Speaking of, why did they remove the phone part of the SPD morpher?

As in, the function? They actually didn't, it just wasn't used all too often other than talking to people back at the Delta Base.

Or do you mean a physical part? I don't know much about the Dekaranger Badge.

So the Japanese SP License release has three seperate modes, enabled by two panels - Morph, Phone, and Judgement. The American Delta Morpher got rid of the top panel and cut it down to just two modes - morph, and judgement. I assume it was due to manufacturing costs - they wanted a slightly cheaper toy for an easier sell, so they reduced the complexity - but it could have been licensing rights for faces if they were to copy the SP License exactly, given that has actor photos in it, or because the phone mode wasn't shown in show, so they got rid of it because it was no longer being advertised. For what it's worth, the bottom "morph" panel on the American release has the phone number panel of the Japanese release, replacing a layout of the character info there.

As for personal taste, I'd love an Astro Morpher. I just love the space voice, and the aesthetic. It's a great sci-fi design.

Well to answer my own question from earlier I think I'd want these Morphers to get the Lightning Collection treatment:

Quantum Morpher
Wolf Morpher (Jungle Fury)
Mercury Morpher
Gold Ptera Morpher
Rev Morpher
Brachio Morpher
Omega Morpher
Thunder Morpher

So take with a total grain of salt, but I saw a rumor stating that Wave 7 will be Dino Thunder Red, MMPR Z-Putty, MMPR White and MMPR Green. Also said an In Space Red/Astronema 2-pack and deluxe ($30) releases for King Sphinx and Pumpkin Rapper.


Again, nothings actually been confirmed, but be on the lookout.

How would you guys feel if full teams were split up between two waves? 3 male members of A team, 2 female members of B team; Next wave is the inverse.

I wonder why Hasbro isn't curating the waves like they do with Marvel Legends, where every wave has figures from a certain series or film

I’d be fine with it, though I’m not too sure 5 a wave is that possible. Instead it’d be more likely across 3 waves adding in the sixths... and now I say it out loud like that it’s clear why they didn’t do it that way.

I don't see much of this as being very likely, personally. Firstly, since Hasbro has only embraced Troop Building more and more as time has gone on, I don't see the Z-Putty getting a solo release in a mainline Wave. As a Pulse Exclusive and in a 2-Pack? Sure, but not a major spot.

I also don't see them doing a V2 of MMPR White this early in. Is it unheard of? No, but it's not very likely either. Again, maybe in a Multi-Pack of some form like how Zedd got updated, but not by itself.

The rest would be cool, but I'll believe them when I see them. My doubt about the other aspects of it casts a shadow on everything else.

Yeah, one of the main reasons these figures get more stuff than an average Marvel Legends does is that they don't have any BAFs and are also only 4 per Wave. Were they to bump it up, you can expect to be lucky for any character to even get alternate hands, let alone the unhelmetted heads and effect parts that are standard for every figure.

Dino Thunder White, bad helmet paint and all!

Seen at Walgreen's in Alexandria, Louisiana.

If the Sphinx King and Pumpkin Rapper rumours are true, I'm going to start throwing darts at boards at what to expect from this line. Like, surely, if you're gonna for for the MMPR monster market, you'd do Squat and Baboo first? Or Finster? Scorpina? Heck, even Rito (and the worst part is, I'd probably buy a Rito. I'm a sucker for Funny Skeleton Man) or Master Vile.

Meanwhile, on the topic of Goldar getting repacked, I've just realised this means we might see a "vanilla" release of SPD Omega without his bike in the mainline range, and considering those are available in my region (Thank you John Hasbro and your exclusive ****ery this is why you were trending the other day)... what I'm saying is, there's a chance of a release someday, sometime.