Question: Why do Woolie and Liam hate Haim Saban so much?

One of my favorite stories:

" A classic Hollywood story involves Gene Simmons of Kiss. In the late ’90s, as co-owner of the Fox Family Channel, Saban was developing shows for children. Simmons, the fire-breathing, blood-spitting frontman of a rock band in costumes and face paint, pitched Saban an idea for a new Saturday-morning cartoon: Kiss meets X-Men, the Marvel comics superhero team. Saban liked the concept well enough to convene a meeting with Avi Arad, then C.E.O. of Marvel’s toy division.

At the appointed time, Saban, Arad, and Simmons sat down. The meeting was going well, and the three began to haggle over numbers. Then Saban turned to Arad and, referring to Simmons, confided in Hebrew, “Now we gut him like a fish.” Without missing a beat, Simmons—who, unbeknownst to Saban, was born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel—replied in Hebrew, “You asshole. I’m one of you.” "

Haim Saban has a history of often frivolous litigation which he uses to bully people who try to use sentai or other transforming heroes in media, basically saying he owns the rights to costumed heroes. He has on many occasions forced other projects to change or be cancelled. He gets away with it because most of the time he doesn't even need to win, he just needs to force the other party out of money. There was a period in the mid 2000's that allowed sentai and other costumed heroes to be brought over officially, because Disney bought Power Rangers, (along with all other Saban properties) but Haim bought the rights back in the late 2000's bringing us to where we are today. Anyone who even tries to make a transforming hero has to walk on eggshells or be sued out of existance by a billionaire who lives in Israel and doesn't actually care about international copyright law.

cause hes a huge asshole and i hope he dies soon, the old fuck

Everyone else has laid out how big of a scumbag Saban is for copyright bullshit, let's not forget he and a lot of the staff were homophobic assholes to David Yost for the entirety of his time on the series.

Outside of the chroma squad and ff15 stuff, Saban brands have been kind of dickish in regards to former cast members. When trying to set up a reunion episode featuring various previous cast members from every season, sabam brands sent out a generic email asking for cast members to fly out to New Zealand for fairly little pay considering they'd all have to take the time and pay for room and board for the entire trip. As a result of this only about 10 cast members flew out to New Zealand while the others mostly came out and complained about how insulting the pay was and the fact none of their email request were even addressing them by their own name. The chroma squad stuff and ff15 magitec armor are really annoying considering its clearly not solely referencing power rangers.

Also, he bought out the Onion, and now instead of just plain absurdist comedy with politics as an aside, it's now full on bad political satire.

For instance, there was an article with the headline "Society of Underground Lizard People Discovered in [Your Location]!" and it would just be a picture of a local newspaper.

Haim Saban is to Power Rangers as Tim Langdell was to the word "Edge".

Slightly unrelated, but every time Saban gets mentioned on this sub, I keep mixing it up with Sabin from FF6 and get really confused.

Having had this brought up it makes me think... Did Saban or the company ever try to fuck over Capcom for Viewtiful Joe?

Seeing as he thinks he is lord of the domain of anything involving henshin and sentai/transforming costumed heroes, I could totally see him doing that kind of petty shit because they bullied Chroma Squad's team.

So Alabamas football team are all sentais?

sorta related.

we should starta group we all mail saban letters with a list of sentai titles from before power rangers was even a thing.

Gridman anyone?

Well, Haim Saban is kinda the biggest asshole in television. He basically bullies everyone who tries to bring any Sentai or Sentai-inspired things to America, by threatening to sue them, claiming that they are ripping off power rangers.

He's pretty much a giant tub of dick cheese.

Haim Saban is a criminal and a lowlife slumlord. He uses his political ties and his bribes to political campaigns to get away with his crimes. He's defrauded thousands of college students in a housing fraud scheme. He's one of the lowest of the lowest. I'm talking a real parasite. He deserves to be in prison, or now... actually, he deserves worse.