Korean Mobirates to Mobilates Switch-Around

I never got the chance to buy an actual Mobirates, but I did get to buy the Legends Mobirates.  But even though I got it I still wanted a show accurate one. So I bought a Korean Mobirates and decided to switch the contents.

The First off I had to decide If what front I wanted to keep. The Captain Force front or the Mobilate from. I decided to go for the silver one because I wanted a Gokaiger Mobirates and to be nowhere near the Captain Force label... They should have called it Pirate Force or Super Megaforce or Buccaneer Force. Anything is better then Captain Force...

Any way I did some preparation before hand on my Legends Mobirates so it will be a few steps further. I also made sure I got everything I needed. Though I kinda wish that I had thinner scissors. The first thing I removed where the fronts.

When totally opening it you can see a trend. Every chip made by Bandai Japan is green, Everything made by Bandai Korea is brown/beige.

The first thing I removed are the springs that cause the ''X'' to open whenever a key is insterted

I am always very distrustfulness of these things. So damn easy to lose!

With that done you'll have to look to the left of the Mobirates. The thing you'll have to remove is the spring that keeps the Mobirates up and the piece that holds it down. If you done right it should looks like the Mobirates on the right.

Next up is to take the top of and remove the spring engine that make that awesome click when you open it. But carefully though. For some reason the Korean fell apart and I had to fix it.

Now to remove the backs of the ''X'' parts. You need to do this because you'll need to get in the spring parts in order to safely remove the light chip installed in to the middle of it. Be sure to cut the plastic rim keeping the wire down though. I wish I could have done it better. But sadly the scissors where to thick and now it just looks ugly. Not that it totally matters though. Its on the inside lol

Now with the Light chips out of the way and the engines back in place its time to switch around the chips in the main body. This was ironically the easiest part lol. Just look out for the audio pat on the side. Its highly magnetic so you'll be better off if you keep the screws away.

Now that the main chip is removed from both the mobirates you put the two outer parts back together.

And do the switch

From there its just repeating the same steps but backwards. And provided that you haven't screwed up the spring parts that makes the ''X'' emblem open it should work:

 And with that I got my new Mobirates! And the best thing is that it can read the Gobusters and Aka Red keys now!! :D

My Small Collection of Morphers

When I was young I never ever got a chance to buy a morpher. When I was older I never came by morphers because Bandai Europe was run by idiot trolls who stopped selling Morphers when Zeo Started!

Now though I got more then enough morphers in my collection. Like my Legend Mobirates I blogged about earlier. Or the Armor Hero stuff that don't work because they are bootlegs.

But the one I am most proud of is my normal Morhper which I bought in February (kinda forgot how long at it actually was lol) It came in a box with 2 megazords and some small stuff. But it only had the Mastadon coin. and of course its not a Dyno Buckler. Nope I bought Reprolables as soon as I got this thing. But first I attempted to fix its faults. For instance. The batteries in it where almost rusted away. And the red part under it was greasy a can of fat. I got 3 of the 4 screws off and cleaned one of the plates in hot water. One of the screws was broke when I bought it so I had to clean it by soaking and rubbing (giggity!) it. It worked out great! I even managed to get it working for a few days. But the sound started to decline and the lights arent even working properly. So I removed the batteries out of fear for rust. Any way I love this thing and I hope to get the 2013 morpher too!

Abaranger is one of those of which I kinda was disappointed at. For one thing Its the one from Mainland China and it doesn't work quite as good as the original and its American counterpart. Instead of making a Dino/Flying Reptile sound when opening and closing the mouth parts. It makes the sound when opening. And when you close it this thing will go in to call mode. This is annoying. You'd think the Chinese would get this right. Just switch around the effects. Or put call mode where its actually supposed to be, which is when the mouth is closed and you push the button!.

