Since it first debuted back in 2019, Hasbro's Lightning Collection toy line has been an excellent way for Power Rangers and Super Sentai fans alike to collect their favourite characters from across the franchises. And although Super Sentai S.H. Figuarts may have made a return this year, there's no way that line will ever be quite as all-encompassing as this. We have rangers, we have villains, we have monsters of the week…we even have oddities like Boom! Studios comic characters including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossovers. But with a franchise quickly approaching its 30th birthday, there's still plenty of ground left to cover. So here are the five things I want to see Hasbro cover most in the Lightning Collection, and this time we're going big. Not just single characters this time around, but teams, villain factions…Hasbro have the resources, so let's see these things happen.

Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue is the eighth season in the Power Rangers franchise, following on from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Adapted from the Super Sentai series KyuuKyuu Sentai GoGo Five, it is the first Power Rangers series to be truly detached from the 'Zordon' era of the franchise, as its predecessor included several throwbacks and references to it. It is also the first series to have a team of publicly known rangers. Lightspeed Rescue takes place in the fictitious city of Mariner Bay, which was built on top of the castle of evil demons who were imprisoned many years in the past. When these demons are accidentally awakened and rise again to restore the castle of Queen Bansheera to the surface, a government organisation named Operation Lightspeed (led by Captain William Mitchell) recruits four civilians from different backgrounds to defend the city. Carter Grayson, a fire fighter, becomes the red ranger; Chad Lee, a life guard and marine animal trainer, takes on th...