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Originally Posted by Guyver Spawn

The old Kamen Rider shows are made to sell merchandise too, but I feel like they are not super gimmicky about it. Kuuga's forms was handle pretty well in my opinion similar how Ultraman did with Tiga in the mid 90's. Ryuki had a card gimmick, but it didn't feel super force in about it if you ask me.

I have nothing against the newer Kamen Rider shows at all, but sometimes I do cringe at some of the toy gimmicks in the shows (Like the Foodroids or Yurusen in my opinion).

I think a lot of it is that the toys looked less obviously like toys. You look at the Faiz gear or Oni weaponry and they could legitimately pass as real weapons. Nowadays you get stuff like all the Build weapons or Spectre and Necrom’s fucking hand thing that are very obviously plastic toys.