Figured I'd make a thread since no one else cared to, but for that one anon from the last thread that was having a meltdown because of the Goldar in the Target Exclusive multi-pack, someone found a single card release at a Target in Chicago. Anyway, talk about Power Ranger now. Or don't.Upcoming releases:No one knows or caresOld thread >>Forgotten to time
I'm glad to see Goldar released single carded in the US, it was stupid to gatekeep him behind a store exclusive 6-pack. I just find it odd how soon he's being released solo after the 6-pack claimed exclusivity. It seems he and Baboo are the next assortment of villains, and I wish it were Squatt instead with Goldar getting his single carded release later along with King Sphinx. Releasing Baboo without Squatt just feels wrong.
Here's the back of Baboo's packaging, showing he is the only new addition in the next assortment.
>>11662938That can't be right. Maybe it's a weird packaging thing where they only show one new figure on the back, so for the other two boxes it's Rita/Goldar/Putty/Squatt and Rita/Goldar/Putty/King Sphinx.
>>11662952Nah it tracks. First villain assortment was only Rita and Putty, now Goldar and Baboo, next would be Squatt and King Sphinx. The Rita/Putty assortment was 4 of each in spite of Rita being previously released in the Walmart endcap and Putty being an army builder, so I imagine Playmates will continue with even split cases of two.
>>11662822Anybody who thought he'd never be a single carded figure is a certified retard. Playmates always rereleases figures.
>>11662961Maybe so, but 3 months is a pretty short exclusivity window. The 6-packs touting Goldar as an exclusive are still on shelves, which is pretty awkward if there are single carded Goldars on the pegs above.
>>11662958>First villain assortment was only Rita and Putty, now Goldar and Baboo, next would be Squatt and King Sphinx.That would be a horrible idea. Why would they split the villains up into three waves like that? I thought Season 1 was only going to be two waves before moving on to Season 2. What would the Ranger side of things be for the third wave?
Is the line really dead in the water? I was really hoping for at least the Dragonzord. Titanus was probably never going to happen anyway.
>>11662822Ill wait for the retro style 7inch Bandai replicas playmates teased at SDCC. I picked up the S7 Bulk and Skull at ross for $15 each. I don't thinks there's anything else Im looking forward to PR wise. I doubt BanDai will ever get the license again to make a Legacy Tor, Serpentera and Shogun Zord.
>>11662998>Is the line really dead in the water?No. Playmates is losing TMNT in exactly one year. Power Rangers just became their lifeline.
>>11662992>Why would they split the villains up into three waves like that?Because they're dumb. The six figures shown at Toy Fair should have been a single wave. Being able to get a near complete set of the main season 1 villains in one fell swoop would have made them more desirable to people than slowly dripping them out like this.
>>11662958>>now Goldar and Baboo, next would be Squatt and King Sphinx>Our biggest fear was that Squatt and Baboo wouldn't get released>Now we have an even worse possibility: Baboo will be released, but Squatt could potentially not be
>>11663020>Our biggest fear was that Squatt and Baboo wouldn't get released>Now we have an even worse possibility: Baboo will be released, but Squatt could potentially not beThis was the nightmare scenario I never considered a possibility.
>>11663010Hasbro has heat with Playmates because they helped fund the Ninja Kids project behind their back with plans to adapt it into toys. I doubt they retain the license for long.
>>11663053Good. These baby toys suck ass, even the LC was better.
>>11663053Was that Playmates specifically? I heard Hasbro themselves were backing Ninja Kidz, too (if not only them).
>>11662822I literally bough that six pack just for goldar a few months, what the hell
>>11662961Good thing they won't last long since they're a dead company now.
So since Playmates' days are numbered due to losing the TMNT license, guesses on who's getting the license?
>>11663053There was no behind their back. The Ninja Kidz thing was publicized at 2025 Toy Fair. Hasbro has since made the deal for the Disney+ series, so they're trying to save face because some people are confusing this Ninja Kidz thing as the new Disney+ series.
