Gold Ranger's Mega Mode has received positive reactions from everyone. It's the one they did the best on.

Well, we sought of did with Dragon ranger giving his shield to Geki.

This ;)

I like the mega mode suits, but I'm not really sure what should have been done with them. I don't like them more than the original suits, but I agree they should have had more screen time than just cockpit footage. I suppose it might have worked better as the mid-season upgrade/super mode, but that would have required a whole lot of new footage :lol

I'd say its a combination of the black/gold, and the fact they didn't mutate the helmet for it.

Well I do like the Mega Ranger modes, they do look cool.

How/why did shinkengold go from gold and blue suit to black and gold for Mega mode?

The blue paint fades from using too much power going from regular gold to mega mode. The blue paint gets restored when he re-morphs into regular again later.

I think it was done to accenutate the "gold" part of the costume more than the "blue" part of the costume. He is referred to as the "Gold Ranger", thus you'd want his "super" or in this case "mega" mode to really push that color. Having blue instead of black would really have the blue stick out.

I was at the Tsuyoshi Nonaka (MMPR) Design panel at Morphicon, actually Mega Mode was tacked on because the Shenkenger cockpit footage was "unusable". There was always a show attached to Samurai but yeah the toys were designed first.

It's more interesting being there but here's a video: http://blog.samuraicast.com/tsuyoshi...wer-morphicon/

Tamashii should make Mega Mode and Shogun mode figuarts. Who's with me?

The full panel is on Youtube, instead of a partial split up version on Samuraicast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKbXRe9GHcE

There's also more information about it in my scans of the booklet that came with the PMC exclusive toy set:

http://www.rangerboard.com/showpost....1&postcount=50

I can't remember those details from that panel. I was at the one on Friday and missed the Saturday one. I heard that one had some more Samurai info. They never elaborated on what deemed the Shinkenger cockpit unusable.