Never thought I'd say this but... I MISS Ninninger. :(

Well...I WAS warming up to this...

Ninninger may not the best Sentai but I think you were talking about Ninninger's mecha? I assumed

Guess I must be the only one that thinks Wild Zyuoh King is a vast improvement on the last several years of ugly combinations.

Well I think it is a vast improvement over the base mecha of the series. This combination finally looks like a proper Sentai toy, and a pretty unique approach, too.

I'll agree it is more cohesive than Ninninger combos and better proportioned than ToQger. It's been a while since we've seen a combo that mashes everything together and makes it look like that's how it is meant to be.

I was just musing the other day how future combos would go and offhandedly wondered if they'd keep building upwards since those are the most obvious and most universal joints.

You're definitely not the only one, but I can't agree with you.

I don't really care about Sentai but I can acknowledge if their designs work for me or not. This thing isn't, it's one hell of a clusterf*ck. The giant cube-shoulders with the tiny arms look hilariously bad and the tri-color legs look awful as well.

I kinda expected this, but adding more cubes to this mecha is not working at all IMO.

The show-suit might look better and maybe the Minipla can save this for some people, but I think this design and the toy itself look terrible.

Don't get me wrong; I think it looks alright. I just wish they had figured out a way to bulk up the arms. They just feel too small/thin when compared the rest of the combination. Like we got a bunch of beefy core pieces then had two lean steaks stapled on. Food for thought (I must be hungry): they could've used the giraffe and the other auxiliary mecha piece to form some forearm guards or something to bulk the arms a bit.

I'm sure it will grow on me and it may even look better in person. That said I will be withholding any purchases until I see the final combination. I'm not going to fall for it again like I did with Ninninger and Toqger.

Why does this look fun?

More importantly, why do I get this feeling that even though this looks 16-bit and Minecraft-y, it'll be skipped?

I don't even know how to react to that. I'm not sure I can get past the uni-leg; I'd strongly hoped they'd abandon it for future combinations. The pinhead, insane upper body, and matchstick arms are tough for me to get past. I guess it looks a little more involved than the base combination, which is good.

I'd like to see the minipla and suit. I am not even slightly tempted by the DX toy here, however. (Also, that color combination at the feet/boots is just nauseating.)

It looks better than I thought it would I...just...might...have....to..get..it