Super Sentai / Power Rangers
Sentai (Japanese: 戦隊), the Japanese word for task force (literally fighting team or squadron - Sentai was also a term used for Japanese squadrons in WWII), is most commonly used for classifying the "superhero team" genre of shows produced by Toei Company Ltd. and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi. The shows are of the tokusatsu genre, featuring live action characters and colorful special effects, and are aimed mainly at families. (Wikipedia)
Power Rangers is an ongoing saga of television series about the epic adventures teenagers or 20-somethings who transform into the titular superheroes. The show is directly tied into a vast merchandising empire largely owned by Japanese toy company Bandai.
While the concept is based on the Super Sentai series of yearly serials, it is not an English dub of the original, but rather a 'new' production with English-speaking actors spliced in with the original Japanese footage to varying ratios. Due to the very Japanese nature of many of Sentai's stories and design, the American shows are always at least slightly changed to fit a Western audience. (Wikipedia)
This category contains toys from both Sentai and Power Rangers genre.
1/1-scale items that are meant to be hand-held to role-play as a character from the show! These include (but are not limited to) changers, weapons, and other devices.
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It is not a bad toy per se, but it doesn’t excel beyond merely bringing back an old-school animation technique.
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You need to look at the mecha here not just as more transformable mecha, but as folding and twisting and bending in the same way as the ancient Japanese paper craft, origami.
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Okay, these Engine combos have just reached the point of ridiculousness...
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The similar flight helmet-design has also been compared to another earlier flying Super Sentai secondary mecha, the DX Delta Formation Time Shadow from 2000’s “Mirai Sentai TimeRanger”; which also had a cockpit on its chest and wings on its shoulders.
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Gold Ranger? I was never a huge fan of ZEO, but this is a cool figure.
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What Eva Unit 4A reviewed was the DX Drive Max Megazord and he already complained on how crapped up it was even before he noticed and saw the mayhem that Bandai America (BOA) caused after the Drive Max set. You would say I got tricked as well and so I got this piece of contraption that now seduces me to buy the other one to complete my set.
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"POWER PUNCH! NOW KICK! AGAIN-! POWER PUNCH! NOW KICK!"
Oh, my god...
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Like most of the other Engines, this one looks best when not combined in any way, though I think the Jet Mode is a little awkward even if a good idea, and throws that off a little. It’s a very reasonable design and is one of my favorites from the Engine line.
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In 2005, Toei released their annual Super Sentai show that depicted Magic as the main theme. Alongside Kamen Rider Hibiki, this show ran in the Super Hero Time slot of TV Asahi.
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Compared to the larger [Deluxe] High Octane Megazord, this one makes-up for some of its faults and it benefits greatly from the Retrofire style by slimming it down and making it look like it’s moving even when it’s not.
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So, this set is a mixed bag of tricks- I like the overall anime-style of the figure and line details, but some of the poseability is confusing & annoying.
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Aside from the oddly-chosen way the arms behave compared to each other, the minor limits with the skirt armor, and the rather-noticeable lack of paint on the back & arms, this set is definitely something you want to collect.
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The 2008 conversions were very successful, in my opinion, but this [2009] set is not. It was cheaply designed & built for a good reason, but I would easily have spent another $10 to bump the quality up a little.
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The White Ranger and the other Super Legends figures are the best Power Rangers figures to date.
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Leonardo Flores reviews Bandai's Godaikin's Goggle V and how his brother Michael should replace the part he threw away when he "cleaned" the room.
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