Update on Legacy items, Poisandra
 

From Bruno at MMPR Toys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qquGF3Nx2EQ

That sucks about the belts. They're such an awkward thing to fix and look good, too. White over silver? Ugh.

Bandai keeps assuring us about the damn weapons, which they wouldn't have to do if the damn things just came with the rangers to start.

One of the main reasons I don't collect the 6-inch legacy line is because it seems like Bandai is being cheap and the figures are $20 EACH. Is it that expensive to make a small piece of plastic molded to look like a weapon? The 5-inch line did that for $10, even if it was unpainted. Look at the stuff you can get in a $20 figurart, hands, accessories, and maybe even a stand (not with Rider though), if Bandai wants to reach the collectors' market they have to go another level up from the kids' line. They're not even accurate with steroid muscles, can I at least get an Astro drill with my PRIS Red? Why not just use the extra plastic used to make the muscles into weapons?

I hope this is kind of a message to Bandai that people want the weapons for future releases, so that figures after this upcoming wave (If the line lasts that long) will just have the rangers' signature weapons in box with the build a zord piece.

They did make weapons though, they just haven't released them.

It's not even a question of why they haven't made the, they're made. We've seen the Powersword and Powerdaggers. It's even more befuddling than you make it out to be.

Con Exclusive Armored Red Ranger with all 5 Power Weapons :p

lol that wouldve been a straight up f**** you from bandai XDXD

You're being too generous.

...The figure would be a separate exclusive.

If they just made a straight up exclusive set for the Power Weapons, I don't know if I'd be angry or end up dying of laughter.

The belt situation is definitely disapointing. The belts being the wrong color isn't a big deal itself, but their response to the situation kinda bothers me. I guess all we can hope for is better communication between Bandai and their factories.

As for the weapons... they would be nice, but I don't think them not coming with the Rangers is as big of an issue as most other fans seem to. That said, if they really are planning on releasing them seperately, they better be available at retail. Also, their continued lack of any real announcement for them just furthers my confusion over the tease at PMC.

Anyways, Poisandra looks like she'll be a good figure. I just hope she's not too hard to find, and that I'm able to also get ahold of a Sledge at the same time.

You know I was kinda expecting and looking forward to a certain someone having a fan-gasm in this forum over the Poisandra figure who seems to be quiet

Oh, man, I hope that's not the final coloring on Candelira.

Holy sh!t, they're still making Posandra? I didn't think she'd come out, what with Dino Charge being over now.

A part of me still wants the signature weapons of each ranger to come with the sixth ranger of the respective team. Perhaps white MMPR could come with the weapons, given the lack of BAF part. Same thing with In Space silver, whenever that comes about.

One can only hope...

Yep, BoA totally low ball us without including their main weapons in the 6 in line. I have almost all Wave 1 except MMPR Red. I think that is the hardest one to find.
It's awesome they're making a Poisandra figure. To bad my Kmart seems to never have any 5 in villains.

That would really be the smartest way of doing it.

So Bandai's not gonna do it.

This! So much this! I got PR Figuarts because of this exact reason - they don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger cosplaying as the rangers. Now that they have discontinued making them, I would be more than happy to start buying the Bandai stuff. But only if they quit it with all the beefcaking.

They're not that beefed out, though. Certainly not like what we saw in previous ranger update figures, or even the proportions we see in the five inch line. This is more like body builder than steroid user.

Honestly I find the giant itties on the girls more distracting than the muscles on the guys.

I really do wish Bandai would reissue the MMPR Figaurts, though.

This. I will take a lesser figure that comes with everything over something that has great possibility but is missing things.



So do we know HOW we are getting Poisandra? Will they just shove her into the Ninja Steel wave? Will she be an exclusive? Will we get a special Dino Charge Wave (please please please... I want my 5" Brachio/Titanozord)

I think Bandai swung and missed when it came to the whole "Build a Megazord" idea. No one wants a semi-articulate 7inch Megazord - they want their Rangers with all their gear.

I expect in 2018 the end of "Build a Figure" and more fully painted weapons.

Should they discontinue the Build a Figure Megazords and focus on having Rangers with all their stuff, I would fully anticipate them re-releasing the MMPR rangers with the white belts and their power weapons.

Bandai takes every opportunity to keep MMPR on the shelves.

You're more optimistic then me the way Bandai's been talking I don't know if the line will last that long.

I forgot about that, I agree, those are worse. Most of the time the female rangers' stunt actors are males anyway.

Or maybe "build the battilizer add-on." That would use less plastic right? Just switch out some body parts and another weapon.

The white belts I could see a rerelease for online vendors but I don't know if store want to restock this stuff.

I do like the tiny megazords but I'd rather get those on their own then having to buy all the rangers. Like Bandai you already got the big megazords coming. Put in the weapons and cut the nonsense.

Personally I like the body types of the male rangers. It's the westerner in me. Our men aren't that small. Look at our superheroes in the comics and movies. I think they've gotten them down to a size where they don't look like steroid abuse. They look like the American/New Zealand actors we tend to get.


That said I would mind if the molds in the future got tweaked for the guys because I just don't want different paint jobs or a else having 6 different red rangers where the only difference is in the head........won't make it seem worth it.

Now the women.........dear lord Bandai not that is horrendous. I heard a rumor that the female figures weren't selling.

Well for me, first and foremost they look horrible. Bandai we have the internet, we don't need porn rangers. Cut that nonsense out. I'd much rather have the female Figuarts if they are going to continue that nonsense.

Then build wise it's a mess. So the arms are so so small and thin. Like did the female rangers how have skin and muscle? Then it's the feet. They made them so small that the figure can barely stand up.

Now let's talk about the skirt. Um it's a nice design but geeze I want the same articulation as the guys.

It's the little things on these figures which perplex me in some ways. Like if they didn't make the female figures so small, they be better as a base for the articulation for the male figures in the torso reason(more or less shared by the figuarts).


Now stuntmen wise I guess it depends but no ranger even with the actors in the suits have had their boobs poking at the camera with their super tiny waist that implies they have no organs. And some of the ladies had the chest for it.

It was certainly an interesting idea, but the execution of it certainly leaves something to be desired. Splitting the MMPR team into three waves of a line of questionable life-span also didn't help.
That would certainly be an interesting idea, just as long as they wouldn't leave any of the started BAF Megazords incomplete. That said, I don't imagine the line will live long enough for such a change to happen. Though I hope it either does, or they find a way to make the BAF Megazords work.

2018 is so far away though. Will the Legacy line even make it that far?

I think bandai should reissue the MMPR figuarts.. I already have, them, but I'd probably pick up a second set if they were reasonably priced.. Say $40-$50 each.

I'd also like to see figuarts MMPR movie versions. (Oh, and goldar, zedd, and Sphinx while they're at it lol)

As for this line.. I think they look good, but for some reason the lack of silver teeth on the green and red rangers helmets have totally turned me off of getting them. The exclusion of those minor (but major for the overall look) paint apps screams "cheap" to me.

You know what I would like? Get rid of the Megazord piece, give us their weapon, and then use that extra plastic to give us a Legacy Villain. Zedd for Wave 1, Goldar Wave 2, and then begin moving into the other series.

That's Bandai Tamashii Nations thought not Bandai of America. How much crossover they have I don't know but it's probably less than people think.

Yeah, that's a good point. And we all know how Sentai Figuarts did in Japan. :(

Finally The Waifu! I am, no lie, buying five of these. At least.