Well since your focus is there, has anyone thought of designs for the individual weapons, and if they can all form a team cannon or not?

Precisley and If i would suggest a quick something. The next five should be.

Gold - Solar
Silver- Lunar
Orange - Light
Violet - Darkness
Rainbow - Cosmic

How about White as cosmic that reflects the other colors (like an extra ranger that can utilize all the elements?)

That makes sense and would be less taxxing on my brain come design time

how about Pink being a color that appears later on?

also, if we're open to animal themes for mecha, I'd love red to have some kind of brave strong creature like a lion or a gorilla.

I'm all for that

Animal motif for the mechs would be awesome. Should the animals also represent the elements or represent the personalities of the rangers?

Cause I am all for the animals not being confined by the elements (no water-based animal for water)

and maybe for the last five have them use mythical creatures for mecha

Been reading the posts... And I don't want there to be elementally stereotypical animals. And as for the red, can we please, PlEaSe, PLEASE avoid using lion? Am I the only one tired of seeing red as lion? As for the gorilla, isn't that what this newer coming set of Sentai is supposedly going to have?

How about a Red Ram/Mountain Goat? Give him a hammer with ram horns at the striking end.