Bandai America Samurai Megazord - Decent or FAIL?
 

So every now and then I see the Samurai Megazord on shelves. The fact that the origami aspect is left out makes me die a li- A LOT. Is there any redeeming factor for the Samurai Megazord? Bandai Japan's ShinkenOh looks like it kicks this things ass.

Was thinking the limbs might look cool with that transforming eggbot thing that the red ranger comes with.

I actually perfer the American Shinken-oh, it has WAY better thighs than his BOJ counterpart. sure he doesn't have the origami modes or the nice chrome, but the better proportions and price make up for it.

highly recommended along with the clawzord

I see the American version and then having the Japanese version in hand, I have to say that I much prefer the Japanese version, having the Origami mode means a lot to me since it was an important part of the show. The downside is that finding the rest of the components like Ebi and ox cart at a reasonable price is near impossible.

The lack of Origami modes is definitely a downside, but it makes up for it with much better proportions. Yeah, it's no Shinken-Oh, but it's a third of the price, and, for whatever reason, feels like a playable toy, rather than a fragile statue.

I didn't buy one, but did play with one when TRU did that Samurai demo in summer. Was ok, really wish they had the origami modes.

Eh, I think I'm just gonna save up for the SRC someday.

While I really like the proportions on the Samurai Megazord, I'm with Matrix Soul on this. A lack of origami modes is one hell of a deal breaker for me.

The SRC is amazing too. Small, but brilliant in every other way. I just wish they'd brought out some of the attachments for it.

Losing the origami seemed like killing the soul of the American version. The origami was one of the most appealing aspects of the Japanese DX.

ShinkenOh has so much more playability than its US counterpart, plus the paint detailing outshines the Samurai Megazord by far. Aside from being able to change into origami modes, ShinkenOh and the auxialley mecha are bigger in size than the Samurai versions Meaning the scale on the US zords to the aux zords are all off, so the Tenku buster comes up short.

While the Samurai Megazord is an alright version, if you want the full experience, try to hunt down ShinkenOh, you won't be disappointed...unless you're not into 11 Mecha brick combiners..

Decent.

For a costed down ShinkenOh, he isn't that bad.
But he does reek of when Power Rangers was gonna continue as a toy only franchise. The upswing in quality with the latter two Megazords kind if shows this.

I think it's a pretty decent toy. I like it a lot.

Hmm...I don't have Shinken Oh so i can't honestly say I'm speaking from experience. However, the video reviews and photos I have seen of Shinken Oh lead me to believe that while the emblem modes and transformations are better than the Samurai Megazord (in that they actually HAVE emblem modes), I really like the proportions better on the Samurai Megazord. In all honesty if I could own both, I would (and maybe I will...some day). I'm just not a huge fan of the overall chunky look of Shinken Oh. For $30 the Samurai Megazord is a pretty decent figure versus the $150-$200 you'll see Shinken Oh going for on eBay these days. It seems that the general theme of Power Ranger releases these days is they give up something and gain something in return.

I actually own the Samurai Megazord if that wasn't clear in my post.

I can never justify the price of importing a megazord to me thought I was kinda tempted with gokaioh then I remembered that there is just not enough toy for $60+, $25 for the zords I fell is a nice price plus I like BOA is FINALLY relising extra zords on there own insted of in a set which was my problem with the Dino Thunder mecha line :mad: WERE MISSING ONE ZORD FROM THAT LINE ONE. I also fell the BOA zords are proportioned better with the exception of DriveMax because its crap. Also I fell the only thing I would change about samurai zord is to make the yellow arm transformer into origami mood as it need to

I honestly can't say since I don't have Shinken-oh, but simply looking at the Samurai Megazord, it's a pretty decent toy. I love the nicer proportions and the toy at least feels solid and playable.

Out of curiosity from never having owned the Shinken-oh, is it fragile? Could anyone compare it to say, Gokai-oh?

Aside from not being able to do the whole origami thing, I realy like him ;)