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Originally Posted by Mesnick

If W were being filmed now, Mick would be a rider.

Funny you mention W, because I was just thinking the other day how I hope we get a season 2 of the anime, and how that'd likely be when the Fang alt forms get animated, and it got me thinking about how if W was done today he'd basically be Build.

Now I don't dislike Build's base design, but his other forms really highlight how gratuitous Rider gets. W had barely noticeable changes between his half form swaps. Literally just the trim and colours, and it worked very well and was quite classy. Build is what W avoided being, which is to say every half having its own physical differences that just get goofier, ugly, and clash harder with each other. There's no combo of W that looks bad, because the colours are smartly contrasted and his physical design changes very little.

Even Xtreme, which I'm not the hugest fan of, is a pretty restrained take on the W design whilst still embellishing it. Contrast with Builds never-ending supply of super and final forms, it's a very efficient design that doesn't just do "base design but x10."

I was really liking how Reiwa was kind of bringing that back, with Zero Two and Ultimate Revice being designs that are more revamps of the base form rather than just overdetailing the whole thing with more and more rubber bits hanging off. But then those final forms hardly matter when the real final form of every Reiwa Rider is just the base form with a different belt trinket, which I'm really hoping Geats doesn't do but it probably will.