Review: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers - Bandai of America Legacy Collection Armored Red Ranger (GameStop Exclusive)

The last release from Bandai of America for the Legacy Collection line, the Armored Red Ranger, and honestly, it wasn't very expected. Especially since a bunch of figures were cancelled like the other remaining Psycho Rangers, the Thunder Rangers from Power Rangers Ninja Storm, the Silver Space Ranger, and all of the Ninja Steel Rangers. I guess it wasn't that surprising since all of these parts are re-used but it's not a bad figure considering that the two figures used to make this were pretty good on their own. The two being the Red and Green Mighty Morphin Rangers from the first wave. I had pre-ordered, him on the GameStop website when he was listed, thanks to Tokunation for letting me know (I just check the website regularly). I didn't end up getting the online order but I did buy it in store since I saw it there before my pre-order shipped so that's lame when you pay extra to get the figure shipping when it re-releases. Either way, let's get to the figure.

Review: Power Rangers S.P.D. - Hasbro Lightning Collection S.P.D. Shadow Ranger

Power Rangers S.P.D. was one of the few seasons I remember watching from beginning to end. I loved the theme songs and the designs of the helmets and suits. It used footage from the Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, the 28th season of Super Sentai. I also thought that Anubis "Doggie" Cruger had a pretty cool design, and he actually had a much better design over his Sentai counterpart, Doggie Kruger, whose design I'm getting more and more used to. It was also the first season I actively tried to complete a team... and that never happened. I did get the S.W.A.T. mode of the Shadow Ranger and I still have him somewhere over there. Seeing that he was going to be a part of the  Lightning Collection I was excited especially after all of the Dekarangers were released as Figuarts and the S.W.A.T modes were revealed but never released which was very sad. This was one of the two figures I was able to find in stores along with the White Ranger. While Shadow Ranger is a pretty cool name I think Dekamaster is much cooler.

Review: Power Rangers Dino Thunder - Bandai of America Legacy Collection Build-a-Megazord Thundersaurus Megazord // Red, Blue, Yellow, Black, White Dino Rangers

 Once I moved to the states I started watching Power Rangers Dino Thunder and I was excited, another Dinosaur team which I thought had better and more streamlined designs for their suits. It was based of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger which was the 27th season for the Super Sentai Series. They kept the diamond motif, they kept the main three dinosaurs that they had in Zyuranger and two kept the same color. I really liked the white outline for the visor and the more stylized "jaws" that the visor shape kept. The lack of silver lip piece is much appreciated. I did find it interesting that they decided to reuse the white diamond pattern that Zyuranger had. I thought the dino footprint design on the chest was pretty cool and back then I did think that this was the superior dinosaur design but now it's pretty hard to choose. I'm not sure which one I like more, both are so similar yet so different. Initially, the Red, Blue, and Black Dino Rangers were released before Hasbro acquired the rights to Power Rangers. They weren't hard to find, I found them easily along with all of the male Zeo Rangers. White and Yellow... didn't have the same luck. The female Zeo Rangers shipped in August of last year and there was almost no trace of the Yellow or White Dino Rangers. At one point the White Dino Ranger did show up at Walgreens so Yellow was left... that was until the Legacy Collection had a very sudden re-release of all of the previous, current, and remaining waves so I nabbed it!

Review: Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Bandai of America Legacy Collection Build-a-Megazord Storm Megazord // Red, Yellow, Blue Wind Rangers

Power Rangers Ninja Storm was the last season I saw before I moved to the United States and every other season I watched was in English. It was right after Wild Force had come out and I loved that season, especially since Lions and Red were two of my favorite things so you know it is. I did think that the theme song was a little strange and different from what came before. It was also an interesting season in which the wirework and CG was funky but I didn't care, I was 7. I did have a couple toys that my dad had sent from the U.S. but no transforming mecha, I had a big zord where you could put a Red Ranger that came with it and I loved it! Unfortunately, earlier this year Pua Magasiva passed away. This was also the first full team to be released by Bandai in the Lightning Collection line and the only set of three rangers to build a Megazord. Although Dino Thunder was a team of three they used all five of the rangers to build that Megazord. Power Rangers Ninja Storm was based off of Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger from the Super Sentai Series in Japan.

