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under Kamen Rider

Not to be outdone by the excellent Ranger Key Set news today, Kamen Rider Drive has a Premium Bandai release coming up as well. Or rather Kamen Rider Dark Drive does! Premium Bandai has just listed a brand new Gashapon Next Shift Car Set for this summers evil movie rider!

This set includes Kamen Rider Dark Drive’s 3 trademark Shift Car; – Next Hunter, Next Deco Traveler, & Next Builder! This set will be available for order through September with a release alter this year in December. The Next Shift Car Set retails for 2592 yen. Be sure to get with your preferred middleman to secure this set today!

under Super Sentai

Teased mere days ago Premium Bandai has officially revealed the DX Lost Legend Ranger Keys set from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger! This incredible new set contains a number of characters and keys that have never been released before for one-off and obscure heroes from the through out the franchise!

– Deka Bright (Dekaranger)
– Dark Hurricane Red (Hurricanger 10 Years After)
– Red Cheetah (Go-Busters VS Go-Busters)
– Blue Gorilla (Go-Busters VS Go-Busters)
– Yellow Rabbit (Go-Busters VS Go-Busters)
– Black Puma (Go-Busters VS Go-Busters)
– Silver Stag (Go-Busters VS Go-Busters)
– Gold Beet (Go-Busters VS Go-Busters)
– X1 Mask (Maskman)
– Deka Gold (Dekaranger The Movie)
– Green Hippopotamus (Go-Busters VS Go-Busters)
– Gosei Green (Goseiger) this is the blurred out key and is the most likely suspect

That’s the 2 extra rangers from Dekaranger, the 10 Years After evil alias of Hurricane Red, the ENTIRE team from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters VS Dobutsu Sentai Go-Busters, the 6th Goseiger whom we’ve only ever partially seen, AND the original 6th hero himself, X1 Mask!  And on top of these we have the first official teaser of Ressha Sentai ToQger Ranger Keys as well!

Be sure to get with your middleman ASAP to secure an order for this premium set!

under Power Rangers

Thanks to Ranger Board, we’ve just found out that Pez has acquired the Power Rangers license and will be releasing official Power Rangers themed Pez dispensers.

The first three Rangers to be receiving this treatment will be none other than Mighty Morphin Red, Black, and Pink and will be coming out on 2016 though no word currently on an exact release date.

under Power Rangers

Get ready Ranger Nation because it’s about to get wild! With huge special thanks to our friend @BurgundyRanger on Twitter we are excited to spread the news that Power Rangers Dino Charge‘s return date has been changed from August 29th, 2015 to August 22nd, 2015 based on a new television schedule distributed by Nickelodeon.

Does this mean we’ll get Power Rangers Dino Charge – Episode 09 – When Logic Fails a week earlier than anticipated? Or will we get a rerun of Episode 08 to lead in to Episode 09 which was originally marketed as August 29th? Guess we’ll have to wait and see!

Until then, you can feel free to browse our Power Rangers Forum and take part in the episode discussion for the next episode. Why is that up? Because with the power of the Internet, the international release of the next episode of Power Rangers Dino Charge has already happened. And with the power of technology, the full English version of the episode is available as well.

Either way – get charged up and ready to unleash the power because Power Rangers Dino Charge is almost back on!

under Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, Super Sentai

Our site sponsor BigBadToyStore.com just released a newsletter detailing some of the new figures they have in stock and the new pre-orders that they’ve been putting up for the last week! And while it’s not a super-heavy toku week by any means, we’ve done our best to make things easy for you and listed some of their current toku pre-orders as well as some of their new arrivals in toku. Check it out below!

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under Kamen Rider

It looks like at least one of this years movie exclusive Rider suits is about to get the figure treatment! Just revealed, with official images in tow thanks to the Premium Bandai website, is S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Drive Super Dead Heat!

Super Deat Heat is Shinosuke’s temporary power up exclusive to the Kamen Rider Drive Surprise Future movie. A Frankenstein of sorts this form is accessed with a Mach Driver, while using the Tridoron Key, & produces a red Mashin Chaser body with a Drive Type Speed head that features additional asymmetrical detailing. A gorgeous figure for sure it appears to be lacking somewhat in the accessories. The order page currently only lists 3 sets of hands for each arm.

S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Drive Super Dead Heat will be released as a Tamashii Web Exclusive for 5940 yen in March!

under Kamen Rider

We have sadly been informed of the death of tokusatsu actor Masayuki Izumi, who passed on July 28 at the age of 35.

Masayuki Izumi is best know for the role of Yuji Kiba, the Horse Orphonoch from Kamen Rider 555.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends in these difficult times.

under Kamen Rider

It’s time for TokuNation to take a trip back to the 90’s again for this one. We’re revisiting the world of the Kamen Rider 20th Anniversary project Kamen Rider ZO with a new figure gallery! Today’s subject is a companion piece to our ZO gallery from January, the Neo Organism given physical form, S.H. Figuarts Doras!

Doras is cyborg like creature created by the Neo Organism in the film to hunt for the son of it’s creator. Of course like an respectable villain, along the way Doras gets entangled with Kamen Rider ZO. Doras the toy is one of the more magnificent Figuarts on the market. In much the same way we heaped praise on the sculpt of Kamen Rider Shin, Doras is a marvel of detailing and sculpt. An absolutely glorious figure to look at, S.H. Figuarts Doras captures the pure evil of his namesake and reminds us of a time when villain designs weren’t just good, they were amazing. Whether you remember the character fondly from the Kamen Rider ZO film or his later appearance in Decade/W Movie Wars 2010 this figure will not disappoint you.

A selection of images are attached to this post but the full gallery containing over 50 images can be found by clicking “discuss on the TokuNation forums at the bottom of this post. S.H. Figuarts Doras is an incredible companion piece to Kamen Rider ZO and for now at least they look like the only 2 figures we’ll be getting from that film. But you can be certain that when or if more figuarts from ZO are produced, we’ll cover them!

under Super Sentai

In a rather surprise announcement, Premium Bandai just launched a new web page with a teaser featuring Gokai Red from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. 

Based on available translations from their tweets this appears to be a “Lost Ranger Key Legend” set. What exactly that means is unclear currently. But it may imply that the various extra heroes and minor one-off rangers of the franchise, who didn’t quite make the cut in this toyline the first time, could be getting the Premium key treatment? Or maybe it’s an artisan rendition of the Mobirates itself? It’s any number of possibilities!

For now that’s all we have to go on but we’ll keep you up to date as more news becomes available. Specifically on August 7th when the reveal of more information on this set will occur!

under General Tokusatsu News

This is definitely an interesting one. While TokuNation can’t always cover the numerous Local Heroes (gotchi heroes) of Japan, we do on occasion try to bring you as much information on the larger projects as possible. Well this is quite possibly the largest Local Hero project since the ambitious Fire Leon franchise! Announced today is the Nihon Local Hero Daikessen film (Japan Local Hero Great Battle) which was recently crowdfunded into production!

Unlike the annual Super Hero Taisen films produced by Toei, this film seeks to be unify the various Local Heroes of Japan with a theme of friendship. Admittedly there are so many local Japanse heroes I doubt we’d be able to run down the whole list of those appearing in the movie, but it looks like many major and popular regional favorites such as the cast of Yatsurugi, Ibaraiga, Cosmo Flasher, & MANY more will appear!

Nihon Local Hero Daikessen is set for release on November 14th!