Hey guys, should we start with this box? Maybe we'll do Dairanger first.
My Dairanger set just came from Tokullectibles. Let’s take a look.
People always ask me about those little figures on my Super Sentai wall, here's another set of them.
All right they're out of the box. Let's take a closer look!
We’ve got green ranger
Pink ranger
Blue ranger
Yellow ranger,
and red ranger.
You can attach these flame effects. Not included, these are those, like, Figuart Tamashii Nations,
uh… fire, flame, explosion effects. I’ll put a direct link in the video description
if anyone's interested. Figures this size always look great displayed with Zords.
You might remember, I did a Kakuranger video as well. Here's a little team-up.
All right, so what's in my box? I found some really good things from Japan on eBay.
I’ve been trying to collect these horses forever, and this completes my collection.
I’ll put a link to this eBay seller in the video description. Really nice guy, a lot of
good stuff. The stuff I got was very reasonable, free shipping, came really quickly. Happy Bruno!
He had some good Ohranger things, Timeranger, Gingaman. Here are all the horses in a set.
Lights of Orion set. Here's a set of little Timeranger figures, the price is right!
Kakuranger, I know people have been looking for this set, which is always expensive.
Megaranger, Carranger, Gorenger, do I need that…?
Happy Bruno. I’ve been after these for such a long time. I’ll be back when I open these. I’ll
show you. I have to go dig up red from the basement and pink. And then now I just need
yellow for Carranger. These are motorized. Actually I did… I demonstrated red in, uh,
in a Turbo video like ages ago. So you can actually put batteries in here and it'll run.
So then for the next part of the video I actually wanted to go over, like, some bootleggish thing.
I think this is bootleg? Well the fact that they said that Dairanger’s from 1992,
that doesn't seem official (laughs) doesn't seem official. But, anyway, I want to talk about some
bootleg things and show some uh, bootleg toy hunts from back in the day. But first I think I’m going
to do a story time for everybody that does not follow our vlog channel. Give a little history…
a BruMia Jerry history lesson. That's what I’ll do. Which is a little bit relevant to what I
then want to talk about. All right, so if you've missed the last 11 years of our vlog channel, then
you probably don't know how the three of us met, so, a long, long time ago, in Brooklyn, New York,
Mia, Jerry, and I attended film school, which is where we all met.
We were majoring in film and animation.
Some of you guys might even recognize and remember Cory from our Cory-uger videos.
Even though we went to college before YouTube, I still had my vlog channel and MMPRtoys,
which we did all through college. Lots of goofy skits, and toy stuff, and just daily vlogging.
Mia and I were both in different relationships during college,
but over the years I did develop a pretty big crush on her, which was almost impossible to hide
by senior year. But, then we graduated and went our separate ways to find work in the real world.
Will Bruno, Mia, and Jerry ever reunite? The world may never know! All right, so anyway,
little backstory on us. So, during college, I lived, well, in Brooklyn, and in Brooklyn
we weren't that far from Canal Street. And I grew up i grew up in New Jersey, so New York
was very close to where I lived, and we would go to Chinatown, and they would have like all this…
Not-Power Rangers Power Ranger stuff. You know, bootleg Super Sentai toys. So I would
always go through Chinatown, you know, my dad would take me in when I was a kid,
and then as I got older I’d go by myself and I would find just like, whatever I could. I
wanted so badly to know what was happening in Japan. We didn't have YouTube back then. By
season two I was so ready for a costume change, so whatever Dairanger stuff I could find I would buy.
I never opened this, but the glue I guess wore off in the garage. Oh well. But
anyway, I loved… I love the color combination for season two, I love the suits, I love the Zords. I
really wish that we had had Dairanger. The toys were just everywhere so like you could find a
bootleg Megazord, Dragonzord, or Ninja Megazord. Here's a knockoff Animus Megazord. Here are some
scary Dino Rangers. Here's Gao Elephant and red Wild Force ranger. They did put chrome on them.
Here’s the Congo Zord with the elephant. Super Warrior! Super Warrior with… with power coins.
