Same. I remember one time during elementary school this kid brought an x-men action figure to school and the dude was basically a human upper body fused to a tank. We could not stop laughing the second we saw it. It was horrid but we thought it was badass despite thinking it was hilarious.

Here's a Facebook meme page I found that seems interesting. If only because of the admin's attitude.

https://www.facebook.com/TypeTridoron/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED

What if we have a KR transformation based on Magnadramon design ?

Then they would've officially run out of proper ideas.

Joking aside, I don't see why they should take a fuzzy pink dragon-goat monster from another franchise as inspiration.

A Chinese dragon theme could someday happen, maybe, but it would look nothing like Magnadramon.

Who you talk about ?

Um... They're talking about Magnadramon.
http://img06.deviantart.net/699e/i/2...le-d6qu71r.png

The digimon you asked about

Maybe he meant Magnamon? :lol

That's right, it was him i was talk about.

In that case, what's special about his design a Kamen Rider design could use? Golden armor?

There are plenty of forms with golden armor already.

Orphanimom replaced it.

Question.
Does Shin deserve a proper ending? Yay or nay?
I vote yay.

Definitely yay. Forget Decade, it's Shin that has no ending.

I vote nay. Now a Kamen Rider Fetus movie, I'd watch that.

Does anyone know when episode 2 of Kamen Rider Snipe's special comes out?

That Snipe's special is bundled with Ex-Aid's Blu-Ray collection and IIRC, it will be released in late July to middle August.

Thanks!

I think Ryuki is already follow concept.

I'm watching Kabuto right now and I so love how the riders mostly use kicks and punches compare to weapons used today.
Anybody else wish they could go back to kicking and punching style for kamen rider?

Oh lord, yes. Ex-Aid has been a little bit better in this regard, but the fight choreography in recent shows has been pretty lackluster. Most fights in Ghost were just dudes standing around throwing CGI at each other.

Eh, Gaim, Drive and Wizard at least were fun to watch

Wizard had really good fight scenes. Even with a lot of CGI they still managed to pull off some good fight choreography. Gaim and Drive weren't bad, either; really, like in most regards, it's just Ghost that was a complete failure. It does feel like it's been a long time since the show focused on action sequences that were more about martial arts than special effects, though.

I misunderstood your post. My apologies good sir

I think I could find this out myself but maybe someone wants to share what they know about this: Around which episode or production time did Hiroshi Fujioka suffer the accident which made the creation of Kamen Rider 2 necessary?

I popped a random episode of Kamen Rider yesterday, number 11, and was surprised to see that Takeshi Hongo was barely in it. He appeared in his lab, a colleague reminds him he needs to go to a wedding, he doesn't make it there but arrives on his bike later when the bride and groom are attacked. Kamen Rider gets beaten, literally stuck inside a hill so that only his bottom and legs poke out, and just appears at the very end of the episode to defeat the monster, all in-costume with no dialogue whatsoever.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but that smelled a lot like stock footage, Takeshi only appears in the lab and on his bike, both could be filmed without the rest of the cast, and once he transforms no dialogue happens between him and the rest of the characters. And of course, the mystery of the monster is solved by the side-characters, Takeshi does nothing. In one instance we even have a fight without suits as Takeshi's buddy kicks some Shocker-butt.

So it's obvious the accident already happened there, that surprised me as I thought it would be a bit later in the run. If anyone knows and could share around which episode the accident happened and when they started to rely on stock footage until Rider 2 came in, that would be cool.

Also, another question for general visitors of the thread: Do you believe the future of Kamen Rider would've been different if the accident never happened? As in, they were never forced to introduce a different Rider and maybe wouldn't have thought to create new characters and Riders for future shows?

My view on the situation is they would've probably continued Rider 1 as long as it was popular and then tried a new Rider like V3, but Rider 2 probably never would've had happened, but maybe a different sidekick to Rider 1 instead?

I still don't understand about Amadum from Kamen Rider Wizard. Can Amadum classified as Phantom? He has some of Phantom elements like he has human form and has magic abilities too.

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net...20130928235009

The accident happened while filming 9 and the last episode with new footage of Fujioka was episode 10. Episodes 11-13 basically try to just try to keep things up and running by bringing Taki into the fold and focusing on the supporting cast. Ichimonji debuts in episode 14. If you go to KITSubs' old site you can read some pretty good blog posts that accompany each episode and explain some of the production background of this era.

I imagine we still would've gotten new Riders even if Fujioka had stuck around. Kamen Rider was hugely popular by the time the original series ended, with a lot of merchandise and a big official fan club. Fujioka would eventually want to move on and Toei would still want to continue the franchise. I tend to suspect that V2 would've basically been the same show we got with V3 and I don't think the overall landscape of Kamen Rider would change that drastically.

Thanks for your answer, I'll try to look up some info on KITSub's site.

And I agree, it would've probably took them longer but a sequel was gonna happen either way.

It's all about the flashy cgi and weapons nowadays.

If it is not forced and it fits the show yes. :) Tendou's fighting style consisting of counter-attacks was awesome.

He's a random crossover villain. Given how Decade also stars in the episode, I don't think he's related to the phantoms at all. He's just generic extra villain.

To be fair, Kabuto himself also had a weapon and aside from him (+ his dark twin), TheBee and the Hopper Bros the rest of the shows Riders use weapons for combat a lot. And Kabuto gets a sword in Hyper Form too.

The trend already started with Kuuga who had weapons in most forms other than the base one, same with Agito, and then Ryuki which was all about weapon combat most of the time.

So it's not really a "nowadays" kinda thing, not even the CGI part, Ryuki had a lot of CGI monsters and then Faiz came in right after with a motherload of CGI for its vehicles.

I remember the early 2000's Rider shows still use mostly practical effects. The CG in Kuuga is a lot smaller compare to the newer shows.

That's because Kuuga's CG makes people want to puke. It took a while before KR's budgets allowed good CG, such as Kabuto or Ex-Aid's.
Though if we ever get practical effects again, I'll be excited even if they aren't Agito tier

What do you mean by that? What kind of practical effects does Agito have that newer shows don't?

They still use a lot of explosions, fireworks, smoke, and all that good stuff.

G3-X's...thing, Agito's horns and Gill's tentacles. That kind of stuff

Think they'll announce anything Den-O someday? This year is their 10th anniversary after all.

Ah okay, because "practical effects" sounded more like everything in general.

It seems like they try to avoid stuff like this on hero suits just because it's a pain to deal with and limits what you can do, they were all alternate parts anyways, seems like they rather work with light these days.

But some MOTW's here and there still have moving parts in their helmets, it's pretty cool.

Gills' awesome "roaring" head that I'm pretty sure was literally a helmet on a stick given you only ever saw it in close-ups. That thing is quite possibly the coolest prop in Rider history. I love it sooooo much.

But it's also a perfect example of exactly why they don't do stuff like that much anymore. It's a big clunky piece of junk that can only ever serve that one purpose and thus probably won't get enough use to justify the expense of making it. Toei is all about efficiency (read: "$$$"), and nowadays it'd be way more practical, ironically enough, to just do something like that with CG.

From the looks of it not likely. I was wondering about it too cause so far there was that event with Zeronos saying hi and stuff and nothing more.

That's a shame. Although to be honest it may be a lil bit hard to do. Takeru Satoh is obviously out of the question, and so does both Hana as both retired from acting.

Naomi's actress is a mom, so the only ones left are Zeronos, the imagin voice actors, and that owner who loves eating his fried rice in a meticulous way.