After months of speculation, HeroTaku has uncovered the first details about two upcoming board games based on the Power Rangers franchise!
The Ranger Monopoly pieces are:
*Goldar
*Lightning Bolt
*Alpha 5
*Megazord
*Morpher
*White Ranger Helment
The Trivial Pursuit covers all twenty years of the franchise with 1800 questions for dedicated fans!
Both games have a suggested price tag of 39.99 and should be released this July.
You may have heard of a little film called Pacific Rim by Guillermo del Toro which sees the return of the Daikaiju genre to the west! Exciting news indeed for kaiju and mecha fans far and wide. However, have you heard of the tentatively titled Atlantic Rim/From the Sea?
Well mockbuster production company The Asylum (infamous for such borderline knockoff films as Snakes on a train, The Day The Earth Stopped, Transmorphers, Titanic II, Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, and much more) is busy producing this latest entry. Shooting has begun for the film in the Pensacola, Florida area and walks the line of the plot for Pacific Rim. As told by the films Second Unit Director:
The storyline is that these monsters come from the sea. The sea floor opens up and these things come out. They terrorize the East Coast from Miami to Washington D.C., and the good guys send them back packing.
The Asylum is notorious for their almost exclusively straight to DVD films, their ongoing legal battles with major studios, and their tendency to walk the line of legality when making these mockbusters.
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DecaEnd of HJU is back with the toku rumor bandwagon! It appears that voice actress Haruka Tomatsu will be making an appearance around the 11th episode of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. Why is this relevant you may ask? Well Ms Tomatsu is actually the voice behind the Debos Army villain Candelira!
In her cameo episode she will be playing an idol singing a Debos song from episode 6 to control humans. Could Tomatsu be playing Candelira in a human disguise? Zyudenchi #14 Stymero & #18 Igeranodon will also be used in this brave.
Credit: DecaEnd
Rangercrew gives us a look at the next installment of the Power Rangers Action Card Game Series 2 Guardians of Justice set!
New cards from RPM, Samurai, Mighty Morphin, and Megaforce will be included in this set along with new Ranger teams: Power Rangers In Space, Lost Galaxy, Ninja Storm, and S.P.D will be included in this set.
Check out Rangercrew’s Blog to see the full card listing!
SOURCE: RangerCrew
The Godzilla Movie Site has posted an interesting piece of info. Apparently a rumor has been floating around since February that Toho (Godzill’s license holder) may require Legendary Pictures, which is producing the Godzilla 2014 film, to use actual suitmation in filming! Suitmation being the use of actual physical suits with actors in them (like Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, etc) rather than CGI.
This rumor hasn’t been confirmed by Legendary Pictures or the films’ director Gareth Edwards, but it would stand to reason that Toho would like to see suitmation in this film over the more generally used CGI. This keeping with the roots of the classic Godzilla franchise. The suit design attached to this article would certainly imply that Toho wants to see this happen.
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Medicom announced that they’ll be continuing the Kamen Rider Agito line with Real Action Heroes G3X announced as a Premium Web Club exclusive!
G3X will be shipping in November, retailing for a whopping 22,050 yen! Features a swappable Makoto Hikawa head in addition to G3X’s standard weapons: The GX-05 Cerberus in both deployed and suit case mode, the GX-06 Unicorn Combat Knife, The GM-01 Scorpion pistol, the GG-02 Salamander Grenade Launcher and the GS-03 Destroyer.
SOURCE: Cybergundam Blog
Seen previously at Tamashii Nations 2012 a prototype for SIC Kamen Rider OOO ShaUTa Combo has just been revealed in this months issue of Hobby Japan!
ShaUTa doesn’t have confirmed release date or status yet (mass release vs. exclusive) but seeing this image can only mean we’ll have news of it’s release soon. If SIC GataKiriBa is any indication though then this combo will most likely be a Tamashii Web Exclusive as well.
Among many other updates on the Bandai Tamashii Site today comes a surprise! Only discovered yesterday in a Figure-Oh Scan, the Tamashii site has fully revealed Ultra-Act King Gridman!
This figure will be released in August as a Tamashii Web Exclusive for 6,300 yen. If you’re a fan of Denkou Choujin Gridman or Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad then King Gridman is a must own!
First seen in yesterday’s Figureoh reveals, Tamashi Nation just uploaded official photos of both Classic Rider 1 and the Shocker Combatmen.
Rider 1 is shown to include a Rider Kick effect part, while the Shocker Combatmen will include a combat knife and a staff. Shocker Grunt will retail for 2675 yen while Rider 1 will retail for 2940 yen and will be released in August/July 2013.
First mentioned in the new list of Web Exclusives yesterday; Tamashii has now opened their order page for Kamen Rider Beast Hyper!
The evolved form of Beast will be available in August 2013 for 3990 Yen
Thanks to member irsyadsway for noticing!