[Den-O]

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Originally Posted by decepticusprime

Boy and people give Hasbro shit for excessive repaints, i cant believe they did 3 apes

Actually there are 4 repaints even! There's also a silver chrome promo/Lucky draw Gao Gorilla!

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Originally Posted by GaoMuscle Longhorn

Most of that is due to same old/same old.

And technically there's FOUR! GaoGorilla, GaoKong (Hey Den-O, when I get to doing the Wild Force/Transformers story, should I do that as a powered up Gorilla or a totally new Wildzord?), GaoApe, and GaoUtan.

Yeah, pretty BS. Doesn't bug me as much as the Panda. Pandas don't look like that!

Gaoutan unfortunately has no figure, but we can surmise that a reddish brown Gao Gorilla would have been the route to go. The art book at least mentions that much.

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Originally Posted by schlagwerk

Well in a rare transitional period, Gaoranger got the obligatory black repaint PLUS a movie repaint/remold. GaoKong has a different face from GaoGorilla, as well as its own combo with GaoKnight.
GaoApe is.. um.. black. To go with the Black GaoKing. Later accompanied by a Black GaoElephant. I dunno what order they came in, but I'd think Black GaoElephant was released to add value to the TRU-exclusive GaoKnight set, and then someone realized they were one Power Animal away from a fully black GaoKnight and then they made GaoApe.

True. It's a rare honor for this show. Gao Kong does feature the new Gao Knight headsculpt. And Gao Ape is actually a repaint of Kong, not Gorilla, my mistake. Because it also features the Knight headsculpt. It was released as an exclusive mail in type release along side the sentai mecha 75-01 collection art book. I know it came out after Black Gao King but I don't know the specific release order of the others.