Gaoranger DX Gaolleries 12 of 15 Gao Kong/Gao Knight
 

Tokunation's month long celebration of Power Rangers Wild Forceis about to come to a close! With only a few galleries left today we take a look at the Toys R Us Japan exclusive DX Gao Knight set from Hyakuju Sentai Gaoranger!

At the heart of Gao Knight is a Power Animal exclusive to the Gaoranger film, The Fire Mountain Roars, Gao Kong! Kong is a repaint and slight remold of Gao Gorilla with a new combined mode face plate. The same accessories are included however down to the Anchor Chain and Gao Jewel figure, though the Gorilla or Kong rather is cast in Gold now.

You may ask what makes the TRU set so exclusive? Well a proper Gao Knight requires the standard blue Gao Elephant. This one is special because it includes a Black Gao Elehpant for use with the separately released Black Gao King. This is an exquisite set that shows just how far some extra paint apps and a remold can go. Kong itself was released individually before this set, hence the added bonus of this set including Black Gao Elephant.

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He looks brilliant in Red, and with the new mask, I just don't know. I prefer the Green.

It's Mystic Force Red Ranger Ape Zord, ahhh!

That mask is screaming Mystic Force Red Ranger to me. Oh wait, I'm sorry, Magi Red :p

Actually, that's a really cool repaint, I prefer green, but this one looks different enough.

Plus the two of them form a christmas duo!

Optimus Primal forgot his suntan lotion.

I like the red... but I still kind of like the original head more?

Got the American release of this as a kid, to this day GaoKnight remains my absolute favorite Megazord in my possession, along with GaoMuscle. Never was able to find GaoIcarus and this was an awesome substitute, despite the fact that aside from GaoKong all the zords packed with it were repacks or crap (in my opinion, of course).

Holy crap thats cool! Now if only kong had rillas head :lol

Can we get a pic of all the Power Animals outside GaoGod together?

As cool as those are, I find it REALLY hard to count them in the 100 Power Animals list for some reason. I think it stems from them being ancestors to the GaoKing set. Except for the Elephant, but then again a Mastodon wouldn't be too hard; the Mammoth is something different and HUGE.

Well considering they are clearly named and numbered in the official list of Power Animals I'm not sure why that's even up for debate.

And I'm planning to do a full Group shot of all the animals I own when I get to the end.

I've had my moments of dropping logic bombs. This is one of them. While I get that they're meant to be the most powerful and thus technically the last found, it makes no sense to me personally that GaoGod/Animus' components are on the list; you don't like ancestor species with the current ones.

But I'm being technical with a side of anal-retentive.

What did you think of my total redeco mech idea using GaoApe and GaoPanda?

Sounds totally doable actually. As I've said before, quite a few of the missing animals would almost work as mere repaints of of what we already have.

See the problem with your logic is they're not real animals they're fake made up robot ones with their own fake made up history and logic.

It's the ancestor thing I'm hung up on. Otherwise I would not be attempting to argue this. Then again, it's only in Wild Force where they're ancestors

Gaur would be that Purple Bison.

So, counting my mental coloring of GaoTriple (don't ask how I can see those black and white control drawing in color, but I can) I think these are the colors of the released/designed animals:
Red: Lion, Falcon, Kong, Boar (this one's actually Crimson but...)
Blue: Shark, Alligator BM, Condor
Cyan: Elephant, Rhino, Horse (final episode)
White/Grey: Tiger, Polar, Wolf, Manta
Brown: Sawshark, Cheetah, Buffalo
Purple: Hammerhead, Armadillo, Mouse (final episode), Bat
Orange: Giraffe
Green: Gorilla, Alligator, Deer, Peacock (final episode)
Black: Bison, Bear, Leon
Yellow: Eagle, Stingray (final episode)

Wow, even if we only got about 1/4 of the total PAs, that's a shitload of animals total.

SO looking forward to GaoTriple and GaoMammoth being summoned in my Transformers crossover.

And Wild Force doesn't number the animals.

In Gaoranger Gao God literally is the wild god of all Power Animals. If need be think about like Gao God begins the list as the first 5 mighty animals who evolved into him. And the list counts down from 100.

That makes a lot more sense for me. Thanks for clearing that up.

Though I'm somewhat excited for what the colors for all one hundred would be. The final shot you'll probably post of the released PAs will be amazing.

As for GaoKong, how come he isn't the one with the Saxophone solo? Would make total sense for the King Kong one to get the jazz music.