Go Nagai's Machine Saurer

[Liottel]

Machine Saurer was an old Magneto toy that Go Nagai designed. It eventually got taken into the Diaclone line, and it is what spawned the Dinobots. Machine Saurer is Grimlocks grand-daddy.

Later on, Nagai created a one volume manga of Machine Saurer. It's absolutely hilarious, incredibly violent, awesome to the max - aswell as extremely out of print. I spent an arm and a leg grabbing the only copy I had seen on Ebay Japan in months for a sum of money. I scanned the first chapter at really high resolution, and I've been searching for someone with the power and the will to translate it and put it online. Machine Saurer is a piece of history!!! Long live the giant cyborg dinosaur with a cockpit in its head!!

Interested?

Dig the samples: (The really big samples. 33K users, beware. And these are only half the size of the full ones.)

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~Liottel.

[Rocket Punch]

He's saying, "KYAAAAA!!!!!"

I think it translantes into "KYAAAAA!!!!" Like screaming, y'know?

[Liottel]

The original magnet toys are extremely expensive and hard to come by, but recently there was a gashapon line of lesser known Go Nagai figures. It included Machine Saurer, Devilman Lady, Groizer X, Govarion, Big Dai X, and God Mazinger.

The Machine Saurer figure was definitely the best.

Here's some pics of mine posing:

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~Liottel.

[Ginrai]

That rules, have you seen the TV commercial for the Machine Saurer toy? It's awesome, has this tokusatsu thing going on. If you want, I can rip it and upload it to my site.

[Liottel]

That would be great Ginrai, if it's not that much of a problem.

Machine Saurer is one of my favorite Go Nagai creations. It's just so absurd!!!

In those last 4 panels... Machine Saurer has been flown into the air by an enemy monster, and then dropped. Saurer has no wings, so he'll plummet to the earth and die. So, the Saurer Base people launch the new weapon - a cyborg pterodactyll!!! The pterodactyl splits apart, attaches to Saurers shoulders and back, and becomes Saurers wings! Just like the Jet Scrander from Mazinger!

Later on theres even a Boss character, who drives a really crappy pathetic cyborg Triceratops and tries to compete with Saurer, haha.

I really like it.

~Liottel.