While I do like Gokaioh I'm quite happy with my Legendary Megazord and his Minipla version.

My first DX mecha, I'm glad I managed to pick this guy up earlier this year. I'm resisting the urge to pick up the BoA version, but the auxiliary zords are selling me on the Zord-builder concept.

Ooh, you lucky devil. :D

Just posting in here for the contest :o

Don't have anything to say about this lovely toy? :D

My only real issue was the individual mechs served no point. Makes me wish they Megaranger'd this bitch and had the entirety of the mecha form from solely the Gokai Galleon.

My only real problem with it was the front hatch. Just really got in the way when combining and looked kinda weird.

The thing with a show like Megaranger is that even though the initial robo was 5 rangers to 1, they each got individual vehicles later. With Gokaiger that was never going to happen because of the power up gimmick used.

I don't mind that they're mostly useless either. DX Gokai Oh is a great representation of it's on screen counterpart. Especially when compared to the US Legendary Megazord. The other vehicles may not do much but their lack of complexity means that aren't all that compromised for this transformation.

I may not have shown it much in these pics but that detaches.

Ryufujin, or whatever Hurricanger's mech was, made up for that though in sheer on-screen awesome.

Overall, the set looks pretty neat :)

That doesn't change that, for [X] amount of episodes, they had the one mech comprised of 2 vehicles.

Here, the 4 vehicles never do anything. Ever. They're insultingly simple not to look similar to their on screen counterpart (Which doesn't matter to me in Gokai's case. They could all be bright purple with a floral pattern and you could argue they're just as close to the on screen counterpart and I'd agree), but because their gimmick needs them to be hollow.

I can't get over how half-hearted and random the zords are. It's like they got all creative making the pirate ship and threw up their hands and kicked their desk over when it came to the others. The yellow zord parts-forms instead of a simple hinge.

I'd love to buy an army of these to display all the auxiliary upgrade zords individually... This is probably more cost effective using the recently released BOA versions.

I just really don't understand what people expected. Other than a Pirate Ship what other vehicle would you have expected for pirates? 5 pirate ships would have made just as little sense as 5 different vehicles. I mean how different can 5 flying boats look? They may not fit in with the whole pirate theme as well but they wanted 5 colors and 5 vehicles in order to execute the compartment gimmick. One giant pirate ship with 5 hollow boxes physically attached to it would have been even more simplistic than 5 separate vehicles.

People are just picky.
I always saw the limbs as references to older Sentai series: Blue-Jetman, Green-Carranger, Pink-Boukenger, and Yellow-Dekaranger.

And, yes, I'm aware DekaGreen was the one who drove the semi, not Yellow. And sadly that throws a wrench in my theory.

Having never really given it thought before, your theory sounds very very solid to me. I made the connection to Boukenger for the Sub but that was it.

No, five pirate ships would've made more sense than five random vehicles being pilotted by pirates.

Plenty different.

I mean, look at what they apparently think racecars look like.

Maybe all this is a sign the pirate theme was a bad direction?

You're making it out like there's no alternative but to accept the design, but I don't. Not when just last month was Gaoranger. There's so many different way they could've done this mech, and if they really couldn't do a proper pirate theme, then they shouldn't have done pirates.

I personally saw all the other vehicles on Gokai-Oh to be Boukenger references. Blue flying thing, green/black racecar, white submarine of course, and a yellow land vehicle thingamado.

That's a pretty weak comparrison.

And doesn't really help the arguement for the design, since why would they homage Boukenger with the main Megazord, especially if it made for a terrible-looking Megazord?

I never noticed GokaiGreen's mech was a race car:o

It makes sense considering the Grand Power of Boukenger was just Daibouken's GoGo Sword.

Woot! Love Gokaioh!

I dont really see how the limbs (which are only used in two episodes) not being specifically pirate related shows the whole pirate theme to have been done badly. They're space pirates, their vehicles cover a variety of terrains, thats good enough for me. The gigantic pirate ship that turns into a robot with sabers, a captain's hat and opens up to reveal a huge cannon is pirate-y enough for me.

Eitherway, Gokaioh is actually one of my favourite Sentai mecha and the Gokaiger line is my favourite Sentai toyline full stop and the first I ever 100% completed. Gokaioh is super fun, big, sturdy and looks great and really thats all I ask for in a Sentai mecha.

Meh. It makes sense to me.

I don't think it helps the design, just something I noticed.

Because they look like utter crap?

Okay, that maybe covers the submarine.

But a giant flying pirate ship covers literally everything else. Since it can fly through the air, and air is everywhere, it covers for both the ground vehicles and the other smaller flying vehicle.

Except it doesn't turn into a robot. It turns into a robot torso. The rest is supplied by the laziest looking limbs I've ever seen. What's the point of having a combining robot if you only care about one part? Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? In fact, a single pirate ship that fully transformed into the robot Megaranger style would've been greatly superior.

