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Ahh yes 2004, what a simpler time it was. I remember being extremely excited for Dino Thunder. Thanks the flashback man, it does not seem like it was 20 years ago. Feels like it was yesterday.
Boo on the haters! Bruno is a human, you should give him and Mia credit for having integrity and leaving that "Error" in. Like c'mon folks there are so a lot of dino themed sentais etc.
@@Key-A1 One of the times I meant to say "Thunder" I slipped and said "Charge" and for a good number of fans, that becomes their focus. It's pretty obnoxious when you're posting kinda fancy/unique stuff and they get hung up on that. But, nothing new. It's a fan thing, I know. Wish I'd caught that. We're trying to do too many things at once right now. 😕
Happy 20th anniversary to Dino Thunder, one of the best Power Rangera seasons of all time and my favorite of all time. Now that I got the Lightning Collection team complete, I shall get the Zords next, even the US Blizzard Force Megazord to be a player 2 Replicantzord. Weirdly, they made some Blizzard Force Megazord-themed toys that were accurate to the show but only the Megazord wasn't. Also Cephalazord should have been included with Mezodon or a proper Blizzard Force Megazord that didn't have a green Pterazord. Also I remember seeing plenty of Dino Thunder Yellow Ranger bikes along with the others at my KB Toys.
I like this retrospective on a line. I wasn’t collecting toys when DT was on air so learning how difficult it was to get Yellow and the purple theory I found super interesting! If there’s more stories like this I’d be interested in hearing about them!
Love this step back in time👌🏼I don't know of anyone else who has documented so much of their life,it really is brilliant you have all that footage,I know I would like to see more old stuff👏🏼great video.
That Purple Theory does seem plausible for Bandai at the time. Funny that nearly a decade later we had them try to make that purple Tricera Zord for Dino Charge assumedly for the same reason.
They tried to say that was an error, but I'm not sure I believe them. I think the didn't want a Megazord with a bright pink arm but then with social media, fans said "WTF?!" and they changed it back. In that case, I guess purple was the lesser evil.
I really enjoyed this episode! I think a whole series of retrospective toy collecting for each season would be amazing! I was not old enough to be seriously collecting back in the early 2000s so hearing your stories is a great history lesson. I really enjoyed the 2004 Toys R Us footage along with it. Thanks Bruno and Mia!
I loved seeing the flash backs of your projects from 2004. As a long time fan I have only seen flashbacks up to ninja storm and they skipped to rpm. Seeing that Triassic ranger costume felt like the undiscovered chronicles of Bruno’s live and I’d love to see those years from 2004-2008.
I used to had the Triassic Megazord plus the all the zords but i don't have it anymore which was disappointing. I had a small collection of Dino Thunder and WildForce..
Dude, that failing to find the yellow ranger figure gave me flashbacks, I never found her. Also, no Cephalazord is beyond dumb. Also, holy smokes I had no clue Shout! was already around by 2004.
Shout was in its infancy back in 04. Founded in 2002 but I don't think much was really doin' until the next year. And of course I started bugging that very nice man who started the company to put PR & Sentai on DVD. Disney said no.
The color theory seems plausible. For certain franchises, particular colors just don't sell as well for some reason. I remember with Bionicle back in the day, the Toa of Stone were colored yellow and orange, and even skipped entirely in some waves because the initial brown color didn't sell as well as the other ones despite being beloved characters in that line.
I think another reason why the cephalazord wasn't released in North America was due to the action feature. That was around the time toy companies were being sued for inappropriate toys
I think I put that theory to rest in the video from last night. Perhaps if that one stood out, but when you look at literally every other Zord, that's the safest one of all of them.
I don't know about that. Hasbro would have to make that entire line then, and they don't make the toys anymore. It's great they we had Legacy then Lightning Collection, but really the time to buy the toys is during their season. Even back in 2004 I was buying everything from Japan. Back then we still had eBay, BBTS, ToysNJoys... there were options. Bandai America & Japan shared molds so you could buy the one thing you were missing and it'd work just fine. Back then shipping also wasn't so insane.
How STRANGE is it that last night I was watching videos about the Blizzard Force Megazord/BakurenOh, and you just uploaded a video that features it and its Japanese counterpart! Did you read my mind or something?? Haha. I’ve always loved its design, and thought it was interesting that it got a release here in the US despite only appearing in one episode, and the Black Ranger’s Zord not getting a one, though I understand after watching this video.
Very sparkly resin figures Bruno , if I was in toys r us in 2004 I’d never want to leave ( I’m still a toys r us kid). Happy 20 year anniversary dino thunder you may be one of my favorite Disney era series ( almost completed the lighting collection figures) although messagog will unfortunately haunt my nightmares forever. ps Bruno I think that new quote of yours needs a T-shirt design
Since Abaranger has reached its 20th Anniversary, that would have been the perfect opportunity for Toei to release the Deluxe Bracchio Zord. Don't worry, nothing's wrong with the smaller version
Smaller fits on the shelf better for sure! Younger-me really wanted the giant size. Now I'm wondering if that would even fit on my current shelf. Might be too big even for me!
I think they were just trying to appeal to boys and not thinking about the actual name, and even stranger, almost positive they didn't even call it that on TV, it was the Replicantzord.
You forget there were 3 purple words in the Wildhorse toy line! The American set for gaoknight had a purple version of the bull zord that couldn't transform.
I gave you that edit just to make sure no "you forgot" originally I didn't film anything about Wild Force, but there were purple Zords in Wild Force. The purple bison is on this channel, it was included with Ultimus Megazord and that came with the Soul Bird. I was working on Power Rangers at the time and doing what I could to get the elephant Zord included in that set, but sadly it wasn't meant to be. Bison falls under the same previous examples as "part of a set" and perhaps Bandai found out during Wild Force that purple was a problem color. I really don't know. Season 1 had dolls for the girls. That clearly did not continue. What we got varied by years and they do market research as well as learn from previous seasons. Again I'm guessing, but purple was undoubtedly an unlucky color for the Dino Thunder DX line.
