Reviews: Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Villain Stone Dozer

 Stonedozer! He was trying to wreck Levi's concert but that didn't happen, honestly it's been too long for me to remember the episode but this was the first episode where they fight a MotW together as a team of 6 rangers! He puts up a fight, or at least I thought he did. I watched the clips and he is kind of just pushed around, that's with the lack on context of course but I thought he did a lot more than just run around and get hit by Levi and Brody. Let's move onto the toy!

Reviews: Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Training Mode Red, Yellow. and Pink

 Ninja Training mode is probably one of the best things to come out of the Ninja Steel line since it means Ranger suit-less versions of our heroes, unfortunately, much like the armored Ranger and Zord figures, only half of the team was released. These do appear in the show and they do fight in this mode and it isn't just part of the morphing sequence. It is a shame that Preston, Hayley and Levi weren't released but we must hold out hope!

Review: Power Rangers (Super) Ninja Steel - Action Hero Gold Ranger

 Levi Weston! Yehaw! The Gold Ranger in Power Rangers Ninja Steel who was saved from the Warrior Dome Ship by the Astro Zord. There's more to it but I won't go into any further details for now. He does however, have a modified Morpher which is slightly remolded and repainted. He still uses the Burger morpher to take selfies. As for the figure, he doesn't come with either of those accessories but he does have the Rockstorm Guitar!

Review: Shuriken Sentai Ninninger - Mini Pla Paonmaru

 A little but I'm busy, I have a job that allows me to stay home for 5 hours total (not counting sleep) but I have a good time for the most part. Mini Pla Paonmaru! I've wanted Mini Pla for a while and I'm pretty happy with what I've been seeing, I got a pack of 12 (?) which came with an extra Shurikenjin, 2 Paonmaru, 2 UFOmaru and 3 Surfermaru. You have to put them together and detail them with stickers but, for me, no stickers!

Review: Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Armored Rumble Tusk Zord

The Rumble Tusk Zord! Which is the main (or at least one of) reason why I got the other Armored figures. It's basically the Rumble Tusk Zord but with a lot more articulation. It doesn't turn into an elephant but he is his battle mode with the cannons on the shoulder. It might have taken me a while to get this figure but here it is! And honestly, it isn't disappointing, I'm pleased.

Review: Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Ninja Master Mode Red, Blue, Yellow, White, and Pink

Finally the Ninja Master Mode figures, much like the last set of figures, this review is late! Mostly because I just recently got back from Orlando, it was a nice vacation but once I returned I had a lot to do. Either way, I also finally got Ninja Master Mode Yellow after two attempts, my first one I ordered off of Ebay but the seller sent me the wrong figure so now I have 3 Calvins... I don't need that many, and on my second attempt, he didn't get to me until after I got back from vacation of Wednesday night. Still, I really like these figures, and they definitely look better than the armored ones. They're another way for Bandai to make extra money since more modes means more figures that collectors have to buy... like me! Are they worth it? Let's find out!

Review - Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Villain Skullgator

After Spinferno's defeat, he didn't get much of a cheer from Galaxy Warriors audience so he didn't "Gigantify!" Instead Cosmo released the first Skullgator! This isn't any kind of monster, this is a GIANT monster. Already Megazord size and ready to kick ranger butt! In Ninninger this was a Kyodai Yokai Gashadokuro (巨大妖怪ガシャドクロ) or a Giant Yokai "Starving Skeleton." Gashadokuro are really interesting to me, I love the artwork and they always look very creepy in the paintings. And since I have a thing for miniatures and things that tower over everything else, I like the giant Skeleton art. The design for this particular monster is very edgy, and I mean that in a good way, if I had seen this design without knowing the Sentai roots, I wouldn't have known it was in Ninninger because of the "dark" design. I also... got two of these... for reasons! I was very excited to get this and there are a couple things I want to talk about regarding the prototype.

