I haven't searched through the entire thread...so I don't know if anyone has made this..erm..."connection" but this is the first thing I thought of when I saw the new transformation device.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i5...psmfbmwvfy.jpg

I expect the literal squares will be a love/hate thing.

I probably found the object stage more appealing in Shinkenger, since I didn't understand kanji (or at least not those characters at that point.) Here, they read to my American sensibilities as baby blocks. I'm with Split Lip in not valuing the numbered-block mode much.

I'm kind of the reverse of Golden King: I actually find the lion and shark to be my favorite of the animal modes due to how they approached the 8-bit-animal aesthetic.

Despite my mecha misgivings, I'm greatly looking forward to the opening sequence, and in general, to seeing how they riff on the pixel-art aesthetic throughout the series. (I suspect the pixels on the henshin phone are a good indication.)

Well these new pictures have me interested. Now its a much better understanding of how it works. So basically the blocks are either lower legs, upper legs/waist and upper body, armament.

The modularization of it would seem to imply we can swap it all out. However then the question is, would they be able to all combine or are we going to have a few combinations and then a ton of blocks leftover on the side.

I generally like all the aux mecha to be able to combine. The best example i can think of is Boukenger where there was no single mecha left behind.

The Cube Animals look great. Combined though? Hmm I dunno. I like Wild a lot more thanKing though.

Yeah, Minecraft duplo is growing on me. Jyuohwild does look decent.

Changing from Eagle to Gorilla is apparently a process dubbed "Visor Up"

JyuohGorilla looks amazing. I like the black and red on him and the muscle gain. It would be interesting if the others can do a Visor Up transformation.

I really hope the others can Visor Up too. I mean it feels like it would allow to make more toys if they could. Hopefully us seeing Jyuuoh Gorilla first just means Red's getting the power up first and the others will get it as the acquire more of the mecha. (One can hope.)

Would be pretty cool if they subverted the 6th/extra ranger trope by having the main 5 do this.

Maybe in some ways Toei is experimenting with the 6th ranger concept anyway - look how early StarNinger showed up.

Huh. Doping Red looks interesting.

The visor up reminds me of GoBuster a bit.