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Stuart Smith
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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. -Stuart Smith |
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Mr Adventure
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Nice Goldar repaint.
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Joe Mello
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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
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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
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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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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
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Emerje
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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.
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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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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That looks really, really embarrassing.
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Polycell
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Tajima
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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
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Nice bait there! And by the way, anime was "never cool" either yet here you are. |
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Stuart Smith
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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
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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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