lol Thanks. Guess I'm more excited for Gold Drive than even I realized!

I wonder if any of W's forms will get renewal next year? I won't mind updating my W figuart collection. Xtreme is a hit or miss figuart to me given how badly the hips are and the hands are hard to put in at times.

Given what they've done with Kuuga, I wouldn't be surprised. In fact, Bandai appears to be basing at least some of their Shinkocchou Seihou decisions on what they can reuse from existing releases, which may be why we're not seeing more diversity. I'm not sure how well W's alternate forms sold, though, so my guess is that we'll see Skull first (different character with essentially the same body,) and the other forms if both W and Skull do well.

Come to think of it, recolored alternate forms aside, Wizard, Kiva, and Fourze wouldn't give them a whole of re-use potential outside of alternate forms for those Riders. By comparison, there's a good amount of parts-sharing for some other SS Riders: Kabuto/Gatack, Decade/Diend. I wonder if that's genuinely a consideration on Bandai's part, and if so, whether that makes other easy-character-reuse Riders like Ryuki and Den-O more likely.

Fang Joker is my favorite form of W and I would love a renewal of it. The old Fang Joker was good in 2010, but the head looks very small now and the hips feel dated.

Out of all the variants Fang Joker probably has the highest chance of being made, and I'm guessing it'll be a retail release just like Rising Mighty was.

With the others (Luna Trigger, Heat Metal) it might depend on popularity. But the pre-orders of Cyclone Joker sold out in seconds, so the demand is there.

I think Skull & Eternal have good chances of being made as well, probably only as Web-Exclusives though. But I might pick them up anyways, especially if they give Eternal a cloth cape.

Yeah I'd definitely be down for FangJoker, Skull and Eternal as well as Accel.
I'd like a new Gold Xtreme too, but I know that probably won't happen because standard Xtreme should and will take precedent.

I do hope we get a new Rising Ultimate out of all these Kuugas though, especially since they're doing Decade figures as well.

Another question- if I preorder two things at NY but only one has the pay later option, how does that qork? Do I need to pay for both up front or just the one?

Both.

Thanks. Inconvenient, but I'll manage.

I hope they don't plan on re-doing the Ryuki and Den-O lines. They're still very good, even when compared to the SS figures. Ryuki's figures are little bit short, but it's NBD.

I'd rather see them tackle OOO, Wizard, some more Kabuto figures (at least give us TheBee and The Hopper Bros), the rest of Hibiki and for the love of God, can we get Kiva already? With the completion of the Showa era, we're literally a single Rider away from having all of the main Riders.