The First Gimmick: Power Spheres Mini Zords review (Power Rangers Ninja Storm Season 11 2003)

[@Nobutrash]

really neat concept, in the long run Sentai did end up coming back to it, during Kiramager they has a series of auxiliary zords that didn't combine with the Mech but instead turned into little weapons for them to use

[@ssje1976]

King ohger and zyuohger also had weapons

[@Nobutrash]

@@ssje1976 yeah! i was mostly pointing out how in Kiramager the weapon don't serve any greater combination, just like in Hurricager, they're just tools, for King and Zyou all the weapons are key parts of several combinations

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

The Karakuri Balls are one of my favorite zord gimmicks. They may not swap out a whole arm or cover a figure in armor, but they're punchy, effective armaments that compliment the larger zords' aesthetic so well, and not as small as one may expect. Combining them together into heavier gear, and completing larger megazord combos with hands and a helmet is >chef's kiss.< Even decorating the mammoth with all those guns and pointy bits, it's akin to the minicons that made Transformers Armada such a fun, populated toyline. And even beyond that, they're good fidget toys (well, most of them). The horseshoe crab has a working magnet, the bee spins very well! And I'm a big sea creature guy, so you KNOW I love having so many ocean animal zords in one line. I would eat dirt if it meant a whole sea-themed Sentai season with nothing but aquatic zords.

[@Blaze-hopper]

Yeah aquatic themed season will look cool maybe combine sea creatures with underwater vehicles and have pirates and a underwater kingdom as a villain faction and our rangers as the third faction each faction has there own coals but each are after the same thing the rangers want to protect the world they love the pirates want to protect themself and the sea kingdom want to unite the world under one rule all the factions have some good and bad in them the villain genuinely believe in there goal and feel like there doing the thing and aren't all the bad but there way of doing things is bad and are lead by people who don't understand everything just like the rest of us and blue has to be the team leader even tho the red is the poster child we have blue as the leader and blue will I feel like needs to be a shark yellow could a sea turtle motif and black ranger could have orga pink could have octopus motif and red could have an whale and the sixth could have a megalodon shark with lobster zord that can become the megalodom megazord or should i say megalozord arms and he will be purple and the final mech will be a mosaurus

[@Pewpewpew182]

This is possibly my favorite season outside of LG and TF. My wife is Hawaiian Japanese and when we were watching this season recently with our 3 year old, she said she loved the vibe of the season. Reminded her heavily of being raised in HI. The cast did a great job that season. Wish we had gotten them for the Lightning Collection

[@cosmicstarlightex4787]

The idea of limb swapping started with Wild Force (and I mean it, not even any pre-PR seasons have this gimmick), and we have equippable Zord gimmicks starting with Ninja Storm, which is commonplace for a bit as they sometimes don't rely on limb swapping (you're not gonna like Mystic Force because of the chest swapping, since it creates ridiculous combos). That kinda died in Super Megaforce with their own Legendary Zord System, and we're back to limb swapping.

[@jamesdavidson7160]

2:59 a lot of subs for Hurricaneger translate Karakuri as ‘gadget’, so they end up being called ‘gadget balls’

[@cyberdragoon1432]

12:12 For a bit cultural inspiration the weapon combination is based on a kendama, hence the cup and ball aspect that it’s shown to be used as.

[@Emiliodelgado25]

Man, those mini zords bring back so many memories from what I liked from the show

[@astrangerontheinternet5500]

Finally!!! Another Zord review 😭 Now we’re one step closer to Dino Thunder

[@kringhetto]

I hope we get an SMP version of these mecha.

[@freddyfazbin44433]

Completely devastated that we never got the scarf

[@EddyBinxEB]

Great review. Wild Force, Ninja Storm and Dino Thunder definitely had some great concepts in toy designs for each season's respective Zords. However I have to wonder if you've ever heard of the "Triple Zord Morphin" toys? They were these weird sets of Ninja Storm toys. Able to transform from Zord to Ranger (I guess in a weird battlizer armor) to weapon. Strange concept but I remember owning the Blue Beetle one

[@archangelamber666]

12:07 this is so funny to me, Oboro-san was trying to figure out a new weapon, and she looks at a kendama and just goes with it

[@dfile7598]

The Power Spheres were my most favorite in Ninja Storm. I sometimes call them Bonus Weapons. My most favorites were the Spin Blade, theBee Spiner, Star Blazer, and the Hyper Sword!

[@17samuraispiritred]

Power Disk Locked and dropped 🙂😎👍

[@JDRider02]

imo the ones I like most are the combo weapons and the combo Megazord parts, 50/50 on the others but I do really adore how in the context of the show the Megazords are basically walking gashapon machines (even with design of the knob the rangers have to turn)

[@TheStevieHWWE]

I have them all. I'm now tempted to get them out of the boxes. I need to remember where I put them, I think I tried to fit as many as I could in each of the Ninja Storm boxes (as I display the zords). I think I painted the gold on the stamp one as it's not fully painted.

