Looking at the combined mode it feels like they designed X Emperor and Lupinkaiser to combine and then they suddenly remembered they needed to put the Patranger's vehicles on as well so they just stuck them on.
Yeah when Pat 1 just got stuck on top that was the moment I just lost any sense of interest in this combined mode, one of it not the most laziest zord placement for a combined mode I have ever seen.
The thing that really gets me about it is it is literally just stuck on top, there is nothing to fill the gaps and the combination of how far the front of Pat 1 sticks out as well as Lupin Red's tail fins basically makes it really difficult to see the face unless you are looking straight on and are shining a light on it. From the front it almost looks like the head is getting sandwiched.
You didn’t use the change gimmick right. When the weapon go “X-Nize” you need to twist again, depending on the head the gun is pointing the other side will be the side you will change into. Also the summon gimmick you didn’t show. Simply twist twice and pull the trigger (provided that you already changed before)
If you want an Ultrazord done right, take a look at the Dino Ultrazord from the original Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, it is well design, has a fantastic concept of dinosaurs combining into one big zord, it is a combination of all zord, not ALL of them to exact (It only uses Titanus's front paws and chest piece), but a good amount so that people could tell that it is an Ultrazord, and that was the VERY FIRST Ultrazord to be created.
Well, the collectathon is Toei's new business strategy, and judging by how the shows have been looking recently, they've been getting quite a bit of money off of it. So, it's a tradeoff; better shows for more cluster-y toys. ToQ Rainbow can still go fuck itself, though.
Peaked with Gaoranger. Pretty much he ultimate megazord builders. A few arm zords have elbows, and leg components have knees iirc. Older ones like zyuranger onwards are pretty normal and redundant. Shit hits the fan with gokaiger and kyoryuger. Zyuohger is just plain trash.
just some extra info, the gun also doubles as the transformation item for lupin/patren x, and to access that mode you need to twist the gun in any configuration once till it says "x-nize" then twist it again and you'll hear a "kaitou x-change" or "patren x-change". when yiu hear that sound just press the trigger and you'll hear the transformation noise. the gold train is for patren x and the silver train is for lupin x. hope this helps
3:38-3:46 first of all, I got my set and there was no problem with the smokestack. Second of all, the hole was unavoidable, there’s a sliding door in the show but they couldn’t make that work in toy form, they simply couldn’t.
Pretty sure the knob on X Train Gold isn't meant to simulate a dial, since it's the Patranger mode, so much as simulate the front of a classic steam locomotive. Also, you didn't properly show off the X Changer or VS Changer sounds. And yes, Good Cool Kaiser VSX has odd proportions...in toy form. On the show, they'll probably give the suit much better proportions, because they can cheat like that, but the toy needs to make it work in real life.
I waited to watch this until I got mine in the mail today, and I have a lot of similar complaints (but not all the same, oddly), the only big one not mentioned being that Silver and Fire make poor feet and you can't stick Gunner's arms out without it trying to fall forward. I also saved that magazine scan you mentioned, and now I feel a bit gipped because they're basically completely different, with more paint, better proportions, better heads. They're entirely different toys. They still have the pegs and raised portions for VSX's feet, so they it's not like they added that and that changed anything. The first pictures of VSX also appear to be of that version of the toy since you can see the c-clips and wheels on the underside of Silver and Gold, and they're molded in the same colors as the toys rather than the black they ended up as on the final release. I really want to know what happened with this and why they scrapped the entire original mold. Also, I bought two for display purposes, and Gunner does not fit on my shelf since his head is too tall.
Friendly heads up, avoid trigger machine crane. Wait a bit for trigger machine splash, a firetruck remold meant for two new fusions later on in the series
There's not. You really are expected to just use the frail as all hell clips and pray it stays together (which it won't because the feet are too heavy for the clips)
I think you missed the point on this product, its a toy, for children, sure it may not be cohesive or as robust as a high end figure or gunpla it still holds charm to how unique it is I think it's also best to watch the show to fully appreciate the toys, the review felt very hollow otherwise, there was absolutely no need to criticise it on not looking like a gun
Actually as silly as it sounds, in Lupin X mode the gun fires from the barrel beneath the trains, which would've prevented the wrist-twisting thing you mentioned It's only in Patren X mode that the train itself IS the gun barrel that fires the shots
I think my favorite bit about the combo, is just how many exposed pegs are left.... and there are a ton of artillery vehicles I can stick to them to have a bit of fun~ And on your theory... not really. The movie has something cool for the Lupins, but going forward it looks like they're just completly ignoring this combo (or large combinations in general.)
