Fighting jackal could be a one box figure I think.
Concerning Shodo future, those figure are beautiful but also really expensive, like all premium explusive stuff...
I wouls have expected that Shodo will cover show raider and let SoDo-Chronicle covers heisei riders, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
I began SoDo-Chronicle (W, DenO, Kuuga), and I wonder if they will do all riders that came in the shodo line into the sodo chronicle line...
Figures are a bit different between SHODO and SoDo Chronicle (SHODO are a bit smaller), and I would rather have all rider in the same line and not have to but them twice.

Neoxul

I posted my speculation for the remaining waves a bit ago. Maybe replace the summer movie villain in AI9 with Ark-Zero and it still should work out so far

SHODO and SO-DO are two similarly named but different products, going for different markets, with closely related but different teams working on them (I think, don't 100% cite me on that last point, all my understanding of this comes from Google translated candy toy blog posts). What one line puts out doesn't have much of a bearing on the other, especially since SO-DO puts large focus on going completionist on one series at a time, while SHODO goes more for range (and also bikes. Lots of bikes). They can both do Heisei Riders, and have - all the Chronicle releases except Den-O plus Decade and Diend were done first in SHODO, so, as long as people keep buying the Chronicle sets, we'll keep seeing more riders show up.

The real thing I've just realised is that there's totally going to be a PB Chronicle Aqua and Poseidon set coming soon and I'm gonna have to sell a kidney to buy it, aren't I?

Could also switch out the "Surprise Final Ark villain" with ya boi Ark-Zero

You’d have to shift Rampage into Wave 7 since it says that he’s the next figure to be revealed.

Let's not forget that Zero-One's getting a Dynamaiting Lion form!

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I couldn't forget becase I didn't know that!
(Also, image broken, sad times).

Today was going to be just a photo dump (of photos I took days ago but didn't post because life got busy with problem work, whomps), but it got me thinking about a phenomena in Rider that no-one thinks about. It's not as notable as the final forms, as argument-inducing as the secondary Riders, nowhere near as frustrating as "Do movie forms count?" I am talking, of course, about the early-gimmick-promo form. I swear this is relevant I promise.

These are what Toei shows off in all the initial merchandising rush (and often pre-show cameo) to showcase the gimmick of the year to the children and us, with the hopes we'll think "Wow, cool!" and buy the stuff, before it's never used again after episode 5. However, this initial push means they usually maintain a little more permanence in the fandom memory than other forms in the inital rush, since they're all we have to go on at first, and may be revisited later. I thought this was a pretty recent thing, and then I thought about it and I can trace it back to OOO at a stretch, but definitely Fourze. In order, we have:
OOO - TaKiriBa is used in the first episode (or maybe second, I watched the initial 10 episodes to OOO years ago, Kurona will know) to showcase the Combo Change.
Fourze - Here we go! It's not a form, but the Magic Hand switch is used in the OOO Summer movie, and it got released as part of a Core Medal/Switch set to entice existing OOO collectors to buy it.
Wizard - The ring powers all blend together, I'm not gonna lie, none of them actually stick in the memory enough for me to assign it here.
Gaim - Here we see a counterbalance to the "Show off multiple forms" argument. You could make a case for Pine or Ichigo, but Gaim gets around the problem of needing to make multiple Gimmick items memorable by having 5 Riders at the start, thereby spreading the load.
Drive - Max Flare, for certain. You could maybe make a case for Midnight Shadow and Funky Spike, given they get to be in the OP too... except they didn't get a HBV exclusive upgrade. Type High Speed, you never disappoint.
Ghost - Musashi gets to show up in episode 1, gets to be Takeru's main advisor, and is obviously the big Japanese spirit of the first few gained, of course he's the most important.
Ex-Aid - Here's a weird one. Ex-Aid is another that mostly gets around this by having multiple riders again, but the form and Gashat that got shown off the most prior to the series, and thus the focus of this list... is Genm's Shakiriki Sports. Dan Kuroto, you've done it again.
Build - Gorilla and Diamond get to debut in Ex-Aid, used by Takumi, and even have to be specially written out of the plot for that to happen, so they count here.
Zero-One - Flying Falcon got the most pre-show push, and the Key itself obviously gets used by Jin for a while. A combo of having many secondaries, and the gimmick-push form.

That leaves Zi-O, and the focus of my latest build. Zi-O Build Armor, who even got a Figuart, the only basic Rider armor to get one! Except Genm, yet again. To be honest, the whole thought vomit above happened because I was posing him, and my brain went "I know he did nothing in show, but why do I remember him as being so important?" Because the merch bash made me *think* he was important!

Still, even remembering how little he actally does, he's pretty cool! The armor look makes him seem more metallic and bulky, and the Build colours really pop. Even the drill weapon and bottle shoulders, which is a little tacky in show, works nicely here in scaled down form.
https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net...ad&oe=5ECB0BB2

Plus, if you buy the full RIDE1, you have the parts to make Geiz's Build form, something I forgot existed until I looked at the box. It's not an idea they repeated with many of the armors (this, Ghost and Ex-Aid), but it's nice little thing that's fun to mess around with. The original action body is a little dodgy, given it's molded in black and not red, with a couple of red stickers (so much so they did a redo in Wave 5), but hey, the form still looks good.
https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net...14&oe=5ECC801F

And here's a group shot of all of Wave 1! I think they all look pretty good... even if I now have a spare Geiz body I need armor for. Toei, you've done it again.

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net...28&oe=5ECB8A5D

I'd say Big is the early Here's How The Gimmicks Work idea from Wizard. He makes a giant hand come out of a portal! It's pretty neat! Checking the Wiki, he also used it in his first appearance (the Fourze summer movie), so I think it counts for your criteria?

Also, excellent photos! I've stayed clear from the Zi-O SO-DO (haven't watched the show, not crazy about a lot of the designs), but those photos sure make them look good.

TaKiriBa was indeed Episode 1!

I had feeling it was gonna be Big, but thanks for checking it out! And my "criteria" are very loosely defined set of things, so Big can definitly go in there somewhere. I'm just more surprised someone actually read that big block of ramble :D

And I'm not going all in on the Zi-O series, but the main few Riders and a couple of select armours I'm fond of enough to grab. Not that I've built any of them yet apart from Wave 1, but ya know the thought's there.

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net...00&oe=5ECFA2D8
Thank you google translate, very cool. I'm sure this was what they meant about Growing Form's leg sticker.