After watching the original series that eventually had time-traveling train demons, fruit samurai, and rabbit-tank-based characters, I can say that Dex's origins from planet Me Hoy Minoy or whatever and not-ManBearPig, is really, really stupid.

Fun Fact: In Power Rangers Time Force; there's a scene where Nadira is crying while watching Masked Rider on the TV, (although pretending it was some dramatic soap opera). It was in the episode "Quantum Quest".

One of the coolest thing about the Japanese Kamen Rider was “Henshin”, I gotta admit 😎.

As soon as my son got interested in Kamen Rider 5 years ago (he's 13 now), he says one thing when someone mentions ANYTHING about Masked Rider: "We don't talk about Ferbus. Ever."

Thanks for the shout-out! I was in in-house character designer and animator at Fox KIDS! Network at the time, and the promo producers and jr execs (who averaged 24 years of age) built up a complete backstory to explain Hal and Barbara's marriage, and just how Albi got into the picture. It has to do with Vietnam, a promise made to a dying comrade, and a one-night-stand at a whore house in Saigon. Believe me, it was so much better than the actual show.

Biggest mistake was dropping the connection to Power Rangers. A guest appearance by Jason or Tommy would've been killer

I remember seeing parts of a Masked Rider episode and thinking it was some sort of weird "Power Rangers-ified" Green Hornet show replacing the car with a motorcycle.

Getting into the later kamen rider series was such an eye opener after watching Saban shows as a kid. The writing is so much deeper in japan, especially as a kids show.

"It's Masked Rider! And his trusty sidekick, Magic Spoon!"

Watching Masked Rider as a kid was something that helped steer me towards Kamen Rider as an adult. My familiarity with the Black RX suit helped ease me in to the franchise as a whole, much in the same way as a love for the Thunderzords drove me to watch Dairanger and become a Sentai fan.

I believe the real reason Kamen Rider Dragon Knight failed, was because it wasn't in the right time slot. It was on Saturday morning, which is primarily geared toward younger children. I think the show would have appealed more to the slightly older Toonami crowd.

Dude, FINALLY, somebody acknowledges the undeniable similarity between Ferbus and the Ferby toys that came out AFTER Masked Rider! I've been trying to call attention to this for years, lmao

I remember that I actually liked Masked Rider more than Power Rangers as a kid, yet I somehow completely forgot about Furbus until more recently when I bothered to look the show up again. I swear it's like my brain blocked my entire memory of the creature, which seems strange considering how prominent it was.

5:55 another fun fact! in Kamen Rider shows, the 'costumes' were often... not costumes or suits that powered the characters up, but full on transformations or a mix and match thing (for example: original Kamen rider had implied body transformation, but their helmets/masks were still proper masks that had to be put on) Kamen Rider Amazon and the titular rider that was addapted, black/black RX in particular were full on transformations instead of costumes. Amazon turned into a violent lizard-bug man capable of biting and clawing at his enemies, with official art often showing him as an organic thing rather than a setting. As for black, you actually see the protagonist turn into a digusting bug man in the first episode (though in silhouetted form) before properly completing the transformation and taking the more costume/humanoid form... and every transformation sequence actually alluding to that, with a shot of his human head which flashes into a monstrous bug form before forming into the 'costume' helmet. This concept was brought to life more directly in the Shin Kamen Rider movie, were the protag just full on undergoes a gory transformation into an anthropomorphic murderous bug man.

I gotta say, I loved Masked Rider as a kid. It was nonsensical and weird, but I identified with Prince Dex better than I did with any of the Rangers. As a person on the spectrum Dex's inability to understand social norms, his total lack of interest in romantic relationships, and his tendency to ramble on about subjects he was passionate about resonated.

I have always believed that the second US Kamen Rider adaptation’s biggest stumbling block was that they chose to adapt a season of Kamen Rider that was already several years old. The Japanese Kamen Rider shows had significantly improved their special effects since then and the show would have looked far more impressive if they had adapted a newer series. My impression is that is that they chose to adapt Kamen Rider Ryuki into Kamen Rider Dragon Knight because Ryuki had one of the largest number of riders in a series. Plenty of toy potential. One up side to using Ryuki is that the Ryuki movie featured a female rider (an extreme rarity in the history of Japanese Kamen Rider) so they were able to feature a female rider in Dragon Knight.