...I didn't need that either. It's pretty funny to look back at these toy hunts that had "worst selection ever!" what a wonderful terrible selection that was.
@@MMPRtoys yeah I bet the poor sales of the command megazord contributed to the decision of not releasing the Revolver Mammoth. It would have likely shelf warmed too
And two seasons later we got wolzard in mystic force that lots of people seem to love, but they hardly made megazords of l. Instead we got the brightsteel megazord. I think your right about purple
True, we did get a Koragg figure, but no Zord for him. In that case though, I think it falls under "fans don't like bad guys." Back then I thought it was so crazy Bandai didn't make more bad guys, and they heard all about that from me when we started meeting with them after we launched this channel, but, I think they were right. 😕Back then I thought I spoke for more people, which was "we want girls, we want bad guys." Nope! Bruno wants girls and bad guys. Even now LC & Super7 bad guys continue to shelf-warm even on clearance (and Madame Woe got cancelled entirely). And in Japan they rarely make figures of the monsters, which I used to think was so weird, but maybe it's the same there too.
@@MMPRtoys I think Koragg is a mandala effect. I swear I remember seeing the megazord at my local Walmart and target, but people swear it never existed in the west.
Yep, that mystery is solved. Power Ranger is a brand boys and girls can enjoy, but Bandai was targeting the boys with those action figures. I'm not sure what I would get out of the toy isle in 2004. I was deep into video games at the time. I ordered the SOTA Street Fighter action figures online. I never saw them on store shelves. Action figures didn't really start to rock until 6 inch figures became the standard.
i think they were worried kids would hurt themselves with the celphazord with kids hitting each other in the eye with the toy's gimmick, plus we did get a purple one doing the dino charge toy line a replaint of the grey packy zord
Which of the Dino Thunder Zords would you say were safer? I'm seeing a lot of pointy drills and spikey things. The one they omitted I would say was by far the least dangerous. I'm going to rule that out. Dino Charge came out in 2015. By then we were getting purple, girls, monsters, and all that good stuff... which fans were not buying, so we got less of it the next year and Bandai pulled all females from 2018 line as they transferred to Hasbro b/c they didn't want a bunch of things sitting on shelves.
Very true. Most of the Mystic Force stuff was red, yellow, green, and 50 versions of Solaris Knight, not one of which was screen accurate (what happened there Bandai...??) Thankfully we did at least get blue and pink main line and legend figures, was that it? I don't think there were any vehicles or other things for the girls that year.
That was actually a blue color, not purple, but I said in this video, we had purple in Wild Force and Jungle Fury too. It varies by year. Again that was in a Megazord set, not sold individually, which I'm saying may have made it easier for Wild Force. I'm also pointing to the fact that yellow was scarce, and they took all of the purple out of the Blizzard Force. So, at least in that year, Bandai had decided to really aim the line at boys. Bandai struggled to sell girls all the way up to the very end in 2018, then Hasbro learned the same.
Amazon actually started in 1994, believe it or not, and they sold books. 2004 kinda seems like the dark ages, but we had Toys R Us online, Amazon, eBay, I was buying from BBTS (they were about four years old then). ToysNJoys (located in Hawaii) was where a lot of my Japanese toys came from, think they're gone now. There was also a store called Kimono My House that I got Sentai stuff from too. Evidently Image Anime was there the whole time I was in college but I only found them on a trip back to NYC in 2011/12.
That's so funny! I didn't remember Yellow being hard to find for yah. She was literally the first one I bought at my local K mart at the time. It was Tommy's figure that I remember my folks had the problem finding hha
Bruno, do you remember at Toyshow when Dino Charge first showed a repainted purple Tricera ? Did they originally believe that boys wouldn't want to play with an all pink zord? They eventually changed the color back from purple to pink for the official release thank goodness.
I know I have that in a video somewhere... was it licensing expo...? I think they tried to say that was an error or something after fans saw it. Not sure I believe that. I think they didn't want to risk a Megazord with a bright pink arm, but listened to the fan response and put it back to pink. I get it now. Back then I was probably more "what does Bandai have against girls??" but now I see how things do/don't sell, and running our channel, we have to constantly deal with what fans will/won't click on, and we know monsters/girls/ultrazords is a guaranteed failed video. I think the Dino Charge Zords sold pretty well though.
Hey Bruno how did you get all of the power rangers toys from mighty morphin power rangers to power rangers RPM? I’ve been trying to find turbo, lost galaxy, light speed rescue, time force, wild force, ninja storm, Dino thunder, operation overdrive, jungle fury and RPM. Those are the morphers that I don’t have yet.
Really hoping people will find and thumb up that video so we get to do more. I hate having to play by RUclips's rules, but we get punished when so many viewers won't click a video. I'll make a cool thing with all of the figures if people show a demand and if not we'll still do it for our patrons/members, who have expressed interest.
These zords are wonderful. The gimmicks are integrated very well, and the zords are still heft and transform with no real Issues. Definitely an underrated zord line. Would have been a real amazing if we got the canceled Brachiozord! Love what you have done all these years, Never Stop!
Pretty sure I found Blizzard Force at a Robo Toy Fest, I didn't get it at the time b/c I found the re-color highly offensive at the time 😀 But after starting the channel I figured I'd refer back to it here and there.
@@MMPRtoys I have a silly head cannon for the blizzard force being the offspring of chasmoshieldon and carnorutus, explains the body being the same but the colours being off
Oh wow! Ive always wanted more of those tiny dinozords for the brachiozord. Would love if a resin print of the final combination zord is made as well. Since then you can have the final strike actually on display.
I had a few years gap between buying PR figures back in the day so I missed out on the Dino Thunder toyline. I did however start buying again during SPD and also noticed the girls were ridiculously hard to find. I guess that was the point where Bandai made that decision to only do 1 or 2 runs of the female rangers and usually they were in the very first assortments, so if you missed them you were out of luck until the end of year team packs. Never did get a proper SPD Yellow or Pink so I settled for the SWAT Mode versions.
