Hasbro Pink Ranger Problems (There's alot of them)
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Action Figure ChatterI'm just posting this here to warn anyone planning to buy the Lightning collection MMPR Pink Ranger, so you know what you're getting into before you buy.
The Pink Ranger has a host of problems:
1. Her sculpt looks unfinished. Her arms legs are too thin for the body, and the boots flare out too much at the top, making her look even smaller and scrawnier.
2. She's scaled too small even with the guy rangers. If you compare them she's the same size as the children Marvel Legends like Ms. Marvel. I think they should have made the girls the same height as the guys, even if it wouldn't be 100% show accurate.
3. The butterfly shoulders don't offer much range of motion beyond being able to pull the arms back really far, which won't look natural when posing. She has no more range in the front than your standard ML girl.
4. The arms lack double jointed elbows, which at this point is unacceptable after seeing them do it for Endgame Black Widow and Proxima Midnight. Hasbro can clearly do it, they just choose not to, and it severely affects the poses you can get the arms into, especially when trying to pose the bow and arrow.
5. The plastic the knee joints are made of is too soft and too thin because of how small the legs are. I've only been doing minor testing and the knee plastic is already showing stretch/stress marks just from bending the knees naturally. They're not going to last very long, and they warp very easily, even without heat.
6. The head is decently sculpted for the most part, but the teeth look unnatural and the paint apps make it close to nightmare fuel. It just looks really off.
7. The hands that hold the bow and arrow look too large for the body, partially because of how far back they placed the swivel hinge.
8. The paint apps overall are poor. The diamonds are particularly sloppy, often being too lightly applied or placed unevenly on the boots and gloves.
9. The skirt looks good and is very flexible, but the holster sticks out at an odd angle instead if resting down naturally.
All of these problems are very disappointing after seeing the decent job Hasbro put into the guy rangers. It feels like they put only the barest of effort into the female buck and as a result, it looks subpar, which is going to be a problem going forward as this is likely the buck that Hasbro will be using for every girl ranger.
Personally I would say only buy this figure if you're planning to customize or cannibalize it, otherwise it's really not worth fully price.
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I can send you some pics if you like. I took mine apart.
If you compare the anatomy. You will see how crap it is. Both figures waists are almost the same level, but then the lightning collection upper half is completely wrong
And I'm sure we can find reference pics to make the case for either opinion, but between those two I'll take the Lightning any day.
I think the Lightning's chest armor could stand to rest a little lower though.
No. It's bad, and it's starting to trickle into legends the new grey beast figure coming out has the lightning collection torso articulation and it looks. It has a big horizontal cut line in the front, where as if they had put the joint up the other way the cut would be hidden under the upper ball joint torso piece.
The lightning collection articulation doesn't work, it's overkill for a figure that's not going to get into the poses...., why give the females a better fly when the front isn't enabling into to move in very far due to the breast sculp. And no double joint elbow.
They can't even get paint basics right let alone articulation. And there is no excuse. They haven't only got afew concept art images to go off, like mcu figures, they have tons of reference material.
I think we should be more discerning. If you jut accept it and buy it, hasbro won't think they have a problem, and jut continue to put out subpar crap. If people stopped buying it and they saw a decline in sales, they would reasses.
Just because I can customize and paint a figure, shouldn't mean I have to. I'm a big mmpr fan, that's what started my toy collecting. People thought the legacy line was bad, this is seriously even worse.
Have you seen the wave 3 (??) mmpr red ranger.they've been so lazy they just reused the upper arms from the con exclusive 2 pack with zeo gold. It has the molded unpainted gold cuffs. That's a joke.
And yeah, my dream is to buy figures off the shelf and be happy with them so I don't have to modify them in any way. Never gonna happen though haha.
It's funny you bring up access to reference material, etc., we've had this same discussion on one of the big Mattel WWE figure forums. They keep releasing wrestlers with questionable parts usage, wrong decos, etc., despite everyone on that team being huge wrestling geeks. In the end the problem is that they're only human and mistakes and miscommunication happen.
It doesn't excuse the egregious stuff of course, like when a head is 20% too small for a body, but, ce la vie.
Myself I'm not wild about the Figuarts Rangers. They're a little too small in scale for my personal taste, and I don't like how the hip articulation looks near the crotch.
Can you provide a picture of the Red Ranger with the unpainted cuffs? I've been checking photos myself and they have new arms without the cuffs.
To be honest Lord Zedd is still the best out of the entire line so far. With him the sculpt works well with the articulation, it looks more natural and almost hidden. Definitely agree about his paints, I had to fix it to make him pop. The staff is definitely about a head too short. That said, this is the best Lord Zedd figure to date, and at the very least I think he is worth getting, even if you have to repaint him. The sculpt and the articulation is a thing of beauty with him, I was nothing but impressed with his range of motion and the care Hasbro put into designing his toy. I just wish the rest of the line had that much care.
I'm thinking of buying the Figuarts pink and yellow ranger to go with my lighnting collection. That or customize my own versions.
It's a trash line. I have a full set of the figuarts mmpr figures, including the exclusive armored figures. They're far more accurate. People are trying to make out the lightning collection is better than figuarts. They really aren't.
Don't buy them!!
Let's look at the proportions:
•They're very similar, so I don't know why you think "the whole line is a mess".
•I don't think the articulation is any worse than the marvel legends stuff, regardless of anyone's design philosophy. However I definitely prefer it over the funky-looking hips, knees and elbows on the figuarts fig. I agree that some sculpts benefit/suffer from certain articulation points though.
•It's common for a company to assign different sculptors/teams to different toy lines, and if we go off Mattel's stuff, it's also common for those teams to never communicate to give each other advice or coordinate on a unified scale.
•Putties in the show are just average dudes in spandex...same as the Power Rangers, so I don't know how that makes reusing parts "wrong". The only glaring problem I see is the boots are too high, as mentioned.
•We can't have it all. There will be parts reuse, we won't get all the accessories we want, paint will be missing, etc. That's the only way we can get articulated figures made at an affordable price.
From grabbing figures and customizing for years now, at some point I made peace with getting cool figures if not 100% accurate ones. I like the wrinkles in their suits even though they wear skin-tight spandex, I like sculpted detail instead of painted-on detail, as the situation requires, etc.
I'm not even a big Power Rangers fan, but these lightning figures looked cool enough that I made the buy, same with figs from other lines like Overwatch or Fortnite, I have no interest in the games but the figs are neat.
Anyway, I wouldn't say they're better than figuarts figs, they're just a different aesthetic aimed at different collectors.