The former are from mid 90s and the latter are from a few years back. Tiga/Dyna/Gaia are considered some of the best Ultraman has to offer. They also have great follow up movies, particularly Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers. Trigger and Decker were meant to be homages to Tiga and Dyna respectively but they're ultimately a bit bland and far more toyetic (something not unique to them but moreso to recent series).
Trigger is kind of a mess. Decker is better. But both pale in comparison to their originals. I like Dyna more than Tiga, if only because Daigo is kind of bland for a lot of Tiga. But both really are tokusatsu at their finest.
Damn, that's so good I didn't even realize it was Lego until I zoomed in the thumbnail.
Gozyuger looks dryer than a toast sandwich. This is another example of Japanese media being crippled by easily-avoidable issues: make the mecha into regular vehicles or coherent futuristic vehicles like 80s Sentai, not animals or weapons -- yet modern Sentai ignores that for the most part thanks to MMPR cuckoldry. The Transformers that I always see shelfwarm the most are animals, weapons, and common characters, never cool vehicles, so I don't know how they don't understand that.
For me, its the sacrifice of any kind of design aesthetic to make the mecha more toyetic. I can still picture in my head the Dairanger mech despite only watching a handful of episodes. But I cannot tell you for the life of me what Zenkaiger's mech looks like, and I watched every episode of that series.
The problem there is Zenkaiger had no real "main" mecha. It had two default mecha, both of which were composed of some very poorly designed symmetrical docking bots that clearly sacrificed a lot to support the gimmick. Then you had Zenkaizer's Q-Rex/Dragonzord homage that could replace two of the four original mecha (because they were never designed to be more than left OR right, never both), TwokaiOh had no integration with the main mechas, and the final macguffin combined with the four original mecha as limbs. It was a complete brick, and not in a fun way either.
I generally like the designs in principle until I notice the food parts.
I'm afraid he might end up with not much to do but so far Kinjiro is my favorite member.
I'm only half paying attention but I'm lowkey backburner hoping he goes full Aizen Makoto and is deep down big mad because THEY'RE DOING SENTAI WRONG DAMMIT and he wants them to go hard on the JAKQ styles or something
Kamen Rider Kuuga.
start with the ZO movie