Henshin Belt DX Den-O Belt

Hello again people, this is David here again for another DX toy review. Everyone in Hong Kong and Malaysia are enjoying a weekly dosage of Kamen Rider Den-O on local television and this brought me to the idea of doing this review. Here is my review for the day, the Henshin Belt DX Den-O Belt.

From the show, Ryoutarou Nogami, often possessed by either Taros Imagins will use this Belt to Henshin and become the titular hero, Den-O. Den-O comprises of 4 basic forms which are separated by coloured buttons on the Belt. Mine is the usual Hong Kong version where we can find in retail everywhere around Kuala Lumpur. In Japan, there are 3 different waves of Den-O belts. One of the later waves feature all 4 forms illustrated on the front of the box and another wave shows the extra built in feature, the ability to link up with a later toy, the Climax Keitai Keitaros.

Let's take a closer look of what is inside of this DX Belt that we see in departmental stores everytime we go shopping.

 

The contents of this Belt is fairly simple. The main Belt Buckle is connected to one side of the belt and is stored as one piece. The other side of the Belt is stored on the top part of the box and at the left side, we have the Rider Pass. The Rider Ticket (in this set, the Blank Ticket) is sandwiched between the Rider Pass and since it isn't safe this way, I just left it in the Pass. The back holster is placed at the bottom and that's about it.

Upon assembling the whole belt, the toy will look like this. Do note that this is a DX Belt and only will fit waists between 52 to 70cms which is about 28-29 inches at max. These of course, don't fit my oversized bellied body.

The word Den-O System is printed on the top of the Belt Buckle and it is easily visible. However, I am not too sure if these words will fade in the future or not.

The Rider Pass and the Rider Ticket are as shown. The Pass can be opened and folded at two different manners for Storage and for Henshin.

This is how the Pass is folded for Henshin mode. This side comes with the scanning magnets whereby only this side is scannable on the Belt.

Henshin! SWORD FORM! - Red LEDs light up in this case.

This is very accurate in terms of sounds to the show and I like the volume of the toy in a whole.

Henshin! AXE FORM! - Yellow LEDs light up in this case.

Henshin! GUN FORM! - From the looks of it, the Blue and the Red LEDs light up together and blend into a purplish kind of LED lights feeling.

As we all know, the Belt also allows Den-O to perform the finisher, as in a FULL CHARGE. For this to work, you need to put the Pass at the Buckle's front for about 2 seconds before the FULL CHARGE sound is played. At first when I got this toy, I was having troubles testing it at the testing counter because I couldn't figure out how to do a FULL CHARGE until I took out the manual and read through that section.

This could be a bit wrong but when you turn on the belt and you just scan the Pass through once, you will get the sound similar to the one prior to a FULL CHARGE. If I remember correctly, this is the sound of Plat Form's Henshin. However in the show, the Red LED does not light up.

All in all, this toy is excellent. The gimmicks and everything are nicely executed. I like how they made the Belt and the Pass into a Touch and Go card and machine and this is extremely clever. I would suggest fans out there to grab one before they are all out.