>>11662822This line was announced, but no Dragonzord.Every anone here kept screeching>Nooooo we need to have a full line of the main cast first!!>THEN we can have Dragonzord in the second wave!!!>Who cares that Hasbro did the same fucking thing in the same order and also failed before that next wave could have Dragonzord in it!!!!I never got why anons here were like this.
>>11663114Someone else would have to want it in order for Hasbro to try to revoke the license from Playmates, and depending on the way the contract was written they may not even be able to as long as Playmates continues to pay. I would expect Playmates to pivot hard to Power Rangers as their most viable money maker after losing TMNT. Mattel, Jakks, and Jazwares each have plenty of other properties keeping them in business, and Power Rangers would just be an afterthought to them. Playmates NEEDS Power Rangers right now, they will give it the most attention and turn the most profit for Hasbro, which is ultimately all Hasbro cares about, so I can't really see Hasbro trying to take the license from them.
>>11663183Looks like they need to go back to basics, find a struggling comic team and make a new toy based cartoon.
>>11663185>make a new toy based cartoon.What century are you living in grandpa?
So, are we ever gonna hear how well the line did or didn't do?
I'm really surprised how well Rita has been selling in my area. I was worried Playmates was overpacking her and she would end up pegwarming and hurting future waves of villains from being released, but at my two local Targets she has been a consistent seller. They've each gone through multiple cases of the villain figures (I helped in clearing out 6 Putties and a Rita), and currently one of them has two Putties and a Rita, and the other only has a Putty. Rita out selling the Putty is crazy to me since she was the only villain on the Walmart endcap and sold on Walmart's website before the wide release. I figured with her head start and even case packing with a previously unreleased army builder, people would buy up all the Putties and Ritas would start to build up and warm pegs, but that hasn't happened, at least here. Who knew a cheap retail Rita would end up being a good selling action figure? Certainly not Bandai or Hasbro.
>>11663470We can definitely say we do not know what it didn't do as opposed to what it did when it was not doing it at all until it was done then we did but not until it wasn't. So it did but we cannot say what it wasn't doing.
>>11663470If they continue making toys it did well. If they stop it didn't. That's generally the best you ever get. A new villain assortment of Goldar and Baboo hitting stores now is a good sign. That suggests they sold through the first assortment's initial production run, so at the very least the villains are moving at or above expectations. NY Toy Fair next month will be the big tell. Last year's Toy Fair was an early look with much of the line not slated for release until 2026. If the unreleased stuff they showed last year is absent that's a bad sign. If a Dragonzord and Titanus aren't shown that's a bad sign. If no new figures are shown that's a really bad sign. February 14th. There's also Nuremberg on January 27th which could provide some info. They debuted the line last year, but behind closed doors. Maybe this year they will be less secretive.
>>11663535.......Cosmic.
>>11663535I didn't realize you were a Power Rangers fan Kamala.
>>11663535
>>11663114Jakks. Of the non-big two underdogs, Jakks is the most successful atm. They have the strongest relationship with Viacom via Sonic along with the most retail prescence second to playmates (nintendo, simpsons, sega, etc). With Dogman out of the picture and the turtles up for grabs they just seem like the best fit for the IP.Jazwares is back to being a confused mess and they're barely handling FNAF and Fortnite as is, and Mcfarlane is short sighted and ADD about licenses. Everyone else either has a cash cow on hand or is focused on something else.
>>11663981Think he was asking who gets the Power Rangers license after Playmates folds.
>>11662972Corporations lie all the time, it's pretty much expected and people don't bat an eye at it anymore usually. There's really nothing we can do but not buy in response, but no one does it
>>11663183What if the line doesn't print money for playmates and they find something else?
Is the new Megazord worth the $100?
Nonnef is selling tail replacements for $5.https://www.nonnef.com/collections/upgrades/products/mmprmiss
>>11662822Im seeing these already hitting clearance, i just wanted non flip figures and now im likely shit out of luck. My luck collecting MMPR is cursed i guess.
>>11663991Um, no one. It goes back to Hasbro.
>>11664117Hasbro doesn't want it.
>>11664034Now they need to a bigger power sword make of hard plastic.
