>Reignition Dragonzord Kickstarterhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playmatestoys/mighty-morphin-power-rangers-combinable-dragonzord>Playmates Toys 2026 Interim Results Briefinghttps://ir.playmatestoys.com/en/presentations/pre260821.pdf>Previous Thread >>11848071
>Declines in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, MonsterVerse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (“TMNT”) product shipments were offset by the expanded distribution of our Power Rangers product line
>We are in active development of Season 3 products, including an expanded collector targeted offering across more fan-favorite Power Rangers series titles
>>11880890Damn. So its not only doing good, its basically keeping the lights on right now.
>>11880893B-b-but everyone told me this line would be a huge failure and be done after one year?
>>11880897Well those people were quite wrong, it would seem.
>>11880885Absolutely insane that the shittiest Dragonzord ever made is also a kickstarter. What a joke.
>Season 3 in active developmentI'd say this bodes well for Squatt eventually being released. Playmates said they had no plans to release him in 2026, specifically noting that it didn't mean he wouldn't ever be released. With the line doing well enough to continue on for a third year, and to even expand into collector territory, I have to imagine Squatt can see the light of day somehow.
>>11880905it actually looks worse than the imaginext one.
>>11880885that screw hole on the face is fucking inexcusable
>>11880905What's insane is that it's hit 80% of it's goal in just a few days despite how bad it is. I don't understand why it's so horrible when the core Dinozords are all pretty solid. You'd think being a Kickstarter would allow Dragonzord to be better than the retail toys, but it's not even a full 10" tall, which is crazy considering the Reignition T-Rex is 10.5". Something is seriously wrong when the Dragonzord is shorter than the T-Rex.
>>11880926That won't be there.
>>11880918>it actually looks worse than the imaginext one.I was thinking the same thing. Anyone here have that Dragonzord and the Reignition Megazord? Curious how they'd scale together since Reignition Dragonzord is such a Dragonlet.>>11880926>that screw hole on the face is fucking inexcusableThe FAQ says it'll be covered by a plug, but you'd think they'd have it covered in the photography that's trying to sell the product to people. They could have also simply not photographed it from the side showing the screw hole.
>>11880931>The FAQ says it'll be covered by a plug,They're redoing the whole thing, ideally it just won't have the hole at all.
You'd also think they'd properly transform their toys in the photography that's trying to sell it to people. Playmates continually comes across as a brand new toy company who is learning the ropes despite making action figures for 40 years now. The things they do are rookie mistakes, and they keep making them again and again, never learning. One example is how people hate their fucking hip joints, and yet they refuse to adapt and improve them. They are launching a collector line with those horrible hip joints, which ruins the entire line from the jump. It's gross incompetence on a level I've never seen from another toy company.
>>11880933>They're redoing the whole thingHighly doubt that. This looks like a molded plastic sample. not a 3D print. If molds have been made there's only so much that can be done in terms of changes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFum9LbzQNU&t=1s
>>11880936i want to shit on playmates for making absurdly off model toys, but it's hasbro that should have standards for them to follow, i guess neither of them really care, at least the zords are big and relatively cheap, I remember scrounging together $20 as a kid to get the red dragon and he's the same price in this line and almost all the same functions
>>11880941>The very ‘first’ model/paint master arrived in our US office late last week (in time for sales shows going on in Los Angeles right now). Improvements are needed, some details are missing. We have received a first round of comments from Hasbro, and now we have yours. A new model is being developed soon. This is always part of the year-plus process of making collectible product.>A new model is being developed soon.Would be hilarious if its Hasbro that demanded the changes.
>>11880936>Itty bitty t.rex arms on a humanoid figure>Retards still haven't figured out the mammoth emblems are pauldrons>Lazy cunts can't even lower the face plate for battle mode>Hell it probably doesn't even have a battle mode face plateI got into toys in '23 and I've seen nothing but continual fuck ups from playmates in my short tenure, please tell me this isn't normal for most companies
>>11880931>Anyone here have that Dragonzord and the Reignition Megazord? Curious how they'd scale together since Reignition Dragonzord is such a Dragonlet.Same guy here, I have them both but I can't grab any pictures now, dragonzord is buried in my kids bedroom somewhere.
>>11880897It IS a failure
>>11880897Keep in mind Boco is a fucking idiot, that should tell you everything.
>>11880947>>11880948You wanna read that official company statement again?
>>11880897>>11880890Disney era fans seething and coping that if they only gave Mystic Force a new toyline it'd do so much better than this 50 year old season.
