Monday, September 23, 2024

Big Drawer

Big Drawer (Super Giant Heavy Industrial Machine) - Dekaranger, EP 18 "Samurai Go West" Japan 6/13/2004

Marato (The Robot God) - Power Rangers SPD, EP 18 "Samurai" US 6/11/2005

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The kaiju gimmick for 2004's Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger were the Heavy Industrial Machines: giant battle robots piloted by the show's various alien criminals in place of the usual method of growing Godzilla-size themselves, minus a handful of exceptions. The Heavy Industrial Machines were often distributed by Agent Abrella, a bat-like Rainian arms merchant and the closest thing to a main overarching villain within Dekaranger.



One of the more unique and clunkier robots was Big Drawer, a bigger-than-average Heavy Industrial Machine that could teleport away structures and people with a blue-green light ray, housing the captured inside energy spheres and further placed within its many drawers for safe imprisonment. Big Drawer was also armed with multiple flare-like missiles from the center drawer located in its center.

The pilot of Big Drawer was a blue-colored Batsuroid, one of the many middle-grade robot foot soldiers also sold by Agent Abrella throughout the series' run.

There was a white and gold Big Drawer II who showed up in episode 44 but I couldn't find any good screen-captures of that model so we'll save him for a later date (maybe) though you can see it in the concept art alongside its predecessor.

Big Drawer was later adapted into Power Rangers SPD with an admittedly cooler sounding name of Marato, The Robot God though this title ended up being just salesman ballyhoo from Broodwing, the equally greedy American adaptation of Agent Abrella.









RELATED LINK: Power Rangers SPD - Samurai (official episode upload).

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