more I'm looking at the robots more I'm thinking they're transforming mechas

Well I think it was confirmed that they do combine with each other.

In 2012, Toei slips Gavan into Super Sentai in the hopes of reviving the Metal Heroes franchise.

In 2021, Toei drops all subtlety and just up and makes the newest Super Sentai team look like lost designs for a followup to Robotack.

What's clear to me is that some people at Toei still really long for those Metal Hero glory days. :lol

I don't hate this at all? My initial gut reaction was "wow, this is a pretty radical depature", which came with some trepidation, but I really don't hate these designs. They're fitting into a niche of cool yet weirdly cuddly-looking robot people that hasn't really been filled in tokusatsu for a while, and as I said about Zenkaiser, I like a fun retro throwback.

As someone who lost interested in Sentai show, Zenkaiger may get me back watching Sentai show.

I stopped watching Sentai shows because they were same old and most of their recent mecha battles are repetitive.

But this is by far the most unique Sentai team I ever see because not only the Zenkaiser is the first main hero not to be the Red Ranger but the rest of the teams look more like mecha than ranger suit.

I wonder if Zenkaiger is a Rider Show disguising as Sentai show while Kamen Rider Saber is a Sentai Show disguising as Rider show?

I keep coming back to the fact that Yellow and Red are very much the same build, and might literally share their arms and upper legs... I can only reason this as being due to how they'll work combined, maybe each forming a leg and hence needing to be the same size/shape or something?

Wow, now that's different! I'm probably gonna skip this season since I really dislike the whole "using the powers of past heroes" thing, but I love these designs and it's always nice to see Sentai trying new things. Here's hoping they actually stick with it, instead of chickening out partway through and trying to somehow drag it back to being a "normal" Sentai, since that's often my least favorite part of the experimental seasons.

It would be cool if their similarity was acknowledged in the story somehow, like if they were built from the same design or were "brothers" (whatever that means for robots) or something.

So I noticed that Zenkaizer has the 45 logo on his head. The only other Ranger to have anniversary numbers on his suit is Aka Red and we know from Super Animal War that he has his own team. Maybe Zenkaizer is secretly Aka White! They both have the golden V as well. I'm calling it.

Thank you for this because it was the 1st thing I saw in that picture, lol!

Just found out that the Zenkaiger reveal was done at the end of the Kamen Roder movies that came out.

Since we can’t watch them at the moment, I suggest you do the next currently available best thing and listen to the soundtracks to both movies on Spotify.

What?! A Sentai team appearing at the end of Kamen Rider movies?!

Unless Zenkaiger is a Kamen Rider Show disguise as a Sentai show? (Gasp)