>>11880942Hasbro certainly deserves a degree of blame as these things all require licensor approval, but Playmates shouldn't be making such bad products in the first place that would require Hasbro stepping in and telling them they need to do better. Like I said, Playmates isn't a new toy company making rookie mistakes, they've been doing this shit for four decades.There's nothing wrong with tailoring the line to kids, but that's not an excuse to make bad products. Mattel was putting more care and effort into pre-school MMPR toys than Playmates is here, and Imaginext Power Rangers was just a drop in the bucket for Mattel. Playmates has lost their biggest cashcow TMNT, and Power Rangers is their lifeline. They should be treating it as such and actually trying to make good products. This Dragonzord will fund because people are desperate for it, but it deserves to fail. It truly is the worst Dragonzord toy ever made. It doesn't even have size going in it's favor like Playmates' Dinozords. I see zero redeeming attributes with this thing.
>>11880950You wanna stop claiming Power Ranger slop from Pussmates is any good?
>>11880959Don't change the subject.
>>11880943Of course it was hasbro it was the fucking boss call otherwise the china man at playmates would’ve just laughed all the way to the bank. It’s hilarious though how much manchild 40+ whining this has caused though. PR consumers are the worst.Two decades of high end collectible version of zords “too expensive”Now a very fair affordable option “too cheap, fuckin playmates can’t do anything” Maybe the fans just don’t deserve shit honestly.
>>11880991A good deal of PR fans thing the Super Megaforce toyline was the best one ever. They're just slop eaters.
>>11880991This Dragonzord is worse than the 34 year old original kids toy by a large margin, and as previously stated, it's even worse than the pre-school toy made a decade ago. Cheap is not the problem, it is simply made badly. Baffling choices were made.
>>11880998Its fine, completely acceptable once it has the battlemode face. The only justifiable outrage. Everything else is just grown men complaining about a toy they won’t ever buy or have 5 other versions The whole muh $50 is too expensive is funny coming from guys who go to morphicon every year and have pensions
>>11881002Honestly anon no idea why you're defending playmates but this shit is inexcusable. It should be at retail and not funded through this obvious scam from those greedy fucks over at playmates. Why couldn't they bring this to retail? Its complete nonsense and a disservice to the fans that helped built this franchise.
>>11880997The Super Megaforce toyline was pretty damn good. Insane character selection for a one-year line, and those figures were fun to play with because their articulation actually worked unlike Playmates' Reignition Rangers. Both the Automorphin and standard Playmates Rangers have horrible hip joints, and just bad overall range of motion. They are honestly some of the worst figures I've ever handled in terms of poseability. They have joints in the right places so you'd think they should be able to pose well, but they're so poorly engineered that they're horribly unfun to articulate.
>>11881005>Why couldn't they bring this to retail?No store wanted it.
>>11881002>completely acceptable once it has the battlemode faceThe legs can't even straighten out for BM. And BM is really the perfect abbreviation for this thing, because it looks like total shit.
>>11881002>The whole muh $50 is too expensive is funny coming from guys who go to morphicon every year and have pensionsJust because people can afford something doesn't negate their ability to feel something is overpriced for what it is. Playmates' Tyrannosaurus Dinozord is a $20 toy which both looks better and is larger than this Dragonzord. What about this Dragonzord warrants a 150% price hike over the Tyrannosaurus?
>>11881023then buy the old toy>>11881029why do you incels cry about this shit when theres plenty of older dragonzord toys you can buy?
>>11881002>Its fine, completely acceptable once it has the battlemode faceDisagree, the thing can't even transform the arms correctly, something my old DX toy can totally do. They changed that for a rocket punch gimmick because they want this toy to be more appealing to kids, but that gets invalidated by it being a kickstarter. Also it looks terrible even when compared to the dinozords of the very same line. It looks cheap, small, and has the worst proportions of any Dragonzord ever released. I'm just glad I'm not a PR collector and I'm happy with my old DX and the SoC, but still hurts seeing robot designs from my childhood getting this treatment.And the sad thing is that it's totally going to be funded. Expect more cheap crap from playmates in the future, that's what having no standards gets you.
>>11881034>And the sad thing is that it's totally going to be funded.If that leads to Titanus, then good.
>>11881034The retail line is good zord wise what are you even talking about?
>>11881011those sculpts look awful man, they look way too squat and wide.
>>11881033Because they’re poorfags. Power rangers fan tale as old as time.
>>11880891Pretty much confirms Ninja Megazord + Falconzord and Auto-Morphin figures of the rangers in their ninja outfits. I guess Season 3 Morpher, Rito, Master Vile, Tengas, Kat variant of MMPR Pink are all on the table.
