I never liked the Power Rangers, but I was older when they became popular with the kids. Maybe if I was younger I would have liked it, I did like Voltron, but at least Voltron didn't have lame human actors, and stupid plastic toy models being pushed along a rocky surface with dust blowing around to look like some kind of giant robot.
Well, now my kids are into Power Rangers. It all started when my oldest son saw some cheap plastic toy cell phone in the impulse buy rack at some check out, probably Wal*Mart. The phone's theme was Power Rangers. Well, of course my son asked about them and then needed to know all about them.
With Christmas approaching my son wanted Power Ranger toys. At the last minute I broke down and went out and got each of my sons a Red Power Ranger action figure, it has a button you push and it talks, not too bad. The annoyance with these POS toys started Christmas Day. These toys come with "snap" on weapons, armor, etc. I say "snap" because they don't snap on at all; they just kind of press on, and fall off with the slightest bump, or just picking up the action figure. After pressing the Red Ranger's sword on for the 100th time I finally got smart and rubber banded it on.
Since Christmas I picked each of them up a couple more action figures because it's kind of lame to just have one Power Ranger, he had no one else to do battle with, etc. So a couple of the new ones come with body armor, or the armor can form a robot, etc. The problem is these items don't snap together either, they just kind press together, and some of the pieces just sort of rest on top of the others, what the fuck!? Are these things meant to be put together and then put in a glass display case so a slight breeze won't fuck them up? These are supposed to be played with. What is the point? You make your Zord robot, or whatever it's called, so it can fall to pieces when another Power Ranger figure brushes up against it, or worse yet, you just want to pick it up and its head and legs fall off, or the arms. What shit!
Maybe I should just Krazy glue these plastic disasters together, but then that defeats the point of making the endless combinations of Power Rangers, because the originals were so lame they had to come up with an infinite number of variations of the same stupid characters (Alien Rangers, Zeo, Turbo, in Space, Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force, Wild Force, Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, S.P.D., Mystic Force, Operation Overdrive, Jungle Fury, and all the Zords that become Megazords, or whatever, holy fuck! Thanks to Wiki for that list of shit, glad I'm not the lame fuck who had to put that awful list together). Oh well, I guess they will still have fun with them, but the extra pieces may sit in a bin somewhere and collect dust.
So who here has the balls to admit they have a collection of these toys? As long as you're 14 or younger, I wouldn't too embarrassed to admit to it, well, maybe I would be. Maybe some of you have younger brothers or sisters that have these toys. If so, what do you think of them?
BlueHippo
The only good power rangers toy was the one with the flipping head from human to mask.
Also my talking sword from the White Ranger... oh yeah.
Every generation of power rangers gets crappier, i don't even wanna imagine the toys :(