Red Hurricane

It’s that moment when you had no plan to buy it but you end up sacrificing your wallet. It was the last one on the shelf. I had no choice.

So here’s my mini review of the Red Wind Ranger from the 6.5 Legacy Collection, released in August, 2016 for $19.99. To be blunt, I didn’t expect much from this action figure because of the price, but the price turned out be one of the factors making this bad boy a great toy.

Included are the Red Wind Ranger, one megazord piece, and two weapons (ninja sword).

First thing’s first though, let's talk about the figure itself. The appearance of the body is very human-like. Not too thin or thick. The proportion is perfect.

The contours of the body are very smooth too, so certain poses, like bending the stomach, looks natural, rather than connected joints looking fragment.

(photo credit: www.powerrangers.com)

There is just enough detail to resemble the actual charter from the show. Sure, not the most detailed figure, especially the vaguely molded hawk symbol on the forehead, because of the price. But this shows that not all details from the actual thing aren’t necessarily needed to make an action figure look very nice. I guess this is also due to the fact that the human-like proportion does its job of covering the lack of details. The paint job on the accessories too are minimal, but is just enough to, like I said, look decent. Especially after playing with high-end figures, I always had a tendency to be picky about details, but perhaps I should stop.

Oh yeah, not necessarily about the details, but I really want to point out how on-point the helmet is. It looks just like the one from the show, no matter what angle you look at it from. Whether it’s a cheap or expensive action figure, there are many that fail to look accurate. It doesn’t give me an awkward “uh, this looks wrong….” moment. Congrats to Bandai for their great work.

With such natural body shape and enough details, the poses it can recreate are great and fun to look at. After all, action figures are meant to make poses. Articulation combining with great proportion makes a figure even better. Also, not many action figures of this price range, at least from my experience, don't move this much articulation. I just wish I had the necessary tools to take better pictures. Who knew I’d be writing a blog for class...

Now let’s talk about the price. Considering that Bandai plans to release every ranger from every season, $19.99 is relatively affordable because most seasons consist of 5 core power rangers. 5 for $120-ish with good possibility, not bad at all.

Nonetheless, some fans may still buy only their favorite rangers rather than full teams, so including a megazord (the robot the superheroes have on the show) piece for each ranger is good and makes collecting the figures fun. What’s a huge plus is that the megazord  that builds up by purchasing all core rangers of the same team too is an actual action figure rather than just a statue. The articulation isn’t as good as the Rangers, but still moves quite a bit for a bonus feature. A poseable megazord action figure isn’t something that exists a lot in the Power Rangers field.

So there you go, the Legacy Red Wind Ranger action figure. Cheap price, great poseability, enough details, and a megazord piece. I totally underestimated this product. The more I play with it, the more I dig it. Because many high quality action figures cost so much, it’s great to get something like this with just a $20 bill and a few coins. Will I buy this again? Definitely, if I'm not broke.