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Man I completely forgot the purple Tricratops Zord debacle and the excitement for Posesandra. I never found her in the wild so it’s still the missing piece of that line. The 5 inch action hero line is still one of my favorite lines
I've since been somewhat spoiled with Rita figures... but I still want that 5 inch action hero that was supposed to be released that fall in the two pack. Sure it wasn't as good as Hasbro's updated Rita, or the one we got from Super7, but by Bandai's best Rita! (not saying much...) but perfect for that line! I was happy with it.
@@100PercentEarl In one of our meetings at Bandai, I brought that up, asking if they could do team packs of past rangers for the action hero line, they were surprisingly not receptive to that. They generally seemed interested in what I had to say, and a few things did end up getting made as a result of our visits... but I really felt like they nicely said "well that's a dumb idea we won't be doing." That surprised me. They did every red. They did a bunch of 6ths. We got MMPR, Super Megaforce through Ninja Steel. Would it have really been that difficult to fill in those teams? They already had bodies! I don't know... I thought it was a fun line. I was always hoping for more of them. I probably care about full teams more than how fancy they actually are, but I don't know how many fans I really speak for now.
@@MMPRtoys that really surprises me that Bandai wasn’t interested in the idea. Especially when they did MMPR in the retro packaging. Like i get that MMPR is an exception, but that specific retro inspired line felt very collector/long time fan focused vs SMF, DC NS being more general/kid focus. I originally thought that older teams in 5 inch action style was gonna be their Legacy collection before Legacy. Maybe they knew from not S1 MMPR legacy collection sales. Or 2017 movie being a huge focus for a bit? Idk. You definitely know more than me and idk the timeline.
The purple triceratops Zord is nostalgic now, which is so crazy to think about now. Also now I remember how rare the proper Packy Zord was: because all they sold was the purple one!
I remember a line from one of your older videos Bruno(I think it was in your Legacy Falconzord video?). You said: "Once something sells out and is discontinued, the price does skyrocket greatly. So if you see something in stores that you like, grab it!" And that's precisely what I did with the Legacy collection. You made a video on the newest PR toys, I went out and bought them. Sadly I can't do that anymore due to lack of space.
Dino charge was a great line. Wild force was nearly a perfect line with sooooo many zords, but they never did a big giant thing combo, obviously not an easy thing to do but imagine if main line and Predazord could have combined in a meaningful way!!! And yeah always going to curb consumer trends because most people just do what they do, so even if lots of fans are conscious of buying PR girls, the majority are just going to lean away without much thought.
I just realized that another purple item that was never released in the US was the Centaurus Wolf Megazord. Maybe both the color and the fact that it was an evil Megazord made them choose not to release it.
That was a cool thing. In that case I'm putting my money more on "bad guys don't sell" vs purple, but yeah, that would have been bad guy + purple. Japan also got a sword/shield role-play for him which we did not, as well as a purple phone, which we also did not. And that used to drive me nuts when I was younger, but I can't deny now that fans simply don't buy girls or bad guys. But, everything was available in Japan, so, I had no trouble importing those too.
It's weird the cuts they'll make to a Power Rangers toyline. The elephant in Wild Force, the Cephalazord in Dino Thunder... Every single Ranger from Cosmic Fury.
It makes so much sense to me. Cosmic Fury is not only the most hated designs in the history of the show, Hasbro had also decided they were done at that time. It takes time for toys to be designed and to go into production. Cosmic Fury was a short last minute mini-series. Hasbro already knew things weren't selling and they were kinda done. There are enough reasons there before we get into all the specifics of why fans don't buy this or that. We know girls sell poorly. People DO buy red ranger, but this team has a female skirted red! Three girls on this team. W/o getting too much into... that... there are fans that would not buy green and orange. So, many people would not buy half of that team just due to the characters being female before getting into their hatred of the costumes and, other things. And no matter what I show these days, the comments are "That's cool, wish I had money." "That's cool, wish I had space." So, even things people do like, they still aren't buying. This was true in 2013. In 2024 the fanbase is much smaller (and angrier). I can speak more to Bandai things in the later years when we were going over there, but, sometimes they just felt like something wasn't going to sell and companies aren't looking to loose money. They do their market research and have years of previous things to look at to say people liked this, but not that. And there could be cases where someone just messed up. But, I certainly learned things I didn't know after we were move involved. In 2002 I had no idea that Toys R Us or Walmart could say "we don't want to sell that item, change it." Speaking of which, we never got yellow/black movie morphers b/c people weren't buying them. TRU wouldn't order more. I remember Greg trying to find some work around but I don't think he did and then he ended up leaving Bandai. It mostly comes back to, are fans supporting this? (And we also run two TH-cam channels for the same fandom, and we experience all the same stuff the companies do making stuff for this community. It's a real thing.)
Wild Force is definitely a top 5 toy line! I think I’d also add Time Force, Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, and Jungle Fury cuz all the zords and figures and variants looked awesome. Special mention for Super Megaforce since we actually got most of the keys, even ones we never thought we’d get and they didn’t have to do any of that for us.
It still baffles me how much parts of this fandom does not want to acknowledge how much Power Rangers is targeted towards young boys and thus things that appeal to young boys tend to sell better. Like you've said the girls generally don't sell. In recent memory most LC girls that have sold are too finish the teams, there are exceptions like always, but in general the red rangers (which the vast majority of is male) will sell the best with sixt rangers probably second
It's nice to hear someone else notice! And even worse, really. It's JUST MMPR. People don't even care about Tommy as much as the white ranger. White Ranger legacy toys didn't sell as well. Super7 cancelled their Tigerzord Ultimate figure too. 30 years of Power Rangers and (as a whole) people buy red ranger, green ranger, MMPR Megazord, and sales decline from there. Maybe the morpher is included in that. Or part of the runner ups, which would be Dragonzord, Dragon Dagger, black ranger, blue ranger. By the time you're in season 2 people are gone. Shogun Megazord was absolutely planned but they were really having trouble moving literally everything that wasn't MMPR Megazord.
I had no idea that many mechs were missing for our PR Zord line. Some PR websites just list the mechs (toy versions) so I assumed we got those minus any Sentai summer movie combos. But nope we didn't get a few Zords for our lines. This video was both fun and informative! Wow.
Since you do 3D printing, have you ever thought about doing zord connectors? Like parts that help fill the discrepancies between Japan and USA zords like: - DX Zyudenryu with the Full Action Kyoryujin - The Beast Morphers zords with Tategami Lioh for the Ultrazord - Head shurikens for Dinomaru and Surfermaru that can fit on the Ninja Steel Megazord, given those zords fit inside the chest already. - Connectors to fit the Ryusoulger mecha parts on the Dino Fury zords. That way we can finally get the Pacha Smash combination.
