[Kurona]

Something I'm liking about Zenkaiger right now is how, probably as a result of Sentai's waning sales; they've toned the toys they're selling WAYYYY down.

For the Zenkaigers themselves the totality of their toys are two mecha, which this time around flow very naturally from the rangers and there's absolutely zero auxiliary mechs; the changer, which y'know, is a changer; the holder... which has no function beyond literally holding gears; and the gears themselves, which are easily justifiable for an anniversary season, are very fun and in the toyline are in fact not DX releases.

You come to our upcoming sixth ranger and he as well only has his changer, his holder and one mech. There's also Stacey's changer but that's premium bandai and also feels like a natural part of the story.

Usually we'd be getting a bunch of weapons to shill, a new auxiliary mecha every episode, just all sorts of stuff. But this season things have been scaled back so that they're actually selling and advertising less toys than they were over 10 years ago, and it allows the show room to breathe and do whatever it wants without feeling like the toys are being too intrusive, because aside from arguably the gears it's literally just the bare essentials this time around without introducing stuff that'll become pointless or redundant or excessive later on. It's a very nice change of pace.