[Tommy]

First off I just want to commend you Chris for writing an article like this and the prior one about the females, rather than being a shill for Bandai like certain others. Bandai needs to be called out on their BS or else things are never gonna change for the better.

On to the topic at hand, this shoddy assortment of Legacy figures doesn't surprise me in the slightest. The 6.5 inch Legacy figures have been riddled with problems from the get-go. From the terrible MMPR Red helmet sculpt, to the inaccurate shoulders on the MMPRs, to the grey belt fiasco. The build-a-figures no one asked for and ensuing lack of weapons. The questionable scale and body sculpts. The terrible distribution (MMPR Pink double packed, MMPR Red only single packed, 2nd wave Space Rangers impossible to find). To say this line has been a clusterfuck would be an understatement.

Ultimately I think the entire 6.5 inch line was a mistake. Bandai was doing really well with the 5 inch figures and I don't know why they didn't just stick with what was working instead of trying to emulate Marvel Legends. In one year we got the complete MMPR and Super Megaforce teams, 3 villains, a Red Ranger from every team, and 8 sixths. The following years we got 7 Dino Charge Rangers, the 6 MMPR Movie Rangers, and 13 villains. To scrap all of that progress and ask those who want older complete teams to start over at a new scale for double the price is where they lost me.

The only way that wouldn't have lost me is if they had been spiritual successors to figuarts, but near 7 inch figures with roided men and anorexic/silicone breasted women is not what I wanted from a PR line, and the fact that they didn't even come with personal weapons was the icing on the cake. I think the line is beyond salvageable at this point and Bandai should put it out of it's misery and go back to making cheap but respectable 5 inch figures which actually scale with their main line, as well as over a decade of older villains/vehicles/accessories/playsets.