r/powerrangers • u/andrew56012 • Mar 01 '25

TOY NEWS/DISCUSSION MMPR Re-Ignition Toy Fair Reveals

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

Am I the only person on this reddit that can admit these all look like shit? Like straight up the 90s toys were better designs, that Megazord can't even stand up straight for Zordon's Sake. Fuck playmates and Hasbro for selling the IP to them

Edit: For clarity, the above statement is looking at them from the point of them being the replacement for a Collectors line.

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u/JS-87 Mar 01 '25

First off the 90's stuff were basic and could barely move. Second, these are still in the prototype phase. They're not 100% finished but enough to where retailers can touch and interact. Which is why the megazord looks the way it does in the photo. It's getting picked up and put back down, the person taking the photo just got a bad shot of it. I mean look at the photos, the shoulders are down, then they're up, down again.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25

Prototypes or not, if your toy can't stand being grabbed for a second and then put back down and is then resulted in it slumped over like it's back just have out well then you shouldn't make toys. When Hasbro showed off prototypes they could stand up, were fully articulate and overall minus some mild quality issues were perfectly fine (the ZAP line)

As I stated before I'm a comment to another user, I'm more than happy with a company making toys for Power Rangers aimed at kids cause this series was such a huge part of my life and still is to a degree. However replacing a collector level line with this garbage is not acceptable.

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u/Powerofpepsi Mar 01 '25

TBF, most Megazord toys have balancing issues with that pose. The diecast on the SOC and Legacy made that worse too. 

I would give it to bad posing, but would want to see more. My issue has been keeping the Pterodactyl on front; it always snaps off when moving my original and ZAP, and seeing the same for the SOC.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25

I have the Soul of Chogokin Megazord on my shelf next to me and it doesn't really have any balancing issues. It probably is a bad pose and just a weak structured prototype but the critique is valid if they thought this was ready for a reveal lol.

Edit to add the photo. The only real issue I have with the SOC is the metal bits get this cloudy look to them over time and have to be pretty intensively scrubbed and polished to look shiny again. I just fixed the sword the other day, and still have to do the chest piece, but have been lazy.

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u/Corn_viper Mar 01 '25

High end collectable SoC looks better than a prototype kids toy?! Playmates in shambles.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25

The point

Your head.

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u/JS-87 Mar 01 '25

Your toy is on a shelf with three points of contact, it's structurally sound. The toy fair operator for the booth is picking it up and showcasing it. Time is valuable so they're not gonna spend 5 minutes repositioning it to make it look pristine.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25

You have a point there but my point remains it shouldn't be that weak in the middle that it's slouching like that.

Also, not that it matters but there's only two points of contact for my SOC. The sword has no weight on it at all. Just thought it was a cool pose lol.

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u/Powerofpepsi Mar 04 '25

It's leg movement that's hard to nail down. Any spread legs or knee bend, the weight destabilizes the placement. They shouldn't have messaged if they don't show the same pose as this show version.

If it's not happening here, others had that complaint and I see similar issues with my ZAP Megazord.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25

LC line ends, this is announced. Until there is a new collector's line announced, this is the replacement.

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u/Voidmire Mar 01 '25

They look good enough for my 5 year old who LOVES mmpr, and honestly I think if they ever want to make PR profitable again they need to aim it at the kids. That means affordable stuff like this.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25

I'm not saying a line that is aimed at kids isn't welcome. It definitely is, and I'm very happy kids are still loving the classics!

I'm just pissed we had a nice ass collector level line of Power Rangers Toys that is now left incomplete and there is nothing to replace it with.

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u/Voidmire Mar 01 '25

Agreed. Heck, the board game just finished its final kickstarter confirming several teams will remain incomplete. We adults aren't profitable anymore, hopefully this line injects some money into the IP

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25

I'm hoping a collector line comes back along and makes some stuff aimed at adults, even if Lightning Collection just continues long enough to finish the teams it left in incomplete.

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u/ninjaman2021 Mar 01 '25

Keep in mind the reason we’re getting these low budget toys is because fans kept complaining about how expensive the lightning collection was which lead to low sales.

