[Locke]

Henshin Hero.

I think almost unanimously the mecha parts of the show suck. I can kinda appreciate their craptasticness in the early 90s shows or earlier where a dude in a box fights in a cardboard city against a rubber puppet but as the rest of the show progressed the mecha stuff didn't apart from making the suits from what looks like lego.

Not to mention that I think a majority of the mecha designs are just hideous, recent sentai is criticised for 'stacking' but I think the problem goes way further back, where streamlined and functioning individual robots which would look pretty cool would then pile together into a huge mess. It's probably been a good fifteen or so years, maybe longer, where we've had a combined Super Robot that actually looked like a mech and not just a dude with lots of shit hanging off him like Buckaroo. Although I did love Ace's mech form in Go-Busters as it looks like an actual mech.

It's the little things as well, mechs never have so much range of movement, if you want to convince me that is a robot don't move like a person. And if you need to build the suit out of a light material, fine, but don't give the suit actor a range of movement that has all the external bits flapping up and down showcasing how flimsy it all is, it's I assume supposed to pass off as metal so the whole thing shouldn't be flapping around the place unless you really need a new mechanic.

The actual Rangers battles on the other hand have come a long, long way and the kind of stuff they can do in the show now is just insane. It's come a long way from dudes in spandex with cardboard cut out to make weapon shapes and now is often better than what most big budget american comicbook movies do and I just love it.