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Gotta love the annual "We dumped two months' budget into this to show off all of the toys you can go buy at your local toy store" episode. I didn't mind it too much, personally, although I've never been a huge fan of the giant dinosaur head monster suit. I can appreciate an unorthodox design (it's the main reason why Pestar is one of my favorite Ultraman kaiju), but this one just doesn't really do it for me. It's a bit too far on the goofy side of things.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

-Show is super-duper into all of Double?s toyetic gadgets! It?ll be a constant presence through the first half of Heisei Phase 2, and it never did anything for me. (Fourze? not looking forward to those Happy Meal toys!) I find it a little cluttered, as an aesthetic. There?s the superhero, and the toy accessories, and the multi-change bike? I don?t know, feels a little busy for one episode.

As a Hibiki stan, I'm predisposed to liking the spiritual successors to the disk animals. I like W's, in particular, because they all have a secondary feature besides being little robot buddies. I won't stand up to defend Fourze's version, though, because they were both deeply silly and entirely incongruous with the show's space theme.