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Stuart Smith
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 10:53 am
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ParaChomp wrote: | I might be using Hasbro as opposed to Bandai but my point stands. There was a dip in quality over the years. To top that off, there have been One-Step Changers with very little articulation. Similar can be said about this figure and its lack of moving joints. |
As far as Bandai is concerned all you have to do is compare Japanese Super Sentai toys to the American Power Ranger toy caunterparts. They cut a lot of corners and downgrade a lot of things. However this actually looks worse than Bandai's usual offering.
Judging from those pictures it doesn't even look like they combine together, which should be the first priority with talking about sentai robots. It doesn't even look like it belongs in the same toyline considering there's so much gunmetal grey for something that supposedly results from red, blue, pink, yellow, and blue robots.
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Mr Adventure
Joined: 14 Jul 2008
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 10:59 am
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Nice Goldar repaint.
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Joe Mello
Joined: 31 May 2004
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:03 am
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Stuart Smith wrote: | As far as Bandai is concerned all you have to do is compare Japanese Super Sentai toys to the American Power Ranger toy counterparts. They cut a lot of corners and downgrade a lot of things. |
A lot of that is because the American market isn't going to want to pay the premium Japan does for tokusatsu toys.
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Savion
Joined: 21 Jan 2016
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:37 am
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Wow thats extremely disappointing. Its so grey...
It doesn't look "Power Rangers super robot" at all. In fact it its design seems villainous. It also looks like a buff dude in a tight chain mail body suit lol.
Did they forget they were designing for kids? What kid wants to play with a grey hunking piece of plastic. I like the feet and some other parts but I feel like this design was trying to play it so safe/western(?) it ended up being boring which might alienate old fans and bore new ones.
The red dinobot model looks cheap too. I also see the Digimon comparisons people are making to these designs here too - sadly not in a good way in this case.
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AnimeLordLuis
Joined: 27 Jan 2015
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:59 am
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I'll save my final judgment for when I see what the megazord looks like in the movie but until than all I can say is that this zord certainly does look unique.
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Tajima
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 1:25 pm
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Hilarious to see all the "Power Rangers/Tokusatsu" fans freak out about this movie constantly.
Newsflash, your little show was never cool. They're trying to get at least a few normal people to see this movie.
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MagusGuardian
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 1:54 pm
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Tajima wrote: | Hilarious to see all the "Power Rangers/Tokusatsu" fans freak out about this movie constantly.
Newsflash, your little show was never cool. They're trying to get at least a few normal people to see this movie. |
wtbff is Normal? sure the super sentai counter part to mighty morphin was stale story wise but atleast it wasn't a thirty five pound block of cheese that no one wanted to eat
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Emerje
Joined: 10 Aug 2002
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 4:14 pm
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Wow, someone has been playing too much Metroid.
Color-wise, it's a cheaply made figure from Bandai America, a company that's so notorious for cutting costs they don't even always paint the backs of their figures. This probably isn't the best representation of the movie version's colors with all that gray probably being more metallic.
Tajima wrote: | Newsflash, your little show was never cool. |
Yeah, that thing you all like and have fond childhood memories of and has been on TV and toy store shelves for 20 years in America was a total failure and nobody likes it!
Emerje
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Tajima
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 5:05 pm
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Emerje wrote: |
Yeah, that thing you all like and have fond childhood memories of and has been on TV and toy store shelves for 20 years in America was a total failure and nobody likes it!
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No one said that; but good job (not really) changing my entire argument, and even going as far as to substitute new words that I never said in your sad attempt to "paraphrase" me. You'd go far in the political arena.
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penguintruth
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 5:19 pm
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That looks really, really embarrassing.
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Polycell
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:46 pm
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Savion wrote: | Wow thats extremely disappointing. Its so grey...
It doesn't look "Power Rangers super robot" at all. |
Too grey by any standard. The t-rex and sabre tooth zords are there only in the sense of little dabs of paint and the mastodon, triceratops and pterodactyl zords are nowhere to be seen at all. It's like they forgot it's supposed to be a combination of pieces. I'd actually like to see what sort of animation they've cooked up to make this work.
Quote: | In fact it its design seems villainous. It also looks like a buff dude in a tight chain mail body suit lol. |
Or an Ecto-Morphicon. Are we sure somebody didn't goof up and show us Ivan Ooze instead?
Quote: | Did they forget they were designing for kids? What kid wants to play with a grey hunking piece of plastic. I like the feet and some other parts but I feel like this design was trying to play it so safe/western(?) it ended up being boring which might alienate old fans and bore new ones. |
They're not designing for kids. They're trying to reach an adult audience they don't seem to understand. If they got out of the dark'n'edgy hugbox and grabbed some second opinions, they could've avoided this embarrassment.
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Tajima
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:27 pm
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Polycell wrote: | If they got out of the dark'n'edgy hugbox and grabbed some second opinions, they could've avoided this embarrassment. |
Yeah, they totally should have interviewed some hardcore Power Rangers/Anime fans for input on the design.
I'm sure that would've gone really well.
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ew121
Joined: 25 Nov 2014
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 8:03 pm
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Tajima wrote: | Hilarious to see all the "Power Rangers/Tokusatsu" fans freak out about this movie constantly.
Newsflash, your little show was never cool. They're trying to get at least a few normal people to see this movie. |
Nice bait there!
And by the way, anime was "never cool" either yet here you are.
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Stuart Smith
Joined: 13 Jan 2013
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 9:38 pm
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Tajima wrote: | Hilarious to see all the "Power Rangers/Tokusatsu" fans freak out about this movie constantly.
Newsflash, your little show was never cool. They're trying to get at least a few normal people to see this movie. |
Trolling aside, you are right about that last one. Hollywood does not care about fans of established franchises they only care about the general audience. You're never going to see a faithful adaption out of movies because they always cast their net out as wide as possible.
-Stuartt Smith
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Merman-X
Joined: 08 Apr 2016
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:13 am
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everyone should have realized this isn't the transforming & combining version of the toy, there is an image of the proper combining toy few days ago, so far it looks like it would pass as a Kyoryuger/Dino Charge Megazord in terms of design as a toy so far.
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