>>11502465How about the monster figures that were sculpted accurate to the way they looked in the show, didn't have glaring paint app omissions on faces, weren't two feet taller than the Rangers, and didn't have a prohibitively high price tag?
>but muh articulation!Monsters are glorified props for the Rangers to beat up on. They don't need super articulation when the real world suits were barely mobile. Monsters are a niche within a niche, and price point matters. Articulation = higher cost, especially when dealing with one time use sculpts. The main villains who are in every episode already sell less than the Rangers, and at best a monster will only have appeared in a handful of episodes. As such, monsters having a higher price point than the Rangers does not work. The Lightning Collection monsters were an abject failure.
The way Bandai handled monsters was the right way. Give them good sculpts and as much paint and articulation as you can without raising their cost above the Rangers. People were buying $10 monsters in the Dino Charge/Ninja Steel lines, they weren't buying $30+ monsters in the Lightning Collection.