Review: Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Spinferno (Legacy Collection Good vs. Evil: Yellow Ranger vs. Spinferno)

Spinferno was supposed to get a standard release but it didn't and ended up with Calvin the Yellow Ranger in a two pack for Good vs. Evil so now I have an extra Yellow Ranger. Spinferno was from episode 3, in which Brody loses his Datacom, Victor and Monty find it and try to fight Spinferno with it and fail and the Datacom gets damaged during the fight. The rangers fight together afterwards, Calvin races Spinferno in order to trap him afterwards. They destroy him but he doesn't grow since he didn't get enough cheer so instead Skullgators are sent. He also appears in the Halloween special along with Trapsaw. In Ninninger, Yokai Kasha (妖怪カシャ) was created from a pair of roller-skates, In that episode Nagi is the focus where he needs to apply the skills rather than just study. When they fight Yokai Kasha, Gabi Raizo intervenes and destroys him (which is why he doesn't grow). He does appear later on as a part of a midterm final which was a VR fight against him. 

Review: Mighty Morphin Bootleg Rangers - Super Dino Force! Red, Black, and Green!

This looks familiar...

As you know and may have seen from my Instagram, I have bought a couple bootlegs and on my way to search for a certain set I ran into these! Super Dino Force! Which are knock-offs of Power Rangers Dino Charge or Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. I honestly didn't expect to see these and I don't know why I'm getting them in the first place, they're not any different from the others and they don't even have more articulation. They're still from JWP International or OKK Toys just repainted, no more articulation or gimmicks or details.

Review: Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Armored Dragon Zord

 The Dragon Zord! One of the humanoid shaped (kinda) zords out of the main 5. I was very back and forth when I was getting this figure, TRU had plenty of him and Robo-Red Zord but I didn't act fast enough and he was gone. After a month or two I found him at a different TRU so I decided to get him. Is he really worth getting? Well... Yes and no, there are some good things about this figure and some not so great things but that's all opinion.

Review: Power Rangers Ninja Steel - Armored Robo-Red Zord

Ninja Steel Zords! Out of the shadows!

Robo Red Zord! Who's design I'm a big fan of. Otomonin Shinobimaru was a funny fella, he had more of a personality in Ninninger, however! In Ninja Steel he was shrunken and remolded! Yes! They repurposed the suit and turned it into an Alpha 5 or DATAS type character. It uses pretty much, most of the suit minus the chest piece and the head (There might be more). It's disappointing that Redbot wasn't a figure in the 5" line but this is good enough. While I didn't get Robo Red Zord for being Redbot, I got him because I wanted an articulated version of the Robo Red Zord from the Megazord that doesn't have a fist between the legs. 

Whoever put him in the package at amazon damaged the toy packaging...

Review: Power Rangers Ninja Steel - 5" Villain Ripperat (Trapsaw)

Episode 2! Is the first episode in which they use Japanese footage from Ninninger. Ripperat is the second MoTW in the U.S. and the first one that they fight together as a team! In Ninninger, Yokai Kamaitachi (妖怪カマイタチ) was the very first MoTW, they split the footage from the first episode and used the first half of the fight for the first episode and the second part of the fight for the tenth episode where Kamaitachi returns as Trapsaw, Ripperat's twin brother. I'm not sure why they decided to do that, split Ninninger episode 1 into two. Ripperat just ends up being destroyed in a really awkward edit and Trapsaw just uses the second part of the fight with Kamaitachi when Shurikenjin is combined. I guess it slowly adds on? Episode one shows the morph and weapons, two shows the individual Zords and episode three combines the Megazord together. Kamaitachi means the "Sickle Weasel" which is pretty cool.

Review: Power Rangers (Super) Ninja Steel - 5" Red, Blue, Yellow, White, Pink Action Heroes

Power Rangers Ninja Steel or Super Steel is the 24th and 25th season for the Power Rangers franchise based on Super Sentai's 34th season Shuriken Sentai Ninninger. I've just recently started watching the show and so far, it's okay. Not the best season in my opinion based on the 3-4 episodes that I watched. It seems very kiddie, and not in the best of ways. The acting is eh and the lessons in the show are executed in a very lazy way. As for Ninninger, I loved that season, it was a lot better than I thought it would be. The theme song for Ninja Steel is pretty nice, you do have Japanese instruments mixed in. Also, Victor Vincent and Monty are really annoying characters.