Power Rangers Pink Ranger & Toyota FT-1 Concept

       

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Made By:
Jada Toys
Scale:
1/24
MSRP:
US$24.99
Overview:
Packaging (Design):8/10
Packaging (Durability):8/10
Casting (Body):8/10
Casting (Interior):9/10
Casting (Chassis):8/10
Casting (Engine):8/10
Paint (Exterior):8/10
Paint (Interior):7/10
Paint (Trim/Graphics):8/10
Overall Panel Fit:7/10
Total Score:7.9/10

 
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Jada Toys Pink Ranger Toyota FT-1
Jada Toys Pink Ranger Toyota FT-1 Packaging Jada Toys Pink Ranger Toyota FT-1 with figure Jada Toys Pink Ranger Toyota FT-1 interior Jada Toys Pink Ranger Toyota FT-1 engine Jada Toys Pink Ranger Toyota FT-1 door detail Jada Toys Pink Ranger Toyota FT-1 rear

 
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Background

Kimberly Ann Hart's tenure as the Pink Ranger was the longest of any female Ranger in the series' history. Her first Zord was the Pterodactyl Dinozord, until it was decommissioned and reformatted into the Pterodactyl Firebird Thunderzord.

 

Packaging

The only differences between this and the Red Ranger's box are the portraits on the front and side panels, the text across the bottom of the front panel, and the back is just a large photo of the Pink Ranger and the FT-1.

 

Casting/Paint

A clean casting featuring a hefty metal body with relatively few plastic accessories. The metal work is generally clean, and has some very cool flourishes like the cutouts for the rear side intakes, but overall the soft rounded lines of Toyota's concept car are hard to translate into a scale body like this. The door gaps are necessarily oversized thanks to the overly complex break lines, and some details like the headlight brows are so subtle on the 1:1 car they get lost here. Rigid plastic is used for the front splitter, electric fans, side skirts, diffuser, rear vent faces, exhaust tips, license plate, and rear wing. The headlights are clear plastic mounted in chrome housings, the taillights are transparent red, the hood panel and glass are clear plastic, and the sideview mirrors are soft vinyl with chrome inserts. The base color is a pearlescent pink, with bright white stripes and diamonds. The base color is beautiful, though there's a small run just behind the left heat extractor. The white graphics are near perfect, with excellent coverage and placement. The black and silver used for the heat extractors and fuel fill don't quite make it to edges of their respective locations. The Toyota badges front and rear and Pretodactyl badges on the doors are all sharply printed and placed correctly.

Inside, Jada went a lot harder than they usually do. Everything is cast in black plastic, with some fantastic texture detail to highlight the different materials: carbon fiber for the door panels, matte for the seat cushions, and semigloss for the seat frames. The HUD is represented by a separate clear plastic panel on top of the instrument cluster. The control pod around the driver is painted light gunmetal, and there are spots of bright and dark red to further highlight some details. It's a nice touch, though the gunmetal has seeped out into the dashboard a bit. The chassis is a blank void, though as far as I can tell that's correct for the FT-1, and it's riding on the FT's 14-spoke mags with low profile tires over disc brakes. Visible through the clear hood panel is a decent representation of the top of the concept's 3.0L turbo I6. It's unpainted, which is preferable here since it would have interrupted the Power Ranger paint scheme.

 

Features/Accessories

Both doors open and close on smooth working hinges, and the rear spoiler can be raised on two telescoping arms. It stays in the raised position well enough, but there's enough play in it so if you wanted to make it a tilting spoiler you could do so. There's also a metal 1/24 Pink Ranger figure included, painted with the same pearl pink as the car. It's pretty decent work, combining a metal body with soft vinyl arms and a nicely detailed Saba on her left hip. There's a scratch in the paint of the right leg on my copy, otherwise the paint and application of it look good.

 

Accuracy

This is not based on an existing design, but is instead a "character car" that simply uses an existing tooling with a new paint job to evoke a persona.

 

Overall

I'm happy to see the Pink Ranger join the team, and the FT-1 makes a pretty good choice with its birdlike front end. Jada did have some struggles capturing the finer details of the FT-1, but overall they did decent work here and it's definitely worth picking up if you have any oof the other Ranger vehicles.

 

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