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Originally Posted by goldblade6

I'm a Sentai fan - never been a huge fan of Kamen Rider - but I am surprised that these fruit toys are so popular. I thought Kamen Rider Wizard had the coolest belt, and the rings made for great collectibles. I thought they were really cool. I don't know what people see in OOO or Gaim...? Can anyone sell me on it?

Its what kids see in the toys, and that makes up a majority of the sales.

I think what made kids gravitate towards the O medals was not only the Power animals theme, but also that they were cool, easy to carry coins. Plus that if you traded a core medal for another one, you got a different OOO form so that each medal was equally relevant.

With lockseeds, I think its sorta the same thing. It makes its own sounds (the Invess games sounds could be used by kids to imagine Invess battles), its easy to carry in someone's pocket. Again, trading lockseeds makes each one equally relevant as each lockseed has a weapon design associated with it and its own set of sounds based on the face plate.

The problem with Astroswitches and Wizard Rings was that a couple reasons.

1 Kids couldn't carry them easily, sure it fit in their pocket but the size of the gimmick item was not relative to scale of its real world counterpart. Who walks around with big hunks of palstic with different mechanisms of turning one on or huge ass rings in their pockets?

2 Most of the switches or rings had shitty powers. Dress up and light rings , switches that give Fourze a brush leg and a ski, these are a few of the lame powers that made up the gimmick. And since these ability gimmicks made up most of the toys, getting a bad one for Christmas is a high possibility