Next up are my SPD morphers. I got 2 normal ones and 1 Battlized morpher. They are okay but they could have been better. My first gripe is the sound. Dekaranger was pretty much one of the best Sentai's with their sound effects. And this is pretty evident with my Gokai Patrol Striker. But ALL of the SPD morphers are really really quiet. Bandai America failed there. Now my Battlized Morpher on the other hand is really good. But then again all I got with that is a small LED that goes on and off when you grab the throttle... Also Yes I painted my morphers. First just to fix some scratches. And then to make a Master Licence. and then to make my own morpher. Sadly I got disinterested in the painting stuff for the moment. So its been left for the mothballs.

My first morpher is the accelerator from Boukenger. Well from Power Ranger Operation Oversuck... Its not bad. But not worth the money I paid for it. Which was €18. Inferior plastic and an annoying piece of cardboard instead of the codes on the original. Sounds are okay. But I miss the Go Go Goooo~ part when you call for the Bouken vehicles.

Some Other Stuff                                                                  
And this is what else I got

As I was saying on the Legend Mobirates blog. I got this Ride & Go Machine in order to get the Red Buster Key without having to buy the DX Gobuster set which gets sold out constantly. 

Its a cool thing. But to be fair. I kinda leave it in the box most of the times. I shouldn't have put the stickers on either. I don't really like shelf fillers. And I have to many already.

Speaking of Keys. Here are my 5 Go Red Keys. Which I was planning to paint, Sadly I am being lazy at the moment. And I still need to find the right paint for some.

 And lastly something I got in the Box along with the Power Morpher. The DX Hurricane Hawk. I have no idea at all where the Shinobi Machines have gone. But I am glad its in here. This thing is so well made.  At first I could have sworn that the main body was made out of Diecast.

Sadly I don't have much use for it. Other then a display piece or to joke around with my Ninja Megazord. (which I should dust off) If I get a chance I'll buy a Storm Megazord complete that is. I don't really care if I have such a small thing two times.

Any ways. I'll be posting another Megazord from the box next. Bye :)

KO RV Robo / KO Turbo Megazord

So I finally got my big box of Toku stuff and I started thinking on which toku merch I should start. Sadly some stuff broke and some stuff where knock-offs. And I had to plan out a different line of blogs. So now instead of starting with the newest I am starting with the oldest in the line Super Sentai robots I recently acquired. Which is RV Robo from Tokusou Sentai Carranger or rather the Turbo Megazord from Power Rangers Turbo.

So first off this Megazord is one of the few which where carded rather then boxed. This was positive in the sense that it was not heavy, But negative in the fact that it did get some tiny bit of scuff marks. I'll talk about them later. But the important thing is that this thing did not take up much space. Even though a Ranger Key fits between its legs.

The first one is Red Lightning Zord (using American names because the Japanese kinda suck) It looks okay, since its one of the 2 zords that have the right colours. Its missing allot of silver around the wheels and the rooftop. But other then that its pretty accurate to the original versions by Toei.

Second is the Blue Zord, Aside from a few scuff around the painted spots and the hind wheels being yellow instead of silver its pretty accurate. Sadly on its way here one of its wheels got split and I can see to figure out how to fix it. It doesn't interfere in its ability to roll but in robot mode it let one of the arms hand a little to loosely. Aside from that the frame was missing some screws, so it was hard to put it up or down without breaking it. And the left bumper is sadly broken. Every time I transform it into RV Robo I need to get a fork to get the bumper up. Though it looks fine in car mode. I give it that.

Here's the Green Zord, this is where we get to the colour inaccuracies, Its red, and it looks awesome, But its supposed to be GREEN. The gap on the hood is a bit annoying. But a tons of times I have seen it on the official Turbo Megazord. So I guess its Bandai's fault. The silver part on the roof kept coming loose so I glued it shut. And aside from that I got nothing else to say. Its pretty decent.

The Yellow Zord is supposed to be pretty much the same as the Green Zord. But it does not share the same problem, the hood does not have the same gap and the silver part on the grill looks pretty well. Its pretty good.

