The boat is Captain Ghost. When it combines with Takeru's bike it's the the Iguana Ghostriker or whatever.

I don't miss wonky CG lizards but I'm really sad Ghost never rides his bike anymore. The first quarter or so of the show had a surprisingly high amount of proper bike action, so it sort of sucks they just forgot about it.

I even more forgot that he had a boat. Wat

They also forgot about his ghostly abilities, like walking through walls and turning invisible.

The boat seems really random, however we heard rumors before the show started that Ghost would sail around the world to find the Eyecons so I like to think this shitty lizard boat is all what’s left over from that idea when they realized that finding enough settings in Japan / create sets to masquerade as other countries would blow the budget.

It's Kamen Rider, why on Earth would there be scenes with motorcycles? :confused:

I've seen a bit of the original series, Ghost, and Drive. I've barely seen any motorcycle scenes :cry

Well you see it's a ghost ship, so it at least vaguely makes sense.

Exactly. Don't forget that time he did both of those things while riding a bike. I'm fine with fudging the rules of who can see ghosts for plot convenience, but you think it would come up in action scenes every now and then. I still remember how cool it was when the debut of Toucon Boost involved making it look like Takeru straight-up explodes.

Kuuga spoiled us all. It set a standard no Heisei series has even tried to live up to.

I'm not asking for much. Just show up to a fight scene on a bike every couple episodes, and then get off. You don't even have to do stunts for me to be happy.

Yeah, but Drive still had plenty of vehicle action. Granted once Booster Tridoron shows up it becomes bad CG vehicle action, but it's the thought that counts. Gou and Chase also ride their bikes around just to go places, which is all I ask for, really. If anything, Drive did a great job compared to most shows, consider yourself lucky.

I think Ghost might've been trying to rub in that we were back to Kamen Rider after taking a break with Drive, and it eventually just figured "okay, I think we've made our point" before forgetting about bikes harder than Decade. It's such a shame because I really like the whole "gothic unicorn" thing the Machine Ghostriker has going.

So I've been playing through Battride War and I noticed that almost every pre-W rider uses some form of cards to either transform or attack. Is this a thing, or am I crazy? If it was a thing, when did it start? Why did it stop?

No, it's not a thing. Only Decade, Ryuki, and Blade uses cards.

Huh, that's weird. I swear there were more than that. Maybe it's because I use Ryuki a lot in the game, and only recently unlocked Blade and Decade? I haven't seen any early Heisei shows, just Neo Heisei and Showa, so my knowledge is limited.

It might just be a game mechanic.
Also, on a very technical level, Den-O uses cards, too. However, they eventually remove the card swapping and just let him change forms by the Imagin swiping the pass (Rather than swapping which card is in the pass first).