Eh, I like it cause it reminds me of that bear suit from a while back.
Remember the one from Canada?

So the Mach Driver is being mass-produced now. Who or what is Golden Drive?

Well, it is
Banno who is using a roimude body and a duplicated drive driver

Trooper Machs. Because we don't have enough Roidmuudes any more to serve as Combatmen.

They are on the good guys side though.

It's that time again, where Kamen Rider suits start being recycled and repainted into a new rider or new form. For examlple, Baron Lemon Energy Arms and Ryugen Yomi.

Nope. That one appeared around mid-season and the whole reason it existed was because Kaito got so popular they had to make a stronger form for him that wasn’t initially planned. Hence the suit mashup of Baron's genetic ridewear and Lemon Energy Arms.

So really only Ryugen Yomi and Jam fit that category of "Repaints/remolds because no more money and the show ends soon anyways".

Not that this is always a bad thing, Ryugen Yomi looks awesome, it's just with Drive I don't dig what they do with the suits.

And its not really "that time of the year" since Rider rarely does this :lol

Yeah it's only a very recent turn of events, but if you have a show full of expensive suits I can see why you can't just make completely new ones for the last 5 episodes or so, unless it is planned that way.

I was suprised they even allowed it in Gaim to happen at all with Ryugen since Bandai is alway iffy about introducing new forms that have no toys to go with them.

I really like that the mass-produced Mach looks so ridiculous- it's a Gadet for the SCU, after all (and I expect a joke about that anyway).

Also Golden Drive Banno and Golden Roidmudes (including a new form for Medic, yay!) fighting together? Awww, yes!

Could it be possible 004 and the Banno are one for Golden Drive?

http://www.hochi.co.jp/entertainment...HT1T50225.html
Gratz to hoganji!

Was not expecting that! I hope the whole Special Investigations Unit gets to be a Mach trooper. I hope Hong anti doesn't break his back, he's a little too old. Lol.

Apparently he will name himself Kamen Rider Jun lol and Half of me is saying that that will happen xD I just hope nothing bad happens to him during his fight...

The Mass Production Model Mach aka Kamen Rider Jun will debut in Episode 44.

...Honestly that seems like kind of a dumb choice; He's not really suited for combat. I hope the others get to use it too.

Well, it's a Mass Produced Rider, he's just the first one that gets to use it. I wouldn't worry too much about the rest of them not getting it.

Not really sure why you think he's not suited for combat, though. He's a police officer just like the rest of them, and he has more experience than anyone else on the team. It seems like they've made a point of showing that there's more to Honganji than it first appears in the show, having him turn out to be kind of a badass would line up with that well, I think. Plus, being a Kamen Rider would boost his natural abilities in any case.

Don't worry, The source that he's not only one who will be Mass Produced Mach rider, All Police officers will join the fight as Mass Produced Mach riders.

I'm expected Go to complain that he's no longer only Mach rider.

I have a theory.

I've been watching how Shin reacts to the Roidmude, and how he feels now about their growing emotions and such. And I think, at some point, he's going to ask Krim to reprogram them. Not like a total mindwipe. But maybe give them a chance at a normal life. Heart might fight him, Brain will. But I think when the series ends it'll be one of those moments where Heart wakes up at the end of the final battle with no memory of it. And runs off with Medic. Giving them a chance to be like humanity instead of better than humanity. It just has that feel like that their setting the Promised Number up for redemption.

Damn...that's a pretty solid prediction right there.

I think it's pretty obvious that they won't just have all Roidmudes die at the end. They worked on the possibility of Roidmudes and humans living together in peace in many episodes, I'm pretty sure it'll happen.

Its a given yeah. But I hope it wont just a "Lets reprogram everyone." ending and actually have the Roidmudes choose to live in peace with humanity. Shinnosuke and the gang just mindwiping or reprogramming them would be a bad move IMO since that would make them just as bad as the Roidmudes who did the same thing to Chase.

Yeah I'm thinking the same, a mindwipe would be pretty lame. Showing that the Roidmudes learned to respect humans and try out a peaceful co-existence would be much more fitting. In the end it would all be thanks to Shinnosuke who never stopped believing in the potential of the Roidmudes to live in peace with humans, and achieving that in the end would be a pretty cool legacy for a Kamen Rider.

I fully expect that to happen, they kick Banno's belt-butt together and let the show end on a happy note.

