Power Rangers

I just completed the Power Rangers portion of my collection imventory pictorial I'm working on and it made me really sad that Hasbro isn't continuing the line. So many holes and I'm most upset about no Kendall from Dino Charge. A purple ranger would have been so cool to get.
 
I still have the urge to buy every Rita Repulsa action figure! I think it's filling the deep well of never having her for 30 years but that well is still so deep.

Those figures, though - I like that you can morph them back and forth with one touch, but YIKES those hideous tabs on their belts.
 
I know it's a child's toy and not the same goal, but seeing these just made me mad for like a nanosecond, because we have lost Lightning this is all we get.

Forever salted we never got Ninja Storm blue.

Even as a kid I was never into the automorphers, at that point I just wanted something akin to the Legends of The Dark Knight line if not whatever toy biz was doing. Back then, I actually thought the McDonald's figures from the movie were the best ones due to the sculpt and 5-point articulation.
 
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Alot of mine have play wear. Most of the zords yellowed. And the paint is coming off on most of the symbols. And Tommys hand is modified so he can hold a sword i had that looked a little like saba. I loved those things so much. I still have them, but i dont ever pull them out anymore. I even remember i used to use star wars figures for their demorphed looks. Tried to match the characters as close as I could.

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I played with the auto-morphers the most as a kid, but only because they were the easiest to find. I never liked how they looked or cared for the gimmick. I was pretty much anti-gimmick as a kid unless it didn't impact how the toy functioned (like the X-Men Morph or Spider-Man Chameleon that had swappable heads).
 
I came face to face with the new Playmates MMPR's today, and I just couldn't pull the trigger. For kids to play with, these toys are great and not too expensive. And I was excited to get these just as playable kid's toys. But man, they are cheap. And I knew they were going to be cheap, but they were even cheaper in quality than I expected. Some of the auto morphing actions either didn't work or didn't work right (bypassed the unmasked head and went all the way back around to the masked head), some sloppy paint, or even if the paint wasn't sloppy there was just a real lack of paint and details.

Yeah, I can enjoy a kid brand, kids toy sometimes just as much as an adult collectible. Even Playmates current TMNT stuff for instance. But these Power Rangers seemed even cheaper than them.


So, I guess I'm not getting these. But that's ok, money saved. And as I said, to any kid that doesn't mind getting figures of a 30+ year old iteration of the Rangers, these will be fun to play with and bash the hell out of.

But seeing them in person, I'm going to pass.
 
My local EB had all of the head flippers, Rita, and a red ranger with the bike. The one with the bike looked pretty fun if I were still a kid or had any nostalgia for shitty Power Rangers toys. You can get me with MOTU or TMNT on lower-artic, lower-detail stuff because I do have that connection to the property through those types of toys. But I just don't feel that way about Power Rangers so... big pass.
 
I watched Pixel Dan’s unboxing of the auto-morphers and zords. I can’t believe they’re charging 20 bucks a zord. 100 bucks for what looks to be a pretty decent Megazord isn’t the worst pricing I’ve ever seen, but it looks terrible when you have to buy it in pieces. That is truly a toy that’s greater than the sum of its parts. What the fuck is a kid going to do with a lone Triceratops or Mastodon? Those are shitty toys by themselves.
 
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I watched Pixel Dan’s unboxing of the auto-morphers and zords. I can’t believe they’re charging 20 bucks a zord. 100 bucks for what looks to be a pretty decent Megazord isn’t the worst pricing I’ve ever seen, but it looks terrible when you have to buy it in pieces. That is truly a toy that’s greater than the sum of its parts. What the fuck is a kid going to do with a lone Triceratops or Mastodon? Those are shitty toys by themselves.
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Tradition? They were shitty toys in the early '90s too. Literally the only reason I ever saw a kid ask for any of the zords was to build the Megazord. That's it.
 
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Tradition? They were shitty toys in the early '90s too. Literally the only reason I ever saw a kid ask for any of the zords was to build the Megazord. That's it.
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For sure, but Bandai had the sense to sell them all in one box. Hasbro did package them in pairs (with the T-Rex solo) but those were 12 bucks, I think.
 
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For sure, but Bandai had the sense to sell them all in one box. Hasbro did package them in pairs (with the T-Rex solo) but those were 12 bucks, I think.
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I wonder if this is an issue where it's easier to get retailers to carry a bunch of 20 dollar zords than a giant 100-dollar robot, even if the end result for the consumer is kind of the same? We've heard many times that, where toys are concerned, retailers hate big boxes, and big price tags.
 
Could be. Seems like they could have split them into 2 perhaps? This seems like the worst approach and I’m not willing to give Playmates the benefit of the doubt because they don’t often demonstrate much in the way of creativity.
 
Is anyone collecting the Reignition line? The Mastodon and Pterodactyl appear to be very rare. Not seeing them anywhere.


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