[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by KamenRiderOOO

And he was revealed on Golden Week. Bandai you cheeky sons of...

Ha! Yeah that's totally it, I didn’t realize it at first but it makes sense.

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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

Yeah. Ok. Lord Baron, Chase, Necrom are web exclusive...Banno is retail. Yeaaaaah. Bandai is just fucking with us now.

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Originally Posted by 2ndSndWve

I'm partly convinced by now that Bandai just flips a coin to decide whether or not a SHF is retail at this point...

I don’t know, maybe Banno is crazy popular over there... but having Gold Drive as a retail release but not Necrom or even SS Gatack is really weird. It’s also equally weird how this comes out before the final form of the damn protagonist of the show which is still not released.

The only thing I can come up with why so many "popular" characters or ones that would’ve been retail release aren't is that maybe they want to have some room for the upcoming Rider 1 and the rumored Amazons among the rest of the Ghost stuff. I mean that still doesn’t explain why Gold Drive is a retail release, but maybe they think Gold Drive will sell better than Necrom or Gatack.