Power rangers suck imagine being stuck in the same 3 series because the rest it's even worse wtf
>>11664195I wish Mattel would somehow get it so we can get a good PR answer to Masters of The Universe Origins.>YFW fuck-huge Command Center and Rita's Lair playsets.
>>11663993Extra strange since the North American carded figure seems to be the same gold as the one from the pack, but the one released in like Europe is a tad more darker and has the hair(?) things being metalic
>>11664330Yeah, a deco change generally retains a figure's exclusive status, but the deco of the US carded Goldar looks the same as the 6-pack, so not sure how that isn't blatant false advertising.
>>11664210Welcome to Star Wars
>>11664210Power Rangers has many great series which people regard as better than MMPR. The MMPR circle jerk didn't start until 2010. For 15 years after it ended it pretty much didn't exist and all focus was put on the current series.
>>11664056>Im seeing these already hitting clearanceWhere? In the northeast US Targets and Walmarts they sure aren't.
>>11664541The MMPR fanaticism began when it aired
>>11664024Not worth $100, if you're going to pay that you might as well get the SMP.
>>11664590>The MMPR fanaticism began when it airedAnd by the third season that fanaticism had significantly declined, which is why they started changing the suits every year. Bandai didn't make a new MMPR toy after 95 until 2006, and that was just the Red MMPR in a line of collector Red Ranger figures, so MMPR got no special treatment. A couple years later they started doing the Super Legends chase figures and Retrofire Megazords, but that too included other seasons, so MMPR still wasn't being treated as the end all be all. It wasn't until 2010 when they did a full MMPR line that they started heavily leaning into MMPR nostalgia, and the only reason that even happened was because Disney didn't want to make new seasons anymore, but still had contractual obligations to Bandai, so they just threw on MMPR reruns with some half-assed graphics slapped onto them and called it a day.
>>11664633>Bandai didn't make a new MMPR toy after 95 until 2006While that is true, it's worth pointing out they were selling MMPR toys in 2-packs with In Space figures and even had entire dedicated lines in Heroes and Playback, the latter coinciding with a reairing of the first three seasons in 1999. They may not have been making new merch, but they were still moving extra stock throughout the late 90s and the gap between the years wasn't as long as it could have been.
>>11664733Those In Space figures were just getting rid of the glut of unsold movie toys. I think Playback was similarly moving unsold stock, at least for the most part, as the selection was quite random. For instance no deluxe season 1 Zords, but the intermediate Megazord that always seemed to warm shelves even in MMPR's heyday. It was also planned for Playback to release toys through Turbo, so it wasn't just supposed to be MMPR felating. I don't know if the sales or ratings were bad, but the Playback airings ended prematurely after The Mutiny, so the Zeo and Turbo toys never saw release in the Playback line.Heroes were just cheap re-releases for KB Toys, and it started as the sixth Rangers from MMPR through Turbo before cycling through the seasons all the way until Dino Thunder. After a year hiatus the line was rebranded as Super Legends for Mystic Force before ending for good.So yes, some MMPR toys were sold between 95 and 2006, but not a single new MMPR toy was produced during that time, just unsold stock and re-releases, and this wasn't even a uniquely MMPR thing. Not only in the case of Heroes, but Bandai would randomly re-release toys from other seasons within their season lines. Sometimes they would even redeco toys from other seasons, so it wasn't always a case of clearing out old stock, but Bandai trying to maximize profits from their existing molds.
>>11663010>Playmates is losing TMNT in exactly one year.Holy shit, seriously?
>>11664987Yurp>>11664399
>>11662992>? I thought Season 1 was only going to be two waves before moving on to Season 2. What would the Ranger side of things be for the third wave?Not like there's much in the way of new main cast villains for season 2. Zedd, and Z putties is about it, the rest would be MOTW
>mmpr is playmates only sellerin what world, the brand is dead
I just wish they'd hurry up and announce the Kaiju Rangers already.
>>11665013Yeah, Power Rangers won't be saving them. Shit's going to crash hard.
>>11665013Nowhere, Godzilla and Winx sell well too.
>>11665012Wave 2 needs to go straight into Thunder Zords, White Tiger Zord and Tor.Maybe Ninja Zords. but it should definitely be Zedd and his monsters. We have had enough Rita stuff already.
