Go-Onger DX Kyoretsu-Oh/Engine-Oh G12 Gallery
 

As Tokunation continues to celebrate Power Rangers RPM we bring you yet another gallery from it's sentai source material, Engine Sentai Go-Onger! Today's gallery is of the mighty Kyoretsu-Oh, Known in RPM as the Paleomax Megazord!

Following the standard Go-Onger mecha formula, Kyoretsu-Oh is composed of 3 ancient Engines; Kishimammoth, T-Line, and K-Line. More bestial in nature than the other Engines, these 3 contain enough power to help form the mighty Engine-Oh G12! One of the largest sentai robo combos ever, and the originator of the cluster/stacker term that many fans use, the G12 is a thing of beauty. In the US the G12 is known as the RPM Ultrazord.

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Yes! Paleomax Megazord! My favorite out of all the combinations.. I mean come on! It was a giant, bright red, mastodon train mech! The heck you want?! And G-12.. I used to hate that thing. But it's become a thing of beauty that I must one day own.

I love the RPM Ultrazord. It's just so, well, look at it! It a hodgepodge of stuff!

And that's awesome.

Coincidently, while I type this on my IPhone, Go-Onger's theme is playing.

Dear Zordon, the ClusterF*ck Megazord. :lol I so want this thing, but from looking at prices, I am good.

After finishing RPM today, and a few episodes into GoOnger, I love how even the suit for this thing is huge!

Oh the poor bastard suit actor who had to wear that thing :lol

There was an actor in that monster?! I always thought it was CG... Dear Lord I hope he got hazard pay for that.

ive lived up to the fact that ill probably never own this set, its my favorite combined mecha

I wonder where that suit is now? Imagine if thats the robo suit in the Cafe next season of Akibaranger. :lol

Me too, I would try to find the US release, but I think Itd be just as hard and expensive in the long run. :lol

I sadly regret not getting these guys when they were released.

It would've looked awesome next to my Samurai Gigazord.

I got us reales and it still good I'm just having trouble finding a valve max at good price

Such a great mecha. I mean what's not to love about a giant prehistoric train?

I want more train mechas! I was in love with the rumor that Kyoryuger was going to be about dinosaur trains.

G12 is nuts, but I never found Paleomax that great. It looks fin, but it's transformation was REALLY phoned-in. It just breaks apart and reforms in a way where a few simple hinges would have done. I know a lot of RPM zords do that, but this is the most glaring.

I like how it's head kind of looks like the original Megazord. Intentional given the animals used?

All I can say is at least it looks like a single, cohesive robot unlike final combos that involve riding the final mecha into battle like Zyuranger, Dairanger, OhRanger, GekiRanger, Shinkenger, etc.

Any likeness is entirely coincidental, or if anything just done in passing. There wouldn't have been any significant reason for the Go-Onger designers to homage Zyuranger. Using the same animals sure, but Abaranger used alot of the same dinos as well.
Ohhhhhh yes. This thing is one big giant cohesive badass. I find the G12 to be the of epidomy giant stacker robot insanity, which is why I love it.

I just find it weird that the head not only shares similar ear designs, but they "open up" identical to the original Megazord, and feature the triangle design of the Megazord's chest, a design not present anywhere else on the Paleomax Megazord.

It's not overt, but it's just really similar to be coincidence. Maybe because they thought Power Rangers would end before RPM the Sentai designers threw in an homage?

No I don't think so. Toei would have had no knowledge that at the time they were in the production stages of Go-Onger (a time when Disney was still going through Jungle Fury) that RPM would be the "final" season. It wasn't even announced until September 2009, a full year after Go-Onger began airing and subsequently finished, that RPM would be the final PR season.

Those mecha were designed far far in advance of them being brought over here. I can promise you they don't design mecha and homage things in the original sentai versions of these shows so that it pans out better in Power Rangers. There's just no way to plan that kind of far ahead production and make it work out. It's similar, and as I said it's not the first sentai which has used a dino motif for the whole show or at least one robo. But seeing as at that point there were only 2 full dino sentais some similarities were bound to be exist.

I love Go-Buster King as well, but one advantage to the BoJ G12 that I didn't know until I owned my own "G12" is you can actually pick it up by the waist and not be worried about the legs and backpack falling off.

Advantage 2 of G12 over Go-Buster King is no spear weapon. I hold spear weapons as the epitome of "we don't know what to do with these leftover parts!" This belief was cemented when I got into Mugenbine. I swear Bandai's handbook has to have a section stating "Don't know what to do with remaining parts? Make a spear/staff!"

