First Look At The Playmates Toys Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Auto-Morphin' Figures

On 2/25/2025 at 11:29 AM, Roadpigmaster said:

The MMPR media is on Netflix so any kid, teenagers that like the current version and just want to watch more can go there and watch the origin story of the show to get familiar with them. Also not every 90s kid the ones from Hasbro since life can make you focus on some things but not so much on others... More casual fans of the show will see them and buy them just for their nostalgic look. ???

It would be interesting to see the viewing figures on the classic series to get a better understanding of how much younger generations are into MMPR rather than an era that they grew up with. Constant change has been the norm for Power Rangers for so long, you'd think it would only be the Adult Collector and casual fans that would gravitate toward MMPR, but I guess the numbers must be there at retail to justify it...

These look slightly more articulated than the Bandai/Hasbro remake flippy head figures. They are shaped even wonkier though. Genuinely question: would it be possible to make a figure with the whole head flipping feature thing in a normally proportioned figure? Does the internal spring mechanism thing really require that much additional space? I never took one of the old ones apart to see how the insides work. Not that I would necessarily want the head flipping thing, but I just mean in terms of overall figure appearance, couldnt they have made them look normal?

1 hour ago, Admiralty_Entertainment said:

I get that nostalgia is a powerful force in marketing right now, but are kids even aware of the Mighty Morphin' Ranger team at this stage? For a $10 price point, these should be aimed at current kids and I'd have thought they'd want more recent characters that they might have seen and connected with - *their* rangers - rather than yet another remake of the versions from three decades ago.

The MMPR media is on Netflix so any kid, teenagers that like the current version and just want to watch more can go there and watch the origin story of the show to get familiar with them. Also not every 90s kid the ones from Hasbro since life can make you focus on some things but not so much on others... More casual fans of the show will see them and buy them just for their nostalgic look. ???

I get that nostalgia is a powerful force in marketing right now, but are kids even aware of the Mighty Morphin' Ranger team at this stage? For a $10 price point, these should be aimed at current kids and I'd have thought they'd want more recent characters that they might have seen and connected with - *their* rangers - rather than yet another remake of the versions from three decades ago.

Going old school, which means I can skip all of this. It was honestly a neat feature as a kid, but I have no real nostalgia for those figures nor need to re-collect them. The torsos were so weirdly broad it really distorted the overall look of the figures.

Ok, maybe I'll pick up one of them just for the goofy hell of it.