Wow! Three days!

I'm interested in how the high bodycount made you appreciate the show more. Is it something you feel is missing in modern Rider shows? Does it create a heightened level of danger that keeps things serious, when a modern show might puncture the danger with levity? I'm super curious why the increased casualties make it a better show for you.

Either way, thanks for sharing your feelings!

But he probably is in your Top 50 now? Progress! Give Takeru a few more, uh, decades, and you'll learn to love him. He'll wear you down! That's what he does!

I'm not a fan of Ghost's Figurart even on just the basic level of looking at it. I understand the effect with his faceplate was meant to emulate how his helmet looks in the show, but that shade and texture of orange on the figure's face is just way too different from how in-show appearance for me to ignore. The little Yurusen is great though.

Sorry, that wasn't about Kuuga at all, isn't it? But nobody can deny toys are a part of christmas, so how big is the rider-side of your collection looking nowadays?

I mean, if I didn't want people to share their Ghost Figuarts thoughts, I wouldn't have posted it! (Also, this is the Show Discussion forum, not the Toys And Collectables forum, so if anything I'm in the wrong.)

I'm probably never going to be someone who's posting Figuarts reviews or anything. I'm generally not that picky. I just want a highly-detailed plastic man to stand next to all of my other highly-detailed plastic mans, to represent the Kamen Rider shows I've finished, and I'd very much like them to not fall over. That's about all of my criteria. On that level, Ghost Ore Damashii is a resounding success. Let's check the scoreboard!

HIGHLY-DETAILED PLASTIC MAN - Yes
LOOKS OKAY STANDING NEXT TO OTHER HIGHLY-DETAILED PLASTIC MANS - Yes
DID I WATCH ALL OF GHOST - Yes
IS HE STILL STANDING UP - Yes

Four stars, a perfect figure. I maybe mentioned this before, but my Kamen Rider figure collection is mostly just, like, a statuary representing my progress through the franchise. Little trophies, you know?

As for that collection, it's going as well as I'd hope, with its current status as Staying Within Established Boundaries. That's all I want from the things I'm collecting, to not stress me out with higher bills and needing more space. I've got just enough room for the 20 main Heisei Riders (along with the eventual Reiwa ones) and I haven't needed to move stuff around yet. I haven't gotten all of the Riders I'd need to represent the shows I've finished (still need to track down/decide to shell out big bucks for Double, Fourze, Wizard, and Build), but I'm happy where it's at. It's growing at an appropriate speed, you know?

As long as you're happy with your collection, it's all good, right?

Oh, for sure. I just find it weird, how collecting for me eventually transitions from Maximizing Joy to Minimizing Stress. Like, at first it's all "this figure is so cool" and "oh man these two figures look great together" and "I can't wait to get this other figure", but inevitably it becomes "oh god where am I going to put this one" and "I can't believe I spent this much on a figure" and "I don't really love this design but I've got all the other ones so I need to get this one too". I'm not sure how commonplace those feelings are, but it's been such a constant part of my various collections that I really, really wanted to make sure my Kamen Rider collecting has some strict rules to it. It can feel weird, seeing awesome looking figures like Beast coming up and knowing that I can't let myself get a toy I'll enjoy at the risk of eventually not enjoying getting any figures, but that's how my brain works.

It does not work great!

You're not alone. There's a very fine line with this stuff, and it can get out of hand easily. I've definitely bought figures I don't care that much about just to have a "complete set" and I've bought 2nd versions of figures (hell, I have Final Form Ride, Figuarts, Figuarts Renewal and RKF versions of Decade).

It's good to set boundaries for yourself.

Nah, I feel that. I went pretty big into the SODO Build stuff because I loved so many of the designs, and it was easiest to track down sets than just the ones I really wanted. While I don't exactly regret it, it's certainly made me reconsider buying things I otherwise would have (the Den-O figures, for example) just in case I'd rather get something else, plus I feel bad about trying new things in case it leads to me wanting to go full completionist again.

There's a lot of weird stress in collecting, it turns out.

Yeah, it... I'm trying to get better, mental health-wise, at that weird collecting psychology. I don't adhere to it as much as I'd like, but I try to remind myself, "Your collection is the things you collected. It's not the things you haven't collected." Like, having Figuarts of OOO, Gaim, Drive, Ghost and Ex-Aid doesn't mean I'm missing 15 of the Heisei Riders, it means I've collected 5. It's okay to have five! (I almost typed "just have five", but, like, that's problematic phrasing! That's definitely the kind of default evaluating I'd like to avoid!)

I've definitely started to cut down my collecting habits, especially as it pertains to Figuarts. I've told myself -only- Build, Seihou OOO, some older cheaper ones; and maybe Valkyrie and a potential Seihou Fourze. Otherwise, I'm very happy turning to Figure-Rise and gimmick figures for my main rider needs

Kamen Rider is an especially potent Plastic Addiction, I find. It probably has something to do with being one of the most toyetic properties in existence. I'm much stricter about my figure buying in general these days, but I still own 5 Zero-One figures and I haven't seen a single episode, so there's that.

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who struggles with this kind of thing sometimes.