The White Zord is supposed to be my favourite of the 5 but this knock-off is just disappointing. Its yellow instead of white, that is obvious. But aside from that its bumper does not combine the right way. So it has this huge seam in the middle, this is so bad that it looks like it imploding. Another seam is in the middle which makes the doors look like they are an afterthought. Speaking of the doors, there was supposed to be a black line on the lower parts of doors, but this being a KO they where lazy. I might paint it over eventually.

Forming it was a bit hard in the beginning. This was due to the fact that the factory never finished up assembling this thing. It had so much loose screws and uncut plastic that I decided to fix a few things before taking photo's. I already talked about the arm problems, But there where a few more things wrong with the arms themselves. For instance, their wheels where about to pop-off during the plugging to the red zord. Because I was putting pressure on the shoulder-pads (aka the doors). I had to fix this by filing down the tabs on the inside. So the doors can now form the shoulders and the wheels aren't breaking. These tabs weren't changed at all during the moulding of the white vehicle, and to be honest I should have seen it coming. Down to the waste and legs is the other annoyance I mentioned earlier. The left bumper of blue (right in actuality) is a bit broken. It would not be so much of a problem if the green vehicle's bumper part that the blue one combines with wasn't so loose. However this is sadly the case, making it look (to me at least) like its not finished forming and rather leaning on that leg part. The other does not have this problem at all. But the thing they do share is the stupid feet formations that for from the hoods and backs of the two vehicles. These annoying shitty feet part retract as soon as you breath on them, let alone pick it up. They are like hermit crabs. My last complaint about the front of this Megazord's body is the grill. When it needs to be tight, its to loose. Making it move out of place easily. And when it needs to be loose to be moved by hand its to damn tight. I formed the Megazord correctly. The grill part went down on its own. >_<

Aside from all those problems I do have to say that this is the most upright bootleg Sentai mecha I blogged about up till now (this is the second btw lol) it works great if you have it against a wall. You don't even have to see the ugly 80% black painted back of it. Its dull but rarely seen. :3

The accessories are PERFECT, It has the shield and the sword. Both are decent in quality, chromed and not in dull flimsy Bandai America plastic. I am pleased to my fullest :D .

Initially I wasn't pleased with this but looking at it now its more then decent for €5.38 minus shipping costs. And though I can't lift it without loosing its feet, at least it did not break on its way here, unlike a certain 2004 bootleg mecha I ordered.

 Video by TheIchipai ©Toei LTD

And that's it for this blog. I should have posted this earlier but I was waiting for my Legend Mobirates. Next blog I'll post something cute :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Today is the 18th birthday for Power Rangers. And even though I forgot to keep tabs on that because Disney *vomit* made me lose interest in Power Ranger. I now plan to keep up with that again. :D

Man time flies by so fast. I can still remember the fact that Power Rangers wasn't the show that introduced me to Tokusatsu but it was the series that made it easier for me to watch and the series that kinda made me addicited to buying toku merch! So much so that I didn't stop trying to get those toys till even today.

The first few things I got as a Child where these

I can even remember having found VERY rare stuff because of that. We had a Flea Market every last Saturday of the month and that's where I found 2 Megazords. The stuff above ^ and a Metal Mastodon prop coin that sadly I lost when moving to Delft. I've had become so good at focusing on the PR stuff that I even left other rare stuff behind (Like a G1 Scorponok with head) hoping to find some Megazords or power Weapons.

I got everything around this Red Dragonzord at the Kreade ^_^

I got the first brand new but the other one at the Kreade

Even though I got great success at finding season 2 and 3 toys it was hard to find myself a Season 1 Megazord. It took me 15 years to find me that thing and my god I am still happy with it.

And by god! I made sure it had all those parts!!

