I'ma go out on a bit of a limb here and say you're just looking for things to complain about even if you don't actually care about them. I don't know why, you just are.
I'm even more confident that, before you decided to step all over my work, you unquestionably did not take the time to scan through the comments section to see if someone else hadn't already addressed your issues, and that you completely overlooked the big-ass YouTube video that *I* posted in the comment section right above yours, like, three years before you posted.
Dat sound about right to you...?
So, considering that I was not the only person in the world to balk at these issues- and more!- with the DX Gosei Great, I think that I was justified in airing them back when it came out in early 2010.
If you had watched my video review- something else that you conveniently skipped over in order to post a complaint with issues that I already addressed at-length in the review- you would know that I hold the Power Animals up as some of Super Sentai's very best DX transforming mecha specifically because of their complex transformations and combinations versus [almost] everything that came afterwards.
PS: You are welcome to your opinion of parts-forming.
I bet my $50 that Zelda's going to return after a few months to once again rant on your old reviews and others as well. People will get a rush from making a fuss online about anything nowadays.
At the time, the SRP function had to be entered in manually; all the other information you see there is automated from a drop-down menu. So, at the time (and at this point it's been long enough I genuinely don't remember) it's possible there wasn't anywhere TO enter in the MSRP, except within the text of the review itself.
I prefer over-the-shoulder cannons on mecha, mecha birds, and the three-pointed helmet was appealing too. The pirate hat was dumb, and the miss-matched feet on the other wasn't doing anything for me either.
My selection of the Skick Brothers Set to review was based purely on a lesser-of-evils scale: it was the one that *I* disliked the least.
First off, congrats for becoming the most whiny member of this site I've seen in my more than 10 years of stay here. People here have more or less moved on with their lives and will not likely to answer you back on your rants that you make every now and then. I seldom visit this site and all I see in the recent comments are your rants about old toy reviews and attacking the reviewers themselves again.
Second, I'm one of those people who say the Header gimmick and much of Goseiger's toy line sucks...it's called having a different opinion. Yes, you can have your own opinion in this day and age.
Third, if you want to make a "redundant review," please make it a point to reel in your incessant whining for once and focus on just the toy itself.
The reason I hope this is that that way, we might get a review that truly addresses the toy instead of being dominated by you being a salty baby about Headers and simplicity.
"Transformations are exceedingly simple… which, if you regularly follow my reviews, you know I get bored with very quickly."
Then it's a tad surprising you even got into Sentai mecha in the first place lol. Even the Gaoranger stuff wasn't that complicated, relatively speaking. As for the dragon partsforming, I think the results are worth it.
"Oh, and by the way, I thought this was going to be the year that Super Sentai used trading cards as its primary cross-pollinating gimmick for the series? So, you’re telling me, Bandai and PLEX, that we now have two collecting gimmicks to keep track of in one series???"
Cards are good in a general sense, but it takes about two seconds of thought to realize that while they're neat to have and work well with roleplay toys, they'd make a terrible interaction gimmick for mecha toys. Every mecha would have to have card-reading electronics (which would be cumbersome to include and costly besides), and adding mechanical interactivity based on the card-reading would further burden the designs.
Hence, a second gimmick for the mecha that provides mechanical interactivity in a much cheaper and less cumbersome way.
"Gosei Shark is by far the most malformed and misshapen of the bunch"
Really. The second-most animalistic one, with an actual shark tail and everything, is the most malformed and misshapen. Really.
I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.
"(Are you telling me that, for all the articulation-less heads we’ve had throughout the years, those ears couldn’t have been designed to be molded in?)"
First off, why are you complaining about them having that articulation? Second, if they'd been molded in they'd have actually been puny, because clearance.
"(Is that really a sword, by the way? Actually, I don’t know what the hell to compare it to; it simply is, and that’s just not good enough.)"
It's a sword. It's very obviously a bigass sword. If you can accept the smegging Kyoryu Origami as a sword, you can accept this. Your refusal to is just yet more of your saltiness about the Headers and partsforming tinging your perception.
