[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Destroyman

I had just heard something like Skull shows up in it that's all.

Skull shows up in Episode Yellow (Diend), but it's nothing special or relevant.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Destroyman

I had just heard something like Skull shows up in it that's all.

Diend summons a bunch of movie Riders, including Skull. He doesn't speak or do anything major. That's all the W-ness that we get in those movies.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

A to Z, the two Movie Wars and the two W Returns, yeah. The show is kind of odd in how many movies it has - the show was just really popular and Toei decided to cash in on it by making the W Returns films.

W Returns? Are those the Accel movies?

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Ryu mellows pretty quickly. He's not the persistent asshole that Kaixa or Zereonos were.

Yeah, that was a nice change. We are up to episode 31 now, which we will continue tomorrow. I've gotta say, Wakana started to grow on me until she suddenly became all random due to Weather tampering with her memory. I loved Terror's expression though when he spoke to him inbetween the dishes, that was priceless. I've gotta say though, Terror is probably the best evil male villian I have seen from a Kamen Rider series in years. In fact, he might be the only male villian I have actually liked since most of the others either showed up randomly near the end of the show or were just morons. Something about this evil organization really stands out from what I am used to with a Kamen Rider show, and it is kind of nice. I won't say I think it is better than Blade or Kiva though, but it is definitely up there as one of the best. I just hope the ending does not leave a sour taste in my mouth.

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There are sixteen Figuarts of him. The main combos got single releases and the mix-and-match versions got two-packs. There's also Fang/Joker and every version of Xtreme, including the one that never actually existed, and a couple of movie-only forms like Cyclone/Cylcone, Joker/Joker, and Joker. the main nine combos, Fang/Joker, and Xtreme got wide releases. The rest were exclusive.

Yeah, I was looking at them on ebay, but the prices are insane. I think the cheapest one was like $140, so I decided I don't want him that badly anymore. And then I also saw that Terror and Taboo have figures, which were like $300, so forget that.

[Matrixbeast]

Check BBTS. It has Extreme for pre-order and the Dopants for about $80.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

W Returns? Are those the Accel movies?

The first is an Accel movie, the second one is based around Eternal and NEVER.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Check BBTS. It has Extreme for pre-order and the Dopants for about $80.

You may still be able to find Xtreme on amiami or hlj, too. That thing hella shelfwarmed. Do not even think of paying $300 for Taboo or Terror - they're just statues.

Mandarake would be a pretty good place to look, too, they have a lot of older Figuarts at non-stupid prices.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

You may still be able to find Xtreme on amiami or hlj, too. That thing hella shelfwarmed. Do not even think of paying $300 for Taboo or Terror - they're just statues.

Mandarake would be a pretty good place to look, too, they have a lot of older Figuarts at non-stupid prices.

I tend to forget that Amiami is still pretty useful, despite how stupid their pre-orders are.

[Dr Kain]

Oh yeah, did Nihon ever sub the director's cut of the AtoZ movie (I think I might have already asked this though)? I can only find the theatrical version in all of my files and even on their tracker page, nothing says they have the DC version.

And for some reason their Eternal movie only plays with audio commentary on, and I'm not sure why.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Oh yeah, did Nihon ever sub the director's cut of the AtoZ movie (I think I might have already asked this though)? I can only find the theatrical version in all of my files and even on their tracker page, nothing says they have the DC version.

And for some reason their Eternal movie only plays with audio commentary on, and I'm not sure why.

I can't help you on that one - those both came out after I fully switched to Over-Time. I can tell you that O-T does have both of those and they both work fine.

[Dr Kain]

I ended up downloading OT's, converted it to MP4, and then found where the Nihon version was. Nevertheless, after doing all of that work, I decided to watch OT's version. The movie itself was a lot better than the other Rider movies, but like all of the other ones, the pacing sucks. I've gotta stop watching the Director's Cuts because they seem to have one really important scene that makes the movie make a whole lot more sense, but then it gets dragged into 15 more minutes of boredom. You have some movies that start out great and then go down hill after 10 minutes like The Last Card, and then you have movies that take an hour to get good like Paradise Lost. Of course, the reason I did watch the DC of AtoZ was because I read it gave more development to the Sonozaki family, and I did not see anything of the like.

Anyway, with that said, you could probably tell where we are in the series. We have 5 episodes left, and this show remains excellent, but I have to wonder how they are going to defeat Museum and Foundation X all in the next two hours. Thus far though, I love Clay Doll's Xtreme form as it makes me think of something out of a Persona game, and that Foundation X dude is pretty cool. I think my least favorite set of episodes have been the ones with the Gene Dopant followed by the Old Dopant. However, there is not too much here to complain about.

[Den-O]

For some reason people constantly complain about the final episode. I won't spoil why that is, or what happens for you. But I actually really dug the last episode as it felt open ended. It wasn't some crazy final form battle to decide everything and then the heroes just walked away. It's the aftermath of the final battle, seeing where life takes you when the war is over and small skirmishes are all that's left. The ending really is more of a beginning to me, and I appreciate it because of that. It's like that series epilogue that you always want, but never get (or at least I do).