I thought that might end up happening.

So I decided to look at the alt. art for the Ride Chemy Cards, and I started to notice a pattern. All of the cards with alt. art (aside from the Legend Riders) have been pretty notable forms that're shown and focused on. Like Hopper1 and Steamliner were a given for sure, but then I noticed that the other cards were GoldDash, AppareBushido, Skebows, Antrooper, and Wrestler G in Phase 01. It stopped being a coincidence for me when I saw that the alt. art for Phase 02 included SaboNeedle, HawkStar, and MechaniChani.

So that made me start to theorize that another way of telling what forms will be relevant and actually important is if they have alt. art. So if that's the case, then Junglejan and Raidenji are gonna be important forms as well. Which also makes me upset, because that means that Batkingrobo (the form between Yamibat and Renkingrobo) is not gonna be an important form, and that was another form I really wanted to see, too.

Of course, I might not be the first one to have come up with this idea, but I don't think I've seen anyone else posit this idea anywhere.

Something that I thought of, given how SteamHopper is the main form, with one of the cards being a 9, you’d think that any form using a #9 card would be an actual suit as opposed to cgi.

That's an interesting way of discovering which ones will be the main forms and which will be side forms

Main forms so far
SteamHopper
AppareSkebow
AntWrestler
NeedleHawk
GoldMechanicer
LightningJungle

How so?

OdoriMantis uses a #9 card as well, and was only cgi (so far). What particularly makes the other #9 cards so special?

Just realized that all the Legend Rider forms are named in a pseudo-Orb style.
Exceed Mighty - named after Faiz’s Exceed Charge and Kuuga’s Mighty Form.
Ground Heracles - slight change named after Agito’s Ground Form and the Change (Heracles) Beetle Rouze Card.
Damashii Vent - named after Ryuki’s cards (all of which are named [description] Vent), and Ghost’s Damashii forms.
TaikoGamer - named after Taiko drums (which are the basis for the Ongekiko) and Ex-Aid’s Gamer forms.
Clock Battou - named after Kabuto’s Clock Up and the “Rekka Battou” announcement from the Swordriver.
Rising Liner - named after Zero-One’s Rising Hopper form and Den-O’s DenLiner
Gabu Magic - named for Kivat’s “Gabu” call when he bites Wataru and Wizard’s magic abilities
Anniversary Time - named for both series’ anniversary status and Zi-O’s “Rider Time” announcement
Cyclone Tatoba - named for W’s Cyclone Memory and OOO’s Tatoba Combo
Full Full Rocket - named for Build’s Full Fullbottle and Fourze’s Rocket Switch
Hanamichi on the Road - named for the Orange Lockseed’s “Hanamichi on Stage” announcement, with “road” referencing Drive’s vehicle motif

I kinda wanna know how the Wild Modes look for these Legend Rider Combo forms.

Given that the Wild Modes tend to involve the armor reconfiguring…

https://twitter.com/toeiHERO_movie/s...24910740205950


some of these new Chemies look familiar...

look at this little guys

perfection