Your "Oh noes limb swapping" whinging is hilarious in hindsight, since the only limbswap is in Ground Gosei Great, as part of the group combination.
I personally think the Headers are a cool idea - they're kinda the "living mask" concept in robot form, and I also find the way they 'wear' real vehicles to give themselves bodies a neat idea. I find vehicle-animal hybrids interesting, with how they play with the animalistic traits vehicles can have. In the context of Super Sentai, they also make for a great in-joke because of all the animal-named-but-not-actually-animal vehicle mecha from the pre-Zyuranger years. They're also something new - extremity-swapping instead of limb-swapping. And possibly made for cheaper sub-mecha to collect than the Engine Gattai and Samurai Gattai series (although I can't be sure, since a certain somebody forgot the SRP in his Skick Brothers review).
Also, Gosei Tiger is a pun incarnate. What's the most well-known maker of tracked vehicles? Caterpillar - or, to use their official shorthand name for themselves, Cat. So Gosei Tiger is a cat made from a Cat.
Way to leave out the SRP, genius. And of course you've probably forgotten by now.
Kinda surprised this was the set you rated "least ridiculous", comparing the hats.
I would say the Seaick Brothers set is far better as far as what Gosei Great gets out of it: a hammer, a sawsword, and a stylish pirate hat.
Geez, you were REALLY bitter about the Headers lol. Even though they work better as an overall gimmick for the mecha than cards would have. You're so salty about them that you throw the one mecha you can stick cards in - you know, that thing you thought was so superior - under the bus. Frankly, with how ungodly biased you are about the Headers someone else should have been put in charge of ALL the Goseiger reviews so that we could get something more balanced and useful.
"There have been some unusual transformable helper mecha in the past- paper lantern, robot ninja-in-training, race car tire- but this one takes the cake as the one that has had the least amount of support from the fan base."
American fans aren't the real fanbase lol. Especially not American fans who have zero tolerance for quirkiness and take SS too seriously. Get over yourself.
Frankly, as Datas Hyper he looks more like a classic toku robot than any of the ones you mentioned (and is most likely an homage to Daitetsujin 17). The only REAL problem with him is that the column on the arcade control panel ends up impolitically positioned (at least on the suit, it's not as bad on the toy).
This may or may not have included the front armor, but it definitely came with something nice: The Blade Blaster/Rangerstick in sword mode, an accessory most figures of this team lack. Be nice if someone could clone that piece, and also adapt it to the 5" fliphead rangers.
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My reviews would just be straight to the point if I have the time but a lot of real life stuff keeps me busy nowadays, unfortunately. I wish siningy would return from limbo though to complete the entire DX Space Deleter review.
Some of the reviews here (I forgot specifically where I found it) have links to malware sites so someone's hacking the site probably without Josh's knowledge.
With all the new versions out, it's pretty unlikely this set will ever be reissued - which is really a shame because I don't particularly want to spend the aftermarket prices on this considering the aging rubber treads.
Wish somebody made repro rubber parts for these, then it'd be no issue at all!
Well, i stand corrected! I couldn't find a reference to it being used in a show, and most often these are toy-only releases. Good to know!
It did appear in the show and in Lightspeed Rescue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUHrJsr4i18
His black & red repaint was $20 when it appeared at Family Dollar stores years ago during the holiday shopping season.
Mmmmmmmmm, I think even back in the day, a Leader-class figure would set you back $50, not $20.
I would know- I got this figure back then, and still have it to this day.
To think, there used to be a time you could get this for $20!
I'ma go out on a bit of a limb here and say you're just looking for things to complain about even if you don't actually care about them. I don't know why, you just are.
I'm even more confident that, before you decided to step all over my work, you unquestionably did not take the time to scan through the comments section to see if someone else hadn't already addressed your issues, and that you completely overlooked the big-ass YouTube video that *I* posted in the comment section right above yours, like, three years before you posted.
Dat sound about right to you...?
