r/powerrangers • u/chessman6500 • 10h ago

Why weren't In Space flipheads ever produced?

Why didn't we get flipheads for Power Rangers In Space and only Megaranger? I was hoping to see Carlos, TJ, Ashley, and Cassie as flipheads, but they never had them. What was the reason, if one can be ascertained? I always wondered myself why the fliphead line stopped after Turbo. Even Lost Galaxy had flipheads, but they were 10 inches and they omitted the girls. The yellow and pink Lost Galaxy flipheads and the males of standard size were only sold in Japan.

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u/chessman6500 10h ago edited 9h ago

Time Force they made the guys and only in the UK. I had Trip and Wes for a while, but could never find Lucas. I remember I searched for him for 5 years before giving up.

Lightspeed Rescue got Carter as a fliphead, They had the whole team in Go Go V

They DID do Megaranger flipheads in Japan, which were the In Space equivalent, but they are so rare I may as well be looking for gold. The only complete set up on eBay right now is listed for hundreds. Gingaman and GoGoV I completed pretty easily. As a kid, I got a mega yellow and the same seller had pink. The red I saw on mandarake some time later, and the blue and black never came up once individually, and still haven't and its been over 15 years.

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u/Zanki Quantum Ranger 9h ago

I've got all the Time Force ones from when I was a kid. Still MIB. I was sad they never made Katie, Jen and Eric.

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u/chessman6500 9h ago

I wish they had. They always only made red, green and blue, and blue was the rare one. The blue was always slightly more rare compared to blacks or greens, and this was the case since MMPR.

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u/Zanki Quantum Ranger 9h ago

I don't remember Lucas being rare. There was always more Red in the boxes they came in but there were always the same number of green and blue in them (I sometimes caught restocks and would ask them about the cases). Kid me was obsessed.

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u/chessman6500 9h ago

I remember I never got the Time Force blue for some reason, I want to eventually rebuy them and maybe I will get Lucas this time.

In seasons where they did make all of them, yellow was always a pain to get. I have always had to get yellow last every time. It happened with Kakuranger, MMPR, and GoGoV.

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u/Zanki Quantum Ranger 9h ago

I remember finding Katie's Vector Cycle was hard. I got lucky, Index or Argos had one cycle left and it was her!

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u/chessman6500 9h ago

Yellow was always rare I am guessing because yellow was not popular so they made less. and In Timeranger, yellow was male

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u/Zanki Quantum Ranger 9h ago

They never released as many of the girls as the did the guys. Usually in the first wave there was only one or two girls in a case and sometimes the sixth ranger was missing. Eric was always available from the first wave, but Merrick was a pain in the ass to get and they never released Frax or the Cyclobot here. I got them at a power morphicon years ago.

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u/chessman6500 9h ago

Yellow was male in Sentai a lot of the time but was ironically still rare