Oh it comes with the Falconzord. It's got the discs, the balls, oh a Mini Zord! Those seasons
don't quite go together… but it is a knockoff, so, what are you gonna do? But speaking of Falconzord,
so here's one. This… this uh, came from Chinatown. Back back in the day. I added the string. I got a
little tricked as a kid. It said that it had lights and sound on the box and you could see
that… that unlike in America, that this thing was removable but you know I… I had my doubts. But it
was in the packaging, you couldn't open it, so you kind of had to buy it to find out if it actually
worked. It was so cheap that… I forget, maybe it was like 20 bucks for all six Zords? It was the
Ninja Megazord and the Falconzord in one thing, it might… it might have been less than that even,
I don't know. It was cheap enough that I could take the risk. I was so hopeful even though I
didn't… I didn't believe that it would but I was disappointed anyway. I really wanted a Falconzord
that, you know, you could uh… there's a button here and you can press the button and the wings
are supposed to light up and have sound, that's what the original Japanese version
had and the original, the uh the Bandai America version lost the electronics,
so I was really hoping maybe the knockoff still had electronics. It didn't. I tried,
but, I mean it's still perfectly good for a knockoff. The quality is actually really good.
Um, it's not supposed to have gold chrome on the wings, but, it's not bad either. Like,
it's… it's really pretty well made. I have to say, this mid-90s knockoff honestly feels fancier than
some of the toys that are out today in… in the US. Here’s a piece of a knockoff Dragonzord. This also
lost the electronics. Part of my knock off Red Dragon Thunderzord. I painted this, it didn't look
this shiny. But yeah, it works. Jaw's a little… uh… flappy. Here’s a knock off White Tigerzord.
Good enough. It works. Well, doesn't have electronics. Really not bad at
all. I think it did come with all the red orbs, I probably repurposed them and probably did I…
want to say it had a gold chrome sword, which I probably also gave to something else.
There is a place for the sword and the orb things. It was here I probably have it downstairs.
Anyway I couldn't find everything that I wanted to have in this video, I still have more stuff
hiding somewhere. So, back to my story. When Mia and I were in college while we were not dating, we
sometimes would go out like to Canal Street and we'd walk around and I found a set of
Dairanger figures. I still physically have these somewhere. I saw them recently but I
can't find them. But anyway, so this was the first set of Dairanger figures I ever found.
They were really cheap and they came with whatever that Megazord thing behind them
behind them is. Okay, so, back back in the day, like I said, there was no YouTube.
So if I wanted to watch Super Sentai, really the only way would be go around New York City and see
what was for sale. So there was Kim’s Underground Video, where I used to buy VHS tapes of Super
Sentai movies and episodes, and then Chinatown I was able to start finding things like this. A DVD!
How about that? Isn't that fancy? That night that uh,
that Mia and I were in Chinatown where I found the Dairanger things, I also got that.
Oh it's my receipt November 13th.
And then it got even better! I started to find seasons!
Isn't that cool? I love the packaging.
So, kind of a fun story, this was the copy that I gave the very nice man from Shout! Factory to
bring into Shout! Factory when I was pestering him for uh, Power Rangers and Super Sentai on DVD.
So this was… this got taken to Shout! Factory. For many years I tried,
starting when Power Rangers was owned by Disney, and the very nice man from Shout! Factory…
he tried to make a couple different kind of deals with Disney and they would not budge.
They didn't want to do anything. But then when Saban bought the show back, he tried again,
and was able to actually put Power Rangers out on DVD in full seasons, and then Sentai as well,
hooray! And if I remember correctly, initially I think Saban was trying to act like super Sentai
didn't exist, like it was just power rangers, there was no Sentai! And then they I guess
kind of changed their mind on that. And maybe they were… Shout! was just going to put out the movies,
like Super Sentai movies, I think that's what I was initially told was going to happen and then
it ended up being full seasons. And speaking of the very nice man from Shout! Factory,
I did actually talk to him last night I… I asked how things are going because people
keep asking me about Sentai DVDs. he he said he'll get back to me so we'll see what he says,
so, stay tuned. All right, this video is probably getting a bit long for this channel to probably
wrap up. I haven't even touched the Hasbro box yet, that's just been sitting there. I’ll open it.
All right. I’m gonna end here though. Thank you guys for watching, hope you enjoyed this video.
More good stuff is always coming, so I hope you’ll subscribe, and, good night!