So, considering that I was not the only person in the world to balk at these issues- and more!- with the DX Gosei Great, I think that I was justified in airing them back when it came out in early 2010.
If you had watched my video review- something else that you conveniently skipped over in order to post a complaint with issues that I already addressed at-length in the review- you would know that I hold the Power Animals up as some of Super Sentai's very best DX transforming mecha specifically because of their complex transformations and combinations versus [almost] everything that came afterwards.
PS: You are welcome to your opinion of parts-forming.
I bet my $50 that Zelda's going to return after a few months to once again rant on your old reviews and others as well. People will get a rush from making a fuss online about anything nowadays.
Thinking back over 11 years, uhhhhhhhhhh... I think they were AAA batteries.
1) Today is your lucky day! I came in to look for a reference, and I saw your response.... and responded to the person you responded to.
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj40q_nNPFk (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zUPDJjG3Y (part 2)
3) I feel like this one's aimed at ME specifically. =|
At the time, the SRP function had to be entered in manually; all the other information you see there is automated from a drop-down menu. So, at the time (and at this point it's been long enough I genuinely don't remember) it's possible there wasn't anywhere TO enter in the MSRP, except within the text of the review itself.
I prefer over-the-shoulder cannons on mecha, mecha birds, and the three-pointed helmet was appealing too. The pirate hat was dumb, and the miss-matched feet on the other wasn't doing anything for me either.
My selection of the Skick Brothers Set to review was based purely on a lesser-of-evils scale: it was the one that *I* disliked the least.
https://youtu.be/LsLT7lESLbs
First off, congrats for becoming the most whiny member of this site I've seen in my more than 10 years of stay here. People here have more or less moved on with their lives and will not likely to answer you back on your rants that you make every now and then. I seldom visit this site and all I see in the recent comments are your rants about old toy reviews and attacking the reviewers themselves again.
Second, I'm one of those people who say the Header gimmick and much of Goseiger's toy line sucks...it's called having a different opinion. Yes, you can have your own opinion in this day and age.
Third, if you want to make a "redundant review," please make it a point to reel in your incessant whining for once and focus on just the toy itself.
What kind of batteries does this thing take? I realize you may have said in the video, but, well...
The reason I hope this is that that way, we might get a review that truly addresses the toy instead of being dominated by you being a salty baby about Headers and simplicity.
"Transformations are exceedingly simple… which, if you regularly follow my reviews, you know I get bored with very quickly."
Then it's a tad surprising you even got into Sentai mecha in the first place lol. Even the Gaoranger stuff wasn't that complicated, relatively speaking. As for the dragon partsforming, I think the results are worth it.
"Oh, and by the way, I thought this was going to be the year that Super Sentai used trading cards as its primary cross-pollinating gimmick for the series? So, you’re telling me, Bandai and PLEX, that we now have two collecting gimmicks to keep track of in one series???"
Cards are good in a general sense, but it takes about two seconds of thought to realize that while they're neat to have and work well with roleplay toys, they'd make a terrible interaction gimmick for mecha toys. Every mecha would have to have card-reading electronics (which would be cumbersome to include and costly besides), and adding mechanical interactivity based on the card-reading would further burden the designs.
Hence, a second gimmick for the mecha that provides mechanical interactivity in a much cheaper and less cumbersome way.
"Gosei Shark is by far the most malformed and misshapen of the bunch"
Really. The second-most animalistic one, with an actual shark tail and everything, is the most malformed and misshapen. Really.
I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.
"(Are you telling me that, for all the articulation-less heads we’ve had throughout the years, those ears couldn’t have been designed to be molded in?)"
First off, why are you complaining about them having that articulation? Second, if they'd been molded in they'd have actually been puny, because clearance.
"(Is that really a sword, by the way? Actually, I don’t know what the hell to compare it to; it simply is, and that’s just not good enough.)"
It's a sword. It's very obviously a bigass sword. If you can accept the smegging Kyoryu Origami as a sword, you can accept this. Your refusal to is just yet more of your saltiness about the Headers and partsforming tinging your perception.
