I think Zi-O will be similar to Gokaiger, some episode are focused to tribute for past Rider series, some episode are non-tribute episodes.....

Non-tributes episode will be more focused to Zi-O himself and other Zi-O Riders like Gate, or just filler episodes....

Gokaiger had the releases staggered though. So we would get fillers and tribute episodes between new toy releases. If Zi-O is anything like Build, we are going to be seeing a new Rider Armor almost every week. That's too fast. Unless they gain the RideWatch first and then go back to do a tribute episode later in the season. I mean it's possible.

I honestly don't expect this show to last past April, when the abdication is supposed to happen. Toei has probably planned around the era change.

Bit sad about the OOO armour being based on easily Eiji's worst form. Blech. Gimme some Tajador.

But who cares because ZI-O GETS A GUNDAM

Lets hope Decade's actor appears when the Decade Ride Watch comes into play.

There has been a persistent rumor that Zi-O will be a short series & end in April- meaning the last Heisei Rider will conclude WITH the Heisei Era & the Emperors' abdication.

Front-loading the first round of merchandise with all Heisei Riders might support this...

I continue to love everything about this show. I mean damn they are going full force here and killing it! Loving the Rider Kicks stuff, and that Time Majin will 100% be joining my collection. Frankly half this line will be.

From the looks of it, the pieces with yellow or gold trimmings on them access Rider forms based on final forms. Kiva's looks like Emperor and OOO is hands down Super TaToBa (Which I guess also kinda...confirms once and for all what his final form is.)

If that's the case, it supports the fact that the Drive form looks like Type Tridoron and not Type Speed.

Is it just me or are zi-o's best forms so far are the decade, ooos, and fourze forms he takes on?

Every year I tell myself I won't buy the toys. Every year I'm wrong. This is the first year since Fourze I have preemptively decided I'm going all in. I'm scared, save me.

Rider G-O and the call the the toyline "rider kicks".

Toei's having way too much fun with this. Hope it translates well to the show as equally fun.

Glad to see the shoulders are a bit more toned down than previous art made it seem. Those seem much more manageable, and still cool looking.

Though, uh, that entire arm device with power up armors +the robo that can alternate how it looks, seems oddly familiar... In a good way.

Compare it more to Decade on episode spacing then. Gokai had a longer time frame to space things out, whereas Decade had to cram minimum 9 rider series into 30+ episodes. So this looks similar with covering 19 series within that same rough episode count. Doable, but a brisk pace, and will likely setup something for later too or have some kind of massive movie thing like Decade did and extra specials.

So the Decade to W transition is a better thing to compare/analyze than the Gokai specials, though seemingly this might have some nods to Sentai in it. Seems rather perfect now that this rider has a robo. Like the enemy Robo in some of the other Rider spinoff specials/vs movies. Now it won't be only J with a giant decade driver.