Kamen Rider Drive - News/Rumours Thread 1

[Black Fang]

Ignoring your blatantly putting words in my mouth

The moment you started going after Malika's character because of her sex, it was implied.

there's no difference between trusting someone you thought was a friend and didn't know was plotting against you, vs trusting someone you actively conspired with (to the point of trying to kill another person on their orders?)

So would you have liked Malika to have gone rogue and died instead of Sigurd? Or what if she was the mastermind rather than Duke? She would still be a villain at the end of the day and not someone to look up to regardless. Besides, I thought you've always said that villains should not be as well-written as heroes.

 

[lazycoconut]

The moment you started going after Malika's character because of her sex, it was implied.

That is again putting words in my mouth

So would you have liked Malika to have gone rogue and died instead of Sigurd? Or what if she was the mastermind rather than Duke? She would still be a villain at the end of the day and not someone to look up to regardless. Besides, I thought you've always said that villains should not be as well-written as heroes.

I said they shouldn't be given more screen time than the heroes or be more important than the heroes (a show like Gekiranger being a prime example)

Which leads me to ask: wtf kind of villain group is this show going to have? If it's really a vehicle-themed Rider will there be some kind of message about pollution? Go-onger is six years old after all

 

[Black Fang]

That would be the most obvious road to go down. And given Toei, that's probably what will happen :redface2:

Suddenly I'm reminded of that farming Sentai idea someone on another board came up with. You know if that ever happened Toei would make the bad guys some giant industrial corporation stand-in that hates nature. Let's hear it for uncreativity.

 

[lazycoconut]

That would be the most obvious road to go down. And given Toei, that's probably what will happen :redface2:

Not sure if pun intentional :sweat:

Gaim has given us a fair bit of "humans are bastards and inherently selfish" but more to do with how they treat each other than the natural world. Although like people on other sites I do wonder why Toei would want two vehicle-themed series running at once

 

[NeonZ]

Which leads me to ask: wtf kind of villain group is this show going to have? If it's really a vehicle-themed Rider will there be some kind of message about pollution? Go-onger is six years old after all

Rider isn't really Sentai though. We had USB memories as a gimmick for W, but the villains had nothing to do with, say, computer virus, and Gaim has nothing to do with healthy eating habits. The only thing this indicates is that the enemies also will have some kind of vehicle/mechanical theme. Maybe we'll finally get cyborgs? It'd be really underwhelming if the monsters are just robots unless they do it very well.

 

[KamenRiderShinzo]

Anyone getting any Metal Hero vibes from the design rumour? In fact, I was thinking of Metal Heroes ever since Drive's name was confirmed. Like his suit would have a similar design style to Metal Heroes. I mainly think of Fire from Winspector.

In fact, do you guys think that Drive may transform in his car or something, with his car transforming too, as a homage to Winspector and Solbrain or something? He might still be able to tranform outside though.

 

[Yosemite Ham]

Anyone getting any Metal Hero vibes from the design rumour? In fact, I was thinking of Metal Heroes ever since Drive's name was confirmed. Like his suit would have a similar design style to Metal Heroes. I mainly think of Fire from Winspector.

In fact, do you guys think that Drive may transform in his car or something, with his car transforming too, as a homage to Winspector and Solbrain or something? He might still be able to tranform outside though.

Yeah, I'm totally with you here. I personally think that when we finally see Drive's design, it'll be something right in between typical Kamen Rider designs and something like a Metal Hero. Kinda like how the Gobusters designs were on that fine line between sentai and metal hero.

I think it'd be really cool to see him transform in his car but something like that would only happen a handful of times in the series, I'd imagine.

 

[FlameDragon]

i am predicting the design/concept will be a car/music themed rider. his henshin items are thin wheel discs that he puts in a cd player to transform (in the disc drive). his three main forms are based off three main vehicles, "Rock Speed Track" is based off a Red/Orange Sports car and rock music. "Pop Dynamic Track" is based off a Blue/Yellow Hatchback and pop music. and "Rap Strength Track" is based off a Purple/Green SUV/Jeep and rap music.

i guess we will see how the rider looks when we get pictures of him, but that's just my concept on what i think drive will be like.

 

[Black Fang]

Anyone getting any Metal Hero vibes from the design rumour? In fact, I was thinking of Metal Heroes ever since Drive's name was confirmed. Like his suit would have a similar design style to Metal Heroes. I mainly think of Fire from Winspector.

In fact, do you guys think that Drive may transform in his car or something, with his car transforming too, as a homage to Winspector and Solbrain or something? He might still be able to tranform outside though.

If that's so I'd rather they just bring back Metal Hero, either via the Space Sheriffs or (to go with Winspector, Solbrain and Exceedraft) the Rescue Police.

 

[lazycoconut]

If that's so I'd rather they just bring back Metal Hero, either via the Space Sheriffs or (to go with Winspector, Solbrain and Exceedraft) the Rescue Police.

Not sure if the release of the new Sharivan/Shaider movies makes this more likely (since Toei obviously thinks they'll sell) or less likely (since they're straight to V-Cinema)