Action Figure #708: Power Rangers Lightning Collection In Space Pyscho Blue Ranger

 A little bit psycho, lah-lah-lah lah-lah-lah lah-lah-lah

 I still haven't decided if I'll try to get the prohivitely expensive Psycho Ranger team, but might as well get the In Space Psycho Blue Ranger to make the Red one some company.

 Well, for starters, he has the same dope design as the Red Ranger but in Blue... which I don't think looks quite as good, but it's still a menacing ranger. The sculpt is the same as the Red Ranger's, which is a good thing since it's a good looking sculpt. For accessories he comes with two gripping hands, a fist, an electricity-using hand, an ax and an effect piece for the gun. Since he comes with a pair of gripping hands, unlike the Red Ranger, he CAN use his ax AND the electricity... or you can share the gripping with the Red one since all their hands are identical. I think that, overall, he is a great looking figure, but I think I would've made the ax a bit bigger. I do like the paint apps on it, however.

 Same articulation as always. Double jointed elbows and knees, hinged waist, ball jointed ab crunch, butterfly joints and swivels on his biceps, thighs and boots. He is a bit shorter than Bucky Cap.

 He is another fine addition to the collection... man, now I'm forced to find a way to get the rest of the Psychos, goddammit!

8.0

Action Figure #707: Power Rangers Lightning Collection Dino Thunder Blue Ranger

 Seriously? ANOTHER Blue Triceratops?!

 With the Dino Thunder Blue Ranger on my shelf... I know have completed the Dino Thunder team. Very expensive, but... very worth it.

 He is basically the Red Ranger sculpt, but with a different weapon and a different helmet. I think he looks really dope, I don't usually care for Blue Rangers, but it seems every color is a banger with these designs! This guy comes with a blaster, a sword, an effect for the sword(Which I'm missing), two pair of hands(I'm missing one!), an unmasked head(Which I'm also missing) and his very own weapon, a shield.

 I find him having a Shield is so UNIQUE, I don't remember any other sentai wielding a shield, and it looks so dope! I absolutely love his weapon, and even better, you can push the nail/third horn inwards or outwards. This accessory made this figure so much fun to play with and pose!

 And now... some copy-pasting! All the standards the line is known for are here. Double jointed elbows and knees, swivels on his boots, thighs and biceps, a hinged waist, a ball-jointed ab crunch and butterfly joints. It's fun to play with him, and all his joints feel very smooth. He is slightly shorter than Bucky Cap.

 I can't believe I'm gonna say this about a flippin' Blue Ranger... but his Shield alone makes him my favorite Dino Thunder Ranger, which is surprising because this team is full of really badass looking rangers.

9.5

Action Figure #706: Power Rangers Lightning Collection Dino Thunder Red Ranger

 Flames and Dinosaur themes... is this a Dragon?

 While I never watched Abaranger or Dino Thunder, the previous DT figures I bought lead me to realize something... these designs slap! So it was only a matter of time before I got the Dino Thunder Red Ranger. Thing is, this guy has gone up in price A LOT, but I was lucky enough to win an auction for the three basic rangers(Spoilers!), albeit missing a few accessories. And I'll take it, because I paid as much for it as I would've paid just for the complete Red Ranger!

 As I said before... I really like these designs, and the Red Ranger is no exception. I think he looks really cool and he came out great, as the red, gold and white are quite eye-catching. The helmet design is pretty simple... but effective! He comes with a staff, two hands(I'm missing one!), a blaster, an unmasked helmet, a sword and a flame effect. I'll come out and admit that I don't think this flame effect is very badass looking, but I could probably get a better use out of it with another figure.

 All the standards the line is known for are here. Double jointed elbows and knees, swivels on his boots, thighs and biceps, a hinged waist, a ball-jointed ab crunch and butterfly joints. It's fun to play with him, and all his joints feel very smooth. He is slightly shorter than Bucky Cap.

 I really loved this figure, and I have been playing a lot with him, I've really no major complaints when it comes to him.

9.0

Action Figure #705: JADA Toys Robocop 3.0

 Jesus Christ... JADA used to be GARBAGE!

 This Robocop 3.0 figure is so terrible I actually threw it into the trash. After waking up tonight, I had some regrets and fished out the figure, the guns, the screwdrivers(more on this later) and picked him up again to finish the surgery I started on him last night. I thought that Jada had come out of nowhere with action figures, I was wrong... but their starting point was so poor that the quality of their current figures is nothing short of miraculous. Aside from that, I got through the entire Robocop franchise this year, all movies and all TV series, and so I wanted a Robocop in my collection, but NECA's was too large... so I looked up if the 2014 movie, which wasn't half bad mind you, had any figures made. It had. And here we are.

 The figure has a very detailed sculpt, I'll give it that. He has a very angularly mechanical look to him that is pretty neat, although being molded in black with minimal paint apps means that most of the detail is lost. The most striking feature about the figure is that he has no mouth. The mouth isn't sculpted, and it's not even painted on, the part of his face that shows below the helmet is just a blob of flesh with nothing. He does come with two guns, and those get some silver paint apps.

 You can press his chest to have his visor turn on. Know what would've been better? Proper red paint to add some life into the figure.

 Articulation is terrible. Elbows and knees are single jointed, and this is as far as they bend. That's right, neither reaches a 90 degree bend. Pathetic. Arms and legs can move up and down, and you can raise either to the sides, but the leg split is also pathetic. No waist or ab articulation at all, but even worse, no wrist articulation, so he can only aim his guns straight if his arms are straight. They even messed up the head, as he can move his head to either side only a little bit.

