Reading more on this series, the bizarre choices seem to stem beyond the designs and into every nook and cranny of this thing, blending pointless refreshes to the formula while repeating clichés everyone is bored of.

Still waiting for the punch line...any time now...

My feelings exactly. All of the costumes look so bland and unexciting and like you said, a foot soldier. The mech also looks very uninteresting. Still gonna watch the show but most likely I won't be getting any of the merchandise.

No punch line, but there is a punch liner :)

I'm really curious to see what the candy toy does with the robo.

Can anybody make out the pricing on this stuff? looks like the Changer is going for 5500 yen this time around...or I have bad eyesight xD

alright, those updates got me REALLY excited

And I guess I can kinda understand the showa throwback thing, kinda, but with sentai suits getting increasingly more complex in the last five years or so and this show running alongside a show whose entire gimmick centres around increasingly more insane costumes, this better have a DAMN good story to justify the incredible cheap blandness of it all.

Just looking at it...Ugh no.

Looking at the mecha I'm getting flashbacks of a knock-off transformer based on Thomas The Tank Engine.

This applies to the suits as well, they look more knock-off rangers from China.

Man even the auxiliary Ressha don't look all that good. From the looks of it they don't even change shape much when attached to TokkyuOh's arms. It just looks like he has a different train carriage stuck on the ends.