[Brainchild]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

No it isn't ridiculous. The RaihOh is a functional multi-mode figure. Gorisaki is a truck and then he turns into a hollow set of legs with a head attached. He is easily the worst individual figure of the line. Even the Rabbit copter is better than that if for nothing else than how well it transitions from copter to rabbit.

And while everything that makes up the GobusterOh and Great Gobuster may look like they go together how is that an excuse for them looking awful? How does looking like a big pile of odd parts thrown together make it a good toy robot? I'm having trouble understanding how for that reason you can like the GobusterOh but then others use it as an argument against the RaiOh?

My biggest problem with RaiOh is that he seems to be lacking something in every mode, save for the motorcycle. Sure, he has four modes, but none of them really seem proportionate. The lion mode has no back and its neck is pretty much its shoulders, while the individual robot mode is marred by stubby arms and enormous legs, and the combined form has ridiculously bulky shoulders and a chest that has no width, but instead protrudes out. Gorisaki, on the other hand, has a clear and distinct truck mode, gorilla mode, and forms solid-looking legs.

And I'm not saying that GobusterOh looks good just because he combines together, so much as that he looks like he combines while retaining a distinct look, and that marks him up as a combining toy, as opposed to other Sentai mechs. GobusterOh does have a clear humanoid silhouette, as opposed to looking like just a bunch of animal parts. And I don't mean to turn this into a "I know you are, but what am I" sort of argument, but I don't understand how people say GobusterOh has no coherence while RaiOh's combined form does. They both appear to be just as messy, in their own regards (GBO's crotchplate and thighs sticking out, RaiOh's thighs and shoulders being enormous).
My personal adoration for the designs isn't because these toys are the best thing that could have been produced, but it's such a novel and (arguably) solid idea that I can't help but love it compared to the bricks we've been getting. I have no reservation in saying that the flaws are there and apparent, but they're tremendously easy to overlook when one of the official combined modes last year involved taking off two of the main mech's legs and plopping the body onto a lion.
A lot of this is based on the toy designs, but I haven't actually messed around with the DX or the Minipla figures, so if I'm being completely ignorant of something that makes me completely wrong, I so concede.