[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by AgileSiamang7

I'm not even a Rider purist who requires A through Z to be shown before I consider something a "real season", but why is Toei putting all their money into 50 different forms they'll abandon mid-season, and not spending half a second on designing a bike? I doesn't even half to be used to attack like Blade's or Kuuga's, just make it something the Rider actually drives around on.

Toy sales I assume. You can sell two types of toys (vinyl and action gimmick) for 50 different forms but the bike you can only sell once.

So what they do is introduce the bike early, sell the one toy they want to sell, and then abandon the bike and save themselves the costs of filming with it. And of course, all the forms need more time so the scenes with the bike need to be toned down.

Some shows tried to apply the alternate form-mentality to the bikes (Double with the different attachments to the HardBoilder) but it didn't stick so I assume it didn't work out. It's probably too expensive to feature CGI-heavy vehicles or multiple real machines for an extensive time as well.

Strangely enough, Drive came close to have the Rider machine matter again but it was a car. And I think it's a formula worth replicating: Give the bike an AI, have it manifest with a hologram so it can act as a character and have the machine change alongside the Rider's forms.

But as long as the current formula works out I'm afraid the trend of bikes vanishing after the end of the first quarter will continue.

Also, I heard that filming with heavily customized bikes gets more and more difficult as they have issues with being able to legally drive them but I don't know if that's true or not - I don't even know how this kind of stuff works in Europe, let alone Japan