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I remember being in the Rider fandom back in late '09/early '10. It was complete Skullomania (legally distinct from Street Fighter EX character Skullomania). Everyone was flipping out about how cool Skull was: the hat, the scarf, the helmet, the hat, the color scheme, the hat, the brief but cool fight sequences, the hat, and definitely the hat. He was absolutely the hottest shit ever for a couple of months. I was never that enamored with him, but it is a pretty great design.

So it turns out that I didn't have a copy of this movie on the external hd I keep all of my Rider stuff on. Wasn't in the Decade folder, wasn't in the W folder, wasn't even in the crossover movie folder that I started a few years ago. I must have deleted it at some point. I was able to find a replacement, though, so I'm still keeping up.

I think the movie is pretty good but a little disjointed. The Dummy case obviously serves as a means to set up the flashback, but it still feels like a second movie sandwiched inside of the first one (which is, of course, also part of a triple feature). I remember liking this more than I did this time through. Still fun, but not peak W.

I completely forgot this where we first saw FangJoker. I know the show does the heavy lifting with why it disappeared, but like the Sonozaki fight near the end, it feels like something that was crammed into the story because it's a movie and not because it naturally fit into the plot.