With Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger  well underway and the DX line on the shelves since its premiere, it's time to take a look at the cheaper alternative to those big clunky toys. After a fairly impressive year with Go-Busters , it's time for Kyoryuger  main mecha Kyoryuzin  to get the minipla  treatment. If you are unfamiliar with the minipla line, these are smaller model kits that include stickers and usually feature far more articulation than their larger counterparts - including knees and elbows. Despite Kyoryuger featuring a 5-piece team, the mecha bizarrely uses a 3-piece formation with Green and Black's Zyudenryu being used for an alternate formation (named Kyoryuzin Western, whose parts are included in the second minipla release). This first set includes Gabutyra (made up of two boxes), Stegotchi and Dricera - who come in one box each. Included is the usual piece of soda flavoured candy, this time in a clover shape rather than the usual circle....

How do you follow up a commercially unsuccessful series in a long-running franchise? By bringing back all the most popular elements of previous series of course! After a pretty unsuccessful year with Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters  (which sadly has the crown of least successful Super Sentai  series thus far), Toei decided to play it safe this year with a third dinosaur themed series. Only this time Toei are making sure to rope in kids with a huge array of roleplay toys, flashy visuals and....samba transformation sequences? Welcome to the 37th Super Sentai  team - Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger . VAMOLA! The Earth is threatened with extinction when the Deboss army resurrect from their frozen prison, with the aim to harvest human souls and resurrect their creator Deboss. Standing in their way are the Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, five warriors chosen by the Wise God Torin and aided by special dinosaurs called the Zyudenryu, whose souls are housed in special batteries. The final Kyoryu...