Ode To The MASER TANK | VINTAGE HENSHIN 

Sorry for the wait on this one, Computer Boys and Girls, but here we are! Also a note to watch after the credits for a special sneak peek of the future!

GOSH THAT OPENING SHOT REALLY IS SOMETHING. MUST HAVE BEEN ASSEMBLED BY A TRUE ADONIS OF FILMMAKING.

Fun fact, modern science may make maser weapons relevant again in Godzilla movies, allow me to educate you all: Simply put, maser weapons always looked less like a purebred microwave laser, and more like an electrolaser, the microwave laser ionizes the air creating a path which an electric current can be fired down. This is real experimental technology being tested for long range taser weapons, but magnify the concept by several hundred times and the end result would look a lot like a maser tank firing. On another note, my favorite maser tank is still the upgraded type 90 "hypermaser" from tokyo sos, they actually looked somewhat realistic in appearance, and they had the best beam effect. A pity they only made Godzilla angrier.

"IT WAS A COMBINER!!" That was my favorite part, it's just perfect how the music plays right after and how you hyped me up for one of the most forgettable Godzilla characters

Great video. I think the view the Maser tank will never return is ultimately somewhat jaded. There will be a time and place for them again in the future, when they feel fresh and unused. I'm sure of it. But that aside, hearing the history of this famous kaiju and scifi weapon was wonderful. You knocked it out of the park.

While I personally prefer mecha and robots over tanks, jets, and space ships, I always appreciate it when regular human forces are given some sort of fighting chance in the battle against monsters and aliens even if that chance turns out to be very small.

How do you only have 7k subs with production quality like this? This is on the level of professional documentaries!

Well colour me floored Mike. That was simply incredible and well worth the wait. An utterly beautiful retrospective with some excellent choices of music throughout. The cut to G98 left me laughing for a while that I had to pause the video before continuing. Bravo sir.

29:22 "YOU COULDN'T GIVE US MASER TANKS INSTEAD OF THE GODDAMN FLYING ROOM-" LMFAO.

Pinnacle of your expertise!!

Very well presented. Also interesting stuff to see as someone who started out in this industry (SFX, VFX) in the early 80s as a model builder and matte painter. It seems the Japanese model makers working on these movies never managed to make their vehicle models non-wobbly, but maybe that was a budgetary issue. We used to build all our vehicles (or any moving models) on very rigid and heavy steel frames to counter the dreaded wobble that is so prominent even when filmed at 60-90 frames per second.

Hands down. One of my favourite videos of the year. And especially worth the wait on this one. You did so well with this retrospective, every single peice of information has got me super intrigued.

THIS is a master work in editing and production. Well done! One of my favorite pieces of Toho tech! Makes me realize I am obsessed with the dish-based weaponry of the kaiju eiga.

Beautiful work Mike! I know I said before that I was proud of you for having finished this before, but I'll say it again, dammit. I'm proud of you and the work you're doing..

Long live to the maser tanks!

Never. Trust. Dolphins.

Wow - really chuffed to have this appear in my recommendations! I've always loved these and wished the kits and toys were more widely available outside of Japan (at prices cheaper than a kidney!!!). 😊

Thank you for making this. Masers do not get enough love.

I love the maser tanks I'm glad someone finally made a video like this!

13:16 The stock footage of the Sherman tanks did not come from the Mysterious, it's the first time in a Godzilla or any Kaiju film that they were shown in

Man, the name "Loserdisc" would have been tragically fitting

In the star wars clone wars series there is an episode called the Zillobeast and in part one, the beast is attacked by vehicles operated by storm troopers that strangely resemble maser tanks, also in star wars the bad batch a star ship is deployed that has a ray gun equipped to it that looks too much like the type 66 maser tank dish that is used on a new zillobeast.

Toho's original "Proton Pack"

Again, I was hoping we would have mazer tanks when I was a kid. Not knwing that with it, we probably have real kaiju to go with them. Or worse, the government deciding that civil rights protesters were the "new enemy" and got busy "mazering" citizens.

I'm hurt I missed out on this video when it first came out. One of my absolute favorite channels; can't wait until you make one of these incredible documentaries about Kamen Rider!

MOST EXCELLENT.

HOW IS THIS SO HIGH QUALITY WTF?!?!?!

damn fine work

Finally!!!

awesome video ty 👍

I am So Glad this was released! I waited for so long since the teaser!

