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Originally Posted by Sheepweaver95

Hot Take; the Battlizer's morpher should've been the Wild Force team's primary morpher to begin with. It combines the classic belt-buckle morpher with a neat opening-up gimmick, which fits the Anniversary motif like a glove. And it would make far more sense for a team of nature-themed heroes to wield than a transforming flip-phone.

A fair argument, but unrealistic for the times!

This was the transitional period between Saban and Disney. Fox Kids was fading out and Wild Force moved to ABC Kids and ABC Family before it even finished! Despite the Exclusive aspects like the constant and ever-changing subplot involving Master Org/Victor Adler, and the inclusion of the then-obligatory Battlizer as well as the Jungle Blaster, Wild Force maintained a certain adherence to the source material at its core. There was no reason to expect that they would ever change Morphers in contrast to the source material cause that wasn't the mindset at the time! It wouldn't be until Jungle Fury, under Disney. In fact, you could argue that the Wild Force Battlizer Morpher was one of the first of its kind! Lost Galaxy was the only one prior to Wild Force in which the Battlizer Morpher was a new prop, and that thing was never a part of the Lost Galaxy toyline! This was the first real instance in which the Battlizer Morpher was something similar, but unique, and more importantly, something marketable in a toyline. Given the evidence used to back up your argument, one could argue that the Mighty Morphin' Power Morphers/Zyuranger Dino Bucklers were the direct inspiration for the Wild Force Battlizer Morpher!