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10-18-2017, 05:10 AM | #51 |
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Bandai's biggest mistake was packing the two biggest characters in the franchise within the same wave in which only one of them could be double packed. If Tommy was gonna be the double packed figure in wave 1, it should have been Jason in wave 2. But there's something interesting that I haven't seen anyone touch on, and that's why did Bandai feel confident in double packing a girl in the first place?
Let's not forget that there were two series of 5 inch Legacy figures before the 6.5 inch figures began. Despite the incredibly stupid distribution of those figures they seemed to sell quite well. The girls from neither the show nor the 95 movie lingered at any store I visited the way these 6.5 inch figures have. In fact I seem to remember TV Kim being quite a good seller, and perhaps the most difficult one to find. That sales data could be what lead Bandai to believe the 6.5 inch Kim would have no trouble selling as the double packed figure. So the question to ask is why did the 5 inch Legacy girls sell just fine, whereas the 6.5 inch girls are still collecting dust over a year later? And I believe it ultimately comes down to the sculpts. Can anyone honestly look at these figures and wonder why people aren't buying them? They're easily contenders for the worst sculpts Bandai America has ever done. It's not that people don't want the girls, it's that people don't want female Power Rangers who look like they were drawn by Rob Liefeld. |
10-18-2017, 07:26 AM | #52 |
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Didn't the five inch figures have the exact same body shape though?
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10-18-2017, 08:29 AM | #53 |
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I'll be perfectly honest, I don't think sculpt is the reason. To me at least at the end of the day it comes down to shoddy wave design/assortment, lack of weapons and requiring you to re-buy figures to get the signature weapons, and the BAF. Yes the proportions for the females are in the realm of exaggeration, but why would that stop a kid? Didn't we all buy the females as kids so we could have a full team, favorite character, etc? Now for us adult collectors I could sort of see it being that we have lines such as Figuarts, but even then we seem to not mind as much.
In terms of the wave design I will never understand why Bandai thought having two teams per wave was a good idea. I don't speak for all of us or really anybody else, but I'd feel safe in guessing a good majority of us would prefer having a wave dedicated to one singular team and moving on to a new team for the next wave. Think about it, it took three waves to complete MMPR. Three. That is absurd. As is re-releasing a team just to provide weapons. I see no reason to re-buy a team you may already have just for weapons. Why not just release an accessory pack (of course this is if the BAF was always a thing from the beginning). Now if six ranger waves/extra ranger waves were always going to be a thing as well I could understand the split to have two three member teams done. But for a full 5 ranger core team? As far as the case assortment goes, yeah, that's just utterly bonkers. The weapons to me should've just always been included. Yes the BAF takes up space, but while I wouldn't want to pay $30-$35 as was asked on Twitter a while back, I'd at least pay $25 to get what we have and at least a weapon. Then again being that Bandai wants this format just make a weapon/accessory pack for each team. And the BAF, eh I don't really know what to say. I like the idea of having a little megazord, but as others have said for less than an entire set of the figures to built it you can get a bigger and more playable megazord.
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10-18-2017, 01:07 PM | #54 |
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Really an "all of the above" kinda thing, just kill the line.
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10-18-2017, 01:11 PM | #55 |
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I'd like the line to not die if possible. They're good figures, just poorly delivered.
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10-18-2017, 08:22 PM | #56 |
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How dare they do what is going to make them the most money.
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03-15-2018, 06:18 PM | #58 |
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i mean this thread doesn't mean much now considering Hasbro's doing the toys, and Hasbro's actually decent at female characters from what I can tell
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03-16-2018, 03:21 PM | #59 |
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Well considering Hasbro is pushing more female transformers... I mean POTP has Elita-1, Moonracer, Novastar, and Slash. Assuming this line's as short as it's looking without anymore waves to make a complete fembot combiner, that's still above average, and those are all mass market releases. Strongarm got a ton of figures in RID, and Winblade got quite a few too. So Hasbro's definitly trying to up the ammount of female characters getting toys.
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03-17-2018, 08:51 AM | #60 |
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