The funny thing is that while Saber was pushing a ridiculous amount of forms at the start of the show, the way it's done means that there's less figures needed to cover them. We've already got all the auxiliary forms covered aside from Arthur, and at this point in the show there's not a lot of new stuff being introduced. So it certainly seems like SO-DO has a lot of space to do other stuff.

IIRC, the candy toy blog stated the So-Do Chronicle line up had already been planned, and in order to capitalize on the Decade/Zi-O specials, Decade Complete was included in mainline So-Do. So it sounds like a Decade Chronicle lineup is not in the works

Since they also seem to consider SO-DO and SHODO to be compatible and never really try to get in each others' way - they always cover different series, CHRONICLE Den-O being in SHODO's heisei rider lineup - I think they wouldn't do anything pre-Kiva. In my mind the three biggest possibilities are Kiva, Fourze and Wizard; and maybe Drive and Ghost.

Kiva and Wizard would go similarly to Kuuga -- first wave would be their base form and three alternative forms (with Kiva's being combinable into DoGaBaKi like SHODO Agito), while the second wave is the final form, both forms of the main secondary, and one extra rider. Based on what Gaim's doing it looks like they want to prioritise what was in the show, so I think Wizard would go for Wiseman while Kiva... well, it's a toss-up between Saga and Dark Kiva. I think they'd do Dark Kiva for Otoya's popularity, but also Saga is a completely different character, but also also Saga getting the short end of the stick would be so fitting given his figure history... I dunno. And then P-Bandai sets for the movie stuff and in Wizard's case a Dragon set with All Dragon parts, again like Kuuga.

Fourze's the one I'm really stuck on. There's technically less in-show suits to cover and I think he's more popular than Kiva and Wizard to boot, but... the big draw is of course the modules. I'm at a loss how they'd try to incorporate all or even some of those. Judging by weapon packs SO-DO have done in the past for the mainline or even just Kiwami Arms there is a lot of stuff they can feasibly pack in, but I really wonder what their limit is there especially when 8 slots between two waves are taken up by 7 in-show suits (base, fire, elek, magnet, cosmic, meteor, storm). And of course, this also goes for Drive and Ghost where they also have more suits to cover.

Third and the last for now of my Riders is finished: Kamen Rider Black Waltz. This is a reworking of an older custom called Waltz.
https://i.imgur.com/EGmCwTl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/YsaX4ny.jpg
Parts:
Hat- 2008 Ki-Adi-Mundi Comic 2-Pack
Head- Para-DX Action Body dummy head
Arms and legs- Para-DX
Staff- Arms Action Kamuro
Torso and feet- Zi-O
Torso armor, shoulder armor, and robe- WizardArmor
Hip- Build
Gamer Driver- Shakariki Sports

The old custom:
https://i.imgur.com/8LPqA08.jpg
Here's new vs old. The reason for the update is because Para-DX's Perfect Puzzle armor is awful. Try to move the arms and the shoulder pads fall off. Wasn't happy with the colors either. Ironically the WizardArmor is also awful for stuff falling off, but I removed that part. I lost the cloth robe, but I think this one works pretty well. Also gave him a NES colored Gamer Driver. I switched to gold from silver because the Black Wizard class used some gold.

Like the original, took some inspiration from Vivi's pants, the black mage from Final Fantasy IX.
https://i.imgur.com/M9pReJI.jpg

And finally T Rider, G1-R, and Black Waltz together. Really happy with how these three turned out.
https://i.imgur.com/dKLvq5s.jpg

That's a super nice custom Blade. I love me a good black mage, so this is really appealing to me.

On the note of SO-DO Chronicle, I'm hoping we get ghost this year but I have doubts.

Thanks! I've tried to come up with more FF Rider ideas, but the black mage was the only one that ever came together.


I think the front runner for SO-DO Chronicle is Fourze since they did both W and OOOs on their 10th anniversaries. But anytime you try to predict SO-DO they will surprise you with everything you never thought possible.

Personally, I'd like to see Wizard or Drive. They're the only 2 Heisei Riders I don't have in my main rider display (also their past candy toys are pricy and hard to find to). I also would only want the base forms, so my wallet could rest.

The Rider that needs a better candy toy line is Ghost. I consider Gangan Action to be the absolute low point of the pre-SO-DO candy toys. It was so bad that they had to rethink everything from the ground up and make SO-DO.

I don't think we'll see Agito since Shodo-X/O has done him recently, but also did the entire form changing gimmick. It's basically fully painted SO-DO. Kabuto has been getting love in Shodo recently to, though I think SO-DO could get away with the Masked forms easier than Shodo.

https://twitter.com/TeamRiderUS/stat...46542048677888

https://twitter.com/TeamRiderUS/stat...46018993876992

Holy crap guys! We're getting an American release!

Apologies to folks in Europe and the UK.

YOOO Lets GO

Hopefully its a reasonable price. Benchmark is 6,380 yen each set

How was the price for the US P-Bandai of the Kuuga set they did a couple months ago compared to Japan?

Huh, looks like Pine Arms is gonna be way easier to get .

The Golden Power Kuuga set was $70, plus tax and shipping. I'd assume these two sets are going to be around the same price.