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under Super Sentai

During a recent interview with Tamashii Nations conducted by Amiblo, a new teaser image(thanks to Paladin for the heads up!) of Super Robot Chogokin Daizyujin was revealed! Amiblo interviewed AT, who works on the Super Robot Chogokin(SRC) line. Prior to working on Super Robot Chogokin, he had worked on the Super Creative Model(SCM) line of highly articulated Gundam prize figures, D Arts Rockman X, and Robot Damashii SIDE MS Wing Gundam Custom. The 1st SRC he worked on was ShinkenOh.

Towards the end of the discussion, the topic becomes SRC MagiKing! Emphasis was placed on the numerous, hidden double joints! The images show the range of motion of the prototype. Pictures speak louder than words, check out just how articulated MagiKing is after the jump!

under Power Rangers

Just in time for the holidays, the Mega Bloks Power Rangers Samurai construction sets have been sighted at Toys R Us! Yours truly spotted them earlier today. The Samurai Megazord is fully articulated and can be built in 3 different modes. Also sighted were a Red Samurai Ranger VS Deker set, and 3 separate zord sets(red, blue, and yellow). The 3 zord sets can be built as their animal modes or a vehicular battle mode.

Check out the images after the jump, and happy hunting!

under General Tokusatsu News

Bandai and Tokusatsu/Super Sentai/Kamen Rider/Ultraman/whathaveyou, are pretty much inseparable, with Bandai Japan’s Collectors Division(Tamashii Nations) pumping out toy lines such as:

  • Ultra ACT
  • Super Imaginitive Chogokin(SIC)
  • Super Robot Chogokin(SRC)
  • SH Figuarts
  • SH MonsterArts
We know some of you love taking photographs of your Tamashii Nations toys, and this week on Facebook, Tamashii announced a photo contest; upload your best photos of Tamashii Nations toys to their Flickr page, for a shot at winning free toys! Here are the rules:

To celebrate 1000 followers on our Facebook, we’re holding a photo contest !

Just take photos of your favorite Tamashii products in action; the coolest entries will get a chance of winning some Tamashii products!

(Details of the prizes, will be announced later on)
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To Enter: Go to Flickr.com and sign up or sign in with google / facebook.

Then, upload your BEST 3 photos of Tamashii items to our Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/1828129@N21/

Note: Please name your file with the following format “your name-ProductName”

We will then post all your photos on the Bluefin Facebook page for all to see!

Rules:

1) Show us your creativity! A cool pose? A hilarious situation? Let’s see it!

2) Contestants must be reside in U.S./Canada

3) ONLY Tamashii products may be entered

(please see: http://tamashii.jp/ , for the list of Tamashii products)

4) Contest starts from December 7 to December 31, 2011.

5) Winners will be announced on the Bluefin Tamashii Nations Facebook in early January.

6) 1 person can post a maximum of 3 photos ONLY; each photo can feature any number of Tamashii products

7) Entries that are LATER than December 31 will not be accepted.

Best of luck!

under Godzilla

The SH MonsterArts Mecha Godzilla has been released and thanks to Gamu-toys, we’ve got images galore to show you! So how does Godzilla‘s mechanized opponent match up? Is Mecha Godzilla a worthy additiojn to the SH MonsterArts line? See for yourself in the images!

under Super Sentai

Every now and then here at Tokunation we like to point out some cool Ebay auctions. Today we take a gander at an auction by life-lavit, for Minipla Super Muteki Shogun! The set includes both:

  • Minipla Muteki Shogun
  • Minipla Tsubasamaru

While fans stateside were treated to a retooled DX Muteki Shogun(Shogun Megazord) and Falconzord, the Kakuranger Minipla Muteki Shogun and Tsubasamaru were Japanese exclusives. Price for this set is $109.99.

under Power Rangers

While perusing the aisles of Walmart in an unsuccessful attempt to find what I was looking for, I came across the Unmasked Battlized Shogun Ranger. It features a removable mask and is the same price as the previous release(which had no removable helmet), $23.97. Check out a larger image after the jump!

under Kamen Rider

Bandai’s Tamashii website have released new images of the forthcoming S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Fourze Double Rocket States! This movie-exclusive Fourze form will come with two rocket add-ons as well as the S-1 switch used to activate the form.

Double Rocket States is due for release in April 2012 as a Tamashii web exclusive, priced at 3,675 yen.