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And now onto November 2024’s BOLT BITES.
FAIR WARNING!
- Heritage Auctions‘ Power Rangers Hasbro Hollywood & Entertainment Signature® Auction ended on November 19th with total sales of $3,310,929. It was an entertaining (and expensive) couple of days. You can view both days of the auction on YouTube.
OFFICIAL MERCH
- ThreeZero and Hasbro are releasing a 1/6 scale FigZero figures of the Power Rangers Turbo team! You can purchase the rangers individually, or a 5-pack which exclusively includes 5 Team spirit pose thumbs-up hands and bonus accessories to form the Turbo R.A.M. cannon. Pre-orders are available at Big Bad Toy Store.
- New Power Rangers Funko Pops are on the way. According to Gamespot, Funko will be releasing a new collection called Bitty Pop Bitty Bots. For Power Rangers fans the Target exclusive (ugh!) Megazord features a head that opens to display the Bitty Pop Red Ranger.
- Also confirmed to be coming are Funko Pops for each of Tommy Oliver‘s Ranger forms. Jason Bischoff, formerly of Saban Brands and Hasbro, and now employed with Funko – tweeted out a confirmation earlier this week.
COMICS
- Power Rangers Prime artist Michael YG showed off his concept art for Lauren Shiba on his Weibo account (super high res download). The ranger suit features a jacket similar to Super Samurai Mode as well as a traditional Japanese grass rain coat (mino).
- In similar fashion, over on BlueSky, Power Rangers: Infinity artists Brand&Stein showed off the concept art for Power Rangers Paladin Force team. They described the concept art as follows:
“On the left is a full-body concept for one of the Paladin Force, a knight with a Power Rangers tabard. On the right are the other helmet designs for the team. They’re varying shapes of knight helmet with differing ornamentation, including horns, a wing on one side, a stylised crown-like effect, and one that’s just overall a bit more angular.”
- Out Now: Power Rangers Prime Issue 1 is out now! A second printing will release on December 18th.
- Upcoming: BOOM! Studios February 2025 solicits are out and includes covers for Power Rangers Prime issue #4 and an advanced look for April’s MMPR: Recharged deluxe hardcover collection.
GAMES
- Digital Eclipse’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind now has a release date, December 10th, according to the press release on Playstation Blog.
- Digital Eclipse also announced the voice cast on Twitter. They include AJ LoCascio (Gambit, X-Men ’97) as Red Ranger, Zordon and Alpha 5, Cristina Vee (HyperForce Black Ranger) as Pink Ranger, Isaac Robinson-Smith (Adam, Voltron Legendary Defender) as Black Ranger, Holly Chou (Jubilee, X-Men ’97) as Yellow Ranger, James Willems (Funhaus) as Green Ranger, Goldar and Bones, Ally Dixon (Nikki Narwhal, Thelma the Unicorn) as Rita Repulsa, and Digital Eclipse’s own Dan Amrich as the Blue Ranger.
STREAMING
- On December 6th, Saban’s Power Rangers 2017 movie will be streaming on Peacock.
CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS
- Atlanta News First reports that stunt woman Sophia Crawford has opened up a coffee shop in Alpharetta, Georgia called Ground and Pound Coffee. Crawford was a stunt woman for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and MMPR: The Movie and is married to MMPR Stunt Coordinator Jeff Pruitt.
