How can anyone dislike the Candroids?

[DeluxeRobots]

I like them but I don't like any of the candroids right now.

 

[Kamen Driver]

Hell I'll probably go dorky like Eiji if someone gifted me a set of candroids ^^. Especially the octopuses :castlerock:

 

[Black Fang]

I've been thinking: couldn't there be a way to keep the use of the Candroids without resorting to a vending machine/can gimmick? Someone mentioned in a thread earlier about how the RideVendor could have been a weapons locker rather than a vending machine. That could have worked. A locker with the sword and assortment of gadgets inside: Instead of a can that becomes a cute octopus, Tako Can could be a smoke or ink grenade; Taka Can some type of aerial drone; Batta Can a communication device.

So there are ways to do this without forcing it to look silly.

 

[Lynxara]

I've been thinking: couldn't there be a way to keep the use of the Candroids without resorting to a vending machine/can gimmick?

There's no point to the Candroids other than furthering the vending machine theme, which is the central motif of the series. Why do you think the medals are coin-shaped? It's all a big metaphor for buying things. Nobody on the production end cares about making the toys look "cool" or realistic because that's beside the point.

I just wish they could've done a more interesting spin on the vending machine thing, maybe making the candroids different sorts of items. That would make for more interesting transformations and a better use of the vending machine motif, since you can buy all sorts of crazy **** from Japanese vending machines.

Instead, they all turn into friggin' drink cans, which is right up there with the building transformer from Big in the eschelons of lazily-designed toys no kid in their right mind really wants. Drink cans aren't aspirational, they're trash. You put them in the recycling bin. That is a little kid's relationship to drink cans.

The Candroids are exactly the kind of boneheaded, kid-insulting toy that out-of-touch adults who don't really care come up with. I mean, who do we see really in love with the Candroids in this thread? Adults who are in the collecting-beer-cans age bracket.

 

[Forever Knight]

How are those DX Candroid toy sales coming?.

 

[musashi03]

Nobody on the production end cares about making the toys look "cool" or realistic because that's beside the point.

Sad fucking truth...

 

[olataro]

Candaroids are bad................i just hate em....

 

[Vitor]

I don't hate the Candroids, but I think the Memory Gadgets were a little better.

Except when midway through the series when they were never used again

 

[Black Fang]

There's no point to the Candroids other than furthering the vending machine theme, which is the central motif of the series. Why do you think the medals are coin-shaped? It's all a big metaphor for buying things. Nobody on the production end cares about making the toys look "cool" or realistic because that's beside the point.

I just wish they could've done a more interesting spin on the vending machine thing, maybe making the candroids different sorts of items. That would make for more interesting transformations and a better use of the vending machine motif, since you can buy all sorts of crazy **** from Japanese vending machines.

Instead, they all turn into friggin' drink cans, which is right up there with the building transformer from Big in the eschelons of lazily-designed toys no kid in their right mind really wants. Drink cans aren't aspirational, they're trash. You put them in the recycling bin. That is a little kid's relationship to drink cans.

From the way they and the Memory Gadgets are used, it seems as though the writers realize how dumb they are, yet still try to make them sort of relevant. So far with what we've seen the Candroids do, you could easily pull the same idea off with more "realistic" trinkets. Kogami essentially has its own private army, so it makes sense for it to have an assortment of tools at its disposal.

The Candroids are exactly the kind of boneheaded, kid-insulting toy that out-of-touch adults who don't really care come up with. I mean, who do we see really in love with the Candroids in this thread? Adults who are in the collecting-beer-cans age bracket.

:laugh: I guess stupid attracts stupid.

 

[PSI Ground]

I'm 14 and I like them.

I'm just waiting for one I really like before I even consider getting one for the novelty of it.