Hasbro's long-running Power Rangers series has unveiled its 28th season, Power Rangers: Dino Fury. The series began back in 1993 with the iconic Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and has jumped to many other ranger teams as it adapts the Japanese Super Sentai series. This announcement follows the conclusion of the Beast Morphers saga which ran for two seasons and makes good on a rumor from back in January that hinted at the new season being dinosaur-based.
In addition to television, the Power Rangers series has expanded into other mediums including a live-action movie back in 2017 that teased the arrival of the green ranger. Despite mixed reviews and a modest box office haul, a new live-action movie is in the works from Hasbro but it likely won't be connected to the 2017 version. The series has even crossed over into Animal Crossing: New Horizons where players can use codes to dress their characters and islands up like the rangers of old.
The new Power Rangers series will be based on the Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger series and is set to premiere sometime in 2021. The story will follow an entirely new team as they fend off an alien menace with the familiar world-ending stakes to which the series is accustomed. The announcement comes with two teaser images, seen above and below, as well as an official Power Rangers: Dino Fury synopsis that you can check out below:
"When an army of powerful alien beings is unleashed on Earth threatening life as we know it, a brand-new team of Power Rangers, fueled by the prehistoric power of the dinosaurs, are recruited to deal with the threat."
This is the fourth time that Power Rangers has taken inspiration from dinosaurs with the original dinozords from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers as well as the Dino Thunder and Dino Charge series. This marks the shortest amount of time between dino-series for the show, with a gap of 11 years between each of the aforementioned shows. This new series will premiere only six years after the debut of Dino Charge and thus will have its work cut out for it as it attempts to distinguish itself.
That said, given the nature of Power Rangers' target audience, it is possible that the new group of kids it's aimed at were not around for the previous iterations anyway. In the meantime, fans will have to wait and see how Power Rangers: Dino Fury sets itself apart when it premiers sometime next year.
Source: Hasbro