No I mean the base forms should have been the upgraded forms as the base forms are both the more interesting costumes and powers.

The ongoing problem with Secondary Riders' upgraded forms is that it's treating "New weapon" as an upgrade.
Honestly, Meteor's Planet fists (I can't remember the name of that weapon to save my life :lol) is more of an upgrade than Meteor Storm. It gives him a unique set of powers and attacks. Meteor Storm gets a stick.

It ain't even a stick, it's just the controller for a beyblade. How can you go from punching people with planets and doing cosmic energy Bruce Lee moves...to a beyblade?

Since Figuarts Ryuki won't come in the mail until tomorrow, I'm going to put off watching teh show unil it does.

In the meantime, I'm gonna watch The Next out of morbid curiosity. Wish me luck.

Bring a lunch bag. It's not going to be pretty (literally).

The horrors of merchandising.

I never watched the Next after being bored with the First, so...Yeah. Good luck.

Ruined a perfectly cool Rider :(

Well... parts of it are okay.

The Rider action scenes are all good. It's just the rest of the movie that sucks.

Not really. He uses both forms throughout the rest of the series.

As long as he keeps using that sweet ass base form.

Episode 24 of OOO was actually pretty great for a filler episode, it was absolutely hilarious and the new form was badass. Plus in comparison to Fourze, the CGI is actually passable in OOO, Fourze's CGI looks like what you got in cutscenes on PS2 launch titles, OOO looks more like the cutscenes you got through the middle of PS2s life cycle. Also Grim Rider Kuuga seems like a distant memory now after watching Fourze and the otherwise fairly light hearted OOO, so it really took me by surprise that Sakura got so badly hurt.

And, just sayin', I'm by no means gay, but I have such a man crush on Date. This is gonna come across as so racist but it isn't intentional, I just find so many men in Rider shows so feminine. Even aside from the pretty boy Riders, take like Gotou for example with his baby face and wiry frame, just all the males seem to have such soft faces and are so skinny no matter the show and there is the rugged muscle bound Date just DAMN SON.

"Isn't love the same as being retarded?"