Especially with the show always going back to making the point that humans can be just as evil as the Roidmudes with characters like Nira and all those who chose to fuse with Roidmudes.

Having an ending that shows that everyone has the potential to be a good person or an evil person would be a great thing imo.

Huh. Apparently episode 43 will air next TUESDAY instead of Sunday. That's probably gonna throw some Taima viewers off... ONORE BASEBALL!

I hope in the end Heart & Medic are the only Roidmudes left alive for redemption. Brain will probably die.

In the final battle against Banno, I would love to see Drive drive his sword piercing him with the belt.

But what would happen if Banno possesses Shinnosuke near the end?

Kamen Rider Drive Endings?
 

Thoughts on how kamen rider drive will end.

Chase will die, go goes back to America, heart will die sacrificing himself to save shinnoske, and the future surprise movie is likely an alternative time line. And as Banno dies he will tell go and kikiro sorry and that he loves them

What last minute surprises do you think Drive will pull?
 

We have only 6 episodes of Drive left. What last minute surprises do you think they're going to pull? Will Drive use the remaining Tire Kakimazerus or will he use the remaining shift cars such as Amazing Circus and Burning Solar? Will Mach or Chaser get an upgrade?

Given the fact that there's six episodes left, I doubt that Mach or Chaser will be getting an upgrade, though I wish Mach did get another/final form, I'm kinda sick of seeing Dead Heat Mach. I hope we get to see a few more of the Tire Kakimazerus, maybe in the final battle with Banno.

Here are some pictures of Kamen Rider Jun.
http://40.media.tumblr.com/782175684...bqr9o1_500.jpg

Source: Carception Henshin

Wow...an open helmet.

RIDERMAN IS NO LONGER ALONE

https://40.media.tumblr.com/706494a2...bqr9o2_540.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/3eabd05a...bqr9o3_400.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/f60b3809...bqr9o1_400.jpg

source - Kamenridernewsdrive tumblr

No chase cant die no.

I see this coming.

Chase will be deactivated and Gou will finally mourn for him.

You could says that Chase is too cool to live.

It seem Heart manage to get Medic back but how?

Banno might be final villain after all.

Eh.. you know what Brain was up to in the last episode, right?

...

Was there a point in the last 5 episodes where this wasn’t crystal clear?

SO the above scans are translated through Kamen Rider Drive news tumblr. Again credit to the tumblr page.



Countdown to the shocking last battle! After Brain’s death, Heart and Medic defect from Banno. The Roidmudes Executives and the Kamen Riders decide to team up to defeat their common enemy. As Mach faces off against Gold Drive, he’s overwhelmed by his father’s tremendous strength…

Meanwhile, having studied human emotions, Chase had hoped that he could live as a human. However, during the fight against Gold Drive, Chase is struck down… After entrusting something important with Go, he deactivates. Farewell, Chase!!

The birth of humanity’s destroyer: Sigma Circular! The horrible machine that Gold Drive created in order to dominate humanity. If Sigma Circular isn’t stopped then the people of Earth will be enslaved. Shinnosuke, Krim, and Heart must all work together to stop it and defeat Banno once and for all!

Sometime during the final battle, Kamen Rider Ghost will appear and fight against the revived Freeze and Sword Roidmudes. Meanwhile, Kamen Rider Lupin will return in a new DVD special included with next month’s Televikun: Kamen Rider Drive Secret Mission typeLUPIN: ~Lupin, The Last Challenge~!



But also to note a few other new scans surfaced arrived too.

https://41.media.tumblr.com/bda1dee8...qr9o3_1280.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/80b92df6...qr9o1_1280.jpg

https://41.media.tumblr.com/16918dca...qr9o2_1280.jpg

which also translate



After the final battle against Gold Drive, the Kamen Riders are left to clean up the rest of the Roidmudes. Shinnosuke ends up finding a strange object (the Newton Ghost Eyecon). Soon afterwards, both the Freeze and Sword Roidmudes are somehow revived!

Kamen Rider Drive must work together with the mysterious Kamen Rider Ghost to finally put an end to the Roidmude threat.



Source - http://kamenriderdrive.tumblr.com/

SO wait a minute-


Chase supposedly "deactivates" before the final battle but he's in the scan for the Drive/Ghost crossover bit & looks fine. Did they blow the surprise again???

Yea I'm confused at that too.