As for why some characters come back...well, the team-ups have been tradition since LG/Space (although MMAR/Zeo was the first), and they've just been doing it nearly every year since then. Episodes like Forever Red and Once a Ranger took place during anniversary seasons (WF was 10 and OO was 15), so like their sentai counterparts, which were also anniversary seasons (Gaoranger was 25 and Boukenger was 30), they had special team-up events that brought back older heroes. They're good for the younger/newer fans who may have never seen these heroes in action before and opens up a wider world of PR/sentai than before, and serve as nostalgia for those of us who've been around for longer. Who they can get for it really depends on who's willing and who they can get in touch with. Rocky would've been in Forever Red, as Steve Cardenas wanted to be involved (never mind that Rocky would've had a lousy role in it), but he moved and they lost his number, so it ended up not happening. And it's said that they were trying to get Jack or Sky for Once a Ranger, but neither wanted to do it, so they used Bridge instead.
But the non-anniversary, non-team-up stuff? Yeah, that's just a matter of who they can get for it. We had Always a Chance in Space because Koichi Sakamoto managed to convince Johnny to come back for one episode. Karone was in LG because they couldn't have Cassie as Kendrix's replacement, and Kendrix had to be replaced because Valerie Vernon was battling leukemia. We had Tommy in Dino Thunder because certain people involved with the show still think he's some infallible god (ugh) and Jason Frank was willing. And we very nearly had Kat in DT as well, implied to be married to Tommy, but that fell through. And the same sort of thing will likely happen should we see the Gokaiger adaptation follow the same theme of the sentai in that we have cameo appearances by former heroes.
So yeah, it really all boils down to behind-the-scenes stuff. It's a simple as that.
But the non-anniversary, non-team-up stuff? Yeah, that's just a matter of who they can get for it. We had Always a Chance in Space because Koichi Sakamoto managed to convince Johnny to come back for one episode. Karone was in LG because they couldn't have Cassie as Kendrix's replacement, and Kendrix had to be replaced because Valerie Vernon was battling leukemia. We had Tommy in Dino Thunder because certain people involved with the show still think he's some infallible god (ugh) and Jason Frank was willing. And we very nearly had Kat in DT as well, implied to be married to Tommy, but that fell through. And the same sort of thing will likely happen should we see the Gokaiger adaptation follow the same theme of the sentai in that we have cameo appearances by former heroes.
So yeah, it really all boils down to behind-the-scenes stuff. It's a simple as that.
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