Guess who just popped up on my christmas list. Damn Bandai, back at it again with the Gold Bans.

Yeah its weird as hell that Chaser gets an exclusive release but Gold Drive is retail but I don't mind at all. Love Gold Drive and def getting this.

Now I have to track down a Kamen Rider Chaser that isn't the price of a piece of land.

My theory is that whoever made this decision doesn't know that Gold Drive is a different character than Kamen Rider Drive.

I'm in favor of just about anything being a retail release; web exclusives raise my blood pressure.

I might consider picking it up. I'd like a Drive villain other than Mashin Chaser, and I really don't like the design of Heart. I doubt Bandai will ever make a Roidmude (the base Roidmude designs were killer), so it's looking like Gold Drive might be my only option.

Loved Banno. Love Gold Drive's colors. Instant buy. Retail's a plus. End thoughts.

Oh this is definitely an instant buy for me, I love this suit, and it's always good to have more villains.

I know a way to prove if Bandai just likes messing with us and that is if they make Kiva an exclusive

I mentioned this elsewhere, but it's likely due to the fact that Drive was very well received in Japan and Banno himself seems to have been rather popular, receiving a lot of merchandise after the show ended.

There's also the fact that this is basically a repaint of Type Speed, it would have been very cheap to produce, so it's more worthwhile for them to take the risk on making it a mass retail release.

How is Banno popular?

Weird how its a retail release but chaser wasn't. Im not complaining. Happy to have him. Wish he came with a busted driver and additional signal AX.

>Implying Kiva will ever get released.