Absolutely loved this video! The storytelling and editing is *chef's kiss*

What a crazy good video!!! Excellent job!

This review had me hyped up for MOGERA more than its actual appearance in "Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla". The maser was always an afterthought in my mind as a kid watching these movies, and I appreciate being shown the real-world creative genius that went behind their conception and creation. Great video as always.

THAT WAS AMAZING!!! Entirely worth the wait, and immensely enjoyable. Great work Mike, Xenofauna and everyone else involved!!! It's so goof to have folks like you shining light, or maser beams 😉 on the topics no one else was bound to cover, this might be my new favorite video from ya! Oooooh ans you just had to get me with that preview for the next episode, cannot wait!!!

This video was great! It was very interesting to listen to something that while always in the background was actually an important part of the identity of Kaiju films. I love Maser weapons and I think you summarized why I do at the end very well!

Excellent mini- documentary. You research is comprehensive and its presentation is informative and entertaining. Thanks!

Always more about Kaiju and Tokusatsu thanks to your Awesome Channel 😎

Great video on a topic I thought was too obscure for someone to bother. Learned a lot. Who knows, with these new Toho suit shorts on youtube, maybe someone will break them out!

As an old R5 Central enjoyer from back in the day, I'm _so_ glad I found this channel. Keep being you, Mike. And yes, that familiar voice at the end made me squeal a little. :3

GOD I love the maser tank.

Oh hell yeah

Still today, the M66 maser tank is such an impressive movie weapon!

i rarely say this but this channel definitely deserve more subscribers and views.

makes me want a combiner robot in GXK

9/10 times, hi-tech tanks and jets do nothing against kaiju. Giant robots might have more risk involved, but they're far more effective.

Ah Maser tanks the best of the best. Also i think your forgot the maser tank in EDF 5.

Best videos in the tokudom

What are these soundtracks? They’re always pretty good.

Very awesome video! I find the maser tank to be a fascinating weapon! Also does any know the music playing at 20:34?

27:10 was it? I dont think so. Gotengo sported not only quiet the aray of maser weapons, NO, it took down at least 2 monsters that we know of with them AND waged the battle that the maser weapons where designed to do in the first place : ANTI AIR. Final War was the best sendoff for that weapon they could have. Shin Gojira obviously only showed the weakness in bureaucracy AND the new Type 10 tanks to their fullest and Minus one was OBVIOUSLY to early to feature extended weaponry. Dont worry, it will get a sequel so we can hope they make a time skip to the 70's or 80's with it where a maser tank could actualy fit in. They now basicaly at the end of the movie (SPOILER!!!) did create Gforce after basicaly STEALING 4 Destroyer that where ment for allied nation's (3 of them) and one was to be send to human scum (also called russia). Only 2 survived shure (Yuukikaze and Hibiki) but their basicaly now the main assets of the Gforce. There is just no way they didnt get that this thing was regenerating at the end even after "dieing" for good. Also they need to add the Super X3 theme next time for what might become the first ever ON SCREEN MOVIE adaption of Ace Combats Shinden II design. They now have a perfect oportunity to go that way especiel after HYPING the Shinden, aka the J7W1 at the end. And i was both smiling and crying that the BEST they ever created made its FIRST on screen apearence AND they have one build again now to display (weeeeeeeel... there where 2 DD's that they shoot deckshots and all with and they where completly IJN and had their distinctive look for them close ups, same as for Takao sooooo...... they already build 30% of Yamato for a movie, building 2 DD's and parts of Takao would be a piece of cake for them XD) So basicaly : Goji minus one sequel HYPE! As if they dont add more army scenes and maybe maser canons again (after Re:Zero already did use them XD(Right big whale fight as climactic finish of season 1?XD). Also their a standart part of EDF's main weapon arsenal so their not lost, their just in other capable hands now XD

The maser tank was never meant to go against Godzilla. It should have existed in the non Godzilla Kailua eiga

"Outlandish depictions of the future..." Hey, now, don't go dissing my childhood. One of the books I learned to read on was Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober. I assure you, none of this stuff is that far out when you were raised on a steady diet of ultrasonic cycloplanes, polar-ray dynosospheres and repelatron skyways. The future is vastly disappointing. Still not a triphibian atomicar in sight. 8:20 You'd have known all of that if you'd read Tom Swift Jr. as a kid. Just saying. :)

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your use of Japanese music is astounding