So aside from buying stuff like a nut. I had fun watching the older series. My favorites are still MMPR season 1 and In Space. It didn't exactly introduce me to Super Sentai either. Since that was already done by that one Bioman VHS tape that I probably lost when I moved. So I watched all seasons even the Disney ones later on. Though it pained me and the fact that Disney stopped international airing so I couldn't get any toys. And when I heard that Saban bought Power Rangers back I rejoiced. Now I plan to watch Power Rangers every year again even though the most of them will be copy/paste jobs from the Sentai versions which I already watched a year or more prior. ^^

So with this I say HAPPY BIRTHDAY POWER RANGERS!!
May you have many more Disney-less years!

Sigh... I Tried To Ignore It....

Originally Posted On: 7-12-2010
And yet It came back me whilst searching for knock-offs.... Sigh... This is total face palm material -_-
 
This is the Chinese Super Sentai anime called Beast King *shutters* Its 46 episodes and has so much things taken from several series that it has the Koreans green with envy!! And that's the biggest freaking achievement of the year!!! I'll give you a summary of what I can see just from the opening. (also I'm bored)

The Analysis
00:00 Right from the start something unoriginal, most people would think of Magiranger but it reminds me more of Zyuranger's original mandala.
00:02 First of the robot looks like RID Megatron with a weirder helmet.
00:05 But now you can CLEARLY see where they took it from!!  And they even name it the Mythical Beasts Megazord xD
00:06 This kind of stance looks familiar doesn't it? Reminds me of Transformers.
00:07 And for the record IMO the tortoise actually looks cool! Unlike the other. 
00:08 - 01:11 Blurry blandness. 
00:12 Big eared Galvatron!!! xD
00:16 Nope neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeeeeeeeer saw this before.... ahem.... 
00:20 Magi Maagi Majiiro!!
00:22 Never saw that before either but i can forgive them for this.
00:27-00:29 MY EYES!!!  
00:32 YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY show over!!
00:33 God dammit they still live xP Also Megatron again XD 
00:34 Never saw the Megazord move like that!! well except that one time. 
00:38 Why are the villains cheering for the good guys? weird. Also they remind me of less likeable and dumber Bulk & Skull. 
00:39 Maagi Magi Magika!! 
00:46 - 00:47 Hakajyu Gattai!!  
00:52 - 00:58 Not card games on motorcycles, noooo they took this from something else that came out this year!
01:00 Again <3 The Turtle 
01:01 Megazord sequence activate!! 
01:04 O GOD NO!! They dance? urrrrg i feel sick >.< 
01:05 No just NO!! I can forgive this because its the company who owned it at that time due to a movie and an anime. But China.. I CAN"T FORGIVE YOU!! >.< 
01:06 - 01:34 Blandness and so booooring!. 
End!

I thought I would be about to catch more but it seems that I overestimated this magnitude of the ripping in this video. But that doesn't mean that there isn't more. As you can see in the picture posted above there's a second mecha which is a bland Dragonzord knock-off, Which only exists for a power-up. I can't say much about the series itself other then it being in mandarin and hard to find on the net. Also I remember seeing this on a site posted by Digifiend, But I can't remember which one.  

As for the Toy I found:

By DM Fighter on Youtube

I would say yes its an half-assed knock-off with a few mistakes but IMO some parts of it actually look cool! If I had 2 of these and a Dragonzord I would take two of the Dragonzord leg parts from the KO's and a Tortoise for the arms. Now THAT would look cool in my collection :)
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Editor's Note: I've been thinking of buying it. But I think getting official merch comes first :) Edit: Sorry if some links don't work. I can't seem to find good replacements for most of them

Finally After 15 f#cking years! The Dino Megazord!!!

Originally Posted On: 7-11-2010
But first I was extra lucky last week since when I was volunteering for the Salvation Army I found another Megazord. One which might be obscure so let me show you which one.

Ginga Beast Rhino

This Megazord was from Gingaman / Lost Galaxy and was one of 3 Ginga Beasts / Lost Zords which where saved by our heroes from the clutches of the Space Pirates.

What was even more lucky was that its a complete set with the box still in good shape. Something that's very rare for this Zord since it has so much little parts that are easily lost. Luckily somewhere in this city there's another big Power Ranger fan that decided to hold on to the box :)

GW C1 / C1

First of 5 is the C1 Zord which is small futuristic tank and pretty much my favourite amongst the 5 small components.

