Gosei Headder Series — Mystic Brothers Set (2010)

The emotional touchstone of the Mystic Brothers is one of my favorites in tokusatsu...and yet it still cannot outweigh the fact that they are just FUCKING WEIRD. It's a giant green ostrich that kicks its unborn sibling around! They weigh down Gosei Phoenix (and Gosei Great, as a whole) when combined and frankly I'm convinced that this set exists as nothing more than an upgrade for Datas Hyper. They allow him to fly and give him even bigger boxing gloves. I suppose they've never marketed an upgrade for a mascot character and figured they had to make it work with the main mecha of the series somehow.

Only buy this if you're going in wholesale on Goseiger. Saban forewent them completely so don't bother looking for a Megaforce version.

 

It's worth addressing how things initially went down, in the show. While Alata does indeed remind Eri of what she taught him, when they were children, the episode is BY FAR AND AWAY written as an Eri episode, making it very strange that the Summon card for these two came out of Alata's belt. While you can obviously see that as a problem rooted in gender, as is common in Sentai, especially regarding mecha, I see it much more as the most direct result of Toei splitting a single character into two separate people. I discuss it, in full, here. Eri unlocks an incredible amount of the mecha, and that obviously includes the Mystic Brothers. If they hadn't finagled the Alata reminding her bit into the script, he wouldn't have unlocked ANY of the permanently present mecha, only the one-time use Exotic Brothers.

It's jarring, it's screwy, it smacks of sexism, but to me it seems to be a result of them insisting on dividing the role of Gosei Red between him and Eri. Still sucks, but at least it's due to them putting so much time and effort into Eri. I'm not rationalizing this shit, anymore; I'm being specific about why it's a problem, not excusing it.

1½ Cries Toward Your Dilemma Out of 5

This set comes with the Summon Card for the Mystic Brothers. Strangely, this is the only card associated with them. It's the same with the Exotic Brothers (discussed below the cut, here), but the three main Brothers sets all have Summon cards and Victory Charge cards. On the show; the toys only come with their Summon cards.