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under Ultraman

It’s been several years since the Ultraman franchise’s card-based video game Daikaiju Battle has had a presence in Japan, while its successors Ganbaride and Dice-Oh have kept the Japanese kids and kids-at-heart preoccupied, but thanks to our friends at Rising Sun Tokusatsu, we know that’s about to change!

Daikaiju Battle Rush: Ultra Frontier is the latest card series for the game franchise, started in 2007, and should be launching in Japan shortly! Details on Daikaiju Battle Rush’s game system are unavailable, but the new eye-catching format with the giant monitor play area looks neat! I know I’d love to pull out my favorite Ultra monsters in card form to play it in person! How about you? Join TokuNation.com‘s discussion and let us know!

SOURCES: Rising Sun Tokusatsu, Daikaiju Battle Official Site

under Kamen Rider

The Cancer Zodiarts, the next of the 12 Horoscopes finally sees it’s release though sadly as a non articulated S.H.Figuarts ZERO statue.

Blogger Hacchaka brings us extensive pictures of this piece. To view his full gallery, click here

under Godzilla

IDW has sent out a press releasing which announces their programming & exclusives for WonderCon 2013, this weekend!

Signing Schedule – Booth #709
Friday March 29th
1:00 – 2:00 Godzilla – Chris Mowry
2:00 – 3:00 The Colonized, Zombies vs Robots, Kiss – Chris Ryall
3:00 – 4:00 My Little Pony – Amy Mebberson, Heather Nuhfer, Tony Fleecs (Check out the Wonder Con Exclusive My Little Pony Comic!)
4:00 – 5:00 Star Trek: TNG/Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time – Scott Tipton, David Tipton
5:00 – 6:00 Adventures of Augusta Wind – J.M. DeMatteis
6:00 – 7:00 The Crow: Death and Rebirth – John Shirley

Saturday March 30th
11:00 – 12:00 The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom – Mark Waid
11:00 – 12:00 Artist’s Edition Meet & Greet! – Scott Dunbier & Guests
2:00 – 3:00 My Little Pony – Amy Mebberson, Heather Nuhfer, Tony Fleecs (Check out the Wonder Con Exclusive My Little Pony Comic!)
3:00 – 4:00 Star Trek: Countdown Into Darkness, Star Trek Ongoing – Mike Johnson
4:00 – 5:00 Transformers “Jam” Signing – John Barber, Livio Ramondelli, Mairghread Scott, Chris Metzen, Flint Dille
5:00 – 6:00 G.I. JOE: Cobra Files – Mike Costa

Sunday March 31st
12:00 – 1:00 Star Trek: TNG/Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time – Scott Tipton, David Tipton
1:00 – 2:00 Transformers “Jam” Signing – John Barber, Livio Ramondelli, Mairghread Scott
2:00 – 3:00 Love and Capes – Thom Zahler

Convention Exclusives
Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition: Limited, Signed & Numbered – $300.00
Gil Kane’s Amazing Spider-Man: Limited, Signed & Numbered – $250.00 (Signed by Stan Lee, John Romita, Gerry Conway, and Roy Thomas!)
Dave Stevens’ Rocketeer: Artist’s Edition: Limited – $125.00
MAD Artist’s Edition: Limited – $175.00
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ultimate Collection, Vol. 4: Limited Edition – $50.00
My Little Pony #6 Convention Variant Cover – $10.00
Transformers Spotlight: Bumblebee: Convention Variant Cover – $5.00

Panel Schedule
Friday, March 29th
5:30–6:30 IDW: Spotlight on Artist’s Editions!
The IDW Artist’s Edition Panel this year will include several announcements of upcoming books, including one with a surprise guest star in attendance! Senior Editor Scott Dunbier will be on hand to talk about all things Artist’s Edition related and will have several cool prizes for lucky attendees–Hoo Hah! Room 208B

Saturday, March 30th
12:30-1:30 IDW: The Big Panel!
Join Chief Creative Officer and Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall and VP of Marketing Dirk Wood, along with a cavalcade of IDW creators, past, present and future…including Scott Dunbier, John Barber and Star Trek scribe Mike Johnson! Announcements, prizes, Q&A, semi-professional wrestling, and more! Room 208B

Sunday, March 31st
2:30-3:30 IDW: Behind the Hasbro Titles
Join Editor John Barber along with a veritable who’s who of creators on all your favorite Hasbro books! Mike Costa of G.I. JOE fame! Mairghread Scott, Livio Ramondelli, and more from Transformers! Amy Mebberson and Heather Nuhfer from My Little Pony! Announcements and inside info you won’t believe! Room 208B

under Ultraman

Apparently this little piece of info was overlooked in last weeks scramble over upcoming releases like SIC SHaUTa, Ultra-Act King Gridman, SHF Classic Rider 1, and more.

It appears that this July we’ll see the release of Ultra-Act Ultraman Nexus Junis Blue. Price is yet to be determined for this release but Junis Blue will be a mass market release!

Credit: Import Monsters Blog

under Power Rangers

Following on from the earlier news of the Power Rangers Lost Galaxy suits seen during the Power Rangers Super Megaforce filming, another picture has surfaced on instagram of the Megaforce rangers alongside a Gormin foot soldier from Gokaiger!

Is this visual confirmation that the Goseiger suits will remain throughout Super Megaforce? Discuss after the jump!

under Power Rangers

Another piece of Super Megaforce filming has appeared on Instagram. This time, we get a shot of the Lost Galaxy Rangers in action!

We still don’t know if the Lost Galaxy Rangers themselves will be appearing at all in Season 2, or if the Megaforce Rangers somehow gain the ability to transform into past Rangers. What’s your theory? Hit the jump to discuss in the thread!

under Super Sentai

While we are getting a new Akibablue for the second season of Akibaranger, actress Kyoko Hinami who portrays Mitsuki Aygoi via her Twitter feed confirmed that she will be appearing at some point in season 2!

It is currently not known in what capacity she’ll be appearing or even if she’ll be transforming.

Thanks to DecaEnd of HJU for giving us the heads up!

SOURCE: Henshinjustice

under Super Sentai

Thanks to a user on Hatena Diary we have an EXTENSIVE look at the new minpla Kyoryuzin from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger! We’ve been provided with boxed, pre-build, full build, and mid transformation shots alike. Unfortunately it looks like some liberties had to be taken with Kyoryuzins’ design to achieve this figure, such as the removal of the Zyudenchi (beast batteires) from the design. Instead Gabutyra has permanently fixed black cylinders under his chin and tail which act as arm connectors.

We’ve hosted a selection of the images from this set here. Click the link to go and check out the full, and massive, image gallery of this latest minipla release!

Credit: Hatena Diary

under Kamen Rider

User stonekeung01 over at Toysdaily has just received his tamashii web exclusive S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Ryuga and has shared some pics! It’s just a couple of action shots and some in package pics but Ryuga certainly looks intimidating and awesome!

UPDATE with 5 more additional shots!

Expect Ryuga to start hitting your favorite Web Exclusive Middlemen and online retailers SOON!

Credit: Toysdaily