the strange story of Ninjakon: the weird & unused Power Rangers zord
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During the year 1995, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fans around the world were introduced to the character Ninjor. This ninja mentor was an essential part of season 3, so they gave him his own DX Megazord toy. However, eight years later in 2003, when Power Rangers Ninja Storm came long, a look-alike called Ninjakon showed up on store shelves? Who is this mysterious being?
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“Truly mysterious“
You’re 100,000% right Hasbro. Please give us an explanation on this. Please!
we're getting a whole new cosmology behind every little thing thanks to boom studios.
they just have to make something out of the other seasons outside MM...
@@serPomiz True,true.
Hear me out..... Hes' Ninjor but he's pulling a char aznabel
@@delllee4915 what is that?
@@haydenreviewscustomcombos Its a Gundam reference
You know, I always find it very ironic that despite that everyone is saying that Disney will just buy everything, the only thing that they don't want is the Power Rangers brand.
@OptiPrimus 2005 I know!
Disney only tried to buy everything under bob iger. His predecessor was more conserved, attempting to focus on home media instead. And after iger went overboard with buying the world chapek is now left with an empty vault.
@@YarugumaSou I perfer Eisner went He wanted Disney to Expand on it's own.
The comics should make Ninjacon an official character, they can make him Ninjor's long lost twin brother or evil twin brother
He should be made an official character.
Besides the options you said, they could make him his life partner, his dad, or his son. Any of those 5 options would work.
Or transformers style he could be an upgraded ninjor after he lost against a villain or ninjor from another universe.
Ninjakon is clearly a good guy
My headcannon on Ninjakon is that he created the Wind and Thunder Morphers with the help of the Aquitar Rangers. I might make a fanfic about that someday.
If you do I’d like to read it ;)
Yes i also would like to read it too
Do it
The issue with "Ninjor" is that there is a character with the same name in Masters of the Universe.. and due to toy licensing, they can't both have the name at the same time. Hence Ninjor was renamed in Masters of the Universe during the early Power Rangers days. When Mattell have a Ninjor in production, neither Hasbro or Bandai could use the name. My guess is rather than renaming Ninjor, Bandai US just recoloured him into a new character to avoid the issue in future.
they could end up bring ninjakon into the comics and shows and he could be made to be ninjor's brother
Have you heard of power rangers unworthy on CZcams? They actually plan to do just that
@Marcus Wade i have heard of it but i haven't been keeping up with updates of plans for episodes
“At the time there was no line for old ranger history” yes there was. Just two years prior they had the Power Playback line in 2000 and re-released Automorphin figures, the non transforming s1 megazord, and other stuff. And Lightspeed Rescue wave 1 re-released X-Ray versions of Turbo and Rescue Megazords.
not what i meant henners
Talking about one line to represent many generations.
One day, Boom Comics Will use Ninjakon as a BIG NEW CHARACTER that was there right from the beginning. Some cool thing like he is Ninjor Brother or Someone from the same planet.
That would be interesting to see if they actually do decide to do that.
They could say that he's apart of the same clan as Ninjor
Dude, I needed this video. I REALLY was fascinated when I learned what Ninjakon was and was super confused by it when I saw the Lightning collection version of him!
im glad u enjoyed
the only explanation of them releasing this unknown, unpopular character THREE times is to cut corners by reusing the Ninjor mold.
Ninjakon reminds of Pythor from the Mighty Morphin' toyline. They never appeared in the show, but I still want to get them as an inside joke. Great video!
The Neo-Saban Era had two extra chances to implement Ninjor/Ninjakon to the show:
The first was in Super Megaforce, as the Super Sentai it derived footage from - Gokaiger - had a one-episode Cameo of Ninjaman (Ninjor) as one of the 'Grand Powers' - specifically, Kakuranger's. This could have allowed Ninjor to make an appearance in Super Megaforce, and potentially provide access to the Ninjakon BattleZord as a PR-Exclusive show element!
The other opportunity came in the 3rd Ninja-Themed Power Rangers Adaptation, PR Ninja Steel/Super Ninja Steel.
In its Super Sentai counterpart Ninninger, a Global Ninja Council had been formed since the end of Hurricanger/PR Ninja Storm. Included among its members was the Classic Sentai Hero, Jiraiya - but it's very likely that Ninjaman/Ninjor would also be among its ranks. If Ninja Steel had included this element from its source, they'd have another chance to bring back Ninjor and/or Ninjakon - but it never happened.
Hopefully, with Hasbro's focus on discovering the secrets surrounding the Morphin' Masters and the Morphing Grid, characters and Zords like Ninjor and Ninjakon will have another chance to add to the story...
Then again, this is Hasbro we're talking about. Toy exclusive Transformers that never appeared in televised media have been quite popular with fans such as Cog (which was used for Fortress Maximus), Deluxe Insecticons, Ominbots, Transformers after Season 4 such as Powermaster Optimus Prime and Overlord which never saw any animated media in the TF G1 cartoon (not counting the Japanese animes mind you) until years later such as Power of the Primes,Super Megatron, Star Convoy, Battle Gaia, Guiltaur, Sky Garry and Grandus,Roadblock and much more.
