With the San Diego Comic Convention over, a few final details surrounding the various news and progress from Bandai have been cleared up thanks to our attending representatives.
Hopefully these answers should clear up some questions fans may have:
– Power Rangers Monopoly’s board graphic contains some Sentai Rangers that were not ever Power Rangers. This was accidental. The background behind the new images of classic Rangers is lifted straight from the Legendary War Sentai footage. Their existence should be considered a nod to Sentai and nothing more, said Saban Brands when the image was discovered.
– The decreased size of the Gokaiger toys for Super Megaforce was to keep them affordable and because here they are meant for kids. The keys are smaller so they would be cost effective, but the springs work as good if not better than the Gokaiger keys. There was no confirmation if US Rangers would receive keys or not because they are still in prototype stages at this time. The Legendary Megazord is smaller and less complex to be affordable for parents as a kids you and to incorporate the “build a zord” feature that Bandai states is a popular and successful feature for the toyline. It makes each zord playable with older zords. There was nothing they could say about Gokai Silver’s zord at this time.
– The Legendary Morpher (Mobirate) is planned to have electronic features but no details at this time as to what or if it’ll call out specific Rangers or seasons
– Saban Brands credits a lot of the resurgence of Power Rangers to the fan sites and wants us all to know it doesn’t go unnoticed or unappreciated.
– Bandai acknowledges a lack of preparedness for their SDCC product and plans to be more prepared at NYCC which will feature yet to be annouced exclusive(s)
– There are no plans for SDCC product to be released at retail at this time
– Legacy Dagger is due in 2014. There is no definite date set for Legacy Dragonzord as it is still in early stages (hence no product to show)
– While the entire fandom knows tons about Super Megaforce, no one is truly ready to talk about it except that there’s planned product to be released. Not even the cast would talk about it, instead choosing “I don’t know what you’re talking about” in a sly and over-exaggerated tone
– Through a mis-click in Bluefin Tamashii’s survey at SDCC, what we saw at the time was Power Rangers Zeo leading the “what team do you want to see as SH Figuarts” question. That was at one point on Sunday as 130,000 people walked through the convention halls, so do not take that as anything remotely definite. Just fun to know and speculate.
With the San Diego Comic Convention over, a few final details surrounding the various news and progress from Bandai have been cleared up thanks to our attending representatives.
Hopefully these answers should clear up some questions fans may have:
- The decreased size of the Gokaiger toys for Super Megaforce was to keep them affordable and because here they are meant for kids. The keys are smaller so they would be cost effective, but the springs work as good if not better than the Gokaiger keys. There was no confirmation if US Rangers would receive keys or not because they are still in prototype stages at this time. The Legendary Megazord is smaller and less complex to be affordable for parents as a kids you and to incorporate the "build a zord" feature that Bandai states is a popular and successful feature for the toyline. It makes each zord playable with older zords. There was nothing they could say about Gokai Silver's zord at this time.
- The Legendary Morpher (Mobirate) is planned to have electronic features but no details at this time as to what or if it'll call out specific Rangers or seasons
- Saban Brands credits a lot of the resurgence of Power Rangers to the fan sites and wants us all to know it doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated.
- Bandai acknowledges a lack of preparedness for their SDCC product and plans to be more prepared at NYCC which will feature yet to be annouced exclusive(s)
- There are no plans for SDCC product to be released at retail at this time
- Legacy Dagger is due in 2014. There is no definite date set for Legacy Dragonzord as it is still in early stages (hence no product to show)
- While the entire fandom knows tons about Super Megaforce, no one is truly ready to talk about it except that there's planned product to be released. Not even the cast would talk about it, instead choosing "I don't know what you're talking about" in a sly and over-exaggerated tone
- Through a mis-click in Bluefin Tamashii's survey at SDCC, what we saw at the time was Power Rangers Zeo leading the "what team do you want to see as SH Figuarts" question. That was at one point on Sunday as 130,000 people walked through the convention halls, so do not take that as anything remotely definite. Just fun to know and speculate.
I'm calling BS on the Sentai on the board being accidents due to being 'directly lifted from Legend War footage, there's no way whoever was making that picture did not know what they were doing. I know its just a nod to Sentai fans, but I don't think it was a mistake by the artist that they're there, there's just waaaaay too many Sentai there for that.
But the other stuff is just excuses for how cheap and crappy their toys are. I think making the Ranger Keys (that were small and not very detailed to begin with) tiny and taking out Gokaioh's main function is just crossing a line. I'm glad I have all the retail releases.
I like the ranger keys and the zordbuilder Gokai Oh. I don't even combine them with other megazord from past seasons, but the zordbuilder zords are just better toys than the sentai versions, hands down (and I have all the sentai zords from Gekiranger to Gokaiger). I just wish the blue on the arm was a little lighter in color.
The Ranger Keys being smaller gets us more detail, and I'm fine with that. Moving to smaller figures gave us painted backs on the figures up until this year, something we only got a handful of times before.
I'm stoked for the new line, but if it's not your cup of tea you have the sentai releases and even the super megaforce figuarts, so it's really something for everyone this year.
How is a very obvious spring not proof of them being spring loaded?
Either way, not having to flick up the bottom is not a worthy trade-off for ridiculously tiny, fat keys that look terrible.
I saw a comparison pics of the keys the helmets on the USA Keys are better they are such looted to be that helmet and not just painted
Either way, not having to flick up the bottom is not a worthy trade-off for ridiculously tiny, fat keys that look terrible.
I actually just took the Tamashii survey that was featured at SDCC.They have a link posted on their Twitter.
so i take it we wont get proper aux zords for the legendary megazord? sigh and no way i can afford to track down gokai oh and all the jp aux mechs
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