GW C2 / C2

C2 is an futuristic (by 1960's sci-fi standards I guess) exploration vehicle with claws.

GW C3 / C3

C3 can either be a truck or or train but I'm going with truck. It holds the helmet and the main part of the huge gun.

GW C4 / C4

C4 is a solar powered buggy that forms the head, Its kinda cute.

GW C5 / C5

C5 is by my guess an armoured car with guns on top. It forms the arms.

Gigantus Buster

The Plasma gun is called the Gigantus Buster and is missed in many collections, I am really, really, really lucky to have those smaller parts in such a good condition.

Ginga Rhino / Centaurus Megazord

The Centaurus Megazord is AWESOME!! its so old-school and mostly vehicles which is something I like very much about it. It also happens to be the smallest DX Megazord in my collection. Its even smaller then the Red Thunderzord. lol I'm absolutely happy with this piece of Sentai mecha and I only had to pay €10 for this thing!! :D

And now for the main catch of the whole year (actually 15 years to be exact). I FINALLY own a Dino Megazord something I never really got a chance at. :D
We had to go to Leiden and it costed me €30 and next month's manga to get it but I finally got it and its just as epic as I remember it!! :)

Tyrannosaurus

Most people say this is their favourite but it not my favourite. Sure its the biggest most powerful and its the Red Ranger's zord but its just not my favourite lol.
This one is missing allot of stickers which is kinda sad but not an horrible disaster, still I find it sad that its missing the sticker where its cannons should be.

Mammoth / Mastodon

I was really worried about the tusks of this zord. I thought they would fall of all the time but they seem to be pretty tightly put in there

Pteranodon / Pterodactyl

I'm so happy I went through the trouble to get pictures of the smaller components other wise I would not have been able to make these awesome photo's.
I already had 1 of these that I bought 10 years prior, But now that I got this one the other one doesn't seem to be that important to me lol.

Saber Tooth / Sabertooth Tiger

The Sabertooth seems by far to be the most complete of the 5 stick wise, It used to be my favourite back when Thuy Tang was still alive (RIP)

Triceratops

I also got two Triceratops because I already bought one about one year ago (I don't really remember lol) Any way I'm happy that the lady who sold me the mecha was nice enough to let my search for the final smaller stuff that most collectors don't own any more. And thus I got the horns!!

I haven't decided yet if I should glue them to one of the two Triceratops so I will never lose them. But judging from most collectors it seems to be a must.

Dai Tanker / Tank Mode

I suck at getting the Tank Mode right but this is my try. ^_^

DaiZyujin / Dino Megazord

And finally the Megazord who I now adore and put up next to my other mecha. As you can see its as complete as I could get, it has the cannons, the horns, and the Power Sword. Can't get more awesome then that face reveal which is something that is edged in to my memory like a trauma XD

 Dino Megazord - Double Triceratops mode.

And due to having two Triceratops I can now do this!! ^^^^ :D

 Compared to the lesser Megazords I own

 Lastly: My only B-fighter

This is something I really missed out on. Not because I did not want the toys but because I had no luck finding the damn things!! Luckily the same lady who sold me the Dino Megazord also gave me this:

B-Fighter Tentou / The Platinum Beetleborg

Which is pretty awesome since I hated Jo who was annoying as hell. But I've always liked Ran . And these photo's don't do the figure justice, I even tried it with a flash and still it does not show the desired shiny glaze on the figure. Its an action figure with a stupid gimmick though, all you need to do is move the middle a bit and then it swings around the B-lancer its holding. Pretty cool but cheap and it also gets in the way of its posability.
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Editor's Note: I hope the same guy who left the Centaurus Megazord will leave another cool zord at our store for Sinter Klaas :3 (Btw the Centaurus orignally came from France it had an hefty price of €160 on the bottom of the box :D)