Them releasing Ninjakon is kinda like those Toy-exclusive Transformers that never appeared on televised media.
the fact that they putting this budget for a repaint toy-exclusive, like at this point just put him in the show if this is the effort they putting for something that was never even in the show
beast morphers cause i hope you're not talking about my favorite but new season dino fury
@@emmanuelsebi6964 eh, wouldn't make sense for dino fury since the rangers at least i hope won't turn to ninja's
Power Rangers Theory: Ninjor and Ninjakon are the true forms of The Emissaries Three. There is a third yellow one that is out in the world, possibly with the samurai dojo symbol on it
That would be so cool
There was a Power Rangers toy line back in the day after MMPR called “Power Playback” which rereleased and repackaged old stuff, which was kind of like an anthology line. However, I don’t believe it included Ninjor.
Yes, but that was strictly re-release, nothing new based on old stuff.
That's Reissue
🤔 Didn't know Hasbro owned power rangers in 2001 😂
But kool video este 👍
Keep up good work hermano 🤘
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theory on why Super Legends released Ninjakon rather than Ninjor: the retooling done to make the Ninjastorm Ninjakon wasnt reversable. steel injection molds are hard to make and modify. they just didnt have the budget to recut the mold back into Ninjor.
This man's videos have gotten better. He's a lot more comfortable in front of the camera
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Now I want NinjaKon added to the Heroes of the Grid board game
Ninja Khan was so good that he was there the whole time but we never saw him. Like a true ninja
This could go on top 10 never before seen zords part 3
I just walked by one of these in a Wal-Mart and spent a good few minutes having an argument with the box. "You're name is Ninjor and you're blue, not red! Don't you lie to me!!"
Didn’t we see the ninja kakurangers as alien rangers?
This was my theory as a kid that ninjakon was ninjor's brother or the same race as ninjor Was secretly living on earth maybe he didn't aid any team of power rangers was because he wasn't needed or he wanted to live a peaceful life and eventually founded the wind ninja school and was a co founder of the thunder ninja school
I'm glad you posted about this because the power rangers Facebook page posted some red ninjor toy and I was so confused what it was
here u go dave
Etse, no one was questioning why the dog was here. 'Twas being a good fur baby.
Ninjacon sounds like a convention
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Ah. Ninjor's bastard brother that he never talks about.
I actually found the new Ninjor figure shown at 10:20 at Wal mart just the other day and just had to buy it. 😁
Maybe they're planning to introduce Ninjakon in the comics?
There was a silver titanus zord toy for rangers in space that never appeared on the show. Good luck getting one now!
I never had any interest in Ninjakon when he was first released, I thought him a Ninjor knockoff. But looking back on him, especially thanks to your analysis on him, I’d say… yeah, he seems kinda cool. Can’t believe I snubbed the poor zord of a purchase.
Looking at that commercial break at 6:42 I have the feeling it would have made more sense to release the Fighterform (or how it was called) of the Ninja Megazord we see in the background instead of the Ninjor figur.
So, since we're getting a new Ninjakon release, does that mean we could get re-releases of some other toy exclusive zords? Like Silver Titanus and the Pink Shogunzord?
(Sung to the Zeo theme)
Rarer than before, Ninjakon.
Back to earn some more, Ninjakon.
So... does that mean we'll get something for the RPM toy original rangers?
Are you using a different camera ?🎥. Because your videos look so clear and good. Keep up the good work bro
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Big fan! 🤘👊
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This video is amazing Este and the e squad rock.
Wow, talk about fanon fodder. I could write at least three back stories for this character right off the top of my head.
Este isn't weird on what he's talking about he's unique and I'm like that to being unique I mean
thank u
@@hiEste you're welcome bro
Why wasn’t deboth in Dino super charge and introduced and adapted alongside lord acaracon doom wing segie or they could had sledge become him as form by asorbing the power of the dark energem
Why didn’t sledge become deboth
@@kidfury3546 even I don't know much about it
i feel ever for a ep, they could have done a crossover for ninja storm, like ninjor needed the help of the ninja rangers as a evil ninja was heading to earth to steal ninjors powers and teams up with lothor, it was def a missed opportunity for power rangers
So weird seeing this toy at Walmart and not knowing who it was only to have a video pop up in my feed telling me who it is.
You should make a exclusive video of your power rangers collection! 😁🔥🔥
And this will remain... Unsolved!
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@@hiEste ayy thanks for replying and hearting my comment este
i remember looking at ninjakon an i was so confused
I picked up the Hasbro MMPR Ninjor a month ago haha had no idea they had the Ninjakon variant haha this is such a strange rabbit hole.
I’m not surprise with Hasbro doing this, I’m mainly a transformer collector and they have brought back and continue to bring many obscure Transformer characters as the years go by, I even jumped in on the Haslab Star Saber crowdfunding which was a surprise due to Victory being a Japanese exclusive series from 1989!
