[FreshToku]

Congratulations on doing all of them, Byg42!

And oh gosh, the mechas in this series. Even when I manage to will myself to ignore the lopsided distribution among the teams, it still had the unfortunate effect of making the mech fights in the last quarter of the show especially repetitive. Remember that time the Lupinrangers used Magic to form five copies of LupinKaiser? And three out of five of those copies all had Magic and Splash as the arms? That moment felt like it was admitting to the problem wholeheartedly.

Anyhow, it's interesting that the 'final' mechas in this is not the ultimate 'put them all together' combination, but rather each team using their own most powerful individual mecha. Victory LupinKaiser is the best of the Lupin's mechs, albeit as long as it's using Blue and Yellow's Dial Fighters (which thankfully is the combination used in the last time we see Victory Striker). And likewise, Siren Patkaiser is the best of the Pat's, which I prefer just a little bit over Victroy.

Merchandise-wise though, all these things kinda suck as toys. Almost nothing had elbows or anything even resembling limbs, instead just being wholesale vehicles pasted on the side of the robot. The only decent ones in toy form were X Emperor and Lupin Magnum since they bypass that whole 'gimmick'.