If I were to redesign the big combination, I'd probably stick with the head and chest formations, then have #3 and Yellow as arms for the melee, then #2 and Blue as shoulder guns. Rework Good Striker, Fire, and Thunder to clip in on the outside of the feet. As for Gold and Silver, I'm not quite sure what to do with them.
Wile etch combined robot is alright if not grate on its own. The final combination just doesn't work as its trying to do way to much with what it has,along with just having things in the wrong places to make the overall effect cohesive. I mean it would have been better in my opinion to use the sliver/gold rangers mecha as the base.
Nice setup you have there, baltmatrix. A pleasure to watch all that toys combining. Got me lotsa Lup VS Pat stuff cause it´s cheap and it´s Sentai. But it doesn´t look good in any form. Silly me >lol
I think there is a right way and a wrong way to do mecha-transformations-device-gimmick integration. The right way is like with Kyuranger and Kyoryuger, were the they had small transformation items that could also go into the mechas. The wrong way is like with Lupinranger VS. Patranger, and to a slightly lesser extent, ToQger, were the mechas are the gimmick items. I say “to a slightly lesser extent” for ToQger since they didn’t use the entirety of each mecha as the gimmick item, only one part, so they could at least make them look more interesting. With Lupinranger VS. Patranger, the entire mechas are one gimmick item, so they become extremely limited in what they can do. So much so that the majority of them can only serve as arms. And that makes a super combined mode of several of these mechas really awkward. It just feels like these vehicles were made as gimmick items first and how they worked as a part of a mecha was just an afterthought, with the mecha stuff not really being thought about all the way through. With the gold and silver train set, it felt like the opposite, where it was just suppose to be the two X Emperor modes first, and the idea of it being a set of trains, a set of gimmick items, a transformation device, and how it combined with the other mechas were just afterthoughts. Hell, the reason I can give the TV show version of the X Changer and VS Vehicle mode a chance is because they cover up the big gaping hole on the X Train Gold, having it pull itself out of the way during the combination sequence. Why couldn’t they have something to fill in that gap for the toy? Hell, why couldn’t they have designed it so the head piece becomes the part that fills in that big gap instead of making it a big funnel piece? It would have worked so much better.
I hoped that bandai give something to improve the connection at the feet. Just like kyoryuger, bandai gave the white thing comes with pleazoh that's slide into the waist of kyoryujin to strengthen the waist
Why did they think it was a good idea to have the combination be made up 90% of clips instead of pegs? Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if the combination was originally just the X-Trains and Good Striker, and they had to throw the Dial Fighters & Trigger Machines in last minute
I knew I wasn't gonna like the combined form when green and pink got attached to the sides of the feet, but I knew it was gonna be plain stupid when the police car got placed on top of the mech's head
I'm hoping this cluster of a combination symbolises that x is forcing the lupins and pats to work and they don't work together all that well and then they do learn how to work together and bam we get a better combination.
"Just plain old bad" i agree with you Balt but more than that the whole season was bad. I still honestly think they should of just stuck with Lupin rangers ONLY. I feel like at first it was supposed to be a theif season but the higher ups wanted both and that kinda ruined the series for me
I'm the type of person who loved both G12 and Shinkenger's final combination (so much that those were my first Candy Toy Sentai mecha I bought!), but even I can admit that combination at the end was complete and utter garbage. I honestly love the arms but that's about it, I wish that sort of design had been put into a better mecha.
I'm glad I skipped this year's releases. Even as a HUGE fan of the cluster combos, this is.... just gross. I've found reasons to buy a lot of the DX stuff that people didn't like, and found ways to enjoy it - but this thing.... I can't imagine ever wanting to play around with this.
