Also, there was no regular-coloring release of the Gourai-Senpuujin, only the special-edition black, silver, and emerald-green version.
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CollectionDX Staff

If only they sold it at $200, then I would have given the Gouraijin to my brother and the Tenkujin to my cousin...

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"I'm no ordinary ring."

So, it seems to me that the issue isn't so much that Ultimate Daibouken is bad, per se...it's more that it's main gimmicks have already been done (limb-swapping) and that there are better robots out there (this one--Hurricaneger--for instance!).

Still, I like Ultimate Daibouken a lot. Again, it's just a cool looking robot to me. I like that high-tech (non-animal) style. It's true that it was pretty much obsolete in just a couple episodes, but I like how you can have Daibouken ride Daivoyager, and have Daitanken (sp?) as a separate robot...so none of the vehicles are wasted. [I ended up passing on Siren Builder, incidentally.]

Anyway, I have Gouraijin and Tenkujin, but never bothered to get the others. If I have a chance to complete the set for cheap, I may do so...even if only for the sake of all that diecast!

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Sanjeev

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"I'm no ordinary ring."

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"I'm no ordinary ring."

(In fact, my only complaint was how Gourai-/Tenrai-Senpuujin just stood on the back of the Revolver Mammoth rather than actually connecting to it by snapping in place or swapping some components... like the Kyuukyoku Daizyujin.)
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CollectionDX Staff

Go-Onger is suffering from the same "piling-up" of mechas to form a new combo and it's not looking good...

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"I'm no ordinary ring."

While the limb-swapping was cool enough- though getting kinda tiresome by the time "Boukenger" rolled around- and the details were pretty good, as were the functions of the individual components, I thought that Ultimate DaiBouken was perhaps too much of a good thing. I mean, that fact that it had ten components kinda proves the theme of Super Sentai mecha and their combos; ten components was something of an overload of mecha for the tokusatsu sub-genre where 7-8 was the rule before. In a way, Engine-Oh G12 will do the same; though it that case, it's not that great because the components look like they were just stuck on there rather than being integrated into the design like they were in Ultimate DaiBouken.
The other big let-down, for me, was that there were joints and pegs and other stuff that was never utilized, so there was all this potential and it was never recognized except by its absence.

Now, the Kyuukyoku Daizyujin and Gourai-Senpuujin- while not being tributes to Super Sentai like the Gougou Vehicles were supposed to be- were more coherent & fluid in their own ways.
I love the Kyuukyoku Daizyujin because it was the first Ultrazord from the first sea. of PR (which I thought was kick-ass when I was 11), and, unlike all later combos, it used all of the components so that each did not overpower the others, or was more dominant, or was substituted from; every single part (save the Daizyujin's sword and Dragon Caesar's staff accessory) was used in the final combo. While Ultimate DaiBouken also did this, it did not, however, use up all of the components from the entire Gougou Vehicle system (which numbered 18 total)... which the Engine-Oh G12 is now attempting to do. I mean, when you come up with something like Riding DaiBouken as your second ten-part combo in the same series, and you still have eight mecha left over yet to be used, then you can't really make the claim that Kyuukyoku Daizyujin, Jukou Kiden (aka Thunder Ultrazord) and the Revolver Gourai-Senpuujin & Revolver Tenrai-Senpuujin can. (Granted, the latter-most-two have one mecha missing from their respective line in each combo...)
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CollectionDX Staff

About ultimate Daibouken, at first glance I hate it because of the uneven arms. But as time goes by, my hate turns into love. Just something different about it. And like Sanjeev, I doesn't dig the animal theme mecha. But vehicle theme... Love it very much.

"Awww man, that's one ugly zord..." Tommy about BA Drivemax Megazord.

Keep in mind that I'm no sentai expert and I'm only vaguely familiar with some shows' toy offerings, but Boukenger had some designs that really interested me. Granted, besides very rare exceptions like Transformer's Predaking, I'm not into animal-themed combining mecha. Yeah, I'm that guy who loves Dairugger XV way more than Golion!

But besides Boukenger's purely hi-tech vehicle look, I thought the detail and fit of each constituent piece was flawless. All the joints featured detents and were strong enough to support the fully-combined beast's weight. It's just a solid toy. I thought the combination was more creative than Super Dekaranger Robo (probably my second favorite sentai robot)...certainly more articulated.

The different limb combinations you could come up with were decent enough, and it was nice to be able to form two distinct robots with the constituent vehicles. I think if they'd scaled everything up just slightly (without dumping the detail like in the US releases) so that Ultimate Daibouken was as tall as the Super Dekaranger Robo toy, it would have been perfect.

It sounds like everyone's beef with the design is that each constituent vehicle's design is getting simpler and simpler...just for the sake of being able to fit more into the ultimate combination...a not-so-cool trend. Is that the main problem? I can understand that, but still...Ultimate Daibouken still manages to be a good toy.

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Sanjeev