>>11881108It'll be so nice to have a Ninja MegaFalconzord that actually stays together, unlike the Legacy one.
>>11881108Yup and shogun for kickstarter if DZ fundsI can imagine 70-80 for that one
>>11881111Yeah, Shogun Zords, Batle Borgs and Alien Rangers figures for kickstarter.
>>11881114Why not just save that stuff for year 4?
>>11881116It's possible since the season 3 stuff COULD be split for 2 years. Honestly, I'd prefer it that way,
>>11881116Because they have to test non MMPR zords.
>>11881121Shogun is MMPR.
>>11880961That is the subject autist
>>11881123No its not. The topic was that the toyline is selling well. And it is. Then you suddenly shift to the toys' quality.
>>11881122Right but they have to start Zeo sooner than later to see if the non mmpr will sell.Shogun does not fit the cadence. Thrre is no Walmart exclusive if S3 gets a second year because falcon will be year 1. Meanwhile Zeo had red battle zord.
>>11881130So maybe they do a year--GASP!--without a Walmart exclusive.I'm really getting sick of everyone sucking their dick anyway.
>>11881133Well there’s ninjor but walmart is adamant about exclusive product if you want them to sell it.
>>11881135Well fuck them.Hrm. Maybe Titanus. Ha ha, no.
>>11881133Yet you're always first in line
>>11881125>And it is.Which it is not
>>11881146>>11880890It is.
>>11881148You're very gullible. It is not.
>>11881149Right, because a major corporation is allowed to lie about things like that.
>>11881154are you fucking stupid?
>>11881159No, but clearly you are.
>>11881154
>>11881034>And the sad thing is that it's totally going to be funded. Expect more cheap crap from playmates in the future, that's what having no standards gets you.What I don't understand is why Dragonzord is so much worse compared to the others. The Dinozords and combined Megazord look fine. The Tigerzord is unfortunately undersized, but it looks very good on it's own, taking a lot of inspiration from the Legacy. The Thunder Megazord has always been a difficult design and the Playmates version isn't the best execution of it, but it's serviceable for what it is. Dragonzord looks like it was made by a completely different team of people who had no idea what they were doing. So many WTF choices.
>>11881183Its an early model, you know. We'll see the final one in a few weeks.
>>11880891>active development of Season 3Where's the anon who's been wishing for Rito? If they follow suit with 2 villains to launch the season 3 line I have to imagine it would Rito and Tengas.
>>11881195I want Rito. Very much. And Master Vile if they're being thorough.
I mean we got goldar and rita, it would make sense if we got Vile and Rito
>>11880885Outsider here, why do they need to kickstart a megazord? It doesn't look particularly complicated and they're selling it for only $50. Also, why do they think it's a good idea to advertise it like THIS?
>>11881211Stores refused to stock it.And that hole won't be there when it comes out.
>>11881154>because a major corporation is allowed to lie about things like that.They do it all the time broski
>>11881211Losing Toys R Us really hurt toy companies.
>>11881218Pretty much this. Every other store always tries to find ways to get rid of toys or make it so it's only baby slop on the shelves. We are not in a toy friendly world anymore.
>>11881211Because walmart has a planogram for their shelves and the Dragonzord lost out to another competitor in the same price point because there item fit the shelving better. This is why the zords were shrunk down for S2 because white tiger is the perfect price and size that walmart wants.
>>11880897>>11880893>>11880890They got paid because they sold the toys to stores. The problem is they didn't sell at stores, which limits future profitability for the line. Which is why some stuff got canceled. But right now they are flush from early wave cash. The problem is...where do they go after?
>>11881185>Its an early model, you know. We'll see the final one in a few weeks.You're setting yourself up for disappointment. That thing needs a total rework and that isn't going to happen.
>>11881214Then please, good Anon, pray tell us how a line thats now going into its third year is a failure.
>>11881224>This is why the zords were shrunk down for S2 because white tiger is the perfect price and size that walmart wants.It horrifies me if retailers have this much control on toy design
>>11881268Welcome to, oh, about 20 or 30 years ago.
>>11881270>Boco trying to act like he knows anything
>>11881036>If that leads to Titanus, then good.I can't even imagine how shit Titanus will be if they follow the same design philosophy as the Dragonzord.
>>11881276Hey, look up what Transformers has had to put up with.
>>11881012If no store wants an MMPR Dragonzord, how exactly will this line continue once it has to move past MMPR for toys?
>>11881266How are you so stupid? It's backed by Hasbro. They're not going to let it dry up after wasting money on the IP.
>>11881279Smaller zords.
