[The Chaos Entity]

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Originally Posted by Koh

also selling three glorified roleplay weapons as henshin devices.

That’s far from the first time they’ve done that. Drake and Sasword also used singular weapons that didn’t become belts to transform, and there were also several times that a non-primary rider’s main item or the primary rider’s final form item came with their weapon (for example, Chaser, Fourze, Wizard, etc).

Of course, it’s also likely that they largely abandoned that practice due to it not being profitable, and I do think it was a bit of a stupid bet on Bandai’s part, but this is still something they’re used to doing. It’s worth noting though, that, iirc, Kabuto performed rather well even with Sasword and Drake using ‘role play weapons to transform’.