I was just thinking that myself.

Pretty much. Still cool for those into them though, and [even if they are mostly reds] all of the 5" figures coming out by BoA right now are going to make a pretty impressive and full shelf.

But, while they are indeed not as bad as others, the ripped look still isn't for me.

Because Bandai has never taken it upon themselves to roid out Rangers in the past...

http://i.imgur.com/S0cuBxp.jpg

And they aren't using parts from the Thundercars line anyway. They might look the same at first glance, but if you look closer they're different.

The Blade Blaster scales better with the figuarts than the figuarts Blade Blaster.

They use pieces. They don't use the same chests (though the shoulder/neck area is the same), but the upper leg piece is the same (the part connected to the waist that connects to the middle leg piece), and it looks like Tigra has the same arms as the Armored Might figures.

These would've been sweet toys.

Fifteen years ago. Even actual superhero figures based off of actual over-muscled superheroes are better proportioned than this.

I know you keep saying that, but it's not true.

Ignoring that Thundercats never had a 5" line, the hip design is completely different on the 3-3/4" figures, and on the 6" figures the sculpts all over were unique to those characters, and had a higher level of articulation than this. Maybe the 6" and 8" classics figures, due to their simplistic designs, reused some parts, but I'm honestly comparing these pics to not only TC toy pics, but ones I own, and I'm not seeing any similarity. Again, Thundercats never existed in this scale, and if there is seemingly some kind of parts reuse in maybe the tructural aspects, I'd think it's more like similar design than actual re-use. Well that really is it, they can't re-use parts when the scale is totally different.

The thighs are not the same, as every Thundercats figure had swivel thighs with a visible cut (or universal hinge-ball on the little guys) and neither Tygra could've supplied either upper arm piece for the AM figures. (The AM figures have the male portion of the hinge on teh bicep, while both Tygras have the female portion on the bicep for the double-jointed elbows.) And if it's the should, it could also be neither. Again, scale issues aside, the design doesn't match either again, as AM figs have a hole in the shoulder that neither Tygra has.

The only thing (yes I'm making a lot of edits, but I want to be clear and fair as possible in case you are right) I see is that, at first glance, the AM figures seem to share a similar thigh design (with the muscle "hanging over" the hip) with the classics Thundercats, but upon any amount of inspection it's clear it' just a similar design choice, and the pieces are different still. (The muscles are slightly diferent, with the rangers having even more muscle tone near the hip, and the knee joint being differently shaped)

I don't know where this rumour of Thundercats part reuse came from, if it did happen once long ago, but it's certainly not true anymore, and not true here. I think you're seeing "they're both muscular humanoid toys made by the same company with a similar design type" and thinking "parts reuse." It's simply not possible.

Cool

I hopes these do well enough for Bandai to consider doing other teams. Given the fact that they have made just about every Red Ranger from PR they have a base for at least most of the guys.

2nd I hope I can actually get these before they sell out. I don't live near a TRU and only hit it up like once or twice a month. So I hope they make store distribution a little more even then the legacy morpher and megazord. I only saw those once and didn't have the money for them at the time. I might order Pink and Yellow online if I see them because knowing Bandai they'll pack those one per case even in a collectors line.

Err...why is Pink's arrow almost as tall as her body? :lol

It's a javelin. Doy.

Would be awesome if the weapons combined and we got a figure-sized Legacy Power Blaster.