Why wouldn't you have just mentioned that you purchased it all that time ago? You've kept the pinned tweet on your profile since this was announced saying you would not support it, to only now purchase and make a video on it.

I don't mind what you do with your money. Hell, I got one of these myself. Just in the future, I'd advise you not to say one thing but then do the opposite.

It’s pretty comical to me. Because literally in the last video you did you talked about the eBay listings and then went on your rant about how you’d never promote in on your channel, blah blah blah. To each their own. Spend your money how you will, but way to take a stand for the community!

Hasbro: "We got him, folks."

It's ok. We know you have an addiction. At least you know you have a problem.

I almost thought this project got cancelled either due to all of the backlash or because the project didn’t get enough supporters. Glad to see you took the risk to share it with everyone and not let it end up being lost media

Dude, the world is on fire, democracy is going down the shitter, and we're all fucked. If this brings you even 10 minutes of happiness, and you didn't have to kill anyone to get this, you don't need to feel guilty. I'm glad you were able to get one.

I’m sorry but this is just an excuse video. You’re a collector at the end of the day and you got the forbidden Zord. A Zord that is actually now high in value. Though you didn’t buy it out right you still weren’t truthful in my opinion. You still went to the measures of obtaining it by cashing in the coin.

No matter how you try to spin it, it’s still hypocritical in the end. As a completionist, I can understand the need to obtain it but making the stance you did in the beginning and in private going through the process to get it is very hypocritical. If there’s any item in the LC that deserves an asterisk, it’s this one. Either you have it or you don’t.

I have a lot of respect for you and truly enjoy your content, but I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t disappointed in how you handled this situation. It is not so much that you bought the Megazord. It is the fact that you went through an alternate route to purchase this product, which you justified as still not technically supporting NFTs, but you didn’t share this method with your viewers. Some of us would have chosen to support you and follow in your footsteps, but you not only hid this from us, you got this rare item that is selling for up to five times its original value and paid less than original listing price to boot. Now fellow collectors and completionist who stood in solidarity with you are left with nothing, while you got a rare and expensive Megazord that you purchased outside Hasbro’s marketplace. I appreciate you being honest with us now, but I hope you will never do anything like this again. The truth will always set you free. On a lighter note, I feel like this whole incident sounds like a great idea for plot for a future episode of Power Rangers.

Your life, your money, and your allowed to change your mind. You don’t *_owe_* anyone an explanation. Plus, some of these comments are coming off really pathetic and entitled…over buying a toy. If grown adults chose not to get something, based solely off what you thought, then they really need to revaluate their own lives. Learn to think for yourself everybody. 💫

Since you have said many times that you are a Lightning Collection completionist, a had a feeling that you would’ve found a way to get it eventually, and this process was definitely a good way to get without having to pay the absurd aftermarket prices. But… you probably should have told your viewers about this earlier, so you wouldn’t have faced too much backlash, but better late than never I suppose. Don’t beat yourself up too much for it. That’s the best way to move on. Besides, I wasn’t going to get it anyway because I’m not a completionist, but this would have been way worse if it were Dragonzord, or another ranger team’s zord, like the Dino Charge megazord or something like that. But since it’s a recolor of the first zord they were doing, it’s an easier one to pass up, in my opinion at least.

People can buy what they want to buy. However, a part of the community decided they weren’t going to promote or buy into this megazord at all, which hurt a lot of us that are completionists. For those completionists that have stuck and will forever stick to there guns, this megazord will always be a hole in their collection. I hope this doesn’t encourage more people to buy the NFT for a black and gold dragonzord if Hasbro decides to do that…

You encouraging a boycott definitely lowers the completionist collection competition, eh?

If hasbro doesn’t get the money then you don’t need to feel bad

Honestly I don't care you got it. The thing that bothers me is that you didn't share how you got it with the rest of us, maybe some of us could have got our hands on one.

i am at mass disappointment

I recently reviewed the Zap Megazord on my channel as well and while I don't care for the black and gold variants, I am super excited to have it.

Hasbro's Quality Control is just awful. Like, you're terrified to transform and play with this thing, and that's like, a problem we never had with Bandai. Like, the original Megazord, we could be rough on those things and we'd never have to worry. It sucks that today things feel like they're Built to Break whereas in the past things lasted.

One thing we all know the new Gold Colors its amazing but man.... everything from this its just available if you get an NFT that probably lost all its value long ago ( dead on arrival ) making this release the most rare Lightning Collection toy ever

I'm a bit confused, I never had to burn my NFT and I still got my Zord last week?🤔

I can't believe people were selling the redemption NFT for less than MSRP of the zord. Like wtf? Why?

I'm sure this will look great as limbs for the Dragonzord.

I knew he would get one in one way or another.

31:00 The Bandai Black and White one looks *much* better. Just the way the Gold is utilized. The Hasbro Megazord head needed more paint around the faceplate. It being all Black on the face, just looks incomplete.

Odd question to ask but what did you use for your lighting while reviewing the zord??? It looks great!

Dude, we're all addicted to plastic crack here. No need to explain.

