SIC PuToTyra looks pretty nice.
There's something I've been wondering though. What's the story behind these SIC redesigns? I swear I remembering hearing that there was a reason for their more monstrous and detailed appearance, but for the life of me I cannot remember.

...I'm just going to leave my wallet on the table. You can have it Bandai.

Cool. Hope this isn't an exclusive (and pretty sure it's not - those usually don't get big magazine spreads like this).

The idea behind SIC, as I understand it, is to do these designs the way Ishinomori would have - much more monstrous and insectoid than the suits used on the shows.

Holy mother of holy crap that putotyra is so amazing looking I want it so bad.

The very first SIC was Kikaider, not a Kamen Rider. If you've seen what the Kikaider suit looks like, you can see why they wanted to redesign it. The idea was to redesign it to be closer to the original concept art while adding a lot of detail. While Kikaider is a robotic design, Kamen Rider is based on a bug. The "monstrous" design comes from the bug motif found in most Riders.

And now I know. ^_^ Thanks!

And knowing is half the battle!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../gijoelogo.jpg

The other half is killing an angry grizzly bear with a spork. Now get going.

I thought the other half involved red lasers and blue lasers?:lol

I'm not a fan of the over stylized and detailed SIC, I perfer accurate figuarts but whatever. PutoTyra though looks like if OOO was dropped into the world of Darksiders and stylized in that way. Completely badass.

I'm still waiting to get my TaJaDor. I got my replacement TaToBa already. I can't wait for GataKiriBa and then PuToTyra. They look amazing. Oh and the effect parts set.