Wow what a change 15 years is make Gao King looks way better next to Zyuoh King. Hopefully when Zyuoh the World Mecha is shown it will make a good impressing on me but for now I not liking it. It still looks cool with the block idea though.

Can't wait to see Wild. It already looks way better head on than King, in my opinion.
http://i.imgur.com/9vcIE1M.png?1

Probably has to do with the legs.

How dare the gallery compare cheap gimmicks with good toys! Don't they know they're making the cheap gimmicky toys look worse?

Don't say that. You're only encouraging them.

That's one mans opinion. Not mine, but to each their own I guess.

Opinion though it may be, how on Earth can you possibly substantiate the claim that Cubes are more creative/complex than the Power Animals? From my point view, that simply isn't true at all. 15 years has made a huge difference in how DX sentai mecha are engineered. And it hasn't been an upward trend either. The point in comparing the 2 was to show the chasm that's been created over the last decade and a half of design. This set of toys is not in the same class as their beast themed anniversary predecessors. In no functional way are these toys as good as those. There's simply no arguing that.

You can enjoy what you enjoy and we can disagree about things and continue to exist without that mattering. But I'm sorry I can not possibly accept what you're saying. There's just no denying that 15 years ago a toy with similar scale and animal theme was created that was far more complex and creative than what we have today. You're entitled to your opinion, but this one is indefensible.

I can see where Lee Fitzgerald is coming from. I love GaoKing as much as anyone, but the individual transformations each animal involved could manage were relatively minimal (with some exceptions). The transformations of the Cube Animals from cube to animal modes (especially in the case of the shark) are more involved than those of their Power Animal counterparts.

As a mecha, they're far lazier and they certainly don't look half as good, but the cube-to-animal transformations are unique and, as each animal's transformations are different, they are fairly creative in how they work.

ZyuOhKing looks...
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thin...&tid=117891893

Giraffe is meh, it forms a gun and a giraffe and a cube, it does exactly what I expect it to do. I just keep seeing a weird hyena instead of a giraffe.

GaoKing will always look better, but ZyuOhger isn't really the crapfest people are seeing it as. Barnstench has a point. Power animals were much simpler with really only the leg animals having a ton of engineering.

Now ZyuOhWild is when we'll get a mecha in this line I actually think looks neat. Because as I said in my last post: the head on appearance looks way better than King, especially in the legs. Plus Showa Robo Fist Missiles.

Also Den-O, I'm confused, I thought you were psyched for the cubes after Wolf and Croc images dropped. Why does it sound like you now think this line sucks?

I'm psyched for how they'll look in show, the toyline looked interesting before I had a chance to handle it. But at this point, while I do think they're fine toys, they just don't wow me. But then that's happened basically every year with sentai DX's since Boukenger for me. They sound cool, they look neat, but ultimately I'm left wanting in one form or another.

This. So much this.

I'm a Power Rangers/Sentai fan through and through. I WANT to be excited about new stuff. I WANT to open my wallet for the product. I just can't. And haven't been able to in a good while.

I wasn't looking for a defense and I stand by what I said. As pretty as the power animals were, most of their transformations were uninspired. The cubes are far more creative in their transformations, period.

I guess we have differing opinions on creativity. The cubes do far more in that they take the same shape and make multiple animals. It's not close in my opinion. I believe the only reason people say different is because they just don't like the 8 bit aesthetic. That's fine if you prefer the heavily detailed, more realistic style, but difference in style doesn't denote difference in quality or engineering. The build is quality, and the engineering is really smart.