[Locke]

One complaint with Go-Busters so far is the mecha.

I LOVE Ace's design (hence my sig), it was sleek and so very...mech like. I'm gonna reveal a controversial opinion in three...two...one... I HATE the mech part of Super Sentai/Power Rangers, I always think the mech designs look absolutely rubbish. They're always cluttered, bulky and cheaply made with bits of cardboard just flapping about the place, they seem about as convincing as if I ran around with a cardboard box on.

And as much as you can say "'eh it's just toku man, you cant say that about one aspect and not another"...well no, the technology and effects around the robot sections seems to be about a decade behind the rest of the show. While suits become more and more complicated, wirework becomes more and more natural and flowing and all round better CGI becomes more available to the ground fighting the big mech revolution... make the robots look plastic and animate them with cheap CGI?

Anyway that was a tangent my point is...Ace was streamlined, it looked like a proper mech and it was awesome and I loved it. Ever since then though the combinations basically just involve sticking crap on Ace, like the way the Gorilla mech basically just becomes a really fat gut for Ace and with each new combination it looks bigger, bulkier, more cluttered and the amount of movement the suit actor can manage is diminished.

I honestly can't remember the last time a mech looked like anything other than an obese man dressed as a tree for a nativity play.