 This article is about a weapon in Kamen Rider Drive.
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Trailer-Hou, alongside the Shift Formula Car.
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The Trailer-Hou (トレーラー砲, Torērā Hō, lit. "Trailer Cannon") is Kamen Rider Drive's rifle-like Shift Car weapon utilized when he assumes Type Formula, though he can also wield it as Type Tridoron. It first appears in episode 22.
Like the Handle-Ken and Door-Ju, Shinnosuke names this weapon based on what it resembles: a semi truck, with the trailer section consisting a lot of its bulk. Similar to the Shift Cars and Signal Bikes, the Trailer-Hou is also sentient where it is powered by a specialized Core Driviar called the Core Driviar-TH (コア・ドライビア-ＴＨ, Koa Doraibia-Tī Eichi).
After the Kamen Riders are met by Gold Drive, who possesses the ability to steal their weaponry, Rinna develops a special data coating which she applies to the Trailer-Hou, as well as the transformation Shift Cars and Signal Bikes, in order to protect them from Banno's power of theft. [When Will the Second Global Freeze Start?]
After the destruction of Gold Drive and the Sigma Circular, the Trailer-Hou was among the Kamen Rider arsenal locked beneath the Drive Pit alongside Krim Steinbelt himself. [Who Will You Entrust the Future to, My Friend?]
Usage
The Trailer-Hou can interchange between its Trailer Mode (トレーラーモード, Torērā Mōdo) and Cannon Mode (大砲モード, Taihō Mōdo) simply by pulling down the Flame Rear Grip (フレームリアグリップ, Furēmu Ria Gurippu).
In Trailer Mode, the Trailer-Hou not only houses Shift Formula inside of its Shift Container Barrel (シフトコンテナバレル, Shifuto Kontena Bareru), but is spacious enough to contain all of the Tire Exchange Shift Cars as well. It also utilizes a small visor called the Trailer Searcher (トレーラーサーチャー, Torērā Sāchā) for various purposes: searching for either Drive or Roidmudes, generating tracks in midair (being so huge, the Trailer-Hou has to generate three lanes worth of Shift Car tracks), and firing bullets from its front sides. While moving, its Generator Chassis (ジェネレーターシャーシ, Jenerētā Shāshi) tires can provide protection from Super Heavy Accelerations and its Wall Metal Body (ウォールメタルボディ, Uōru Metaru Bodi) hard body can resist multiple impacts and damages.
In Cannon Mode, the Trailer-Hou can fire high output blue energy blasts. If Drive loads a Shift Car into its Shift Landing Slot (シフトランディングスロット, Shifuto Randingu Surotto) on top of the barrel, it announces the loaded Shift Car's name (either the form name of a Type Change Shift Car or the last name of a Tire Exchange Shift Car, though Type Formula-styled Tire Exchange Shift Cars follow "0[number of Shift Car and Shift Car name]) followed by "Hou" (砲, Hō, lit. "Cannon") and allows him to fire other colored energy projectiles based on said Shift Car.
- Shift Formula: Formula-Hou (フォーミュラ砲, Fōmyura Hō, lit. "Formula Cannon")
- Shift Speed: Speed-Hou (スピード砲, Supīdo Hō, lit. "Speed Cannon")
- Shift Technic: Technic-Hou (テクニック砲, Tekunikku Hō, lit. "Technic Cannon")
- Shift Dead Heat: Dead Heat-Hou (デッドヒート砲, Deddo Hīto Hō, lit. "Dead Heat Cannon")
- Shift Wild: Wild-Hou (ワイルド砲, Wairudo Hō, lit. "Wild Cannon")
- Shift Tridoron: Tridoron-Hou (トライドロン砲, Toraidoron Hō, lit. "Tridoron Cannon")
Finishing attacks
The Trailer-Hou has two Rider Shooting Full Throttle finishers, each corresponding to one of Drive's strongest Types. To activate them, Drive must load up to two Shift Cars into the Shutter Gate Panel (シャッターゲートパネル, Shattā Gēto Paneru) within the Shift Container Barrel, which causes the Side Gauge Window (サイドゲージウィンドウ, Saido Gēji Uindou) to display the word "FULL" once it is completely loaded, before he pulls the Full Throttle Trigger (フルスロットルトリガー, Furu Surottoru Torigā).
