[TokuChris]

It's time for our first gallery and review of an item from the brand new Power Rangers Dino Supercharge line, the continuation of Power Rangers Dino Charge! First up is the brand new Purple Ranger, who made her debut (well, at least the "her" part debut anyways!) at the season finale of Power Rangers Dino Charge!

(with special thanks to @doughwatchin on Twitter for helping me find this figure!)

Let's jump straight to the review!

The Figure
Okay - let's cut straight to the chase. If you have the Pink Ranger 5" figure, then you have the Purple Ranger 5" figure but with different colors and a different helmet. That is literally the only difference between the two toys - the color and the helmet. Otherwise, they are identical in molding.

This means that the Purple Ranger suffers from the same leg articulation flaws that the last couple years of female Power Rangers figures have - meaning, they can bend their knees and that's it because the skirt (and molding underneath the skirt) totally destroys any actual leg articulation. That's a bummer - I'd love to be able to get her in to a cool pose like I can the male Rangers.

Otherwise, the arm articulation is standard with no issues (other than what little issues there are with the shoulder pad).

The biggest positive that this figure has is that it's just really pretty to look at. I did change lenses less than halfway through the shoot and you can tell by the picture quality increasing - and I don't know if that makes me love this figure so much or if it's just a more visually appealing figure. I don't know - you be the judge. For fun, I threw in some comparison shots with the Pink Ranger.

The Accessories
We've seen them in nearly every Ranger figure release thus far - the flimsy plastic Dino Saber and Dino Charge Morpher. They are molded incredibly well, but the Saber suffers from bending. Depending on how it's packaged, you may have a bent noodle of a sword before you even get to start posing. It's a bummer that will not be fixed anytime during this line (or in next year's line if the Bandai Japan figures of Shuriken Sentai Ninninger come up next ... those 5" figures have the same flimsy plastic).

The Good!

• Very visually appealing
• I love that we're getting EVERY Ranger this year!
• Claire Blackwelder is my favorite actress on the show and now I have a toy of her - yay!

The Bad

• Standard "SMH" reaction to female Ranger's and their leg articulation - aka no articulation
• Bent plastic swords ruin good photo-shoots
• My figure had a lot of "mold damage" ... little pivots in the helmet, scuffs on the mask, etc. ... I edited a lot of them out in the pictures but I did leave some, I hope I just had a lemon and that not only the figures are like this in the future from mold overuse

Overall Conclusion
Obviously, if you're collecting the Rangers then you need to pick up the Purple Ranger, if only because all we've had up until now is the vinyl figure out of Japan. While this figure is far from perfect (curse you leg articulation!), I still love how she looks, and think she's a worthy piece to add to your Ranger collection.

Plus Claire Blackwelder is amazing.