Additionally, in old school anime, they only put them into scenes when they really needed them, and only made them move when they really, really needed it. It’s easier to toss some mediocre 3d models into a scene. So we get weird, unnecessary vehicles more often. Also weird horses. So many weird horses.

Is Tekkaman technically mecha? It’s armor, not a big robot like Gundam/Macross/Patlabor/Zeorymer/Escaflone