"Whether it’s Bandai themselves or their bonafide spokesperson MMPRToys"

The paint job comments isn't the issue, it's who you are taking a jab at to me.




Now the expense of the figures. Some of these elements would not require a significant expense. An accurate Red MMPR head wouldn't have been more expensive.

A correct paint job wouldn't be more expensive. Grey belts was unprofessional. The interior of the morpher not having black paint would have been forgivable if they were consistent.

Weapons are a mixed bag. They would have to make a new mold. They couldn't really reuse them. The issue was how they handled it. Again unprofessional. The con red ranger getting a cheap little sword. Okay fine. But then how they went about releasing the others was unforgivable.

A lot of this shows they simply do not care how they present themselves to their customers.

I share the frustrations of many; Zeo Gold looks bad.....

they simply pinched pennies and simply think we are a joke.

Bandai is just telling fans they are lucky to get anything and either buy something subpar or the line is cancelled. That is why they keep delaying new Legacy Megazords and have little communication with fans about future plans. They do not think the fans are anything more than a tool.

Someone should tell BOA that their future is adult collectors and kids are moving on to electronics in droves. If BOA wants to survive, treat their current fans a little better and offer better products.

I cannot believe I saw the Legacy line jump in price, while lowering the quality and removing the BAF. COmplete lack of respect.

THIS! This is what I have been saying since I discovered the zord builder crapfest! Bandai America has no respect for consumers, be it collectors or children. They shit out sub par collector items that make BoJ kid toys look like collectors items, and then vomit out dollar store quality toys for the kiddies to play with because "kids don't care about quality toys, but parents should still be overcharged for them." I'm sorry but kids aren't going to play with greasy plastic hollow toys, and parents aren't going to buy toys that feel that cheap for $35. This whole mustard yellowish orange on the gold ranger scandal is just icing on the turd cake. I am done with Bandai America. Hell I am done with Power Rangers for now. I am actually going to get into collecting Digimon toys again, from Japan no less.

Agreed; BoA has made it quite obvious they don't give two shiitake mushrooms about how they're perceived by the consumer-base. Companies who do give two mushrooms about their base don't typically employ borderline-extortion tactics in order to coerce customers into buying their goods. BoA wants to slide its johnson down our throats and have us thank them for it afterwards.

In regards to cutting costs and expenses, the examples you stated could indeed be the result of cost-cutting measures. It really just comes down to what costs were cut and how they impacted the manufacturing process. There are many variables associated with production lines, not just material costs. Did the new BoA regime re-locate the production process to a new factory with less-skilled/experienced workers? Fire QA/QC personnel? Any one of these hypothetical changes could potentially result in production issues similar to what we've seen over the last year or so.

You do realize Zord Builder was created to sell the Megazords to kids right? And every indication is it worked.

And the reason they started using new molds for the Megazords after Jungle Fury was because parents didn't want to pay the higher cost for the Japanese mold.

Bull shit

I don't see why it's so hard to believe.

I don't care about this line anymore. After I saw how mess up zeo gold ranger look I done with this. Heck I don't think the line will last to see the psychos get release.

It really crazy and shitty how bandai shit all over the legacy figures and at the same time they give so much to their dragonball z line.

Incredible counter-argument.

Is it because it was a soft plastic-good gold plastic? In Transformer perspective, GPS is and was a thing, but has since been rectified. It's possible to do a gold swirl plastic on the cheap.