What’s funny is that they made a 5 inch version of the Blizzard Force that was actually show accurately colored. It’s strange that they didn’t include the Cephalozord in that zord set since that would have been an easy way to just sorta toss it out like with Armadillo and Hammerhead in Wild Force. I doubt that would have put off boys from buying Zord set considering that it was pretty prominent in the show like the other two, and kids would definitely notice that they’re missing an arm from the Triceramax. I know when I was younger, I always wanted to have what was in the show. On the note of the large Brachio, I wonder if that prototype still exists out there and if someone could find it? Or maybe someone could try to recreate it. I remember seeing an old video years ago of one that someone built out of wood. Also, Dino Thunder and SPD were my first Power Ranger shows!
I do remember the wood Brachio. Today someone could absolutely 3D print that. It'd be a big job... but it could be done. They included Dimetro with Dino Stegozord. If I were at Bandai then, I would have said put Cephalazord with Dino Stegazord, put Dimetro with Blizzard Force. They'd probably need to lose the green Ptera (would anyone even miss it?) but then that probably still makes the box larger as well as the cost going up, and that gets into other issues. Sometimes it's not even up to Bandai. During Dino Charge they wanted to make a bigger Titano, but Walmart said they liked the size and price point of the others, make it fit. So, I really don't know what was possible then. They did make that TRU exclusive auxiliary pack... what if there had been a set that was one ranger/cycle and one Zord? And then of course in the final days of Bandai in 2018, they pulled all girls from final releases. Even that ranger key set replaced yellow/pink with green/white. People really were not buying girls.
@@MMPRtoysYeah, I think they probably should have included Cephala with the Dino Stegazord and Dimetro with Blizzard Force, the colors match a lot more that way. Not sure what they were thinking with the green Ptera, especially since that Megazord can’t even wear the helmet like Thundersaurus! That idea of one ranger/cycle and one zord is a good one, too. And maaaaan I remember the shelf warming female figures towards the end of Bandai’s ownership, it especially seemed to hit the Legacy line hard, at least in my area.
I love time traveling back to 2004 and not just to feel like a kid again. It also still shocks me that 2004 is now 20 years ago, and yet it still feels like only yesterday. It is still baffling that Bandai America never released the Cephalazord cause imagine if you were a kid and got the Mesodon Megazord, he’d be imitating Woody in Toy Story 2 because he had no right arm! And on top of that, most kids and parents were more than likely unaware of where Power Rangers comes from so the thought of importing that zord never crosses their mind.
blizzard force megazord is zord exclusive toys from power ranger dino thunder but in the tv show it's name was replicant zord also in abaranger movie called Bakurenoh an evil mecha that was sealed in a iceberg
They put Dimetro with DinoStegazord. Orange/green were in a TRU exclusive set. I have a hard time believing they couldn't have figured something out. I can come up with quite a few ideas. And this during Disney. Disney Store used to have exclusives too. Either someone really messed up that year, or it had to do with the color. (Not to say someone couldn't have messed up, but lack of yellow and recolor of Blizzard are suspicious, they figured out how to release the other three...)
@@anthrorangerxcosplaydigita8007 I'm sure they'd have had to lose the green Ptera, which I think is fine, but that would still make it cost more, pushing it over the price point they were trying to meet. I didn't know that was a thing until our later meetings with Bandai. So, that might not have been doable. I still say they could have figured out some exclusive set though.
Boo to haters and who doesnt like to watch these two. They're my inspiration everyday to be honest. I love how they are a team and they really do work well together. I just really hate when bad things happen to good people. Im still upset at the movers that really screwed up yall place and stuff. I would've been mad asf too. Also bruno if you read this. I wanted to write you and mia a personal fan letter but didnt know if its the right address or not and didnt wanna just write a random person and yall never got it. I also wanted to ask of you both to check out my personal displays and collections to see what yall think and to give me some personal advice or insight about them. Sure it doesnt compare to yours just yet but it will soon get there. Lol. But please dont stop making videos and dont stop doing what yall already and have been doing for years. I love yall. Keep it going! Booo to all haters!!! GO TEAM BRUNO AND MIA!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘😁
I am a bit picky when it comes to action features because I love seeing fun transformations and combinations. Motorized zords tended to be bricks which had limited potential for transforming and combining. The Stego Zord found a way around it.
Yep... video's posted, can't change it. We did this bit long ago with three seasons starting with "Dino" and easy to mix them up. I'd love to see more focus on the things that are entirely unique to this channel...
I confess, the Blizzard Force Megazord is a bit of an old shame for me. I reviewed in early on in my RUclips career, but I was overly negative about it, especially the color change. In hindsight, I was ashamed about how negative was, because I try to look for some good in every toy I review. Needless to say, the review is no longer on my channel
The colors grew on me. I get it, as a fan, you know what it's supposed to look like. The thing you saw first becomes the way it should be, then there's this other thing that looks totally different, which becomes "looks wrong" and yeah, it's not screen accurate which many fans do care about. But at the time Bandai was selling more to kids vs adult fan collectors, and pastel purple probably would have cost them some sales.
Pandering! You know I love abaranger/Dino Thunder! Love seeing your old videos back in the day. You two look like you guys have so much fun toy hunting. 🥰
I always thought it was because it had punching action and they didn’t want kids punching each other with it. Go figure. But it was thanks to that omission in the toy line that I found out about Super Sentai and never looked back. Hated how the US toys used the same exact mold but was missing details that you could clearly see on the box, which used the Japanese toys.
I 1000% agree about Bracio it was a wasted zord. Why not give it a humanoid form or have it combine like tor or the one from MMPR that I am blanking on the name haha
That was really a carrier Zord. It housed seven Zords. It was used in a few attacks, but mostly there to keep the Zords safe and transport them. That's just what they did that season, Tor and Titanus were different, and Bragigas became a Megazord and Ultrazord too. Brachio is really too big to combine with the other Zords in the show universe. The toy can shoot missiles and the neck can become an arm on the Megazords.