Is it just me or are the Sentai Combiner Mecha designs getting progressively worse every year?? Bring back the Victory Max Robo or Delta Galaxy Mega. Those were real combiners.
huh, didn't know you watched wotafa as well, though i say it differently, but i might be saying it wrong to begin with! interesting though, very interesting
looks just as bad as Toqger's rainbow gattai form or G12 from Go-onger or Zyuohger's whale and final form or a lot of other forms from super sentai what they should have done was make a sea team for the 6th ranger and …….. oh wait that's Voltron oh thank you for the Macross nod ---- I love the SDF-1 toys
Looking at the combined mode it feels like they designed X Emperor and Lupinkaiser to combine and then they suddenly remembered they needed to put the Patranger's vehicles on as well so they just stuck them on.
Especially the red one. They just like stick it on top
Yeah when Pat 1 just got stuck on top that was the moment I just lost any sense of interest in this combined mode, one of it not the most laziest zord placement for a combined mode I have ever seen.
The thing that really gets me about it is it is literally just stuck on top, there is nothing to fill the gaps and the combination of how far the front of Pat 1 sticks out as well as Lupin Red's tail fins basically makes it really difficult to see the face unless you are looking straight on and are shining a light on it. From the front it almost looks like the head is getting sandwiched.
Just like the series; lupinrangers are the main focus and the patrangers are just kinda there.
SymphonyDemon agree
but somehow the show made the changer/gun mode look badass, the power of advertisement i guess?
I love it he looks so stupid with that car on his head 🤣😂🤣
You didn’t use the change gimmick right. When the weapon go “X-Nize” you need to twist again, depending on the head the gun is pointing the other side will be the side you will change into. Also the summon gimmick you didn’t show. Simply twist twice and pull the trigger (provided that you already changed before)
I definitely miss the older mech/megazord combinations that felt cohesive instead of "slap all the parts together and hope it works" mentality.
BBmetalhead04 There is a bit of hilarity in the super combination
If you want an Ultrazord done right, take a look at the Dino Ultrazord from the original Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, it is well design, has a fantastic concept of dinosaurs combining into one big zord, it is a combination of all zord, not ALL of them to exact (It only uses Titanus's front paws and chest piece), but a good amount so that people could tell that it is an Ultrazord, and that was the VERY FIRST Ultrazord to be created.
Well, the collectathon is Toei's new business strategy, and judging by how the shows have been looking recently, they've been getting quite a bit of money off of it. So, it's a tradeoff; better shows for more cluster-y toys.
ToQ Rainbow can still go fuck itself, though.
Peaked with Gaoranger. Pretty much he ultimate megazord builders. A few arm zords have elbows, and leg components have knees iirc. Older ones like zyuranger onwards are pretty normal and redundant. Shit hits the fan with gokaiger and kyoryuger.
Zyuohger is just plain trash.
@@augustbornone not really well designed
Not quite the ClusterF***-Stage of G12-Formation, but getting there.
whats sad is the G-12 is still a more coherent design
Indeed. And judging just from Balts reviews, the G12 is less floppy (okay, okay, and more brickish) as well.
G-12 is awesome! A cluster-F of awesomeness. It utilizes every zord and still manage to look like a robot.
You need to rotate the changer twice to get the transformation sounds of the lupin x and patren x forms
just some extra info, the gun also doubles as the transformation item for lupin/patren x, and to access that mode you need to twist the gun in any configuration once till it says "x-nize" then twist it again and you'll hear a "kaitou x-change" or "patren x-change". when yiu hear that sound just press the trigger and you'll hear the transformation noise. the gold train is for patren x and the silver train is for lupin x. hope this helps
Is the gunner supposed to be one of the guards in London?
Beefeater? Seems like it.
You didn't do the summon noises with the VS Changer.
3:38-3:46 first of all, I got my set and there was no problem with the smokestack. Second of all, the hole was unavoidable, there’s a sliding door in the show but they couldn’t make that work in toy form, they simply couldn’t.
