[Den-O]

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I cant help but wonder what a lot of you are expecting..the PR toys have been like this for years and its not changing. These are toys that are marketed to kids from like pre school and up...honestly I said the same thing about the samurai zords my friend showed me but when put into certain modes the zord builder is not that far off from off its look same goes for the Gosei great and its auxiliary pieces. We knew from the get go that Gokai-Oh's opening gimmick would be nixed so dont act all "oh im disappointed because bandai didnt change what they have been doing for the last couple of years" The keys are not terrible and the head sculpts for them are better than Japans. and at least Blazing lion is somewhat to scale with its counter part. Seriously he could of been brought down to Delta Runner one or Mystic Dragon stature. and if the detail bothers you then paint it..At least we can agree on the Gold legacy morpher.

I'll have to disagree on the Ranger Keys. Personally there's nothing wrong with the Japanese keys and this feels like a case of trying to fix what isn't broken. They're smaller, thicker, and less accurate for the sake of a flip gimmick that isn't all that necessary. I'll give BOA credit if they carry through with upgrade components for the megazord that were not present in Gokaiger though. That's unique and creative and is actually a way to convince me and other skeptics to buy their stuff again, just to see how crazy they can get with inventing new Grand Powers.

But I don't think it's unfair for people to expect BOA to step their game up at some point either. There's a small portion of that here that definitely looks improved, but much of what we see is more of the same. The Legacy stuff is aimed at collectors, as are the Japanese imports of Shinken Oh and Gosei Great. Personally I'd like to see them move more in that direction, especially since it's obvious that those products sell very well.

And sure, you really can make their DX releases look somewhat like the toys and on screen mecha they're meant to represent. But they can never transform properly as they should, which can be a huge disappointment to people. They just don't hold up as compared to the originals. But look at the target demographic in Japan for Sentai vs here. Roughly the same age groups with massive differences in toy quality.