[astrakhan]

Late August, 1993: As my seventh birthday approaches, I start seeing these ads for a thing called "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers". I grew up watching Voltron, Transformers and Robotech in syndication, so the thought that you could actually have live action combining robots blew my little mind.

So on or around this date back then, about a week before my birthday, we decide to go to the Maryland State Fair. Before we do we hit the local Toys R' Us... and lo and behold, the Megazord is out on the shelf. My parents get it and we go on to the fair. Now I don't know how you were when you were a little kid, but delayed gratification was not exactly a strong point for me, so I grumbled my way through the fair until I could get home and open that baby up.

To this day the original Ultrazord has an important place in my collection. I actually used it as a prop in one of my reviews for Collected Editions. The show and toyline have had their ups and downs and I almost wish I didn't follow Sentai so that I wouldn't be dreading the adaptation of ToQGer. But I'm still proud to be a fan.