I love you, welcome to the board. :D

Hmm really I always heard that about OhRanger and that's why I said "bad" because fans have a tendency to exaggerate a show's given awfulness*to me at least given that I loved Samurai yet I hear people say it's terrible*

Toku fans will always exaggerate. :lol Love what you love and don't worry about it.

Ohranger didn't nearly kill Sentai, but it did bring about a paradigm shift in the franchise. And some would say it gave writers a little more control over the series as many TV writers were leaving to work in the then emerging field of video games. Zyuranger~Ohranger's head writer actually wrote the early Resident Evil games.

I see the rainbow the more I look at it, but the body is still plain and blocky to me. The rest of the stuff I like, Go onger weapons are cool, like the simple design of the suits, the train mechs used in all the rolepaly stuff, but the main body still bothers me

I love the blocky look because we've had streamlined designs for such a long time. Think about it, since Gaoranger, the only really block-style robos we've had were in Boukenger and maybe some of Dekaranger (not the main robo, though). Even vehicle focused series like Go-onger and Go-busters were streamlined.

I guess it is just nostalgia talking but I love the blocky look. :D

What I will be interested in, is the mecha suit in show. I dunno how they're gonna pull this off, since humans have actual torsos, where this robot does not.

I don't really have that feeling of nostalgia for blocky mechs

If they pull it off well, then it might be easier to like the toy, and look past his plain body design.

It does have a torso, it's just very poorly defined. I guess the suit will have to have its legs closer together.

So the whole "legs up to the shoulders making it look like it's pants are pulled up around it's neck like Steve Urkel" isn't an issue to you?

The thing about OhRanger is that it's theme and general darkness came at totally the wrong time. Just check out what was happening in Japan at the time it was airing. That'll pretty much explain it's poor reception and why they went 180o in tone after it. It was no fault of Toei and co however, no way they could have foreseen it.

The mecha suit will almost certainly be more "humanely" proportioned ;)

I'm guessing the suit is going to look absolutely nothing like the toy. Or be predominately CGI. (which I honestly don't know why they don't just do that anyway, Megazords are like the one thing I think are improved by being done digitally, rather than practically. It shouldn't just be saved for the stacked abominations)

that wasn't my intent, I was just covering up the torso and let my imagination think it has a less of a bock body, but something slimmer, but I am slowly coming to terms with it, very, very slowly

Like most people, these inital scans have me pretty disappointed. As others have pointed out, the suits look a little plain to me compared to what we've seen before but maybe if I see them in action, I may grow to like it. The megazord also looks a little too simple in terms of transformation and just looks kind of awkward, but I think that it is slowly growing on me already as I really do like the head. It might be too early to say too much about it though.

In an anime that kind of crazy design could probably be really cool, but just trying to imagine someone wearing that Simon Cowell zord costume makes my head spin for all the wrong reasons.

Super boring designs. I've seen porn parodies of Sentai with better costume designs than this. There's so many things I can think of to make these look better. They're that bland.

That said, I do like the weapons. Very Go-Onger in the right ways.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one starting to come around to these designs. I don't know why but the sheer weirdness of everything is starting to work for me.

Go on.......

Better than AkibaRanger.

Most false thing I have ever read in my life.

The "Rainbow" motif is the weakest possible excuse for that mecha design, especially since if it was a rainbow, it should go yellow-green-blue-pink-red, not yellow-blue-red-green-pink.

Also, there HAD to have been a better way to make a rainbow.

The more I think on this, the more I can't hate a bunch of trains which combine into the gay pride flag, as piloted by what appears to be a bunch of Rangers who transformed using Snakes and Ladders.

And by that I mean it's still terrible and the fact that people are coming round to this terrifies me and disgusts me at the same time.

If they did it that way then red wouldn't be in the middle, but as far as the motif goes I'm just hoping for some rainbow rode like CGI track as they combine or something visually impressive to sell me on rainbows.

