SOUCHAKU-HENSHIN KAMEN RIDER SERIES

SH Masked Rider Agito Series GD-30 Agito Ground Form (HK Released) c.2002

AGITO

MASKED RIDER

KUUGA

MASKED RIDER

AGITO

CLASSIC

MASKED RIDERS

MASKED RIDER

RYUKI

MASKED RIDER

FAIZ

MASKED RIDER

BLADE

AGITO GROUND FORM

Kamen Rider Ground Form was originally released by Bandai (Japan) as part of the Chogokin GD-30 SH Agito Set No.1 Agito Trinity Form in 2001. When Bandai Asia reissued SH Agito series in 2002, they broken up the set into three separate sets - Ground Form, Flame Form and Storm Form. By doing this Bandai Asia reduced the cost of the figure by market them in single box. There was side benefit for doing this as you can now displayed all three form of Agito since each of the HK reissued versions came with its own core body. By combining the Ground From with parts from the other two Forms, one can also made Trinity Form of Masked Rider Agito. 

Agito overall design was pretty much an evolution design from last year Kuuga series. Compare to the other Riders in Agito Series, however, Agito was pretty bland looking in comparison. Being successor series to Kuuga, Agito also inherited much of Kuuga design elements and as such Agito also fit well into Souchaku Henshin format. The figure itself was well made with decent paint job, and the figure using much the same format as the previous Kuuga SH series. With Bandai Asia split this particular Trinity box set into three separate sets, Agito Ground Form set came with no weapon accessories, however, the set came with extra mask with horn in expanded power-up mode. Agito, of course, was the main Masked Rider from Agito series which began the trend of having multiple (more than two) Masked Riders in a single show. This trend would continued with the subsequence modern series. Masked Rider Agito was one of the three human that gained power that allow them to transform into "Agito being" in order to protect human from the Unknown Lords.

Naked Mode

Like other SH Riders figures, the body looks out of proportion and was solely intended for display with the "cloth" (Rider's Armor) on. The core body was similar style body used since the original Saint Seiya Cloth line which made it a little dated by today standard. However, this was one of the aspect that drawn me to this line. The ability to "henshin" into the Rider form made these SH figures a lot like small version of Henshin Cyborg and RAH costume hero.

Weapon Accessories

Agito Ground From did not come with extra weapon accessories. The set only came with extra mask so the figure can be display with the horn in spread out mode.