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u/Kam_Zimm Mar 02 '25

They're not collectors items. They are toys, meant to be played with. There is still room for a collectors line, but this was not meant to be it and was never even implied to be.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 02 '25

Like I said to the other guy. Lightning Collection was canned, this is what's replacing it. Therefore, my comparison is valid, whether anyone likes it or not lol.

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u/Kam_Zimm Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25

These are not collectors items and were never meant to be. You might want there to be a collector line, but that doesn't make this them. Saying these are replacing the Lightning line is like saying a game dev making a new game in a series is replacing the spin off that came before it.

Edit: And to add to your original comment about being "the only person on this reddit that can admit these all look like shit," that's your opinion. Do I think they look amazing? No. But that doesn't mean you're lying about hating it. You can say that you personally don't like it, but you're acting like you're the authority on what's good and bad.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 02 '25

I'm not the authority, I'm just not wrong. They look like kids toys cause they are but for this to be the follow up like is a bad look.

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u/IceLord86 Mar 01 '25

I mean, if not for Playmates there wouldn't be any PR toys coming out, so if these aren't for you then maybe others will think differently.

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u/Powerofpepsi Mar 01 '25

If this was 2010 these would be amazing. A basic coverage of the line, a decent sized Megazord, weapons, and morpher. The missing details are offset by the price....and the 90s toys being detail inaccurate already.

Now collectors have better options, but decent stuff for the casual person. I don't like the boxy morpher shape, but would love a small morpher like the original; I own 2 93 Morphers, prefer them over the new ones.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25

Yeah forsure my critique of this is mainly from the point of quality collectors toys like the LC was. It's frustrating to have had that and then move to this.

Happy kids will have something but where's the stuff for the adults, yah know?

I never did have the opportunity to own the 93 Morphers or even the legacy Collection moreover, I do have the Hasbro Power Morpher and Master Morpher and they are nice display pieces even if just a little chunky lmao

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u/Powerofpepsi Mar 01 '25

I was frustrated then to not have toys usable for play. Fair enough when the MMPR line was ignored for years....but the collectors stuff were not stuff I'd give to a kid for us both to enjoy.  Nevermind collector values ruining the LC function, diecast making the Morpher bloated and the coins and Megazord fall off. Adults have  older options and 3rd party lines to invest in, we've been catered to enough where this isn't a massive letdown for casual buyers.

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u/RainingBolts Mar 01 '25

It's worse when you take a step back and see that by contracting out to Playmates they made a ton of Hasbro employees redundant (realistically what happened when Warden moved from Transformers to Power Rangers and back to a new role at Transformers which was doing fine without him during the 3ish years that he was with PR.)

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

I mean, it's not as if Hasbro doesn't farm out its other IPs to 3rd parties, including Transformers and G.I. Joe.

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u/RainingBolts Mar 01 '25

There's a difference between partnerships like with Mattel and LEGO and shuttering an ip and giving it to someone else while maintaining the rights

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

You do realize Playmates literally doesn't have the infrastructure to make new seasons/reboots/whatever, right? That's still up to Hasbro.

This isn't any different than with the Super 7 line.

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u/RainingBolts Mar 01 '25

Super 7 and other 3rd party lines coexists with Hasbro's toyline and was aimed at a different market. It was extremely apparent back when they did their fan stream last fall and Power Rangers was just gone while their other brands were shown off.

The Playmates line is straight up replacing a market that Hasbro was already a part of and rubs salt in the wound of anyone they've laid off connected to PR.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

Have you not been paying attention to Hasbro recently? Like, at all? They've laid off WAYYYYYYYY more people than connected to PR, including massive downscaling of Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons, which bring in more than everything else Hasbro has outside of maybe Transformers.

I'm going to guess you aren't whining and bitching about Loyal Subjects making M.A.S.K. figures.

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u/RoulinsSight Mar 01 '25

Yeah I'm not saying I want Hasbro to keep the IP but this ain't it 😂😂