 And then I realized something. If you rotate the arms and then bend them backwards... you do get a 90 degree bend. Could it be? Could my copy have been messed up at the assembly? No. I looked up videos of people reviewing the figure, every copy is the same. Maybe they messed up at the assembly line? I look up the character himself, and no, they didn't, the details on the front of the biceps matches how he looks in the movie, so it's just bad engineering.

 He has no mouth, and he definitely must scream. So yesterday... Yesterday I tried to heat up his arms and pull them out, since they were single jointed it shouldn't have been an issue. It was, no luck. I got frustrated, so I moved on to un-screwing his back... and after getting two out of the three screws out... the final screw wouldn't give in. The head of the screw started warping too. So I got angry and threw him into the trash. Well... Mama didn't raise no quitter, so I woke up, fished all the pieces out of the trash, and this time I used a larger screwdriver and managed to pull apart this freak. Then instead of using mere hot water, I actually boiled it... and, after MUCH struggling... managed to take apart the arms. Sapping the pieces of one of the arms was simple enough, but the other one just refused to go back in, so I had to cut a bit of the peg... but hey! Against all odds....

 I gave this crummy figure a 90 degree bend on his arms. He is on the very lower end of the six inch scale, so he'll probably look better next to some Star Wars figures.

 This might possibly be the worst action figure in my collection. Easily. Horribly designed, it's worse than a kid's toy, because at least those get mouths.

0.5

Action Figure #704: Power Rangers Lightning Collection Dino Thunder Yellow Ranger

 Hopefully you didn't think I was done with Dinosaur rangers...

 On this latest round of entries we've seen a Dinosaur themed ranger and a yellow ranger, so to end up this latest haul of figures... a Dinosaur Yellow Ranger, namely the Dino Thunder Yellow Ranger !

 After getting the AbareKiller and the Dino Thunder Black Ranger I started looking into them, particularly the Japanese version and... they looked dope. Well, this yellow ranger looks as great as any of them. Bright yellow and white might not be the most pleasing combo for the eyes, but between her weapons and her helmet, she looks very aerodynamic. So, yeah, I like the figure, although I would've used a less vibrant yellow. She comes with two Ptero-guns, a blue blaster and an effect piece for it, two grabby hands and two open hands, as well as an unmasked headsculpt.

 Articulation hits all the beats, double jointed elbows and knees, swivels on the biceps, thighs and boots, with a ball jointed ab crunch and a hinged waist. Unlike the previously mentioned RPM Yellow Ranger, this one's skirt doesn't limit her movement at all. She is a bit shorter than Bucky Cap.

 Overall? A great yellow ranger. The color scheme could've been done a bit more pleasing, but I like the sculpt and the design, so there's that.

7.5

Action Figure #703: Power Rangers Lightning Collection Dino Charge Green Ranger

  Finally! Another Green Ranger in my collection!

 Well, it seems my priority is to finish the Dino Charge team now, and up net is the Dino Charge Green Ranger which finally adds another green into my Rangers.

 Pretty much same sculpt as the Blue Dino Charge guy, but with a different helmet and paint job. I do think the green and yellow look fantastic on him, so I'll take it. He comes with two grabby hands, a really neat pointing hand, a fist, an unmasked head, a sword, a blaster and a effect piece for the sword. The grabby hands are kinda lame, I mean, the trigger finger works well for the gun, but the other grabby hand has two fingers with a slightly more extended grip than the other two, so getting a good grip on the sword was a bit challenging.

 Articulation is on brand for the brand. Double jointed elbows and knees, butterfly joints, swivels on his biceps, thighs and boots, with a hinged waist and a ball jointed ab crunch. He also features the dreadful drop down hips. That said... his right shoulder was very stiff, which was stressing the peg, so I shaved off some of the plastic so that it could better rotate into the torso. His left ankle was very stiff too, so I had to loosen it up with some hot water, and it's still not perfect, and I can see that the peg is a bit stressed. He is ever so slightly shorter than Bucky Cap.

 While I'd happily tell you that the color scheme makes me like him more than the Blue Ranger... the QC issues with the joints left a sour taste on my mouth. Hopefully he won't break with the fixed I applied.

6.0

Action Figure #702: Power Rangers Lightning Collection RPM Yellow Ranger

 A one-woman team.

 I think RPM was a bit beloved, which is surprising since Hasbro only got around doing the RPM Yellow Ranger before putting the line on an indefinite hiatus. I don't mind too much, Shinkenger was incredible, and coming right out of it into Go-Onger... I hated it. I hated Go-Onger and I haven't watch a single Sentai show again... until this year, in which I'm watching Gozyuger as it comes out... and boy oh boy, at the time of writing this, they are going after the controversy of having to fire Maya/Sumino and having to reshoot the next episodes!

 Back to the figure, well, while I didn't like Go-Onger, I think the designs are fine. The belt-looking  straps up front, the wheels on the gloves and boots, as well as the car-like helmet... it's a decent looking design, and it translated well into plastic. She comes with two grabby hands, two open hands, a sword, a gun, an unmasked head and a effect piece...

 That you can't possibly use on her sword as is because her blade ends on a round tip, but the slot on the effect is squared. This is beyond lazy, Hasbro!

 Articulation... it would be up to the standards of the line, butterfly joints, double jointed elbows and knees, swivels on her biceps, thighs and boots, with a hinged waist and a ball jointed ab crunch, however... This figure's skirt is the hardest I've come across on the line, it pretty much kills all the articulation from her hips, which is very disappointing. Lightning Collection's articulation is usually very good, so this is very lame. She is a bit shorter than Bucky Cap.

 Design wise she is fine... but between the skirt that limits her legs and the effect piece that won't work on her weapons... she is very disappointing.

5.0