Mecha in Masked Rider?

[MaxSonic]

Okay, so Masked Rider has been around since 1971, and he's gone through a lot of changes. But in the last two Rider series, Den O and Kiva, they've added something new: Mecha. Den O had the Denliner which would transform to fight Giant monsters, and Kiva has a castle that turns into a dragon. Now I just want to here your opinions on this, because I'm not liking it. I've seen a few battles in Den O, and the Denliner VS random giant monster fights seem very dull and straightforward. It's not that I don't like mecha, it's just it doesn't seem like Masked Rider. The series has always focused on the powers of the Rider, and I think that it should stay that way. I'd like to see more use of bikes in the newer series. I love the motorcycle combat scenes in the Masked Rider First/Next movies. So what do you guys think about all this?

 

[Dagger Lee]

Toei just added those mecha in to raise up toy sales most likely. The more shown, the more toys made, thus more money made. It is a bother to me but I tend to get over it quickly.

 

[CaptainB_Money]

This topic reminds me of all the Complainers in 2007 who whined about Den-O.

 

[The 2nd Evil]

The straight forward-ness of the battles is really my only complaint about them.

 

[Vash the Stampede]

People act like KR has never done the Mecha thing before. Remember Autovajin?

 

[CaptainB_Money]

People act like KR has never done the Mecha thing before. Remember Autovajin?

/End thread

we have a winner.

 

[Undrave]

I thought the Den-o Gigandeath battles were neat! Castle Doran sucks though.

 

[Ladymercury]

I guess no one bothered to watch Faiz.

 

[MattComix]

Okay, so Masked Rider has been around since 1971, and he's gone through a lot of changes. But in the last two Rider series, Den O and Kiva, they've added something new: Mecha. Den O had the Denliner which would transform to fight Giant monsters, and Kiva has a castle that turns into a dragon. Now I just want to here your opinions on this, because I'm not liking it. I've seen a few battles in Den O, and the Denliner VS random giant monster fights seem very dull and straightforward. It's not that I don't like mecha, it's just it doesn't seem like Masked Rider. The series has always focused on the powers of the Rider, and I think that it should stay that way. I'd like to see more use of bikes in the newer series. I love the motorcycle combat scenes in the Masked Rider First/Next movies. So what do you guys think about all this?

I couldn't agree more. Having huge mecha like that in there is an extremely incongruous thing for a Kamen Rider show and is just very blatant, dumb, and obnoxious Bandai gimmickery. I mean, even with something like Auto-Vajin in Faiz you're already pushing it but at least then it's the Rider's bike so you're having it as a function of a very key element in the identity of the Kamen Rider series.

 

[KAGEKI]

I think that they wanted capitalize on the reasonbly-good toy sales of Super Sentai mechas. I guess they wanted to get in with that trend.......