Technic Heroes is the long-running El Kadsreian tokusatsu movie franchise created and distributed by El TV Kadsre and Toei along with Ryu Hamasaki Releasing. It was planned from the late 1950s as "Heroes of EKTV" then Technic penned the name "Technic Heores" and made their first Technic Heroes film, Robotman released in 1976 and it suppose to be El TV Kadsre's belated answer to Kamen Rider; couple of years later, it became Super Sentai-themed franchise. The only popular franchise in the Technic Heroes universe was Bionicle.