Unused and Obscure Rider Concepts

[Ziginz Zegell]

So as I spend another friday night procrastinating here and over at the Kamen Rider Wiki, I am reminded of just how many rider concepts were never used or have been mostly forgotten. A few examples of what I am talking about are early sketches for riders and their forms, riders that were planned, but never used, stage show riders, manga only riders, and SIC exclusive riders. This also extends to non-rider heroes and various kaijin.

So which of these forgotten concepts stick out the most to you all? Which ones would you have perfered over what we got? Which concepts would you like to see revived as something new? You get the idea. Pictures are of course welcom but let's keep original concepts to the fan fic thread shall we. That isn't to say you can't say what you wanted to see, just don't take up half a page doing it. Also if something smells like a Troll...then it probably is and should be ignored.

To start here is a rider design that didn't get any use but could have been alot of fun. Kamen Rider Alpha and Kamen Rider Neo-Alpha

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Kamen_Rider_Alpha

http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Kamen_Rider_Neo-Alpha

 

[HenshinSlayer]

I know in Ryuki stage there is Cerberus.

And what about rumored riders that should've appeared to be?

 

[Ziginz Zegell]

Rumors are just that: Rumors. But even rumor riders have been some very neat concepts. This is more for offical, and borderline official content though. I would let rumors in, but alot of them were just people's own ideas that they were passing as rumors. There are other threads for that.

 

[Sentaifan'07 Xman]

What about the unused concepts for any of the Kabuto riders?

 

[Ziginz Zegell]

Do you have any of them to present? I just don't want this thread to become full of old 2ch rumors that posters put up that weren't even remotely true.

 

[Starscreamer]

what about more of a series concept? With Kabuto I made an interesting observation...it was the anniversary series...and I think they made the costumes before they wrote the show...
Kickhopper and Punchhopper were to be KR 1 and 2
Kabuto Stronger
Drake v3
thebee was super 1
Sasword and Gattack...not so sure though...

 

[Ziginz Zegell]

I could actually see that now that I look at them. I can except observations like that. Only thing is if that were the case then why didn't Kick and Punch hopper have cast off forms? Or do you think they were originally meant to?

 

[Tendou Soujiro]

Unused Kabuto Rider concepts? Pictures PLEASE.

Sounds awesome. I really wish we could've gotten something else for Kabuto's movie Riders because they were absolute crap.

 

[Ziginz Zegell]

As I was sitting in my car going through rider pics on my tablet I suddenly remembered the very concepts those above spoke of and know I have them on my home PC. They arn't spectacular, but they are pretty swag. I'll see about posting them later unless someone else beats me to it. Apologies Starscreamer for not remembering what you were refering to sooner. Dirp on my part.

Also Tendou if you want I think I have pics of some very nice custom figures of the kabuto riders as worms. Very creepy looking but alot of fun to have.

Also just found this while looking for a link to those Kabuto pics. Looks like an original art work, but man is it nice.

http://cghub.com/files/Image/213001-214000/213116/717_stream.jpg

It also seems there is an old Concept art thread her eon the forums somewhere from back in 2009. May have to dig for it and see what treasures it held.

 

[Nnnkingston]

Kamen Rider Double CycloneAccelExtreme. I was actually quite upset this never appeared in the show.