Oh definitely. From the get go I assumed some of the Mugenbine design team had worked on Go-Busters. The spear always kills me. Especially when you form King. Since it's significantly taller than Great Go-Buster, with Go-Buster King the spear just dangles there with out anything to balance on. I have mine propped against the wall.

With G12 you get one gigantic package with everything in a place that makes sense. Perhaps the only things that don't being Kyoretsu-Oh's waist piece and Engine-Oh's V-Shield just being tacked onto the legs. That part seems a bit odd but everything else makes complete sense. I also love the inversion of the arms and legs from G9-G12. How Birca and Gunpherd become glorified ankles and T-Line and K-Line get swapped up into arms but are still in the same basic position that they were in for Kyoretsu-Oh.

This was always my favourite mecha from Go-onger. It's a mammoth-train that turns into a robot!

Does anyone know if there's a size comparison gallery of the BoA vs BoJ versions of G12?

well heres a pic of the american version compared to the original Dino Megazord
http://i676.photobucket.com/albums/v...dMegazord5.jpg

and heres g12 compared to the supertrain
http://oi38.tinypic.com/15n0x7p.jpg

if you dont own Supertrain hes freakin massive and is slightly taller than an Armada Unicron, I think ive seen pics before that G12 is also as large as a Fort Max

Only one I've got. The two biggest ones. The other two are the microzord and the Minipla model kit.

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...ntai/Go-on.jpg

As you guys have so awesomely pointed out, the original BOJ releases dwarf the BOA imitators :D

It's not a imitator it's BOJ USA cousins that's still as good

I think it's pretty clear that it's a poor man's knock off. The Engine Soul functionality is almost entirely removed, the molds have been simplified and made of cheaper plastic, the paint apps are sparse, the colors are wrong, and it's overall about 20% smaller than the real deal. BOA may be the "cousin" to BOJ but their DX mecha products have been substandard since Operation Overdrive.

why are the american rpm zords smaller than the japanese go-onger engines

Not quite Jungle fury mecha is the same mood as BOJ one with just light up fist removed and BOA ant half bad there still good if you can't afford the Japanese one

RPM didn't have as much of a focus on the Engine Cells. In fact, the show probably could have cut them out entirely and there wouldn't be any real change in story. The Souls were Go-Onger's gimmick and even if BoA could still import the Japanese toys, most of the functionality of the Engine Souls would be nixed since the RPM Zords aren't characters like the Engines. All you'd probably get are a cycle of generic rev noises.
The only color differences I can see is that the Kishamammoth is burgundy while the Mammoth Paleozord is standard red. A (rather unlikely) Reprolabels set could remedy some sticker and paint app problems alongside some Gundam markers.
And while smaller, the RPM Ultrazord is easier to display. The Gigzord might be smaller than the Samurai HaOh, but the Samurai HaOh's giant motor could NEVER fit on the top of the bookshelf where I keep my Gigazord, Unicron, K'Nex Alive Fighting Phoenix and Beanie Baby "Ireland Bear Trio."

As for plastic quality, I'll just take your word for it since I don't own either The RPM Zords or the DX Engines. Yet.

Not really 'as good'. As someone said before, comparing the BOJ and BOA versions are like night and day. Just way too different. The BOJ release is better. Thats all there is to it (and its more expensive)

I agree with this. The only thing I'd say may be 'better' on the BOA version is the connection between the whale and Engineoh is more secure.

I know where you're coming from on the sizing front. I have the full Samurai Haoh and have no idea where to put it so its in storage now.

But the quality being better is true. BOJ Engine G12 everything clicks together fine and feels 'solid' (aside from Jumbwhale's connection, and its not loose, just hving two small clips holding such a big back pack would never have been enough). On the BOA one there were way too much stuff that felt off. The additional arm upgrades all hand down loosely. Those heel things on G9 and G12 like to detach and so does the face guard on Buson (sorry I dont know the US names). Neither of the masks actually cover up Engineoh's face to a satisfactory level (unlike the BOJ one). Theres probably more but I'll leave it at that.

I find other version of Engine-Oh 12 toy:

https://d2ev13g7cze5ka.cloudfront.ne...g?v=0000000001

https://d2ev13g7cze5ka.cloudfront.ne...g?v=0000000001

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Yes, this toy can launch tiny car. Hmm..but still looks cool.