We can do all sorts of cool things, but there needs to be a demand for Mia to spend the time modeling and offering the files/prints. So far she's done a good number of fan-requested things that took some time and it's been a lot of "that's cool, wish I could" replies. So, we've kinda slowed down with adding new things for now, while Mia works on other things. Have you seen these though? tokullectibles.com/products/dx-kyoryuzin-western-kung-fu-combo-full-action-ver-set?_pos=22&_sid=1a30c87e0&_ss=r & tokullectibles.com/products/dx-tobaspino-full-action-ver?_pos=23&_sid=1a30c87e0&_ss=r
I remember how much the Cephalazord was going for back then. Just cause it was purple and we couldnt get here. Then Wolzard. Thanks Lunar Wolf for making sure they couldnt ignore purple.
I've said it for a long time now. Adult PR fans tend to wait for things to go on clearance. I think they got used to it with TRU. They inadvertently doom their own Fandom. We saw the same thing with Lightning Collection. So many people would say "I'll wait for a sake or clearance" about brand new stuff and we saw the same thing happen again.
It wouldn't have been due to the color. Jungle Fury had a male purple ranger, that was back in 2008. Dino Charge we had purple again, male and female, and Dino Fury/Cosmic Fury had some firsts as well. There have been movie exclusive rangers and Zords that were not able to come over for one reason or another, but they wouldn't just omit a main purple ranger today.
I love these kinds of toy hunting videos for Power Rangers. The review and analysis is fun and always intriguing. This video made me miss the Kong Megazord that my mother gave away so much 😂😂😂
You certainly can't make it back in 02 if you didn't have it then... but you can do it now! You've got the DX Bandai Japan, DX Bandai America, and the SMP line to choose from! If you're going to PMC this summer you might find some good things at the con. They're all on eBay. CSTOYS gets used stuff pretty often...
I'm not counting that as a Zord. But I own all of those things, so of course I've got it. It's packed somewhere in the basement, so, absent from the video this time. It's a space filler.
I think Bandai did a better job of listening to feedback from the fans than Hasbro. Just my opinion So what kind of pie was it? The US never did an Elephantzord? I'll never understand these skipping zords. At least Bandai America used the same molds as Bandai Japan back then.
bruno are you excited for playmates ranger figures when ever they release. top toy lines for my would be the few pieces i had from wild force - mystic force after that i feel like there was a drop off of toys in my local stores (uk) with little selection until samurai.
While I was not one of the people who worked for Bandai around 2004 (I would’ve been a child at the time), I can kinda explain why the purple was changed to the Blizzard Force Megazord and the Cephelazord, and it wasn’t just a Bandai thing; Hasbro was guilty of this too. What do I mean by that? Around 2003 in the Transformers: Armada line, a figure based off the character Tidal Wave was released and the color was changed from purple to this toxic green color. And the reasoning for this? Because there were too many purple toys on the shelves at that time. At least that’s what I’ve heard. I hope this helps answer your question regarding what happened with the purple, Bruno.
I can't speak much to Transformers, or if that's the actual reason or something the company just said. Power Rangers had its own shelf and there was no purple, at all. There was 2004 toy hunting footage in the previous video. Dino Thunder had blue packaging. TMNT was next door with yellow. That's honestly something I've never heard before. Power Rangers never changed toy colors b/c of other toy colors, with that one exception, removing a pastel purple and replacing it with bold colors that say "boy." Then in 2014 they tried to change the pink color in Dino Charge and fans made them change it back to pink. With 30 years of history pointing to a very specific reason, I'm fairly confident that's what it is. On top of observation, I was inside the various companies who were all complaining the fans only liked MMPR, didn't buy monsters, didn't buy girls. So, I'm leaning heavily towards "girl color." Also note they removed skirts from the girl figures for many years, that one included. (In Wild Force they painted the pink part of white ranger's weapon silver for roleplay items, and In Space pink was painted red, both proper colors in Japan).
I just double checked what I said and it turns out that Tidal Wave’s color change was because there were too many purple DECEPTICONS on the store shelves around 2003, not purple toys in general. So I will admit that not only was I wrong, but that it was information that was misremembered. I’m sorry. You were right about that not being the case for no purple zords and no girl rangers.
A lack of purple in the toyline… then Jungle Fury comes along with debatably one of the best mentor characters in the show’s history and he ends up being the first Purple Ranger. His key in the Super MegaForce line is even initially a Morphicon exclusive! Then suddenly they want to turn the pink Dino Charge Zord purple, even though they had to know there was a Purple Ranger coming from the Kyoryuger footage they were shown! Could it be… that RJ's awesomeness somehow caused a purple conspiracy! I think we need to get our thinking hats on here folks! #purpleconspiracytheory I’m just saying: 2008: Purple Ranger and purple resurgence. 2015: Turning a pink Zord purple. 2023: Barbie movie causes pink paint shortage! It’s all connected I tells ya! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (For those who haven’t figured it out yet: I’m only joking with this comment, I’m just being silly 😜😜😜😜😜😜😜) By the way: That’s a good looking pie! 😁😁😁😁😁😁
Jerry had you with the pie...uou had me with" fork me Mia,fork me hard! Oh man,you crack me up🤣another great video Bruno,on a personal note,I do find the wild force zords some of the most satisfying,I do agree,one of the best toy lines👌🏼thank you for the video.
To be fair, Cosmic Fury under Bandai of America probably wouldn't have made Amelia the Red Ranger, since Bandai would have had some sway with what gets done and brought over, mainly in terms of toys but still... If anything, Kyuranger would have likely been it's own thing unconnected to Dino Fury, and that's if Dino Fury was still to happen in the timeline where Saban & Bandai are still in charge.
I can't really comment on that, I think it was an easy thing to cut from the line, and things did get cancelled due to Hasbro buying the brand. We got next to nothing for 2018. I saw a good number of things that had prototypes and they just didn't happen, including my 5 inch Rita! 😭
Those of us who want to buy the toys, we need the toys to actually be distributed to the stores so we can buy them! I can't tell you how often during Dino fury I'd go to Meijer or Target to look for power rangers only to find they hardly have anything. then Cosmic fury, Nothing at all.
Hasbro's distribution was very odd. As long as they've been making the toys, it always felt like the shelves were empty (more often than not). Hasbro also started releasing the toys in a world w/o TRU. But still, Bandai generally had more stuff on the shelves at Target and Walmart. But, I also accepted stores just aren't where it's at anymore and bought online. There's never been a figure I couldn't get. Hasbro Pulse, Amazon, BBTS, EE, GameStop, etc. This whole time we've had our KIT and curation to hopefully make it easier for people: www.amazon.com/shop/mmprtoys/list/27PRVSR7BJFPL?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d Cosmic Fury was disappointing, but by then they knew they were shutting down. Everything takes time. Time to design the toys, time to produce them. I think Cosmic Fury was kinda last minute and by then they already knew they were not making more toys, at least for a while. That wasn't an overnight kinda thing. Maybe Playmates will make Cosmic Fury?
Mark this down for posterity: if a(nother) figure for Cosmic Fury Red exists in an official capacity, I will buy it. Tired of team members getting shafted and I have actual money to put where my mouth is now.
