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Bastardized may not be the appropriate term but i think nerfed to hell and back is. They took designs that, originally, were functional complex and fun and turned them into complete messes. Daibouken couldnt form the Ultimate in the US because they nerfed nearly that entire line aside from Daivoyager/Battlefleet. Admittedly the Gekiranger/Jungle Fury toys weren't great to begin with so they didn't do much there. But the RPM stuff was ridiculously and cheaply altered losing the entire point of the Engine Soul gimmick. And now the Samurai stuff all loses an extra mode of functionality. Why the hell even use the origami footage in the show if your toy company can't mimic that in their original designs? The Goseiger toys were not great so I feel like BOA would do well to redesign them anyway. But I think it's entirely accurate to say that most of their original designs or dumbed down versions of Sentai robos are pretty bad. When you loose out in quality, paint apps, and complexity what's the point of being original with your designs?

But there not complete messes. As bad as the entire line was,you could still form ultimate daibouken with the Overdrive toys, it just looks inaccurate do to pink not being able to fold up. For the overdrive toys, I can agree with you that they are pretty terrible, especially since we never got a siren builder.

The RPM toys, while feeling a bit cheaper, are still perfectly fine toys. The engine cells in the actual show didn't give voices to the actual zords or anything so it's not like they needed electronics for that. They could have fixed up the eye stickers though, they messed up on that note. The loss of origami mode only hurts in yellow and blue's cases since blue's zord is really inaccurate and yellow's hurts 2 combinations. Outside of those 2, they didn't really need it since I would assume most people would keep them in combine modes anyways. While the toys are inferior to the originals, there made out to be affordable and still capable of most of what's seen in the show.

I already have an original shinken-oh, but I will buy the american release in the hopes that BOA will go back to just releasing the japanese toys.

is anyone else goin to the chicago comic con. if not i could take pictures and report back if anything was revealed