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News Credits: 4 · by **King Kuuga** » Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:51 am

Emerje wrote:I wonder if this movie will make it to Japan and if they'll do their own, better version of the toys?

I doubt Japan would bother to make new toys for it. They may take the BOA toys and give them a better paint job, but I can't see them going any further than that.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 6:37 pm

King Kuuga wrote:
Emerje wrote:I wonder if this movie will make it to Japan and if they'll do their own, better version of the toys?

I doubt Japan would bother to make new toys for it. They may take the BOA toys and give them a better paint job, but I can't see them going any further than that.

Maybe a few years down the line we may get a Chogokin release, though depending on how the Megazord looks in the final movie, engineering a Soul Of Chogokin one may be a bit of a challenge, even for Bandai.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 11:14 pm

Here is a new officially announced movie toy. It is a big interactive megazord that has some interactive options and can store the 5 rangers. It will retail for 80$ in Canada (it was found on toysrus.ca but I cant find the listing anymore)

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 11:18 pm

Seeing it at this new angle shows a stronger resemblance to the head design of the original version (via the red horns), but it still looks more like a giant evil-looking ranger than a robot.

Heh, ironically, this thing looks more like a person in a spandex suit than the actual ranger suits do, whereas the rangers suits look more robotic than the actual robot does.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 11:40 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Heh, ironically, this thing looks more like a person in a spandex suit than the actual ranger suits do, whereas the rangers suits look more robotic than the actual robot does.

The ranger suits dont look very robotic too me. They look more alien and insect like, especially the helmets.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 11:52 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Heh, ironically, this thing looks more like a person in a spandex suit than the actual ranger suits do, whereas the rangers suits look more robotic than the actual robot does.

The ranger suits dont look very robotic too me. They look more alien and insect like, especially the helmets.

They look like extra sci-fi takes on Iron Man's suit to me (albeit, more flexible, though).

News Credits: 4 · by **King Kuuga** » Sat Nov 12, 2016 11:58 pm

william-james88 wrote:Here is a new officially announced movie toy. It is a big interactive megazord that has some interactive options and can store the 5 rangers. It will retail for 80$ in Canada (it was found on toysrus.ca but I cant find the listing anymore)

excuse you, that's not new, that's the same one that got revealed last week, just with more pictures of its features.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:00 am

Didnt realize it was the same one. Just wanted to spread the news of whatever new images I see.

News Credits: 4 · by **King Kuuga** » Sun Nov 13, 2016 2:50 am

Unforgivable! Off to the pit with you!

or maybe I'll just stuff you into a space dumpster for 10,000 years. I see no negative consequences that could ever come from doing that.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:42 am

Sabrblade wrote:They look like extra sci-fi takes on Iron Man's suit to me (albeit, more flexible, though).

They remind me more of this:

Emerje

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:42 am

Unboxing video of the Movie Interactive Megazord by the Black Nerd:

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:05 pm

And now we know what the zords look like. I lik he sabretooth tiger zord but thats it.

And here is the t-rex zord we already saw

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:57 pm

Why the extra legs? :shock:

I guess they were really going for insect hybrids, or at the very least alien-like.

That's not necessary!

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 2:05 pm

it also makes no sense because they revealed the morpher with the coins which have the image of the actual prehistoric animals looking like they did originally. Although, sure the coins in MMPR looked like the organic animals while they had robotic zords instead, but this is a big departure. That mastodon looks like a beetle. And I had feared as such when that leak happened. We can now see how they all combine for the leaked Megazord.

What I find odd though is that the leaked Megazord image had a price tag of $100 and yet these individual zords are supposedly priced at over $30. So it is a way better deal to just get the giant box set of combining zords than buy them individually. I dont think I will be buying any of these toys though. I am more interested in Ninja Steel toys (cheaper too).

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Wed Nov 16, 2016 5:33 pm

william-james88 wrote:What I find odd though is that the leaked Megazord image had a price tag of $100 and yet these individual zords are supposedly priced at over $30. So it is a way better deal to just get the giant box set of combining zords than buy them individually. I dont think I will be buying any of these toys though. I am more interested in Ninja Steel toys (cheaper too).

Not quite. The Item Numbering shows the individual Zords are split between two price points:

42555/42556 T-Rex

42560/42561 Mastodon
42560/42562 Triceratops
42560/42563 Saber-Toothed Tiger
42560/42564 Pteradactyl

The smaller ones are tentatively 20 bucks each.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 4:32 pm

william-james88 wrote:We can now see how they all combine for the leaked Megazord.

Can we? Because no matter how much I look at the Megazord I can't see how the Zords are supposed to combine at all. I'm going to assume the toy's design is a far cry from what we'll see in the movie itself, since there's a lot of details missing.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 5:25 pm

Shadowman wrote:
william-james88 wrote:We can now see how they all combine for the leaked Megazord.

Can we? Because no matter how much I look at the Megazord I can't see how the Zords are supposed to combine at all. I'm going to assume the toy's design is a far cry from what we'll see in the movie itself, since there's a lot of details missing.

I meant the toy images show us how they will combine for the combined toy megazord. You can see the ports under the Triceratops and the "mastodon". I have no clue how that will work for the movie, I think they will just merge there. The combined toy doesnt really look like the the combined movie zord, it doesnt even have hands :lol:

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Nov 21, 2016 8:02 pm

The T-Rex Zord is out along with some other movie merchandise! And the packaging does advertise the other Zords, plus what part they form.

The total cost is $120: $40 for the T-Rex and $20 each for the rest, as explained above. Makes the $100 gift set less hard to swallow, doesn't it?

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Nov 23, 2016 11:25 pm

The new Morpher is kinda cool, but man $40 CDN is really steep, that's $10 more than the Morpher from Dino Charge.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 9:56 am

First look at Alpha 5 (who is to be played by Bill Hader) - https://twitter.com/PowerRangersNOW/status/803954752040140800/photo/1

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:16 am

My gut reaction is feeling sick to my stomach. For some reason, its worse than when I saw the first TF designs for the movie. They were odd, but I kinda saw them in a real life setting, which we had not seen before. I think the difference here is that my image of these characters is already in live action, so this is a bigger change.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:19 am

I look at this and can't help but wonder. First the Megazord, now Alpha... Do these movie people just... not know what a robot is?

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:31 am

Sabrblade wrote:I look at this and can't help but wonder. First the Megazord, now Alpha... Do these movie people just... not know what a robot is?

Thats the thing, I dont know if these are still robots, especially Alpha.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:41 am

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:I look at this and can't help but wonder. First the Megazord, now Alpha... Do these movie people just... not know what a robot is?

Thats the thing, I dont know if these are still robots, especially Alpha.

I tell ya, it's like they took everything that's supposed to be made of metal and turn them into carbon-based organisms.

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 3:35 pm

Sabrblade wrote:I look at this and can't help but wonder. First the Megazord, now Alpha... Do these movie people just... not know what a robot is?

That's the thing about alien robots; they've never been seen by humanity in real life, so they don't have a standardized design philosophy. And you can actually laugh at anyone who suggests that they do.

I do not like Alpha's design, though, but I'll wait to see what it looks like moving in 3D.