I was today years old when I found out that they cut Riderman, the guy who is constantly fighting Ichigo for the title of "my favorite Kamen Rider," out of a pretty garbage adaptation of Black RX.

I can't wait for the review of "Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills." That's definitely a cheap Power Rangers knockoff.

Not gonna lie I loved Masked Rider, I still quite like it today, it opened the door for me becoming a Kamen Rider fan, and ive had years of enjoyment thanks to it, ecto-phase active! HENSHIN!

Saban's Masked Rider is not "it's so bad that it's good" it is just "bad-bad" on diarrhea levels, we are lucky that we can now view the Kamen Rider series in their original internationally which includes Toei's KZfaq channel.

Sabans signature move: make a catchy theme song in 10 words or less for every show.

The real problem with why Dragon Knight was cancelled was due simply to the fact that the CW, which frequently changed the name of the programming block which at the time was called Vortex, did NO ADVERTISING FOR IT. It also didn't help much that the toyline was a bit jumbled with the figures being great but the belt being extremely ugly and didn't function at all like the original one thanks to a revolving gimmick that the "deck boxes" which were now reduced to cardboard cutouts would slide into. It is worth noting that the series did get a release in Japan with the original English audio intact alongside a new Japanese dub. I hope we get one more shot at the shows as Build would be one of the best selling ones here just looking at the toyline alone.

Let's not forget Kamen Rider was the starting point for the holy toku trinity (sorry Ultraman) and hilariously RX's yellow form, Roborider was heavily inspired by Robocop. It all comes full circle. Also Anno literally living out his childhood dreams one by one. He made a Godzilla movie, an Ultraman movie and now a Kamen Rider movie.

I was just talking about an episode of this show two days ago, specifically the episode where Dex's adoptive father and younger brother got transformed into bugs from looking at some strange insects in a cave. I remember really liking this particular show, Ferbus was definitely my favorite character. The character of Ferbus was designed by the Chiodo Brothers.

Kamen Rider Black was a pretty big thing in South East Asia. The concept was awesome, especially in the latter half when it turned into a tragic brother vs brother, and the first Rider vs Rider conflict.

I never watched Masked Rider. As a kid I knew the source footage was from Japan, so my best friend got the orginal episodes on VHS from a video store which imported TV shows from Japan and in house subbed them. We would cut school and watch Kamen Rider. OG binge watching. Went through a season in about a week. Obviously we got busted and had to make up classes but it was kinda worth it. Thanks for the video, Dan & Producer Greg!

Would support a crowdfunded "Duck Bears" comic, ngl.

Back in '08 when Dragon Knight was about to premier, I remember OtakUSA magazine covering it and talking to some of the cast and crew. They explained they had to go to Toei in Japan and take a quiz on Kamen Rider to show that they were on the same page. And even as of a few months ago in an interview with Variety, a Toei producer mentioned Masked Rider off-hand and joked about how the recent efforts at bringing Kamen Rider to America (like the Kamen Rider W anime set to be released in the US) was "revenge" for Masked Rider. Toei is still very sore, and for good reason. As a side note, I remember back when Saban bought back the Power Rangers license from Disney and released Power Rangers Samurai that there was a lot of buzz over Saban taking a trademark out on the name "Power Rider". There was a lot of hope that this would lead to a second shot at adapting Kamen Rider, but evidently nothing came of it. A pity.

I came here to say "hail Ferbus"

Can we talk about the GOOD Kamen Rider adaptation now, Dragon Knight?

I see Furbus and all I keep thinking is, "Did this show birth the Furbie by accident?".

It was definitely poorly executed. But you're right, oversaturation had set in, as well. I was into "Power Rangers", gave "VR troopers" a shot, as soon as I heard the name "Big Bad Beetleborgs", i was like, "okay, i'm done!" lol.

Duck Bears (woohoo) looks more like The Mighty Ducks then anything lol

I really loved Dragon Knight, and I'd love to see an episode about it here someday!

To be honest I thought this said KAREN rider and I was ready for an epic public meltdown involving a manager.