Your "Oh noes limb swapping" whinging is hilarious in hindsight, since the only limbswap is in Ground Gosei Great, as part of the group combination.
I personally think the Headers are a cool idea - they're kinda the "living mask" concept in robot form, and I also find the way they 'wear' real vehicles to give themselves bodies a neat idea. I find vehicle-animal hybrids interesting, with how they play with the animalistic traits vehicles can have. In the context of Super Sentai, they also make for a great in-joke because of all the animal-named-but-not-actually-animal vehicle mecha from the pre-Zyuranger years. They're also something new - extremity-swapping instead of limb-swapping. And possibly made for cheaper sub-mecha to collect than the Engine Gattai and Samurai Gattai series (although I can't be sure, since a certain somebody forgot the SRP in his Skick Brothers review).
Also, Gosei Tiger is a pun incarnate. What's the most well-known maker of tracked vehicles? Caterpillar - or, to use their official shorthand name for themselves, Cat. So Gosei Tiger is a cat made from a Cat.
Way to leave out the SRP, genius. And of course you've probably forgotten by now.
Kinda surprised this was the set you rated "least ridiculous", comparing the hats.
I would say the Seaick Brothers set is far better as far as what Gosei Great gets out of it: a hammer, a sawsword, and a stylish pirate hat.
Geez, you were REALLY bitter about the Headers lol. Even though they work better as an overall gimmick for the mecha than cards would have. You're so salty about them that you throw the one mecha you can stick cards in - you know, that thing you thought was so superior - under the bus. Frankly, with how ungodly biased you are about the Headers someone else should have been put in charge of ALL the Goseiger reviews so that we could get something more balanced and useful.
"There have been some unusual transformable helper mecha in the past- paper lantern, robot ninja-in-training, race car tire- but this one takes the cake as the one that has had the least amount of support from the fan base."
American fans aren't the real fanbase lol. Especially not American fans who have zero tolerance for quirkiness and take SS too seriously. Get over yourself.
Frankly, as Datas Hyper he looks more like a classic toku robot than any of the ones you mentioned (and is most likely an homage to Daitetsujin 17). The only REAL problem with him is that the column on the arcade control panel ends up impolitically positioned (at least on the suit, it's not as bad on the toy).
This may or may not have included the front armor, but it definitely came with something nice: The Blade Blaster/Rangerstick in sword mode, an accessory most figures of this team lack. Be nice if someone could clone that piece, and also adapt it to the 5" fliphead rangers.
With the green coloration and the pinwheel shuriken, this Furaimaru seems like a hybrid of the original Furaimaru, and Tenkujin
These are the unfortunate side effects of not having the money, time, or resources to upgrade the site to a more secure version. Best we can do is just delete them when we find them. If you see any, shoot me an email or leave a comment and I will get them taken care of. Thanks!
My reviews would just be straight to the point if I have the time but a lot of real life stuff keeps me busy nowadays, unfortunately. I wish siningy would return from limbo though to complete the entire DX Space Deleter review.
Some of the reviews here (I forgot specifically where I found it) have links to malware sites so someone's hacking the site probably without Josh's knowledge.
Was that intentional or was this review hacked? It came out of nowhere so I'm guessing it's probably hacked...
Oop I heard my name what
Seriously, though- I've already had my fill of Kiramaiger at this point, and don't see myself getting any more than I already have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDq8AOaLyBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClYdEJcdtxI
So at this point, feel completely free to do whatever you want with them on CDX.
Agreed. I own the original toy. Just buy that. It blows this new one out of the water in every way. Don't waste your money on this crappy remake.
And then, 13 years later, it's STILL the only toy vehicle of the T-16!
With all the new versions out, it's pretty unlikely this set will ever be reissued - which is really a shame because I don't particularly want to spend the aftermarket prices on this considering the aging rubber treads.
Wish somebody made repro rubber parts for these, then it'd be no issue at all!