>(He's basically good-hearted, but he'd like to smash that kid against
>a rock!)
>
>So anyway, Peter Eng said,
>
>>Now I'm imagining a horrid cross between Jet Alone, Jet Jaguar, and
>>Pacific Rim's Jaegers.
>
>Fun fact: Jet Alone is a reference to the original creation that
>became Jet Jaguar.

I was wondering about that when I posted, but I didn't feel like doing the research.

> Before someone at Toho decided to make it a
>Godzilla movie, the film that became 1976's Godzilla vs.
>Megalon was planned as a tokusatsu film, the design of the
>star of which was to be decided by a fan competition. The winning
>entry was submitted by an elementary school student, who envisioned a
>robot hero called Red Alone.
>
>Somewhere along the development process, the Red Alone movie became
>the latest in the Godzilla series...
>

*throws lemons at the meddling executives*

> ...and Red Alone himself was relegated
>to the big boss's grinning sidekick, Jet Jaguar. 20ish years later,
>when the Gainax gang were looking for a Sad Robot for that one episode
>of Neon Genesis Evangelion, someone thought of that little bit
>of Japanese cinema history, and Jet Alone (with his distinctive red
>markings) was born.
>

Interesting!

Peter Eng
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