[Tokumonkey]

I'd thought I'd gone overboard on thinking they were recycling Kyoryuger, and then I saw the scans that show them in Armed On modes. It's even the same arm!

It looks like the power-ups aren't hero-color-specific: they're coming from the widgets in image 3, which is why Black is using a blue-shield thing and Blue is using the teal something-or-other. Presumably, they're meant to be interchangeable.

I'm fascinated by how clear the influences from previous Sentai are. It's actually easier to point out the original elements. The helmet's resemblance to medieval knights' visors stands out.

The sword doesn't appear to be a gunblade, and it doesn't look like they have a default ranged sidearm, which feels kinda Shinkenger and contributes to the knight theme. (Although there's always the possibility of a trigger on those things. Toei and Bandai LOVE gunblades.)

I have no idea what's in that belt buckle. Also, I wonder if I'm being premature on that no-gun thing: that may be what's going on in the attach-belt-buckle-to-sword picture.

Now that I'm setting aside my disappointment about the dragon thing: I think I fundamentally like the suit designs. Anything that references the awesome Dekaranger suits is okay by me. I get that they're trying to ape Kyoryuger, but that doesn't actually bother me; I *loved* Kyoryuger. (Then again, part of what I loved about Kyoryuger was down to the casting. I might have hated Daigo if he hadn't been played by an actor with charisma and presence to spare.)

The muted colors and the choice to make silver a prominent design element is super-cool. I may have loved the candy-color saturation of Kyoryuger, but those yellow weapons looked like toys-in-a-bad-way. These swords still look like toys - Sentai weapons almost always do - but they're not so ridiculous.

Nothing we've seen speaks to anything about series quality. That will always come down to the producers and writers. Writing is part of why I suspect LvsP has been relatively-poorly-received by communities like this one: even a terrific premise means little if you can go 40 episodes with almost no plot development. It had a fundamental conceptual flaw. If you do a show about phantom thieves who never commit crimes being chased by police despite being clearly on the same side... Yeah. That's kinda hard to overcome.

What made Kyoryuger work (for those of us who liked it) was that it managed to have a sense of continual, forward plot motion. I doesn't actually matter how safe the show's theme and designs seem if the show produces an engaging story. We probably won't have a sense of this until the show has been running for a month or two. Until then, all we can do is hope.