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Originally Posted by coturos

i think this thread would be alot better if people justified there answers. ill start, ooo is awesome and best because everyone is needed, every part is epic, even stupid slapstick leads up to sumthing, and must we forget..... ANKH!!!

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- Hibiki is great because it has so many fantastically deep and complex characters, an engaging coming of age storyline, fantastic outdoor locations, and some beautiful cinematography.

- Decade gets a lot of hate because of the ending, but that shouldn't negate the fact that, up until that point, it was a really fun show and it was really cool to see all of those old Rider suits and concepts brought back with some different twists.

- Den-O is fun. I love the Taros, I love Owner, I love Rina Akiyama in latex, and I'm always up for more wacky hijinks. It does suck that they've lost some of the actual Rider actors, but Kotaro has proven to be a pretty decent replacement protagonist.

- The Daizyujin cockpit set is great. I loved it as a kid watching MMPR and I think it still holds up today as one of the best mech cockpits ever. It is such a bummer to realize that it's just the same set from Jetman with some red paint and dinosaur stickers. It just comes off as really lazy on Toei's part.

- A decent segment of the toku fanbase has problems with the older shows. The stories are more basic, there's little in the way of ongoing plot arcs, the special effects and costumes are much more simplistic, etc. I love all of that stuff, though, and I still enjoy the highly episodic, monster of the week, scientists and/or kids in peril format of classic Kamen Rider. In a lot of ways, they do some way more inventive stuff than the modern shows.

- Black RX is... well, I hesitate to say "terrible," but it's not very good. It picks up sometime after the end of Black but manages to somehow completely ruin everything it inherited from that show. Kotaro is noticeably different, the tone is much lighter and sillier, and outside of some great monster designs it just doesn't feel like anything in it comes close to the standard set by Black.

- Figuarts are awesome, they really are. They're easily the coolest action figures I've ever owned. That said, there's just something so much more satisfying in the smaller Kiwami Tamashiis that attracts me more to that line. I think a lot of it is play value - the more recent figures have started adding in some cool extra features that the Figuarts don't have, like Kaixa's transforming Kaixa Pointer or Agito Trinity's weapons with the fold out parts. They do things that Figuarts would accomplish by adding extra accessories and I find that adds a lot of play value. Plus we're getting some really fun vehicles in the line now and they're all way the hell cheaper. I guess I just find the KT line to by more bang for my buck than the average Figuart.