Purple is my favorite color! But yeah, that must’ve been the reason, which is stupid. Purple does not automatically mean girls or gay or whatever , but I guess it’s good we’ve evolved on that issue these days
No need to update, I have it scheduled for early tomorrow morning, first thing, to be exact. You can rest assured knowing that is when it will be secured. Bright and early!
Amazon started in 1994, believe it or not, and was originally a place to buy books. By 2004 Toys R Us also had a website, which I enjoyed during Wild Force. Every one of my orders was eligible for a free Wild Force action figure! 🙂
@@MMPRtoys oh I believe you. I remember Amazon being a book store essentially but I didn't realize they shipped stuff then. But we didn't order stuff back then like we do now either. Brumia, i vote for whatever content you put out. Even if I'm in the minority, that's why I have patreon. I support wholesome content when I see it.
If I was walking in a Toys R Us back in 2004 by travelling back to the year 2004... I would definetly purchase 3 Transformers Energon Powerlinx Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus sets (Transformers Armada Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus version in Yellow), 3 Transformers yellow versions of the early 2000s Optimus Prime sets, Plush Pikachu and 3 Power Rangers Dino Thunder DX Thundersaurus Megazord sets.
I posted a video in 2018ish about my thoughts on how Hasbro would do, I'd say I nailed it. Marvel Legends-like line of Power Rangers, which we got. Some of the best figures ever made. I showed people the paint/stickers on Transformers at Toys R Us, and explained based on that, you'll either be unhappy with the Zords, or they'll be very expensive, or both. I think they did a good job on Dino Fury, overall, but the Zords were overall cheap, but expensive. Helmets were good, amazing we got Zedd, morphers and weapons were good. Unfortunately after they bought the license, Toys R Us closed, we had covid and their CEO passed away, who was the one that was into Power Rangers, but, either way I would say Hasbro did not do much that I could see to bring in new people. The claim was "unlock the brand's full potential." Overall I'd say things went as I expected. Not as good as what they said they had planned, but not as bad as what fans would have you believe. If you collect MMPR then you've got a pretty incredible and complete collection of figures. A good number of other teams also got completed which included figures we never had before in any line. Saban 10 years Disney 7 years Neo Saban 8 years Hasbro 5 years...? Beast Morphers was like a transition from Saban to Hasbro. Dino Fury was the first official season, then Cosmic Fury was more of a mini series. However we want to count that. & the Once & Always special. Long way of saying they didn't last very long.
Did I make the world's easiest error? I'd be more like, "Did he really have a vlog channel and Power Ranger channel before RUclips existed?!?" But that's me 😁
@@MMPRtoys Not only that, but someone who had been a part of this community for longer than many of his viewers has been alive, yet still produces content that fans of all ages can enjoy. I've been watching this channel since before I had money to buy my own things, and because of it, I have my own collection as well.
I love the action features, but I prefer if they’re manual, spring loaded, etc rather than battery powered. I don’t like needing to replace the batteries or be careful to avoid battery corrosion. I think when the features are manually triggered, it’s more engaging too. On the topic of Dino Thunder, I always thought it was a missed opportunity that they didn’t make the blaster/sword thing be tied to the sword of darkness from MMPR, as it has a similar curved shape.
I begged my mom for weeks to take me to Toy's R Us to find Cephala zord, (and Killer-Oh), but we could never find him, and this is coming from someone who was 9-10 years old at the time
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Ahh yes 2004, what a simpler time it was. I remember being extremely excited for Dino Thunder. Thanks the flashback man, it does not seem like it was 20 years ago. Feels like it was yesterday.
Another great Bruno quote is "That's a big giant thing!".
Late 90s early 00s was peak toyrus. To go back to that would be great. As to say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Amazing vid again.
Boo on the haters! Bruno is a human, you should give him and Mia credit for having integrity and leaving that "Error" in. Like c'mon folks there are so a lot of dino themed sentais etc.
What error?
@@Key-A1 One of the times I meant to say "Thunder" I slipped and said "Charge" and for a good number of fans, that becomes their focus. It's pretty obnoxious when you're posting kinda fancy/unique stuff and they get hung up on that. But, nothing new. It's a fan thing, I know. Wish I'd caught that. We're trying to do too many things at once right now. 😕
@MMPRtoys Honestly I genuinely didn't notice. Too busy focusing on the cool toys and pondering the purple theory.
@@MMPRtoys don’t worry about it, it was one slip up. It’s really not a big deal bro
Anyone actually mad about it just needs to get out more
Always love how excited you are showcasing these gems ⚡
Love the shout factory shirt in the flashback!
Happy 20th anniversary to Dino Thunder, one of the best Power Rangera seasons of all time and my favorite of all time. Now that I got the Lightning Collection team complete, I shall get the Zords next, even the US Blizzard Force Megazord to be a player 2 Replicantzord. Weirdly, they made some Blizzard Force Megazord-themed toys that were accurate to the show but only the Megazord wasn't.
Also Cephalazord should have been included with Mezodon or a proper Blizzard Force Megazord that didn't have a green Pterazord. Also I remember seeing plenty of Dino Thunder Yellow Ranger bikes along with the others at my KB Toys.
I like this retrospective on a line. I wasn’t collecting toys when DT was on air so learning how difficult it was to get Yellow and the purple theory I found super interesting! If there’s more stories like this I’d be interested in hearing about them!
That brachio would’ve been insane had it came to fruition
I certainly would have bought it. I wonder if it'd even fit on my current shelf...?
Conspiracy time with Bruno is surprisingly engaging.
Love this step back in time👌🏼I don't know of anyone else who has documented so much of their life,it really is brilliant you have all that footage,I know I would like to see more old stuff👏🏼great video.
I always love toy hunts, 20 year old toy hunt was not expected, it was is really fun and appreciated!
Dino thunder is one of my favorite seasons of Power Rangers
That Purple Theory does seem plausible for Bandai at the time. Funny that nearly a decade later we had them try to make that purple Tricera Zord for Dino Charge assumedly for the same reason.