Not doing Dragonzord is like leaving money on the table. I can live without Titanus. Definitely need a new Shogun Megazord.
>>11664506That's a funny way of spelling Transformers.
>>11665034Not even
>>11665038for the zords, sure, but there's still lots to cover between Season 1 and 2's shared castThat said don't expect Tor or even White Tigerzord when there's no Dragonzord or Titanus yet. Tor is probably a real long shot since he's one of the least used carrier zords
>>11665283Except no one is going to make any money producing a figure for every monster of the week. People want rangers and zords. We got both in Wave 1 so Wave 2 needs to be more Rangers and Zords. That leaves White Ranger and the Thunder Zords.
>>11665327You're crazy if you think wave 2 should skip Dragonzord and Titanus and go straight to Thunderzords. Dragonzord is easily the most popular single Zord in the history of the show.
>>11665012>Not like there's much in the way of new main cast villains for season 2. Zedd, and Z putties is about it, the rest would be MOTWThere's still Finster unaccounted for, and Scorpina could be a season 2 figure since she was essentially a season 2 MOTW. I'd be super bummed if Playmates got this close to completing the season 1 villain crew and couldn't finish it off.
This franchise is so dead, there's bigger problems with no new media to capture new audiences and everyone argues about no body goobers needing to get made to make the franchise a success when it's the same recycled garbage.
>>11665369>no new media to capture new audiencesWe live in a digital streaming age grandpa, new audiences aren't limited to what's being aired on broadcast television anymore. If a kid sees MMPR toys in a store and thinks they look cool, he can go home and watch episodes on jewtube.
>>11665385kids are buying ebikes because they're actually useful, cool, street legal without required registration and modifiable, unc tard
>>11665388>kids are buying ebikesKids of actors and athletes maybe.
>>11665327>Except no one is going to make any money producing a figure for every monster of the week.Maybe not "every" monster of the week, but if Playmates were to make figures of Lipsyncher and Silver Horns they'd be instant fucking buys for me.
>>11665403Any Dairanger monsters would be welcome, but those two certainly stand out, and Silverhorns would allow for a Repellator repaint. I'd really love to get the Nimrod trio somehow.
>>11665417just make one it's never gonna happen
>>11665559>just make your own toysDamn it's that simple? How foolish of me to be buying toys made by others all these years when I could have just mastered several highly specific, nichè skillsets, and invested untold thousands of dollars into the necessary equipment to just make my own.
>>116656463d printing is better than most retail toys
>>11665650You've never 3D printed anything.
>>11665369Companies have long given up on that and are working entirely for the short term money of nostalgia. Thing is, they have been selling the exact same shit to the exact same people through nostalgia for 20 years now and that's about to fall apart too. And the companies have no plan after that.
35 fucking years and no Cyclopsis/Dora Talos toy,
>>11665663weird how Blokees can succeed and make product under three months yet it takes years for Americans to do anything. maybe they should just give up
>>11665663>they have been selling the exact same shit to the exact same people through nostalgia for 20 years nowThis is the first fully fleshed out MMPR line intended for kids since Imaginext, and that was a preschool line without transforming Zords or roleplay items. The only other kid focused MMPR line since the original was the 2010 debacle which did everything wrong, and was before the series was even released on DVD, let alone able to be streamed anywhere. Bandai and Hasbro's MMPR stuff since then were adult focused products with higher price points, save for a few random anomalies like Hasbro's cheap Megazord. Playmates is implicitly NOT selling the same shit to the same people, and the collectors have done nothing but bitch and moan about the line not being made for them. But I think it was absolutely the right move by Playmates, because Power Rangers always thrived when it was making cheap toys for kids, and the series is more accessible than ever with an entirely library of episodes freely available on any device.
>>11665717yet everyone is talking about stranger things finale and those toys are hitting scalper prices because people care about that not the same recycled boomer crap
>>11665721No one will be talking about Stranger Things in a month.
>>11665705There was almost one... Damn Habsro.
