Kamen Rider Figures
203 sixth-scale figures across 9 manufacturers
The Kamen Rider sixth-scale archive: 40 figures from seven makers, the 52-year hero's youngest shelf, opened by the Shin and Black Sun revivals in 2023. Riders, rivals and sentient motorcycles, catalogued. Henshin.
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KAMEN RIDER & THE SIXTH SCALE
Japan's masked rider has been transforming since 1971: half a century of belts, motorcycles and one word shouted before every fight. Yet in this Archive, Kamen Rider holds the strangest distinction of any franchise on the site: the oldest hero in its tokusatsu wing has the youngest shelf. Every single entry here is dated 2023 or later. Fifty years of legend, filed in a heartbeat, and the heartbeat is still accelerating.
Fair warning: this is a love letter. The dates are sourced and the numbers are ours, and yes, the Archivist has practiced the pose. Everyone who reads this page has practiced the pose. Henshin.
THE ESCAPED EXPERIMENT
Kamen Rider was created in 1971 by Shotaro Ishinomori, the manga titan who holds the Guinness record as history's most published comic creator, and its premise carries a melancholy most masked heroes never touch: Takeshi Hongo is kidnapped by the terror organization Shocker, rebuilt into a cyborg cricket-man, and escapes before the final brain surgery. The first Rider is not a chosen one. He is an escaped experiment, fighting the people who made him, forever unable to be fully human again.
That undertow of tragedy, wrapped in motorcycle stunts and karate on quarry cliffs, made the show a phenomenon: the henshin transformation pose swept Japan's playgrounds within weeks and never really left. A hero whose power came from a belt taught generations of children that transformation is a decision you make with your whole body, and the toy industry has been grateful ever since.
THE BROKEN LEG THAT BUILT A DYNASTY
The franchise's defining tradition was born from a real accident: lead actor Hiroshi Fujioka, famously doing his own motorcycle stunts, shattered his leg mid-production. Rather than stop, the show invented a second Rider on the spot, and Kamen Rider 2 carried the series while its founder healed. What began as an emergency became the format: Riders come in successions and partnerships, each series handing the belt onward.
The dynasty now spans eras named like imperial reigns, the original Showa Riders, the Heisei revival that began rebooting annually from 2000, and the current Reiwa generation, with more than fifty Riders wearing the name. It is one of television's longest unbroken hero lineages, sustained by suit actors whose craft is its own quiet legend. The belt, as ever, finds a new waist every year.
TWO REVIVALS OPENED THE DOOR
For half a century the Riders belonged to smaller scales, and then two prestige reimaginings arrived almost together: Black Sun in 2022 reworked the beloved Kamen Rider Black as adult political drama, and in 2023 Hideaki Anno's Shin Kamen Rider returned to the 1971 origin with cinema-grade reverence. Premium sixth scale followed immediately, and this Archive's entire Kamen Rider record dates from that moment: the catalogue opens in 2023 with ThreeZero's Shin Masked Riders and the mysterious Masked Rider No.0.
Seven makers now share the garage. Hot Toys leads at eighteen entries, ThreeZero carries the Shin line, and the coded ateliers ride alongside: SooSooToys with nine, and Premium Toys filing the Black Sun universe under the gorgeous codenames The Eclipse and The Crescent, which is how you whisper Kamen Rider Black Sun and Shadow Moon without waking the licence.
THE GRASSHOPPER'S GARAGE
A motorcycle hero's Archive entry would be incomplete without the motorcycles, and Kamen Rider files its bikes as characters, because in this franchise they occasionally are: Battle Hopper, the living machine that served Kamen Rider Black RX and died a hero's death on screen, holds two entries of its own, with the original Cyclone close behind. The Archive's VEHICLE scouting ladder stands ready for both, and notes that a sentient motorcycle with a combat record will file very differently from a Batmobile.
Above them the rivalry math holds the site's oldest law: Kamen Rider Black Sun at four entries with Shadow Moon at three, the sworn brothers of the Black mythos locked one figure apart, exactly as their story demands. Some franchises collect heroes, some collect villains. Kamen Rider collects the tragedy between them, in diecast belt buckles.
KAMEN RIDER IN THE ARCHIVE
All told: 40 Kamen Rider figures from seven manufacturers, every one of them dated 2023 to 2027, the newest record in this Archive wrapped around one of the oldest heroes in it. The preorder calendar is already reaching forward, the coded and licensed catalogues are growing in parallel, and half a century of Riders remain unfiled: the shelf, like the dynasty, has only begun.
Somewhere tonight a collector is standing a cyborg grasshopper man beside a sentient motorcycle and feeling entirely correct about it. That feeling is the whole hobby, and this Archive exists to keep its records. The wind is picking up. The belt is spinning. Henshin.