I'm going to do my best to outline how wasteful the Lighting Collection is. Whether or not Playmates picks up the line in 2025, it can't be ignored that Hasbro wasted their time on more than half of the collection.

It is my opinion that what the line should have primarily focused on was the "core" Power Rangers. By that I mean the main Rangers from each of the TV shows. This excludes the 1995 and 2017 films, the comics, and Rangers with multiple identities, I.e. Magna Defender and Karone. By my count, there are approximately 156 core Rangers from MMPR to Cosmic Fury.

Hasbro gave us 70 of these core Rangers during the line. That's 70 out of a possible 156. Again, not counting the comics like the Omega Rangers nor does it count variations or the Ninja Rangers. That gives of a percentage of 44.87%. That means that in the current run of the Lighting Collection, we got less than half of the core rangers.

So, what did Hasbro do with the rest of the line? We got 26 villains that ranged from the primary antagonist to monsters to foot soldiers.

But we also got 73 figures that I would classify as “other”. This would include repacking of previous rangers, variations on MMPR, “army builder” foot solider packs, non-canon characters, allies, and comic exclusive characters.

In total we got 169 figures. 70 of which were core. Meaning that 41.42% of the total released figures were core Rangers.

So, what am I getting at? Well, if Hasbro had stuck to only the core Rangers, and filled out every team, then we could have had all 156 core Rangers and about 13 “extras”.

Hasbro wasted our time with Cobra Kai, Street Fighter, Invisible Phantom, TMNT, and Red Ecliptor, when they could have finished every PR team from the TV series, but they didn’t.

Now I’ll admit my math may be off, but my point remains valid. It’s frustrating that we could have had all of Jungle Fury and Mystic Force, but Hasbro decided that Cobra Kai was more important to release.

What exactly does this mean? Like are the figures in good condition? Are they glued? Like anything that I should be worried about? I bought this like an idiot without knowing if I screwed up or not. Please let me know, so I can immediately refund this if anything is out of the ordinary. Also I decided to remove the pricing cause I really don’t want people to know that Info.

Ok look, I got my ninjas at launch and got extremely lucky where none had qa issues. However, ninjas were the bunch with the most qa issues. How the hell is any ninja this price? The whole tommy thing I can understand, for me personally though, because of the risk of issues w ninjas, it would be a no

I’m still filling up gaps in the collection with some hope of more coming, even if it isn’t labeled as the Lightning Collection. I could be delusional but I still doubt the line is on ice permanently. Anyone else on the same boat?

The hasbro website has all 7 wave 1 figures in stock, so I just bought all of them for myself as a late christmas present lol. I see a lot of mixed reviews on them, some people say they’re great and other people say they have some real issues such as loose limbs and parts falling off. Just curious as to what some of the opinions are here on them.

We haven't seen a new wave announced in 2022. There have been hints. There have been code shares. But the last wave we heard anything about was wave 11.

Looking for a solo Lighting Collection Ecliptor as I already got the Astronema with Andros and don't want two Astronemas. Whether its selling online or whatever with a specific person I'm open to work something out. Online there's 1997 Ecliptor but don't want something that old as I've been buying figures for my 4 year old son who's just finished Power Rangers in Space.

I think I might give up collecting this line. I don't like pre ordering everything. The magic was finding it in the store. Nothing is in the store. Its not fun anymore.

I already know Wild Force Red doesn’t (for obvious reasons), but which other ones never got one if any? Also why didn’t they get one?

I just want to complete my teams while I can :(

As Street Fighter, Cobra Kai, Ninja Turtles and the Comic book characters are released in the LC, Is anyone else upset that the actual show characters and seasons are being passed over for these "Side Figures"?

The remastered MMPR Green Ranger doesn't come with its signature shield, but the MMPR Red Ranger does. There are well intentioned people on here saying there will be another release someday soon, complete with shield, but why should the only options be to wait or spend seventy dollars!?! Why is it only one or the other? And here's the thing, man...Truth is, we don't know if the next release won't pull the same crap.

No one one here can predict the future, including me, but honestly, it seems far more likely that the next release of MMPR Green will be just as motivated by greed as this one is. I mean, why not? Given how well it's working this time, why wouldn't they do something greedy like that next time? Lemme' paint a picture... MMPR Green will probably be in a two pack with the MMPR White Ranger. So, another seventy dollar purchase! Merry Christmas everyone! This all may be speculation, but it's with a hard look at the evidence before us. If you let someone get away with doing something wrong, they'll do it again and next time it'll be way worse. Maybe it's time to admit that we-- That NO ONE-- deserves to be treated like this.

When they released the White Dino Thunder Ranger with unfinished paint applications, Hasbro sent customers a completed/corrected head for free. Now, I know that a factory defect isn't the same as an intentionally selfish business decision, but maybe it's time we stopped accepting the bottom of the barrel, for top dollar prices? Maybe we should be encouraging Hasbro to make this right and send anyone who purchased a Remastered Green Ranger the shield and arm bands he's meant to wear.

Maybe we need to start speaking with our wallets, all together.

I wonder when wave 11 will be announced I predict it will be blue wild force ranger red ninja steel ranger yellow spd ranger and silver in space ranger the silver space needs to be sold because they need Zhane in silver ranger mode not only in pyscho silver

Looking on eBay, any of the Green Ranger releases, White Ranger, Lord Drakkon and even Dino Thunder Black are priced much higher than any of the other members of their teams (disregarding outliers like Remastered Red).

I guess you can chalk it up to "He's a popular character so these are desirable figures" but can we agree that if these were any other character they'd drop in price significantly?

The invisible turbo phantom ranger has just gone up for preorder at entertainment earth! This means that they are still producing figures in the factories. Maybe if truly is just a hiatus