There are days when you feel old, and then there are days when you feel really old. Today is one of the latter for me, as I learned that today is the 20th Anniversary of the debut of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV show in the United States–a show I thought I was too old for when it first aired. So yeah. I feel old today. But on the bright side, MEGA Brands has now released a special set to commemorate my being over-the-hill: it’s the Mega Bloks Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Collector Set 05836, containing Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mega Bloks figures of all six original Power Rangers!
MEGA Brands has been making various Power Rangers Mega Bloks sets for a decade now, and has produced a multitude of sets from different eras of Power Rangers history (and thus different iterations of the Power Rangers themselves). But while Mega Bloks Power Rangers have been around for ten years, it wasn’t until this year that MEGA Brands finally upgraded their Mega Bloks Power Rangers figures to have a wide range of articulation and flexibility. Previously, they felt more like LEGO Minifigures than true action figures.
With the 2013 Power Rangers Mega Bloks figures being vastly improved over the earlier figures, fans were positively screaming out for updated versions of the first (and most popular in North America) iteration of the team: the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
MEGA Brands has seemingly heard the outcry for superior MMPR Mega Bloks, and they have answered! Starting to hit select stores now is a special 20th Anniversary Mega Bloks Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Collector Set that includes a very cool tiered base with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers logo on it, as well as the whole team of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mega Bloks figures: Red Ranger, Black Ranger, Blue Ranger, Yellow Ranger, Pink Ranger and even the ridiculously beloved Green Ranger! There’s no question with the release of this set that it’s instantly going to become the most-loved Power Rangers Mega Bloks sets ever.
If your local store hasn’t stocked the 20th Anniversary Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Collector Set of Mega Bloks figures, there are plenty of the set available on ebay right now for around $20. Considering I’ve started buying the original S.H. Figuarts Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for $40+ per figure, getting the whole set in one go for about twenty bucks feels like a real steal!
Happy Birthday, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fandom!
I really wish they were the more articulated kind of minifigs, like the kind you find in the Halo and WoW sets.
On the other hand, this set might also give me the impetus to build Zords for them…