@@satellizard346 Oh, yeah, and they did recolor the Blizzar Force, entirely (and the Ptera that always came with that...) I just don't know what the conversation at Bandai was with that specific Zord.
That was kinda the point of all of this. Fans were boycotting girls SO hard they didn't want them included in any final releases. Bandai didn't want things sitting there b/c they had yellow or pink in them. There were people who really wouldn't buy a full MMPR set b/c it had a pink key. That's what all this was about, fans not buying girls, which is a problem for for-profit companies that need to sell things to stay in business. They'll make whatever fans want, but then fans have to actually buy the products. And if things aren't selling, retailers won't even order them even if the company wanted to make them anyway. We didn't get yellow/black movie morphers from Bandai b/c nobody bought red/white/blue/pink, so Toys R Us said "we don't want more of these, they sit here taking up space and we can't move them."
Japan's a bit different. (Though even in Japan they don't make a lot of monsters, and I can point to a number of teams where no girl figures were made, which is a shame. Those ToQger figures were nice, but they only did red, blue, and green.)
@@MMPRtoys I was really hoping that with Hasbro, they'd be more open to including more heroines and female monsters (as there's a few I want like Queen Bansheera, Elsa, Necrolai, etc), and its like we won't pay good money for it. Alas, I think the only way they may do it nowadays is via bundles, if that.
Im only half way through but had to stop and comment and yes agree with everything you say. I've seen so many comments online blaming Hasbro for "killing/cancelling" the lightning collection I'm like they didn't we did. We ain't buying it, check my stores every time here in the UK which ones don't get sold that I've seen loads of yellow Scorpina two pack, red sentry ranger surprisingly, yellow and pinks ninjetti figures more so the kat release, zeo yellow loads not sold, phantom ranger loads, in space pink again loads, A squad red, yellow and pink, loads of monsters Pudgy, Pirantis Head, tons getting sent back, DT yellow Ive seen a ton of those come out recently of unsold stock, the ninja turtles two packs didn't do well here either. I know you like turtles but really don't like them apart from Tommy ninja and April pink I sold their other half, the cobra Kai ones haven't sold well either I was against buying those but now I bought a set so I can have like a varience so ninjetti figures in each stage movie 90s ones, then ones full covered then ones with human heads. But everything you said the ones that don't sell are girls or rangers unknown and monsters do badly too. All the things I want for my collection I know you do too. I preordered madame woe was really excited but we all lost out. I was keen for monsters we haven't seen yet. I mean Scorpina so pleased we got her I bought two one to keep original nice and second so I can improve the gold. I sold the second yellow ranger from buying it twice, I want a slightly bigger version of her in monster form for megazord battles I'd be surprised if you didn't. But again no one's buying her I've wanted a figure of her since 93 we've waited close to 30 years of an official figure of her for no one to buy... Not counting the imaginext, but you know what I mean. It's not like Hasbro or bandai didn't try but if fans don't buy there won't be more. There's so many things never done I'd want to be made officially.
I'm not sure I'm that far off from sprinkles on my pizza. Two of my favorite foods! If sprinkles on a pizza is good enough for a ninja turtle, it's good enough for me!
Would it be fair to say the earliest season to have a pink ranger zord with a proportionately fair amount of pink would have to be mystic force, not including shogun pink. especially if you include her ball mode. Other than that I did just realize Dino charge is the first season, of ours at least, to have a pink zord.
Decent pink of Super ZEO, but in Megazord mode, she's the feet and you barely see pink at all. A few other similar examples. Very little pink in the Space Megazords. Just the Mega Voyager and again, she's the feet. Mystic Force the ball was only available in a special Japanese set. The Fairy was tiny and in the dragon formation, there should be pink visible on the head. Before making these last two videos I just assumed it was a cost issue, we've always lost some paint apps to reduce cost... but now I have to wonder if that one was due to the color... didn't want pink ruining a cool dragon head?
Haha yeah, super Zeo pink did have at least pink more front and center, where as others the pink more often then not was accent, like I think you mentioned. If I recall, with the exception of pink, weren’t the other four colors all Hogwarts colors for mystic force, fresh on the back end and hight of Harry Potter? Highly dismissible detail I recall hearing a minute back. It’d be funny if that had something to do with the color scheme. Just too bad we never got to a zenkaiger. Then we’d even have up to a half pink megazord, and that dragon is arguably one of the funner toys of the line.
I’ll always support what I love Bruno, ( one of them being power rangers and your vlogs and videos) never question rainbow sprinkles Bruno ( plus you asked if we wanted a bite) that mystery pie looked good, also save the forking and spooning for later Mia ( just be glad you didn’t ask for a knife Bruno). And as for my top five favorite power ranger toy lines Bruno. Probably bandi ( because I’ve found quite a few toys in my collection from them), lightning collection ( minus the quality control its a good line plus I have hope that it continues into the playmate deal) , sh figuarts ( because that’s how I got half of ninja storm in my collection), hasbro’s base line figures, ( I have Dino fury ) and the McDonald’s happy meal toys ( two samurai ranger figures of mike and Jayden and about three sixth ( sorry Kimberly, Tommy, and Rocky) of the mmpr 95 movie toys I got at a antique mall (except Jayden from samurai that was from the happy meal itself) ps I can understand why you wanted the elephant zord from wild force Bruno because you were the lost wild force elephant ranger until Alyssa found the elephant crystal.
Great video Bruno, it’s a shame that we never got the Cephalo Zord in America or the blue elephant Zord. I think my top five PR toy lines are 5. Dino Thunder 4. SPD 3. Wild Force 2. the Legacy Line and 1. Dino Fury. Also Jerry’s mystery pie looked interesting lol!😂 🥧
Dino Thunder because of the PS2 game I played, Mystic Force, The OG MMPR, Turbo only because I loved the cars and I wanted those cars to drive, and my last one would be Space. However, I did enjoy Samurai as it was different for the Power Rangers but I can compare everything to the OG Sentai Series as the episodes made more sense than not sense in some of the English dubbed Power Ranger Episodes, and I think Burno could back me up on that. I want the Train Sentai to come out, I can just see the Rangers traveling around America Battling evil in different states
Also there was a blue elephant for wild force line but not quite a proper one, you might have mentioned it in an earlier video long time ago not sure...there's a non transforming wild force megazord with elephant sword and shield you can make into an elephant I even asked my parents to get it for Xmas at the time which they were puzzled why I knew why cos that was the only place I seen an elephant zord I ofcourse did try to attach to the deluxe megazord it holds but not successfully. I know he sword trunk is fixed it doesn't flex. Many years later I did get a proper Japanese elephant zord.
I have a 5 inch Pegasus Megazord which does have the elephant. I want to say there was a non-transforming Wild Force Megazord with the sword/shield Elephant that was exclusive to the UK. I'm trying to find an image of it and it's like the thing never existed! The only image I found says it was 5 inch, but I thought it was bigger... but, either way, there were a few ways to get some type of elephant, just not a DX transforming one, unfortunately. Not sure what the elephant's deal was, even in Japan it was difficult to get. It took me nearly a year to find a seller that had one and wasn't a fortune even back then (and I think I still paid over $100 for it).