>>11881282The scale autism is going to hit high gear once people get all these zords sit around next to each other and the sizes don't scale properly
>>11881288I mean they're already trying to claim a shitty line like this is selling. They'll go along with anything else that shits in their mouth.
>>11881299If it wasn't selling how is it in its third year?
>>11881303What are you talking about? You already got BTFO'd: >>11881281
>>11881306Yeah, that makes total sense. Hasbro wasting money on a line they never wanted.
>>11881308Works for Star Wars
>>11881312Well, that was actually worth having, once upon a time.
>>11881221not enough retards having kids is the real problem. if you retards over 30 were just buying this shit for your 6 kids it wouldn't be in dire straights.
>>11881224I heard they didn't wanna sell the Dragonzord for a higher price.
>>11881195>>11881198>>11881209I would love for Rito, a Tenga Warrior, and if I really want to be crazy, Master Vile, to be among the Season 3 alien figures, but at this rate I'm fully expecting the wave to be Zedd, Rita, Goldar, and Baboo.
>>11881385The Dragonzord would've been smaller to fit the price range Walmart wanted. Playmates did pretty well with Tigerzord.
An advantage of the $19.99 price for each potential Shogunzord means that they could potentially be bigger than the original toys and possibly better articulated. Maybe.
>>11881011I'm forever asshurt they cancelled the Lauren figure in this line for a second Jayden AND they cancelled the Dino Thunder Black figure they were preparing to release in the Good vs Evil sets.
>>11880890>>11880891>We're going all in on Power Rangers because it's all we have leftPlaymates days are numbered.
The issue with this Dragonzord is the same one that fucked the Legacy Dragonzord. The company clearly didn't think ahead or believe a Dragonzord was going to happen. Now that they have to make one, they're realizing how hard it is to cut corners on it but unlike the Legacy one, they don't have a big distributor like TRU or Amazon to eat the price of R&D. No amount of fans are going to pay the actual price to get something more than halfway decent.
I want Bandai back...
>>11881422I want good third party figures instead
>>11881422We never got Legacy Shogun Megazord...Playmates is so close to that now.
>>11881410I don't think there was a canceled Lauren, just people at the time assuming the leak of a second Samurai Red would be her. It does aggravate me too though that they went with a second Jayden instead of her. Especially considering Lauren never had a figure released in the US during Samurai, so it would have been Bandai's chance to right that wrong. Unfortunately they were too afraid to have a single girl among the 20 male Red Rangers.Dino Thunder Black I do remember in a leak though, and I was super disappointed when it didn't come to pass. Really annoys me having every other Tommy in that scale and style, even the movie suit, but not Dino Thunder. If Bandai were smart they would have included Dino Thunder Black in the Super Megaforce line in place of MMPR White, which was a redundant figure thanks to the better painted Legacy version.
>>11881414Yeah they're putting all their eggs on the Titanic
>Super Sentai dead>Power Rangers reboot dead >Only thing left is a webseries (made with AI effects and basically a cheap ad for the toyline) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYriKbvrSvg I guess we still have the comics...
Why is this even a thread? This series is cooked, burnt, and thrown out.
>>11881682>why is there even a thread about an ongoing toyline on /toy/?
>ongoing toyline
>>11881689>products being released currently>next year's products in active developmentYeah, that's what ongoing means.
>>11881691wow the same sloppy shit from 30 years ago, fucking retard boomer glupping down the same slop, yum yum yum good little piggie
>>11881034Weirdly, this might be one of the few times when listening to complaints is necessary. Since this is not really a kids toy this time around, no kids know what the fuck 35 year old Dragonzord is or care. This thing is pretty much only going to be sought after by collectors and long time fans, basically the kinds of people that will take time out of their day to bitch and moan about the accuracy of hands. The genuine target for this product actually are the nit-picky fucks that demands ridiculous accuracy.
>>11881625>>11881682This is why I wonder why multiple companies still bother making new merchandise for the oldest incarnation of Power Rangers from 33 years ago. Then try to pretend they are marketing it to kids.Pretty much the entire toy aisles in Walmart and Target consist of nostalgia driven shit for guys who bought stuff in the late 80s-early 90s. MOTU somewhat reissues, TMNT reissues, Power Rangers reissues, just a few years ago they had Ghostbusters stuff. Not really much for kids, or anything most kids have heard of at all. It's just collector and scalper bait.
