[Tommy]

Bandai's biggest mistake was packing the two biggest characters in the franchise within the same wave in which only one of them could be double packed. If Tommy was gonna be the double packed figure in wave 1, it should have been Jason in wave 2. But there's something interesting that I haven't seen anyone touch on, and that's why did Bandai feel confident in double packing a girl in the first place?

Let's not forget that there were two series of 5 inch Legacy figures before the 6.5 inch figures began. Despite the incredibly stupid distribution of those figures they seemed to sell quite well. The girls from neither the show nor the 95 movie lingered at any store I visited the way these 6.5 inch figures have. In fact I seem to remember TV Kim being quite a good seller, and perhaps the most difficult one to find. That sales data could be what lead Bandai to believe the 6.5 inch Kim would have no trouble selling as the double packed figure.

So the question to ask is why did the 5 inch Legacy girls sell just fine, whereas the 6.5 inch girls are still collecting dust over a year later? And I believe it ultimately comes down to the sculpts. Can anyone honestly look at these figures and wonder why people aren't buying them?



They're easily contenders for the worst sculpts Bandai America has ever done. It's not that people don't want the girls, it's that people don't want female Power Rangers who look like they were drawn by Rob Liefeld.