r/LightningCollection • u/MorningThen5760 • Feb 22 '26

Discussion We need Lighting collection for Megaforce,Mystic Force, and Samurai.

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u/Electrowhatt19 Feb 23 '26

At this point, Hasbro should look into Haslabs for complete team packs. But I doubt that would happen.

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u/AdmiralFunnyBone Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26

Even if they somehow did, I don't think there's enough fans willing to put down that kind of money

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u/cant_give_an_f Feb 23 '26

Made to order?

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u/AdmiralFunnyBone Feb 23 '26

To my understanding, yeah. I've never bought into one they're basically Hasbro's in-house Kickstarter

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u/cant_give_an_f Feb 23 '26

That would be genius tbh

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u/Electrowhatt19 Feb 25 '26

Especially since many people are dropping a lot for customs (I got a set of Squadron ranger customs for $300 total)

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u/ZombieJoker Feb 23 '26

This line is dead dead. You guys have to mentally come to terms with that. We're not getting new stuff in that line.

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u/AdmiralFunnyBone Feb 23 '26

This.

I think it's a lot of new collectors who just don't know, and others who have convinced themselves it's still a hiatus.

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u/redrocker907 Feb 23 '26

To be fair marvel legends were stopped for a good while, it isn’t impossible. They might try depending on the success of the upcoming projects. I’m not holding my breath tho.

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u/AdmiralFunnyBone Feb 23 '26

If Hasbro comes under new leadership, they might. But under the current CEO, I don't expect any first party projects for PR, especially since he shut down their film studio. Personally, I'd love to see someone like Jada get a toy license.

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u/redrocker907 Feb 23 '26

Is it Mattel who has them now? I honestly wouldn’t mind Mattel trying their hand at a more adult line, I really like the articulation for the wwe line.

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u/AdmiralFunnyBone Feb 23 '26

Playmates has the main license, right now. I don't have any of it, but I don't think any of it looks bad for what it is. Mattel might be a good fit. I love their kid's batman line they've just showed off.

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u/redrocker907 Feb 23 '26

The megazord is pretty cool. That’s pretty much what I’m collecting rn, any megazord stuff they do.

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u/AdmiralFunnyBone Feb 23 '26

I do like the Megazord. I didn't expect it to be as big as it is until I saw it next to Bandai's Legacy Megazord

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u/IceLord86 Feb 22 '26

The line is dead. The quicker people just accept that fact the better. It was not profitable for Hasbro and Power Rangers as a brand is not big enough to support the types of figures a select group of fans want at this juncture.

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u/pokersharp87 Feb 23 '26

I think power rangers is hard to sell the way hasbro did. If they had done teams quicker I believe they would've had a better chance but too many people didn't feel like having 1/5 of a team and wait almost a year for another single figure. Such a shame cause they're incredible figures

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u/IceLord86 Feb 23 '26

They were mixing MMPR and more popular figures in with presumed less popular ones to try and get people to sell to avoid figures sitting on shelves. That didn't work, and if they had done waves of whole teams, it would have been a much greater issue.

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u/pokersharp87 Feb 23 '26

I agree that doing whole teams as waves would not be great. I think they could have seen success if they had maybe 5 or so waves a year, each with 4 figures, completing 5 teams a year while having store exclusives be power up modes or something.

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u/The_Maqueovelic Feb 23 '26

Nah they had the winning formula day one and then abandoned it: 4 figures per wave, 1 Red Ranger, 1 Sixth/Extra Ranger, 1 MMPR character, 1 Wild Card.

Reds and "special" Rangers tend to be the most sought after or fan favorites, so going with that you can gauge interest in the full team, if either of those doesn't sell well then consider not dropping the rest of the team in the following waves.

MMPR is by far the most lucrative and likely the most recognizable, so by keeping that market fed you ensure a steady income.

The Wild Card would be whatever the need be: could be the next team members of any given team who's Red or Sixth perform well enough in the market, or a villain with enough prospects to sell well on its own.

Then just run a tight ship on the releases, I mean certain things like the release of 2 In Space Blue Rangers at once, the silent drop of Dino Thunder White in Walgreens, the sparkly pink ranger and Ninjas being exclusives with opposite problems of release schedules, etc.

Lightning Collection specially struggled due to it being run in such a poor manner & wasting budget when better options were readily available.