The half-assed pirate theme is only part of the problem. The fact that the Megazord looks utterly primitive and awful is the main issue.

The Megazord is no different from those that came before and after it with the exception of GobusterOh. What's so primitive about it?

Yeah, that's a straight-up lie.

Dude, we just finished the Wild Force galleries.

Well for starters let's see, the yellow zord has ONE step in it's transformation, and it parts forms.

I just finished watching a video on Flash King.
So...Yeah no, that's a lie. :lol

Oh I didn't mean ALL those that came before it. Don't say I lied, I'm a bit sensitive about that.

But honestly past Boukenger, name one mecha that transforms in a complex manner (again, besides GobusterOh). Even ShinkenOh's fancy transformations are limited to their respective mecha. The main robo is still a torso and four limbs combination.

EDIT: I just realised I needed another qualifier. "Main" mecha. As it the default combination, not including the auxiliaries and the sixth.

At the core of every combination, it's always going to be a torso and 4 limbs combo because that's what humanoids are. GekiTouja has 3 main components, but the end result is a torso and 4 limbs, for example.
But execution and design is what has everyone split.
ShinkenBlue's dragon forms just a leg, but the process in doing so in already more interesting than the entirety of GokaiOh's combination, for example.

I very much disagree. Gokaioh looks fantastic in all his modes and combinations outside of GaoGokaioh (although I forgive it for being a reference to the Giant Gaolion combo in Gaoranger) and Go-on Gokaioh. I dont see how he's primitive at all either, his transformation is pretty standard for most 2000-2013 mecha and he pulls off the look really well in my opinion.

But even if you dont like the loosely pirate limbs, thats still just one part of thr line. The toyline was still full of treasure chests, pistols, crossbones, ships, sabers, keys and anchors; I really disagree with the theme being half assed.

Then you need to be more specific.

I can't, because in my opinion, mecha design took a shitturn with Jungle Fury, and hasn't been even halfway decent since.

Sentai mecha have just looked downright awful for years. It's not even the simplicity that's the problem. Simplicity is good if it accomplishes a lot and is super clever. But modern sentai mecha lack any kind of innovation and look terrible.

The jet is a massive square wit tiny little wings.

Even the truck, which should be a square, doesn't even look like a good truck. It's limbs are giant boxes, the gimmick is literally just giant doors opening and hanging off while more kibble pops out and hangs off.

Except it is not. Again, the yellow zord parts forms for what should be the simplest transformation ever. The green zord from Dekaranger transforms the exatc same way, is the exact same type of vehicle, ALSO opens up to reveal a compartment, and doesn't parts form. It's also smaller, IIRC.

But it's the part we're talking about. And to most people, the mecha is the most important part of a sentai line next to the rangers themselves.

I see the dragon transformation as just an artifact of the emblem mode. The actual combination to the leg is very simple, as the Samurai Megazord demonstrates.

Yes, I was at fault for not being more specific. But honestly with combinations like Daizyujin and Muteki Shogun, could I honestly make that lie? Lying is with intent to deceive and there's no way I could have deceived anyone saying that all Sentai combinations were that simple. It would be better to say "you're wrong".

That's splitting hairs, man. Artifact or not, it's part of the transformation. In order to make the dragon a leg, you have to transform it way more, even if the dragon looks not great.

This is all just semantics. There's no reason to make that distinction.

man i want one badly

That doesn't alter what it has to do, though.

Daizyujin, OhBlocker, DaiRenOh, Flash King, Time Robo, Mega Voyager, MagiKing, all mechs that eschew the Voltron style of combination, all came years before GokaiOh.

I'll have to give you that. :lol For some reason ShinkenOh just felt so simple in my head but I guess it could be considered more complex than the usual.

I guess what I can say is that for me, ShinkenOh's transformation doesn't feel any more inspired than anything post Boukenger. It feels the same even with more steps in the transformation.

True, sadly Sentai hasn't been that way since Boukenger. Go-busters tried, it didn't really work.

Um, Time Robo still has a Voltron setup.
Red is the body and depending on mode, I'll be going with Alpha, Blue and Green form the Legs and Pink and Yellow form the Arms.

But I will agree the transformations for that are more complicated than "stick Zord on peg."

Funny that you compare it to Dekaranger Robo, when right next to the truck are PatSigner and PatArmour who transform by pulling the hand out and thats it. Also, PatTrailer doesnt open, it has a tray in the side that slides out for weapon storage, which is very different to Gokaioh's gimmick and far less obstructuve to where hinges can be. Sentai neraly always have extremely simple limbs, Gokaioh is not unique in that.

For some reason whenever a Sentai mech has a hat, I end up liking it more than most others. GokaiOh and Magiking are two of my favorites because of it.