[Kiwami]

Easy pass on both. It's just bad comedy to release freakin' Gold Drive at retail but make this as a Web-Exclusive. Like, what the hell were they thinking?

I can only assume that they had to make room for Rider 1 and the Amazons, but man... this even surpasses the shitty decision to make Necrom, one of three Riders in Ghost Web-Exclusive. Releasing the final form of a main hero more than one year after the show ended, and only as a Web-Exclusive? Bullshit.

And I also don’t understand why they offer this in two flavors. Since they are both Web-Exclusives, why not only sell the one with all the accessories? Is anyone seriously going to spend money on a middleman (or on Premium Bandai in Japan) and not go the extra mile to get all the cool stuff?

I think the route OOO explained that the basic version lands in retail while the "All Tired Up"-version is a Web-Exclusive would’ve made more sense. Or even only sell the figure at retail and have an accessory pack on the Web-Shop. But I guess the tires aren’t enough to warrant a separate accessory set.

Anyways, more shitty decisions in distribution which slowly become the norm and make me want to only collect Shinkocchou Seihou main Riders since the basic ones are guaranteed to show up at retail. But who knows, once Kiva comes around (in like 20 years) he’ll probably be a Web-Excusive too…