Help preserve the tokusatsu industry
 

A very interesting,short read.

http://www.jefusion.com/2013/05/evan...-industry.html

The stuff about no proper storage facility for Toku props saddens me. I'd hate to think we'd lose iconic suits and props because there's no so much as a warehouse for the important stuff. :(

Yeah; at the very least you'd think that they'd have some sort of museum/archive for all these props/outfits.

I remember long time ago some Japanese toku fansite posted pics of the SideZaurer III(Triceraranger and Pteraranger's motorcycle) buried in junk and garbage in a random neighborhood at that.... and thought the exact same thing. But really, they should have these preserved if possible.

Sometimes it's a matter of space.
Toei has to order/create dozens of custom motorcycles in the span of 5 years, for example.
If you had a museum with a limited amount of space, which would be the more important display? The Zyurangers' suits, or their motorcycles?

I would say the suits, who honestly remembers and/or cares about the bikes?

I can see them selling those bikes.

Show props are sometimes put to auction (Not sure if Toei does it, but I have seen other production companies do so), but I don't think they'd sell the bikes.

It sucks that sometimes things get thrown away, but storing something like a character's motorcycle just takes up space for a prop they know they'll never reuse, outside of possibly the crossover movie.

I can understand the bikes that were used a lot in the show, but other bikes like Fourze's are just a waste of space. Plus, the suits are more unique than most Rider bikes.

Yeah. It really does seem like Kamen Rider has been putting less and less prominence on the Riders' actual bikes, to the point that I don't even know the name of Wizard's bike :lol