescue,Time Force andWild Force in Germany) and as free DVDs attached to theJetix magazine, published in the UK.Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1,Season 2, andSeason 3,Power Rangers Zeo,Power Rangers Turbo, andPower Rangers in Space have been released in Germany as well in both English and German, withPower Rangers Lost Galaxy only in German.[94][95][96][97][98][99][100] Additionally,Ninja Storm,Dino Thunder,S.P.D.,Mystic Force, andOperation Overdrive saw complete boxset releases in the UK.[101][102][103][104][105] In France,Mighty Morphin Season 1 andSeason 2 have been released in their entirety in 5 episode DVD volumes, and the first 25 episodes ofSeason 3 were released in May 2008.[106] In Italy,Mighty Morphin,Zeo,Dino Thunder andS.P.D. have appeared in their entirety.Zeo andS.P.D. were made available as commercial DVDs, whileMighty Morphin andDino Thunder were issued as bi-weekly volumes at newsstands.
TheiTunes Store previously madePower Rangers episodes available: part ofMighty Morphin Power Rangers, all ofPower Rangers S.P.D., and the first 26 episodes ofPower Rangers Mystic Force. Subsequent seasons and episodes of the program also made their appearances in the iTunes Store, but as of July 2009[update],Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie is the only Power Rangers film available. In 2012, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1 volumes 1 & 2 were released on iTunes to coincide with the DVD releases. As of February 2013, all 3 seasons ofMMPR were released on iTunes.
On June 15, 2011, all episodes ofPower Rangers fromMighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1 toMighty Morphin Power Rangers re-version were made available for instant streaming on Netflix.[107] In 2015, Power Rangers became available on theiTunes Store.
In 2021, more than twenty seasons ofPower Rangers, including specials and spin-off shows, were removed from Netflix, whileMighty Morphin Power Rangers,Power Rangers Ninja Steel andPower Rangers Beast Morphers remained in the platform's catalog.[108]
As of 2025, most seasons of the television show are currently available onPluto TV,Roku Channel,Plex and Hasbro's officialPower Rangers channel onYouTube.
On February 15, 2018, Saban Brands announced that their 25-year partnership with Bandai would end in 2019.[109] The next day, it was confirmed thatHasbro would be the new "global master toy licensee" for the franchise starting in April 2019, with a future option for Hasbro to buy the entire franchise.[110] Hasbro paid $22.25 million upon the toy contract's closure. When they acquired the franchise as a whole later that year, that amount was credited against the purchase price paid to Saban for the series and related assets.[111]
In 2019, Hasbro launchedPower Rangers Lightning Collection, a collector line of articulated action figures and other collectibles inspired by characters from the television series, theBOOM! Studios comic books and other media, as well as two toy lines for kids, one designed to promote thePower Rangers Beast Morphers series, and another one focused on preschoolers.[112][113]
Hasbro has also sublicensed the brand to other companies, such as Threezero and Super7, to produce high-end collectibles.[114][115]
In 2024,Playmates Toys signed an agreement with Hasbro to produce toys based on thePower Rangers brand, starting with a kid targetedMighty Morphin Power Rangers product line, scheduled to release in 2025.[116][117] During an earnings call, Hasbro's CEO Chris Cocks explained that the brand was chosen to be outsourced to Playmates due to low profitability.[118]
Power Rangers has had several series of comics over the years.
In 2015,Boom! Studios won the Power Rangers comics license, which brought a lot of award-winning publications.
In June 2018, Penguin Random House releasedAlien Encounters in Angel Grove, an encyclopedia of creatures fromMighty Morphin Power Rangers, written by Gabriel P. Cooper.
In November 2018, Insight Editions releasedPower Rangers: The Ultimate Visual History, detailing the various toys and television seasons over the franchise's 25-year run.[119]
In May 2025,Force of Chaos, ayoung adult novel focused onTrini Kwan, fromMighty Morphin Power Rangers, was published by Amulet Books. It was written by Diana Ma.[120]
The franchise has been parodied by many sectors of popular media along the years.
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