I got a question for ya. What is the best collectable rider gadget? This can be either in show cannon, toy, or (and what i would love to see) both?
Oh man, I kind of fell in love with the Gashats from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid because they were supposed to represent video game cartridges.
I don’t own a lot of them but the ones I do own I love, especially Pac Adventure because Pac-Man holds a lot of very fond memories for me of when I was a VERY young child (it came out when I was 5).
I just loved that they made ones based off of actual video games rather than just the made up games of the TV series, it made things feel more ‘real’ if that makes any sense and really played to my sense of nostalgia. I’m not a huge gamer these days (I own a PS4 that I basically use to stream and play Yakuza and a Switch that I won in a contest) in fact I would call myself a total casual gamer but the old days of Video Games hold a special place in my heart.
That’s why I loved the Gashats, they remind me of the old days of the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom or the Super Nintendo when carts were these big things and you blew on them once in a while to supposedly get them to work better. Those were the days when I could not get enough of video games, the days before I became a hardcore Tokusatsu and Anime fan. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid took me back to those days. As of right now, the Gamer Driver is still the only Rider Belt I have ever purchased and the Gashats the only Rider collectible gimmick I own.
I owe that all to Pac-Man.