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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

MMPR is for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

I know so little about the Power Rangers I thought I'd Google it to see if there was anything I should know and "Oh boy!" what a can of worms I dug-up! Homophobia, exploitation of non-unionised actors, racism, a US TV-show using stock-footage of three other Japanese shows crashed together with A-Team like footage shot on the backlots and in the valleys round LA (funny how the 'City of Angels' has so much filth and darkness attached to it), umpteen companies and or marketers involved, several license and character switches/arguments and, yes; it should have been 'morphing' with a 'g'. . . 'cos they morph into Power Rangers!

Anyhoos; the real reason for my Googling - what each colour means/represents and/or whether they have specific names - turned up that there were various people in each colour and one chap had three colours, so we can ignore the whole sorry mess and just look at an overview of the [non-action-] figures out there . . .

20th Century Fox; ABC Kids; Bandai Entertainment; Capsule Toys; Children's Television; Dairanger; Disney; Fox Kids; Galoob Micro Machines; Gosei Sentai Dairanger; Haim Saban; Hasbro; Japanese/American Superheroes; Japanese TV Series; Kakuranger; Kellogg's Frosties; Kiba Ranger; Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger; Lionsgate; Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; MMPR Productions; Nickelodeon; Ninja Sentai Kakuranger; Power Rangers; Power Rangers franchise; Power Rangers Samurai; Regency Village Theater; Saban Brands; Saban Entertainment; Super Sentai; Toei's; White Ranger; Zyuranger;
My sample in its entirety (actually that's not strictly true, there may be some more, somewhere else?), bottom row are all 20mm oddities, which I assume are from gum-ball/capsule machines, top row will be looked at last in this post and we're about to look at the larger ones but the lone yellow chap in a Ranger'esque bodysuit (far right middle row) is, I think, from a Mega Bloks set - they clip into the gap between four studs?

20th Century Fox; ABC Kids; Bandai Entertainment; Capsule Toys; Children's Television; Dairanger; Disney; Fox Kids; Galoob Micro Machines; Gosei Sentai Dairanger; Haim Saban; Hasbro; Japanese/American Superheroes; Japanese TV Series; Kakuranger; Kellogg's Frosties; Kiba Ranger; Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger; Lionsgate; Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; MMPR Productions; Nickelodeon; Ninja Sentai Kakuranger; Power Rangers; Power Rangers franchise; Power Rangers Samurai; Regency Village Theater; Saban Brands; Saban Entertainment; Super Sentai; Toei's; White Ranger; Zyuranger;
These were probably also capsule 'prizes' although whether they all came originally in a key-ring casket or not, I don't know. I suspect that - in common with a lot of this stuff - they had as many marketing iterations as could be thought-up for them, in various parts of the world, by various wholesalers!

20th Century Fox; ABC Kids; Bandai Entertainment; Capsule Toys; Children's Television; Dairanger; Disney; Fox Kids; Galoob Micro Machines; Gosei Sentai Dairanger; Haim Saban; Hasbro; Japanese/American Superheroes; Japanese TV Series; Kakuranger; Kellogg's Frosties; Kiba Ranger; Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger; Lionsgate; Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; MMPR Productions; Nickelodeon; Ninja Sentai Kakuranger; Power Rangers; Power Rangers franchise; Power Rangers Samurai; Regency Village Theater; Saban Brands; Saban Entertainment; Super Sentai; Toei's; White Ranger; Zyuranger;
Full-on 54mm Power Rangers, I need to find a pink one, and a lose blue one would be useful for the full set, produced for Kellogg's Frosties by Crocco (who also supplied other stuff to the rival Weetabix I think?), there is a glow-in-the-dark white one to find as well; the usual likelihood of finding a green one or a white one are unlikely, both are the unloved Power Rangers in Toyland, so it's refreshing to see Crocco doing one of them!

20th Century Fox; ABC Kids; Bandai Entertainment; Capsule Toys; Children's Television; Dairanger; Disney; Fox Kids; Galoob Micro Machines; Gosei Sentai Dairanger; Haim Saban; Hasbro; Japanese/American Superheroes; Japanese TV Series; Kakuranger; Kellogg's Frosties; Kiba Ranger; Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger; Lionsgate; Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; MMPR Productions; Nickelodeon; Ninja Sentai Kakuranger; Power Rangers; Power Rangers franchise; Power Rangers Samurai; Regency Village Theater; Saban Brands; Saban Entertainment; Super Sentai; Toei's; White Ranger; Zyuranger;
Galoob Micromachines, except, not MM size, closer to Action Fleet/Battle Squads, but without the action figure element. Red's trike is a trike, but Blue and Black both get sidecar combinations which can be converted into plain motorcycles for a bit of variety! I'm missing a blue with both hands up - like Yellow (below).

20th Century Fox; ABC Kids; Bandai Entertainment; Capsule Toys; Children's Television; Dairanger; Disney; Fox Kids; Galoob Micro Machines; Gosei Sentai Dairanger; Haim Saban; Hasbro; Japanese/American Superheroes; Japanese TV Series; Kakuranger; Kellogg's Frosties; Kiba Ranger; Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger; Lionsgate; Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; MMPR Productions; Nickelodeon; Ninja Sentai Kakuranger; Power Rangers; Power Rangers franchise; Power Rangers Samurai; Regency Village Theater; Saban Brands; Saban Entertainment; Super Sentai; Toei's; White Ranger; Zyuranger;
Black (who was African American!), and the two girls; Yellow (Asian - Red was a Native American!) and pink (her parents probably vote Trump!). Black was the last of the original line-up to leave (citing racism), upon which a member of the production crew suggested he'd never got on with the rest of the cast & crew - despite lasting longest?

Read the whole thing on Wikipedia, it's everything that's wrong with capital, marketing, pop-culture and licensing!

20th Century Fox; ABC Kids; Bandai Entertainment; Capsule Toys; Children's Television; Dairanger; Disney; Fox Kids; Galoob Micro Machines; Gosei Sentai Dairanger; Haim Saban; Hasbro; Japanese/American Superheroes; Japanese TV Series; Kakuranger; Kellogg's Frosties; Kiba Ranger; Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger; Lionsgate; Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; MMPR Productions; Nickelodeon; Ninja Sentai Kakuranger; Power Rangers; Power Rangers franchise; Power Rangers Samurai; Regency Village Theater; Saban Brands; Saban Entertainment; Super Sentai; Toei's; White Ranger; Zyuranger;
Putty Patrollers -  yeah, well; whatever was happening behind the cameras, it WAS aimed at kids! These are the bad guys. Galoob never got round to green or white Power Rangers.

If anyone can help with ID's on the smallies, that would be appreciated, they may be like Kinder, with little simplified vehicles, but with 7,000+ results for 'Power Rangers Figures' on evilBay I wasn't going to hang-around and try to find out!

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