>>11881704Cause the designs are still cool. Same reason they marketed Star Wars movies from the 70s to kids in the 90s, and even now. The irony is a lot of 2000s series dated themselves more by choosing to make morphers cell phones or basing them offf fads or tech from their era. The Dinozords are timeless and young kids will always love Dinos. The morpher looks like its own thing, not tech of its era
>>11881710>Star Wars movies from the 70s to kids in the 90s, and even now.no child gives a fuck about star wars and if they do its lego star wars that sells you stupid fucking boomer
>>11881700Reminder that linkara is precisely 1% less autistic than chris
>>11881717linkara didnt fuck his mom, you sex obsessed weirdo
>>11881700Imagine thinking someone is picky for asking a product to look and work the way it should instead of being cheaply made garbage. It's a transforming toy that can't even do that correctly when the original 30+ years old design could. Any normal person would criticize all the issues it has. What's not normal is trying to excuse a bad product like you're on playmates payroll.
>>11881738>VOLTAGE VENGERS WILL RELEASE WHEN IT RELEASES>STOP ASKINGyou incels really lack all self awareness
>>11881739>Acting smug for having zero standardsNot everyone is used to eating shit and being thankful for it like you do, anon.
>>11881741>listen here bucko. Power rangers was a kick ass brand back in the day that'd definitely be the talk of the town any which way of the week, and the fact that you do not like it anymore just proves you have become a boring, soulless plebeian. You probably grew up, got a dull job, and decided that you were too sophisticated for giant robots and colorful heroes. By turning your back on the morphing grid, you have traded pure joy for a miserable life of pretending to be an adult. Your lack of appreciation for this legendary show means you have completely lost your inner child and your sense of fun.Growing out of Power Rangers is the ultimate sign of a basic, unrefined mind that completely misunderstands great entertainment. You think you are fancy now because you watch serious movies or read heavy books, but you are just hiding the fact that you lack imagination. It takes a true person of culture to appreciate the genius of combining high-energy martial arts with giant mechanical dinosaurs. Instead, you choose to be part of the ordinary crowd, blending into the background like a mindless putty monster while the real heroes save the day.Your rejection of the franchise shows that you have forgotten what it means to feel excitement. You used to understand the thrill of running around the backyard and pretending to save the world with your friends. Now, you sit there looking down your nose at a multi-billion-dollar global phenomenon that shaped an entire generation of pop culture. You have abandoned the lessons of teamwork, courage, and awesome rock-and-roll guitar solos just to fit into a world of boring grown-ups who do not know how to have a good time.
>>11881694Go seethe in the corner
Why do you guys keep forgetting they’re airing MMPR on YouTube? Thats how kids will know what it is. Must be working too, since Playmates says the role play stuff is selling best.
>children care about mmpr you heckin chuddiesprove it
>>11881746>Thats how kids will know what it ischildren only know about mmpr because of memes and references, they haven't and do not care about watching old media and see it as boomer slop
>>11880885this looks like dollar store garbage how tf is the kickstarter so successful
>>11881754because power ranger fags have brain damage and have to CONSOME and not ask questions, pretty much every nerd hobby like RLM pointed out years ago
>>11881748Why? You'd just stick your fingers in your ears and go "La la la la"
>>11881766>Power rangers is almost entirely millennial parents pushing their own nostalgia onto their children. Today's kids do not naturally search for or become obsessed with 30-year-old live-action shows on their own.When you look under the hood of how kids actually interact with MMPR today, the reality splits into a few clear truths: It is a "Parent-Driven" HobbyThe Gatekeepers: If a child today is wearing a classic MMPR shirt or playing with a 1993 Megazord, it is almost always because their parent bought it for them.Lack of Awareness: Teachers and camp counsellors frequently note that the average school-aged child today has no idea what Power Rangers is unless their mum or dad is a dedicated fan.The Nostalgia Market: Toy companies like Playmates and Hasbro heavily focus their classic MMPR merchandise on adult collectors with disposable income, not modern children. Kids Like the Formula, Not the Specific EraMalleable Audiences: Young children are easily entertained. If a parent sits a 6-year-old down to watch MMPR, the child will often genuinely enjoy it because kids naturally love superheroes, monsters, and giant robots.No Staying Power: While a child might have fun watching an episode with a parent, they rarely form a deep, independent obsession with it. Once the TV turns off, they usually go right back to modern phenomena like Bluey, TikTok, or YouTube gaming channels.
>>11880927It looks really disproportionately cheap.Like it's from a different line than the others.
>>11881754Because the boat is missed every time, people missed out on Legacy, new people missed out on SOC and then people probably deliberately missed out on ZAP because the deco and plastic was weird. Now its pretty much this is last big chance for 10 years to get a DZ at retail price and not 200+ the other half is your Dinozords are incomplete if you have the Re-ignition zords now. That and in the mainstay of things for collectors and adults with money. $50 dollars is nothing in toy buying. Thats what two marvel legends?
