>>10648550Blessed Anon here.
Hey, no problem bud! I too was bummed it sold out, but I figured Hasbro would put it back up for pre-order like they've done with pretty much everything else. So I checked the item page repeatedly throughout the weekend and it paid off!
It's sad to see this line is going on "hiatus"(or is it actually dead and done?), but that's Hasbro own doing. They couldn't get their quality control under control, couldn't be bothered to make sure things were show accurate, and failed to finish ranger teams by spreading them out too much. That really fractured team-building by making a customer's ability to complete teams a financial burden, leaving them at the mercy of possibly paying scalper prices for older figures. The fault lies with Hasbro alone, not the customers and fans who supported this line year after year.
I hate to say it, but as nice as some Lightning Collection stuff has been from Hasbro, overall, I kinda miss when Bandai of America had the Power Rangers toy license. That flop of a live action 2017 Power Rangers reboot film and it's toy line really screwed over the brand and Bandai of America. The designs used for that film sucked. The brand used to have massive store shelf presence in the toy aisle and now there's barely any Power Rangers merchandise on the store shelves when I visit Target or Walmart stores.
To us fans it's a loss, but to Hasbro it seems more like an internal win since they're taking out a worldwide competitor in the realm of transforming/combining robot toys. More money to flow towards the Transformers brand monopolizing the worldwide transforming/combining robot toy market, y'know?
