Every year Disney and Bandai of America take the previous year’s Sentai Team show from Japan and adapt it for the American market and release it as what ever flavor of Power Rangers we get.

As 2010 looms closer and the fourth quarter of toy sales Disney/BoA have NOT decided to bring over Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, which to be honest might have been a hard sell anyway. The show is a bit deep in Japanese culture, Kabuki theater, and the roles and legends of the Samurai.
So in essence it’s TOO Japanese for American markets, something that makes me chuckle when I read about it.

But, Power Ranger fans should not be dismayed, 2010 will bring us the show that started it all. That’s right, in 2009 around Christmas some old favorites will show up again. You might remember them . . . Jason, Billy, Trini, Zack, Kimberly, and Tommy. The original Mighty Morphin’ Power Ranger will be uncorked from their 1993 time capsule and remastered, and re-released with new toys and a new mission.

http://www.bandai.com/blog/press-release/mighty-morphin

To kick this off there is even a Power Cliffhanger contest for the wee nippers, who can use their
action figures to solve the cliffhanger video that BoA has released on their website. Shot in a Robot Chicken style, the video is cute and boasts a $10,000.00 prize for the tyke that wins the bounty with his Twisted Toyfare Fu.

http://www.bandai.com/powerrangers/videochallenge/

And to keep the current collectors happy, fans can go over to Wizard magazine’s website and vote for the chase figure you want in the next line of Rangers. This chase toy has usually been under the SUPER LEGENDS title and has been a retro figure of some sort from earlier Power Ranger lines. And this one will be no exception, except Wizard and BoA is letting you vote on which figure you would like to have released.

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/031209powerpoll.html

So with all that I am very happily looking forward to the Christmas season and Beyond as
some old favorites of mine are getting a chance to shine again.

I guess there is only one thing left to say,

IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME!

That makes two of us. Between this, Rainbow Brite and MOTUC my wallet is going to be screaming…

well if those are the new mmpr figures in the movie they did, they look pretty good to me… i got goosebumps watching when they showed the old rangers appearing and then the original megazord!  i know what i’ll be buying!

and i thought they already did that poll and kimberly the pink ranger won.  i could have sworn i read that… must research tomorrow!

actionfigure Kim did win that contest.  But I doubt they’ll be doing that now as they are releasing new figures of all of them. I just hope they do all three seasons so that way I can get my hands on some Alien Rangers and Battle Borgs.

they have started hitting shelves!!!! here are some pics!!!!

http://linearranger.com/MMPR-Toys/MMToy01.htm

the new figs are 4” tall (following along w/ the smaller figure trend).  No rita yet :( but i’m hoping soon!!

unfortunately no, rita was never made, but a prototype was shown in a bandai catalog along w/ a scorpina (in her monster form).

i can’t wait to find these. i think power rangers was my real first “collection” were i bought and saved all i could that had to do with power rangers.  it’s all stored away now… i should go find it and bring back the good stuff!

i found the red ranger, goldar and the Megazord at target yesterday!  they also had the bike things, but i want to get the core stuff before i go all crazy and buy it all.  they also had the blade blaster and dragon dagger (will def be picking those up later!)

i was pleasantly surprised that Megazord was 19.99! and it’s almost as big as the original (saw some out of package shots comparing the 2 on rangerboard)

got home late and now it’s time to go play!

go go power rangers!

I always wanted Rita. Im not feeling these new figures. The Goldar doesnt look as nice as the old one.
Zordon is funny though. Might pick up the Alpha figure if they make it over here (which probably means that we’ll get them all except Alpha in the UK )

We have these at my Target and I think they look great.  I wish I could get them, but I can’t really justify another new collection at this point.

I found the most of this revitalization of the Power Rangers, I want to buy all the figures when the United States in May.

rita!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://i.toynewsi.com/g/index.php?mode=view&album=2011_Toy_Fair/Bandai/Power_Rangers_Showroom&pic=IMG_2201.jpg&dispsize=600&start=0