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Archives for January 2014

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It’s time once again to visit a classic rider series. A favorite here at TokuNation, Kamen Rider Ryuki was featured in one of our earliest Let’s Watch Wednesdays segments. Well today, courtesy of site sponsor Entertainment Earth, we’re happy to bring you yet another gallery from Ryuki. This time it’s the Pseudo Rider, S.H. Figuarts Alternative Zero!

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Alternative Zero being a pseudo rider, shares many characteristics at a basic level with the other Ryuki riders. But being based on a copy of the rider technology Alternative Zero gives off a much more imposing, and evil exterior. An incredible looking, and well made figure, S.H. Figuarts Alternative Zero is the perfect addition to any Ryuki (or even Dragon Knight) collection.

Check out the full gallery, and review of this figure by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post. And be sure to head  over to Entertainment Earth to fulfill your Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Power Rangers, Ultraman, Godzilla, and other tokusatsu needs!

 

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More Kamen Rider Gaim news just keeps coming today! After being rumored a few weeks back we finally have confirmation of yet another new rider for Gaim! Armored Rider Knuckle will be appearing very soon thanks to a particular event and theft in this weeks episode 15. Be sure to get caught up to that episode and pay attention, you’ll know when you see it.

Knuckle will be based on the MP style Kurokage under suit, with a helmet/face plate design very similar to Gridon, but he’ll use the Walnut Lock Seed to henshin! He appears to have gauntlet style weapons rather than the more traditional ranged and melee weapons of the other riders!

under Kamen Rider, Super Sentai

Additional scans of the up coming Heisei VS Showa Kamen Rider movie have surfaced. The new images reveals the villain for the film...Kamen Rider Fifteen! While Fifteen is a Gaim Rider, the interesting thing is that his Lock Seed doesn’t seem to be based on any kind of fruit but instead resembling a skeleton.

Other scans have revealed new Decade Arms for Gaim and a Fourze Arms for Fifteen based on whom seems to be holding a weapon based on the Barizun Sword of Cosmic States.

Additionally, the scan finally reveals some details about the Super Sentai portion of the movie, show casing that Tokkyuger and Kyoryuger will be making an appearance

under Kamen Rider, Super Sentai

Another unfortunate passing for the tokusatsu community today. Ichiro Nagai, at age 82, has passed away. Currently his cause of death is unknown as police investigate. Possibly best known to tokusatsu fans for his role as GekiJyuKen Master ShaFu in Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger, Mr. Nagai had many notable anime voice acting credits through out his career. His toku roles included:

  • Basebal Mask (Himitsu Sentai Goranger)
  • Devil Batter (J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai)
  • Master ShaFu (Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger)
  • Narrator (Kamen Rider G)

Ichiro Nagai will be truly missed by many. On behalf of all TokuNation staff and members we’d like to give our condolences to Mr. Nagai’s family.

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It seems that every single week you think this show is done being awesome and will have a normal, filler-like episode that we’ve all grown accustomed to. However, Kamen Rider Gaim continues to deliver breath-taking episodes that blow our minds and raise the stakes every single time. And Episode 15, “The Man Who Developed the Belts”, is no different than any of the previous episodes – except that it’s full of awesome, even more so than the previous episode!

There’s not really anything we can say that will not spoil the episode. Setting an all new record for “that was the fastest sub in history”, Aesir Subs already has the episode ready for you to check out. Do so, and then join our episode discussion and vote on what you thought of the episode! Beware of spoilers in the thread, so avoid it if you haven’t seen it or don’t want to be spoiled yet.

Once you have seen the episode though, join in the discussion of what this episode revealed, and what do you think is in store for our heroes. And of course, that amazing preview for Episode 16 that will surely be the next significant story point in this already excellent season of Kamen Rider. To the stage!

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Thanks to our good friend and forum member raz, we have learned of some new Power Rangers Super Megaforce Key packs set to release in February, from a listing at ToyWiz.com!

The following key packs are again set to release in February 2014. Case assortments are unknown at this time but it’s safe to assume that some of the first wave key packs will be phased out, so you’d better pick them up soon if you don’t want to miss your chance at them!

