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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

I really don't though. It's cheap and/or just kind of greedy. It's not like it's such a costly thing for them to do; after all, they had no issue releasing most of the Ryuki riders with them.

I'd imagine they went all out with the Ryuki riders because they were competing with Figma at the time (who was producing similarly-scaled Dragon Knight figmas), hence why the line started off with a bang and included contract monsters for both Ryuki and Knight.

I'd also imagine they had a lot of faith in the Ryuki line and were willing to splurge on it a bit, considering this show had 13 Riders, 2 Psuedo-Riders, a non-canon Rider from Decade and two Super forms, and all of them were eventually released in the line, whereas we still have gaps missing from other Rider shows with much smaller casts.