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Armor Time! - A Kamen Rider Zi-O Toy Thread
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03-21-2019, 06:04 PM
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Tokumonkey
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I've been picking up the SODO Zi-O stuff, and looking at all the forms, it occurs to me that the Armor Time for early Heisei stage two Riders got way more unique and interesting designs than the rest of the forms. Most of the Armor Time sets follow the theme from the early retail releases, so the suits are essentially same armor except for the chest, shoulders, and upper thighs, presumably to support the retail gimmick of both Zi-O and Geiz using the forms.
Decade, OOO, Fourze, Wizard, and Gaim are all way more interesting, abandoning the generic silver/black armor. Even W abandons the armor conceit; the lower body is just standard Zi-O. They aren't reversible presumably because the retail figures didn't allow for it. I'm curious why these specific Riders got unique designs, but the rest of the Riders follow the same semi-generic format.
The other thing that intrigues me is that so much is clearly based on the retail action figure line, which seems to have mostly abandoned Armor Time. If we ever see Wizard or Gaim, I imagine they'll be Premium Bandai.
I'm reminded of Build. Bandai designed a zillion "Best Match" forms - I seriously lost count, and SODO could barely keep up - and while most of them made their way to the show, the BCS line gave up on them.
I keep hoping that Bandai will scale back the alternate forms, since they have such a direct impact on the related show. I suppose if they did that, though, they wouldn't be able to sell as many transformation widgets.
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