Dinosaur War Izenborg (1977)

Original title

恐竜大戦争アイゼンボーグ

Genre

tokusatsu, mecha

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 39 episodes

Rated

ALL

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A team uses a super robot to fight dinosaurs and giant monsters. The show mixes live-action tokusatsu with anime segments.

retrocampyaction-packedwhimsicalnostalgicepisodiclight-hearted

What happens

Dinosaur War Izenborg (恐竜大戦争アイゼンボーグ, Kyōryū Daisensō Aizenbōgu) is a Japanese television program produced by Tsuburaya Productions. It is the second installment of the Tsuburaya Dinosaur Trilogy, which included Dinosaur Expedition Born Free and Dinosaur Corps Koseidon. It aired on TV Tokyo from October 17, 1977 to June 30, 1978, running for 39 episodes. It combined Tsuburaya's tokusatsu techniques with anime. The first four episodes were released to VHS in the United States in the form of a compilation film titled Attack of the Super Monsters. Comedy podcast RiffTrax (Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy) recorded and released a riff of Attack of the Super Monsters in 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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