I didn’t really care about this NFT Megazord but I do see you made a mistake to get it, you were tempted. But you don’t have a reputation of doing things like this, you are only human with interests and loves (even addictions). So it may not be the best moment for you - you have learned from it and you owned up for it. I’m actually more distrusting of reviewers of toys who don’t disclose how they get their figs earlier than everyone else. It’s much more disingenuous to me.

Respect for the honesty, feels weird to hold the act up for so long, but jist glad you're being transparent and I guess you did the best you could

Well, in the grand pantheon of things KZfaqrs have done that I didn't agree with, this is pretty small.

This is pretty much like buying a repaint with bitcoin. But, at least we still have the original show accurate colors version. which, unfortunately has its own problems.

I feel like I shouldn't be that surprised

Unfortunately that's the problem with lying the longer it lasts the harder it is to admit. Glad you admit to the hypocrisy atleast

28:46, oh dear...hope that ain't Gold plastic. If anyone knows their Transformers, you know what I mean. 33:24, this looks good but they coulda done so much more tbh.

You’re a collector bro. No hard feelings.

I thought buying zap zords is a bad idea 💡 especially if it from nfts.

Good video, respect your decision to purchase it the way you did.

I prefer to get my black and gold dino megazord from the original Bandai legacy release. I have black and gold dragonzord, I just need Megazord.

Ooh that gold plastic not a good idea.

Gotta say I’m surprised you got this. It looks really nice.

Couple things: the whole reason people like Hasbro wanted to do stuff like this is because they make some money every time the NFTs change hands so, you probably did give Hasbro some money by buying the NFT on that exchange. Second, it's a proof of stake Blockchain that uses 99.999% less energy than traditional proof of work (the ones killing the planet). So if your issue is the planet you aren't actually harming it by dealing in these WAX NFTs.

I took one look at this and thought "That's a heck of a lot of gold plastic, considering the problems with all that".

Josh totally get the not liking NFT side of things, same deal here not like it will not support it. But still if you could get something that you want in a way that you feel more comfy with absolutely fine. TBH i did not like the ZAP Zords in a whole at first, Dragonzord more then Dino Megazord it is to stylised but i bought Megazord on Sale for a price that i was comfy with and my opinion is now better then it was before. Also i gave it back because of factory issues, and i only had the chance to rebuy it but the price went up again so that might be a future thing. Astro Megazord looks crazy cool and i will get that one for sure. So hope you get happy with black and gold Megazord.

Where did you find the coin? i'd love to do the same thing as you did.

Being against NFTs is just ignorant. It’s like buying a skin in League of Legends. Just because companies are selling NFTs in a scammy way doesn’t mean NFTs themselves are evil. The environmental impact just shows you are completely clueless about the subject. Ethereum upgraded from POW to POS months ago, the energy required to maintain the blockchain is now a tiny fraction of what you guys think. If people scammed you with low quality, overpriced action figures, would you hate that scammer, or would you hate all action figures? If you still dont get it, NFTs = action figures in this case, they are innocent.

Thanks for your honesty. I hope you enjoy the figure despite the NFT stuff.

Never mind NFT, fear of GPS kept me from ever want to get this.

5:46 Ok.... *_so_* ... iunno you from Marcosatsu or the one Kamen Rider dude who dressed as "Casual Closet Revice" for one of his videos........ sod it, the only one i WOULD know you from is PROLLY Andre, and thats because I've seen hi tool around a wider circle in Toku-youtube, (I think KZfaq shot me this video cause I went looking to see if the ZAP DinoMegazord and Dragonzords werent essentially Power Ranger *_GUNPLA_* , if i'm honest) but I wouldnt say this makes you an NFT hypocrite as much as one of the guys who can say "HEY! SO! THIS IS WHY TYING A LIMITED TIME PNG TO BUYING AN ACTUAL PRODUCT AND MAKING THE PURCHASE PROCESS MORE CONVOLUTED THAN $-D CHESS FROM _ORIGINAL SERIES_ STAR TREK IS A *_TERRIBLE_* IDEA!!!" Edit as I got to 8:00 and felt I had to acknowledge this with the utmost respect I could: *YOU **_THRIFTY MOTHERFUCK_*

Okay, so here's the thing. While I understand where you're feeling guilty for buying something that goes against your own ethics. (While I personally think there is too much focus on ethics these days, and I think it's actually getting sad... I know you would disagree, and that's perfectly fine. You do you.) I mean, the reality of the matter is, while you didn't directly give your money directly to Hasbro for it, the person you bought it from, or at least somebody, did. And I understand that is why you feel the need to apologize... However, in the end, you did something that will, at least in the short term, bring you some joy, in your completion of the set, including this. And that is something for you, personally, to celebrate. You looked out for number one! And I am tired of people thinking there is something wrong with that. I learned a few years back that nobody else is going to look out for me, not even those I should be able to trust, and make me happy. So I gotta do it my self. Same goes for you, and everyone on this planet.

Since Hasbro has a lifelong partnership with Takara, why didn’t they ask them to help design their Zord Ascension Project Megazords?

