[FairyKing]

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Originally Posted by TokuKnight89

Suit designs are one thing, but Mecha designs are something else!

We know that Kiramager will be predicated on cars and other vehicles, but we've yet to see a true combined Mecha form yet.

When I showed a buddy of mine the Kishiryu of RyuSoulger and how they combined, he wasn't feeling it. To him, if I remember right, they looked like cheap plastic slapped together. He also didn't seem all that thrilled with Tyramigo being the main body of most combined forms while also criticizing the fact that CosmoRaptor is just two halves shoved together!

He credited the original Mighty Morphin' Megazord (Daizyujin) as looking like a true, solid robot. To paraphrase, each animal had a specific place and helped to contribute to the whole.

Sentai Mecha designs are a major part of the toy sales and if the designs aren't solid and playable, then there isn't going to be much interest. Cars don't always illicit interest, but they can be made to work based on how they combined with each other.

Granted, the show can still be phenomenal albeit with a crappy toyline! That isn't a bad thing as the show's value can still sway opinions regarding the toys as the toys can echo and represent that aforementioned value.

The reverse is also possible: crappy show albeit with a phenomenal toyline!

Based on the mindset of the people involved, the minimal plot details as we know them, and the suit designs, I am reasonably convinced that Kiramager the Series has potential, and I could use such a pick-me-up right now.

Agreed. I quite like what we've seen of the individual vehicles but how they'll look as a combined mecha remains to be seen.

Personally, I think having Red's machine turn into a robot all on its own can be cool, but only if the other rangers' machines are still decently sized and contribute to the combination (Go-Busters did this well IMO). With Ryusoulger's mecha, I found it really off-putting how two of the core rangers' dinos clearly just didn't matter.

But I don't think Kirameiger will have the same problem. The vehicles on the poster all look pretty reasonably close in size, unless it's showing them not in scale with each other. Although they also all look quite simple, so I'm very curious about how they'll actually come together into a mecha.