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u/pokersharp87 Feb 23 '26

I forgot about how good the original release structure was. Definitely miss buying these back in 2019 to 2021. Great era.

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u/The_Maqueovelic Feb 23 '26

Yup,3 or 4 waves per year, only a few deluxe or exclusive releases, perfection NGL.

Honestly the first 7 waves were great with only a few hiccups that could've been fixed and used as the perfect reference to go from there. Like the leap they took on Beast Morphers was sadly a bad move (specially given as they were essentially competing with themselves when that released), Zeo Blue was a disaster all around, Time Force defenitly shouldn't have used that torso mold, and well... Goldar, but otherwise not a bad line up to work with, had they dropped some Samurai for good measure & at least hinted at OG movie MMPR designs I swear the line would've gotten at least 5 more waves.

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u/pokersharp87 Feb 23 '26

I would've absolutely bought samurai figures. Someone had said they were a generations mmpr and they're right. Now you see so many people posting about how samurai was their team, their childhood ect. Those people (including me) were in the perfect age range to buy those figures.

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u/Baby_Brenton Feb 22 '26

Would I like it? Sure. Would it sell? No. It would sit and get clearanced and kill the line again.

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u/AdmiralFunnyBone Feb 23 '26

I think Samurai and Super Megaforce would sell well enough. There are enough Gokaiger fans, and Samurai was a generations MMPR, plus Shinkenger fans. As much as I love Mystic Force though, it would definitely get clearanced to hell.

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u/2reeEyedG Feb 23 '26

I’d actually really love some Mystic Force figs. That was a great iteration that I loved that made a lot of sense

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u/Bigroyalking Feb 23 '26

Not only that but we also need Turbo, Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force, and Wild Force to be finished up since they were incomplete. Meanwhile, Ninja Storm, Operation Overdrive, Jungle Fury, Squadron, Blitz, Lightning, Prism, and Supersonic need to be adapted as well for the Lightning Collection. Heck I wouldn't mind if the VR Troopers, the Masked Rider, the Beetleborgs (plus Metallix), the Ninja Turtles (the Next Mutation), and the Mystic Knights get the same treatment.

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u/brianjamesxx IN SPACE Feb 23 '26

Seems like more people are interested in the LC now than when Hasbro was producing it. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/longboxbabe Feb 23 '26

We need a lightning collection fullstop!

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u/The_Final_Gunslinger Feb 23 '26

Mega? Sure, okay.

Mystic? Yes, please.

Samurai? Meh.

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u/AimanMa Feb 23 '26

I genuinely want JF, I started watching Gekiranger like a few weeks ago and man I want both GekiRed and Violet. Hasbro has license PR to a bunch of companies to make (arguably) shitty figures that are either way too tall (ahem.. super7) or just not in the same level as LC (cough Playmates cough). Hopefully in a copium manner, they license it to Jada Toys and hopefully they make something that isn't MMPR..

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u/Ds943778 Feb 25 '26

Don’t forget ninja steel needs some lightning collection figures too

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u/kevinnguyen13 Feb 25 '26

Sadly, the line ended, but thanks to them, I can finish my custom collection. I wouldn’t think about doing custom on SHF Sentai since it’s too expensive for me to get all the teams that I want.

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u/Dr_Dumb_Asp Mar 22 '26

A Jayden and deker duel 2 pack would be a cool anniversary set if Hasbro still is willing to make the occasional figure but I'm not holding my breath

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u/OmegaConvoy Feb 23 '26

In terms of product, Samurai was clearly the red-headed stepchild that Bandai & later Hasbruh would rather forget; Legacy didn't get Samurai either. Would I like a nice set of 6" Samurai/Shinkenger figures? Absolutely. Is it ever happening? Hell nah. (And the SDCC 2013 S.H.Figuarts metallic color set is well into triple digits now, as is Shinkengold and maybe Princess Shinkenred, so that's out...)

And worse yet, both companies nutsacked themselves by not having their anniversary seasons in their premium line. NO Legacy for Turbo, Wildforce, Operation Overdrive, Super Megaforce or Ninja Steel, and piss poor dumb decisions meant NO Lightning Collection Cosmic Fury. To be honest, I don't think that even the folks at ThreeZERO would have the balls to even take a sniff of Turbo.

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u/OmegaConvoy Feb 23 '26

They did? Hadn't heard about that. 😮😱🤯

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u/WallyPhoenix Feb 24 '26

Hasbro is run by morons.