When you become an adult and take up a career, you find that it is harder to keep up with everything going on in the world. When you are a teacher, this becomes next to impossible. That is why I am again in a situation where I found out about a toy line that I like after it has already been axed. This week's victim - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Mega Bloks (Construx), 2016.
Mega has had many goes with different eras of Power Rangers but none of them ever appealed to me by design or by the content. However, discovering the Mighty Morphin variety of Rangers was a sweet surprise this Christmas. I was 7 years old when this brand entered my life. I vividly remember seeing the first teaser for the show on television and running outside and pretending to be these characters before I knew anything about it. There was a certain energy to the series that had a captivating power over we children of the early 90's. Which is why 7 year old me was running around shouting, "Tyrannosaurus!", before the show even aired.
Being a nostalgic toy buyer, my family is always quick to give me an Amazon or Ebay card as a gift. Digging around on Amazon, I was shocked to find out about these guys. Altogether, there are 5 sets and 4 of them were in the $10 range! So I nabbed them all :)
So right away, we have 3 Zords - Triceratops, Sabretooth Tiger, and Tyrannosaurus, 2 mini playsets - a construction site and the Command Center, and the Megazord. We also have 8 minifigures (9 counting Zordon) - Zack, Billy, Trini, Jason, Jason with Dragon Armor, Alpha 5, Goldar, and a Putty. Not a bad start to a collection... until you realize that this was it :/ I don't know if this was due to poor sales or that Hasbro was taking the license but this would be it, as far as sets.* No Mastodon. No Pterodactyl. No Dragonzord. No White Tigerzord. No Ninjazords. No Zeo... you get the idea.
*They did do a blind bag deal to get more figures, including White Ranger Tommy, Green Ranger Tommy, Lord Zedd, more Putties, a translucent Jason, and Kimberly. Also, there was an anniversary set that includes the 6 rangers with their blade blasters.
I decided to take apart the Megazord and do my best to use its pieces to make my missing core Zords. Overall, I like the way they turned out.
My current villains
Mega has had many goes with different eras of Power Rangers but none of them ever appealed to me by design or by the content. However, discovering the Mighty Morphin variety of Rangers was a sweet surprise this Christmas. I was 7 years old when this brand entered my life. I vividly remember seeing the first teaser for the show on television and running outside and pretending to be these characters before I knew anything about it. There was a certain energy to the series that had a captivating power over we children of the early 90's. Which is why 7 year old me was running around shouting, "Tyrannosaurus!", before the show even aired.
Being a nostalgic toy buyer, my family is always quick to give me an Amazon or Ebay card as a gift. Digging around on Amazon, I was shocked to find out about these guys. Altogether, there are 5 sets and 4 of them were in the $10 range! So I nabbed them all :)
*They did do a blind bag deal to get more figures, including White Ranger Tommy, Green Ranger Tommy, Lord Zedd, more Putties, a translucent Jason, and Kimberly. Also, there was an anniversary set that includes the 6 rangers with their blade blasters.
I decided to take apart the Megazord and do my best to use its pieces to make my missing core Zords. Overall, I like the way they turned out.
Here are the other Zords. I also made some changes to the Sabretooth Tiger and Triceratops.
And since I was on a roll, I decided to combine the two playsets to make a larger Command Center.
Here are my current Rangers
My current villains
And a group shot of the Zords
All of this was accomplished in 4 days, THANK YOU, Amazon Prime. Again, the price range on these is too great to pass up so I will be buying another Megazord and finish out the blind bag series. I've also found some great things on Ebay to help round this out.
#Nostalgiawin
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