I wonder if they try and mirror the actual King Arthur Story and have his first weapon/rider suit be the sword in the stone and he upgrades to Excalibur?

Remember folks the Sword in the stone & Excalibur are NOT traditionally the same weapon.

Aparently it depends on exactly what tradition you want to look at. Mythology do be like that.

Thinking about it's quite easy to put together a set of riders based on myth,fairy-tales and folklore characters combined with a weapon theme:

King Arthur: Sword
Robin Hood: Bow
Perseus: Shield
Red ridding hood: Axe

Heck even go for a deep fairytale cut:

Humpty Dumpty: Cannon

Had a thought: what if the Driver is based around a storybook theme and the collectibles bookish based.

Please name the second rider Lancer!

If the show ends up being based on Arthurian Legend, we totally need Percival as the 2nd or 3rd Rider.

https://i.imgur.com/fNtWcYu.png

After reading that character synopsis... I mean, I'm pretty sure Hikawa was in Agito as G3, so I'm not sure how they'd bring him back for Saber. But maybe!

And the Lancelot of the show is Ryugen 2.0.

And then the Rider's gonna have a son/assistant/friend who's gonna be the Mordred of the show and starts a rebellion against him.

And then there's gonna be the Tristan, who is forced to fall in love with the Isolde.

My goodness this is gonna be one crazy season if they adapt Arthurian myths. And don't even get me started on the Holy Grail.

OR, all of the protagonist's forms are the knights of the round table, secondary Rider is a ninja rider whose forms are all based on the Sanada 10, etc.

You could get so much good comedy out of Kamen Rider Percival being the only main Rider without a bike, and every time he tries to get one it goes wrong somehow XD

Even better, he rides a sidecar that requires the bikes of other riders. :lolol

So, apparently this is making the rounds at RangerBoard from a moderator:

-A book is featured on his helmet and his chest

-The middle of his helmet is a sword

-There are spaces in the book on the head, from which you can see the compound eyes, which makes him look like Ryuuki [Would it not be more like Knight since they would be vertical?]

-The book on the chest extends from the neck

-Blue in color

-The form changes involve both the book on the head and the book on the chest changing colors. The sword on his head changes greatly from form to form.

-In all forms, he has a cape

So, yeah, take it with as much salt as you feel necessary.

Edit: Parts that in italics and purple are aspects contrary to mrinfobox's take. Hence, the reason I re-posted it here.

If that "moderator" is Dukemon, he can get lost and go back to pretending he left the fandom after being the reason we don't get toy catalogs anymore. Everything in that list is just a regurgitation of what mrinfobox already said.

First, the description isn't a regurgitation of what mrinfobox said it's actually pretty damn different and secondly the reason we don't get toy catalog anymore because someone asked Shirakura on twitter about Zi-O Trinity well before it was even officially announced.

That someone was not Dukemon and I know who it was, but I'm not going to say who because said person got harassed over this.

In addition to what was said above, if you know nothing about the situation, don't speak on it.

Especially since the reason he left the Twitter fandom was because of people like you: who insulted him and sent him death threats. Everything about you post makes no sense and isn't even factual. Its just you trying to spread hate to someone who did nothing wrong unlike what you are trying to say.

New rumors from Dukemon on RangerBoard:

Rumor via 5ch; grain of salt:

-Saber's henshin belt is known as the Seiken Sword Driver.

Now, Seiken has both political meanings and can translate to holy sword. Duke also theorized that the belt might actually be called the SworDriver.

As for the other:

-Saber's coloration utilizes 3 colors, making him resemble Cyclone Joker Xtreme. (Not those colors though)

Interesting rumors to hear. Makes me more excited for it. I wouldn't mind him having a cape in all forms though.

That would be pretty cool. I never heard of the Sanada 10 though.

I can totally see what you mean by book on chest and head. Because the sword on the head and the rail on the chest run as one continued line that might represent the binding of a book. Same with the “wing” appearance of the right eye. The eyes themselves though definitely look like 2 crossed swords to me though...

The book binding thing also explains the terraced appearance of the left side. Maybe it represents pages? Also the book device on the belt ends exactly where the center rail on the chest begins which also makes the book chest make sense. And as for it extending from the neck, the chest railing ends at the bottom of the neck under some kinda corner piece in the center of the clavicle. The rain goes from there all the way to the belt.

Yes, the “wing” compound eye is similar to Ryuki (a tiny bit) bit might be turned pages and not a wing now that I think about the book thing. Still has 2 crossed swords as the eyes though.

Not sure if there’s a cape on him. All I saw was the waist cape down the right leg.

https://i.imgur.com/jlwJ9KS.jpg

Don't know why I didn't do this earlier. Got a better look at the driver a few weeks ago. This is exactly what it looks like. The book item that's open appears to have art on both the left and right side of the spine. *from the front view* Right side shows a man reading a book while the left seems to be a depiction of the Rider not unlike the Gaim belts. Sorry for the crude drawing.

All of the below area texture is that computer chip like detailing while the above part that's at the level of the book is more runes. Sword handle on the right side of the driver. General sheathed sword like appearance.

New Rumor up on RangerBoard from a normal user.

