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Originally Posted by Lee Fitzgerald

I wasn't looking for a defense and I stand by what I said. As pretty as the power animals were, most of their transformations were uninspired. The cubes are far more creative in their transformations, period.

I guess we have differing opinions on creativity. The cubes do far more in that they take the same shape and make multiple animals. It's not close in my opinion. I believe the only reason people say different is because they just don't like the 8 bit aesthetic. That's fine if you prefer the heavily detailed, more realistic style, but difference in style doesn't denote difference in quality or engineering. The build is quality, and the engineering is really smart.

It has absolutely nothing to do with style or design or the aesthetic. If you're saying that you clearly didn't read my post. These are simplistic toys. I have no understanding of how you can say Power Animals are uninspired when the Cube Animals literally are just blocks stacked on top of one another to create a larger mecha. That's uninspired. That's the definition of uninspired. They do nothing. Their transformations to animal form require 2-4 steps at best. I own every single release from Gaoranger and they're all more complex than that at least. Shark, Deer, Giraffe, the arm modules may not have far to go to become arms, but they already have more moving parts by far than any of the 4 cube animals I've handled at this point. And those are just the bottom of the barrel most simplistic of the Power Animals. There's literally no comparison at all to the heavy hitters like Gorilla, Bison, & Rhino.

Everything being cubes and making laughably passable animals is not an example of creativity. Look at how hard those animal designs are compromised & stretched to make them fit into these cubes. Please look at this objectively because to me I've laid out fact, you've laid out personal opinion. You like the "style" of these things and that's fine. The 8-bit aesthetic looks fine, it translates better to the show than the toys though. And you can enjoy a toy as much as you want, but at the end of the day it simply is not correct to say that these toys are more complex, or creative, or involved, or more highly engineered, or whatever phrase you want to use, than Power Animals. That is not the case. You are not looking at this with an open mind. Dismissing the fact that Power Animals simply are better quality toys. Seriously at an engineering level there is nothing about Cubes that surpasses them at this point. The line could improve, but generaly Gaoranger was sort of the peak of the Heisei era in terms of both TV ratings & toy engineering.

Now is it fair to compare a modern toy to one form 15 years ago? Not always. In many cases production & engineering is quite different over a period of time that large. If you were arguing that the Cubes should be given a break based on how different the demographic & base for sentai are now, and the way toy sales have shaped the line to make it more simplistic, then I would understand. But by not acknowledging how much more simplistic these toys are compared to their predecessors, it just borders on outright ignorance of fact.