Mahou Sentai Magiranger Dial Rod 魔法戦隊マジレンジャー ダイヤルロッド

Once again it's time to review a toy i'm not entirely interested in and barely qualifies as a Henshin toy. Since this is from Magiranger...you guessed it! It's the Dial Rod! The Dial Rod is [if memory serves me right] the resulting combination of the Magistick and Magiphone. It contains five set spells instead of the endless possibilities the Magiphone presents. The first two dials are for Magibolt attacks [1 is for individual, 2 is for team attack]. Legend Magired uses Dial 3 to become Magi Firebird. The rest of the team uses Dial 4 to become Magi Lion. Finally Dial 5 brings everything together into Magilegend. So how does the toy stack up? It's quite smaller than the prop used in the show...but it's still a fairly decent size compared to something like say...the Bull Riot from Gingaman or the Saiblade from Gekiranger. Like the Magiphones and Wolzaphone, the sounds are a bit muffled thanks to using real voices against cheap speakers. The functions themselves are pretty neat. Pressing the button on the back without dialing a spell makes a hit sound. If you Dial a spell, you have to press the button on the back for the sounds to work. The biggest plus of all on this toy is the detailing. This toy has some excellent scuplting throughout. Power Rangers Mystic Force saw this toy as the Mystic Lion Staff. Aside from being bigger and uglier...Bandai America cut out the best feature of all from the Dial Rod...they got rid of the Dial! That's right...it totally defeats the purpose! Well that's my review of the Dial Rod. Please be sure to subscribe to my channel to be the first to know when I upload my next Magiranger...or any video for that matter. Also, check out my Myspace blog if you wanna find out what huge 3-Part Project i've been working on. Curious? Click the link below... http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=369670221&blogID=413942394&Mytoken=83D7BEE8-DEA8-4BB4-AE265E3B68354D275541397 Thanks for watching and take care!