[Kamen Rider Lucha]

This is truly the wildest set of rumors I've ever heard for an upcoming Sentai show.

To summarize the leaks from the retailer meeting held yesterday...

We're going to have a human white ranger called ZenKaiser, who basically looks like Kamen Rider Mach but with a Dragonranger-esque shield and a cape, as the leader of the team from the start.

All of the others -- who will be colored Red, Blue, Yellow, and Pink -- are going to be robots/androids/mechs of some sort. Their robot forms will have faces based on past mechs (Red = DaiZyuJin, Yellow = GaoKing, Pink = MagiKing, Blue = DaiBouken). It's unclear if they'll have human forms or if they'll always be robots like Beet J. Stag/Washi Pink/Tenbin Gold.

Those robots will grow into mechs that can then combine with each other, KR W-style. Red will become a T-Rex that turns into something resembling DaiZyuJin; Yellow, a Lion that turns into something resembling GaoKing; Pink, a dragon that turns into something resembling MagiKing; and Blue, a dump truck that turns into something resembling DaiBouken.

The Sentai Gears are two-sided. One side represents a full team and its number in the franchise and the other represents that team's Super Gattai. These are loaded into the Geartlingers, akin to Ranger Keys.

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So, my take on this is...

I know this verges on fanfic, but what the hell, I’m excited, so I'm gonna make some predictions. I predict ZenKaiser will be the combined spirit of all past colors of Super Sentai — like AkaRed, but for all of Sentai not just the red senshi. I predict ZenKaiser might be as much of a mentor as he is a leader, akin to Big One, and that the "core" Zenkaiger team will be the mechs he takes under his wing. ZenKaiser's goal, then, would be to teach this ragtag team of sentient mechs how to be a Sentai team themselves, without the help of any human/humanoid counterparts, by taking them on a tour of the legacy of Super Sentai and having them earn the respect/powers of past teams. I'm imagining JAKQ + Gokaiger, with shades of Winspector and Zero-One.