[Sol Fury]

Yes, Pegasus Saber is one of the best toys to come out of the Brave series. You have three jets, who merge to make an awesome robot in their own right, and then the fourth team member gives you the Centaur form.








Personally I have a soft spot for everything that came out in the Da Garn series, they all have a lot of what I enjoyed most about the later line of Transformers like the Turbomasters. As well as Pegasus Saber, Land Bison is a nice introduction to the line:








From the other series, you've got lots of cool designs. Exkaiser has the Raker brothers, bullet trains who merge to form Ultra Raker. There's a Taiwanese version which is relatively easy to find under the "Excaesar" label and is not bad for a Taiwan KO. The robot transformations are complicated and fun, the symmetrical docking is also very awesome if a bit heavy on parts.

Fighbird owns another spot in my heart. All of the main mecha from that series come highly recommended. I got started with Fighbird, who is a cool jet with a different transformation compared to other jet robots. It's kind of like Star Saber from Transformers, but the arms transform differently to give the jet a better overall look. The series also plays host to Guardion / Super Guardion, who is another extremely cool piece. He's big, and the individual robots are quite large again embodying a lot of that late Generation 1 Transformer feel while bringing in a fresh anime mecha style.

I think though the best introductory piece for the large "hero" mecha of any series would be Great Goldran. The design of Goldran himself is second to none, and the way the different mecha combine and link up is something else. He's also a beautiful piece to behold on display. If you can find one, check out the Brave Revival version which added even more chrome.



Here's Goldran's three mecha. Goldran himself is on the right.



Here's what they turn into.



Goldran merges with the bird ninja Sorakage to form a Sky Goldran mode.



This is the final combination of all the mecha, Goldran, Sorakage and Leonkaiser, the Great Goldran. Every Brave series has a "Great Brave" form for the hero robot, except Gaogaigar. In that respect Gaogaigar is not really the perfect introduction since it lacks that concept which is one of the Brave series staples. It also does not do the "powered up support robot" concept which you see in most of the other series, which I personally consider another Brave series staple. You've seen pictures of Sky Saber and his powerup Pegasus Saber, so I'll leave you here with Guardion and his enhanced form, Super Guardion.