And on to our next favorite. Do you have a favorite Galactor mecha? I would have to say that I love the Murder Music mecha. It was so great to see those pipe-organ parts on it! And the episode was hysterical!

I like that one. It actually leans so far into cheesy and uncool that it goes all the way round and becomes good.

My sons would make me say the one from Peril of the Preying mantis... gotta love those little planes which keep running out of fuel!

I like the Devil Star or the jellyfishes that seperated and combined in episode 67.

The neon giant. For some reason, it's the only mecha I can remember vividly as a kid watching BotP. It must have made an impression on me. Or maybe it was the creepy flute music that controlled it. Alternately, I also like Matangar. I liked that Joe could destroy it with one awesome shot. Nice!

[unrecoverable text]

LOL, Marie! I never thought of that head being like Darth Vader! Huh... that's too funny! And you've got to give cheers for something that can destroy the awful Gatcharooster!

Originally posted by nuni The neon giant. For some reason, it's the only mecha I can remember vividly as a kid watching BotP. It must have made an impression on me.

I think the mechas that have somewhat "human" shapes are often the most disturbing (or ludicrous!). The mummy from ep. 3 is disturbing (would have frightened me as a little kid!) But I have to laugh at ep.25's giant lava Jesus. Or the giant killer Buddha. I also like the scorpion that goes to the moon, eats rocks and then... expels them in the direction of Earth as meteors -that's creative! No surprise it's in ep. 9, the same ep that brought us Captain Plungerhead. But I also like the cockroach mecha from ep. 12, Ibukron, only because of all the craziness that ensues when Ken, Joe and Ryu infiltrate it and nearly get ground up, flattened, boiled, centrifuged etc.

Originally posted by Transmute Jun And you've got to give cheers for something that can destroy the awful Gatcharooster!

That's it! ... that would well be the main reason, which I have, so stupidly, forgotten to mention, why I had to choose that mecha! I knew the idea was somewhere in my mind! High five, TJ!

There's a special place in my heart for the "Super BEM Synthetic Iron Beast" zombie monstermech in ep. #65. Galactor uses a dead guy's brain to animate a standard 30-meter bipedal mech, an idea that comes right out of a Roger Corman script and is pulled off by recently-hired Miskatonic University graduates. The end result is a towering Frankenstein "bug-eyed monster" (hence its name- get it?) mech dripping green goo and grossing everyone out everywhere it goes. The mech ends up being roasted in mid-air by the Hi no Tori, leading to the creation of the world's largest Superfund cleanup site at its point of impact. For sheer ugliness and probable post-incident repercussions, Super BEM gets my vote.

Good choice -that BEM was definitely a unique (and disturbing) mecha! Lucky Science Ninjas though -they never seem to have to do the post-mission clean ups. They get to fly off into the sunset...

Now there's a business opportunity - cleaning up after Galactor attacks. Get some construction, waste-disposal, and other sorts of contractors together into an organization to help sort things out after the battle is over. They could branch out into reconstruction work after natural disasters, as well.

I suspect ISO would already have the clean up covered since they would want to examine the mecha remains and analyze them. At least I would want to, to see what changes and adaptations were made so I could have my troops (the team) make changes to their techniques as well.

Maybe Galactor both makes the mecha and owns the cleanup company. That way they can recoup their losses....

That is a good thought as well TJ. That way Galactor could also guarantee that ISO could not get their hands on any of their technology to analyze it. Now I see a battle between the ISO clean up crews and the Galactor ones each racing to be the first to get to the damage site where the Mecha went down.

I think it's just the goofy name, but 'Thundersaurus' appeals to me. You do realize that the name is just 'Thunder Lizard.' Which, in full Greek, is Brontosaurus. I wonder if ADV intended this joke. Besides, it's called 'Thundersaurus' and looks rather like a lamprey. (Just how plausible is the weapon in that mecha, anyway?)

No favorite as such, but Super BEM Synthetic Iron Beast was the most memorable for me. Those tentacles, and the fact that the 'head' was originally organic (mutant or alien). Very unusual, and very freaky. (So that would make the eventual result some sort of... cyborg, I think?) The episode is also memorable that the higher-ups knew Galactor/Spectra was after the 'body', and that for once they had a bloody big creature-mech to come get it. But the team are inside the building, instead of outside waiting to shoot the 'head' down!

The scorpion mecha was pretty cool, but I like the cobra snake mecha on episode 101 It look like a James bond episode!!

I forgot!!!....the speaker mecha! with the demon 5 That one was awesome! they should remak that episode with Metallica music! hahhahahah!

It's been a while since this thread was done, so I thought I'd bring it back up. I always loved the Neon Giant, but often wondered how, with it being so brightly lit up, someone hadn't noticed it and gotten pictures.

Originally posted by Becky Rock I always loved the Neon Giant, but often wondered how, with it being so brightly lit up, someone hadn't noticed it and gotten pictures.

Well....maybe a lot of Godzilla flicks were filmed in that area, so the people in that area thought it was just another ordinary day (or night) of filming!

Actually, most of the mechs made to look like animals didn't look very realistic except for the beetles - which I thought when I saw the episode, was a roach.

I can't believe I never put my 2 cents into this thread! I have a tie between Lava Jesus, Neon Giant and the mummy from episode 3. All of them were so disturbing- definitely nightmare fuel!

I always thought the Lava Giant went a little too far, but they did hit on other religions as well with some of the mechs.

Originally posted by Becky Rock I always thought the Lava Giant went a little too far, but they did hit on other religions as well with some of the mechs.

Yeah....if my mom had realized that the Lava Giant's head was a Jesus carving, BotP would've been completely banned from the house!

Hola TJ! Seems that I'm a bit late for this post but anyway, here it's my answer to you: Definitely, will be the mummy from episode 3, why? Because it's the one I clearly remember and also, that was one of the episodes I had in a boom from the series. Also, it was scary to reveal what was behind the bandages jeje Hope you are doing well! Hugs

Adrian, I agree with you about the mummy. Once the bandages came off, it looked like a demon.

I think my favourite mecha has to be the chess piece formed by the three blackbirds stacked on top of each other in ep 85, for no other reason than it was so implausible! Patogila from ep 87 too, for much the same reason.

Originally posted by Becky Rock Adrian, I agree with you about the mummy. Once the bandages came off, it looked like a demon.

Indeed Becky! As I was only 9-10, I remember being scared at night! But when I got the book, well, it didn't look as scary as I originally thought

There are so many neat mechas! The Turtle King , Kamisoral.... But my favorite are the Manta Ray Mechas from "The God Phoenix Reborn" Ep # 26 .