They tried to say that was an error, but I'm not sure I believe them. I think the didn't want a Megazord with a bright pink arm but then with social media, fans said "WTF?!" and they changed it back. In that case, I guess purple was the lesser evil.
I really enjoyed this episode! I think a whole series of retrospective toy collecting for each season would be amazing! I was not old enough to be seriously collecting back in the early 2000s so hearing your stories is a great history lesson. I really enjoyed the 2004 Toys R Us footage along with it. Thanks Bruno and Mia!
I loved seeing the flash backs of your projects from 2004. As a long time fan I have only seen flashbacks up to ninja storm and they skipped to rpm. Seeing that Triassic ranger costume felt like the undiscovered chronicles of Bruno’s live and I’d love to see those years from 2004-2008.
Seeing this makes me want to get DIno Thunder toys... might have to go back to 2004
I used to had the Triassic Megazord plus the all the zords but i don't have it anymore which was disappointing. I had a small collection of Dino Thunder and WildForce..
Dude, that failing to find the yellow ranger figure gave me flashbacks, I never found her. Also, no Cephalazord is beyond dumb. Also, holy smokes I had no clue Shout! was already around by 2004.
Shout was in its infancy back in 04. Founded in 2002 but I don't think much was really doin' until the next year. And of course I started bugging that very nice man who started the company to put PR & Sentai on DVD. Disney said no.
The purple dino needed a purple ranger.
i honestly like that one Zord in the blue and purple colors more the the American repaint.
Bruno, you are the greatest doer of stuff in the history of the universe.
The color theory seems plausible. For certain franchises, particular colors just don't sell as well for some reason. I remember with Bionicle back in the day, the Toa of Stone were colored yellow and orange, and even skipped entirely in some waves because the initial brown color didn't sell as well as the other ones despite being beloved characters in that line.
I think another reason why the cephalazord wasn't released in North America was due to the action feature. That was around the time toy companies were being sued for inappropriate toys
I think I put that theory to rest in the video from last night. Perhaps if that one stood out, but when you look at literally every other Zord, that's the safest one of all of them.
Seriously hasbro misses the mark not releasing toys that never made it to the us or the shelves
I don't know about that. Hasbro would have to make that entire line then, and they don't make the toys anymore. It's great they we had Legacy then Lightning Collection, but really the time to buy the toys is during their season. Even back in 2004 I was buying everything from Japan. Back then we still had eBay, BBTS, ToysNJoys... there were options. Bandai America & Japan shared molds so you could buy the one thing you were missing and it'd work just fine. Back then shipping also wasn't so insane.
How STRANGE is it that last night I was watching videos about the Blizzard Force Megazord/BakurenOh, and you just uploaded a video that features it and its Japanese counterpart! Did you read my mind or something?? Haha. I’ve always loved its design, and thought it was interesting that it got a release here in the US despite only appearing in one episode, and the Black Ranger’s Zord not getting a one, though I understand after watching this video.
Great video!!!! I enjoy the Dino thunder line
"i love stuff that does stuff"
i guess that's why i never got into funkos😅
Very sparkly resin figures Bruno , if I was in toys r us in 2004 I’d never want to leave ( I’m still a toys r us kid). Happy 20 year anniversary dino thunder you may be one of my favorite Disney era series ( almost completed the lighting collection figures) although messagog will unfortunately haunt my nightmares forever. ps Bruno I think that new quote of yours needs a T-shirt design
Since Abaranger has reached its 20th Anniversary, that would have been the perfect opportunity for Toei to release the Deluxe Bracchio Zord. Don't worry, nothing's wrong with the smaller version
Smaller fits on the shelf better for sure! Younger-me really wanted the giant size. Now I'm wondering if that would even fit on my current shelf. Might be too big even for me!
My only question for the Blizzard Force color change, is why red? It’s not a very cold color.
I think they were just trying to appeal to boys and not thinking about the actual name, and even stranger, almost positive they didn't even call it that on TV, it was the Replicantzord.
I liked that home video footage of 2004, it makes me feel so old knowing that was 20yrs ago now.
This video is proof that fun and original videos are still being made by such amazing and creative people thank u videos always make my day
Much appreciated
You forget there were 3 purple words in the Wildhorse toy line! The American set for gaoknight had a purple version of the bull zord that couldn't transform.
I gave you that edit just to make sure no "you forgot" originally I didn't film anything about Wild Force, but there were purple Zords in Wild Force. The purple bison is on this channel, it was included with Ultimus Megazord and that came with the Soul Bird. I was working on Power Rangers at the time and doing what I could to get the elephant Zord included in that set, but sadly it wasn't meant to be. Bison falls under the same previous examples as "part of a set" and perhaps Bandai found out during Wild Force that purple was a problem color. I really don't know. Season 1 had dolls for the girls. That clearly did not continue. What we got varied by years and they do market research as well as learn from previous seasons. Again I'm guessing, but purple was undoubtedly an unlucky color for the Dino Thunder DX line.
Wow they still got the Wild force command megazord shelfwarming 2 years later
...I didn't need that either. It's pretty funny to look back at these toy hunts that had "worst selection ever!" what a wonderful terrible selection that was.
@@MMPRtoys yeah I bet the poor sales of the command megazord contributed to the decision of not releasing the Revolver Mammoth. It would have likely shelf warmed too
What A Time To Be Alive In 2004 Sweet Memories 😊
Need to see if the electronics in my dinothunder zords still work
Use new batteries! Mine all still work just fine. If batteries leak, I clean the compartment with a q-tip and Isopropyl Alcohol.
It almost breaks my heart seeing those old toy shelves. I'm getting old now lol
What's really weird is that I wasn't even born in 2004 but dino thunder is my favourite season (I'm only a year younger tho)
early 2000's had the best zords. I still wish i got all the Karakuri balls..
