Power Rangers PRG Chipley

Had to return as grandson had already received one

I found this to be very expensive @ €160 with delivery, even though I have a prime subscription, but my son really wants it. Still to be delivered, just hoping it arrives before Christmas

Hermoso juguete! A mi hijo le encantó. Se van uniendo las partes. Para hacer el robot grande o por separado son varios personajes. Igualitos a los de la serie. Incluso vale la pena para coleccionistas.

It is easy to get dragged along onto the gloom train that is the current Power Rangers fandom. It felt like a lot of people were waiting for this thing with dread as much as excitement. As such, my hopes for this toy were not too high, but the more time I spend with the Cosmic Fury Megazord, the more I like it. Yes, it’s a barely articulated brick, and that is disappointing in contrast to the excellent articulation in (some of) the prior Dino Fury line, and in contrast to the general standards that Hasbro has set across their toylines. The Dino Fury zords, as a reminder, were atypical, eschewing a lot of classic design elements to create something sleek, modular, and highly articulated. They were incredible toys, but in fairness, when they were all put together, the Dino Fury Megazords could look like kind of a mess. Even in the show. Especially in certain configurations. The array of individual zords was a mishmash of different sizes, and most did not have amazing articulation by themselves. Some were essentially just dinosaur shaped Lego blocks that got stuck onto another zord. They’re following that up with something much more traditional here, albeit with a continued emphasis on modularity. Cosmic Fury Megazord is stiff, blocky, stocky, chonky, cheesy, cool and uncomplicated. The red zord is a funky lion spaceship that forms the torso and the head for the Megazord. The other four zords are different animal-vehicle hybrids that can all work interchangeably as arms or legs. Red can also be converted into its own stand-alone humanoid form which dual-wields the pair of giant swords that are included in the box. It’s very neat and easy to understand and it has a pleasant uniformity in its mechanics that offsets its asymmetrical, wonky style. All of it looks very cool. The individual zords look cool, and the full Megazord looks cool. It looks better in person than it does in pictures or videos. While the Dino Fury line was enjoyably cerebral (if sometimes tedious to work with), the Cosmic Fury line is just fun and inviting, and I want to play with it. Articulation is almost non-existent. Forget about ankles. Nothing moves under the waist. No knees, no wrists, no elbows. Waist, shoulders, and head can do a three-sixty. Individual zords have just enough moving pieces to allow them to be folded into a vague approximation of a limb, and that’s it. And all of that is fine! This toy is awesome. The Cosmic Fury Megazord teeters precariously on whatever feet you stick under it, but it actually stands quite sturdily. It rocks, but doesn’t topple too easily. That sturdiness, combined with its simple transformation mechanics, makes it a great choice for younger kids; it is one of the best little-kid toys that any Power Rangers line has ever produced, and for that particular demographic, its lack of articulation is barely relevant. It does, after all, say “4+” on the box. Then again, anybody with a bit of cleverness can actually find some fun potential hidden within its limited articulation options and those Voltron-esque arms-that-end-in-animal-faces-instead-of-hands. This Megazord can’t actually grasp a sword by the handle, but I noticed a bunch of small peg holes all over the individual zords that could accommodate the pegs on the sides of the swords, and immediately started prototyping ideas for a whirling Mega-murder-zord. The Cosmic Fury Megazord shares the Zord-link system that was introduced in the Dino Fury line. What does this actually mean? Well, the Cosmic Fury Megazord has these big colorful orbs that connect at the lion’s shoulders and knees - using new, proprietary connectors - and then those orbs have Zord-link connectors that connect to the other zords to form the limbs of the Megazord. In contrast, the zords in the Dino Fury line were all just blanketed in Zord-link connectors (giving them their Lego-like aesthetic) so that you could stick the smaller zords all over the bigger humanoid zords to, essentially, equip them with big colorful weapons. There is a lot of potential for cross-play, although interchangeability between the lines does not work quite as well as one might hope. The biggest issue here is that the larger humanoid Dino Fury zords are all covered in male connectors, and the connectors on the Cosmic Fury limb-forming zords are also all male, so the capacity for retrofitting Cosmic Fury zords onto Dino Fury Megazords is disappointingly limited. But the smaller Dino Fury zords, with their plethora of connectors, do offer the Cosmic Fury Megazord a bunch of additional limb options, and you can stick the Cosmic Fury orb pieces all over the Dino Fury zords to achieve some cool (or silly) new looks. Overall, in spite of my complaints, if you have the Dino Fury zords, then the Cosmic Fury Megazord is simply a must-have. Mixing the two lines together is a blast. At the time of writing, the Cosmic Fury Megazord pack is priced the same as the older Dino Fury Megazord pack ($72.99 USD) even though the Dino Fury pack came with more plastic in it, produced a larger Megazord, and had much better articulation and more plentiful and complex combination options. Hasbro also sells Transformers toys for less than a hundred dollars that are about the same size as a Megazord and feature much more complex engineering along with mind-melting levels of articulation. Are they asking for too much money for this toy? What this offers in place of everything it doesn’t have is, mainly, great robustness. This is a toy that seems like it is going to be able to get smashed against other toys for years without critically breaking, again reinforcing the Cosmic Fury Megazord’s highest purpose as a young children’s toy. It also seems like Hasbro may have dialed in the quality of the Zord-link connectors compared to the previous line, as I find that all of the limb-forming zords come on and off easily enough without feeling too loose while they’re connected. The Dino Fury zord toys were notorious for randomly having some connectors that took a lot of force to attach while other connectors had trouble staying attached (and, indeed, I have found that interconnections between the two lines can be hampered by Dino Fury’s quality control issues). In the end, Hasbro made almost no concessions to adult fans with this toy, and that definitely might mean that it’s not worth the price to some. I do think the quality is there, and the designers/engineers just had different priorities from what some people would have preferred. I’m extremely pleased with this toy, and we are having tons of fun with it at my house.

Beau et solide robot belle couleur