![]() ![]() ![]() There are two sets of hands, as well as her staff, which make up the more general stuff. Rita gets quite an involved selection of accessories. There’s quite a lot of detailing on the face, which works out surprisingly well, and there’s some extra embroidering on the dress, which gets the proper patterning. It’s a shame there’s not an extra head with a mad cackling grin, but I suppose that’s an option for perhaps a non-exclusive release down the line. She’s very angry and is gritting her teeth, as she was quite prone to do on the show. The head is nice because it’s a properly expressive face for the character. Beyond that, she gets a new head, chest piece, feet, hands, and bracelets. The dress is all cloth, presumably because it allows them to got the slightly cheaper route of re-using one of the female Ranger bodies underneath of it. Rita breaks the traditions of what we’ve seen from this line so far and goes for a mixed media set-up for her outfit. The figure stands just shy of 6 inches tall and she has 34 points of articulation. All that said, the two looks really aren’t that drastically different, and really, it does make sense to go with the more commonly associated actress. For the purposes of this figure, they’ve chosed to base her on Soga, which is probably the more distinctive of the two actresses, but is also amusing from a standpoint of Soga’s Rita never actually interacting with Zedd, since he was himself a wholly American creation. When they ran out of Zyuranger footage in Season 2, Carla Perez was cast in the part for the new footage (still overdubbed by Goodson), with the reasoning in-universe being an attempt on Rita’s part to try and woo Zedd. Rita was originally completely sourced from Power Rangers‘ re-used Zyuranger footage’s Witch Bandora, portrayed by actress Machiko Soga, and overdubbed by Barbara Goodson. It’s not like anyone was buying the set for Zedd. Let’s at least give Rita the courtesy of reviewing her first, shall we? I mean, she is kind of the star attraction here. Rita is an all-new figure who has as of yet not been planned for another release, while Zedd is almost identical to his single release. Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd are a GameStop-exclusive Power Rangers: Lightning Collection two-pack, released last fall. Even in the Lightning Collection, a line generally kinder to villains, she’s stuck in an exclusive two-pack with a figure a lot of people already grabbed. During the show’s original run, her figure never made it past the prototype stage, and when she finally did get a figure in one of the legacy sets many years later, it was a rather infamously bad offering. Unfortunately, despite the franchise being as toy-driven as it is, Rita’s never been quite so lucky in the world of toys. The central villain of the first three seasons of Power Rangers, and perhaps the franchise’s foe with the most iron-clad name recognition is Rita Repulsa. LORD ZEDD & RITA REPULSA POWER RANGERS: LIGHTNING COLLECTION (HASBRO) ![]()
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