I've seen a couple of those going around, and one of another angle too.

I respect the hustle of these "leaks"

They do seem to be leaning hard into another split-Rider motif. Is that officially confirmed?

Too Build for me. I respect the authors of the "leak" for their efforts, but they need more imagination and creativity.

Yea.

Taking another look at the helmet, it looks pretty Kiva-esque, too.

I believe Cranejoe mentioned that the toys would have 2 items to put into it, speculated to be handled like Gaim's faceplates. A lot of people seemed to miss that alongside all the big rumours all saying half wolf half axe.


Cranejoe is an infamous leaker who's been reliable for longer than I've been on this site for the record

Is it bad I kinda want anoter rider that's card themed it's been so long since we got one (inb4 2024 is a card themed rider just in time for the 20th anniversary of all the Blade memes)

I've seen people tweak the photos a bit and a current theory is that it's an actual suit someone made just for the sake of spreading fake leaks (there's 3 different pictures running around now, all at diff angles that keep the design/locales Consisent, something AI can't really do without making it obvious it's been AI-generated)

So difficult? I'm actually ready to believe that the leak is real, but it's not the main Rider/not the main form. To be honest, by design, he could turn out to be a villain, there is such a vibe from his symbol and fur.

Oh, the card theme really lets you roam! And, by the way, to arrange that same ?royal battle?, making it in the style of a poker tournament. It will be interesting and unique in its own way. But yes, then you can?t do without a reference to Blade (or even a crossover?).

While I'm not sold on these "leaks" at all, I'm sort of confused why there being an idiom in the corner makes it a "confirmed fake"? Like it's certainly weird but are people really just going "There's an idiom? Must be fake!" or is there more to the reasoning?

Like it is suspicious to have some text that seems totally unrelated there, but it just doesn't seem like enough in it's own, so I'd be curious if there's more reasoning.

Personally I'm not a big fan of card gimmicks but I'd be okay seeing them again as long as they do something interesting with it. This year though I'd say we have an extremely low chance of cards for Geats, considering Ultraman is doing cards this year and both toy lines were developed by bandai. Like maybe they would do that, but it feels like it would be a weird move for a company to be producing two seperage tokusatsu dx toy lines that use cards at the same time, starting just like 2 months apart too.