@@MMPRtoys that will be the megazord your describing I defo have it I can't remember how big it was but elephant was decent sized just, didn't realise it was UK exclusive but makes sense I think it was a UK toys r us exclusive. Sadly I don't think I've looked after it but I still have it in a bucket of wild force stuff somewhere when I find it IL send photos. But yeah around those seasons UK did miss the last wave some times we never got the jungle sword. We did get all megazords surpassingly cos some times we missed out on a zord like no omega megazord for lightspeed, no titanium morpher, rescue blaster, titanium laser, rescue bird, quantum defender. I remember the Luna cue was toys r us exclusive here.
Let me answer it for you bruno. The bootleg indeed can be use for 'sword n shield mode' but kinda loose. The bootleg only copy the outerier shape of the elephant
@@MMPRtoys yes i did. You need to be creative to place the elephant as sword and shield due to lack of connectors. Kinda -1 about it. But the fun part is that the elephant can be use as a whole arm 😂
Homie jerry really said ‘pie flavor’. I’m not sure if you’ve seen asdf movies from tomska Bruno but if you haven’t you should they are internet classics
This is so weird , i was just randomly watching your original coverage of the purple dino charge triceratops, go to sleep and wake up and you’ve made another video about it
Top five ranger toy lines Samurai Operation overdrive Megaforce Dino charge Ninja steel When Bruno was saying couldn't find the yellow ranger back in 2004 from Dino thunder I thought that was funny it's kind of like how me where you can't find the yellow ranger from RPM but it's also just like the stupid ranger keys in 2011 when you couldn't find so many of them or anywhere
I haven't seen any updates saying otherwise. We got white ranger. Tigerzord & Madame Woe were meant to be part of that line, but people really said no. Even White Ranger stuff isn't very popular, which still surprises me.
I don't htink it's limited to Western audiences either, I remember when I was completing my core gokaiger SH Figuarts and Pink and Yellow were the hard to get ones as they had been released as exclusives
Dino thunder was a really cool toy line especially with all the monsters. If I hadn't been so broke I'd have gotten a lot more. Looking back they really went for broke with Dino thunder, huge toy line, lots of variety, US only villain, lots of unique footage. Just wasn't rewarded enough for them. I really fell off the American toys after that until lightning collection
The only thing I was like how is this HARD?! The failure to find the Silver Ranger of Dino Charge. I did get Albert, whew. Begrudgingly gought the Doc but she has so less of plastic that.... I didn't want to buy her in full price.
It was a "that" pie which contained "all good things!" I don't think even Jerry knows. There was vanilla pudding. I think both peanuts and peanut butter. Graham cracker crust, I think. Oh, sprinkles! I asked him if he had to make it again, could he? He said maybe if he did it soon or he'd forget. I don't think he had an actual recipe, he just made it up. Maybe a little odd, but I liked it.
Two idiots were making a big deal about SPD pink Zord not having it’s cardboard signs. Or that the delta squad was missing some paint apps and they were Comparing it to the Celph not coming out in the us. I’m like a missing arms a bigger issue then little cardboard signs that’s are easy to make yourself.
It's a shame girl figures don't sell well, but I still can't find the Lightning Collection Pink Zeo for a fair price. I wish Hasbro didn't put her in a two pack. That pie has me curious. Now I want the recipe.
Came for Dino Thunder and Dino Charge, Stayed for pie. That pie looks delish! Now I want pie. Maybe I'll make a pie this week! Anyways, great video as always! Actually, speaking of Poisandra, she's gonna be the villain of an upcoming one-shot Power Rangers comic called "Power Rangers Infinity".
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Man I completely forgot the purple Tricratops Zord debacle and the excitement for Posesandra. I never found her in the wild so it’s still the missing piece of that line. The 5 inch action hero line is still one of my favorite lines
I've since been somewhat spoiled with Rita figures... but I still want that 5 inch action hero that was supposed to be released that fall in the two pack. Sure it wasn't as good as Hasbro's updated Rita, or the one we got from Super7, but by Bandai's best Rita! (not saying much...) but perfect for that line! I was happy with it.
@@MMPRtoys I had always wished that Bandai had done other full teams in that line. It was a nice fantasy during that time
@@100PercentEarl In one of our meetings at Bandai, I brought that up, asking if they could do team packs of past rangers for the action hero line, they were surprisingly not receptive to that. They generally seemed interested in what I had to say, and a few things did end up getting made as a result of our visits... but I really felt like they nicely said "well that's a dumb idea we won't be doing." That surprised me. They did every red. They did a bunch of 6ths. We got MMPR, Super Megaforce through Ninja Steel. Would it have really been that difficult to fill in those teams? They already had bodies! I don't know... I thought it was a fun line. I was always hoping for more of them. I probably care about full teams more than how fancy they actually are, but I don't know how many fans I really speak for now.
@@MMPRtoys that really surprises me that Bandai wasn’t interested in the idea. Especially when they did MMPR in the retro packaging. Like i get that MMPR is an exception, but that specific retro inspired line felt very collector/long time fan focused vs SMF, DC NS being more general/kid focus. I originally thought that older teams in 5 inch action style was gonna be their Legacy collection before Legacy. Maybe they knew from not S1 MMPR legacy collection sales. Or 2017 movie being a huge focus for a bit? Idk. You definitely know more than me and idk the timeline.
Honestly, we had it so good with toy releases for Dino Charge, looking back and then comparing with what we have now.
One of the many great quotes of Bruno: "Mia, quick! Spoon me!". And with: "Fork me, Mia! Fork me hard!"
The purple triceratops Zord is nostalgic now, which is so crazy to think about now. Also now I remember how rare the proper Packy Zord was: because all they sold was the purple one!
Time needs to chill! Going by way too fast now!
It’s A Shame Girl Figures Don’t Sell Well I Really Feel Like A Certain Amount Of People Are Missing Out.
I always thought it was funny that Bandai didn't put out an alternate Purple Pink Ranger Zord as a toung and cheek reference to the prototype
I remember a line from one of your older videos Bruno(I think it was in your Legacy Falconzord video?). You said: "Once something sells out and is discontinued, the price does skyrocket greatly. So if you see something in stores that you like, grab it!" And that's precisely what I did with the Legacy collection. You made a video on the newest PR toys, I went out and bought them. Sadly I can't do that anymore due to lack of space.
I feel like everyone's out of space these days. But some of those legacy items most certainly have gone crazy in price!
@@MMPRtoys Yeah, no kidding! I'm so glad I bought them when I did.
I wish Bandai still had power rangers franchise.
Dino charge was a great line. Wild force was nearly a perfect line with sooooo many zords, but they never did a big giant thing combo, obviously not an easy thing to do but imagine if main line and Predazord could have combined in a meaningful way!!!
