Nonetheless, I am speculating at the same point as them, just in the opposite direction and that is allowed.

Oh totally. And I agree. The blandness of the suits and the uninspired way the motif is worked in feels... lazy?

I don't even like Kyouryuger, just not my thing, but even I can appreciate the unique direction of the suits and helmets, and the effort put into them. The mouthplate-in-the-visor is unique, and the suits have detail, but not overwhelming detail outside the shoulder pad. Little things like the upper arms having a different texture, or an extra line on the boot top. Just an idea that the suits weren't a rough sketch brought to life like here.

I don't know, but seeing the costumes in action helps somewhat. The show suit for the Mech helps as well.

Overall I'm feeling better about the look of things now, that's not to say I like the weapons or the mech itself.

I still think the overall design is a bit...first draft-ish to me. Like that was their first concept and they never moved past it. And the way the extra train cars "combine" is just plain lazy. It looks and feels like a "we kind of have to have extra cars for toy purposes" and couldn't come up with a better way to integrate them in.

Moral of the story, seeing thing's in action, makes them look less...crummy...than initially presented.

The whole "use other team members powers" thing to me just sounds utterly redundant and pointless, I'll be interested to see if they can implement it...interestingly. Oddly the teaser gave very little away of the action, to only further "blandify" it.

I can't stand Kyoryuger either, but to give it is due, the suits are cool as hell and the actionscenes are near consistently fantastic.

tokyu pink is so cute

The suits sure look simple, but I smell some upgrades &/or power-ups coming during the season...

Saw the trailer, Red looks like he just had a gallon of Kool-Aid :lol The grunts are cool. Im still not to sure on the suits though.

Somebody....go make an image with Red's helmet on the Kool-Aid Man's body :lol

Stray thoughts:

Blue and Green look interesting. The girls look like typical sentai girls. I don't prefer a young, plucky Red, but I'm not totally turned off by this actor.

Boy, this cast looks young.

Their pre-henshin costumes are well designed. I usually like it best when the characters have colored coats -- makes it more believable that they'd wear the same colors every day.

Man, those mooks look badass. I wonder if the villains will be all black and white to counter the trainbow rangers. That could be cool.

I really love their pose down.

The train models are awesome.

I'm getting a brightly-colored high school anime feel from the series so far.

I'm willing to be won over.

They clearly put some thought into those grunt designs. Shame they didn't put that effort into the rangers.