[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Locke

And mainly because the mechs are shit. Dudes on sound stages, in cardboard boxes, looked pretty naff in the early 90s, but the fact we're twenty years on and basically doing it the same is just sorta sad. I've long since given up on expecting good CGI in tokusatsu and now I simply enjoy it for what it can realise on the screen. And I'd rather bad CGI realises a proper giant battle, in a living city, than another clunky cardboard conkers match on another Gerry Anderson reject set.

I had a thought this morning. Since this robo doesn't have very human proportions, it might mean they're going to rely on a lot of CGI assistance next year. Which scares me (see: whenever they rendered the Gokai Galleon in CG), but also kinda excites me (that was 3 years ago, and Toei has gotten better at CGI, slowly but surely).

Although maybe when we see the actual mech suit -- as opposed to the toy version of it (they're never 1:1 accurate representations) -- the proportions will make more sense. It can't be easy to jam 5 long rectangular boxes into a person-shape.