In the end, the real problem is that what we've all wanted from Power Rangers toys is to get the stuff we felt we deserved to get years ago from the toyline, but our individual wants are very specific to each of our nostalgias, and in no way in line with a general audience. Whether we're sitting here wanting Ooze, Rito, Bulk, Skull, Vile, Mondo, Divatox, Elgar, Darkonda, Dark Spectre, Ransik, Master Org, Grumm, Venjix, Sledge, or any particular monster of the week or specific ranger team, it was a 95% chance at best that whatever we specifically wanted outside the early series wasn't going to do well enough to matter.
I'd argue the only people who truly won the lotto during the Hasbro era were those who were after Finster, Mesogog, and the Putrids specifically:
- Finster because my GOD was that figure way more detailed than it had any right to be.
- Mesogog because despite coming from a Tommy series, he really had nowhere near the clout that some of the other villains had, so the fact that he got a figure when he was destined to shelfwarm with the general audience was a heck of a gift in the end.
- Putrids, largely for the same reasons as Mesogog. Seriously, if you'd told me that by the end of the Lightning line the army builders we'd have gotten would have been Putties, Tengas, Cogs...and PUTRIDS? I'd have wondered what you were smoking and thought there's no way they'd get in over something like Quantrons, but here we are.
The one spot where we definitely have a right to bitch though is that the series went to the Transformers company, and then promptly shit out some of the WORST megazords we ever got, with the sole exception possibly being the Dino Fury ones purely because they basically went full Lego for create-a-megazord purposes (and I still think they missed a massive opportunity by not creating a few toyline-exclusive "classic" zords like the Falconzord compatible with that build-a-zord system, because lets be honest, we would have snapped that shit up).
