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Originally Posted by Kickback

What are the odds that Wizard would have five fingers

I'd say the odds of that are pretty good considering that's the default number of fingers people have.

But no, Den-O is right. The number thing referred specifically to the number of power activation items used to transform: 1 card, 2 Gaia Memories, 3 Core Medals, 4 Astro Switches. The pattern died the minute Haruto didn't start wearing five rings on one hand and stayed dead when Kouta didn't have to activate six Lock Seeds at once. From all I've seen of the belt, there's no space to fit seven toy cars into it so Drive is continuing to not use the number pattern. Any claim otherwise is just trying to force a connection to something that the show isn't doing anymore.

Kamen Rider is an ongoing franchise. While Toei is ultimately in charge of the show and Bandai is in charge of the toys, those are just companies. There are individuals in charge of each new series and they aren't always the same people year to year. Sometimes new people come in and start doing something new with the show, sometimes new people come in and put an end to something that the show had been doing. The number pattern was a thing the show did for awhile but now it's over and buried in the past along with Foundation X and (hopefully) the two-episode arc structure.