I would honestly try to get a refund for all of those figures...
idiocy gxx They are better with the VS Changer
Best Transformer review channel on youtube
It occurs to me that the combined mode can be entirely formed with just the good striker and x trains. The individual zords all just hang off it
X-Changer= Kamen Rider Zeronos' ZeroGasher MK2
X-Emperor Slash= GaoHunter/PredaZord
X-Emperor Gunner= SirenBuilder
Switching between forms= Kamen Rider Zeronos' ZeroLiner
Pretty sure the knob on X Train Gold isn't meant to simulate a dial, since it's the Patranger mode, so much as simulate the front of a classic steam locomotive.
Also, you didn't properly show off the X Changer or VS Changer sounds.
And yes, Good Cool Kaiser VSX has odd proportions...in toy form. On the show, they'll probably give the suit much better proportions, because they can cheat like that, but the toy needs to make it work in real life.
I waited to watch this until I got mine in the mail today, and I have a lot of similar complaints (but not all the same, oddly), the only big one not mentioned being that Silver and Fire make poor feet and you can't stick Gunner's arms out without it trying to fall forward. I also saved that magazine scan you mentioned, and now I feel a bit gipped because they're basically completely different, with more paint, better proportions, better heads. They're entirely different toys. They still have the pegs and raised portions for VSX's feet, so they it's not like they added that and that changed anything. The first pictures of VSX also appear to be of that version of the toy since you can see the c-clips and wheels on the underside of Silver and Gold, and they're molded in the same colors as the toys rather than the black they ended up as on the final release. I really want to know what happened with this and why they scrapped the entire original mold.
Also, I bought two for display purposes, and Gunner does not fit on my shelf since his head is too tall.
Hey bro,ya didn’t show the patren X and Lupin X change properly 🤔🤔🤔
Good Cool Kaiser VSX is the evil version of Engine-Oh G-12.
Friendly heads up, avoid trigger machine crane. Wait a bit for trigger machine splash, a firetruck remold meant for two new fusions later on in the series
is there something else on Goodstriker that looks like connector pegholes/pegs? besides the insides of the legs?
There's not. You really are expected to just use the frail as all hell clips and pray it stays together (which it won't because the feet are too heavy for the clips)
CyberSurferXD what ever happened to Bandai's job as making connector pins act as anything else?
No idea. I'm hoping this gets fixed when Hasbro brings it over stateside, but if not, this isn't the mode I'm gonna be displaying mine in anyway.
CyberSurferXD fair
I found this set on Amazon, and I’m hoping to get it as a replacement for the individual releases, since they look like they’ve seen better days.
Was not demonstrating the x-changers full features an intentional decision, or did you just not figure it out?
11:01 *THIC*
I think you missed the point on this product, its a toy, for children, sure it may not be cohesive or as robust as a high end figure or gunpla it still holds charm to how unique it is
I think it's also best to watch the show to fully appreciate the toys, the review felt very hollow otherwise, there was absolutely no need to criticise it on not looking like a gun
Okay, SAMURAI HA-OH is more stable than this
That final form looks like a kid made it in all the best ways possible.
Actually as silly as it sounds, in Lupin X mode the gun fires from the barrel beneath the trains, which would've prevented the wrist-twisting thing you mentioned
It's only in Patren X mode that the train itself IS the gun barrel that fires the shots
Im gonna ask but isn’t patren X Police and Lupin X Thief???
Makes To-Q Rainbow, Dodeka King, and G12 look normal...
This just looks bad. I can get behind the other lupin and pat ranger zords, but this one leaves much to be desired.
Do you think X emperor was the inspiration for Kamen Rider Geats’s Revolve On feature?
It could just be a coincidence.
I think it's cool that they designed all these toys to combine together in so many ways... but I have no idea what's happening.
Without the blue, yellow, green, and pink the combination mode could kinda work.
in the show have cover for that hole..wish the toy have cover too XD
If this particular figure gets a American release, I hope the people that make it put in a few improvements... especially with the feet.
I think Thunder in attack form is meant to resemble a taser.
I think my favorite bit about the combo, is just how many exposed pegs are left.... and there are a ton of artillery vehicles I can stick to them to have a bit of fun~
And on your theory... not really. The movie has something cool for the Lupins, but going forward it looks like they're just completly ignoring this combo (or large combinations in general.)
