Say hello to Kamen Rider, from the successful 70’s Japanese TV franchise of the same name. This build is the work of Japanese pop-culture aficionado Moko. If it looks strangely familiar, that may be because Kamen Rider was the inspiration for a certain 90’s American knock-off called the Power Rangers (which, confusingly, spawned a spin-off called Masked Rider that aped the original show).
I love this piece not only because of its perfectly proportioned stud-less design, but because it’s just the latest in a long line of explorations of the masked rider by this builder, going back as far as 2006. Though with this latest interpretation, I think it’s fair to say he’s finally nailed it!
The power rangers werent actually inspired by kamen rider but instead adapted footage from the super sentai series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dry%C5%AB_Sentai_Zyuranger). Masked rider is adpated from footage of kamen rider and the small green and black rider in the middle is called kamen rider w (pronounced double, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen_Rider_W). Just thought youd like to know