Now I’m more curious on what other obscure or strange PR they will dig out to bring back
see now, i'm surprised hasbro isn't trying to milk this for all it's worth. like making a ninjor team, they already have red and blue, now they just need a pink, yellow, black and green/white variant with different weapons,
seriously i know many fans who'd buy em just for team build collections. these are the types of people who bought the new adventures of heman figures, as well as the demolition man figured just to fill a single shelf all because they shared parts
Super underated channel!
You are the best at covering power rangers 😊
I never heard of Ninjakon. Thanks for the info.
I remember hoping the Dino Thunder Phantom Ranger was going to show up. But it was toy only.
So I just happened to snap up an original Ninjakon off Ebay for £25 straight after watching this. Reason being, the seller listed it as "Red Ninjor". It's a seller that only sells power rangers toys and Ninjakon is too obscure for them to know what they had. It even has the sword and sheathe. Now my original Ninjor (which I got 3 weeks ago at a toy fair for £3, no sword or sheathe) has a giant ninja twin to do giant ninja stuff (assassinating giant samurai?) with. Or will do once it arrives. Come on Royal Mail, don't fail me now!
I mean.... it's very easy to see why the Legacy Ninjakon exists. Toy companies love reusing molds to make more money from their existing investments. Ninjakon is the obvious reuse of the Ninjor mold and he can pad out their new Megazord line. Who cares if he has no character, no fanbase? It costs them very little to make since most of the work was done for Ninjor so it's low-risk.
No wonder people say Sentai is better. There's unused stuff that Sentai has that Power Rangers doesn't have
I would love them to bring it into the comics and have it be related to both Ninjor and that ailen who gave Shane the power up.
It would be cool if they made it Ninjor's sister who disagreed with him and established the Academies and make them from the planet the lady came from
Ninjakon should be in the comics
In an alternated universe people remember ninjakon and ninjor is a toy exclusive. 😀
I mean Ninjakon could have been so easily put into the show especially with the introduction they made just making Ninjakon a statue and saying a line like: Ninjakon was the founder of these Ninjaschool and itcis sayed that he left spheres with powerful spirits trapped inside should theyr power be needed to fight against evil and safe the world.
Who knows maby even trow in Ninjor in the same way saying he was the creator of the Thunder school while his brother Ninjakon was the creator of the Storm school.
It would also explain than how the Ninja Discs were created.
The Spheres were created by Ninjakon and Ninjor created the discs.
And Cameron "Cam" Watanabe aka the (original) Green Samurai Ranger could have still used the spheres to create the Zords and Wappons transforming the Spirits inside into them.
It would have just made so much more sence.
I'm almost certain they used both. The blue guy was ninjor. The right one was his Zord form
In PR Ninja Storm they could let the real Ninjor (From MMPR S3) appear at least for a short cameo.
I have no idea who Ninjakon was, until Hasbro announced him, and I grew up with the Disney Era Power Rangers!
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Had that ninjor figure when I was a kid
I had that wheel Zord from zeo for some reason
Ninjakon should appear for an episode and get a backstory in dino fury season 2
so true
That would be cool
It was probably the mold they altered the ninjor mold and didn’t want to put the money into making a new one
Think they might have meant that ninjakon was the prototype megazord using ninjors battle data and the green samurai energy to power it
Disney era gives me a lot of vibes mostly Mystic Force because of Magic
this Zord looks really powerful
How funny that his name is Ninjakon i.e., Ninja "con"
That’s pretty funny I remember seeing that but always wondered why it wasn’t part of the show but Disney thought they could make money off an old character so they reused it an switched the name
I actually had a ninjor and a few auto morpher figures. They were near identical in a few ways.
I'm 31 and been watching PR since the beginning and didn't know about ninjakon until the other day
I thought Ninjakon was an unused Zord that the Wind Academy kept as a backup.
It gets stuck in your arms you need to like sand angels or something to get some pressure on your arms without getting struck
I think I might have the 03 release. I found it in a box of junk at work 👍
Can you do a video explaining y the original rangers got what weapons they got I always believed the weapon was a part of the ranger instead of the zord but some say I'm wrong
robo red zord is ninjakon's son. LoL. if only that was true.
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I’m Planning to get The Ninjakon Toy.
I got the 7 inch ninjor.
I Had OG Ninjor when he released
Let’s just say that ninjakon is the younger brother of ninjor
Well ninjakon will be on power rangers exclusive zords
Sir thank you for highlighting my comment
The helmet might look like ZyouEagle because the red wind ranger was also a hawk or an eagle
Throw down: MMPR Ninja Megazord v. PRNS Storm Megazord, who wins?
What if Dino Fury has Ninjakon in a future episode
Aren’t Kakuranger like the “Alien Rangers?”
Ninjakon's helmet design really reminds me of Zyuoh Eagle's helmet design from Zyuohger......
They should retcon them tut o be brothers like you said. It would make sense.
What is the dog doing here
Cute puppy sir