>>11881790Also, compared to Legacy the stability and sturdiness of Reignition is lightyears ahead.
>>11881790>>11881793>thats what two chunky little marvel legends?1/12 fags really do have a mental illnes if they measure everything with crappy capeslop action figures
>>11881803Power Rangers is just Capeslop, Japan (America)
>>11881809Its cringey and shit and isn't doing anything new, just rehashed leftovers
>>11881803Hey, don't look at me, I don't buy comic toys. Just Transformers, TMNT, PR...
>>11881811Alright then the DZ is 2 deluxe Tf’s or 10 dollars less than a leader.
>>11881813Sadly, yes. But hey, compared to my TF spending 50 bucks is nothing.
>>11881816And thats the main point proven, to the average non casual adult toy buyer. $50 dollars is a drop in the bucket.
>>11881784Most likely made by a completely different team who probably used the original toy as a reference.
>>11881746I'm sure they're making a lot of money off of those 48 people.
>>11881846Thats the old show, not Reignition.
>>11881859who the fuck cares about this dead brand besides fucking losers on discord and boomers
>>11881863Playmates certainly does otherwise the Reignition line would’ve died with season 1.
>>11881875playmates needs something after losing tmnt, retard>otherwise bub reignition wouldnt be continuing to kicking ass on shelvesdragonzord is a kickstarter lmao theres no faith in the brand its just fulfilling an obligation to make slop for hasbro
>>11881023>big screw hole right on the side of dragonzords facelmao
>>11881887Do you really need to be so hostile?If TRU was still around, Dragonzord would’ve been released with no issues. The remaining retailers simply didn’t want Dragonzord. Tigerzord had to be shrunk down so Walmart would take it.
>>11881901That won't be there.
>>11881945this remake slop is exactly why tru died in the west
>>11881034Still kills me that the SoCs arms are so fragile. I actually broke mine, was pretty devastated by it tbqh. However, I found out it was a common issue and discovered someone made replacement parts and I was able to repair mine. Later ended up finding 3Dprint files for the replacement parts. I have my own printer so now I can just make my own parts if the other arm breaks or something.
>>11881955Well, actually it was a mix of massive debt and Amazon.
>>11881964Bane Capital.
>>11881952>That won't be there.Then they need to stop showing it in every single picture of this thing they are showing off. It looks bad on its own, the the hole in the face just doubles down on the awfulness.
>>11881985They won't have the new model to show off for a few more weeks.
>>11881988Not my problem. Its their problem. Most people dont know "it wont be there" on release, and will just laugh at it and leave.
>>11881996Anon they literally say this is not the final build, the FAQ says no screw hole in the snout. this is a crowd fund you typically get to see the development process. you're just as bad as the fags that cry about the people taking the pics not putting the shoulders up on the mastodon.
>>11882047>blah blah blah blahI already said it. People will see the pictures, and immediately leave because of how bad it looks. They will not look further into the project to find out it wont be there on release.
>>11882054Who gives a shit? it'll be funded by monday.
It really is the most serviceable ok as display thing but I like it and surprised the price is kept this low. I ended up assembling the full dairen-oh. Doubt we're getting Tor and I gotta find the tiger zord.
>>11881845>probably used the original toy as a reference.If they used the original toy as a reference it wouldn't be so much worse than the original toy in every possible way.
>>11882153The legs and the tail being shaped the way they are implies that the reference they used was the old DX toy. By shaped I mean the stiff and straight legs and the stubby tail. >worseProbably by a completely different team that had no idea what they were doing except being told: "do a cheaper-looking version of this reference"
>>11882165By "reference" I mean just some pictures.
>>11880885wow I'm really just gonna have to get into 3d printing huh
>>11882178That would look clean as fuck if you resin printed it.
>>11882138Tigerzord is pretty good especially if you missed out on Legacy.
>>11882247the creator has special instructions for resin printing it, mostly around thickening up joint areas.Can you resin print in color yet? A bunch of people have hand painted these after print and they look super great with just that having been done, the paint fills in a lot of the print lines too.
>>11882257Do you mean multicolour resin printing? I don't think that's possible at all given how resin printing works.
>>11882260yeah that's effort then....
>>11882264You'd just print the different coloured parts separately and then assemble it like gunpla.
>>11882260>>11882264actually no I don't,. each of those 3d printed pieces is just tagged to one color of filament. It doesn't print in different colors per piece.