>>11665705This is the type of shit Playmates should be doing. Despite how milked MMPR has been there is still untapped toy potential.
>>11665717I really want to know what it is that people who bitch about it being MMPR want. There's no new show and the last few series weren't that popular anyway. Did they randomly expect them to make a kid's toyline based off some Disney season when the ratings by that era were rapidly dropping as well and they have almost no nostalgic impression? Like randomly getting a Mystic Force kids line in 2025?What series do they want to get a standalone line?
>>11665831I wanted that serpentera so fucking badly back then i was so pissed it got cancelled
It’s over. The reboot cast a nigger boy as the red ranger and a girl as green. GG
>>11665855Proof?
>>11665867https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/television/power-rangers-casting-heats-up-as-six-actors-eyed-for-upcoming-disney-reboot-are-revealed-a9559They haven't been cast yet, he's just starting shit. The girls are cute.
>>11665834I don't think anyone at Playmates has a clue this thing exists. They seem like the same old collection of NBAs and boomers who only pick the top most well known names out of a wiki article and repeat the same th9ing every company before them has made.Plus making a new figure that has never been tried before is risk taking. That's not something a company replying 100% on nostalgia bucks will ever attempt to do. We cannot even get a fucking Dragonzord out of Playmates or Hasbro.
>>11665878not a single ounce of testosterone in those zoomers, why they cast a big nose Jew for red?
>>11665884>We cannot even get a fucking DragonzordWait until Toy Fair before doomposting. I would be shocked if Playmates doesn't make Dragonzord.
>>11665855None of what you stated is true but regardless it would not be the first time for either, dumbass. We got a black Red Ranger in 1997 and have had multiple female Green Rangers in the show, comics and 2017 film if you count Rita.
>>11665403>>11665417>Lipsyncher and Silver HornsI think the Fighting Edition on the SNES really helped cement them as some of the "main" Dairanger monsters of MMPR (if not THE main two Dairanger monsters), the same way King Sphinx, Pudgy Pig, and Eye Guy were the most iconic of Season 1.
>>11665989>We got a black Red Ranger in 1997no one cares, cast a white man
>>11665878>The girls are cute.You're a damn fool
>>11665989>gets demoted >every season with a none white male red suffers Heh nothing personal nigger
>>11666329TJ was well received but bland and part of him being liked was due to the cast change happening when they started getting to the GOID Car Ranger footage, which had some great fight scenes for TJ. Once he got demoted to Blue IS Ranger, he fell off in popularity.Meanwhile Jack in SPD was such a complete fuck up that the case is often made that Skylar was the real protagonist as part of the anti affirmative action aspect of SPD Also Ninja Storm Red was mystery meat racially but upstaged by Cam, who was Asian.
Can someone explain to me the difference lore-wise behind Ecliptor's black and red forms?
>>11666465stop over thinking a toy commercial
>>11666465Ecliptor has four forms>>Regular form, with one spikey shoulder pad and a cape>>Rebuilt form, which has no cape and two spikey shoulder pads>>Darkonda gesalt form >>Red Ecliptor, which is basically Ecliptor with a temporary power boostThe original 90s Bandai figure was based off of his first form (which In Space made interchangable with the second form; in Megaranger, he gets destroyed early on and rebuilt)The Hasbro Lightning Collection is based on said second form (no cape and matching spiked shoulder pads), so they could easily repaint the figure for his powered up Red form.
>>11666465Watch Megaranger.
>>11666316For Genesis owners the same could be said for Nimrod. Also being the monster of one of the most iconic episodes "White Light" sure helps raise her profile.
>>11665705This design is so awesome. No idea why people supposedly nostalgic for MMPR don't have it stuck in their heads.
Here's your wave 3, shitlords.
Lord Zedd, Z-Putty, White Ranger, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha confirmed.
>>11666965>Tommy's diaperI lol'd
>>11666967>putty explodesBASED
>>11666965How do they keep getting worse?