And yeah always going to curb consumer trends because most people just do what they do, so even if lots of fans are conscious of buying PR girls, the majority are just going to lean away without much thought.
I just realized that another purple item that was never released in the US was the Centaurus Wolf Megazord. Maybe both the color and the fact that it was an evil Megazord made them choose not to release it.
That was a cool thing. In that case I'm putting my money more on "bad guys don't sell" vs purple, but yeah, that would have been bad guy + purple. Japan also got a sword/shield role-play for him which we did not, as well as a purple phone, which we also did not. And that used to drive me nuts when I was younger, but I can't deny now that fans simply don't buy girls or bad guys. But, everything was available in Japan, so, I had no trouble importing those too.
Anyone ever feel like Bruno is way more fun than TH-cam allows?
It's weird the cuts they'll make to a Power Rangers toyline. The elephant in Wild Force, the Cephalazord in Dino Thunder...
Every single Ranger from Cosmic Fury.
It makes so much sense to me. Cosmic Fury is not only the most hated designs in the history of the show, Hasbro had also decided they were done at that time. It takes time for toys to be designed and to go into production. Cosmic Fury was a short last minute mini-series. Hasbro already knew things weren't selling and they were kinda done. There are enough reasons there before we get into all the specifics of why fans don't buy this or that. We know girls sell poorly. People DO buy red ranger, but this team has a female skirted red! Three girls on this team. W/o getting too much into... that... there are fans that would not buy green and orange. So, many people would not buy half of that team just due to the characters being female before getting into their hatred of the costumes and, other things. And no matter what I show these days, the comments are "That's cool, wish I had money." "That's cool, wish I had space." So, even things people do like, they still aren't buying. This was true in 2013. In 2024 the fanbase is much smaller (and angrier).
I can speak more to Bandai things in the later years when we were going over there, but, sometimes they just felt like something wasn't going to sell and companies aren't looking to loose money. They do their market research and have years of previous things to look at to say people liked this, but not that. And there could be cases where someone just messed up. But, I certainly learned things I didn't know after we were move involved. In 2002 I had no idea that Toys R Us or Walmart could say "we don't want to sell that item, change it." Speaking of which, we never got yellow/black movie morphers b/c people weren't buying them. TRU wouldn't order more. I remember Greg trying to find some work around but I don't think he did and then he ended up leaving Bandai. It mostly comes back to, are fans supporting this? (And we also run two TH-cam channels for the same fandom, and we experience all the same stuff the companies do making stuff for this community. It's a real thing.)
Something something history repeating itself also man all that 2014 footage feels like yesterday
Wild Force is definitely a top 5 toy line! I think I’d also add Time Force, Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, and Jungle Fury cuz all the zords and figures and variants looked awesome.
Special mention for Super Megaforce since we actually got most of the keys, even ones we never thought we’d get and they didn’t have to do any of that for us.
It still baffles me how much parts of this fandom does not want to acknowledge how much Power Rangers is targeted towards young boys and thus things that appeal to young boys tend to sell better.
Like you've said the girls generally don't sell. In recent memory most LC girls that have sold are too finish the teams, there are exceptions like always, but in general the red rangers (which the vast majority of is male) will sell the best with sixt rangers probably second
It's nice to hear someone else notice! And even worse, really. It's JUST MMPR. People don't even care about Tommy as much as the white ranger. White Ranger legacy toys didn't sell as well. Super7 cancelled their Tigerzord Ultimate figure too. 30 years of Power Rangers and (as a whole) people buy red ranger, green ranger, MMPR Megazord, and sales decline from there. Maybe the morpher is included in that. Or part of the runner ups, which would be Dragonzord, Dragon Dagger, black ranger, blue ranger. By the time you're in season 2 people are gone. Shogun Megazord was absolutely planned but they were really having trouble moving literally everything that wasn't MMPR Megazord.
Bruno, stop making sense this instance, your scaring the children an a few small animals!!!! Great video as always!!!!
I had no idea that many mechs were missing for our PR Zord line. Some PR websites just list the mechs (toy versions) so I assumed we got those minus any Sentai summer movie combos. But nope we didn't get a few Zords for our lines. This video was both fun and informative! Wow.
Are we in the middle of a purple power ranger stuff series? Would like a look at jungle fury and operation overdrive
Edit: Mystic Force too😉
Since you do 3D printing, have you ever thought about doing zord connectors? Like
parts that help fill the discrepancies between Japan and USA zords like:
- DX Zyudenryu with the Full Action Kyoryujin
- The Beast Morphers zords with Tategami Lioh for the Ultrazord
- Head shurikens for Dinomaru and Surfermaru that can fit on the Ninja Steel Megazord, given those zords fit inside the chest already.
- Connectors to fit the Ryusoulger mecha parts on the Dino Fury zords. That way we can finally get the Pacha Smash combination.
We can do all sorts of cool things, but there needs to be a demand for Mia to spend the time modeling and offering the files/prints. So far she's done a good number of fan-requested things that took some time and it's been a lot of "that's cool, wish I could" replies. So, we've kinda slowed down with adding new things for now, while Mia works on other things. Have you seen these though? tokullectibles.com/products/dx-kyoryuzin-western-kung-fu-combo-full-action-ver-set?_pos=22&_sid=1a30c87e0&_ss=r & tokullectibles.com/products/dx-tobaspino-full-action-ver?_pos=23&_sid=1a30c87e0&_ss=r
Please genuinely never stop i love seeing u enjoy these toys even now
I remember how much the Cephalazord was going for back then. Just cause it was purple and we couldnt get here. Then Wolzard. Thanks Lunar Wolf for making sure they couldnt ignore purple.
I've said it for a long time now. Adult PR fans tend to wait for things to go on clearance. I think they got used to it with TRU. They inadvertently doom their own Fandom. We saw the same thing with Lightning Collection. So many people would say "I'll wait for a sake or clearance" about brand new stuff and we saw the same thing happen again.
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Hmm, I'd probably go with
5. Zeo
4. Time Force
3. Wild Force
2. Samurai
1. Dino Charge
For me, Wild Force is the S tier of PR toy lines
This kinda makes me think if Toqger came over to America, there’s a really good chance they wouldn’t have put TOQ 7 (Purple) into the show.
It wouldn't have been due to the color. Jungle Fury had a male purple ranger, that was back in 2008. Dino Charge we had purple again, male and female, and Dino Fury/Cosmic Fury had some firsts as well. There have been movie exclusive rangers and Zords that were not able to come over for one reason or another, but they wouldn't just omit a main purple ranger today.
@@MMPRtoys Yea true
I love these kinds of toy hunting videos for Power Rangers. The review and analysis is fun and always intriguing. This video made me miss the Kong Megazord that my mother gave away so much 😂😂😂
If only I could make a Wild Force Zoo when I was a kid back in ‘02… One could dream…
You certainly can't make it back in 02 if you didn't have it then... but you can do it now! You've got the DX Bandai Japan, DX Bandai America, and the SMP line to choose from! If you're going to PMC this summer you might find some good things at the con. They're all on eBay. CSTOYS gets used stuff pretty often...
