I suppose the males could come with 1, 2, and 4 chests and the females could come with 3 and 5. They'd have to make two versions of each color if they wanted to do anything more, and I'm doubtful that that'll happen.

If they do the Tokkyugers they'll probably just have them in 'default' mode with whatever numbers the press pictures generally show them having.

The problem being that while the colors shift,the body type remains the same, so simply swapping the numbers would mean that 2 numbers would not work with the male or the female body :(

It seems like a waste of time and money to make the same figure with a different number on them.

D-Arts Megaman and the Godzilla MonsterArts were also made for the international market. The Godzilla MA figures sell better in the US then they do in Japan.

Hopefully there won't be any gimmick.

Of course, unless Tokkyuger is well written (and I pray to the mighty gods it is), I might not even bother with the Figuarts because the suits are just down right awful. AkibaRanger looks more like a Sentai team than these guys.

It seems like such an important gimmick of the show that I can't imagine they wouldn't do it, but I'm not sure how they'd pull off different little numbers inside the helmet, without just giving you 5 different heads for each figure.

Letting the males turn into the other males and the two females into each other makes sense, since they could just release a male pink/yellow body and a female red/blue/green as exclusives. But that would be assuming everyone except red isn't already an exclusive and I just don't think the Sentai guys sell well enough for them to bother. Maybe every release could be a 2-pack, with a male and female varient for each? :D

Man, do you just get bad QC samples of EVERYTHING? The only time my figures ever have issues is usually when they're used. When I buy new, everything is pretty stellar. One arm on my Gohan likes to fall off, but it'll stay in just fine.

I don't think it will. In the same way that Gaim figuarts probably won't have figures of all the various arms per figure. Possibly just the ones used most on the show. They'll reserve that feature for the gimmick line. I think.

I think they look great. Back to simple. Lends itself better to the color swapping.

If the show is successful and they do the gimmick, it wouldn't surprise me if the main bodies are normal/exclusive releases like normal, and then all the swap parts would be some huge premium bandai set.

BTW, Tiger Ranger is coming out in Japan in June.

So we can expect Trini by October?

I'd guess July or August. So in a year's time we'll have the Zyurangers/MMPR completed.

It's like when people were waiting for Mattel's Voltron to be complete.