>>11667029That makes more sense, I was worried they were doing a build a putty
Is there a reason we don't get later season villains in MMPR themed toy lines purely for rule of cool "let's give kids some cool villains fur the figures to fight," reasons?Would love to see new versions of Ransic, Mesagog, Grumm, Machine Empire, Divotix, Ecliptor, etc even if they are recast as MMPR villains
>>11666965Someone hacked the morpher and theres a clip of "White Tiger" in it, so this isn't too surprising.>season 2I find their lack of Dragonzord disturbing...
>>11667077villains don't sell, stop asking
>>11667078>hackedShut the fuck up
>>11667085Whatever you wanna call it. They found a hidden clip in it. To go with the White Ranger coin.
>>11667085Who shit in your wheetos?
>>11667077I assume tooling which shouldn’t matter all that much when you could make the ranger bodies reusable for every season with only changing gloves, boots, and helmets. You don’t even need much paint when you can mold them in their color. Sixth rangers will need overlays but that’s nothing.
>>11667080>villains don't sell, stop askingI've never understood this. Who the fuck do kids smash their Ranger figures against when they're playing with them? Generic dinosaur toys?
>>11667080Rita and the putties are selling pretty well. My Target keeps restocking them anyway.
>>11667095>I as an adult am perplexed as to why children can't understand my point of view of needing a delicate display of every character on screen for a beautiful presentation of what made a children's show so badass back in the day
>>11667094This is why Mattel should be making power rangers. They would handle the rangers exactly like you're describing and budget would go towards monsters.
>>11667100they'd make the dragonzord a Mattel creations exclusive
>>11667099I only had Rita’s dad and a putty plush growing up and it always pissed me off. Kids want monsters.
>>11667106they want Godzilla because he's cool and a hero no kid cares about one episode monsters
>>11667102Nah they’d make megazords that don’t transform that would scale with the monsters
>>11667108No kids want the monsterverse monsters because they look like ass. The soft vinyl figures of the nip designs sell like hotcakes
>>11667112Not really, since even WalMart keeps restocking the Monsterverse line.
>>11667112I didn't specify universe you fucking retard kids see Godzilla the same and don't autismally pick favourites like boomers do which is why mmpr is the only series that gets rebooted due to boomer retardation not giving new things a chance
>>11667109See I’ve always said that one of the smartest things they ever did during the launch of Power Rangers was to have imported the larger 8 inch figures, then make monsters in that size who then can double as being nearly in scale with your Megazord. They only did this for the three season of MMPR.
>>11667121It seems like the most obvious thing a company could do.
>>11667108Anti hero, Anon. Anti hero.
>>11667077Most modern MMPR toylines barely get a chance to cover the main MMPR cast, let alone attempt other seasons. 2010 didn't even have a Rita. Yes, there's a lot of MMPR toys, but in terms of solely focused toylines after the 90s, there's really just been 2010, Super 7, and now Re-ignition. And Imaginext. All of those had(or have) notable missing entries from MMPR so no reason to start jumping ahead yet.
Holy Shit I am so sick of mmpr
>>11662822I cant find baboo or goldar for the life of me
>>11667168Close the thread then because that’s all we’re getting the next 2 years. I know it’s become a meme at this point but I wish someone like Jada would get power rangers and just commit to a limited run of zordon era rangers and villains then expand from that if it’s successful. Do the rangers in box sets only and release the monsters and main megazord over a year for each season.
>>11667190>JadaHoly Fucking Shit God no they take forever to do anything and would fuck it up way worse and cost $30 each
>>11667168ok you get to run Power Rangers, What series gets the re-igniton treatment?
>>11666965B-b-but... it's a dead line! Anon said so repeatedly. >>11667169They literally just came out.
>>11666967Zedd looks okay.
>>11666965>>11666967I'm glad the Zedd Putty shatters but it would've been nice if they had an assembled one standing with the other figures too.
>>11667248>Zedd looks okay.Looks very off to me, particularly the head. I guess it's better than the original Lord Zedd figures which were based on early concept art and very off-model, but I'll be sticking with my 2014 Zedd.
