There's one leak/rumor that I think I talked about once but got swept under the rug due to all the Decade rumors catching everyone's attention, and that's that there's also some weirdness going on with Gotchard's secondary. According to the rumors/leaks he is not a Kamen Rider but instead a pseudo-rider rival character (Machine Chaser, Night Rogue, Blood Stalk), however despite not being Kamen Rider he is still treated like the secondary & fulfills the same role.

Again grain of salt guys, but this would be pretty interesting if true.

Tbh I do like this idea, Psudo-Riders are usually a cool vibe and I'd rather not have like 16 characters with "kamen rider" in their title if possible lol

Go-Onger was my introduction to Sentai and I've generally enjoyed every show Takegami's written for the franchise. I'd be interested to see his take on Rider someday, or even just a new Sentai for the Reiwa Era.

That's true, I was disappointed that Drive Type Tridoron had 7 Tire Kakimazerls but only showed 3 of them. I suppose it's still possible that there could be 2 power-up cards with 2 different images, so depending on how you insert them, you could get something like RabbitRabbit/TankTank.

Sounds like Hyper Battle material.

Maybe the attachment for the center port on the GotcharDriver increases the capacity for points, allowing him to use cards that exceed the sum of 10.

You can see Gotchard's cameo in the Geats movie here:
https://twitter.com/SolCaesar/status...87143209574400

It was fun! Hopper reminded me of a friend of ZO and J. I hope he's not forgotten after the first quarter, I'm a fan of helper pets. Also the pirate ship made me think again about a rider without a human form. Well, at least for the beginning of the show, with the acquisition of it later.

I also read this. To be honest, it seems to me that then the character will still evolve into a full-fledged rider at some point, but it will still be an interesting and unusual dynamic.

Transformation reminds me of Zero-One. Personality and fighting style remind me of Fourze.

I noticed that the trading card versions have tiny symbols corresponding to the card they match with, like Steamliner has orange and Hopper1 has purple. Similar to the Full Bottle labels.

However, there are some new symbols we haven't seen before. Karyudos and Kaiserbee have a yellow symbol and Gekiocopter has a pink symbol. Hmm, what could that mean?

I have seen some people theorize that Yellow is a Dinosaur category (which would mean that there may be more dinosaurs in Gotchard than Revice funnily enough), and the pink looks a bit like a ghost, which I am going to guess is a Yokai/Fairy type category.

It will be interesting to see what combos we'll get in the future (as well as the two remaining categories to be revealed)

Y’know if the stars align and the Decade rumor somehow ends up being true, then it’s pretty interesting that both Gotchard & Kingohger are going to have a legacy heroes show up & be prominent members of the cast for a bit.

Speaking of Decade, even if that rumor turns out to be false, based various listings & rumors, Gotchard’s 3rd Rider’s main gimmick does seem to be legend Rider cards exclusively. Assuming that is the case, it’s interesting that each Rider seems to use different types of cards: Gotchard uses 2 cards that add up to be lvl 10, the secondary seems to use lvl 10 cards exclusively, and the third Rider uses legend Rider cards which also seem to be lvl 10 so far.