Of all the AR riders to appear in this series, the only one who has appeared after the crossover with Kamen Rider Double is Decade's version of Chalice - however, he does not appear as Chalice, but rather, as the Joker Undead, in OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Ridersnote although it's not stated that the Joker Undead from that film is Hajime Shijo, it can be assumed that Shijo is the Joker Undead, since Hajime Aikawa is shown as Chalice in the movie.
Despite having the same voice actor, the Gatack Zecter has the same voice as the other Zecters in Decade, despite the fact that in Kabuto, it had a distinct voice.
What happens briefly when Diend whisks the Black incarnation of Kotaro to the world of Black RX, next to that world's Kotaro.
Not to mention the brief period in Kabuto's world where Masahiro Inoue plays both Tsukasa and the Worm that's copied his form.
This was apparently supposed to happen again in the original draft for The Last Story, which would have featured an Evil Twin of Tsukasa, but obviously it was removed in the rewrite.
Amusingly, in the "Henshin!" segments of the All Riders vs. Daishocker net movies, Narutaki's actor plays the man-on-the-street whom Tsukasa teaches to transform. Yes, that's him in the loincloth screaming "AAAAAAMAAAAAAZOOOOOON!!"
In Faiz World, Tsukasa shows off how incredible he is at tennis in a few rounds against Lucky Clover. After all, Masahiro Inoue (Tsukasa's actor) used to be Keigo Atobe in the musical production ofThe Prince of Tennis.
The roses in Ibuki's transformation may be a reference to the fact that Jouji Shibue's first big role was Tuxedo Kamen in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.
Beam Me Up, Scotty!: The now-legendary ONORE, DICKEIDO! was only said in the actual show once, with Narutaki generally saying it in the Net Movies. However, it's now considered Narutaki's catchphrase by the fans.
N-Gamio-Zeda is voiced by the narrator from Kamen Rider Kuuga, Fumihiko Tachiki. He's also well-known for being a wrestling announcer, and also is the narrator for a lot of Kamen Rider trailers, and the next show's equipment voice.
The actress who plays the Fangire Yuki previously played Mio from Kamen Rider Kiva, who also is the Queen of the Fangires.
Enforced Method Acting: Might be something different but both Ryuga and the Original Blade have trouble sliding the cards into their belt buckles.
To be fair, you can notice the same sort of problems if you go back and watch Kamen Rider Blade.
This actually gets a nod in the shorts made for All Riders vs Daishocker, where Tsukasa is teaching a man how to transform into Ryuki; he has trouble slotting the Advent Deck into the V-Buckle, so Tsukasa tells him "Don't worry, let the cut take care of it." This is followed by another attempt, with a Smash Cut interrupting the motion and showing the deck being slid perfectly into place.
Movie Wars 2010 was initially announced as a double feature with a Decade movie called Decade vs All Riders and a Kamen Rider W movie called Episode Zero. Eventually, the entire project was reformulated, turning it into a triple feature and heavily changing the overall content of the Decade story, which lost the All Riders label and ended up very different from the original preview, even having to basically ignore the some twists of the show's cliffhanger ending due to the shorter running time.
Put it this way: after the final episode of the TV series ended on a Cliffhanger, they immediately showed a preview for Movie Wars 2010, billing it as "the final episode of Decade's story". Not one scene in that preview was in the final movie. They did include the scenes in the director's cut, but it was just the same scenes from the preview.
Several parts of Decade's story, most notably the presence of Electro-Wave Human Tackle, only were kept because they had already made props for them before the change of direction of the production. Tackle was initially supposed to search for Stronger after he disappeared fighting Decade, and that story even got published in some of the earlier previews, but her storyline was completely changed after it was decided that Decade's movie wouldn't feature All Riders anymore, even if a new Tackle costume was already made
There's also Takayuki Tsubaki (Kazuma Kenzaki), who was contracted for the movie, but ended up just doing a few generic yells as Blade in a very quick scene, meaning most people didn't realize that was the original Blade fighting Decade.
In the Korean and Singapore dubs, the "World of Shinkenger" episode marked the first time those region saw the Shinkengers in a dub. In South Korea Shinkenger was skipped note for both being ingrained heavily in Japanese culture and the calligraphy used in the morphing in favor of Gaoranger in 2010. In Singapore's case, it's because that country does not import Super Sentai to begin with.
Again for Korea and Singapore, this was also the first appearances of Kamen Riders from Kuuga, Agito and Hibiki (and Singapore's case Kiva) as those series were skipped in those countries.
