Ubernerd, Beyond Loserdome

  A few years ago, I came across the Mega Bloks Mighty Morphin Power Rangers line on Amazon and went all in.  The result was this blog and even my twitter account  @BeyondUbernerd .  Over the years, though, there was still one zord that I was missing, the Tigerzord. Using an extra Saber Tooth  Tiger, I finally filled that void. And since I was already taking pictures, I decided to go ahead and take new pictures of the rest of the zords. And then, of course a shot of the bad guys. I'd still like to make an Ivan Ooze and a Scorpina at some point. I still have the Megazord, my stand in for Titanus, and my custom Serpentera but they were too large for camera shots I was doing at the time. I'll work on getting new pictures of them in the future. 

Now that I have all of the officially released Ranger sets, its up to customizing to fill in the gaps. From the moment I saw the original sets on Amazon.com, I knew I wanted to have a Serpentera. Lego Ninjago helped me accomplish that dream. Now, obviously, this is not at all to scale. The series shows Serpentera to be more than triple the size of the Thunder Megazord and gave it the ability to destroy planets. That wasn't going to happen here :) However, I still wanted it to have some size over the Rangers' Zords. Standing on all 4 legs it is taller than the individual Zords but dwarfed by the Megazord and the Brachio Zord (Titanus). On its hind legs, it is double the size of the individual Zords and maybe a head taller than the Megazord. That works for me! Family portraits are great. To the left of Rita you can see my custom Baboo by my custom Squatt. Not happy with the head but there aren't really a lot of options.

So, 29 Blind Bags later, I completed the official collection with Lord Zedd. I've really enjoyed this series. Sure it is not the most detailed or articulated but there is just a certain fun factor that radiates from these figures. And now that it is complete, my focus has turned to what customs I can create. I've already posted about Rita Repulsa. By Zedd, she looks pretty great. Now I've added another custom with Squatt. It was challenging finding which lego pieces would best reflect the character. Here are my current Evil Space Alien leaders. I still have a few more in the works.

This will be a big update, as I had quite a few things all arrive around the same time! 1 - Titanus..?? Starting this collection began a massive Ebay search on my part to find other things that could help fill it out, specifically, something for Titanus. It didn't take along to find out that in 2003, Mega Bloks made a Brachio Zord for the Dino Thunder series. At first, the color scheme had me feeling a little iffy... but then I remembered that there had also been a special Titanus toy with similar colors.  Here it is compared with some other Zords. Obviously, the scale works pretty well. The Brachio Zord was supposed to function as a Command Center and Carrier, so it has some opening compartments. These were intended for minifigure sized Zords but they obviously work with the Rangers too. 2 - Megazord My second Megazord arrived this week. Even though I had already purchased one to make my custom Mastodon and Pterodactyl Zor...