[SentaiSan]

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APRIL FOOLS!

Wait...that is actually what it looks like?

Really?

Oh.

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Those cardboard boxes actually looked like robots. Rather than a robot that looks like a load of cardboard boxes, which this thing does. There is a major difference.

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Right? I'm amazed by the positivity of something so unequivocally crappy.

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But couldn't they I dunno...try? They literally just put the trains in a line and stick a head on it, I'm not even oversimplyfing it, that is the whole gimmick.

Like I don't get how you can support something that is simultaneously lazy, while looking like shit while it is at it. It looks like a zero articulation bootleg of something way better.

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But that doesn't mean it doesn't look shitty.

"Hey look it's designed to look shitty so that is okay!"

What the fuck is this, moon logic?

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What bugs me is the complete lack of effort, he has no knees, elbows or even really defined parts, limbs begin and end where the paint stops and starts. If this was animation, or a higher budget production, they could probably pull it off - well maybe - but as it stands it just looks like a borderline spoof, a joke at the cardboard appearance of other better designed sentai robos.

I mean hell, the poor fella doesn't even have a neck, making him look awkwardly squashed like those guys who over work their shoulders without balancing their weight training elsewhere. The mecha is supposed to combine into a robot but the ToQ mecha takes trains, sticks them in a line and puts a head on it. JOB DONE, LET'S GO HOME, SUCKERS ARE STILL BUYING IT.

I mean it doesn't even look good, look at the ridiculous proportions, I dunno how this will even work in the show, will the guy be on stilts?

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ToQ-Oh isn't a tough act to beat though, let's be honest. It was a subpar design in the first place, that vaguely harked back to more classic anime robo designs, but not really.

Then so far the show has had awful mech battles week after week, with one of the most pathetic mech gimmicks put on the screen in recent times. Oh what, they hate that all robos do these days is swap arms? Well guess what, this time we literally just used whole, untransformed individual trains... as arms!

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Because I just find it odd, that so many people are defending such a piece of crap. We rightly hate on Power Rangers for lacklustre projects, but seem happy to promote one of the most watered down sentai robos in years.

I'm not trying to change peoples minds or call anyone out, if you like it, that is your kink and if you get defensive from my solid criticism of a bad design, then that is your issue not mine.

dude... (or dudette). Your posts made going through this thread painful. Unless I'm mis-remembering, I believe you've gone on record as not liking the show or any of its mecha. So why bother going into threads on it? Why spend your time trash talking, and then trying to convince those who disagree that your opinion is right?

It's our issue because you MAKE it our issue by repeatedly forcing your negative opinion down our throats.

I don't watch KR at all. When threads on it pop up, I keep scrolling and click on something that interests me. I don't click into the thread and go "gawd, how can you guys like this crap? it's so uninteresting and boring and blah blah blah".

On topic, I (ironically) also think diesel-oh is meh compared to ToQ-Oh. I originally didn't like ToQ-Oh, but he grew on me when the toy arrived, so maybe that'll be the same here. I DO worry about the long awkward legs though, as I've put tank and carrier on ToQ-Oh and it does look awkward.

Diesel has a shorter torso though, so while it may help in height, it does make it look like he has his pants hiked up.

Either way, preordered Amazon JP says 4/26 -- are releases usually on saturdays? If so, is it so that kids have it to sit and watch the show the next morning?