[Kiwami]

Wall of text incoming, but can I just say that I think they really dropped the ball on the belt when it comes to Specter? First, the orange belt and grip on the lever. Doesn’t really affect the toy in any way but it looks ass. Specter’s costume is black and blue, the orange parts look really random. Why couldn’t these be blue? You could literally release a second belt which is the same one as Ghost’s but with blue elements and call it Specter Driver. And to don’t be an ass to customers who already have the belt, release a Specter Kit with the blue parts which they can swap on their old Driver.

Next: The sounds. Some Eyecons just play Specter’s jingle instead of Ghost’s, permanently. Which makes no sense considering they steal Eyecons at this point in the show and if Specter uses Edison’s Eyecon it will play his jingle and not Ghost’s, but the toy won’t be able to do that.

Would a switch somewhere on the toy which permanently sets the jingle for every Eyecon to either Ghost or Specter really be that hard to do? I think not. And it’s not like that won’t give away something to early or something like that, Specter’s silhouette was shown before the show even began so you can just make a page in the instruction booklet or the a picture on the box telling kids there is a "mystery switch" which will come in handy once a new character appears on the show. Yes, there might be more Riders later in the show and giving all of them away might suck, but hackers are through this thing anyways, and it only has these two jingles, right? Shouldn’t be a problem then.

I mean yeah, one belt for several characters is hardly anything new in Kamen Rider, Ryuki Riders all had the same belts, so did Gaim, Drive had 2 Mach Drivers and so on and so forth. But the thing is: The belt on the Ryuki Riders was neutral in color and it was personalized through the card deck which made the buckle. Gaim had the Lockseeds which were colored appropriately and had images of the weapons and stuff, and they had the faceplates. The Energy Rider’s are another story, but I don’t really mind them since they all have the same weapon and stuff. And I don’t think the designs crash that hard anyways. Same with the Mach Driver.

But the orange parts on Specter look completely out of place. Yes, his weapon has orange parts too, but that is the ugliest weapon I’ve seen in a long time anyways so I don’t even want to think about seeing that thing. But the Driver is a part of Specters costume, and the toy lacks the needed function of switching jingles when it comes to the Eyecons.