Thursday, November 16, 2006
A Blast from the Past
If you've seen and read my report of the Osaka Super Chara Dome event earlier this year, here's something interesting I stumbled across recently: a play-by-play of the same stage show back when Kamen Rider Faiz was on. Riders appearing included Faiz, Kaixa, Delta, Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, Knight, Zolda, and Ouja, as well as two stage-show originals, "Dark Rider" and "Dark Slasher", who may look vaguely familiar. There's also a bunch of recycled villains, and a new one who turns into the requsite "giant puppet thingy" that all the big stage shows seem to have at the end. Pretty neat, but be advised, there's a lot of pictures, so if you're on a slower connection it might take a while.
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Hmm i've seen the phtos. is... is.. aaaah1 I want to watch in person this show1 Ans mandora boy too1 (is one of mi favorites from Magiranger, along with Smokey and houka-chan!)
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I didn't realize that you had a link embedded till I moused over the article looking for one :P Time for a quick CSS checkup!
ReplyDeleteThose original Riders were quite...bad looking. I wonder if they were throw-away designs when they were working on the TV show.
I really wanted to go to the convention in Osaka, but I had already bought my return ticket so I couldn't make a detour. Ah! A shame, since I wanted to see some Kabuto madness, but oh well.
Yeah, those stage show-only riders/monsters are usually pretty low-end; they're mostly made up of bits and piece of old costumes rearranged. They sure get a lot of mileage out of the old Grongi costumes!
ReplyDeleteSince they're designed to only be seen a couple times in a stage show, and probably get killed off at the end, they sort of fall into their own funny little sub-group that defies logic/continuity. Like when Ryuki was on, the stage shows had special made-up Riders before all 13 were revealed, etc. I know that when Faiz was running, there was an evil, male Kamen Rider Sigma, which should be pretty funny if you've looked around on my site enough. (^_^)