>>11882269>>11882270damn i was 7 seconds too late in my realization of what you meant.I suppose it is the better option to just go full resin out the gate then
>>11882271You could do it in FDM as multicolour, it'll just have a lot of layer lines that you'll cover up with paint or filler. I imagine given the little bits of detail present, you'd want to go with resin just to preserve that.
>>11881754The best part is, everyone buying it already own at least three other Dragonzords.
>>11881754>>11881755>>11881790Saw a youtube video slamming the thing and one of the comments was like "well uh what do you expect me to buy all the other stuff is SO EXPENSIVE".
>>11881352Why would we need to have kids when we can just import more brown people to keep the population growing?
>>11881218Mitt Romney fucked us all.
>>11882396I don't get that mindset. If they own 3 better Dragonzords...why buy this one? Are they insane?
>>11882696Look at retards like Boco in this thread. You know the answer to that.
>>11882696Simple>if I buy this piece of shit, I may get something else I MAY like later down the lineThey've basically cucked you into enjoying things
>>11882696I bought their Playmates Megazord cause big. Might as well get the Dragonzord it combines with. I own every combining Dino Megazord except the SMP, Flametoys, and the shitty ZAP. That said I haven't backed the Dragonzord yet, but I most likely will.
>>11882696This one is more in line with the original that it’s a plastic toy unlike the other ones that are collectors items or a 34 year old toy. It’s also the cheapest of the bunch at the moment.
>>11882708>cause bigThis too. I really hope they make the Shogun Megazord too.
>>11882708>>11882713>cause bigHave you considered McFarlane Toys lines to collect as well? He has a lot of BIG figures. MEGA figures even.
>>11882721All I want are decent and big representation of the old zords that won’t break the bank.
>>11881694That's half the toy industry now anon. Until private equity stops shitting up everything and millenials/gen z can afford to raise children, it's not changing anytime soon.
>>11882696Addiction to spending money
>>11882733>That's half the toy industry now afor americans sure, its why toys r us went bankrupt after all and walmart shrinking their toy aisles
>>11882721The Dino Megazord is supposed to be big, that's why I bought the playmates. That why I also bought the DeAgostini/Fan home Dino Megazord.
>>11882721"Figures".
>>11883123Ok, fair point. I still don't understand how the dumbass who kickstarted the articulation revolution, and who owes a hell of a lot of his success to toys, can pivot so hard into statues all of a sudden like its the most normal thing in the world.
>>11883321Well, lets not exaggerate. Some of his "McFarlane ____" lines had, like, 5 POAs if you're lucky. Like Movie Maniacs.
>>11883325I remember seeing the thing from Antarctica in a Spencer's as a kid, and even back then I knew it was a rip off.
>>11883095Did you get the storage boxes for the magazines? I've been curious what they look like, but can't find any photos.And what's in the magazines, other than instructions?
>>11883427I got the deal that was digital, I only have PDFs. I would have preferred physical, but when I ordered it from Fanhome it wasn't an option at the time. I haven't spent the time to thumb through them cause it's annoying to read PDFs. They just have mini articles about the characters, monsters, zord and random things along episode info with recaps.
>>11882703A year and a half ago everyone in these threads were using this exact logic to keep buying playmates MMPR shit in hopes that they will release something else later on. When people were sick of the constant re-releasing of MMPR over alllllll the other incarnations of Power Rangers.
>>11883693And now we're getting the Zeo Rangers.
>>11883693Well, it seems to be working this time around. >>11883696I'd like to see the Alien Rangers and Lightspeed Rescue released for that line in the future..
>>11881625>I guess we still have the comics...Ehhhhh it's kind of a coin toss if they get renewed at this pointI wouldn't be surprised if the current strategy is to keep it long enough to release compact volumes of the original run and then pull the plug when they have enough/sell as many as they canThe current new canon doesn't feel like it has legs to last (especially given the middling reception both in writing and art) and Unlimited seems to be geared toward giving closure to where the original canon left off as well as reconciling it with the show
>>11884336People seem to like Unlimited. Middle Age Rangers is just dull, and the Green Ranger comic...uh...exists.
>>11883696What I really want is for Reignition to make it to Zeo. If they do, a King Mondo figure is a very real possibility as I imagine the first wave would be him and a Cog. Unless Playmates ramps up the villain production I don't expect to get more than 4 per year, so Gasket and Archerina would be my preferred choices for wave 2. I'd love to get Machina, Sprocket, and Klank/Orbis, but they never actually fought the Rangers, so Gasket and Archerina make more sense to me for action figures if I can only have 4.
