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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

The thing is... auxiliary mecha are basically just form changes for Sentai robots? It worked for Tiga, and it worked for Kuuga, so it's not too surprising it worked for Gaoranger. Of course, it also helps that Gaoranger did it so well; people still hold its designs in such high esteem for a reason.

Yes, for sure. But we gotta remember, this was 2001. And prior to Gaoranger interaction amongst DX robots would mostly be just more combining, but no interchangability really, at least not intentionally. That was the game changer right there. The DX power animals being form changes pretty much like you said for the robots elevated the play value at the time cause it also meant people can try out other combinations not shown on TV as well. Now people were able to try out things such as a Gao Muscle instead of the two bears it is tiger and shark, or a Gao Icarus which instead of giraffe and deers would be wolf and sawshark, etc.