[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by DarkToyLord

Hey Triv..
and i ask this inquisitively.....what's your actual connection/tie to the Power Rangers??
I don't know your age but..did you watch them as a kid and like it ever since??
It's funny how some things that you DON'T have a tie to don't interest you at all.
Now looking at it..that IS a cool figure. But without someone pointing something out, every power ranger figure (aside from the color) is the same to me (again because i don't pay attention to them)
I know my kids used to like that show. I paid it no mind except for the fact that they did watch it.

SIDE NOTE: now that i think about it..lol..i do have the ....whatever their little robot sidekick was that stayed at their "homebase" I have that figure, the one that came with some playset. I remember i snagged it from my kids toys as the playset was making its way to the trash back in the day. I used to stand him next to Twiki from Buck Rogers...they were a team. ha

DTL...No worries. I'm in my mid 30s, and used to watch MMPR back when it debuted up until about the end of season 5 (Power Rangers Zeo, just before the second MMPR movie "Turbo"). After that, life just kinda caught up with me, college and what not, and I just wasn't able to keep up with the show. I also lost interest, as by this time, nearly all of the original cast on the show had been replaced, with the exception of the occasional cameo by Jason David Frank (Tommy) so the emotional investment in the characters also wasn't there. I've tried watching some of the series that have come since, including the recent Dino Thunder, but they just don't give me the warm fuzzies that those original seasons and characters did.

I will admit that I don't normally collect MMPR toys, as I only have a few, but I will put down money on them if I see one that I feel is extremely well done and is in scale with most of my collection. While I really liked the previous set of Legacy figures (especially the movie ones) I opted to pass on them since they were in in a 5" scale, but when I saw how good this new one was, and the fact that he was in a 6 inch scale, my urges just couldn't resist. I'm eager now to pick up the Red Ranger should I run into him again, and can't wait until the next series of figures releases.

While I wasn't initially thrilled about some of the changes in the casting for the new movie (I thought the original cast was pretty diverse to begin with, so switching things up was kinda unnecessary. Becky G does not look like someone who would inherently have the last name "Kwan".) I do like what I'm seeing so far, I'm loving the new look Rita and the redesigns of the suits, and hopefully will be geeking out again when the new movie drops next year.