And two seasons later we got wolzard in mystic force that lots of people seem to love, but they hardly made megazords of l. Instead we got the brightsteel megazord. I think your right about purple
True, we did get a Koragg figure, but no Zord for him. In that case though, I think it falls under "fans don't like bad guys." Back then I thought it was so crazy Bandai didn't make more bad guys, and they heard all about that from me when we started meeting with them after we launched this channel, but, I think they were right. 😕Back then I thought I spoke for more people, which was "we want girls, we want bad guys." Nope! Bruno wants girls and bad guys. Even now LC & Super7 bad guys continue to shelf-warm even on clearance (and Madame Woe got cancelled entirely). And in Japan they rarely make figures of the monsters, which I used to think was so weird, but maybe it's the same there too.
@@MMPRtoys I think Koragg is a mandala effect. I swear I remember seeing the megazord at my local Walmart and target, but people swear it never existed in the west.
Yep, that mystery is solved. Power Ranger is a brand boys and girls can enjoy, but Bandai was targeting the boys with those action figures.
I'm not sure what I would get out of the toy isle in 2004. I was deep into video games at the time. I ordered the SOTA Street Fighter action figures online.
I never saw them on store shelves. Action figures didn't really start to rock until 6 inch figures became the standard.
i think they were worried kids would hurt themselves with the celphazord with kids hitting each other in the eye with the toy's gimmick, plus we did get a purple one doing the dino charge toy line a replaint of the grey packy zord
Which of the Dino Thunder Zords would you say were safer? I'm seeing a lot of pointy drills and spikey things. The one they omitted I would say was by far the least dangerous. I'm going to rule that out. Dino Charge came out in 2015. By then we were getting purple, girls, monsters, and all that good stuff... which fans were not buying, so we got less of it the next year and Bandai pulled all females from 2018 line as they transferred to Hasbro b/c they didn't want a bunch of things sitting on shelves.
@@MMPRtoys The zords that make of KillerOh aka the DinoStegazord wish I had gotten a copy of him
And we didn’t get the girls symbols for the Magi Staff in Mystic Force.
Very true. Most of the Mystic Force stuff was red, yellow, green, and 50 versions of Solaris Knight, not one of which was screen accurate (what happened there Bandai...??) Thankfully we did at least get blue and pink main line and legend figures, was that it? I don't think there were any vehicles or other things for the girls that year.
With Operation Overdrive, Bandai release the DualDrive Megazord and one of the zords were purple.
That was actually a blue color, not purple, but I said in this video, we had purple in Wild Force and Jungle Fury too. It varies by year. Again that was in a Megazord set, not sold individually, which I'm saying may have made it easier for Wild Force. I'm also pointing to the fact that yellow was scarce, and they took all of the purple out of the Blizzard Force. So, at least in that year, Bandai had decided to really aim the line at boys. Bandai struggled to sell girls all the way up to the very end in 2018, then Hasbro learned the same.
at 1:08, dinocharge had motorized features?
You're confusing Charge with Thunder, time for the old folks home with you!
1:11 Dino Charge? 😂 I do that mistake all the time
Son of a! I'm still doing that? And I edit these, so I watched that 50 times and didn't catch it! 😲
Amazon box in 2004?!? I don’t ever remember seeing anything from Amazon until like ‘08-‘09. But then again, Indiana vs the coasts.
Amazon actually started in 1994, believe it or not, and they sold books. 2004 kinda seems like the dark ages, but we had Toys R Us online, Amazon, eBay, I was buying from BBTS (they were about four years old then). ToysNJoys (located in Hawaii) was where a lot of my Japanese toys came from, think they're gone now. There was also a store called Kimono My House that I got Sentai stuff from too. Evidently Image Anime was there the whole time I was in college but I only found them on a trip back to NYC in 2011/12.
@@MMPRtoys ya know? Come to mention it I do remember them as an online bookstore for a good while. Time has a funny way of slipping away from ya.
That's so funny! I didn't remember Yellow being hard to find for yah. She was literally the first one I bought at my local K mart at the time. It was Tommy's figure that I remember my folks had the problem finding hha
You know what I never thought about that. That makes sense.
Love those flashback toy hunting videos 😄
Loved Dino Thunder!
I could never find yellow as a kid. Didn't even want the big mech because I knew his arm was missing
Bruno, do you remember at Toyshow when Dino Charge first showed a repainted purple Tricera ? Did they originally believe that boys wouldn't want to play with an all pink zord? They eventually changed the color back from purple to pink for the official release thank goodness.
I know I have that in a video somewhere... was it licensing expo...? I think they tried to say that was an error or something after fans saw it. Not sure I believe that. I think they didn't want to risk a Megazord with a bright pink arm, but listened to the fan response and put it back to pink. I get it now. Back then I was probably more "what does Bandai have against girls??" but now I see how things do/don't sell, and running our channel, we have to constantly deal with what fans will/won't click on, and we know monsters/girls/ultrazords is a guaranteed failed video. I think the Dino Charge Zords sold pretty well though.
Oh I miss Toys R Us
Hey Bruno how did you get all of the power rangers toys from mighty morphin power rangers to power rangers RPM? I’ve been trying to find turbo, lost galaxy, light speed rescue, time force, wild force, ninja storm, Dino thunder, operation overdrive, jungle fury and RPM. Those are the morphers that I don’t have yet.
I would like to see more super 7 videos on this channel please and thank you.
Really hoping people will find and thumb up that video so we get to do more. I hate having to play by RUclips's rules, but we get punished when so many viewers won't click a video. I'll make a cool thing with all of the figures if people show a demand and if not we'll still do it for our patrons/members, who have expressed interest.
These zords are wonderful. The gimmicks are integrated very well, and the zords are still heft and transform with no real
Issues. Definitely an underrated zord line. Would have been a real amazing if we got the canceled Brachiozord!
Love what you have done all these years, Never Stop!
We miss you, ToysRus!🥺🫡
Dino Thunder is definitely one of the best seasons of PR ever #teambruno
I envy you for having BOTH bakurenoh and blizzard force
Pretty sure I found Blizzard Force at a Robo Toy Fest, I didn't get it at the time b/c I found the re-color highly offensive at the time 😀 But after starting the channel I figured I'd refer back to it here and there.