If I were to redesign the big combination, I'd probably stick with the head and chest formations, then have #3 and Yellow as arms for the melee, then #2 and Blue as shoulder guns. Rework Good Striker, Fire, and Thunder to clip in on the outside of the feet. As for Gold and Silver, I'm not quite sure what to do with them.
Ok, Lupinranger VS Patranger Won't Be Adapted Into Power Rangers, Because Simon Bennett And Hasbro Said It.
I love his main mech but the big combination couldn've been so much better
Wile etch combined robot is alright if not grate on its own.
The final combination just doesn't work as its trying to do way to much with what it has,along with just having things in the wrong places to make the overall effect cohesive.
I mean it would have been better in my opinion to use the sliver/gold rangers mecha as the base.
Correction: it wouldn't kick back on the side. The barrel is on the handle and you showed the sounds wrong
Nice setup you have there, baltmatrix. A pleasure to watch all that toys combining.
Got me lotsa Lup VS Pat stuff cause it´s cheap and it´s Sentai. But it doesn´t look good in any form. Silly me >lol
I lost it at the SDF-1 mode, was not expecting that.
I think this would've been better if it had a separate gun that read the trains and had all the sounds in it.
Did you change your camera?
I think there is a right way and a wrong way to do mecha-transformations-device-gimmick integration. The right way is like with Kyuranger and Kyoryuger, were the they had small transformation items that could also go into the mechas. The wrong way is like with Lupinranger VS. Patranger, and to a slightly lesser extent, ToQger, were the mechas are the gimmick items. I say “to a slightly lesser extent” for ToQger since they didn’t use the entirety of each mecha as the gimmick item, only one part, so they could at least make them look more interesting. With Lupinranger VS. Patranger, the entire mechas are one gimmick item, so they become extremely limited in what they can do. So much so that the majority of them can only serve as arms. And that makes a super combined mode of several of these mechas really awkward. It just feels like these vehicles were made as gimmick items first and how they worked as a part of a mecha was just an afterthought, with the mecha stuff not really being thought about all the way through. With the gold and silver train set, it felt like the opposite, where it was just suppose to be the two X Emperor modes first, and the idea of it being a set of trains, a set of gimmick items, a transformation device, and how it combined with the other mechas were just afterthoughts. Hell, the reason I can give the TV show version of the X Changer and VS Vehicle mode a chance is because they cover up the big gaping hole on the X Train Gold, having it pull itself out of the way during the combination sequence. Why couldn’t they have something to fill in that gap for the toy? Hell, why couldn’t they have designed it so the head piece becomes the part that fills in that big gap instead of making it a big funnel piece? It would have worked so much better.
I hoped that bandai give something to improve the connection at the feet. Just like kyoryuger, bandai gave the white thing comes with pleazoh that's slide into the waist of kyoryujin to strengthen the waist
Why did they think it was a good idea to have the combination be made up 90% of clips instead of pegs? Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if the combination was originally just the X-Trains and Good Striker, and they had to throw the Dial Fighters & Trigger Machines in last minute
I knew I wasn't gonna like the combined form when green and pink got attached to the sides of the feet, but I knew it was gonna be plain stupid when the police car got placed on top of the mech's head
uh actually you don't flip down the leg pits on pat kaiser you do however on the combo and lupin kaiser
I'm hoping this cluster of a combination symbolises that x is forcing the lupins and pats to work and they don't work together all that well and then they do learn how to work together and bam we get a better combination.
Missed the change gimmick. Literally the main purpose of the gun form
SDF-1 FTW PEOPLE! One quick question, who else here watches Robotech?
They should have made a way to hitch X-Train Gold to X-Train Silver like in the show.
"Just plain old bad" i agree with you Balt but more than that the whole season was bad. I still honestly think they should of just stuck with Lupin rangers ONLY. I feel like at first it was supposed to be a theif season but the higher ups wanted both and that kinda ruined the series for me
Remember all those years ago when zords actually looked like stuff?
Damn and they wonder why super sentai is dying.
the Gunner head can be flipped over
A clusterfuck super sentai combination that baltmatrix doesn't like?
What is this madness?
