I never understood the homages before in Gokaiger.

Time Fire - A space ship drill
Dragon Ranger - a T-Rex mode
Abarekiller - a Megazord

Now, I get the Abarekiller homage more, simply because the robot design is very similar to what you saw in Abaranger. However, Dragon Ranger had a Dragon, not a T-Rex (I get the whole "dinosaur" homage, I do, but still). So it doesn't surprise me that Saban decided to nix the other two homages in this Megazord and stick straight with the Q-Rex (who had a T-Rex mode AND a Megazord mode) and just add a "drill mode" to it.

Gojyudrill
Timerangers built Gojyujin and it's literally housed at Providas Base in the future when not being used. The Drill modes' homage to Timeranger is more in spirit than anything as a time travelling mecha built by them. However this mode also references minor design cues of the V-Rex. The ranger key used to activate this mode was given to Gokai Silver by Time Fire.

Gojyurex
An homage to Zyuranger it's clear this mode is meant to evoke feelings of Dragon Caesar. It definitely captures the feel and menacing look of Caesar in show. It's obvious that's where the design cues for this come from. Maybe hints of V-Rex but it's explicitly stated to be a Zyuranger Grand Power. The ranger key used to activate this mode was given to Gokai Silver by Dragon Ranger.

Gojyujin
An homage to Abaranger this mode definitely comes off looking like a brother to Abarenoh. It's meant to evoke AbarenOh not necessarily Abare Killer himself, he's just the representative of that sentai. The ranger key used to activate this mode and infact the Gokai Silver powers & Cellular were given to Silver by Abare Killer.

Ramei Tank?

GoJyuJin's Dino mode also had those baby-makin' hips with tribal-ish designs and big ole toes like Dragon Ceaser too.

I understand why they're calling it Q-Rex, because it launches into battle the same way as most the Time Force mechs. But Quantasaurus never launched from the future. Did it? And it's an obvious homage to Dragonzord. I just don't understand why they didn't call it Neo-Dragonzord or Q-Dragonzord or something like that.

Still. Looking forward to seeing the actual ZordBuilder toy. It was a parts builder to start with, so it should translate easy enough. Which is why I hope it's the first Megabloks from Megaforce that can become all the modes and not just Robot. It wouldn't be that hard.

I cant wait to see how this turns out. I honestly think it will be weird to call it Q Rex when they use more than Time Force keys in it.

I think this is a neat decision. I don't get why people are bothered by the removal of the Dragonzord homage, as I always thought of Gojyu Rex as more of a homage to the Tyrannosaurus in Zyuranger than Dragon Caesar. If they are gonna deal with Ultimate Powers (which I doubt), it means that MMPR can have something more significant than just being a form of a zord.

I'm with you here, it never made me think of Dragon Caesar either. As a Zyuranger homage it made me think of Tyrannoranger far more than Dragon (activation key aside).

As for the name? I'm cool with, a Quantum Ranger homage is never a bad thing.

It did at first and from then on launched from the past into the present.

Honestly I understand why they did it. Assumedly all non-mecha Ultimate Powers will not receive episodes because of the 20 episodes limit, so I can get why they'd choose the make Gozyujin also an old mecha rather then an outlier, because it makes less sense if all the other powers are mecha.

He needs to be smacked really, really hard for multiple reasons.

Anyways to be on topic, I love that it's being named after the Q-Rex and it makes a lot of sense.