Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28651072-20161112031348/@comment-43281069-20191112102902

Beginning with a duo and just a handful of Cure powers and then gradually bumping that up to 6 by the end could potentially work as well.

Unless Toei is willing to age up some of the older Cures for a season then I think time travel would probably be the best way to go (or Decade style alternate universes where events from the past happened in a slightly different way than we remember, you could even tie it into the plot somehow where the villains are trying to change history and it’s up to the Cures to put things back the way they should be. Either that or just set it in the All Stars universe and ignore any timeline discrepancies.

Transforming into past Cures could be handled similarly to the dress up systems from Happiness Charge (that is, their clothes change but the rest of them stays the same), that would make things less confusing should they wind up teaming up with any of the genuine articles at some point. Alternatively (or even in addition to that), they could do something like the Grand Powers from Gokaiger where they gain a new attack reminiscent of a past team after gaining the approval of that team’s representative.

Also if you don’t have the budget for it you don’t necessarily need to bring back every character when it comes to tribute episodes, just like one or two representatives for each team (you could even get creative with it and have stuff like Bunbee representing Yes 5 or Regina representing DokiDoki).