[806mtson]

I was taking a trip through the Wayback Machine and looked back at Kamen Rider Blade. I actually found some references that would be used in newer Kamen Riders. First of all, the 2 Main Riders, Blade and Garren, used the Rouse Cards Change Beetle and Change Stag to transform, respectively. The next 2 Main Riders to use that same pattern of Change Beetle and Change Stag was Kamen Rider Kabuto and Gattack via the Kabuto Zecter and the Gattack Zecter, respectively. They even say "Change Beetle" and "Change Stag Beetle" respectively. Next stop is Double with only 1 Reference. That is in the form of the Bat Shot. It references the Eight of Diamonds, Scope Bat. The Next Stop on Reference Express is Zero-One. There are at least a couple of references in this stop. The first reference is the Seven of Spades, Metal Trilobite. The Peons of the Magia/MetsubouJinrai.net was the Trilobite Magia. The Next Reference is the King of Spades, Evolution Caucasus. The place where it is references is Kamen Rider Thouser. He uses the "Zetsumetsu Evolution" in the form of Awaking Arsino and uses the Amazing Caucasus Progrisekey. Next reference here is a reference that is extremely obvious, though it could be debated. That reference is the Eight of Clubs, Poison Scorpion. This feels like an extremely obvious source of Horobi's Sting Scorpion with the Ability: Poison. And the Six of Clubs, Blizzard Bear feels like the source of Freezing Bear with the Ability: Blizzard. The Final Stop is Saber. There is only one reference. That is with Buster, the Gekido Element, and Genbu Shinwa referencing the Seven of Diamonds, Rock Tortoise. So the Cards referenced are Change Beetle, Change Stag, Scope Bat, Metal Trilobite, Evolution Caucasus, Poison scorpion, Blizzard Bear, and Rock Tortoise. Interesting.

Another reference is from OOO to Saber. The fact that Saber's main element is Fire and his Animal Book being Storm Eagle connecting to Ankh's Element of Fire and his Core Medals being the Taka (Hawk), Kujaku (Peacock), and Conder Medals, which are all birds.

So, besides the Legend Rider Collectable Gimmicks, how many references are there to the Legend Riders in the gimmicks?