My Favorite Top 5 Toylines: Samurai, Dino Charge, Super Megaforce, Megaforce, Lost Galaxy
That pie scene was reminded me of Michelangelo giving Toka and Razar the donuts.
There was something crunchy in mine that I have yet to identify... but so far I haven't mutated or un-mutated. So, that's good.
Wow, I almost forgot about Toys n Joys. I used to go to the actual store when I was stationed in Hawaii. I really miss that place.
I wish I could have gone inside. I've still never even been to Hawaii. But they were my go-to place for Sentai for a while.
Ultimus Megazord technically had another zord, the Armadillo Puck to fill the spot where the Eaglezord went.
I'm not counting that as a Zord. But I own all of those things, so of course I've got it. It's packed somewhere in the basement, so, absent from the video this time. It's a space filler.
Me too, is drooling over gao elephant. 😂
Man I wanted that Madame Woe from Super7.....pour one out.
I love those casual videos. Some toys, some stories, pinch of vlog and love for the franchise. Keep em coming!
Justice for pink
Man, I miss Greg from Bandai
I think Bandai did a better job of listening to feedback from the fans than Hasbro. Just my opinion
So what kind of pie was it?
The US never did an Elephantzord? I'll never understand these skipping zords. At least Bandai America used the same molds as Bandai Japan back then.
you dont mess with dricera, she stays pink, I threw one heck of a stink over the purple, I wanted my adorable pink drilling tricera
bruno are you excited for playmates ranger figures when ever they release. top toy lines for my would be the few pieces i had from wild force - mystic force after that i feel like there was a drop off of toys in my local stores (uk) with little selection until samurai.
My theory is that Grimace killed the toy designer's family
LoL, Hasbro was like, “You told us you want it, sowe listen to you, and you made us lose a lot of money. We’re never listening to you again.”
While I was not one of the people who worked for Bandai around 2004 (I would’ve been a child at the time), I can kinda explain why the purple was changed to the Blizzard Force Megazord and the Cephelazord, and it wasn’t just a Bandai thing; Hasbro was guilty of this too. What do I mean by that?
Around 2003 in the Transformers: Armada line, a figure based off the character Tidal Wave was released and the color was changed from purple to this toxic green color. And the reasoning for this?
Because there were too many purple toys on the shelves at that time.
At least that’s what I’ve heard. I hope this helps answer your question regarding what happened with the purple, Bruno.
I can't speak much to Transformers, or if that's the actual reason or something the company just said. Power Rangers had its own shelf and there was no purple, at all. There was 2004 toy hunting footage in the previous video. Dino Thunder had blue packaging. TMNT was next door with yellow. That's honestly something I've never heard before. Power Rangers never changed toy colors b/c of other toy colors, with that one exception, removing a pastel purple and replacing it with bold colors that say "boy." Then in 2014 they tried to change the pink color in Dino Charge and fans made them change it back to pink. With 30 years of history pointing to a very specific reason, I'm fairly confident that's what it is. On top of observation, I was inside the various companies who were all complaining the fans only liked MMPR, didn't buy monsters, didn't buy girls. So, I'm leaning heavily towards "girl color." Also note they removed skirts from the girl figures for many years, that one included. (In Wild Force they painted the pink part of white ranger's weapon silver for roleplay items, and In Space pink was painted red, both proper colors in Japan).
I just double checked what I said and it turns out that Tidal Wave’s color change was because there were too many purple DECEPTICONS on the store shelves around 2003, not purple toys in general.
So I will admit that not only was I wrong, but that it was information that was misremembered. I’m sorry.
You were right about that not being the case for no purple zords and no girl rangers.
A lack of purple in the toyline… then Jungle Fury comes along with debatably one of the best mentor characters in the show’s history and he ends up being the first Purple Ranger. His key in the Super MegaForce line is even initially a Morphicon exclusive! Then suddenly they want to turn the pink Dino Charge Zord purple, even though they had to know there was a Purple Ranger coming from the Kyoryuger footage they were shown! Could it be… that RJ's awesomeness somehow caused a purple conspiracy! I think we need to get our thinking hats on here folks! #purpleconspiracytheory
I’m just saying:
2008: Purple Ranger and purple resurgence.
2015: Turning a pink Zord purple.
2023: Barbie movie causes pink paint shortage!
It’s all connected I tells ya!
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(For those who haven’t figured it out yet: I’m only joking with this comment, I’m just being silly 😜😜😜😜😜😜😜)
By the way: That’s a good looking pie! 😁😁😁😁😁😁
I just assumed the Dino Charge pink zord looked purple because of lighting 😅
He's....onto something here
Jerry had you with the pie...uou had me with" fork me Mia,fork me hard! Oh man,you crack me up🤣another great video Bruno,on a personal note,I do find the wild force zords some of the most satisfying,I do agree,one of the best toy lines👌🏼thank you for the video.
Makes you wonder how much of a flop the Cosmic fury line would have been. Probably the he first line with a red Ranger that wouldn’t sell
To be fair, Cosmic Fury under Bandai of America probably wouldn't have made Amelia the Red Ranger, since Bandai would have had some sway with what gets done and brought over, mainly in terms of toys but still...
If anything, Kyuranger would have likely been it's own thing unconnected to Dino Fury, and that's if Dino Fury was still to happen in the timeline where Saban & Bandai are still in charge.
I love Dino Charge so much
Looks like they're comin' up in the SHODO SUPER line! All 10!
@@MMPRtoys wow this is morphinominal
We also never got the ninja steel submarine surfers zord in the US, which did show up in the show and was also purple
I can't really comment on that, I think it was an easy thing to cut from the line, and things did get cancelled due to Hasbro buying the brand. We got next to nothing for 2018. I saw a good number of things that had prototypes and they just didn't happen, including my 5 inch Rita! 😭
5:47 It's Pie Flavored ofcourse! 🥧
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Those of us who want to buy the toys, we need the toys to actually be distributed to the stores so we can buy them! I can't tell you how often during Dino fury I'd go to Meijer or Target to look for power rangers only to find they hardly have anything. then Cosmic fury, Nothing at all.
Hasbro's distribution was very odd. As long as they've been making the toys, it always felt like the shelves were empty (more often than not). Hasbro also started releasing the toys in a world w/o TRU. But still, Bandai generally had more stuff on the shelves at Target and Walmart. But, I also accepted stores just aren't where it's at anymore and bought online. There's never been a figure I couldn't get. Hasbro Pulse, Amazon, BBTS, EE, GameStop, etc. This whole time we've had our KIT and curation to hopefully make it easier for people: www.amazon.com/shop/mmprtoys/list/27PRVSR7BJFPL?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d
Cosmic Fury was disappointing, but by then they knew they were shutting down. Everything takes time. Time to design the toys, time to produce them. I think Cosmic Fury was kinda last minute and by then they already knew they were not making more toys, at least for a while. That wasn't an overnight kinda thing. Maybe Playmates will make Cosmic Fury?
