[Kurona]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Androzani84

Though I don’t know for sure why they finally released one (maybe because of how rare the old one had become?)

Well,

A) The Souchaku Henshin figure being 'good' was their reason for not doing one at the time-- in SHF's early days there really was little difference in quality between the two lines. In fact in many cases I'd say the SH figures looked better compared to early SHF counterparts... but really, once they got past like 2011 or 2012 the SHF line's quality had far surpassed SH's, and they could have done one any time. I guess they just figured doing Blade or Hibiki was a bigger priority?

B) There was a pretty good reason for making Kiva at the specific point they did -- he was the final of the 20 Heisei Riders not yet made... and Zi-O had just started airing. They made a pretty big deal out of his reveal at the time as an anniversary celebration; alongside re-issues for about half of the other Heisei Rider SHFs. His original run even came with a Ridewatch Stand!