I agree with everything, EXCEPT for one thing. Why are people upset about the non-transforming legacy zords? I see it as giving up the ability to transform in exchange for more articulation. They appear to be even more articulated than the Soul of Chogokin Megazord. It's meant for people who want to display them individually, what's so wrong with that?

edit: Though, I wouldn't be opposed to them doing what they did with the voltron figures.

This is devolution at its finest if there ever was one. A terrific display of punk-ass behavior is what this is. If Bandai America thinks they can get away with this tomfoolery selling dollar store quality merch at full price they are wrong. Judging by the experience Chris had this is like paying for a full course meal at a nice restaurant only to be served TV dinner by a waiter literally smoking a box of cigarettes. They failed the fans and they failed their customers.
They didn't just drop a ball. They placed a huge sickly beast of your choice on a faulty banquet table and have it defecate right in front of you like there is no tomorrow. They seriously need to get their act back together.

AND WHAT IS UP WITH THIS PAINT JOB? THIS IS SUPPOSED TO COST ME 25 US DOLLARS?!
Even the Jason toy himself is disappointed. LOOK AT HIS FACE.
http://www.tokunation.com/attachment...2&d=1510333880

And I've seen bootleg power rangers figures that had better quality paint jobs than this. Even if that is not the quality of the final product, seriously I would not want to buy this if this is what you display for promotion. I would not be surprised if the photographer was appalled as well taking this picture.

I'm pretty sure that they just used an actual vintage figure for those images, which speaks to another level of laziness on their part.

I've lurked for a while and this article made me finally create an account, so I could post and say thank you for writing this piece. Apparently my rant was too profane to post, so I'll keep it clean and short by saying that I will be voting with my wallet and I hope you all do as well, at least until Bandai America gets their act together.

Appreciate everyone's input. At the end of the day I just want quality to be a non-factor going forward. Release these figures in whatever crazy-ass way they want, just make sure they're painted correctly.

Get Zeo Gold's color right. Get some white paint on the screws of the Dino Thunder figures so it doesn't look so absurd. I'll spend $25 per figure if these problems can be corrected. But part of me believes that extra $5 would be pumped in to something I'm not interested in instead of going back in to the figures.

You probably are right about the vintage part. And I agree it is just lazy.

If they can't even be bothered to give a proper mockup of the product, then... Well I'm not ruling out the possibility of them having unearthed a few hundred containers of original figures somewhere in a Chinese port or off the bottom of the Pacific that they've decided to just sell as nostalgia items.

I think the ship started to sink the moment they revealed the legacy 6 inch figure line.
The one that they touted as "Listening to complaints and doing away with the He-Man styled figures"
...Only to release slightly less muscled men, and still impossibly proportioned women.
It didn't bother me (That's a lie, I was peeved), but it was kind of just a sign that they're not really interested in fan feedback. They just want to try and use the right keywords to get fans buzzing constantly over the next release.
Hell, you can see their desperation as, rather than teasing the Psycho rangers, they're outright telling people "If every fan doesn't drop $60 on the previous waves, you're not getting them at all" like a parent telling their child to finish their dinner for dessert.

They're done playing the game, and it shows.
When Hasbro, a company that's being ardently screamed at for cutting costs (Notably paint apps) on their figures is being heralded as superior in comparison, then there's a problem.

While I know that Megazords are a popular idea for Build a Figures, it would have been cool if they went a different route with that, and by that I mean Monsters, like the MMPR guys have parts for Goldar and stuff, that would have been cool, and you'd have a villain to pose them against.

What forbidden words am I saying in the post I'm trying to write. I'm trying to stick up for Bruno and Mia who didn't deserve to be slammed in this article. Is MMPRYOYS a banned word?