Digging the look of this new age J.A.K.Q. team but for me it all comes down to the writing within the show.

This looks so fun. Curious if the robots will have standard Ranger style form in addition to the blocky mecha forms, or if Toei's really shaking up the formula and that's it

The first one looks like a masked rider & the other 4 look like zords.

Prepare for a lot of CGI!

I echo this sentiment 100,000%.

I generally dislike giant robo action in Sentai. About 80% of the time it fully blows. There are some series where it's better than others (Boukenger, Go-Busters), but it's still almost always inferior to the ground combat.

My favorite part of Sentai is the ground combat. That's what I crave. There's no way on Earth the ground combat will be good with these suits. Full stop. They're far far far far farrrrrrr too bulky.

Will they make up for it by upping the ante on the giant fights? Maybe. We can only hope.

That said, from the leaked shoot photos, it does look like they'll have somewhat slimmed down forms as well.

https://i.rbrspace.com/33a8be2ed7ec9...778da78bec.jpg
https://i.rbrspace.com/38a32b12ffcec...0fe64931b9.jpg

YIKES! And not in a good way.

I am pretty much completely over Sentai at this point, but this looks just different and weird enough that I'm going to check it out.

A couple of set images leaked

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/aBlr...Qv5OuBsbUP.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f1/81...f99253a228.png

:p

Interesting. Normally, mecha are designed as toys and then a suit version is made, whereas the Sentai suits are presumably designed mainly as suits, and then toys are later made of them. I assume that's more or less what happened here, but this is a unique Sentai in which it sure looks like the mecha *are* the hero suits for most of the cast. (I guess it also means that most of the cast won't be involved in henshin sequences, unless casting reveals the mecha will have human forms.)

I can't help but notice the hinges on ZenkaiMagine's wings, which makes me wonder about how the toys will work. We know that they each have an alternate form, and from the start, there will be a pair of two-part combinations, but how they'll work isn't immediately apparent to me.

In terms of combining them all together (possibly with an additional, as-yet-unrevealed component), it looks like Gaon and Zyuran's feet are roughly identical, so I suspect they become either the arms or, more likely, the legs of a larger combination. Vroom looks a lot like he folds up to become a lower body. <strike>WashiPink</strike>Magine just confuses me; an arm, maybe?

Of course, that's all conjecture. I'm guessing the alternate forms are super-simple and basic, and we can kinda get a sense of how they work from the suit kibble. For the two-part combinations, I'm guessing they must connect back-to-back It looks like Zyuran has an asymmetrical shoulder detail, and I can't quite tell whether Gaon has one for the opposite shoulder.

I'm guessing the belt hinges forward, so the gears must be pretty small. Also, I'll give the gears this: they're sleeker than just about any collectible we've seen in years.

One thing that surprises me a bit is that none of what we've seen of the core team so far references any Sentai post-Boukenger; I was assuming there'd at least be a nod to something from the past ten years. I suspect the sixth hero will end up being Gokaiger-themed, and I think I'd be a little shocked if we didn't have Captain Marvelous return in some capacity, not unlike Decade's appearance in Zi-O.

I get they're all references to past mecha, but in that same vein, they also all look like bootleg product versions of those mecha :lol

Actually pretty sure those initial photos have nothing to do with Zenkaiger, as they match up exactly with a pair of local heroes, according to this tumblr post.