[KaiserBlue]

All animatronics are controlled. Thats not even in question. The fact of the matter is that animatronics are far pricier and unwieldy than hiring a guy in a stunt suit. Animatronics are also very delicate and slow, plus breakdown easily. Toei uses stuntmen in suits bc its cheap and easy to direct the stuntmen. All pr productions have reused the japanese mecha footage. For original footage they either had the mecha suits shipped over and filmed those few scenes or had toei do it. Hasbro has sort of avoided filming original mecha footage entirely bc they've opted to use In-house CG models for their original mecha scenes. That is even cheaper than a stunt man and the models can be reused for other original mecha footage. I dont see the stunt men being replaced or hasbro dropping the cg anytime soon. These shows are meant to be filmed on the cheap and animatronic mecha are faaaar too problematic to replace the current production methods.