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Today's subject is the Titanium Crawler! Avid fans of course know that the Max Solarzord was billed as Titanium Rangers personal zord in Lightspeed rescue. However since Titanium Ranger was produced entirely for Power Rangers, with no Sentai counterpart, he doesn't have a zord made specifically for him. The Bandai of America toyline for the series sought to rectify that with the Titanium Crawler.

Designed by PLEX, the company behind Sentai toy design for decades, this vehicle almost made it into the series. Unfortunately the budget for Lightspeed had already been stretched thin just from creating the Titanium Ranger suit and accessories. Add on top of this things like the Trans-Armor Cycle, Mega Battles, and Red Mobile Armor, and there simply was nothing left for the Titanium Crawler. That being said, the toy is still very fun. Sharing a design at a basic level with the Red Ranger's Mobile Armor this unique vehicle has it's own robot and vehicle mode.

The Robot mode stands roughly 11" tall and can accommodate a ranger figure standing up fully inside of it. In this mode the forward section of the vehicle becomes a handheld gun and there are also 2 included pressure firing missile launchers which are normally stored on the forearms but can also be held in either fist. As you'll note based on the boxes stock photography, the final product varies quite a bit in paint applications and a fair amount in mold details.

The Titanium Crawler mode is very very similar to the Omega Megazord in it's alternate configuration. Clearly inspired by it. Surprisingly, and undocumented via the instructions, the crawler can open up and form an appropriate cockpit for a ranger figure to pilot it. Showing again where the final product differs from stock images, there are even control stickes which rotate up from the waste for a ranger to grab. This adds some much needed playability to the otherwise brick that is the robot mode.

The included Titanium Ranger figure shares the same basic body mold as the Electronic Lights/Sounds figure of the character. Though because it has no electronics it's articulation isn't hindered. The head can actually rotate on the neck joint, and the shoulders can actually rotate 360 degrees this time. Also of note is that the gloves and boots are the properly colored white this time rather than the odd blue of the previous release. Combo-ing this version of the Titanium Ranger with the superb accessories of the previous one gives you one near perfect figure. Also included with this Titanium ranger figure is a Rescue Blaster accessory.

All in all this is actually a pretty damn nice set. The Titanium Ranger included with the Crawler is easily the best representation of the character that currently exists, and that includes the subpar Super Legends figure. The Titanium Crawler itself is actually quite fun, and I can never resist something that's original and truly inspired like this. Much like Titanium Ranger himself and his in show arsenal, this one feels like it was always meant to be a part of the show/toyline, rather than being solely designed for the US adaptation.

This thing is glorious.

It kind of reminds me of this

Isn't it? I was ridiculously pleased to get this thing. Like beyond impressed with it considering it's not only about 15 years old, but was solely designedfor the US toyline. This is the kind of original stuff I wish they'd get back to.
That Overdrive vehicle is in the same family as classic zord-like ones like Titanium Crawler for sure.

I remember this thing. I think i gave one to a friend as a birthday present. Wasn't there a red jet one for carter as well?

Yup! That's the Red Mobile Armor. It also turned into roughly the same robot mode but had a jet alternate mode. That one was featured in the show on occasion. Because of that the Titanium Crawler never made the cut

I had no idea Titanium also ahd his own vehicle, I must say it looks pretty awesome!

Thanks for the pics.

Eeyup, the "red mobile armor vehicle" it even showed up in one episode of the show, the one where Carter is stuck in a time loop or something like that.

I had it and it was pretty awesome.

Well it was kind of expensive to shoot any footage with the Titanium Ranger in it so I imagine getting this thing into the show would have been costly. Besides you always have your imagination Den-O

Imaginationnnnnnnn- whoops wrong show.

As I said in the intial post the shows budget was indeed too strained already to handle the addition of another vehicle like this. They'd already spent quite a bit of money on additional US footage on top of creating Titanium Ranger (with Morpher & Laser), the Trans-Armor Cycle & the Battlizer version of it when disassembled, the two Mega Battles, AND the Red Mobile Armor. There wasn't a dime left by that point.

Hence the very brief appearances of all of these US exclusive things. As I recall Titanium Ranger only appears in about 10 or 11 episodes total, in suit that is. And one more time after that in the "Time For Lightspeed" episode crossover with Time Force. Then a brief suit cameo coming up this year in Super Megaforce's finale.

Aww, I saw it in box and I thought it was a remold of Omega Mega...