Syber Squad Rules!
 

A thread for appreciating what I consider the most underrated American toku adaptation; "Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad."

Who else remembers this gem?

for some reason i do not remember it, and i don't know why

when i see images of toy packaging and all, i want to say i know what it is but i just can't remember

Of all the American toku shows of the 90s, this was one of the ones I was most interested in when I saw ads for it.

Unfortunately, it was also the one shown at the most obscure times on UK TV :( so I only saw I few episodes when I was a kid, I remember having a Servo figure though.

I miss SSSS... You had toys that kicked any Megazord's ass (Hi, I'm Phormo, and I have knees and elbows) and Tim Curry as the main villain, with that alone you couldn't go wrong.

I don't think I ever saw it :(

Youtube!!!

I tried to like the show but couldn't get into it. What I SHOULD'VE done was buy the toys! Oh mean were they tempting...and affordable! Best thing Playmates Toys brought over in the 90's aside from Exosquad and Ronin Warriors.

This was the american adaptation of Gridman right? Matthew Lawrence was every girl's wet dream back during this show, but I never watched more than 3 episodes. The toys though were excellent. I gotta watch Gridman...

I fell in love with those monster designs, and now that I know who made Gridman, it's obvious why. Although Power Rangers was always the enormous hit of the time and the series all of us kids had in common back then, I always had a soft-spot for SSSS.

The stuff with the kids was cringe-worthy, but Malcolm and Kilokhan were the best.

What always surprised me looking into Gridman was how faithful the plot of SSSS was to the original. It's almost like how Power Rangers is adapted today, lifting the story and setting for the adaptation.

so was Gridman successfully transferred into the world of Ultraman or no?

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/582/toytok1472.jpg

Only in terms of homage.

I'm still looking for episodes on the internet, I loved that show. I had a nice chunk of the toys!

I remember I bought the deluxe Servo and Zenon on sight, never even knowing what they were, because they looked so damn cool. Then I later bought Drago. Still have Servo and Drago, unfortunately, traded away Zenon a while back.

I remember getting up with my dad before he'd go to work and we'd sit and watch it. Pretty sure it was on sky at about 6:30/7:00 ish. My cousin also had the xenon set even though he had no clue what it was.. To this day I still envy him =p

I remember back when i was in elementary, i'd rush home to watch SSSS on YTV.
I even had quite a few of the tous.

I think I first heard about this one a year or so ago. Never seen it and don't have much desire to.

I still have one of the VHS's of this! It was the episode where the girl got her voice stolen

ive wanted to watch Gridman for years but I cant find it anywhere

I loved that show. I still have all the figures that combine somewhere in my storage, I bought them at KB for a song after the show got cancelled.

Was wondering this too, still have my plain and mega? versions of the main guy.

Used to watch it in the mornings before school.

Dug up my old mega thang version.

Forgot how jet mode hooks together.

Stickers are badly applied and peeling from age.

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SSSS was one of my favorite shows. Too bad it's hard to find nowadays.

The only really good thing about Super Human Samurai was the Gridman footage. Save for Amp, everything else was quite unbearable. After Amp left I could barely watch the show anymore. What really gets me about the show though is how it's episode count exceeds that of Gridman's. Even back then I noticed the blatent reuse of the battle footage.

I still would have liked to have seen the original footage Tsuburaya had proposed to keep the show going. Similar to the proposed redesigns Toei did for MMPR zords, they had redesigned Servo and even created hero forms for the other characters. I suppose the remolded/redeco'd Servo figure as the other characters stemmed form that.

The toys were awesome though. I never owned them as a kid aside from a 5 inch servo, but had a friend who let me play with his stuff. I own Xenon and Servo now, still hoping to someday get Drago.

If anyone wants to catch up with this show:


http://www.veoh.com/list/u/Martin364

^^^ THANK YOU!!! I remember watching this show growing up. Nostalgia inbound!

Gridman footage for super human samurai show

As I mentioned over on the Gridman thread, I used to watch this after school but I would mute the sound for everything but the battle sequences and when Kilokhan was on screen. It was paired on an hour block with VR Troopers, which was more watchable.

I have a single VHS tape with two episodes (the tape is entitled "To Servo And Protect) which I got from a dollar store when I was in college. I want to say both episodes deal with the Megavirus Monster called Skorn, the one who could talk!

I remember reading about this series in the Kaiju Review, an old kaiju fanzine I used to get (and actually wrote an article for!), and originally during development the show was going to be called "Powerboy," and the producers had planned a huge marketing scheme to promote the show. By the time it premiered, the name had changed to cash in on an MMPR sort of vibe, but it never really caught on. Of course, had it caught on, they would have been in trouble because they would have run out of footage and not really had much options for an upgrade due to the unique nature of Gridman!

They DID run out of footage though.


Gridman had 39 episodes; Syber-Squad had FIFTY-THREE.

Producers essentially used every battle scene twice.

Oh I know; I meant that if they went to a second season it would not really be feasible to do that AGAIN.