Between Shin Zangetsu, Baron Lemon Energy, and Jimba Lemon I think I'm throughly sick of the Sonic Arrows.

The Energy Riders sure are pretty though, especially Zangetsu

None of the lock seeds on my energy riders have had any problems so far (though Duke's yet to arrive). Baron Lemon's popped out once a bit easily, but it doesn't have a current problem staying in the belt.

I guess it depends on how much you want the bike too? If you really want to the total package, yes I'd just wait for bike & re-release sets to pop up for sake of convenience, on top of the added bonuses or tweaks that are being thrown into the two-packs.

If you don't care about the bikes, or only like some, than pursue those individual Showa riders now.

(I'm working under the assumption the bike/re-release rider two-packs or simultaneous releases will continue as well. That's how I'm getting V3 this month, and provided it happens with X that's how I'd prefer to get him too.)

That's how I feel about Fourze. Never saw the show, save YouTube clips, but love the character & design. He hits all my pleasure points: unique color for a main Rider, his character, he's tech based, he reps science & space flight, and he flies!

My wants so far are Black RX because Saban, and Biorider to complete that, ShadowMoon, and a few other Heisei Riders. Meteor/Storm, Den-O Sword, Nega Den-O, Double, Skull, OOOs/Tajadol, the rest of Blade's crew & some Gaim figures. But for now, I have my grails, Fourze & Nadeshiko!
Say that man, SAY THAT.
He's a great looking figure. If you can get him.

I would have never started collecting showa riders if I hadn't read Kamen Rider Spirits, I've not seen the shows but I loved their depiction in that manga holy shit.

What's sad now though is that I only really buy the bikes (except with skyrider cus I need to replace his broken ass self) because I bought all the figures prior so I miss out on all the cool bonuses like riderman's extra face or Aamzon's sick ass red slice.

I'm all in for the bikes. I enjoy the creativity and quirkiness of the Showa bikes. I suppose at the end of the day if I end up with some doubles of the Riders it's not the worst thing. In the case of someone like Riderman, it would be good to have duplicates so one can be displayed normal not on the bike anyway. Ah! problem solved, duplicates are ok. Yay! lol.

I was a completionist. I like owning everything if I am going to own one thing. It is what got me into trouble years back and it has been getting me into trouble with Figuarts. However, I'm starting to lose this mentality.

First off, I wanted to own every ranger in existence in Figuarts form. Unfortunately, the way Bandai has been doing it has ruined that for me. In fact, I'm currently selling off my Boukengers, KyoryuRed, and RedBuster as I've decided I am only going to collect the ranger teams from the series I like most, which are all pretty much from the 90s. I will buy anything released for Jetman, Zyu (well, that is complete though, but some villains would be nice), Dai, Kaku, Car, Mega, Ginga, GoGoV, and Time. Other than that, I'm not sure. Hell, I might even get rid of all of my Gokaigers, Hurricangers, and Shinkengers and go after the BoA red rangers from those series I mentioned. I'm just not that big of a fan of the 2000s Sentai series as I am of the 90s. In fact, as much as I love Geki, I haven't watched it since it first aired. As much as I love Gokai and Aba, I would rather watch one of the series from the 90s over them for some reason.

I have no idea why, but I've come to realize I shouldn't buy every ranger just because they have Sentai in their title.

As for Kamen Rider, that is a little different. The nice thing about the Showa era is the riders really did not have multiple forms or anything, so all I need (and have) is one version of each character. For the more recent stuff, I will collect anything and everything from Blade as that is my favorite KR series. Everything else, I am going to stick with TV only characters (so no Femme or Ryuga for me) and only the main forms of the riders with their ultimate upgrade and maybe one other upgrade.

I might even get rid of H/M and L/T for W and some of the states I have for Fourze. OOO, on the other hand, I really love his alternate forms, so I think I am going to keep those. As for Wizard, I'm just going to keep Wizard's Flame, Flame Dragon, and Infinity forms.

In the case of Gaim, right now I only own Gaim, Baron, and Zangetsu, but I would like to buy Ryugen, Shotgun Shogun Gaim, and Fruits Basket Gaim and be done with it. I doubt I will bother with anything else from Gaim. Not because I don't love the show, but because everything else is going to be harder to acquire and will take up more room.

Finally, what has been preorderable for Drive currently is all I plan to get with the exception to whatever Drive's final form ends up being.

There are just way too many characters and forms at this point that I just can no longer justify owning everything, which is a shame too as I actually would love to get some of the additional Arms to Gaim.

Oh, but I do want all of the bikes to main riders since it would be awesome to have them on display with their bikes.

I collect the main riders (even Decade), the forms and secondary riders that I like. I love W, so I own all of W's main forms. I don't like Wizard enough to get all of his main forms, so I just bought Flame Style, Flame Dragon and Infinity. I love Gaim, so I will likely try to get all of Gaim's main forms. As for Drive, I think I will get Type Speed, Type Wild, his mid season upgrade and his final form.

I'm a completionist so I get any riders that I can. My limit is at movie-exclusive forms, movie Riders from Pre-Decade (exceptions are Den-O, Ryuki, Agito and Faiz and with Blade, only Glaive), and anything outside of Hibiki's main 3. Also not getting any alternate forms that aren't strictly upgrades. For Drive, I only want Drive Type Speed, Mach, Proto-Drive and Mashin Chaser, with Drive's final form and maybe Chaser's rider form.

Any Dark Riders and gun riders are fair game as well. And of course these always exceptions to the rule depending on how much I like the form.

I'll also collect some metal heroes here and there depending on how much I like the design.


There's very few cases where I'll buy more Sentai figuarts. Those cases are Psycho Rangers, Timeranger, Megaranger and Carranger and only if they actually finish those teams. I have Zyu already. Of course, this could change as I watch more Sentai. I'm also down for Gorenger.

The only Rider stuff I want a complete collection of is Black/Black RX and Ryuki as far as a long line goes. I want full sets of other shows, but I'm happy just utilizing different toy lines to do so.

I don't collect the bikes due to space reasons and it's easier to buy the rider itself alone. I didn't want to get the Amazon reissue with the bike due to price reasons and money reasons. I was lucky enough to grab the original SHF Amazon on Ebay for a decent deal. I would only buy the Rider Bike two packs if I had no choice. If I never got SHF Shin Ichigo in 2012 then I would have bought the bike two pack with him.