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A press conference for this summers’ Super Sentai/Kamen Rider double-bill feature took place today in Japan, and several new details regarding the Shuriken Sentai Ninninger movie were revealed in the process!

The Ninninger movie’s official title is The Splendid Ninja Scroll Of The Dinosaur Lord! The story involves the Ninningers traveling to the Shinobi Hidden Village in order to prevent the Kibaoni Army from growing even stronger, and along the way the team will be confronted by a Shinobi Lord named Yasumi with strange new powers.

The full streaming press conference can be seen below! Splendid Ninja Scroll premieres in theaters on August 8, 2015!

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After a bit of speculation on this mysterious form and the silhouette we’d seen of it previously, we finally have our first full look at Kamen Rider Drive Type Super Dead Heat!

This type, exclusive to the film Kamen Rider Drive Surprise Future, will be a new form Drive can access using the Tridoron Key. When used with a Mach Driver this key gives Drive a form similar in nature to Mashin Chaser. In fact it’s the exact same suit as Mashin Chaser, just red instead of purple with a newly modified Drive helmet. This is the form Drive will use as he attempts to stop the antagonistic rider of the future, Dark Drive!

Kamen Rider Drive Surprise Future opens August 8th!

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MAJOR SPOILERS  lurk below!

The identity of Kamen Rider Dark Drive, the apparent antagonist of the upcoming film Kamen Rider Drive Surprise Future, has been revealed! Dark Drive is none other than :

Spoiler:
Eiji Tomari, the son of Shinosuke Tomari from the year 2035! He’s traveled back in time to stop his father from unknowingly creating the dystopian future he comes from! Something is hidden deep within the Drive System that even Mr. Belt isn’t aware of and Dark Drive & NEXTridoron must stop it to save the future!

Kamen Rider Dark Drive is played by Mackenyu Maeda, an american born actor, and the son of Sonny Chiba.

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Licensing Expo 2015 is well underway and while we’ve had a few snippets of information leak out, we just got some significant reveals courtesy of  Saban Brands Entertainment’s very own Marketing Teaser for Power Rangers Dino Super Charge! Photos courtesy of Rangercrew who are currently in attendance!

The images from the teaser give us a lot of food for thought with the upcoming 2016 premiere of Super charge. We see some great looks at the Dino Drive mode of the core 6 rangers as well as a new weapon being wielded by Dino Drive Red & Gold. The appearance of monsters from the Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger soruce footage including Chaos, Demon Torin, & Endorf as well as Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger/Power Ranger Dino Thunder’s Geildon/Zeltrax piques our interest for sure. And we get teases of the upcoming Aqua, Purple, and Graphite (mis-labelled Silver) Rangers!

However we have to remember to take all the images with a dose of heavy skepticism. As we well know from previous Super Megaforce teasers, tons of footage that never actually makes it to the final cut of the show can be thrown into these videos. While the content here is indicative of what we could have, it may not be entirely consistent with what we will get. But for now discuss the awesome shots from the upcoming Power Rangers Dino Super Charge!

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Teased mere days ago in Bandai of America’s offerings for San Diego Comic-Con 2015, one of the mystery items has been officially unveiled!

For sale exclusively at the Bandai of America booth for SDCC 2015 is the White Ranger Tokyo Vinyl Figure! This figure will retail for the reasonable price of $25. With only 2 items yet to be officially revealed yet and the convention itself less than 1 month away we should see the rest of the reveals in the very near future!

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Saban Brands has distributed an official press release for the 2016 Power Rangers season, Power Rangers Dino Super Charge! This press release contains several very interesting details about the future of this series!


Saban Brands today announced Saban’s Power Rangers Dino Super Charge as the title of the upcoming season of the Power Rangers television series, which will premiere on Nickelodeon in early 2016. This super-charged season will follow the Power Rangers as they continue their quest to unite all 10 Energems by tapping into brand-new battle gear, Zords and Megazords to save the universe. Additionally, for the first time in franchise history, there will be 10 Power Rangers on the same team. Power Rangers Dino Super Charge will also continue to spotlight the series’ core themes of friendship, teamwork, responsibility and helping others for fans of all ages.

“With the current season, Power Rangers Dino Charge, we’ve already seen an overwhelming response and it very quickly became a huge success, as fans were excited for the return of the popular dinosaur theme for the first time in more than 10 years,” said Elie Dekel, President of Saban Brands. “With Power Rangers Dino Super Charge, the new season will still feature the same amazing team of Power Rangers, but will be super-charged with history-making twists and turns and, of course, epic new villains, Zords and Megazords, making this one of the best seasons yet!”