– Power Rangers Turbo Key Pack (Red, Green, Blue)
– Power Rangers In Space Key Pack (Red, Blue, Black)
– Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Key Pack (Red, Black, Blue)
– Power Rangers Ninja Storm Key Pack (Red, Yellow, Blue)
– Power Rangers SPD Key Pack (Red, Blue, Green, listed as “Ninja Storm Rangers”)
– Power Rangers Zeo Key Pack (Red, Green, Blue)
– Power Rangers Time Force Key Pack (Red, Blue, Green)
– Power Rangers Super Megaforce Key Pack (Metallic Red, Yellow, Pink)

Of note, particularly for those awaiting female Ranger Keys, there is a total of THREE listed – Ninja Storm Blue, and Super Megaforce Yellow and Pink. Curiously, during the Bandai UK Toy Fair 2014 images, we saw Power Rangers Zeo Yellow Ranger Key shown with Red and Blue. Whether this was an error or the UK is getting different key packs is purely speculation and, sadly, most likely an error.

Thanks again to raz for the heads up. For more detailed Power Rangers Super Megaforce toy information, including day to day, hour by hour updates, check out his blog on Tumblr! Are you going to pick up these key packs? What keys are you still hoping/waiting for? Let us know!

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Tokunation.com’s look at the recently released Power Rangers Super Megaforce merchandise continues with a full gallery of the wave 1 5″ Super Megaforce Rangers!

Each of the Super Megaforce Rangers comes packaged with 1 Super Mega Saber and 1 Super Mega Blaster. The Red, Blue, and Green Rangers all share the same male buck body but with a unique head sculpt and the Pink and Yellow Rangers both share the same female buck but with a different head sculpt. All 5 figures have 17 points of articulation. These figures have just begun hitting retail at the $7.99 price point. Check your local retailers now!

Photo & Content staff member conundrum has the full rundown of features for these figures after the jump. Click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post to see it all.

under General Tokusatsu News

Thanks to sister site ToyArk we’ve got our first official look at Pacific Rim Series 3 figures Coyote Tango & Cherno Alpha. NECA recently posted the first images of these fully painted figures to tease their upcoming February release. Check them out after the jump by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums”.

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These two videos were taken at the ToQGer press conference this weekend in Japan and offer the first in-hand demonstration of the DX merchandise for the upcoming series!

Here’s the DX ToqChanger:

and here’s ToQOh:

Are these vids enough to change your train of thought on this series? Join in our ongoing ToQGer discussion thread and voice your thoughts!

under TokuNation, TokuNation Site Updates

It’s a new year and thus it’s the first new episode of Talkin Toku at the Nation for 2014! Your hosts Kickback, Den-O, and Sentai Tamashii return from their holiday hiatus (the longest hiatus!) to talk about everything that happened over the break! In this episode, you’ll learn how Den-O received the nickname Cease and Desist Jordan, our thoughts regarding how Bandai of America is handling the release of female Ranger Keys in the toy line of Power Rangers Super Megaforce, how we think Tamashii Nations/Bluefin Tamashii Nations should handle their future releases of S.H. Figuarts for Super Sentai/Power Rangers, the new story-arch for Kamen Rider Gaim, and Sentai Tamashii ruins the Peach Energy Lock Seed, as well as Kamen Rider Den-O, for everyone for the rest of their lives.

SPOILERS ALERT! If you haven’t watched Kamen Rider Gaim through Episode 13, you should probably skip the part about the episode. Don’t worry, we give you some buffer time before we dive right in (even though Den-O tries a few times to start the Gaim conversation early). SPECIAL NOTE! Talkin Toku at the Nation is best listened to with headphones! If you don’t get the joke at the start of the episode … put on some headphones, you’ll hear the weird noise and it’ll make sense then. Check out the podcast, embedded in this post, below!

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Please leave any comments in the “Discuss on the TokuNation forums” link below! And don’t forget – we LOVE to hear from you guys and gals! Send us an E-mail at podcast@tokunation.com about anything we’ve talked about on the show – or even better, ask us questions! We’re giant nerds (we run an entire website dedicated to this stuff, come on!) but if there’s a topic we haven’t touched on that you want to hear about, tell us and we’ll totally do it! Please let us know if you want to be left anonymous in your E-mail if we select it to be read. Thanks guys, see you very soon!