First official look at the Lord Zedd and Z-Putty MMPR Reignited figures from Playmates. No word on if they're the only Evil Space Aliens for Season 2 or not.Previous Thread:>>11711540
>>11739505I'll stick with LC Zedd. The exploding limbs and head is a neat play feature for the Z Putty though.
GO WHITE (with severe yellowing in the arms and legs) RANGERGO
GOWHITERANGERGOOOOOOOO
GOLDAR'S GONNA GET YOUTONIGHT
>>11739566>>11739575>>11739581I know it was just a verbal reskin, but "Go White Ranger Go" doesn't get enough love. Also, I kind wish they reworked the original White Ranger theme into "White Ranger Falcon Power" for the third season.
DESTROY THE POWER RANGERS AND DESTROY THE WORLD>>11739589Same man. I know it's lazy, but it hit really well for Tommy's grand return.
>>11739592DESTROY THE POWER RANGERS AND DESTROY THE WORLD
DON'T LET LORD ZEDD PUT A SPELL ON YOUR MIIIIIIINNNNNND
>Tell me something, Tommy! Are all those eeyah's and sic-uya's really necessary?!
>>11739505Okay, now I'm seriously worried about Squatt and King Sphinx. We should have gotten official photos of them first.
>>11739505I really hope the coloring of this Putty is accurate to what ends up releasing, because it would be the most accurate Z-Putty we've ever gotten. All prior releases have had gotten the colors wrong.
>>11739566Did you get these from BST?
>>11739535>I'll stick with LC Zedd. WOW! Shocking! The out of scale, crappy looking, barely articulated kids toy isn't going to replace the super articulated collector figure? Are we still even trying to pretend they'll make anything that comes even close to anything like the LC figures?
>>11739720No, I've had everything in those pics for years and have most of the LC stuff. I just don't post in this general very often because the current state of the franchise depresses me.
>>11739589Falconzord never had solo fight scenes and felt like a major downgrade. Really hard going from the Dragonzord to the Tigerzord to..the Falconzord, a glorified wing backpack. Red Battlezord maanged to give him a solo zord again but none really matched the badboy appeal of the Dragonzord.Yes I know it's all different series in the Sentai. I think the Season1-2 transition worked relatively smoothly, it's everything else that started to falter.
>>11739736Worst was the White Shogunzord, which was just another of the primary five main Zords. The Falconzord may have been a downgrade, but at least it still felt like a special 6th Ranger Zord.
>>11739736The Falconzord did more in Dimensions in Danger than the entirety of the MMPR series. But you want to talk about downgrades? How about going from the Zeo Zord fleet to the Turbo Zords. The Falconzord was much cooler in the movie where it didn't have the limitations of a physical prop which recycled the same 3 shots. With endless time and budget the Turbo Zords would still just be cars that can't do much against humanoid monsters.
>>11739892https://youtu.be/RpBZJRlwSb8?si=DOG0ZtqOsxGM5hnWaround the end of this interview Doug Sloan talks about how Saban and other producers were obsessed with the Turbo concept and thought it was gonna make a gazillion dollars cause kidslike cars, when Sloan argued that cars were far less versatile than past zords. That's probably why the made the (ultimately probably wrong) decision to do a Turbo movie and not a Zeo or In Space one, which probably would've done slightly better and at least be better remembered. At least the Turbo Rescue Zords are among the most versatile zords we've gotten. I don't get why they never did the transforming individual zord concept since the 90's. The red Dragonzord, Turbo Rescuezords, and Astro Megazord/Delta Megazord and a few other individual 90's zords are among the few cases. Otherwise only sixth ranger mecha, but I mean main team zords.
>>11739736>>11739892Hey now, the Falconzord swooping down and smacking the shit out of Hydro Hog, overpowering a monster that even the unbeatable Shogun Megazord couldn't beat, was a pretty cool scene. Perhaps too little too late (it's literally the last Mighty Morphin episode), but it's still cool nonetheless.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF0g8dGU5hs
>>11739736It never had solo fight scenes because its Sentai counterpart didn't. Tsubasamaru never belonged to any Kakuranger. The problem was that they went from a 6 ranger Sentai adaptation with Dairanger/Season 2 to a 5 Ranger adaptation with Kakuranger/Season 3.
>>11739505Where are the goddamn monsters?
>>11740135Yeah, I'm not loving how things are looking so far... Hell, we still haven't even gotten an official look at Squatt and King Sphinx yet, and it's nothing new for PR for its toy makers to suddenly go "Oops, those villains/monsters got cancelled. Didn't we tell you?"
>>11740138I'm not feeling good about Squatt and King Sphinx at this point. It was already concerning that these season 2 villains were shown at Toy Fair and they weren't, but now the season 2 villains get promo pics released before them as well. I would be really bummed, but could live without King Sphinx if he got cancelled, but Squatt being cancelled after we got Baboo would be devastating. The second wave of villains should have been Squatt and Baboo. It makes no sense having Goldar on pegs single carded when there is a 6 pack on the shelf below touting him as an exclusive figure. I'm sure Goldar's single carded availability has tanked the sales of that 6 pack, which is another reason Squatt should have been carded in his place. Goldar shouldn't have been sold single carded until later when all those 6 packs were cleared out.
>>11739898Kind of ironic they were so reticent to shake up the formula early on that they kept the Zyu/Dairanger suits for three seasons, but the moment they decided to go all in on the latest Sentai as a sure thing, things start going downhill. Makes me wonder what would happen if they tried to switch the order of the Turbo Zords around like they did for the Ninja and Shogun Zords. Although admittedly that would just push the can down the road and make things awkward later.