Review: Power Rangers in Space - Bandai of America Legacy Collection Psycho Red, Black, and Blue Rangers

One thing I wish Legacy Collection had more of would be villains, yes the Green Ranger was a villain for a little bit in the show but that doesn't really count. The closest we got to it were the Psycho Rangers. That was something I remember from the show, I remember really liking their faces, very alien looking, there was also the Silver Psycho Ranger which was created for Power Rangers In Space. In Denji Sentai Megaranger they were Jaden Sentai Nejiranger or "Evil Electricity Squadron Nejiranger" which explains why they have an "N" on their belts. Unfortunately we didn't get Psycho Pink and Yellow but we got Psycho Silver and Green which were exclusives. It should be easy to customize Pink and Yellow but more on that later.

Review: Power Rangers In Space - Bandai of America Legacy Collection Build-a-Megazord Astro Megazord // Space Red, Black, Blue, Yellow, Pink

Power Rangers in Space was one of my favorite suit designs I had seen. Although they look pretty simple, white boots, long cuffed gloves, simple suit design with the colors of the rangers on the chest and the white along the shoulders I loved them! Even the helmet which was one of my favorite then, the visor with the circle up top and the silver mouthplate made them look "alien," which made sense because they're "in Space." They're based off Denji Sentai Megaranger which was actually a video game themed season. I think it works really well and it was weird having a Megazord that wasn't composed out of 5 different vehicles or machines, the entire ship was the Megazord. I did skip out on this part of the line, and honestly I regretted it. I saw them at Wal-Mart and passed, then at FYE and considered but the $27.99 per figure scared me off thankfully. I waited until they re-released in order for me to finally get them. I ordered the Red Ranger at the store but they gave me Mighty Morphin' Red so I had to go back and exchange him only to find out that all action figures were 25% off and I did try to get that deal but they didn't follow through with it unfortunately... Let's get to it...

Review: Power Rangers Zeo - Bandai of America Legacy Collection Gold Ranger

Even though Jason left the team in season 2 of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers he came back for Power Rangers Zeo as the Gold Ranger. In Choriki Sentai Ohranger, Kingranger was a kid and the symbol on his face is the kanji for king (王) which they use to represent the number 6. Ever since the Green Ranger or Dragonranger the design for the 6th ranger has been pretty standard. It's a different color with little to no aesthetic changes. Dragonranger was just a green version of the Zyuranger suit with a helmet that resembled Tyrannoranger's and additional armor. Kibaranger was a white version of the Dairanger suit with a chest piece and no gold trim that went down the center of the chest. Kakuranger had no official 6th ranger but they had Ninjaman or Ninjor which counted as extra hero. This version of the Ranger in the Legacy Collection line had a lot of controversy due to the way the prototype was painted, but we'll get to that later.

Review: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers - Bandai Legacy Collection Metallic Red, Black, Blue, Yellow, Pink Rangers

Last month I reviewed the Legacy Collection Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the Build-a-Dino Megazord. And you saw that instead of their individual weapons they came with pieces to build the Dino Megazord. Well, they re-released the figures but not quite the same, if anything they improved them by giving them the "Metallic" treatment. They're not metallic by any means, they're actually just translucent but it works, it gives it an extra sheen which is neat. The additional accessory is their individual Power Weapons and they fix a couple things from the previous releases.

Updates: Return of the Mush

It's been an eventful and rough time these past couple months but I have made my return, I'm not sure what I want to review next... There are many options, I don't know if I should continue with the Shurikenger or Ninja Steel stuff or if I should change it up for the next couple rounds. I have gotten hooked onto other toylines... One of which is called....