[DecoyBlackMage]

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Originally Posted by Black Fang

If this was any other show, I wouldn't make mention of it. But Build had a lot of bike action in the first quarter of the show, including with Ryuga. I'm wondering if the lack of bike usage now is because of funds going to film the Amazons movie. Perhaps once that is done we'll see the bike again. Or if not, then the Build movie may at least have one bike scene.

This still doesn't explain why Grease and Rogue lack bikes, not even copies of the BuildPhone or "civvie" bikes.

I doubt the budget for the Amazons movie is why the bike action has lowered.

My reasoning here is that budget meetings, contracts etc. Are usually decided a year or two before most of the shows start full production, now I have no idea how they have set up the budget for Build itself, it could be a total amount for the entire season, or every 3 months etc, like most studios they likely have a ton of Rider season ideas and potential budgets planned if they decide to go for this or that, any creative branch will have a TOOOOON of stuff they might never end up doing but setting up potential budgets for them is very likely, some of this stuff can take years of planning, most of which never happen, but they still have to get budgets and contracts ready just in case.

We also have to take in mind the permits they have to deal with in order to even do the bike scenes, they might not have the option to do certain things until certain dates due to legal reasons etc.

Their studio personal sets they can use for the stunt works are also likely not available for the team doing Build all the time either, there are other shows they are working on at the same time at the same locations and so on.

Now budgets are not always locked either, most studios tend to either agree on lowering a budget or increase it depending on various factors, so it gets more complicated.

It is clear that various things can strain a budget, shit happens etc. With shows like these that are running the entire year, we are going to get weeks where they literally could not afford to do what they originally planned so you end up with VERY cheap looking episodes now and then, suddenly they ended up having to spend more money then planned and due to that the next weeks episode has to cut and gut itself and you end up with shoestring budget weeks XD