@@MMPRtoys I have a silly head cannon for the blizzard force being the offspring of chasmoshieldon and carnorutus, explains the body being the same but the colours being off
Oh wow! Ive always wanted more of those tiny dinozords for the brachiozord. Would love if a resin print of the final combination zord is made as well. Since then you can have the final strike actually on display.
I remember I had the same trouble I couldn't find yellow
I had a few years gap between buying PR figures back in the day so I missed out on the Dino Thunder toyline. I did however start buying again during SPD and also noticed the girls were ridiculously hard to find. I guess that was the point where Bandai made that decision to only do 1 or 2 runs of the female rangers and usually they were in the very first assortments, so if you missed them you were out of luck until the end of year team packs. Never did get a proper SPD Yellow or Pink so I settled for the SWAT Mode versions.
We US folks didn't get a Brachio Zord? I'm honestly surprised that Bandai skipped that toy.
What’s funny is that they made a 5 inch version of the Blizzard Force that was actually show accurately colored. It’s strange that they didn’t include the Cephalozord in that zord set since that would have been an easy way to just sorta toss it out like with Armadillo and Hammerhead in Wild Force. I doubt that would have put off boys from buying Zord set considering that it was pretty prominent in the show like the other two, and kids would definitely notice that they’re missing an arm from the Triceramax. I know when I was younger, I always wanted to have what was in the show. On the note of the large Brachio, I wonder if that prototype still exists out there and if someone could find it? Or maybe someone could try to recreate it. I remember seeing an old video years ago of one that someone built out of wood. Also, Dino Thunder and SPD were my first Power Ranger shows!
I do remember the wood Brachio. Today someone could absolutely 3D print that. It'd be a big job... but it could be done. They included Dimetro with Dino Stegozord. If I were at Bandai then, I would have said put Cephalazord with Dino Stegazord, put Dimetro with Blizzard Force. They'd probably need to lose the green Ptera (would anyone even miss it?) but then that probably still makes the box larger as well as the cost going up, and that gets into other issues. Sometimes it's not even up to Bandai. During Dino Charge they wanted to make a bigger Titano, but Walmart said they liked the size and price point of the others, make it fit. So, I really don't know what was possible then. They did make that TRU exclusive auxiliary pack... what if there had been a set that was one ranger/cycle and one Zord? And then of course in the final days of Bandai in 2018, they pulled all girls from final releases. Even that ranger key set replaced yellow/pink with green/white. People really were not buying girls.
@@MMPRtoysYeah, I think they probably should have included Cephala with the Dino Stegazord and Dimetro with Blizzard Force, the colors match a lot more that way. Not sure what they were thinking with the green Ptera, especially since that Megazord can’t even wear the helmet like Thundersaurus! That idea of one ranger/cycle and one zord is a good one, too. And maaaaan I remember the shelf warming female figures towards the end of Bandai’s ownership, it especially seemed to hit the Legacy line hard, at least in my area.
Love getting two videos super close!
Didnt the blizzard zord came with a green pterodactyl?
Indeed! I didn't want to spend the time manually masking it for this entire video that was filmed on a green screen.
One min and 10 seconds in Bruni says Dino charge Instead of dino thunder..I find this funny
Since we're going back. Was the Dino Thunder Megazord left-handed? It main weapon the Dino Drill which was on the left.
I love time traveling back to 2004 and not just to feel like a kid again. It also still shocks me that 2004 is now 20 years ago, and yet it still feels like only yesterday. It is still baffling that Bandai America never released the Cephalazord cause imagine if you were a kid and got the Mesodon Megazord, he’d be imitating Woody in Toy Story 2 because he had no right arm! And on top of that, most kids and parents were more than likely unaware of where Power Rangers comes from so the thought of importing that zord never crosses their mind.
Oh 2004 take me back
I will buy a t-shirt that says “I love stuff that does stuff”
blizzard force megazord is zord exclusive toys from power ranger dino thunder but in the tv show it's name was replicant zord also in abaranger movie called Bakurenoh an evil mecha that was sealed in a iceberg
You know your PR/Sentai history!
I think it's because the zord would've been have to be released on its own and there wasn't a single word assortment
They put Dimetro with DinoStegazord. Orange/green were in a TRU exclusive set. I have a hard time believing they couldn't have figured something out. I can come up with quite a few ideas. And this during Disney. Disney Store used to have exclusives too. Either someone really messed up that year, or it had to do with the color. (Not to say someone couldn't have messed up, but lack of yellow and recolor of Blizzard are suspicious, they figured out how to release the other three...)
Maybe it would've come with the blizzard force megazord
@@anthrorangerxcosplaydigita8007 I'm sure they'd have had to lose the green Ptera, which I think is fine, but that would still make it cost more, pushing it over the price point they were trying to meet. I didn't know that was a thing until our later meetings with Bandai. So, that might not have been doable. I still say they could have figured out some exclusive set though.
Boo to haters and who doesnt like to watch these two. They're my inspiration everyday to be honest. I love how they are a team and they really do work well together. I just really hate when bad things happen to good people. Im still upset at the movers that really screwed up yall place and stuff. I would've been mad asf too. Also bruno if you read this. I wanted to write you and mia a personal fan letter but didnt know if its the right address or not and didnt wanna just write a random person and yall never got it. I also wanted to ask of you both to check out my personal displays and collections to see what yall think and to give me some personal advice or insight about them. Sure it doesnt compare to yours just yet but it will soon get there. Lol. But please dont stop making videos and dont stop doing what yall already and have been doing for years. I love yall. Keep it going! Booo to all haters!!! GO TEAM BRUNO AND MIA!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘😁
I am a bit picky when it comes to action features because I love seeing fun transformations and combinations. Motorized zords tended to be bricks which had limited potential for transforming and combining. The Stego Zord found a way around it.
1:09 - Dino Thunder*
Yep... video's posted, can't change it. We did this bit long ago with three seasons starting with "Dino" and easy to mix them up. I'd love to see more focus on the things that are entirely unique to this channel...