[@旗手智志]

ハリケンジャーの各ロボのフル装備がイイ感じ

[@TheLunarLegend]

I really miss regular zords that combined into a big robot. A lot of new ones are big robots that just get smaller robots attached to them.

[@kalobhunt9001]

I love these so much. I want super minipla of these.

[@battlestar976]

Turtle Mas was my favorite I like the color scheme and it look well cute in a cool way.

[@LJGrindewald]

I had the spider and crab but they weren't the zords but instead like a transformer, where they'd transform into a ranger.

[@riicky83]

I never saw the lion, squid, ram or turtle so I'm guessing two of them were with Ninjakon and since I already had Ninjor, I didn't want to get a second version of him. I was young at the time so remolds didn't do anything for me and I wasn't interested by the slimmed down Main Ninja Storm Megazord either. At most I had the main three Zords so the minizords I had were what came with them.

[@paulslade129]

If you could get either a team or individual ranger that wasn't made in the lightning collection, which would you want? I'd like Titanium ranger and the original team where the white tiger ranger came from.

[@chrisclack4258]

lost galaxy had there own version of the super zeo megazord and the astro megazord

[@Unemy]

This is the next season I want to collect. I didn’t have these as a kid…. Could you do a video on SMP zords?

[@doldol00d.a.b.32]

I have an unpainted 3d printed Mega Winger I want you to review

[@jossujoestar3123]

Please make a video on jungle fury if you haven't already

[@cosmicstarlightex4787]

And speaking of symbols, if we aren't getting the Power Discs anyway, why not print the discs' symbols on the Power Spheres? It could help with what weapon it contains based on the shape of the symbol alone (granted, hanzi, the origin of kanji from China, start things out with symbols, and Japan followed suit with their own original kanji, which adds a form of foreign language history lesson in the mix). Heck, the movie version of Tri-Condor did not even have the numbers in favor of adding a necklace accessory seen in the movie.

[@Spawn3X5]

Oddly while i like toys from those coin machines i wasnt a big fan of the spheres On another note aside from this season being toy centric and sense the newer seasons are so toy-ish that i have the idea to make a season thats purely based on toys. Im still surprised they haven't

[@richardheath3923]

An interesting concept but the design of so many of these just appeared so juvenile to me. The bee spinner and flower cutter just look silly.

[@Narrator-Voice-Dude-Official]

This is something I was going to ask in chat, but I ran out of time: When you get to the Super Megaforce zords for this series will you even do them? (I'm only asking this because you own the Gokaiger versions and not the Bandai America versions) (And yes, this is a stupid question that I felt asking you about anyway)

[@georgemitchell6856]

It's taking over a year to do ninja storm, I'm not sure he'll ever get to super megaforce

[@TristenSarelvun]

@@georgemitchell6856 It's a hobby he does for fun with no sign of stopping. He may not go that far, but there's no reason to be so doubtful. As long as he's enjoying making videos and has the toys, he'll probably review them. I do wonder why they take so long though.

[@loljamari]

So where can you get the items from ?

[@FullMetalLuffy]

While the show itself was where i started to lose interest in watcing PR - so much love for every single suit design, zord design, toys, weapon gimmick and zord combinations for Ninja Storm the gatcha balls are so much fun, still need the thunderstorm combo ones

[@chrisclack4258]

mini zords came with the beetle thunder zords

[@FullMetalLuffy]

​@chrisclack4258 ah that'll be because i have the japanese version, which sadly had the minizords sold seperate

[@NerdorDieNews]

But ur right. This is a neat gimmick

[@myang12003]

Mini Zord is the best one

[@NerdorDieNews]

I really love what you do for the community and myself am thinking about PR videos but dude, i just hate this season. How do u skip lost galaxy and cover this 😢

[@chrisclack4258]

he said that he was not getting the lost galaxy zords so he doesn't own any thing lost galaxy

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

My favorite Megazord is the ninja 🥷 Megazord. I love ❤️ my Legacy ninja 🥷 megazord

[@Theonepory]

Are you going to talk about ninjakon

[@jamiesworld1690]

Awesome video I own the Japanese version senpujin abd beyter thsn US version

[@PhinesMagoga-zi2bn]

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[@PhinesMagoga-zi2bn]

❤❤❤wr😂🎉😊😅😮😢

[@theycallmekingpandaone]

Stark

[@hobobeard]

The spheres are, honest to goodness, my least favourite gimmick in the franchise. Not one of them looks cool or even interesting and they're not silly enough to be endearing. They're just cheap and shitty. Like knockoffs from a pound shop.

[@mr.joshua204]

The newer the megazords got, the stupider they became