{"id":46216,"date":"2018-09-20T23:12:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T03:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46216"},"modified":"2020-08-08T23:12:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T03:12:55","slug":"life-goals-battle-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46216","title":{"rendered":"Life goals, battle mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I came into a little bit of fuck-you-play-money recently, so I did what any responsible adult would do \u2013 I went on a mad witch hunt for a toy from my childhood that I still wanted to this very day.<\/span><\/p>\n

It only took nearly 23 years from the day I first decided that I wanted one, but I finally got my hands on a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers<\/em> (legacy) Megazord<\/strong>.\u00a0 I\u2019m serious, when I first saw the show when I was in the fifth grade, I remember thinking \u201cman, this show is sooooo lame,\u201d but then the next thing I knew, I was watching every episode and it wasn\u2019t long afterward did the want to watch the show force me to learn how to program a VCR so I could tape the show because it came on at 2:30 in the afternoon and I didn\u2019t get out of school until closer to 3:30.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I first saw commercials for MMPR toys, I wouldn\u2019t have imagined that they\u2019d become the literal hardest things in the world to get a hold of that year, but then again to a fifth grader, there aren\u2019t a whole lot of things to imagine other than more MMPR, video games, and trying not to get bad grades so my mom wouldn\u2019t kick my ass.\u00a0 But I learned really quickly the concept of supply and demand that year, when it became very apparent that every other boy around my age also wanted MMPR toys, and getting a hold of a Megazord or a DragonZord was going to be the equivalent of trying to catch lightning in a bottle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suffice to say, as much as my mom tried to spoil her son and acquire one, it didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 I literally remember articles in the Washington Post about how they were the hot item, and how no toy store in the country could ever manage to get more than 1-3 of either in at a time, and people were literally waiting for doors to open on a daily basis to get them when they did.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was disappointed that I couldn\u2019t get either of the toys, but eventually time heals all wounds, and by the sixth grade, I had really gotten into comic books and gradually, the Power Rangers and the want for the toys eventually faded into the background.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure I wrote about all this before in the past, when I got my DragonZord a few years ago<\/a>, but to recap, there came a point somewhere in the late 2000s where I realized that I was an adult and I occasionally had this shit called \u201cdisposal income\u201d that could be used to exchange for things we wanted.\u00a0 So I started looking around on eBay, thinking that old MMPR toys would be those things that people were trying to peddle here and there to sad-sack nostalgia hounds like myself for reasonable prices, but how wrong I was.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only were they no cheaper than they were in 1995, they were just as rare, and to make matters worse, there were these 20-year anniversary versions of the toys all designated as Legacy, and they were just as expensive, just as rare, and just as hard to find in retail as they were back in 1995.<\/span><\/p>\n

By whatever divine intervention and\/or luck, I came into my DragonZord at a ThinkGeek retail store, where I resisted way too long before realizing I was being fucking stupid, and bought one.\u00a0 Looking back, I wish I bought all three that were available on the shelf, so that I could try and capitalize on the eBay market, but I can\u2019t complain that I got one of my childhood unicorns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, with some house money in tow, I scoured eBay and found a decent condition Megazord for sale, and sniped it successfully for a price under my cap.\u00a0 And then the wait was on, for it to finally get to me, and when it did, it was like being 12 years old all over again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the fact that ultimately, I wanted both to be in their most recognizable forms on my shelf, there was absolutely nothing more I wanted to do with my two toys, than to combine them into DragonZord Battle Mode<\/a>; it should come as little surprise that the one iteration of Megazord\/DragonZord I liked the most was probably the one that got the least amount of exposure throughout the American televised series.\u00a0 But whatever, with both toys now in my possession, there was nothing standing in my way of making my childhood dreams come true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except the toys themselves, which I found to be really rigid and stiff, and really difficult to actually play with.\u00a0 Disassembling both Mega and Dragon Zords, I couldn\u2019t help but feel this apprehension that I was going to break something, trying to reduce them down into components to where I could merge them into DragonZord Battle Mode.\u00a0 I even watched YouTube videos<\/a> to make sure that I wasn\u2019t doing something wrong and risk breaking my new precious unicorns.\u00a0 But eventually, I figured out all the connection points and found safe ranges of motion for the points of articulation, and I finally made one of my childhood dreams come true: DragonZord Battle Mode<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, there was little else to do except stare at the completed zord and take satisfaction at the task that took 23 years to accomplish.\u00a0 After putting the toy together, I couldn\u2019t help but think a few things in particular, namely the fact that due to the immense rigidity of them in general, I couldn\u2019t imagine what it would be like to be a kid playing with these things.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s good that Saban or whatever manufacturer didn\u2019t really make many (any?) oversized monsters or Goldar for kids to pit their zords up against, because without question, these things would break, have their connection points wear down or any other deterioration that comes with kids playing with toys that would have ultimately ruined them.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s little mistaking that Megazord was designed with the final fighting mode solely in mind, and it makes me wonder why they even bothered making it capable of disassembly, other than integration with DragonZord.\u00a0 Mainly on account of the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord which could very easily be a toy in itself if the kids had their way, but in its actual toy form couldn\u2019t be any more of a blatant conduit and not a figure, based on its extremely limited movement and the fact that the arms are pathetically small<\/a> and lack any articulation whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not to mention the sheer flaw in scale of the toys themselves; the Tyrannosaurus was so small by itself compared to DragonZord, much less DragonZord Battle Mode, it\u2019s laughable.\u00a0 If a kid wanted to replicate any scenarios from the show where the Tyrannosaurus fought solo, it would be like putting a dwarf next to a monster<\/a>.\u00a0 A part of me thought about leaving DragonZord in Battle Mode on my shelf, with Tyrannosaurus alone, but based on sheer sadness of T-rex on its lonesome made me nix that idea and revert them back to their standard forms for display purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, none of the critiques changed the fact that I got my hands on both of these two toys that I had coveted for over two decades, and played with them with great relish for nearly 30 minutes after bringing them together.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost like I\u2019m in a state of not knowing what to do anymore, because I\u2019ve finally gotten these two things that I\u2019ve wanted for so long and now that I\u2019ve secured them I just don\u2019t know what to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

It only took 23 years, but yes I\u2019ve finally gotten my Megazord and DragonZords.\u00a0 They\u2019ll live on my shelf of display until further notice, only to be taken down for occasional dusting and reminiscing playing around to merge DragonZord into Battle Mode, for old time\u2019s sake.\u00a0 Zero regrets, whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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