Talk:Robo-Yeti/@comment-23896133-20140317172638/@comment-998602-20151015225110

It's probably a homage to it. A good number of the kaiju in the animated series were homages to Toho's kaiju.

For example, Cyber-Zilla is a homage to MechaGodzilla. However, in a unique twist, it may have inspired Kiryu. See here: http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Cyber-Zilla#Trivia