They're deliberately reissuing that old Faiz mold? He's toward the top of the list of out-of-date Figuarts. Ryuki is a fine figure, but he's now a little out-of-scale (and very out-of-scale with Shinkocchou Seihou.)

Maybe this'll be good for new collectors, but I can't see myself picking up any of these unless they come with significant improvements, and most of these just don't need them.

Interesting that although it looks like early Zi-O will focus mostly on the second ten Heisei Riders, this reissue series will spend apparently equal time on the first ten. I doubt it means much: they just re-made Decade and W, they're about to re-make Wizard, the Fourze mold is showing its age, and many of us would probably like to pretend that Figuarts Ghost never happened.

I saw a Gaim with the pre order bonus floating around Mandarake for 5000 yen...

Let's be honest: If these were jacked with accessories (all the originals for the older ones, weapons and tires for Drive etc.) these releases would be super cool.

But with Tamashii recently, accessories become rarer and rarer. Figures like Genm Lv. 0 are "loaded" with extra stuff, but compared to old figures; they almost always had stuff like this.

I expect nothing from these releases except a few hands and that dumb stage. Which won't even come with an arm to use it as a stand, just wait.

Not gonna lie, I'm really underwhelmed, especially because I can buy most of these molds on Mandarake for cheap. I just checked, and SHF Den-O Sword Form is selling them for only 2500 Yen!

Yeah, screw this, I'm just going to wait for a SH Figuarts Zi-O. Here's to hoping his Jikan Grade doesn't come with his bike.

I can imagine this would be great for people that missed out on them the first time.

that's an odd line up, but worth noting I think that they're all riders without Shinkocchou Seihou updates.
I'm guessing that Tamashii has three categories (which decidedly line up with the back/middle/foreground in the initial rider kicks promo image, except Wizard whose SS was being announced hence being centre stage):
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjowHQXU0AEBmal.jpg:large

Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Den-O, Gaim, Ex-Aid, Drive, Build are "these guys don't need SS yet so rerelease them"

Kuuga, Agito, Hibiki, Kabuto, Decade, W, Wizard are "these guys have had SS updates", maybe the SS themselves will be rereleased

OOO, Fourze, Ghost are "these guys need SS updates which will be announced as part of Rider Kicks"

Now I don't necessarily agree with all of those assessments myself but that definitely seems to be the groupings!
TL;DR: I'd expect upcoming SS announcements for Ghost, OOO, and Fourze

Regardless of pricing, am I the only one that feels like the release dates are an indication of when they will feature on Zi-O? If I am right I guess we have an outline of which riders will feature for the first 16 episodes or so.

Interesting that it's wittled down to those three for SS releases -- aside from of course Kiva, who seems a given at this point.

We already had that. There's an image out there (I think it's on page 54 of the Zi-O rumors thread) that shows a timeline of the different forms, and it's clear which ones are Zi-O and which are Geiz. They're not exactly sequential. With the exception of Geiz Faiz, the first few months focus on the second phase of Heisei Riders.

The figures in the row immediately behind Wizard covers all the Figuarts Rider Kicks releases announced today. The back row now makes more sense: on the outside, you have the Shinkocchou Seihou figures. The remaining figures at the VERY back are Fourze, Ghost, and they're rendered fainter than the others. Could be significant, or it could just be the ones they're least proud of. Given that their first announcement wasn't, y'know, a new figure, I'm a little disappointed, but I'm happy enough for anyone who wanted to pick up these figures but couldn't afford aftermarket prices.

*checks*
Forgot about that. :lolol