Wait to see his one scene in the canon then .
Unless they replace him there too . I guess they thought he'd have a bigger role back then (before ID) .
Anyways before I go on perhaps I should clue you in on what this whole "Lovely Land" affair is about . I use it often as a shining example of how Toei doesn't think it necessary to make it's fillers , which exceed a one off episode into an actual arc , have any semblance of a coherent story .
First off : in the Ice Hunter arc , a character called Brindo , one of the big bads in the arc shows up . After fighting the fodder Phoenix pirates for a few seconds he starts blabbing his mouth , eventualy leading up to half a minute excursion about Lovely Land - the Achino Family's base of operations where , and I quote :"Captured pirates smile while being given over to Marines" , this acompanied by a stil shot of exactly this happening , which stayed on screen for several seconds .
And then after he says thatā¦...it's never brought up again . In any way shape or form .
Right after that a few things also happened : Brindo's twin brother Kanpachino shows up . In the few scenes and even the opening up till this time he was shown completely , with his clothes colour and acurate silhouete and all , except that his face was shadowed in . And when he revealed it......it was exactly the same as Brind's as everyone expected . There was no real surprise or any point to that yet Toei stuck with that pointless plot thread but ignored the much more vital one mentioned above .
Oh and then when Zoro confronts Don Achino , he slashes through him , hitting the wall but the Don is perfectly fine . Yet in Gear 2nhd Luffy can hit him . They esencialy made Luffy have the
! Logia hurting Haki type three years before it was introduced .