Megazord look cool okay love Dwight Jr 👍 and have not got me one ok love Dwight 👍

Josh noooo

I'm happy you had the building next to it. I was thinking of getting some but wasn't sure how it would look.

it's kinda funny that they busted their ass to make the packaging so nice and do a run of at least 1300 of them, it's really a waste, I honestly wish they only sold 80 of them so they'd take an even bigger bath than they did on this "venture"

you did the best you could, on one hand you said you would collect every LC item, so this was inevitable, but it's good Hasbro didn't get a penny and even if you shared your method, not a whole lot more people would've got one, it's either what you did or get r*ped on ebay when they came out from resellers, so you dodge both greedy parties

Honestly I am more concerned over the gold plastic looks easily prone to breakage

I would have kept it in the box since most people didn't buy it bc it was confusing.

Not gonna fault you for getting something you really wanted to get especially since you managed to not give hasbro money directly for the NFT and pay less than the intended value, also from what i have seen and heard from other people the zap versions look premium but don't really feel premium

🤡

I honestly don’t blame you as a fan and completionist at all… in fact I’m more disappointed and kinda disgusted with Hasbros decision to embrace the nft fad. I honestly hope this is a one off on the nft craze and that hopefully there will eventually be a regular re-release. I mean honestly if they want my money just keep it simple, no nft BS or Gimmicks please.

Tank mode in general is nonsense. The rangers never use it. It's a silly little form that I'm not surprised no one cares to make functional. NGL, was semi hoping it would just be a regular megazord in the box as the ultimate QC error. While this thing is rare. It's black plastic and cheap gold paint. It would have been far cheaper to produce these as they just needed mostly gold paint an a small amount of red. I am curious if Hasbro will release this normally for inevitable restocks. They could really sell Megazord over and over with different paint schemes. I disagree on the toy assessment. When you own the SOC, yeah this thing is a toy. It's just designed poorly designed in some key areas.

I gotta respect the dedication and hustle you went through to get this.

You’re a Toku Otaku No explanation needed

Honestly since you didn’t buy it from hasbro than you got nothing to worry about in my eyes.

Cool 😎 video bro

I bought the heck outta this thing lol for the Megazord of course!

If it wasn't an NFT, it'd be worth it. You did the economical thing and got it cheaper "aftermarket." You still stuck to your guns and didn't get it as an NFT from Hasbro, even though you still did get it from them. You are also holding to your completionist mission statement for the channel. You walked the fine line well. Zordon is proud.

At least it looks cool. You just can't go wrong with Black and Gold.

Arr you getting the ZAP Astro megazord?

If you buy it second hand And never intend to actually own or god forbid SPECULATE on NFTs Then you may be forgiven.

Is the completionist a code in psychiatry?

JOSH NOOOOO

WAX blockchain is carbon-neutral, apparently much more energy efficient than the monstrous Bitcoin and Ethereum NFTs at large. But more than that the Zord NRT was a "Virtual in Real Life" NFT that lets one transfer ownership and keep a virtual collection representing physical items, so it doesn't take up physical space until you decide to ship it, which sounds convoluted and redundant at best.

What has You Doing!

Hmm

Ngl, that color scheme looks absolutely terrible. They literally used the ugliest gold possible.

All good my man!

I love the Zords will they sell it in stores

I think its fine. I don't give a s**t about nfts if you like them you like them and sometimes you're like Josh and just wanted the pretty gold and black zap megazord

How could you betray us

Here's the thing ,in the end it's your money you spend it how you want,I say this coming from having bought a 300 dollar sceletor staff that I can't hang up but I'm still happy I own it ,so you do you buddy

Just wait till you transform the dragonzord lol.

You look like Player 2 CWC

I understand the distaste for the nfts, and I also understand that you had to get this as a Lightning Collection completionist, so there’s no problem with that. In my opinion at least. I will admit, I kinda wanted this version if there was any way of getting it without having to deal with the nft stuff. Although it’s very likely that I’ll never own one anyway.

Cool 😎

What does nft stand for? Lol

AT leats it has a physical

It's ok, you do you and forget what everyone else thinks. Plus, like you said, at least you didn't give hasbro any money for it. Also, it looks amazing, and I wish I could have gotten it and a great video. I can't wait for the next one.

it is ok, in my opinion it is kinda funny that you bought it and what makes even funnier is that you got it before the normal one

Sir....i still bought it lol

I ordered one and never heard or got anything wtf I want my damn money back then lol

This is pathetic you don’t need to defend why you bought something and while it was really dumb how they released this figure there’s nothing wrong with an Nft

Josh

Got mine from a reseller on mercari. Got really lucky as he was selling it for a little less than twice the price

Lmao. Unsubscribed.

Why is it forbidden

Josh now making a KZfaqr Apology video now imminent… Bro right clicked and saved EVERY one of the actual ZAP Megazord NFTs 😂 I’m also against NFTs for all the same reasons as you. On a serious note fair enough for getting it not through the intended means per-say… but still frick NFTs man they suck

Unsolicited hair comment: I liked his hair better in purple.

YOU TRAITOR!!!!!! Jk, hope you enjoy it

i think you'd only be a hypocrite if you never said you got it