[Chasing]

The new mooks are basically the Praetorian Guards from Star Wars. You can see in the preview that they all use different weapons from one another.

The preview also shows Yuri holding Saikou. How exactly does that work? I don't recall him being able to do that before.

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Originally Posted by FairyKing

I'm sorry if this ruins it for someone, but is that the Horseshoe Crab Raiders's suit? Those shoulders look really familiar. The new villain does look awesome, but that's kind of a weird choice of suit to use as the base.

Hmm, first the kitbashed Future Riders in Zi-O, then the Transteam Gun base suits being recycled into Ikazuchi, Naki and 001 in Zero-One, now the Kasshine and Battle Raider suits becoming Solomon, Storius and this new villain in Saber... it seems like recycling suits is becoming a regular thing in Kamen Rider, and I expect some people to hate that but it honestly doesn't bother me because all the results look pretty good. Obviously I wouldn't want the designers to rely on it too much, but I'm actually a bit curious to see what suits from Saber will get recycled in Revice! Maybe poor underused Dragonic Knight will get a second chance to shine as a new character.

I think it's great when it's done well. I personally don't think it was done well(doesn't mean I dislike them) with Solomon or the 4 upcoming mooks - mostly because the decals/details look really dumb on uneven surfaces. It reminds me of when you mess up a sticker on a SO-DO figure. The Sword of Logos symbol on Solomon is especially jarring to me, as well as the torso details on the new guys. It just looks unnatural and IMO it's what immediately gives away that it's a kitbash.

The Future Riders in Zi-O were pretty blatant, low-tier kitbashes, but it makes sense given that they have the smallest roles you could possibly have in an anniversary series - literally imaginary Riders that they won't even bother to show in crossovers lol no flak against people that liked those suits but clearly they didn't have as much effort put into them as other stuff we've seen.

Zerozero-One, Ikazuchi and Naki are PEAK kitbash designs, IMO. It's kind of blatant since they kinda fill that "extra EXTRA" category of Riders but they did back themselves into a corner when they thought of a 4-man terrorist group. Saber's designs are so intricate that I honestly can't see what you could do with them, especially knowing that Revice's motif is dinosaurs. Obviously that could be my lack of creativity, but for stuff like Build and Zero-One I legit couldn't stop thinking about what they could do with the suits.

Dragonic Knight will shine in the new movie. It's a repaint rather than a kitbash, but I have to say - I'm not even a fan of Sentai and I am excited to see the movie JUST for this suit.