Yeay, so this means the next episode would be the long awaited "Kamen Rider" series😜😜😍

Now I just want to see an animated series about a platypus crew having space adventures. Honestly that could have been the whole video, but uhh yeah, kamen rider.

I can't take Heisei and Reiwa Rider Seriously because the silly moments remind me of that Adaption.

I got hooked watching Black and Black RX while I was stationed in Japan. I still keep up with all the new rider series through subtitled dvd box sets. Awesome stuff. The US versions......not so much so.

Thanks Toy Galaxy for this, somewhat harsh, yet pretty accurate take on Saban's Masked Rider. The original intent (besides a cash grab) was to create a show skewed younger. Which explains a lot of the silliness. Still, it's nice to know that somebody remembers our deeply silly show.

When I was a kid I watched Kamen Rider Black and RX here in Brazil dubbed in portuguese thanks to the now gone Machete Network. I was a huge fan, so when I saw this show, it felt like a personal attack.

I did watch Masked Rider during the MMPR days, I did enjoy it but yeah, it was rough. Times like this I'm glad I discovered tokuSHOUTsu for the Super Sentai, Kamen Rider & Ultraman orignals. I just wish we would get more than the original & Kuuga for Kamen Rider.

That begining line read was flawless...very bilbo-esque

I'm actually really happy that at least some of these shows are streaming legally in the US. Build and W are among my top favorites. If Ultraman can get a good foothold in the states, why can't Kamen Rider? Especially with Zero-One FINALLY getting a physical release at some point? Hey, how about a video about Ultraman: Towards The Future?

These make me look forward to Thursday

i still have no idea why Saban went with Black RX to adapt instead of Kamen Rider Black that preceded it. It's like the MCU starting with Age of Ultron.

Oh, another fun thing about this show: This was one that got a real orchestra to do the music, and so it ended up being one of the primary sources of the orchestral music recycled for Saban's Digimon dub. They even used a snippet of Ferbus's theme as the music for the Saban logo seen at the end of their 1996-2001 shows! (The Netflix streams replace it with the new logo, though, so it's probably like that on the new DVDs, too.)

I liked the Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight and the Japanese series it was based on. Good suits. Wish that was on DVD. Of course, I'm also a Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad fan, so I might be in the minority.

I got unreasonably excited when I saw this pop up. Thank you for covering Masked Rider! Back in the day I was the only kid who instantly thought that Masked Rider was way cooler than any of the Power Rangers. Fast forward many years later, and I have become a super fan of Kamen Rider. But to this day in part because of my childhood, Kamen Rider Black RX is my favorite out of all of them. Everything about him is badass, and the icing on the cake is he has the best theme song. The depth of your research is unparalleled and you match it with great sardonic wit. Love your channel!

We really do need more shows about space-venturing platypuses.

I'm 50 years ago, from Hong Kong, and watched Japanese Super Hero shows like Kamen Rider and Super Sentai my entire life. I watched the original Black & RX when I was still in Hong Kong, and then got to watch Masked Rider when I was doing university in Canada at the time... what an eyesore...

Was expecting a video about this show, glad I got about what I was expecting.

Man, you make such excellent, quality videos. Im flat out stunned you dont have a million subscribers. one of these days one of your videos will blow up huge and your channel will EXPLODE. keep it up buddy.

I somehow missed this show as a kid. Idk how when I watched both power rangers AND vr troopers, but hey, seems like it worked out for me

