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07-25-2017, 03:37 PM | #11 |
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I kind of agree here. We don't know how the Legacy Zords are selling. I know everyone wants Shogun Megazord, it's the most inaccurate of the original toys, so there's an especially strong want for a new one, but it was never a guarantee.
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07-25-2017, 04:19 PM | #12 |
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This year's SDCC was a joke as a whole for everyone but Hasbro. I think they are the only ones that showed up. Mattel had an abysmal display of JL movie stuff and wrestling figures, and that was it. They didn't even tell people that they were releasing new DC comic figures with updated articulation until AFTER SDCC was over with.
NECA showed nothing for Godzilla products, they had no cool Alien dioramas like they do every year, and what they revealed was lackluster. Yeah, I really need to run out and get Blade Runner 2049 figures, because that is what I have been missing in my collection. Square has yet to do anything with Final Fantasy VI as they have the DC and Marvel super ultra over stylized comic figures coming out along with their overpriced FFVII remake Cloud. Figuarts only revealed Black Goku for Dragon Ball and nothing else Toku, anime, or MonsterArts related. And then you had that joke of a booth that DC Collectibles had. None of the upcoming Icons they haven't canceled were on display, and they said little to nothing about the new Essentials line they are planning to replace Icons with. It's like they had put toys up and then left for the weekend. I guess companies forgot that this past weekend was SDCC? |
07-25-2017, 05:13 PM | #13 |
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Bandai totally dropped the ball. What was the only new thing actually revealed? The Power Staff? |
07-25-2017, 05:24 PM | #14 |
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I am an optimist and held out hope and they really did nothing. Were the Metallic Rangers even there? No Lion-Oh or anything from Ninja Steel. WHat BOA should do is release 3 current figures and 3 past PR figures per wave. This would have been a great place to show them....
Sadest, they dissed the fans by showing ZERO Legacy Megazords....well they showed Legacy Zords but I', tired from MMPR. Time to move on!!!!!! |
07-25-2017, 06:26 PM | #15 |
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is this a recipe for success? if bandai even cared about this line and want these toys to sell, the aux zords would be cheaper, stars would be able to read on the morpher and not break and they would added a spin gimmick to the morpher and zord. they have done in every other series since samurai when it comes to functionality and affordable but when it comes to this series, it's a complete 180. |
07-25-2017, 06:54 PM | #16 |
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I want to believe that they are saving all the good stuff for Power Morphicon but nonetheless reading Kickback's report does worry me a bit.
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07-25-2017, 09:07 PM | #17 |
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07-25-2017, 11:39 PM | #18 |
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07-26-2017, 12:49 AM | #19 |
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You 100% nailed it with this article. I attended SDCC all 5 days and was at the panel and I was just incredibly disappointed with Power Ranger's presence. For starters the booth was embarrassing. The fact that I had to stand in line TWICE for the photo op just to be able to get decent photographs and video of the toys on display is terrible. The Lion Fire Fortress Zord (one of the things I was looking forward to seeing) was so high up you couldn't see any features or really get a look at it's scale. Ughh.
I didn't have too much of an issue with the panel. It seemed to cover most of the Power Rangers merch-base and saved the good stuff for the end. I felt SOO bad for Ryan Peterson (the designer from Fisher-Price / Imaginext). His love of Power Rangers is real and his design work is some of the best stuff we've gotten recently as Ranger fans. But he seemed so out of his element on stage. I wanted to approach him after the panel to quickly congratulate him, thank him for his awesome work and maybe talk comic-con for a minute but he was gone before I had the chance to make it to the stage (and I was in the front row lol) |
07-26-2017, 06:32 AM | #20 |
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Indeed SDCC is the big one and seems like a waste to not do some agressive promoting. Which is why I assumed they are not ready yet with whatever they had in store for the consumers and fans for SDCC and just decided to wing it with what is available for now and later show other stuff when ready in other cons post-SDCC and the next biggest venue for this franchise that popped in my mind right off the bat was Power Morphicon.
Or maybe their marketing budget was small for this year since they must have spent a lot last year with a new season and a feature film in the works. Regardless it is sad to hear the overall response for this year's booth was lacking.
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