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Speak English dude, this is America, NOT Prisonland.
This is the internet. Your country's desecration of the English Language doesn't apply here, you tool!!!
Speak English dude, this is America, NOT Prisonland.
I grew up on MMPR, but that does not mean ZyuRanger is not superior and I only care about owning ZyuRanger stuff, not a stupid female yellow ranger.
Speak English dude, this is America, NOT Prisonland.
I kid, but seriously, what does "starting to gt a little" mean?
The thing is, I shouldn't have to import them when we have a US distributor. Their reasons are just as retarded as the ones that they use for not being able to release AkibaRanger, DaiRanger, and web exclusive Kamen Rider stuff here. If they can do the Sentai web exclusives, there is no reason they cannot do Kamen Rider and AkibaRanger.
Well, not everyone lives in the US. For the rest of us, importing from Amazon.com or anywhere in America is more expensive than just getting the Japanese releases. So Blufin isn't helping most of us there.
If you're a Sentai fan and don't care about PR it's even worse, since I imagine a lot of people who supported Blufin in the early days did so because they were Sentai/Rider fans, not necessarily Power Rangers ones. It's great that they've helped the entire Zyuranger team get released, I have no problems catering to a popular market.. But not so much that it takes the focus away from everything else. Now we're done with the main releases, fans are clamouring for endless repaints, variants and villain releases of the same things. How about we go back and finish one of the teams that the Zyu interfered with? Or start releasing some guys from another season? But even the popularity polls seem to indicate that nobody in the US wants anything besides more MMPR.
So sorry, but I see Blufin as nothing but detrimental to the Figuarts brand, especially as the one major thing they've done (create a female yellow) seems to have had polarizing effects.
This is the internet. Your country's desecration of the English Language doesn't apply here, you tool!!!
<sigh> Did you even read the next sentence?
... Just when I thought I was out, Iron Man Figuarts pull me back in.
*applause*Let me put in my two cents:
I understand that there's people in the U.S. that don't care about MMPR but like Zyuranger and want the complete team as THEY see it. However, most people in the U.S. that know of MMPR are completely oblivious to the existence of Zyuranger.
These figures are not marketed as Zyurangers; they're marketed as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, at least in North America. So imagine the average Power Rangers (not Sentai/Zyuranger) fan buying the Yellow Ranger from wherever they usually purchase these figures, going home, only to find this apparently female figure that's built more like Jason than Kimberly. It's easy to get away with that in the show usually because simple camera tricks like perspective and angling can make it work. When you have the whole team in figure form standing side-by-side and it's quite obvious that the yellow ranger probably has a you-know-what, it can be distracting, considering that these figures are made for collectors. Most fans won't know why Trini is the same height and build as Jason.
Coming from the perspective of someone who collects primarily Riders when it comes to Figuarts, it seems a bit ungrateful to complain about the American version properly making a female character look feminine and needing to pay middleman fees to get your perceived 'proper' version of the character. I'm almost close to completing the entire lineup of Ryuki riders in figuarts form and 3 of those exclusives are selling for near or more than 3 times as much as what Tigerramger is going to release for initially on the aftermarket. But I knew I wanted all of the Ryuki figures. If it is really that important to you, then just spend the extra money. It's what you'd be doing without Bluefin, so just be thankful you can even get 5/6 of the team without paying what you'd pay for a lot of other Figuarts.