Sometimes, I can't help but wonder if perhaps things might've turned out differently for this series had "Saban's Masked Rider" done just a few things instead of what they actually ended up doing with the show/ First of all, no Ferbus. He was cute but completely unnecessary and caused the show's tone to be widely inconsistent. Get the most obvious thing out of the way. Have it be a two-season adaptation of both "BLACK" and "BLACK RX". The first season "BLACK", would take place on Edenoi suffering through a post-apocloyptic plague caused by the Gorgom cult. This would be all done with a tone very akin to the Judd Lynn scripted Post-Zordon era Seasons of "Power Rangers" including the orchestral music and more drama driven writing. Since the series aired weekly on Saturday mornings instead airing also on weekdays like the Rangers and Troopers, the show would also be serialized, thereby making it necessary for you to watch EVERY WEEK. The first season would end with Dex defeating the big bad, but despite that, the massive ecological and economic damage to the planet had already been done giving the season a cliffhanger/downer ending. Going into the second season "BLACK RX", as the Edonites try to rebuild, Dex's uncle Dregon is revealed to have betrayed the planet and used the remnants of Gorgom's cult to create the insectivore army which prompts the premise that we're familiar with from the show we actually got. I remember seeing the original trailer that included footage from "Masked Rider's" pilot, and it seemed to imply that the original intention was for Masked Rider's story to be similar to Superman's in the sense that after King Lexian sends Dex to Earth . . . Edenoi blows up. Instead of the "Masked Rider" warriors in the finale, Dex would be joined by the Power Rangers to defeat Count Dregon once and for all. They'd probably have to recreate that monster costume, but "VR Troopers" managed to make an adequate suit for their originally Japanese main villain. Maybe it could've worked. I know it's long past the point it matters, but I'm just coming up with my own ideas for fun. What do you guys think?

This has become my favorite channel on KZfaq. Thanks for the work you guys do.

Who remember the spoons that used to change colors when you put them in the milk, it came from inside of the cereal boxes back in the 90s, or the big silver Olympics coins that came in the cereal box 😁

Lol I remember my crush in second grade gave me this as a secret Santa gift at school. I treasured that toy so much I began watching the show and really tried to get into it. I went back to power rangers lol

I consider myself very lucky "Kamen Rider Black RX" and "Chojin Sentai Jetman" where the 2 shows got me into KR / Sentai in the early 90s VHS tape trading days

This is SO crazy. My friend and I were talking about Power Rangers yesterday, and I said “I’m surprised Saban never did anything with Kamen Rider.” I was 5 when Power Rangers came out, and I watched pretty much until high school. I also watched VR Troopers, Samurai Cyber-Squad, and Beetleborgs. I don’t remember a single frame of this.

I was really disappointed in this show, i did watch it when it was on air. I did eventually go to find Kamen Rider fan subs and watch some of the newer shows. Decade was a good one to get you interested in the lore and the tropes, and OOO and Wizard are just some personal favorites (although some people don t like wizard as much)

I really loved the introduction of the character in Power Rangers and I loved the idea of him having his own group of rebels with the hoods and gas masks, doing hit and run attacks on Count Dregon's forces. If that was the show, it would have been awesome. Unfortunately, they put him on Earth in the suburbs with dumb comedy and villains of the week. With that said, his armor, armory and vehicles were awesome, and that opening theme was so damn great and epic that I can't hate on the show, I wish it were on DVD or streaming. I think if they had him mainly on Edenoi and then had him occasionally save an Earth-like colony (to explain the Japanese footage where he's in the city) but mainly tell the story of the Edenoi rebellion it probably would have gotten a bigger fanbase.

Loving the videos,trip down my childhood, keep them coming you rock Toy Galaxy.

Moral of the story: Never let a space royalty be some kind of Kamen Rider since it would either results in an extinction of Mars population or something like Ferbus happen

My local fox station didn't carry this show, but I loved the suit design. I later found out it was terrible, but it lead me to watching Kamen Rider on my own. I am very happy with Toei trying to bring it west again with Shout Factory, just waiting to get more Black episodes after the 2 they put on their Tokuatsu channel.

Despite my love for Power Rangers, and it being the first series for me. Masked Rider is my real gateway drug into Toku series'. I loved Masked Rider and when I found a bootleg for Kamen Rider Black I was sucked in. I still love all the Sentai series, but Kamen Rider is the only one I keep up with weekly. I also Loved the Dragon Knight series.

I'm surprised it took this long to do a Rider episode. Great work!!

Didn’t watch this show much but I think I saw one or two episodes. I have seen the power rangers crossover story many times. It still holds up pretty well. Dragon Knight was a a real fun show for me though. I have much happier memories of that series. Great job on this video!

I loved Masked Rider when I was like 4, preferred it to Power Rangers even but there is no way I am ever revisiting the show. I did buy a Cyclopter figure this year though.

Another show I never heard of thank you Toy Galaxy for introducing me to the weird and wonderful and Bizarre!

