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Namco Bandai signs long-term Power Rangers licensing deal

by Griffin McElroy on May 14th 2010 1:30PM

Say what you will about the decidedly kid-oriented Power Rangers franchise, but it's made for some pretty enjoyable beat-em-up video games in console generations past. Hence our interest in Namco Bandai's recent decision to renew its partnership with Saban Brands to start making games based on the Mighty Morphin heroes once again.

According to Eurogamer, this collaboration was made possible by Saban's recent move to re-acquire the Power Rangers IP from Disney, which has owned the rights to the franchise since 2001, and has used it to launch like, a zillion spin-off series. We hope any games Namco Bandai creates under the partnership focuses on the original crew. You know, Zack, Kimberly, Trini ... the Red one, and ... the nerdy one. Also, the insufferable robot.

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Tags: licensing, mighty-morphin-power-rangers, namco-bandai, power-rangers, saban

Reader Comments (91)

Green ranger or no deal

The fact that Tommy isn't in that picture disappoints me

QFT!

Also, beetleborgs

Green Ranger?! He was awesome with his Dragonzord, but I prefer White Ranger with his Tigerzord!

Who dares to downvote beetleborgs!

I may even go as far as to say I preferred them to the Power Rangers.

@ M.Garvey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tZhA7hQNtU

lol

The second season was the best out of all of them.

PLEASE keep with the originals. All the spin-offs became a headache.

I love how the Black Ranger is Black, Yellow Ranger is Asian, Pink is a girl, Blue is a boy, and Red, well, the leader couldnt be a woman or a minority :P

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1926078

LoL!

"Something, Something... Pterodactyl!"

That video was fantastic.

That video is too damn funny.

i liked the season with the gold ranger and the phantom (master chief) ranger.

I hope we see this legendary comedy duo again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGWYhEWlXfM

They're the 90's Abbott & Costello!

Oh god...I remember the VR Rangers...I also remember the live action Ultraman show that came on back in the day.

Wasn't there a Power Rangers spinoff that had something to do with bugs?

@ zelderman

It was the VR Troopers! LOL. Oh man, that s was corny but I ate it up when I was a kid. I remember it being very Ultraman-ish. WE-ARE-V-R!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Troopers

@M.Garvey
Where your referring to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bad_Beetleborgs

Oh god, power rangers now they seriously bring back memories :D Whoa

What we need.......IS THIS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82cCvEd3esk

AWWWWW...YEAHHHH!!!!

The only thing (I think) that's been stopping it has been disney. Now that they're with nickelodeon which is under viacom along with MTV, they'd be crazy not to. It's not like they haven't exploited their TV franchises before (see: Spongebob pack, Cartman's Poker Face) and I don't think there's a person in the world who would complain about having it.

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbXU93C-4fw

Wait wait wait... So who made that cover originally? I'm familiar with the Masaaki Endoh version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3LBW5KQEyA

Since Saban got the license back, I've been reading and watching so much stuff about MMPR. Great memories.

*and PR in general

Anyone who wants to relive PR could do far worse than to watch Linkara's ongoing recap/critical analysis video series "History of Power Rangers."

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/hopr

Yeah, haha, exactly. I've been watching that a lot.

ITT: people trying to act cool by saying they watched the power rangers

I feel sorry for your childhood if you don't have fond memories of getting hopped up on Cocoa Puffs and watching Power Rangers before school.

ITT: you trying to act as superior man-child on a video game discussion board.

It was after school for me. Come home, do my homework, watch Power Rangers.

Trying to act cool because they watched Power Rangers as a kid? A lot of kids did.

Gargoyles, though... THAT was cool to watch.

Power Rangers were never cool, sorry.

I only used ITT ironically. =(

ITT: People who apparently never had a crush on the pink ranger.

I mean seriously, if you weren't watching it for the pink ranger, what were you watching it for?

Jason. Billy.

Really, Billy was one of the more easily remembered ones, considering he hung around the longest.

Crazy, considering he was coldly demoted by Zordon for that damn hippy Tommy.

Wait, that was Jason.

Technically, Tommy stuck around the longest.

I think he may still be in the series produced by Disney.

I meant the longest out of the original five, although to be fair, Tommy might as well be considered part of the originals. So I take your point.

Jason David Frank (Tommy, The Green / White / Red Ranger) is now an MMA fighter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_David_Frank#Amateur_Mixed_martial_arts_record

Didn't he used to be a porn star?

Namco Bandai?

CRAP!!! There goes my hope for a Sentai Musou (Ranger Warriors) title.

I liked the series up to lost galaxy, from then on it got crappy. The original one is still the best though, I still watch some episodes once in a while. I got my 2 year old brother to say "Ay Ay Ay" like alpha 5 xD

Fun fact! The voice of Alpha 5 was the first role of the man who would eventually go on to voice Raz in Psychonauts, as well as Invader Zim. He's now the green grape in the Fruit of the Loom commercials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Steven_Horvitz

@Arashikou

He also did the voice of Dagget (spelling?) in the Angry Beavers.

Only you can't have all the original cast to do voice overs.. Trini (Thuy Trang), the original Yellow Ranger died in 2001

also, Rita Repulsa died in 2006, the actress anyway.. her 'voice' is still kickin..

"Ah! After ten thousand years, I'm free!"

The pink ranger isnt nearly as hot now as she was 15 years ago...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Jo_Johnson

sigh...

I still would.. she's about 40 now.. I think it was her tight body we wanted, in the PR movies her teeth were too big for her mouth..

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