Kamen Rider Amazon (仮面ライダーアマゾン, Kamen Raidā Amazon, "Masked Rider Amazon" in English) is a Japanese tokusatsu drama and the fourth installment of the Kamen Rider Series. It is the fourth series to debut in the Showa Era and aired from October 19, 1974 to March 29, 1975 on NET and the Mainichi Broadcasting System. With 24 episodes produced and aired, it is the shortest Kamen Rider series ever.
Story
A plane crashes in the Amazon rainforest, leaving young Amazon (Daisuke Yamamoto) stranded without his parents. Soon adopted by an Incan tribe, Amazon becomes a wild child, living off the land. However, Amazon's idyllic existence is cut short when Golgos, the Jyumenki, massacres his village, slaughtering everyone except himself in search for the powerful "GiGi Armlet", which gives the bearer fantastic power. Elder Bago, last of the Incas, gives the GiGi Armlet to Amazon for safekeeping while using his knowledge of Incan science and magic to perform a mystical "operation" on Daisuke, transforming him into the powerful "Kamen Rider Amazon" before he died. Arriving at Japan, Amazon battles Gedon without full knowledge of their reason of pursuing him. Befriending the nephew and niece of Professor Kousaka, Amazon learns the nature of the GiGi Armlet as he defeats Gedon and then the Garander Empire.
There are plenty of Kamen Rider's candy toys released over the years. These Categorized into 2 main types ie the standalone figure type and the Diorama type. Both serve different functions for the standalone figure likely to be played with pew-pew-pow-pow style whie the Diorama based types are more for replicating a scene in the series and mainly for display purpose. Sometimes there can be dual usage like this Kamen Rider Amazon on his Jungler bike can be remove from the base and played vroom-vroom style.
This featured set is from the Blind Box series "Directory Series Rider Action Machine Explosion" and was released in 2005. I used to owned Ichigo and Nigo but had sold them away. Still kept Rider X riding on water! This Kamen Rider Amazon was bought last year 2024, always wanted it. Someday will get the V3 scene hopefully.
However this Amazon set is the favorite amongst them all. Quality is very high for a small set like this. All the details are meticulously sculpted and crafter complemented by the excellent Paintworks. You can feel the incoming action Amazon is riding into by the design of the scene. Execution is almost seamless as well.
Overall a great set which is almost perfect.
Regretted to have sold part of this collection away. There is no doubt I'd like to pick them back up again when opportunity arises.
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