Spring Kamen Rider Movie - Kurata Returns!

[NeonZ]

Old Riders have gotten upgrades in the form of new and updated materials being used for their suits. The thematic of the suits themselves has not gotten a redesign, but they certainly look modern in comparison. They modernized them without changing the image.

That's only true if you only look at the original up to Stronger though. The modern suits that they use sometimes are worse than the suits we had starting from the Skyrider era.
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Skyrider from the second half of his original series.

Skyrider in Vs Dai-Shocker (Left) and Rider Taisen (Right)

Skyrider from Let's Go Kamen Riders and Kamen Rider Taisen

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Black and Black RX also had some clear downgrades in that same movie. Now, the Rider 1 and 2 suits were rebuilt well there, but even they have gotten cheaper props before. I just think that if they got redesigns by current Toei, they'd be able to go with suits that they can build more consistently, like the Heisei crew, who don't seem to suffer nearly as much when they go with lower quality suits.

If they paint over that Rider 3 design with Rider 1 and 2 colors you'd have an immediately recognizable Rider 1 and 2 that also would look more modern. Takayuki Shibasaki didn't seem to have problems redesigning some abilities of past Riders (like Stronger's new electricity effects, the wave-like Electro Fire, X's new effects for his "X" the effects around Rider 1 and 2's Rider Punches and Kicks, Rider 1's new transformation sequence before the final battle) or even giving them new abilities altogether (X using his X as a projectile, his sword going into a beam form like Faiz's, Shin using energy claws). So, I guess if there's any chance at all of a redesign happening, it'd be this time, especially with Rider 3 making it rather cheap since they can just reuse the suit's mold. If it doesn't happen here, I guess it means we really won't see something like that ever going forward.

Regarding 'new forms', there's that statement from Tetsuo Kurata about a new transformation, although it could just reference a new sequence. Still, looking at the suits in Rider Taisen, a new form could happen just because they'll likely have to rebuilt the Black RX suit anyway, if they're giving him a big role this time. Black RX seemed to have one of the best remade suits back in Vs Dai-Shocker, likely due to his tv appearance, but the suit they were using the last movie was clearly inferior to the original.

 

[Khaiden]

Oh, I never said they were good :laugh:, but the materials are at least more modern in comparison to the somewhat-unreliable stuff they used in the 70's-80's.

Yes, I've hated how certain suits have looked. X being the main one. IMO, even with all that shine now, he still looked his best in the 70's, when the suit just stuck perfectly to the lean physique of Tetsuya Nakayashiki. Not blaming anything on the suit actors, the biggest problem I've seen with it is how the chest piece always seems to pop out, it even happened in Kamen Rider Taisen. This and what you showed with Skyrider is something that tends to happen a lot and I hope they fix, this ain't no stage show. Truly, most of those costumes looked their best in All Riders. Riders 1 and 2 included. Only Megamax has been as good as that IMO (in the Heisei era, that is).

While we're on this topic, V3's current green tone is an eyesore.

 

[cobabooy]

We dont know who will be the villains for is movie yet, but I hope this time we'll get villains who look like a real threat. If we look back at previous Taisen movies, Zangyack-Shocker, Madou and Badan didnt look like a threat at all. I hope this time it will be a villain like Ultron or Thanos from Marvel, it will be great to see the heroes struggle and the eventually overcome a more powerful enemy

 

[Tendou Soujiro]

We dont know who will be the villains for is movie yet, but I hope this time we'll get villains who look like a real threat. If we look back at previous Taisen movies, Zangyack-Shocker, Madou and Badan didnt look like a threat at all. I hope this time it will be a villain like Ultron or Thanos from Marvel, it will be great to see the heroes struggle and the eventually overcome a more powerful enemy

As great as it would be, probably not gonna happen. It's too good of an idea for them to take up. It really would be nice to see all the Riders in their final forms struggle all at once.

 

[NeonZ]

We dont know who will be the villains for is movie yet, but I hope this time we'll get villains who look like a real threat. If we look back at previous Taisen movies, Zangyack-Shocker, Madou and Badan didnt look like a threat at all. I hope this time it will be a villain like Ultron or Thanos from Marvel, it will be great to see the heroes struggle and the eventually overcome a more powerful enemy

All those movies focused on hero vs hero, so there wasn't enough time dedicated for the villains. Generally, we did get the villains beating up heroes in the first part of the movie, but then they fall like dominoes in the second half.

It's kind of funny though, Yonemura's most threatening villains were probably in Smile Pretty Cure, not in any of his Rider works...

 

[raden238]

We dont know who will be the villains for is movie yet, but I hope this time we'll get villains who look like a real threat. If we look back at previous Taisen movies, Zangyack-Shocker, Madou and Badan didnt look like a threat at all. I hope this time it will be a villain like Ultron or Thanos from Marvel, it will be great to see the heroes struggle and the eventually overcome a more powerful enemy

Please don't bring up Ultron or Thanos. Is just makes me sad that we are never gonna get just an All-Star-Avengers like team up movie with various Riders and/or Toku heroes fighting one common foe. Forever Taisen movies are gonna be hero vs hero and who's stronger formula. The usual fighting because we misunderstood each other or to trick the bad guys, the villains are brought back only to die within minutes.

 

[SentaiRiderFan]

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Credit to Heroshock, as always.

 

[NeonZ]

Huh. The "Kamen Rider 3" part of the title seems to get more focus than the "Super Hero Taisen" one...

 

[raden238]

They should of just called it Kamen Rider Taisen 2: The Third Arrival. I really wonder how much "super hero" besides Riders will be focused and featured in this movie.

 

[cobabooy]

Please don't bring up Ultron or Thanos. Is just makes me sad that we are never gonna get just an All-Star-Avengers like team up movie with various Riders and/or Toku heroes fighting one common foe. Forever Taisen movies are gonna be hero vs hero and who's stronger formula. The usual fighting because we misunderstood each other or to trick the bad guys, the villains are brought back only to die within minutes.

I know it's just wishful thinking, but we can always hope. There must be a point when Yonemura must realize he can't do the same thing over and over again, right?