Children of Zordon

Thirty Year Old Man’s Favorite Toys Awards – Lightning Collection Edition

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Welcome, friends, followers, esteemed colleagues, and possibly some people I graduated high school with, to the first — and possibly only, depending on how many people think this nonsense has any value — Gordo Presents Children of Zordon’s “Thirty Year Old Man’s Favorite Toys Awards!” Or, as I like to call them, the Tyomftas. It’s a work in progress.

Listen. I’m not an expert toy reviewer or anything. I have reviewed toys in the past, but it has been mostly for shits and giggles.

Which is why this will ALSO be for shits and giggles!

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CoZ Entry #023 – Sydney Drew

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Sometimes I can’t think of an intro to write before the jump, so I just stare at the screen with what I assume is a blank, soulless look in my eyes. I could say something profound about how Pink Rangers don’t always have to be the “girly-girl” or the “pretty one” and how Syd is an example of how to execute both of those things while not overindulging and also balancing them out with other things, but you and I both know that already.

Wait, you don’t? Okay well fuck here’s Syd.

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CoZ Entry #022 – Ryan Mitchell

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After a handful of seasons, Power Rangers had become accustomed to mixing things up with the introduction of the Sixth Ranger, someone outside the core team who gains Ranger powers one way or another. Sometimes they formally joined the team, sometimes they didn’t. When it came time to adapt GoGoV, the crew hit a bump in the road: aside from an ally who wore some face-revealing armor in a chunk of episodes, the show didn’t really have a sixth member.

So like any good American, they said, “Screw it, we’ll do it ourselves.” And that’s how we got Ryan, the first American-made Power Ranger. [citation needed]

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CoZ Entry #012 – Dominic Hargan

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The late Disney era of Power Rangers is a strange beast (ba dum tish). They started out as 38-episode orders with Ninja Storm and by the end, they were down to 32 episodes with RPM. Most Sentai seasons tend to be in the ballpark of 50 episodes and one has to imagine it’s tough to pick and choose what to include in the American adaptation when you have a limited amount of screen time. As a result, some characters that get introduced “later” in the season only get a handful of episodes to leave an impression.

That being said, Dominic Hargan still managed to make his mark.

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CoZ Entry #001 – Kimberly Hart

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The stereotypical “valley girl” is a pretty dumb one, right? All they talk about is shopping and boys and nails. They’re airheads who pepper the word “like” into their speech as if it’s a punctuation mark. They only associate with other valley girls and surround themselves with jocks who will kiss their toes for a chance to take them to the Sock Hop or whatever.

And then there’s Kimberly Hart, a character that – while initially feeding into these preconceived notions of a pretty, upper-middle class teenage Californian – became more than the sum of her parts.

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