I confess, the Blizzard Force Megazord is a bit of an old shame for me. I reviewed in early on in my RUclips career, but I was overly negative about it, especially the color change. In hindsight, I was ashamed about how negative was, because I try to look for some good in every toy I review. Needless to say, the review is no longer on my channel
The colors grew on me. I get it, as a fan, you know what it's supposed to look like. The thing you saw first becomes the way it should be, then there's this other thing that looks totally different, which becomes "looks wrong" and yeah, it's not screen accurate which many fans do care about. But at the time Bandai was selling more to kids vs adult fan collectors, and pastel purple probably would have cost them some sales.
Love your videos! Have you ever done a theory video as to why Hasbro has skipped so many zords? (Beast King and cosmic fury zords primarily)
Pandering! You know I love abaranger/Dino Thunder! Love seeing your old videos back in the day. You two look like you guys have so much fun toy hunting. 🥰
I always thought it was because it had punching action and they didn’t want kids punching each other with it. Go figure. But it was thanks to that omission in the toy line that I found out about Super Sentai and never looked back. Hated how the US toys used the same exact mold but was missing details that you could clearly see on the box, which used the Japanese toys.
such a great toy line
I 1000% agree about Bracio it was a wasted zord. Why not give it a humanoid form or have it combine like tor or the one from MMPR that I am blanking on the name haha
That was really a carrier Zord. It housed seven Zords. It was used in a few attacks, but mostly there to keep the Zords safe and transport them. That's just what they did that season, Tor and Titanus were different, and Bragigas became a Megazord and Ultrazord too. Brachio is really too big to combine with the other Zords in the show universe. The toy can shoot missiles and the neck can become an arm on the Megazords.
I still have Dino thunder on DVD
Purple is my favorite color! But yeah, that must’ve been the reason, which is stupid. Purple does not automatically mean girls or gay or whatever , but I guess it’s good we’ve evolved on that issue these days
When I was a kid i had a bunch those toys tmnt and power rangers this videos dope
I would like to put in a request for the red carpet update, maybe just a RUclips short
No need to update, I have it scheduled for early tomorrow morning, first thing, to be exact. You can rest assured knowing that is when it will be secured. Bright and early!
Very cool video mmprtoys
I don't remember Amazon in 2004. Doesn't help that I was only in 10th grade then.
Amazon started in 1994, believe it or not, and was originally a place to buy books. By 2004 Toys R Us also had a website, which I enjoyed during Wild Force. Every one of my orders was eligible for a free Wild Force action figure! 🙂
@@MMPRtoys oh I believe you. I remember Amazon being a book store essentially but I didn't realize they shipped stuff then. But we didn't order stuff back then like we do now either. Brumia, i vote for whatever content you put out. Even if I'm in the minority, that's why I have patreon. I support wholesome content when I see it.
If I was walking in a Toys R Us back in 2004 by travelling back to the year 2004...
I would definetly purchase 3 Transformers Energon Powerlinx Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus sets (Transformers Armada Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus version in Yellow), 3 Transformers yellow versions of the early 2000s Optimus Prime sets, Plush Pikachu and 3 Power Rangers Dino Thunder DX Thundersaurus Megazord sets.
Hi Bruno! Can you and Mia say hey caden?
Now that Hasbro gave the toy license to Playmates. I would be interested in hearing your opinion on how you feel Hasbro did with power rangers brand.
I posted a video in 2018ish about my thoughts on how Hasbro would do, I'd say I nailed it. Marvel Legends-like line of Power Rangers, which we got. Some of the best figures ever made. I showed people the paint/stickers on Transformers at Toys R Us, and explained based on that, you'll either be unhappy with the Zords, or they'll be very expensive, or both. I think they did a good job on Dino Fury, overall, but the Zords were overall cheap, but expensive. Helmets were good, amazing we got Zedd, morphers and weapons were good.
Unfortunately after they bought the license, Toys R Us closed, we had covid and their CEO passed away, who was the one that was into Power Rangers, but, either way I would say Hasbro did not do much that I could see to bring in new people. The claim was "unlock the brand's full potential."
Overall I'd say things went as I expected. Not as good as what they said they had planned, but not as bad as what fans would have you believe. If you collect MMPR then you've got a pretty incredible and complete collection of figures. A good number of other teams also got completed which included figures we never had before in any line.
Saban 10 years
Disney 7 years
Neo Saban 8 years
Hasbro 5 years...? Beast Morphers was like a transition from Saban to Hasbro. Dino Fury was the first official season, then Cosmic Fury was more of a mini series. However we want to count that. & the Once & Always special. Long way of saying they didn't last very long.
Did he really say Dino charge instead of Dino thunder 😂 1:09
Did I make the world's easiest error? I'd be more like, "Did he really have a vlog channel and Power Ranger channel before RUclips existed?!?" But that's me 😁
@@MMPRtoys Not only that, but someone who had been a part of this community for longer than many of his viewers has been alive, yet still produces content that fans of all ages can enjoy. I've been watching this channel since before I had money to buy my own things, and because of it, I have my own collection as well.
@MatthewRossTNT Aww 😊 I appreciate that
@@MMPRtoys yep, that’s just you Bruno #teamBruno
@@CKD127
I missed Toy R Us
I love the action features, but I prefer if they’re manual, spring loaded, etc rather than battery powered. I don’t like needing to replace the batteries or be careful to avoid battery corrosion. I think when the features are manually triggered, it’s more engaging too. On the topic of Dino Thunder, I always thought it was a missed opportunity that they didn’t make the blaster/sword thing be tied to the sword of darkness from MMPR, as it has a similar curved shape.
It's hard being purple in 2004
lol bruno accidentally said dino charge
I begged my mom for weeks to take me to Toy's R Us to find Cephala zord, (and Killer-Oh), but we could never find him, and this is coming from someone who was 9-10 years old at the time
Omg hasbro owns power rangers now meaning they can do haslabs and they might do a huge brachiosaurus