Dragonzord is over 375k to it's 400k goal with 24 days to go, so funding seems inevitable. I feel like with the success of it they'll do Titanus as a Kickstarter next year, which will also tie in with the season 3 toys. I just wish Kickstarters could be used to give us more interesting never ever products. There's so much untapped potential for MMPR, yet these companies just keep giving us the same stuff again and again.
>>11884439Because it’s the stuff that sells. Titanus is definitely a good candidate for a future kickstarter campaign.
>>11884449How do they know other shit won't sell if it's never been attempted? The original line, MMPR2010, Legacy, Imaginext, Lightning, Super7, Reignition. Out of all those lines, only Imaginext ever attempted to make a Cyclopsis toy, which didn't get released because Hasbro took over the license. It also would have only been a 2.5" figure. Shit feels like the most no-brainer thing to get a toy, yet no one ever does it!
>>11884472Simple: They aren’t confident that it’d sell.
Some Kickstarter updates.-The Battle Mode face will be included-They're reconsidering the missile hands-The legs will be fixed
>>11884684
>>11884686Just like BoA did with Legacy Dragonzord. I just got Red Dragon and Firebird. The staff is too thick and heavy for Red Dragon to hold it for a long time. Outside of that, Red Dragon looks pretty good in both modes.
5,000 bucks to go
>>11884794Less than 2K now.
Aaaaaand...done. Goal reached.
>>11884698>Just like BoA did with Legacy DragonzordYeah, and that's wrong because the face was never supposed to be inside the mouth. But if the other choice was not even having the face, this is a huge improvement. It's a good strategy, show absolute shit first so the extremely mediocre final product seems perfect in comparison, kek.
>>11880885Do kids like this stuff? Why do toys look so much worse than when I was a kid
>>11885455even better kids can buy the original for a lot cheaper on ebay
>>11885237The face was an odd miss by Bandai for an otherwise great rendition of the Zord. It's my favorite Dragonzord toy in terms of aesthetics, though sadly the functionality of the transformations was ruined by the diecast. Wish Power Rangers had a 3P community making Zord improvements like Transformers gets, because a proper mechanism for the face could be so easily implemented by someone who knows what they're doing, and plastic replacement parts would make the combinations so much better.
>>11885473>. Wish Power Rangers had a 3P communityit'll never happen because theres no market for it and banda is a lot more malicious than hasbro/takara if you ever paid attention to bootlegging campaigns to stop 3P
>>11880910I really hope we finally get a Shogun Megazord remake...
>>11881218I still blame Disney, Hasbro, and Star Wars TLJ for the death of Toys'R'Us.
>>11885488We're VERY close to that now.
>>11885495You're still uninformed about what happened. After Bain Capital, KKR, and Vornado Realty Trust bought the company for $6.6 billion in 2005, Toys R Us ended up with about $5 billion in debt. They had to pay around $400 million in interest each year, which left them with little money to make needed improvements. The company made $11.5 billion in sales in 2016, but its huge debt made it impossible to stay competitive or adapt to market changes.
>>11885575That and Amazon. And Walmart.
Thank you for beta testing
Do i hope we get to non MMPR zordon era zords? Sure do. Will it probably die again after season 3? Probably. Then the cycle repeats until MMPR season can’t sell
>>11885575>>11885609>waaaah it's the big bag companies fault that toys no longer exist in shelvesAmericans have no one else but themselves to blame, the same is happening with video games too is the big bad bain capital for that too? if anything it's the fault of Americans for tolerating this
>don't feel like getting playmates zeo figures bcuz already have all lightning collection onesGuys make sure you buy plenty of them so they make post-zordon ones eventually, k?
>>11885858I think Zeo is likely as long as season 3 sales don't drop off a cliff, but Zeo will very much determine if there are any legs beyond MMPR.
>>11885853I got a lot of these initially but never displayed them and just resold them still sealed, not gonna dip back into it.>>11885873There aren't even any good video games worthy of getting physical copies at this point who cares. Your physical copies are your PC hard drives and if you're somehow still a console fag that's on you.
>>11881011This made me realize I want a Titanium ranger figure. >custom from instagram
>>11886365Probably the best we'll ever get.
>big blotch of paint in the middle of the visor>right arm is loose and the shoulder pauldron won't sit straightEh, even for the price, this thing is pretty disappointing. Don't think this line is for me.
>>11887593The arms are pretty unforgivable. I had to return two different ones before I found one I could live with. There's no reason for there to not be a ratchet in there.
>>11888046Yeah, I thought about doing the same, but I'm just going to write this one off as a loss because I don't feel like going through the effort of getting a good one. Also, the feet popping out every time they need to be rotated for the transformation process is really annoying.
