From what I recall rumors saying apparently the gun says something along the lines of "Beyond the Biology" which uh, given what we know, really points towards who's likely to use it and just what exactly it entails in terms of characters who can use it.

Is it just me, or does this new look for Valen seem like a subliminal message for us to drink more Starbucks? :lolol

Would taste good with some Doumaru donuts.

Yes. :lolol

so where will Hanto get a Vram driver? Suga going to give him one? or he gets kidnapped and steals from Nyelv's lab?

the dark looking scary rider is calling himself Bake? lol.

I'm curious as to whether we'll see more clones in the mold of Bitter Gavv. Can only Granutes be cloned? I'm also curious as to how much longer we'll have to wait for Sachika's opening sequence bubble to finally have a Rider form in it. Then again, she's not been given quite enough of a central conflict to overcome in order to eventually earn a belt, which seems to be how that sort of thing works in the last several Rider series, and good grief! We're nearly to halfway through the series already, aren't we?

This has probably come up before, but is the reason we didn't get a Movie War crossover with Gotchard because of the early filming schedule?

Less that and more general restructuring.

Here's a bit on a recent interview Shirakura did explaining stuff.

https://x.com/subsdroplet/status/1867940307125567592

Bake and Bitter Gavv both give me kitbashed vibes but I can't pinpoint what past suits went into them. It might just be because they make heavy use of patterns that are just painted on flat instead of being sculpted into the texture of the suit, which kitbashed suits often seem to do as a cheaper way to distance them the original.

Anyway I really like Bake's weapon, it conveys the "gun that is also a mouth" idea much more clearly than the original Valen Buster and IMO just looks better.

Kinda weird how the cookie gochizo has little glowing paws(?), between that and the name I wonder if Bake will use heat/fire powers, possibly as a counter to Blizzard Sorbei's ice?

And while Bake is clearly based on a chocolate chip cookie, it also seems to evoke military camouflage, kinda like how Vram incorporated "tactical" aesthetics

It might be Blizzard Sorbei having a pattern similar to Kamen Rider Revi's albeit with different colors and Bake kind of looking like a KR Thousand Ark clone.