- Trailer Impact (トレーラーインパクト, Torērā Inpakuto): While assuming Type Formula, or its Tire Exchanges, Drive inserts Shift Formula into the Shift Landing Slot before loading two other Shift Cars into the Shutter Gate Panel so that he may fire an enhanced projectile shot at the enemy.
- Type Formula
- Shift Speed & Shift Wild: Fires a blue energy blast.
- Shift Speed & Midnight Shadow: Fires rapid energy bullets.
- Jacky F02 & Sparner F03: Fires a blue energy stream.
- Type Formula Mantarn
- Jacky F02 & Sparner F03: Fires a blue energy stream.
- Type Formula Jacky
- Mantarn F01 & Sparner F03: Fires a blue energy beam.
- Type Formula Sparner
- Mantarn F01 & Jacky F02: Fires a blue energy blast.
- Type Formula
- Trailer Big Impact (トレーラービッグインパクト, Torērā Biggu Inpakuto): While assuming Type Tridoron, Drive inserts a Type Change Shift Car (excluding Shift Formula) into the Shift Landing Slot before loading Shift Tridoron into the Shutter Gate Panel so that he may fire the actual Tridoron at the enemy. Initiating this attack causes Drive to revert to one of his weaker Types depending on which Type Change Shift Car he uses.
- Shift Speed: This version is strong enough to destroy even a Super Evolved Roidmude while immediately reverting Drive to Type Speed.
- Shift Wild: This version is used once to try and defeat both Gold Drive and Roidmude 004 while immediately reverting Drive to Type Wild, only to fail as a result of Heart absorbing the shot for them before unleashing a powerful earthquake.
- Shift Technic: This version is strong enough to forcibly defuse a Roidmude that underwent Fusion Evolution upon contact while immediately reverting Drive to Type Technic.
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Notes
- In the DX Trailer-Hou toy, if someone put the Shift Car into the Shift Landing Slot five times but didn't pull down the Flame Rear Grip, they can hear Mr. Belt complaining.
- Unlike the previous weapons, Mr. Belt doesn't criticize Shinnosuke for naming the Trailer-Hou as he did, sadly, expect him to brand the weapon with said name.
- Much like Type Formula, the Trailer-Hou has the designs of all eighteen Tire Exchange Shift Cars that aren't Type Formula-styled on its sides.
- In the DX Trailer-Hou, when a Legend Rider Shift Car or Signal Bike is inserted into the Shift Landing Slot, it will announce Legend-Hou (レジェンド砲, Rejendo Hō, lit. "Legend Cannon").
- The only Signal Bikes that have their names programmed into the DX Trailer-Hou are Signal Mach and Signal Chaser. The rest by default all announce Signal-Hou (シグナル砲, Shigunaru Hō, lit. "Signal Cannon").
- As shown in some episodes, the Trailer-Hou moves at a pretty slow speed, just like a real trailer. Shinnosuke sometimes complains about the weapon's movement when he is about to use the weapon to activate the finisher with it.
- This is because the Trailer-Hou doesn't automatically come with Drive when he transforms into Type Formula, instead having to move by itself to him for further use. Because of this, it is the first Super Form weapon that doesn't automatically come with the user after transforming into a Super Form.
- However, if Drive summons the Trailer-Hou while in Type Tridoron, it moves at a much faster speed.
- Shift Tridoron is the only Shift Car that stays alone when loaded into the Trailer-Hou's Shutter Gate Panel. This is due to said Shift Car being too big for a second one to fit inside with it.
- Additionally, Drive using the Trailer-Hou in Type Tridoron is similar to the previous main Rider, Kamen Rider Gaim using the DJ Gun in Kiwami Arms. They both can use their Super Form's rifle-like weapon while in their Final Forms in a way that they couldn't do in said Super Forms and unleash a new form of finishers.
- The DX Trailer-Hou toy has a Tridoron-Hou (トライドロン砲, Toraidoron Hō, lit. "Tridoron Cannon") sound byte, triggered when Shift Tridoron is inserted into the Shift Landing Slot. However, it is unknown what the effect would be as this variation of the Trailer Impact has never been used in the series proper.
- Type Dead Heat is Drive's only in-series form that he has not used the Trailer-Hou with, though this could be justified as Shift Dead Heat being primarily utilized by Mach.
- Due to Rinna's special data coating, this is the Drive Riders' only non-Tire Specific Item weapon that has not been stolen by Gold Drive via his arsenal hijacking ability.