@@MMPRtoys I sure hope so? Playmates should also do the following:
1. good QC, 2. good pricing, and 3. make the toys easier to find.
Mark this down for posterity: if a(nother) figure for Cosmic Fury Red exists in an official capacity, I will buy it. Tired of team members getting shafted and I have actual money to put where my mouth is now.
100% agree, best toy line to date
Maybe they could've just made it a dark blueish color since it kind of looked blue in the show.
Which...?
Cephalazord.
@@satellizard346 Oh, yeah, and they did recolor the Blizzar Force, entirely (and the Ptera that always came with that...) I just don't know what the conversation at Bandai was with that specific Zord.
4:02 That should have been a 7-pack!
That was kinda the point of all of this. Fans were boycotting girls SO hard they didn't want them included in any final releases. Bandai didn't want things sitting there b/c they had yellow or pink in them. There were people who really wouldn't buy a full MMPR set b/c it had a pink key. That's what all this was about, fans not buying girls, which is a problem for for-profit companies that need to sell things to stay in business. They'll make whatever fans want, but then fans have to actually buy the products. And if things aren't selling, retailers won't even order them even if the company wanted to make them anyway. We didn't get yellow/black movie morphers from Bandai b/c nobody bought red/white/blue/pink, so Toys R Us said "we don't want more of these, they sit here taking up space and we can't move them."
meanwhile in Japan:
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, Decade, and Kiji Brother: If they thought those colors were girly, wait until they get a load of us! :D
Decade: "Pinku Ja Nai, Magenta da."
Japan's a bit different. (Though even in Japan they don't make a lot of monsters, and I can point to a number of teams where no girl figures were made, which is a shame. Those ToQger figures were nice, but they only did red, blue, and green.)
@@MMPRtoys I was really hoping that with Hasbro, they'd be more open to including more heroines and female monsters (as there's a few I want like Queen Bansheera, Elsa, Necrolai, etc), and its like we won't pay good money for it. Alas, I think the only way they may do it nowadays is via bundles, if that.
I can't leave, your story is so captivating. Wishing you much happiness
Unleash the power! 🙂😎👍
just began watching my first sentai which is boonboomger, loving it so far
I didn’t know that elephant never released in America
I agree why spoon when you can fork.
0:34 looks dangerous
The Elephant Zord haunts me in my dreams. Just seems like Wild Force could have completed all their zords in some way.
Im only half way through but had to stop and comment and yes agree with everything you say. I've seen so many comments online blaming Hasbro for "killing/cancelling" the lightning collection I'm like they didn't we did. We ain't buying it, check my stores every time here in the UK which ones don't get sold that I've seen loads of yellow Scorpina two pack, red sentry ranger surprisingly, yellow and pinks ninjetti figures more so the kat release, zeo yellow loads not sold, phantom ranger loads, in space pink again loads, A squad red, yellow and pink, loads of monsters Pudgy, Pirantis Head, tons getting sent back, DT yellow Ive seen a ton of those come out recently of unsold stock, the ninja turtles two packs didn't do well here either. I know you like turtles but really don't like them apart from Tommy ninja and April pink I sold their other half, the cobra Kai ones haven't sold well either I was against buying those but now I bought a set so I can have like a varience so ninjetti figures in each stage movie 90s ones, then ones full covered then ones with human heads. But everything you said the ones that don't sell are girls or rangers unknown and monsters do badly too. All the things I want for my collection I know you do too. I preordered madame woe was really excited but we all lost out. I was keen for monsters we haven't seen yet. I mean Scorpina so pleased we got her I bought two one to keep original nice and second so I can improve the gold. I sold the second yellow ranger from buying it twice, I want a slightly bigger version of her in monster form for megazord battles I'd be surprised if you didn't. But again no one's buying her I've wanted a figure of her since 93 we've waited close to 30 years of an official figure of her for no one to buy... Not counting the imaginext, but you know what I mean. It's not like Hasbro or bandai didn't try but if fans don't buy there won't be more. There's so many things never done I'd want to be made officially.
It’s a shame the girls are always being shafted. When new lines came out I made it a priority to get the females first.
At first, I thought the pie was pizza until when I see the sprinkles.
I'm not sure I'm that far off from sprinkles on my pizza. Two of my favorite foods! If sprinkles on a pizza is good enough for a ninja turtle, it's good enough for me!
Did you see heckyl was the dark ranger- that’s slightly bringing me back to the zord-
Would it be fair to say the earliest season to have a pink ranger zord with a proportionately fair amount of pink would have to be mystic force, not including shogun pink. especially if you include her ball mode. Other than that I did just realize Dino charge is the first season, of ours at least, to have a pink zord.
Decent pink of Super ZEO, but in Megazord mode, she's the feet and you barely see pink at all. A few other similar examples. Very little pink in the Space Megazords. Just the Mega Voyager and again, she's the feet. Mystic Force the ball was only available in a special Japanese set. The Fairy was tiny and in the dragon formation, there should be pink visible on the head. Before making these last two videos I just assumed it was a cost issue, we've always lost some paint apps to reduce cost... but now I have to wonder if that one was due to the color... didn't want pink ruining a cool dragon head?
Haha yeah, super Zeo pink did have at least pink more front and center, where as others the pink more often then not was accent, like I think you mentioned. If I recall, with the exception of pink, weren’t the other four colors all Hogwarts colors for mystic force, fresh on the back end and hight of Harry Potter? Highly dismissible detail I recall hearing a minute back. It’d be funny if that had something to do with the color scheme. Just too bad we never got to a zenkaiger. Then we’d even have up to a half pink megazord, and that dragon is arguably one of the funner toys of the line.
Thank you for answering a question I had about the compatibility of the megazords
I’ll always support what I love Bruno, ( one of them being power rangers and your vlogs and videos) never question rainbow sprinkles Bruno ( plus you asked if we wanted a bite) that mystery pie looked good, also save the forking and spooning for later Mia ( just be glad you didn’t ask for a knife Bruno). And as for my top five favorite power ranger toy lines Bruno. Probably bandi ( because I’ve found quite a few toys in my collection from them), lightning collection ( minus the quality control its a good line plus I have hope that it continues into the playmate deal) , sh figuarts ( because that’s how I got half of ninja storm in my collection), hasbro’s base line figures, ( I have Dino fury ) and the McDonald’s happy meal toys ( two samurai ranger figures of mike and Jayden and about three sixth ( sorry Kimberly, Tommy, and Rocky) of the mmpr 95 movie toys I got at a antique mall (except Jayden from samurai that was from the happy meal itself) ps I can understand why you wanted the elephant zord from wild force Bruno because you were the lost wild force elephant ranger until Alyssa found the elephant crystal.
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I can vouch for that.