>>11739566>>11739575>>11739581>>11739592>>11739596>>11739602WHERE THE FUCK IS MY WHITE RANGER TIGER POWER?!
>>11740290They probably thought that the car theme alone was good enough to make it sell but the Carranger footage was too goofy for them to work with. They got really lucky with In Space and the Megaranger footage.
Forever the best of the LC.>>11740361I'm sorry anon, but that wasn't the theme I had stuck in my head that night
>>11740410>but the Carranger footage was too goofy for them to work with.That set off a production war. Half the staff wanted to embrace it, half wanted to go darker.
>>11740449I like the "we need a silly villain for the american footage what design do you got for us" and they just made Doronjo
>>11740138>>11740208>>11740135at this point, it might be easier to kitbash more monsters than to get the official figures...
>>11740290That would’ve meant introducing Phantom Ranger much earlier or him working as their 6th Ranger or mentor.
>>11739718Gloves look too red. This is screen used.
>>11740517Fanmade custom monsters almost always look like shit, though. Either that, or they look great, but they're like a foot tall articulationless model that doesn't go with any toy line.
>>11740627They look right to me. If anything, the face should e darker.
>>11739505crash dummies are back.
>>11739505Can we get Playmates to do a Crash Dummies line lol?
>>11740804Zamn, look at that cameltoe on the second to the left
>>11740627>>11740804I think it all depends on the lighting and which gloves they grabbed for any given scene. Also, there's the chance that the crew freshened up the paint at some point during the season.
>>11741559
>>11741559Yeah, I'd say the clear intent was for them to be red, but given the chaos of filming a low budget show at a breakneck pace, wrong gloves may have been used at any given point, and/or wear and tear could have taken the paint off. I like the red hands because it makes them more visually distinctive than Rita's Putties, and it also matches Zedd's aesthetic. That's the way I remember Z-Putties in my mind, so when I see that Playmates figure it just looks right to me.
>>11740804>>11741559>>11741560>>11741806this is maximum cope the colors dont match in the slightests.
>>11741806Either way, I don't think they're supposed to be red. They're brown. The original Putties had brown hands on occasion and the Z-Putty gloves are probably just left over from the original suits.
>>11741823>>11741964>>11741806>>11741560>>11741559its amazing how pathetic power fags are especially when evangelion is still relevant and has new things to talk about unlike this dead brand. Why can't americans ever make anything themselves instead of recycled rehashes of zombie franchises?
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>>11740804Figure still looks too brightly colored
>>11739722I really wanted to enjoy the line more but Hasbro just kinda had too many inconsistent figures that I just gave up. This was in spite of mmpr lc not having many enemies at first, and well by the time they did come out I was just disappointed with the results. Zedd and goldar looked great, you can't mess up a putty but king sphinx and pumpkin rapper weren't enough to keep me around. I'm hoping the Playmate line gets past the head flip gimmick and offers more standard rangers before I try them since I never lied that flip gimmick. It's a wild thought but idk, maybe let lanard have a shot at mmpr? Or another goofy idea I like is trying the 3 3/4 scale, it could allow for more vehicles and playsets.
>>11739721Well, they are currently trying to pretend they are making toys for kids, of a 33 year old show that has not been on anywhere for at least 30 years. No kid knows or cares who the fuck Lord Zedd is, much less wants a toy of him.
>>11740361We didn't even get a Dragonzord, what hope is there for a White Tigerzord?
>>11742204They already announced White Tiger will be Walmart exclusive.Why they wanted the Tiger and not Dragon is a mystery.
>>11742200Its currently on Netflix, actually. Premiering new upscaled versions of the show, at that.
>>11742217Because the retailers weren't sure it'd sell last year. The toy line was untested last year but it's a different scenario this year because the toys actually sell.
>>11740417I got this guy for super cheap. Can't remember if it was Ross or Amazon. I don't know the character but he looks like a bad ass biker dude. Sick ass figure. I shoulda got two.
>>11742439Yeah, I think he shelf warmed due to being somewhat of a departure from the usual PR/Sentai aesthetic. I love that look too though and he's great figure, especially if picked up at a discount. I've got the invisible version too, I should maybe take some pics later this week. The Power Rangers threads always seem like they're hurting for toy pics more than most (though for sadly understandable reasons).
>>11739505Play features seem pointless. Are these for kids? Do kids actually give a shit about Power Rangers?
>>11742451Oh shit I forgot about the invisible one. He's only $15 on Amazon right now. I might grab him. There's actually a lot of decently priced LC figures on there these days.
>>11742506I picked him up new at full price and feel retarded for doing so (along with more than a few other LC figures), but he's a fun little recolor if you like the original figure.
>>11742451Phantom Ranger shelf warmed due to his utterly deserved bad reputation >>Heavily teased as being Billy>>Never got unmasked in Turbo, literally vanishing mid season>>When they finally brought him back for In Space, he's not a real person but a vague defined "ghost gesalt" of all Rangers past present and future.
>>11742451Turbo is basically the least popular pre-Disney season. Phantom Ranger was from the later half of the series which was a little more popular but still overshadowed by In Space. He appears in that too but isn't a big part like he was in Turbo
>>11742688He should have been Billy and he also should have been Ecliptor's creator.
>>11742452The line is selling, so yeah.
>>11742688>Heavily teased as being BillyAt what point was that? When they were building up a relationship between him and a high school girl?
I just ordered the invisible version. I'm gonna dye him black and see what happens. I'll post the results in a few days.
>>11742204Pretty high, actually.
