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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

So, obviously, money left on the table by not having Hibiki go with origami helpers, but... I don't think the CDs are that bad? I like that in the show you can just spin them and listen to some random noises to get information. That seems designed to get kids playing around with them in imaginative ways. I think I like them a lot more than some later series' plastic monster helpers.

In retrospect from a merchandise perspective, Hibiki was lacking. The henshin belt that is meant to be the flagship merch was replaced with tuning forks, whistles, and a wristband, what came close to a belt was a loincloth with a drum for a buckle and two drumsticks, though the roleplay weapons department I will give credit. And the disk animals were heavily underutilized as gimmick items. Meanwhile, we got a 5 sibling sentai team that was Harry Potter-ing it up with a feature phone that doubles as a wand, kickass robots, and let us not forget a magic lamp with a cat genie inside that doubles as a gun and is voiced by the dude who is Trunks and MMPR Japanese dub's Billy/Blue Ranger. And the studio behind Godzilla was doing their own thing with a show about a trio of heroes who also ride giant robots, etc. TL;DR the show under Takatera was gorgeous but merch was lacking except for the roleplay weapon toys.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

I think I’ll point out that this was their main competition.

If I may add, there was also Nexus and Max, Sazer X, and Kamen Rider The First looking back.