Great video Bruno, it’s a shame that we never got the Cephalo Zord in America or the blue elephant Zord. I think my top five PR toy lines are 5. Dino Thunder 4. SPD 3. Wild Force 2. the Legacy Line and 1. Dino Fury. Also Jerry’s mystery pie looked interesting lol!😂 🥧
Dino Thunder because of the PS2 game I played, Mystic Force, The OG MMPR, Turbo only because I loved the cars and I wanted those cars to drive, and my last one would be Space. However, I did enjoy Samurai as it was different for the Power Rangers but I can compare everything to the OG Sentai Series as the episodes made more sense than not sense in some of the English dubbed Power Ranger Episodes, and I think Burno could back me up on that. I want the Train Sentai to come out, I can just see the Rangers traveling around America Battling evil in different states
Also there was a blue elephant for wild force line but not quite a proper one, you might have mentioned it in an earlier video long time ago not sure...there's a non transforming wild force megazord with elephant sword and shield you can make into an elephant I even asked my parents to get it for Xmas at the time which they were puzzled why I knew why cos that was the only place I seen an elephant zord I ofcourse did try to attach to the deluxe megazord it holds but not successfully. I know he sword trunk is fixed it doesn't flex.
Many years later I did get a proper Japanese elephant zord.
I have a 5 inch Pegasus Megazord which does have the elephant. I want to say there was a non-transforming Wild Force Megazord with the sword/shield Elephant that was exclusive to the UK. I'm trying to find an image of it and it's like the thing never existed! The only image I found says it was 5 inch, but I thought it was bigger... but, either way, there were a few ways to get some type of elephant, just not a DX transforming one, unfortunately. Not sure what the elephant's deal was, even in Japan it was difficult to get. It took me nearly a year to find a seller that had one and wasn't a fortune even back then (and I think I still paid over $100 for it).
@@MMPRtoys that will be the megazord your describing I defo have it I can't remember how big it was but elephant was decent sized just, didn't realise it was UK exclusive but makes sense I think it was a UK toys r us exclusive. Sadly I don't think I've looked after it but I still have it in a bucket of wild force stuff somewhere when I find it IL send photos. But yeah around those seasons UK did miss the last wave some times we never got the jungle sword. We did get all megazords surpassingly cos some times we missed out on a zord like no omega megazord for lightspeed, no titanium morpher, rescue blaster, titanium laser, rescue bird, quantum defender. I remember the Luna cue was toys r us exclusive here.
Yep wild force is my favorite I just got done building the superminipla of all the gao ranger zords.
I'm a dude and my favorite color is purple
One of Jerry's favorite colors too. He loves his purple and orange.
I can't wait for morphicon. I know my wallet is going to hurt so bad after but it'll be ok. Just glad we got the pink Dino Charge zord
Let me answer it for you bruno. The bootleg indeed can be use for 'sword n shield mode' but kinda loose. The bootleg only copy the outerier shape of the elephant
Oh did you actually buy that?
@@MMPRtoys yes i did. You need to be creative to place the elephant as sword and shield due to lack of connectors. Kinda -1 about it. But the fun part is that the elephant can be use as a whole arm 😂
Homie jerry really said ‘pie flavor’. I’m not sure if you’ve seen asdf movies from tomska Bruno but if you haven’t you should they are internet classics
This is so weird , i was just randomly watching your original coverage of the purple dino charge triceratops, go to sleep and wake up and you’ve made another video about it
Top five ranger toy lines
Samurai
Operation overdrive
Megaforce
Dino charge
Ninja steel
When Bruno was saying couldn't find the yellow ranger back in 2004 from Dino thunder I thought that was funny it's kind of like how me where you can't find the yellow ranger from RPM but it's also just like the stupid ranger keys in 2011 when you couldn't find so many of them or anywhere
Beware the Jerry pie
Lots of good memories here. Greg from Bandai, legacy line and Dino charge toys
What don't tell me Madame Woe isn't being released as a Super7 figure.
I haven't seen any updates saying otherwise. We got white ranger. Tigerzord & Madame Woe were meant to be part of that line, but people really said no. Even White Ranger stuff isn't very popular, which still surprises me.
@@MMPRtoys I hope she comes out I was hoping to get her since she was one of the monsters we didn't get as a figure from Bandai.
My current top 5:
Power Rangers RPM
Power Rangers Time Force
Power Rangers Jungle Fury
Power Rangers Ninja Storm
Power Rangers Zep
Bruno wanting to be forked by Mia, one for the vlog channel. 😊
I don't htink it's limited to Western audiences either, I remember when I was completing my core gokaiger SH Figuarts and Pink and Yellow were the hard to get ones as they had been released as exclusives
Dino thunder was a really cool toy line especially with all the monsters. If I hadn't been so broke I'd have gotten a lot more. Looking back they really went for broke with Dino thunder, huge toy line, lots of variety, US only villain, lots of unique footage. Just wasn't rewarded enough for them. I really fell off the American toys after that until lightning collection
Hello youtube, liked the video and a comment here for the algorithm. Cheers Bruno!
Great video!! Enjoyed it very much. Thank you!
The only thing I was like how is this HARD?! The failure to find the Silver Ranger of Dino Charge. I did get Albert, whew. Begrudgingly gought the Doc but she has so less of plastic that.... I didn't want to buy her in full price.
I'm not sure what you mean here. What was too expensive for less plastic..?
I just want to say that the pie Jerry made looks so good can someone tell me the recipe?
It was a "that" pie which contained "all good things!" I don't think even Jerry knows. There was vanilla pudding. I think both peanuts and peanut butter. Graham cracker crust, I think. Oh, sprinkles! I asked him if he had to make it again, could he? He said maybe if he did it soon or he'd forget. I don't think he had an actual recipe, he just made it up. Maybe a little odd, but I liked it.
Two idiots were making a big deal about SPD pink Zord not having it’s cardboard signs. Or that the delta squad was missing some paint apps and they were Comparing it to the Celph not coming out in the us. I’m like a missing arms a bigger issue then little cardboard signs that’s are easy to make yourself.
It's a shame girl figures don't sell well, but I still can't find the Lightning Collection Pink Zeo for a fair price.
I wish Hasbro didn't put her in a two pack.
That pie has me curious. Now I want the recipe.
Bruno. what if you were purple?
FORK ME MIA! lol when i started watching this channel back like 8 years ago when i was 10, i would ever have understood that joke
What, I just needed a fork... for my mystery pie! 😇
@@MMPRtoys hmmmmm😂😂😂
So that's why they do the arm formation for the Gao Elephant in SMP line
That's right! Totally forgot while I was making this video.
Man toys and joys takes me back. Bummed I never got to Hawaii to shop in person
Came for Dino Thunder and Dino Charge, Stayed for pie. That pie looks delish!
Now I want pie. Maybe I'll make a pie this week!
Anyways, great video as always!
Actually, speaking of Poisandra, she's gonna be the villain of an upcoming one-shot Power Rangers comic called "Power Rangers Infinity".