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Five Robo




Five Robo looks like he was meant as a throwback to a lot of the earlier mechas in Sentai. From lacking a concrete theme, having 3 components, to a primary colour scheme of red, blue and yellow, these are all very much elements shared by some of the earlier mechas. With all that said however, I really, really don't like Five Robo. He's probably one of my least favourite mechas in all of Sentai. The attempt to throwback to older design elements doesn't totally work I think and after coming off the mechas from Liveman and Turboranger, he feels like a step backwards in design. The overall colour balance is just kind of a mess, the chest in particular sticks out a lot from his mostly blue limbs; The chest is also very big which makes him look weird from many angles. I especially don't like his head. It has the Live Robo thing going on with the blue face and silver mouth which looks ugly and just in generally the head has way too many colours going on. It's also oddly boring since it's so round and lacks any other features to its silhouette.

Five Trailer

Five Trailer is just sort of there I guess. While it is cool that there is an alternate combination for Five Robo, there's nothing else really noteworthy to talk about this mode aside from the cab looking really weird and the trailer not really looking like a trailer

Star Five/Star Carrier


Star Five looks way better than Five Robo. Better colour scheme, better overall design though a bit simple looking, and especially a better head sculpt. It's quite the nice looking head which may just be becuase it looks like Optimus Prime. I mean antenna ears, mouth plate, forehead crest, the resemblance is uncanny. He also has a bit of a boxy look to him akin to earlier secondary mechas but I think Star Five pulls it off the best, giving him a very solid looking silhouette. Star Carrier is also a pretty nice looking though I'm not totally sure whether it's supposed to be a ship or a tank.

Super Five Robo

Super Five Robo is alright I suppose. The colours are a bit more spread out though it is still a bit messy. The feet in particular since as you go down, they change from blue to red to black. The head, while looking like a bit of a bucket, is still better by virtue of not looking like Five Robo's head. Otherwise, he is a pretty middle of the road combination. At least they didn't try to follow the proportions of the toy like Super Turbo Robo did becuase if they did, this guy would look just as bad, if not worse.

Max Magma/Magma Base


Max Magma is really just a more souped up version of Turbo Builder. All the things I liked about him are the same here. He definitely has more normal looking proportions but still retains that kind of tank like look of Turbo Builder.

Next week, Jetman.