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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

Definitely see where you're coming from, but the Dekaranger/Go-Busters style cockpits are my least favorite. While I dig the intricacies of the design, I mostly hate when Super Sentai producers attempt realism. They're not good at it.

Whenever they try, it takes away from the manic, surrealist fun of the genre.

That said, I agree with you on Mikazuki's cockpit. As much as I hated that first episode, I did love the Buddha cockpit.

Equally, I LOVED the design of the President's, many claptraps. Huge levers and pulleys, big classic buttons and huge, heavy looking hatches with bare, metal walls. If anything that would have probably worked great for this as well.

Would love to see two Rangers yank down on a huge, heavy lever together and seeing Tokkyu One smashing down a huge red button for the finisher.

I dunno, I've just been a firm disbeliever in toku giant stuff. I can swallow rubber monsters, and spandex wirework because for the most park it genuinely looks pretty decent, save for the onshow zip every now and then but with the giant stuff it rarely seems like they are actually trying with horrendous flimsy suits, and awful close ups that expose the miniatures and cardboard nature of the buildings that should just be avoided.

And then it just adds insult to injury when the Rangers are sat in a room that feels completely disconnected from the outside world, and you can clearly see the set beyond in their visor. At least when Go-busters cut away, we could see the fight through their cockpit window, and they had ranges of monitors and lots of buttons to keep themselves busy and connected to the action.