Milestone Celebration: The tenth anniversary of the Heisei Riders was celebrated in the biggest way possible. And with the Showa Riders getting involved in the crisis by episode 26, this celebration was taken to the next level. It is acknowledged in the net movies that Decade, as well as being Heisei Rider #10, is also the official Kamen Rider #25 when you take the 15 Showa Riders into account.
Masahiro Inoue, the actor for Decade, is a huge fan of Kamen Rider, even as an adult. When the Black/RX episodes aired, he made one post on his blog consisting of little more than excited babble about Apollo Geist and "I'm Joe the Haze!". Adding to this, when the finale aired, he expressed relief that he can "enjoy Kamen Rider objectively again". Not to mention his buying a swimsuit with the Decade colors, or various other eccentricities... (Rider Kick on a trampoline?)
On the same note, Ryota Murai, Yusuke Onodera/Kamen Rider Kuuga, was a huge Kuuga fan as a child. You can imagine his delight at getting to be Kuuga himself as an adult. Combine this with Inoue's fanboying, and you get some very interesting blogposts.
Raydragoons from Kamen Rider Ryuki function as Mooks in Nega World; in an amusing crossover with Real Life Writes the Plot, Detail of Heroes explains that this is entirely because the makers of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight ordered Raydragoon costumes in bulk to use as the Mook in their series.
Decade's motorocycle, the Machine Decader, was modified from a Honda DN-1 — which appeared in Kamen Rider Kiva. as Taiga Nobori's personal motorcycle
Real Life Writes the Plot: In the World of Agito arc, the Exceed Gills suit is used instead of the regular Gills, as the jaw on the regular suit's mask had been broken by overuse, and Toei wasn't willing to get it repaired.
Refitted for Sequel: The never-made Kamen Rider Kuuga movie would have featured a Wolf Grongi as the Big Bad, being the leader of a group of new Grongi that were discovered in America. The concept ended up being recycled into N-Gamio-Zeda, the World of Kuuga's Big Bad, who even uses the same tattoo design (which appeared on a parchment late in Kuuga as a Sequel Hook).
Screwed by the Network: In Kabuto's World, the Worm Tsukasa was probably meant to foreshadow how in The Last Story, Decade would fight against Dark Decade. Unfortunately, it ended being Demoted ToBig-Lipped Alligator Moment instead, but it's the thought that counts.
Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy: In the show, the Decadriver announces the name of the cards when activated, but the toy version on announce the name of the rider of the card associated.
The producers said they wanted to make a modernized Riderman costume for Gackt to wear in All Riders, a la the suits for Riders 1, 2, and V3 seen in Kamen Rider: The First and Kamen Rider: The Next, but weren't able to complete it in time for filming, which is why he appears only as an untransformed Joji Yuki while Riderman is portrayed by a stuntman using the classic costume during the final battle. However, they were able to create a modernized costume for Tackle.
Actually, there was a concept◊ art for this new-to-be Riderman, by Keita Amemiya.
During the show's run, rumors were constantly flying over what the AR versions of familiar Rider worlds would be; probably the best one claimed that the World of Kabuto would have Tendou and Kagami's counterparts as competing television personalities, Tendou hosting a cooking show and Kagami a variety show.
Rikiya Koyama was invited to reprise his role as Joe the Haze in the World of Black RX arc, but he declined due to his age. He would take other new roles later in the franchise, notably Ohma Zi-O from Kamen Rider Zi-O.
If the suits for Gills's base form and Another Agito not been damaged by water, it's entirely possible that they would've been used in the corresponding Decade arc, either being used in place of Exceed Gills, or having Shouichi become regular Gills first, then Exceed Gills, then Another Agito, and finally regular Agito.
As noted above, had The Last Story not been Screwed by the Network, we would've gotten to see Dark Decade. The video game Kamen Rider Climax Heroes shows us what he would've been likenote he can use dark versions of all of Decade's cards, save for the Final Form Ride cards, which he can't use; it's entirely possible that Double's Final Form Ride would've been used to defeat Dark Decade instead of Ultimate D, which is what happened in the movie, had Dark Decade been used.
Stronger would have appeared to be defeated by Decade in The Last Story but was replaced by Kabuto, explaining the seemingly random combo of the latter with Skyrider and Super-1, whom succeeded Stronger.
The show's producers said that they wanted to do a movie which would delve into Narutaki's past and finally explain what he was all about. However, as time goes on it becomes less and less likely that said movie will ever be made, leaving the character as a frustrating enigma.
Word of Gay: Apparently Kaito, based on this quote. "Loves Tsukasa. Like Boys Love."
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