Sorry, but I really don't see how it's improved by CGI. If Toei's CGI was actually awesome (which is hard on anything of a TV budget) then maybe. But right now it's often jarring. Suits are still the best option.

Locke, your language is showing again.

I dunno, recent stuff like some of the Invess monsters and Kung-Fu Kyoryujin looked pretty good imo.
They're still nothing on Tomica Hero though. :p

My language? Huh? Although I don't hate gay people, I realised how that could be misread, oops. Just a gag guys, but I know how uptight you folks are. Remember that time I compared Zangetsu to a..? Hahaha.

And mainly because the mechs are shit. Dudes on sound stages, in cardboard boxes, looked pretty naff in the early 90s, but the fact we're twenty years on and basically doing it the same is just sorta sad. I've long since given up on expecting good CGI in tokusatsu and now I simply enjoy it for what it can realise on the screen. And I'd rather bad CGI realises a proper giant battle, in a living city, than another clunky cardboard conkers match on another Gerry Anderson reject set.

Wow, just... wow.

To share what has undoubtedly been stated before:

The biggest issue I have with the suit and mecha design is the over-abundance of uninterrupted color. No pattern or similar hues to be found. The designs of the helmets at least strike a balance of expressing the train theme and showcasing that member's color. While the tracks across the visor might seem a tad much, it doesn't overpower the other aspects of the design.

The mech, on the other hand, is disappointing. The proportions are off in a displeasing manner and the lack of inspiration in its engineering leave me baffled. The combination isn't bad, but the lack of waist and the enormous gap between the legs, combined with the exceedingly simple anterior aspects of the color layout make it feel cheaper than the toy probably is. The individual trains look good, but they also posses grey, white, and black on the most readily visible surfaces.

Then again, this is also just the first or base unit. It's awfully early to tell how it all ends up. The different power-ups add visual flare, and in time could possibly bulk out the mech.

I know that, as a grown man, I am far from the target demographic. It almost feels like Transformers Armada by design, something that will grab the attention of the entry level demographic and generate a new generation of fans. Hopefully the accompanying show will generate interest and provide an interesting enough story.

I was referring to the latter part of your comment. There is nothing terrifying or disgusting about people liking this. It's a matter of taste.

It was a joke bro, chill.

I seriously don't get why no one seems to be able to tune into my sense of humour here, is it an American thing? I have a great laugh everywhere else, come here and seem to offend everyone :lol

Because you have no sense of humor. You have a bad attitude and a ridiculous chip on your shoulder about everything. Dude please don't go there. Calling out this community again won't be tolerated. "how uptight you folks are" is unnecessary. So just cut it out and leave whatever hang ups you have out of the thread.

I had a thought this morning. Since this robo doesn't have very human proportions, it might mean they're going to rely on a lot of CGI assistance next year. Which scares me (see: whenever they rendered the Gokai Galleon in CG), but also kinda excites me (that was 3 years ago, and Toei has gotten better at CGI, slowly but surely).

Although maybe when we see the actual mech suit -- as opposed to the toy version of it (they're never 1:1 accurate representations) -- the proportions will make more sense. It can't be easy to jam 5 long rectangular boxes into a person-shape.

Yeah I'm guessing the in show suit will look nothing like the toy, if they even use a practical suit.

Cool story.

No, it is not an American thing because if you haven't noticed, I am not American.

I genuinely didn't until I looked at your location. :lol

Rainbow tracks?

*Waits for the inevitable subbing indicate they're going to Asgard*

With the World Tree in Gaim I...

I would like that

While I agree with this sentiment whole-heartedly, they've usually been able to at least give the illusion of a waist on the DX toy. I'm interested to see what they have in store for the fight scenes.

So for those who know about MLP and a certain Rainbow named one, who wants a TokkyOh decoed after Dash? :lol

Isn't it already? :lol Now I need one to go with my Dash figure.