It seems Saber's weapon will be "Seiken BuckleSaber"

I hope my tone isn’t bad, but I’ve seen none of your rumors corroborated from Japanese sources. Honestly from what I’ve seen on 5ch there’s a lot of doubt and skepticism on the rumors popping up there as well due to tighter restrictions to control leaks. From my understanding, we only got early Zero-One descriptions from extras on set and not the typical catalog leaks, until the catalog was actually released later.

Possible Toy Listing

https://twitter.com/Ben77878871/stat...890421760?s=20

Edit: Clear version with translations: https://twitter.com/DaoLeAnhTuan/sta...395301888?s=20

Yeah. It would be really weird if I was somehow both living in Japan and involved in the production of the show or something. I couldn’t possibly be though I mean I’m writing all this information in English right?

I hope my tone isn’t bad.

This is a rumor thread. Believe what you want. If someone could provide verifiable proof of something, it ceases to be a rumor.

The toy listing posted by TreyEl seems trustworthy but there's a lot of odd discrepancies. The #7 Rider has two listings, one for "Dark Dragon" and one for "Evil Dragon" with an "Evil King" attachment. The listed dates for items tend to be in a separate column, not the same one as the items. There's also no serial numbers for any of the toys.

Then there's the prices. They're handled kinda randomly, some crest sets are only 1000JPY retailer price (About 100 more than a Full Bottle set, which the Yahoo JP gashapon listings show it'd be comparable to in terms of price per item), then some are as much as 2500JPY. The low priced ones make me want to believe it, but the weird wording choices and shaky prices make me hesitant. If mrinfobox wanted to opine and see if any stand out and seem familiar, that'd be appreciated.

Firstly, appreciate the direct shout out. As for the prices, I didn't know the 1,000 yen prices were higher than Build's fullbottle prices. Maybe its an upcharge? As for the ones that are 2,500 yen, I think those are higher because they come with another item of some kind instead of by themselves like the others (they're listed as a set).

Of course, there's always place to be hesitant. Like every other thing, in thread, this is still a rumor until proven true bu official sources.

Could you explain your first comment about the Dark/Evil Dragon and Evil King stuff a bit more? I'm not understanding the issue.

I totally missed this in my summary in the other thread, but I think the issue is that the listings almost imply Rider #7 has three forms: Dark Dragon, Evil (Zaaku) Dragon, and the Evil King (Za-O) upgrade, which just seems... weird, especially as Dark Dragon & Evil Dragon sound so similar.
My personal guess is that it's somehow a mistake, and there's meant to be one listing for #7's belt and the Dark Dragon item and one listing for the belt, Dark Dragon, and Za-O upgrade, but the listing definitely distinguishes between "Dark Dragon" and "Zaaku Dragon".

I posted this last night but for some reason it never went through. Anyways, the 1000 JPY pricing for the Crests on its own is fine given that's only 100JPY more than Full Bottles, it's just that the prices fluctuate almost randomly among various sets.

As for the Dark/Evil Dragon thing, Rider #7 has Dark Dragon and Evil Dragon+Evil King attachment all releasing in November at once, which just seems way too bloated for a typical retail toy schedule. It seems like such an obvious clerical error you'd expect from someone making a fake.

Found this on DeviantArt. This is the closest mock-up to the real design. There's major differences from the actual design, but this gets it the closest I've seen.


https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...GU9pLMdIhi1XQE

Welp, I guess a triple mix vertically is technically new!

If that fan art is close to the real thing, it's incredibly boring. We've already had, what, 8 red/silver Riders? And swapping halves of the body has already been done twice in the last decade.

I could live with that.

The colors and a bunch of other things aren’t accurate.

Wonder if this will be the series that will introduce new Kamen Rider elements that will be signature to the Reiwa Era of KR?

What makes Zero-One aesthetically refreshing is that there’s a certain sleek modernism to the designs, all of the textures and finer details really didn’t look like anything from the vast majority of Heisei. I figured that would something of Reiwa’s calling card to make the era their own than jump back into Heisei style designs. Tack on whole idea with making Zero-Two a simple, non conventional final form is telling Bandai is thinking a little differently with the brand.

Indeed. Best analogy I use is if Heisei Riders were NFL players with full gear, Zero-One would be a surfer in a wetsuit. Zero-One looks more flexible and less clunky in comparison. Even the chest piece is not a separate armor piece and is integrated within the suit.

Bringing this over from the listing thread:

Second part to the toy listings found:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ZacEnzr/s...58733396553729

Legend Rider gimmicks as well as the power up items for Rider 1 (Saber) and secondary rider.

Toy listings for the current Ultra show in the same format as the Saber listings came out yesterday. Today, the episode synopses of that show leaked and directly referenced one of the items on the toy listings. Given they both have the same toy manufacturer, it's highly likely the Saber listings are real.

Which means there's going to be 7 Riders, 3 of which get upgrades in the first quarter, and one of which gets their upgrade within a month of debuting. They're really getting bold, I guess.

Been keeling over for a while, about the seven riders thing. I wanted more kaijin and less rider teams, but then I remembered that Ryuki with 13 riders and Gaim with 11 in the base show alone.

I wonder how they're going to handle it this time. I do hope Shogo Muto (Build) or Riku Sanjo (W/Drive) would write this season, especially Riku since I really liked the interaction of the Drive cast with each other.