SOC had battle fever robo

Taken from a post I made on TFW2005.

Granted that's for CW Abominus and the like, but I'm fine with sized being compromised in the name of quality articulation and detailing.

So they did :lol that happened so long ago I completely forgot all about it.

Personally I just the bricks that are megazord and sentaiechs to be unacceptable at the prices they go for. While yes in the case of devastator a lot of compromises were made with the individual constructicons but that is not true for all CW figures. Most of them have good vehicle and robot modes, and as limbs they do their job well.

Which is why I think that the design teams should take a page out of the CW book and realise the zords individually so that way they can be better engineered as they won't have to share the same budget. Would it work for every design? No but I think it would be worth a shot.

...I just want hip articulation.

Surely that isn't too much to ask?

That wouldn't work.
A combiner limb on its own is still a fully functioning Transformer in its own right. In most cases a Sentai mechs component is a vehicle or animal with little function in its on right which barely appears on the show individually.

And the big draw for the mecha is that they are released in one big set. Having them released individually would hurt Bandai more than it would do them any good.

That title :lolol .

Then include incentive such as a pack in figure or what ever the morpher gimmick is

Stuff like that might work for collectors but its not something that will convince parents to go out and buy five expensive toys when in the past they just had to buy one big toy for their kids that was cheaper.

Plus that way Bandai has to restructure their whole way of releasing the toys. Toylines would be smaller but more expensive. Most likely resulting in less toys to be bought. Plus they would have to release the five individual Mecha over the course of the whole first quarter which is a risk instead of releasing the big important mecha upfront and have smaller and cheaper add-on mecha fill the rest of the quarter.