The only Gaoranger/Wild Force sets we are missing are the Soul Bird and the GaoHunter/Predazord Blue Moon.

Wasn’t there a white colored DX GaoLion toy?

There was a metric ton of toy-exclusive Gaoranger DXes consisting of recolours like that, but I think we're just keeping it to the shows here

Here's the link to SMP Ninjaman. http://https://tokullectibles.com/products/smp-ninja-man?variant=44214477947197

Random thought. I hope we see some Carranger Stuff when it's 2023.

Vaguely on that topic, do we have a rough knowledge from the Japanese fanbase of which of the more Classic-series (let's say anything pre-GoBusters) are ranked, ie what's high or low? Cause I imagine that affects stuff like SMP and Shodo releases*. At a naive guess, Zyu, Kaku and Mega seem high, with a lot of legacy releases, as well as Hurricaneger (although that could be just as much actors loving their roles).

* Obviously it's not going to be a perfect indicator, but it's probably something.

I can offer you this poll from mid last year which had Japanese fans rank each Sentai from a particular decade (70s was lumped with 80s bc the former is so short)

70s/80s:-
1. Gorenger
2. Sun Vulcan
3. Liveman
4. Denziman
5. Bioman
6. Changeman
7. Dynaman
8. Battle Fever
9. Turboranger
10. Goggle V
11. Flashman
12. Maskman
13. JAKQ

90s:-
1. Kakuranger
2. GoGoV
3. Dairanger
4. Carranger
5. Jetman
6. Megaranger
7. Zyuranger
8. Gingaman
9. Fiveman
10. Ohranger

00s:-
1. Dekaranger
2. Shinkenger
3. Timeranger
4. Magiranger
5. Boukenger
6. Gaoranger
7. Go-Onger
8. Hurricaneger
9. Gekiranger
10. Abaranger

Wow! Fascinating there. Would not have pegged GoGoV as the #2 most popular 90s show.

And judging by the amount of releases Gaoranger got this year, the popularity of a show might not be the biggest deciding factor. Also poor, unloved #10 Abaranger is getting a 20 years later and memorial changer release.

Netflix has a couple episodes translated of a Japanese series called ?Old Enough? which shows a bunch of little babies being sent out to complete a little errand for their parents and they try to not get run over by a car. The batch of episodes on netflix covers a broad span of years from the mid 2000s to now. Every now and then they will show some of the kid?s stuff, and I swear I saw so many of these kids with Go-Onger merch. Even from episodes that took place a few years after Go-Onger aired. Also one kid had a really cool hand sewn Gokai Red pouch. Anyway, my point is Go-Onger might be surprisingly popular. Hey, it ain?t #10 at least!

Also Hideaki Anno?s wife wrote a biographical manga about her life with him and she totally revealed that that guy got up every weekend to watch Hurricaneger live. So we got a noteable guy loves #8 at least.

Go-Onger has very child friendly robots!

You can see Sentai influence in all sorts of modern creators. The director of the Persona series is a fan of Jetman.

Suda 51 is a general tokusatsu fan with the name of his game studio Grasshopper Manufacture coming directly from Kamen Rider.

Ah ok. The featherman costumes make sense now. I also think I just like those types of JRPGs because of the Sentai vibes they have. Assembling a team and working together to fight evil. It?s always a nice story to me.

And I?ve seen that screenshot of Travis Touchdown talking about the Ibaragi Quarry, lol.

To get back on topic, which I derailed, sorry: I think Abaranger mecha would be a great line to start up with Gaoranger done or nearly done. Instead of animals, they got dinos.