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So now we come to two Toku traditions being incorporated that OG Gridman was guilty of.

First is the reused monster, which is something Tsuburaya is more prone to than Toei (they even reuse monsters across series), and something the OG Gridman did out of necessity, since their budget only stretched to 19 suits, 5 of which were given over to hero suits and 1 to the main villain. So after 13 episodes, there’s quite a lot of slapped on armour parts to make “Mecha” variants, before moving on to cannibalising the suits for the final third.

And then there’s the big mecha combination. OG Gridman had two, and given the specific homages at play here, this is a homage to the first of those two, Combined Superman Thunder Gridman. No I have no idea where they got “Full Power” for the name of this one (it’s not a Syber Squad reference, since the combination there was called “Phorno”, for reasons I am equally unclear of).

Also, Borr’s drills finally do something.