In case anyone wanted something a little less well-known to give a watch, Big Nova Subs are currently subbing Kyodai Ken Bycrosser (or Byclosser if you'd prefer)

YES! This is fantastic news. Byclosser is a classic. It's not great but it's fun & weird. Always loved their designs and the vintage toys are some of the best but also very expensive.

Always down for lesser known Toku shows.

I've seen some of the Bycrosser toys and thought they looked cool and... that's literally the only thing I know about Bycrosser. I'll check the show out!

Toy toys generally fetch hefty prices. Their value is the only thing keeping me from buying them. They're wonderfully designed toys but just so expensive.

Do they show up on Mandrake or are they still expensive even on there?

In reality they're just mostly impossible to find. At least the sets I want. You can find the role play sets affordably on occasion but there are 3 releases in particular I've wanted for years.

1st there's the smaller scale (listed as DX Chogokin) Blazer Cannon/Ken Roader set. Which is itself a pretty cool small scale rendition of the finisher the duo uses in the show. The figure it comes with is about 4" tall. The 2nd is a larger essentially true DX scaled up version of this set in roughly 6" scale with a much more functional Blazer Cannon/Ken Roader. The small set alone sells for 20,000+ yen. I've only ever seen the larger scale set for sale perhaps once and for a lot more than that.

There are actually a couple of larger vehicles that I believe were cancelled as I've never ever seen them for sale.

What's a Byclosser?

Did the toys sell poorly or the show do poorly is that why they were cancelled?

The show ran for a mere 34 episodes, less than a year. It just didn't sustain an audience as I understand it.

From the late 70's through the mid 80's Toei was more or less willing to try just about anything Ishinimori wanted to do on television. Which resulted in things like Byclosser, Machineman, Akumaizer 3, Choujin Bibyun, Uchuu Tetsujin Kyodyne, and others. One off shows with some retail toy support that ultimately never really had fully realized toylines because of their short runs.