>>11667248Nope>>11667323
>>11666965>>11666967Even with such a blurry photo, I can tell that head sculpt is way too chad for Rocky. lol Adam looks a little off too. Kind of weird that the old Bandai flipheads seems more accurate in that regard.Zedd looks... Strange. Like they were trying base it off the suit actor and made the head too big as a result. It's not great, but it's not entirely bad either. Zedd Putty with the gimmick intact is great, but they really should have had an assembled one there for comparison.Nice to see it's coming along, but still no Dragonzord? Come on, Playmates. Get it together.
>>11667535You people need to relax, this wasn't intended to be shown to the public, it was a photo Baboo's US actor took at Playmates headquarters and some new toys happen to be in the background. If season 2 is already in the pipeline it pretty much confirms Dragonzord will be in the Spring wave of toys. They're not gonna move on to Thunderzords without doing arguably the most popular Zord in the history of the show. I'm sure Toy Fair will announce it, and I'm sure they'll show the assembled Putty.
>>11667611Despite the fact that they have already passed on Dragonzord, after Hasbro also passed on Dragonzord, and the 2011 rerelease passed on Dragonzord.
>>11667685How have they already passed on Dragonzord? Because it wasn't in wave 1? Season 1 was always planned on being 2 waves, and it makes sense to save Dragonzord for wave 2 in that case. Bandai's 2010 line was an absolute clusterfuck during an unplanned transitionary period for the franchise between Disney and Saban. Hasbro's cheap Megazord wasn't a part of a larger line, it was just a random one-off product while they tried to figure out what to do with the property. Playmates will not skip Dragonzord if they're already planning season 2 shit.
>>11667714Season 2 is Thunderzords and White Tiger Zord.
>>11667099retard
>>11667611>this wasn't intended to be shown to the publicSure, they just happened to place the new Lord Zedd and White Ranger figures in the "People can take selfies here but please don't show said selfies to the public" section of their headquarters by complete accident.
>>11667106I never understood why no monster has ever been made to scale with Megazord. They are always scaled to the rangers. But who are the Zords supposed to fight? They never made a giant sized Goldar.
>>11665417I just love these old campy images of sentai
>>11667790He literally says he's been waiting to post the pics. Playmates probably told him not to post anything until the figure is released. I wouldn't put it past Playmates for being too dumb to realize stuff is in the pics that isn't supposed to he seen, or maybe they just didn't expect Baboo to end up releasing before this stuff was officialy revealed at NYTF.>>11667750>Season 2 is Thunderzords and White Tiger Zord.There is a second wave of season 1 stuff coming this Spring numbnuts. That's where Dragonzord would slot in.
>>11667811Kids don't really follow the plot. They make up their own worlds. Maybe some of you never did but basically a megazord or a white tigerzord doesn't need to be tied up in the Power Rangers universe. Kids make their own stories with various toys from multiple lines.
>>11667811Who cares what you understand boomer.
>>11667811This is why megazords need to scale with the monsters not the other way around.
>>11667892>That's where Dragonzord would slot in.Prove itOh wait, you can't because the opposite HAS been proven already. It's called the pic you just posted.
I used to have my Zords fight the large alien toy from Independence Day.
>>11667892>>11667611Why werent these images released sooner? Why have that display at all if the public wasnt allowed to see it?
>>11667926Wicked
>>11667611Dead line
>>11667248He looks worse than Hasbro's Zedd. So why get this?
>>11662822Why is target releasing everything on the 11th? I cant find baboo anywhere and it makes me think theyre waiting to release him on their rigid reset date
>>11667248But he doesn't?
>>11668068then buy the hasblow one from the failed lighting collection series
>>11668069I can't get a read on you.
>>11667916>the opposite HAS been proven alreadyThen you'll have no problem posting this proof that Dragonzord won't be made.
>>11667926I used pic related as Rito's Zord since Rito himself didn't get an 8" figure.
>>11667952>Dead lineI look forward to seeing you post this again in 2027 as the season 3 toys are being revealed.
>>11667937>Why have that display at all if the public wasnt allowed to see it?It's probably their Toy Fair display, or a work in progress of it. They don't just show up and put out the toys without any forethought about the layout. >>11668018>He looks worse than Hasbro's Zedd. So why get this?Because the Hasbro figure is a completely different scale. It you want a cheap Zedd which scales with the smaller scale Bandai/Playmates villains Hasbro didn't make, and you don't have one of Bandai's previous 5" Zedds, this one will fill that void.
