Every form will have its fans, yes; but they're not exactly covering all of them to begin with -- we're not getting Flaming Tiger or Kuuga Armour anytime soon; or even Lightning Hornet, which frankly it seems a lot more people would be interested in than Shining Assault or Elemental Dragon or whatever. The people who love the look of, I dunno, Punching Kangaroo are hardly getting catered to here.

I think it's fine to skip ones that don't matter much, and just get around to ones that there's requests for later rather than having us wait forever to get to doing the rest of the Saber riders or Final Forms after half a decade. I don't think that's an unreasonable thing to say, I'm just looking at how most peoples' collections consist of base forms and final forms and how everyone's waiting on those rather than the mid-season upgrades

What time does the tamashii nations start tonight at 12 am or Friday in the morning could someone tell me so I not confuse ?

There's another aspect that's getting overlooked here though: Profit.

I can't exactly speak for any of the older Rider lines within SHF, but when it comes to Zero-One and Saber, almost every single figure has sold a ton. If SHF suddenly just went "base and final forms and very few exceptions" that's a ton of money they'd be losing out on.

Do the inbetween forms commonly only show up in completionist collections? Sure, but that's still a huge source of income for Tamashii, so passing that market up would frankly not be a wise move on their end. If the line is selling well, they only have more reason to make more of it despite how long it might take.

Oh, totally; that's why it won't happen. Mind you I imagine at some point in the future Kamen Rider series will have like 8 main forms in-series and 20 riders and one or two will have to be skipped. Either way I'm definitely asking a lot for S.H. Figuarts to be even a little customer friendly lol

If I've got it right it should be in 3 hours from now

Thing is too, I don't think Bandai knows immediately what's popular or not.
That's how we get Genm armor, Bandai thinking that the basic aspect of it being a Genm-related figure would sell well, and well, there we go.

In all fairness... there's not much from Zi-O that seems to have sold particularly well lol. The final forms seem to garner high prices on Manda but nothing else

Excited to see what goes up on show tomorrow.

I am doing my best to stick to one form for each Rider. I've chosen Metal Cluster and Dragonic for Zero-One and Saber, I went for Orthoros for Fuwa.

I may be in the minority, but I will often just pick a random form I really like to be my main version of a character.

There's a decent amount of people who just buy figures because they look cool and have never even seen the show or know anything about the character.

Gundam is the same way. One of the most common questions I get about Gunpla is whether someone needs to have watched the show in order to pick up the model. No way. People just buy whatever model kit or figure looks cool. A tattoo artist I know has a Kamen Rider Geiz statue and he doesn't know anything about Kamen Rider, just thought it looked cool.

Opening ceremonies started last night around 9-10pm japan time.

Event starts 6PM japan time today.