I'm the type of person who loved both G12 and Shinkenger's final combination (so much that those were my first Candy Toy Sentai mecha I bought!), but even I can admit that combination at the end was complete and utter garbage. I honestly love the arms but that's about it, I wish that sort of design had been put into a better mecha.
I wonder how it would look if the reds could be swapped :)
Don't worry about how Hasbro is going to manage to do it, worry about how likely it is they'll make something worse
Honestly I think the Pat face looks more like We’ll Jack but that’s just me
This looks like it should have a quad-walker tank mode.
Maybe the cluster mecha will look better in the show. Then in real life?
ladies and gentlemen i present to you everything that could have gone wrong with the rpm ultrazord lol
I bought this and i already decided to to
Only have this in slash mode
It's face looks like it's in pain. I feel sorry for it. those poor designers, and the many fans that were hoping for something better.
There won’t be a new head but a new zord named Jackpot Striker and he will be in the movie
One of the worst Mess Mechas they've ever produced
But why they do that???
Better use of trains then toQger at least.
not for the second combo
I thought the orange mecha from that series was pretty badass
Well I supposed to suggest you should get the minipla(candy toys) version
sixshotx know any good retailers?? Im in the uk btw
Ami ami. I have series 1-3 and series 4 and 5 on preorder. Just look at what you're ordering first unless you want extra unopened toys.
Andrew Shearsby try amazon
pixelman619
Nope. Amazon doesn't carry them. Hobby link Japan, ami ami, and maybe a few others but the big online names don't.
This is a cluster gattai done W-R-O-N-G
Can someone change red dial fighter and trigger machine 1's places?
probably not here but the candy toys probably can.
Nothing can beat G-12 formation.
Sound logic for the gun, but that's for a gun that uses gunpowder. I've yet to see any sentei where they just pull out an actual gun. Its all lasers
The X-guy is really stupid, but I love the big one:D Wish you'd be so objective about Transformers-toys too!
I'm glad I skipped this year's releases. Even as a HUGE fan of the cluster combos, this is.... just gross.
I've found reasons to buy a lot of the DX stuff that people didn't like, and found ways to enjoy it - but this thing.... I can't imagine ever wanting to play around with this.
This would be great if it just didn't have the gun, or at least made the gun removable.
Sheees even the Samurai Gigazord (or the Samurai Shark Gigazord) looks better then THIS!!!
*"STUPID"* is far too kind for this thing.
Oh wow that 'ultrazord' That's like a literal clusterfuck of a Megazord. There is just no pleasing aesthetics going on
Sentai doesn't even try to make a coherent super bot anymore, do they?
Honestly if your looking for a guns that turn into other weapons and not trains, watch RWBY
Bryan Vinh Nguyen or Kamen rider wizard
For an awesome video and the algorithm
What d ruck did u mean *thick* balt?
I think the X Ranger for the adaptation should be named Chris.
Nice~
Well it'll take years to get to lupin vs pat. Neo saban skipped at least 3-4 sentai not counting akibaranger.
Why don't they have power buttons now a days!
He forgot to show the transformations of Lupin x and patren x
Ok, jokes over, What does the real combined mode look like.
The Blue Train is probably like a snow plow train because of that because of that hand like thing
You mean if they do this series
Is it just me or are the Sentai Combiner Mecha designs getting progressively worse every year?? Bring back the Victory Max Robo or Delta Galaxy Mega. Those were real combiners.
At least the combined mode is better than G-12 from Go-Onger. I know you like clusters but that was Damn
Well you also have to realize that was the final combination; this is the extra ranger combo so we still have 1 or 2 mecha to go.
Behold the power of the clusterfuk
huh, didn't know you watched wotafa as well, though i say it differently, but i might be saying it wrong to begin with! interesting though, very interesting
You didn’t do the morph right, they even do it in the show...
Akarenger would be somewhat disappointed.
looks just as bad as Toqger's rainbow gattai form
or G12 from Go-onger
or Zyuohger's whale and final form
or a lot of other forms from super sentai
what they should have done was make a sea team for the 6th ranger and …….. oh wait that's Voltron
oh thank you for the Macross nod ---- I love the SDF-1 toys