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Originally Posted by Powerman293

That sounds far better than Kamen Rider's usual setting which is just "the city" (unless its Hibiki). Rider usually doesn't have that creative of a setting, I assume because it costs more money to distinctly set it up rather than just fliming at random spots around Tokyo, and wouldn't be worth the money to maintain across a series. Movies can do it because they are much shorter self contained experiences.

That's the thing. They did more stuff in the city in the second half of Hibiki because always filming in the mountains was flippin' expensive. Getting the equipment alone out there must have been a pain in the butt.

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Originally Posted by MarsHottentot

If only they were random!
I'm guessing Toei have every bit of Rider and Sentai budgeted to be as cheap as humanly possible and having your locales remain generally the same every year (mostly unchanged since Kuuga!) cuts down on fees for not only licensing space, but for paying the scouts to find said spaces.

Kuuga had no money because it was rather experimental and the brand had been on hold for a while though, so they didn't even change them for Kuuga. Most locations were Toei's standard places as well there. You still see a ton of locations they use now in Showa series shows, both Rider and Sentai.
The thing is, they're filming in Tokyo. Over a million people live there and the population density is 6,224.66/km2 (Metropolis). That's not even counting how many tourist run around there everyday, which is why Toei can only film their shows in public places very early in the morning or late at night (at best), because reserving certain spaces is pretty difficult (and most likely expensive). They do film a lot in their own studios, but of course you need more locations than that, so they have to rely on those public places.
The thing is, the budget for kids shows is relatively limited and they have more to spend money on than just locations, so of course that would be one of the points where they would try and save money. CGI is expensive as hell too and the props and costumes, especially the stuff used for stunts also needs to be replaced from time to time.