I remember seeing this as a kid but some how blocked the bear duck creature from memory. I remember my dad would watch Power Rangers with me but would not watch this. Didn't this show also have a talking motorcycle named "Chopper", or did I jump universes.

It lasted 40 whole episodes?! I thought it got cancelled after, like, 13 episodes. I don't know if "DuckBears" is something he came up with just for this episode, but I'm honestly shocked that *wasn't* a thing at some point in the 80s or early 90s. You can't tell me "Daring DuckBears" or "Power Platypus Patrol Corps" doesn't sound like something that would've been slapped on a lunchbox to try and cash in on the TMNT craze.

I loved Masked Rider. First time I've ever heard of the 10 rider finale though. I had the base from Masked Rider toy but nothing else to my knowledge. Pretty sure one of the antenna broke off. My family never really throws away stuff so I wonder if it's still in a box somewhere. Then again I apparently saved my TMNT toys from a church yard sale so who knows. When they did the figuarts SS RX Black I had to pick it up.

The really crazy thing? The actress who played the mom was only 28 while the dad was 42. Get you some, Hal!

I'd love to see you cover Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys as no one ever seems to talk about it but it was a pretty good cartoon and toy line.

Never heard of this show. I'm way too old! As a kid I *did* watch a show with a masked rider, but no motorcycle, just a horse named Silver. THANKS for the video history lesson.

I would Definitely watch Duckbears if Dan ever gets it greenlit 👍

I'm SO glad i subbed to this channel! Once I saw the gold Masked Rider figure...secret childhood memories were unlocked (In a good way of course) Dan, ur the man! Thanks for uploading this nostalgic hot mess! Please keep up this quality and wholesome content!

Even as a kid I noticed that the hero's costume switched frequently between shots.

I love these videos about shows I remember watching in syndication vaguely. It’s nice because it recalls a memory I haven’t thought of in years. Right in the nostalgia gland.

can you please review “Tattoo Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills”? lol

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight was really good. I’d love to see a video on it. Props to the action scenes and direction from Steve Wang.

If the show did well we could have more adaptation of kamen rider to masked rider.

Furbus... that thing... that... THING. Haunts My Dreams

Kamen Rider Black RX estava em exibição no Brasil na época, por isso a versão da Saban nunca foi ao ar na tv aberta. É um herói bastante popular aqui.

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight is actually well liked among Japanese Kamen Rider fans for being closer to spirit of franchise than mess that is Kamen Rider Ryuki that it was adapted from and it even got it's own Japanese opening theme song.

Dude I loved masked rider and because I kept jumping back and forth between the U.S. and the Philippines I got to watch all the versions.

Technically, the original continuity was all the same series until Black & Black RX. Also, Kamen Rider also has the 2 season dark gritty reimagining of Kamen Rider Amazon called Amazon Riders on Amazon Prime.

I loved this as a kid and was surprised by how dark Kamen Rider was when I started watching the source material in high school.

Having lots of family in Asia and traveling there as a young kid, it was always amusing to see these import / adaptations appear years after I was first exposed. Got to be a hipster before hipster was a term.

Kamen rider is now 50 years old and we are in the beginning of an anniversary season. Kamen rider Revice

Here in Brazil we were lucky enough to still get to watch the original Kamen Rider Black RX before this mistake was made.

was wondering when you were going to do this one - i've watched all of kamen rider upto RX and started watching .... i mean tolerating masked rider - can't wait to get back to the real thing

Hasbro stay the hell away from my Kamen Rider.

Eagerly waiting for the Dragon Knight episode.

Mini Me played Ferbus? You learn something every day...

Instead of a decent Kamen Raider we got Sitcom Rider and his monkey duck muppet sidekick. 😠

I didn't have cable when I was young so I couldn't watch Power Rangers. Masked Rider was the closest thing I had access to and I loved it, despite Ferbus. Kamen Rider Dragon Knight was a great show. Will you be doing an episode on it?

I can only conclude that Saban was in cahoots with Gorgom.

YEEEEEEEEEEEES! I've been waiting waiting this one. *Grabs popcorn* Still wish good quality versions would be put on a streaming service.