It looks like his gun hasn't flipped into the longer nozzle but can still shoot?

Also is that supposed to be his bike when he's doing his Finisher? Is it all CGI or is it just for the Finisher?

My own thoughts: yep, definitely a cool, cocky gunslinger. (No clue what he's saying of course, but looks like he's having a good time) That gun spin is just too cool! "The bike, which transforms into a giant fox, is the finisher" is so wonderfully over-the-top? The jingles being mostly music after the wordiness of Saber/Revice is nice!

The gun in the poster also had a scope so one mode is a pistol while the other is a sniper rifle. I can see a finisher where a monster or Rider runs and Geats just jumps back and hangs from a lamp or something and snipes em down.


There's probably a real one but the bike laws have been limiting bike usage for the last bunch of years so it wouldn't surprise me if Toei decided it wasn't worth the hassle and that a CG bike can be used more

Cool. For the rotation of the gun and the trick with the stone, a separate plus.

I always prefered swords than guns but it's refreshing to see a gunman KR.

What is not refreshing though is the changing halves gimmick (Build, Saber, now Geats). While it's not bothering me at all, it screams "we have no idea anymore".

I see we are bringing back Yua's fidget spinner for Geats's gun, haha... I like the voice for the belt and the actor sounds quite cool. Definitely getting some Genius Gamer M vibes from him.

..........Do people even count Saber as a half-and-half Rider? Anyway, I don't particularly care? I'd imagine coming up with gimmicks every year is Difficult (not just original ones, but ones kids will actually want to beg their parents for too!) So I don't mind when we get animal-flavored Riders again, or a similar sounding gimmick comes up again. Plus it's always distinct enough to not be seen as a "real" rehash (OOO having an ungodly 120+ combos vs W's small pool, Saber's emphasis on the Swords for most of its lineup (only 3 out of its 13 Riders use the Seiken Swordriver, most only use 1 Book), Geats being able to fight without one of the halves on, shit like that)

the funny thing about it though is it's kinda the opposite direction of Build (half gimmick) and something like Zero-One (Takahashi previous work).

Build and Zero-one are very science/technological evolution rider and the gimmicks were mostly based on animals/creatures appearances.

While Geats, if rumors are true for the other riders, are "animal riders" (fox, tanuki, cat, panda etc) but the gimmick might be "technology", as if you were in a video game and chose an avatar with a certain appearance, and then you can equip whatever you want depending the class/playstyle you are/you want (so far Magnum and Boost for Geats)

They're really pushing the video game aspect further than just references to genres like Ex-Aid (Geats has this "ready! fight!" sound etc)

From what I've seen on twitter... uh... no. All charts of bodypart swapping Riders are usually only W and Build. So I'd say no, people don't count Saber as that.

Probably since Saber himself doesn't really do that. The parts changing are more like armaments anyway and once he gets his full set he just defaults to that. Cause you can still make base Saber with just Brave Dragon.

With W Cyclone Joker, you need Cyclone and Joker. Same with Build Rabbit Tank, Rabbit and Tank are necessary. I'd say Geats is kind of similar but also not because we know he has a base form. But I'd still say it's closer to those two than Saber was because Geats has a signature look (Kinda like Plat and Sword Form for Den-O) when combining two different components.

They key difference here is Saber is "complete" with just Brave Dragon, while Geats is "complete" with Magnum and Boost.

Ooooo, the clip is cool, just wish I could see more of the screen. The actor's voice and tone is great, from what I could make out of what he said he sounds very confident/self assured, my wife who knows a good bit more Japanese than I do said he came off as more arrogant than cocky in a way? But she doesn't know enough to give like full line translations confidently or I would share some

Tbh the half-and-half thing doesn't bother me much, I wouldn't really count Saber as one personally even if aesthetically he feels a bit like one, so if we consider build the last proper half-and-half rider that was like 5 years ago now so, yeah doesn't bother me much

I do really love that the faceplates work how I thought they did! Very excited to get my hands on this belt! (This may also be biasing me to enjoy the half-and-half nature of the design lol)

My wife has pointed out that the faceplates are going to be hard to display when not on the belt though. Here's hoping bandai will sell us a $50 hunk of plastic that does nothing but hold them for display purposes (honestly it might be nice if they sold basically "hollow belts" just for displaying them on?)