It’s amazing what you’ll buy if it comes with a GaiaMemory. Thankfully I didn’t HAVE to buy a children’s jacket to get that one Joker Memory. However, every now and then, something really cool comes packed with something you want, and such is the case here. The DX T2 Joker Memory comes packed inside the Rider Goods Collection 2010. The name alone made me want the book, and I’m glad I did.
The book itself is actually amazing. As Dosm put it, it’s like a scrapbook of all the shit you bought, and all the shit you didn’t buy you wish you did. The book covers DX Items, Collector’s Items, Clothes, Capsule Toys, Candy Toys, Prize Toys, Music, Cards, and anything else you can imagine. Spread out through the book are “Files” that cover how Double was created, initial designs, unused designs, sketches, and all that fun stuff. Most people can’t read it, but the photos and content in the book are terrific, and is a must own for anyone who’s followed Double’s toylines as much as I have.
The real gem to most people is the DX T2 Joker Memory this mook comes packed with. The packaging for it is pretty neat, mostly being brown cardboard with a nice decorative design of Joker and the item’s name and all that. The Memory itself is cast in the same color as Joker normally is, with pretty much the same sticker. Of course, being T2, it features the same blue tip found on the DX Eternal Memory. It’s not as vibrant as the Capsule one, but it’s still noticeably blue, and given that Joker was originally Gold, it’s an easy notice.
The Memory itself cycles through the 26 T2 Memories in a similar style to the DX Dopant Memory:
• Joker
• Accel
• Bird
• Cyclone
• Dummy
• Eternal
• Fang
• Gene
• Heat
• IceAge
• Key
• Luna
• Metal
• Nasca
• Ocean
• Puppeteer
• Queen
• Rocket
• Skull
• Trigger
• Unicorn
• Violence
• Weather
• Xtreme
• Yesterday
• Zone
When inserted into the Double/Lost Driver, no matter what Memory you stopped at, it will play Joker with the Joker tune. This will also reset the Memory, so when you remove it, it will start back at Joker. When inserted into the Drive Slot/Memory Gadget/Weapon/Whatever it will play the Joker Maximum Drive as normal. This however does not reset the Memory, so it will continue from wherever you left off.
Overall, this combo is excellent, and I do feel bad for those that missed out on it. The Rider Goods Collection is an amazing mook filled with every piece of Double merchandise in full detail. It even has release dates and prices, so you can look back and realize just how much you spent on all this. The Memory is a great addition, and having all the T2 Memories in one is fun to tote around and annoy people with. The fact that it only says Joker during Henshin and Maximum Drive is disappointing, but expected. I still sort of want a T2 Set like the Dopants are getting, but I’ll take what I can get. Highly recommended, they go for a shit ton on the after market nowadays, so happy hunting for those that haven’t gotten it.
You can check out a small photo gallery of the Book and Memory here:
Back when we first seen this one at Tamashii Features, we had already gotten Machine Tornador, Battle Hopper, and Acrobatter as exclusives, so of course, we pegged it as an exclusive and went about our way. Eventually it was revealed that it was a standard release item due out in August alongside CycloneJokerXtreme. A part of me wishes that would change, as this is a bike that could really of used a boost of being an exclusive. It just doesn’t stack up to the others.
Woo! More of the same thing! This set consists of a restickered Best Selection with a bonus rehash of the OOO Capsule Memory. While some of the designs do look a lot nicer than the Rider portion of the Best Selection stickers, the Best Selection is still a better buy to me because of the hologram effect. Having the logos as part of the design is just fantastic. There really isn’t much to say about these, hence why I used the video mostly as a comparison between the three releases of each Memory. My best advice is to just kind of pick the one you like most and go after it, as the only ones with different sounds than the original Capsule release are Double, Ryuki, and Kiva. I do recommend these ones over the original releases of those Memories, unless you are getting the Philip & Shotaro Memory as well, in which case the Capsule Double reigns supreme.