Gaim Final Upgrade & Arms Change Duke
 

Fruit Salad LockSeed? Could it be?!


and Duke is, as expected, a remold of Baron Mango Arms.

Trying to figure out how this works. So the new Salad Lock Seed combines with Kachidoki and they sort of become one giant, symmetrical fruit, and that is the final combination?

Does that mean Kachidoki by itself is another upgrade before the final form?

Thats what ive been thinking all this time. So i guess kachidohi itself will get an upgrade.

Interesting, the final upgrade after Kachidoki seems to be a sleeker design compared to what came before. It seems they're becoming bulkier with each iteration, from Gaim to Jinba Lemon to Kachidoki, but then this is subverted with the final one.

Ahhhh, just reveal the designs already! :D

You know, if you zoom in on the Kachidoki silhouette you can see the detailing.

It also has flags attached to it. This is amazing.

So wait, given the third scan, are we getting DX Himawari, Matsubokkuri, and Kurumi seeds?

Crazy. Crazy nonsense.

Can't wait!

Really excited for the final forms, but massively disappointed with Duke. I guess I might just skip the energy ACs all together.

So Kachidoki arms looks awesome. But that supposed final form? Looks bizarre as heel.

Aye, Kachidoki even as a silhouette has me excited.

But the true final form unlocked by the key... he looks like a classic wizard with a crescent slapped on its forehead. The pointy head and cloaked shape don't leave me that interested. The genuine samurai motif of Kachidoki would have been much better as the final.

That orange gun looks really neat.

Although it looks like a wizard hat perhaps it is a manual juicer mixed with a Daimyo which fits the fruit and the Sengoku era theme. And it would match him becoming the strongest and using the power of the other riders.

That's actually pretty good. I can sort of see it.

It does lack the pointed shoulder pads that would confirm the idea and make it look more interesting in silhouette.

Fruit Salad Arms.. That sillouette.. Gaim just keeps getting better :lol

Still not seeing the Gaim shown in the sponsorship footage. That Gaim has 3 horns on it's head crest. I'm not calling anything a "Final" form until we know what that is.

What I'll be calling Banner Form for now is looking neat, though maybe a little over designed. It might be one of Ryoma's designs he shown Kouta and Kaito.

What I'll be calling Gaim Cape Form for now is to blacked out and I'm not inclined to believe that it will make a good toy due to the cape. That said, I still love capes so I look forward to a full reveal.

Duke looks...as good as I thought he would. Hopefully these Riders with capes are already planned for SHF, where capes can manage better. Still cool, now where's the other two?

I believe the sponsorship Gaim we see at the beginning of each episode was always a tease of Kachidoki. I always said it may not have exactly been the new form, but it was clearly meant to be something, a sign of a form to come.

I need a job so I can afford these >_<. And I don't care if Duke is his a remold, I want a representation of all the Riders in show >_<

Actually Lemon Energy Arms is as much a remold of Mango as Melon is Orange. It is more just taking the fundamental idea of the cape.

DJ Gun? Fruit Salad Lockseed? Bandai. Im just gonna sell you my soul. Will that be enough to get Gaim toys?

What is 390%?

I hope Lemon isn't just a repainted Mango with a new hat.

It has some new parts like the chest and the shoulder but other than that it looks to be pretty much the same thing.

If the cape is the same then that is the only part that is reused but the fact that the shoulder armor is the top of the lemon means that most of the Mango 'shell' would need to be re molded including the gap at the bottom and the pattern on it as the lemon looks quite different. Overall the Arms look 90ish percent like the in-show model with changes made to make it work in plastic (Dorian Arms is slightly more oblong etc) that i don't see them skimping out on this even if they could.

It's definitely gonna reuse some parts from mango, but since we haven't seen Duke's full transformation yet it's hard to tell exactly what necessary remolds to Mango have been made to pull off the look. We'll see, but that cape and the two adjustable bits on either side of it are clearly from Mango.

From what we can make out from the first time the fruits were shown-
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It does require some part of Mango to make the cape

Tell me you didn't just make those GIF's to illustrate that point :lol

But I agree the cape is clearly made from Mango. My idea of it based on that scene is that the the right shoulder pad is the top of the Lemon. The visor/helmet is attached underneath it. The cape opens up to the sides, the top of the lemon slides over to the right leaving the helmet attached, the whole assembly drops down onto the back like Mango and sets almost flush.

that is the INCREASE in sales of Kamen Rider merchandise since the premiere of Gaim.

Holy hell.

DAMN! This is a popular series!

Did someone else noticed that in most of the silhouettes of kyokyu arms it seems to wear a cape but in the one under the AC Duke it doesn't?

I believe the image underneath is of the vinyls. So it may not have a cape to cut costs. But this is the first I'd heard of that form having a name. Where does Kyokyu come from?

The rumored name right now for Gaim's final form is "Kyoku Arms" with the electronics supposedly referring to it as "DaiShogun" (meaning Great General in keeping with Gaim's samurai theme.

I took the name from here: http://www.orendsrange.com/2014/02/k...y-catalog.html

I read that the transformation phrase is: Kyokyu arms! Dai Dai Dai Dai Dai Shogun!

Dai Shogun would be fucking boss.

Huh. Not going to lie, but with the reveal of Kyokyu Arms, it reminds me of a Kamen Rider-like character I have which does the same thing; first a heavily-armored super form with its own unique powers and a second lightly-armored super form that combines all the previous forms' powers. Oh well, can't wait to see what both forms really look like!

DaiShogun Gaim VS Samurai Red Shogun Mode.

So according to some new translations I've seen the "fruit salad" lock will be called the Kiwami Lock. Kiwami being rouhgly translated in this instance as extreme or ultimate. Likewise Gaim's final form, beyond Kachidoki will be known as Kiwami Arms.

After some Wikipedia crawling i think that Gaim's final form might actually be based on the kazaori eboshi.
which makes perfect sense.
'Originating from the Japanese Heian period, the kazaori eboshi (風折烏帽子) was worn by aristocrats to indicate rank. Still worn today for ceremonial purposes, this black linen hat was used during a samurai's ceremony in attaining manhood.'