Dug up my old mega thang version.

Forgot how jet mode hooks together.

Stickers are badly applied and peeling from age.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...2/DSC04375.jpg

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.