Fans can watch the current season, Saban’s Power Rangers Dino Charge on Nickelodeon every Saturday at 12 p.m. (ET/PT). All-new episodes of Power Rangers Dino Charge will return this August on Nickelodeon.

New episodes of Power Rangers Dino Charge return to the airwaves in roughly two months! In addition, the official images from Saban feature another new upgrade for the Dino Charge Red Ranger: the form known as Carnival in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger.

Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on all Super Dino News!

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For now file this one under the maybe category.

Bandai of America revealed a cryptic teaser for their San Diego Comic-Con 2015 exclusives just last week. And while we have a good idea what those 4 items are (1 of them confirmed to be non-toku) we may have a new item in the mix. An ebay listing has just been discovered for what appears to be a Loyal Subjects Mighty Morphin Red Ranger vinyl cast in translucent red plastic. While we haven’t heard about this figure being available at SDCC yet, it could be a similar case to the translucent Ranger Keys that were passed out at the show last year where select attendees received them.

For now feel free to speculate on the claim that this is an SDCC 2015 figure. As a Loyal Subjects item it wouldn’t be part of BOA’s pre-show reveals so right now we have no way to confirm it’s validity. As SDCC approaches (July 9th-12th) news will begin to trickle out about the upcoming exclusives, as it does we’ll be there to share all the information with you! And be sure to follow TokuNation as we report LIVE from SDCC yet again!

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It’s finally here – the debut episode for the final form for Kamen Rider Drive – and we’ve got an episode synopsis with review (and pictures!) for you to enjoy. This episode features the debut of Kamen Rider Drive Type Tridoron, which as previously stated is the final power up form for Kamen Rider Drive. And as is the case for most final forms, the build-up for this form spanned two episodes and was heavy on the drama.

Linked to this story is our Episode Poll and Discussion – simply click the link, or click here, or the “Discuss” link at the bottom of the story to go straight to the discussion and to vote on the episode. Beware – this post contains major spoilers – so if you’re not ready to know what happens, avoid reading now!

For our synopsis and review, we used subtitles from Overtime Subs. To download their HD or SD version of this episode with subtitles, just click here. A special thanks to CometComics on DeviantArt for some of the graphics used in this story – be sure to check out their awesome Flash Belts for Kamen Rider Drive, Kamen Rider Gaim, and Kamen Rider Den-O!

Click “Read More” for the synopsis and review! And remember – All you need is Drive!

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Having just debuted in yesterday’s episode of Kamen Rider Drive, today brings us official images of the 11th entry in the Tire Koukan toyline!

TK-11 Drive Type Tridoron is Kamen Rider Drive’s final form, as such it really has all the bells an whistles of a final form toy. The figure includes the base Type Tridoron Tire as well as the first of several blended 3-in-1 tires, in this case the People Saver Tire. A combo of Justice Hunter, Mad Doctor, & Fire Braver. Of note is an additional Tire Koukan connector around the left wrist much like Type Formula. The figure also appears to feature a visor dial gimmick which allows you to change between the yellow visor (Shinnosuke) & red visor (Mr Belt).

TK-11 Drive Type  Tridoron will be released in July for 3780 yen.

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After a case assortment pre-order for Power Rangers Dino Charge 5″ Wave 5 was posted at Entertainment Earth just yesterday, someone has already found them at US retail! Instagram user @mikey_the_husky was lucky enough to stumble across the 5″ Ptera Charge Megazord, Gold Ranger & Graphite Ranger at Walmart in Dinuba, CA.

While the rest of the assortment has yet to be seen at retail (the Dino Drive Rangers) it’s only a matter of time before they pop up as well! On top of finding these brand new figures Mikey has seen fit to share the on package bios of both Gold & Graphite Rangers as well! MAJOR SPOILERS below:

 

Gold Ranger Bio-

Spoiler:
“900 years ago, Ivan was a valiant young knight who dared to chalenge Fury for the Gold Energem. Having finally escaped his imprisonment years later, Ivan joins the Power Rangers as the Gold Ranger. He brings legendary skill to the team as we wield’s a magnificent saber and morpher that doubles as a weapon”.

Graphite Ranger Bio-

Spoiler:
“Prince Phillip admires the Power Rangers and aspires to be like them- so much so that he embarks on a quest to find his own Energem and become a ranger too!”

Let us know if you find any of the new Wave 5 Dino Charge figures by posting in our Toy Sightings forum, a state by state breakdown of what you can find and where!