Power Rangers Dino Charge - When Logic Fails - Episode Review

Summary:

Recovering from the last ep, the Rangers mourn the Gem tracker and the loss of the Gold Dino Charger. Koda is hungry and Kendall sent Chase to go get a pizza. The Rangers discuss the different motives of Fury, Sledge and Poisandra. Tyler is confused (he's lucky he's not on Lost Galaxy) and Riley clarifies it with marbles, that they are all seeking the same end. Chase is attacked and loses the pizza. The bad guys revel in that they have the charger and broke the tracker. Fury goes down with a new monster and Wrench. The new monster Puzzler takes hold of an abandoned building. 

Puzzler makes the place into a maze for the Rangers to get lost in. They get split up and can't escape. Koda ends up in a room with a vending machine where he can't get the food. Chase and Tyler end up in different hallways. Shelby ends up in a stairwell. Riley figures a way out through the vent shaft.

Riley sneaks a peak in a room where Wrench is trying to help Fury and he sees gold energy trying to escape, confirming what Tyler saw in the last ep. Riley comes out at the top of the building and finds Puzzler.

Riley plays Chess with Puzzler and throws the different marbles into different shafts, alerting the Rangers and they find their ways out through vents. When Koda finds his way out, he finds there were cookies in boxes outside of the vending machine. When they fight Puzzler when big, Fury busts out Pterazord. 

The Rangers fight the Pterazord and Puzzler and destroy Puzzler. Sledge becomes buddy-buddy with Fury with his success with the Pterazord. Tyler and Riley discuss the gold energy he saw in Fury.

Review: 

Good ep but no real advancement in plot nor in characterization in Riley as he did use logic and the definition of logic in the episode seems a bit diluted. I did like Sledge liking Fury more. 

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Why Swords and Weapons seemingly not selling in the US?

In 2011, the Samurai Mega Blade was considered one of the top ten most dangerous toys of the year as it was pointy. I saw a lot of them sitting on shelves, some stores removed them from stores. 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/17/us-dangerous-toys-odd-idUSTRE7AG1IX20111117

I have a sneaking suspicion that weapons aren't selling well in the United States. I noticed that there are still Super Megaforce Mega Sabers on shelves at Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, Target, Ross, K-Mart and other stores. Toys R Us even had a sale on them a month ago. Now Miami, Florida where I live isnt the best gauge of what is selling as all markets are different but it has been reported by other fans that the Super Mega Saber is also still on shelves. I mean the deluxe one, not the smaller one. I did not buy either for my grandnephew in fear of him poking his little sister in the eye.

The Dino Charge Morpher grew concerns from fans that being a gun/laser, Bandai and Saban would replace it with glasses like Disney did with Jungle Fury as they replaced knuckle gauntlets with Solar Morpher glasses. It did not get replaced. Recently Toys R Us had a sale on the morpher to get free charger set. And months ago, Target lowered the price on it for a while. I don't know the exact figures but my theory is it isn't selling well but the Super Megaforce Legendary Morpher also sat on shelves.

The next series after Dino Charge to be adapted is Toqger, they will have a brace. The series after that is Ninninger, their henshin device or morpher is a sword (below). Rumors are that Saban Brands thinks trains won't sell well so they might skip Toqger like they skipped Go-Busters. It is not yet known what will occur. I don't like the idea of using weapons as morphers, I don't think they will sell well in the United States. Because the ones buying it are parents, not kids. Sensibilities are different in the west than in the east. We can have a big debate about Bandai or whoever are the big wigs in charge afraid of making toys that are 'pointy' or 'violent', but they go by what sells. 

In Japan, I am guessing a lot of kids aren't reported being stabbed by toys. They are raised different and the culture is different. Now that I have my grandnephew and grandniece and am an elementary teacher, I am wary of buying them or giving them a sword or a gun toy. Originally I didn't want to give my grandnephew a black gun but was fine with red or yellow but his mother, my niece is against it too. I mean, sure you guys hear a lot "Now that I have kids, it's different..." I am not saying they shouldn't make them. I am not saying they are bad. This is just my theory as to why they might be selling well and might be sitting on shelves.