Really tempted to grab MMPR White off Amazon for $16, but I know once I do, he'll be discounted to $11 like Deka Master. I was set on getting the teams that I want, but now you've reminded me of when I was collecting all the Reds in the SH Figuarts line... *grumbles... This is tempting... At least Hasbro will be able to get them all out there unlike Bandai with their SHF line. Plus, they'd be cheaper too. About 6 SHFs would equal to roughly around 15 LC rangers.
If you have amazon prime, shadow is only $11.19. He's a steal at that price. I started with Tommy and Zedd and then when shadow dropped to $12 I caved in. He's a great figure and I love that his mold is completely different. He looks like an adult if you put him next to Tommy who's supposed to be a teenager and Hasbro is just knocking it out of the park with the articulation on these figures. But I had no clue about the shadow ranger, I just sorta liked his design, but in hand he's just really fun to pose around doing crazy stuff that half of my marvel legends wish they could do.
Wow you already tons of it guys.. Sadly the Lightning Collection will be released here by next year. I think there's an ongoing deal between the current local distributor of Power Rangers and Hasbro toys. Seems like two local distributor can't sell and display same product on toy stores.
With all this news we are getting about Hasbro panels for transformers and star wars, you'd think we would also have something for power rangers too.
Probably waiting to see how the brand does this year before they start scheduling panels for it. Makes sense on one hand... they have to pay to staff those and stuff. On the other hand it sucks as fans as most of the other brands we follow have panels at conventions and thus we get to see stuff coming six months or more in advance sometimes. That said; I wouldn't be surprised if they have panels next year if Power Rangers ends up being as big a cash cow for them as it rightfully should.
No go. They want the box, receipt, etc... and pictures (I threw it out already after it was trashed). Thanks for the siggestion, though. It was worth a shot
Oh boy, as part of my ongoing quest to collect a near perfect set of Abaranger mecha, I encountered the horrible clips on my first Ohja Max (I’m kitbashing 2 to make a perfect copy) they’re the flimsiest most awfully designed clips ever! Thankfully I got a friend making casts to make sturdier replacement parts.
Crazy thing is, despite playing it conservatively, Hasbro's managed to outclass BoA pretty substantially in the 6"+ figure realm out the gate. I'm surprised we already got Goldar and a Putty out and it hasn't even been a year.
Agreed, the Lightning Collection has already out classed the Legacy line and it hasn't even been out a year yet. The fact that they've already committed to villains outside of the easy retooled Psycho Rangers is amazing. Especially when you consider the unique tooling on Zedd and Goldar that may not be easily reusable.
I'm always reminded of how BoA made some excuses not to include signature weapons initially nor make villains. In another cool move, the articulation scheme Hasbro came up with is pretty good, providing plenty of range aside from the chest armored figures. Range of motion has been increasingly important to me in recent years. Another reason why I don't regret passing on most Sentai Figuarts any longer nor passing on all but 2 Legacy figures(which I'm not planning to keep anymore). Hasbro also has very easy ways to make the following as exclusives too, assuming they have the rights... Kakuranger Ninja White Tsuruhime in Kakuranger costume and ninja costume Zyuranger Tiger Ranger(Boi) I can easily see those as con or Walgreens exclusives since they'd be mere repaints
I only have the two Tommys, Zedd, Putties, and (tomorrow) Goldar..... but you can see some major pluses and minuses for both legacy and lightning. The legacy figures have WAY better morphers. You can make out the coins. They're sculpted to stick out a bit. The lightning figures barely stick out of the belt and are underdetailed (comparably). Similarly, the weapons for the rangers who got weapons in the legacy line (the original five in the pearlescent plastic and the green/white rangers) are better. The weapons for legacy are somewhat undersized, softer, and less detailed. At least, that's the case for Saba and the Dragon Dagger. The helmet sculpts are sharper too. This is especially noticeable in the superior chest armors of the white and green rangers. Esp. as the soft plastic for the green ranger rides up and is a little narrow on the shoulders. But the lightning collection has some tone to the paint, not just a bright/even application. The costumes and builds feel more like an actual ranger - even with sculpted wrinkles. The legacy figures are too toy-etic. Perfectly smooth, symmetrical, perfect muscles. Hard plastic. No shading or tones. The legacy figures also have decent articulation but can't hold a candle to the newer line's butterfly hinged and such. Nevermind the lightning accessories - effects, alternate heads, swappable weapon hands for a putty. Incredible amounts of thought put in. I may wind up just keeping both. Pluses and minuses abound for each.
Counterpoint: The Lightning collection ranger weapons actually combine, and lord knows we’ll probably get a redone chest armor at some point later for a exclusive rerelease of Green or something.
Still gotta figure out what to do with my spare. Debating between selling him or making another full gold repaint