>>116656503D printing (PLA) is good for dioramas3D printing with resin is good for figures but break/crack easily.There, I saved you $300 and hours of wasted time.
>>11667952Yeah, I think I'll get some Lightning Series set on Ebay
>>11668319Ah yes, the thriving Lightning Collection. There is a line that is most certainly not dead.
>>11662822>>11662926Who is this even for? Do kids even know what Power Rangers is?
>>11668513It's for me finally being able to do shit like this.
>>11668548Das it mang
>>11667811I remember being hyped up when my neighbor had a Gorzack toy(which was about the same size as the crappy RC Megazord with the wrong shoulder pads). I thought it was meant to be a Goldar since you could expect some inaccuracy in toys, or maybe a KO, I didn't realize it was an unrelated toy entirely. We'd bring both to the edge of out properties and battle them.Ever since I wished we'd get more monsters that were DX megazord scale
>>11668513Do kids even know G1 Transformers? that show didn't have any new episodes for 7 years before Power rangers and it's only TV presence was some reruns, then off the air for like 20 years. And yet we get like 20 G1 Optimus toys a year including some toddler toys. 80's kids aren't even having toddlers anymore on average, it's late 90s/2000's kids who are parent age now. We didn't grow up with G1. MMPR is like the only nostalgia franchise that gets scrutinized like this when toy aisles are filled with Gen X toylines for kids
>>11668692Transformers is actually a multigenerational franchise though. G1 always gets the lion's share of the toys, but stuff like Beast Wars, Armada and even Animated are remembered fondly by younger fans and the toys sell reasonably well. Contrast that with Power Rangers, where most people are barely aware that there were seasons after MMPR.
>>11668693>the toys sell reasonably wellNo they don't. Every time a new wave of Transformers are released the G1 figures sell instantly and everything else rots for ages. I live in one of the richest and most highly populated areas in the US and toys here typically sell very fast, but non-G1 Transformers don't even move here. >the fans are retarded after all and can't accept anything after an "original"You couldn't be more wrong. The majority of the fans want anything other than MMPR. It's the general public/casuals who won't even look at another season if it's right in front of them. Those random casual buyers make up the bulk of the consumerbase. The Lightning Collection is all the proof you need that there aren't nearly enough hard-core fans to keep a more nichè toyline comprised of other seasons afloat.
>>11667811Because that is fucking stupid, and you are fucking stupid to even ask the question.
>>11668790>Why is there no Joker figure to go with the Batman figure?>What? That's stupid. You're stupid.
>>11668696MMPR is where the franchise was at the apex of its popularity so it's what stuck in the public consciousness, so it's all the rights holders focus on. It's an unfortunate self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't blame the fans for the companies in charge never putting in effort to refresh the brand like PR's contemporaries.
>>11668548I'm hoping against hope that this line can do well enough for Playmates to give Zeo a try so we can finally get some proper figures of the royal house of gadgetry.
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>>11668693But f you look at the toys advertised for younger kids, it's still largely based on the G1 , long after most 80's kids stopped having toddlers. That's my point. The Armada and Animated based stuff is for nostalgic fans in the collectors lines, not how the characters are presented for younger audiences. If you get a Rescue bots Optimus or a generic evergreen toy, they're gonna have hallmarks of the G1 design, not Armada or RiD or even the movies. The closest we get is Optimus Primal being in the rotation of evergreen characters now.
>>11669929Speaking of ReAction and Ultimates!... Is Super7 just done with MMPR? I was really loving their Zords and villains/monsters. As far as I'm aware the Ultimates! didn't even attempt for a new wave after the one with Bulk & Skull (which were successful), and ReAction advertised Lord Drakkon and Shellshock figures that still haven't come yet. Both lines still had plenty of main characters to work their way through... What happened?
>>11669994I wouldn't expect much from Super7 these days. They're not doing well financially.
>>11670021Are they not open and making product anymore?
>>11671084They're currently shitting themselves and delerious with incompetence, sure.
