Well, about time I returned with another review….
The Mobirates, for those who dont watch Gokaiger, is their main method of transforming into their Ranger forms as well as the only way to access the powers of the Ranger keys. Once more, the use of a Phone type changer or morpher is used for this 35th series of Super Sentai.
The Mobirates itself is big and bulky, due to the fact that it must be able to allow the use of the shows gimmick, the Ranger Keys. Its neatly detailed all around though with both very good paint apps as well as molded details. Of course since its a phone toy the screen is non-functinal. The keypad is there and its nice to see once more that the numbers function. However, there are four non functional buttons which are the call, end call, asterisk and number symbol buttons. The enter or center button does work and is needed when inputting the codes.
Mobirates comes with three DX Ranger Keys: Gokai Red, Shinken Red and Go-On Red. The Ranger keys themselves are nicely detailed like in the show and have unique head sculpts to match the helmets of the individual rangers to identify them better. Their chests are stamped with the designs of each of their suit outfits as well as their legs. Even though the designs and paint apps do not make them look all that appealing, they look show accurate in my opinion. Turning them into key mode requires flipping the hands up and folding the legs up into to cover the upper body. Doing so reveals the key that is individually shaped for each ranger for the Mobirates to recognize from which Super Sentai team they belong. Flipping them into key mode also reveals the individual teams symbol or logo behind the legs.
Once in key mode you can put them into the keyhole of the Mobirates and by twisting them you activate the transformation sequence. Pressing the Enter or center button will shout out the individual rangers color and their battle cry. One thing to note is that only the Gokaiger Ranger keys will identify the rangers by their colors. The rest will just shout out their battle cry for their individual teams. That is it for the normal features of the Mobirates.
However, not all ends there. The Mobirates also has a Versus Mode feature where you insert two ranger keys (place one first then take out and place another key). This will give result depending if the ranger in particular had a cameo or a movie which featured another Sentai Team. One example is Shinkenger Vs Go-Onger so placing Shinken Red key and then Go-On Red key will acknowledge both of them with the title of the movie they were featured. A neat little bonus that Bandai and Toei provided.
You can also input numeric codes into the Mobirates. Depending on the 4 digit code that you input and pressing Enter button you may get a different response. For example code 5501 will result in “Hasshin! Gokai Galleon!” or “Launch! Gokai Galleon!” and depending which code you put in, it will give a different result. Some codes I know off the bat are from 0001 to 0035 which will call out the names of each of the 35 Super Sentai Teams from Goranger to Gokaiger. For a List of Codes you can use with the Mobirates you can check here for a detailed List. I suggest using Google chromes translator in order to read what each code will say roughly.
Thats it for my review of the Henshin Keitai Mobirates. Thank you for reading and please subscribe to the RSS Feed for updates!
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