I'm not in love with the mecha, I just think it's decent. Inoffensively average I suppose. However, most of the zords resemble actual things, even though the lion doesn't, but honestly I thought it was supposed to be a lion-motifed spaceship.

But dude, they're not blocks! Like literal, actual blocks. With numbers, like the kind you give to toddlers. They have detail, they look mechanical, they put priority on being identifiable robotic representations of things and not a half-hearted pixel aesthetic that kinda exists kind but not consistently. The robot also at least attempts a heroic look and proportions. Yeah the orbs throw things off and it's still a big ol' chunko, but it's chunky in a way that looks at least strong and heroic and not just chunky because of bits of zord that have nowhere to go.

Yeah, the face is generic, but at least the helmet isn't ridiculously oversized. (the shape of the head reminds me of Bragigas, though. Not a bad thing just a coincidence I suppose) And most of all, it ditches the quasi-cutesy sculpts, one-hue-too-light primary colours, and adds real robotic details. Hell, when was the last time we actually saw silver in prominence on a main mecha?

Is it the best thing ever? No. Is it better than the garbage we've been getting since Kyoryuger? Hell yeah. It's all minor stuff that comes together to give the air of slightly more sophistication than the last three or so years.

hahaha

I mean, depends on what your idea of "invasive" is.

I really don't see why everyone is so excited for this thing. The ranger suits look perfectly fine but that mecha just looks bad. Individually they're fine, but those orbs just kill it for me in the combined mode. Ninninger and ToQger could both incorporate their gimmick without it being so invasive, but this just looks like they couldn't figure out how to incorporate the gimmick so they just stuck the orb onto the rear of all the individual mecha and used them as connectors for the combined mode. Personally I would've only kept one of the orbs for the combined mode, the one in the chest, and made it to where you could swap it out with other orbs for different powers. Then the Shishi wouldn't be compromised to have 4 clamps on it, and we could get better and more unique limbs other than an animal head as a fist or the most generic animal mecha foot configuration ever. But what do I know, kids will probably love this thing regardless.

True, but I'll just take out the batteries if that's the case.

And I love the Mecha (even with the orbs) because it reminds me of Biklonz Infinity, which in my book is never a bad thing.

I'm not in love with the mecha. Looks a little too...Eh.
The rangers look pretty nice. I wish the black area ended at the belt, rather than having an odd strip of their color between the black area and the belt. Oh well.

I want to see more, though. Maybe getting a better shot of all their mecha might change my opinion.

Right on then. It's certainly more complex than the Zyuohger stuff.

Also, just had this thought: does this guy not have a sword? I mean I know the right arm is a swordfish but wordplay (that isn't even there in Japanese) won't disguise such a blatant break in tradition. Even Zyuoh King had his butter knife.

I can't get over how cool these costumes look.

Yeah, all of this looks very Chinese Toku to me. Which is sort of surprising, but definitely not a bad thing.

Anyone else immediately think Christmas Baubles with the KyuTamas?

I'll be honest, not too fond of the fact that we're going back to the modular limb design of many, many past Super Sentai mechas. I kinda wish they experimented with it a little more than just that. But I'm loving the suit designs! Hell, besides their helmets, some of them have something pretty unique about their design. Like it's obvious that OushiBlack is the bulkiest out of the nine, but TenbinGold also has the biggest shoulder pads after him, WashiPink has what appears to be wings on her back, and that the Green Ranger is the shortest. I'm sure that when we get actual photos of the show suits and clearer pictures of the toys that we'll be able to see more differences between the Rangers, but so far I'm loving them! And I love their modular weapon and how it can change based on what they prefer. Like I'm always a sucker for modular weapons like that (the Dengasher and Gan Gun Saber are some of my favorites). And that their blaster/morpher is shaped like a dollar-store laser gun, I love that.

I hope that their future mechas will be like the Gaoranger Power Animals and that we can get different torso mechas too.

Digging that main robo. And those suits are so out there but in a good way. Ill wait to see more clearer scans before i get to overly excited and get my hopes up.