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under Kamen Rider

While the S.H.Figuarts release of Kamen Rider Amazon Omega maybe still a month off, Medicom’s gone ahead and put up official stock images for their RAH Genesis Kamen Rider Amazon Omega high end figure!

RAH Genesis Kamen Rider Amazon Omega is certainly a gorgeous piece, included with this figure are his Battle Grip weapon in both sickle and spear modes, extended forearm blades for the Violent Punish finisher, a personalized display base and to top it all off: the eyes will have an light up LED gimmick.

RAH Genesis Kamen Rider Amazon Omega will command a high price tag of 29,800 yen but he won’t be due out for awhile: he’s expected to come out May 2017 as a mass retail release.

under TokuNation Site Updates

It’s been a long time coming but we’re finally here! After nearly 5 years as a community, TokuNation has hit a huge milestone. You’ve enjoyed our articles, our convention coverage, our on again off again podcasts, our thinkpieces, episode reviews, comic reviews, and everything in between. But you’ve also enjoyed something we’ve been striving to make better and better from the day we opened our doors – our Galleries!

For nearly 5 years now the Photo & Content staff here at TokuNation have been bringing you in hand image galleries of your favorite old and new collectibles. Plumbing the depths of Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Power Rangers, Godzilla, Ultraman, Garo, Mystic Knights, Pacific Rim, Beetleborgs, and anything else we can! From day one we wanted to give you a great experience. Looking back at our first efforts now, it’s clear we had a long way to go before becoming your #1 source for photos and content. But we were committed to bringing content in any form we were able to. And that’s what’s brought us to today.

Now after 5 years of hard work, we can treat you to something a little different from our usual galleries. For our landmark 500th Gallery we have assembled an array of incredible action shots, dynamic poses, fight scenes, and just plain fun photos. There’s no theme to this gallery, no specific figure featured, not even 1 particular franchise. This gallery runs the gamut of fun and interesting figures we had on hand and wanted to play with! We just wanted to have fun with this one, and in turn let you have a good time as well.

Shots were contributed to this gallery by myself and Den-O. As the years have gone on, he and I have become a tandem, a duo if you will, who push each other to be better with each shot. And we’re poised now to bring you even better quality pictures than you’ve seen before!

So this 500th gallery is about more than just celebrating the number. It’s about celebrating the fun community we’ve built in the last 5 years. The progres we’ve made as photographers. And the progress our collections have made as our focus has shifted and changed over time. We plan to continue bringing you new and exciting galleries of vintage & modern figures forever. But for now, please enjoy this montage of shots we really just had fun with. We’ll see you again in another 500!

under Ultraman

As the perfect follow up to the previously released S.H.Figuarts Ultraman, Bandai has just announced the released of S.H.Figuarts Ultra Seven!

This announcement comes via scans from the latest issue of Figuroh magazine and S.H.Figuarts Ultra Seven appears to be a mass retail release. He’s currently slated to come out March 2017 with a price tag of 5500 yen.

under Power Rangers

After being shown at numerous conventions the past few months, Bandai is finally gearing up to release the trio of Tamashii Buddies from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Bandai’s just put up the official image galleries for Tamashii Buddies Mighty Morphin Red Ranger, Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger, and last but not least: Lord Zedd.

The new thing these images reveal are the very Mighty Morphin centric display bases each one themed after the represented character and like previous releases, these stands can either be stacked on top of each other or connected three in a row.

The three Tamashii Buddies will see release sometime in March 2017 with no pricing given as of this writing though if any past releases can be of any indication: we can expect somewhere within the vicinity of 1500 yen.

under Power Rangers

We’ve hit the motherload! Thanks to @razzle1337 on Twitter digging through Amazon images, we have a ton of new images of stuff we’ve already seen, but also new stuff for the upcoming Power Rangers Ninja Steel toy line that will be hitting shelves in about a month or so. Here’s the full list of what is included in this news update!

  • DX Ninja Battle Morpher
  • Ninja Star Shooter
  • Red Ranger Hero Set
  • Blue Ranger Hero Set
  • Mega Morph Cycle with Red Ranger
  • Mega Morph Cycle with Yellow Ranger
  • Ninja Blaster
  • 5 Inch Villain Ripclaw
  • 5 Inch Villain Cat’O’Clock
  • 5 Inch Villain Ripperat
  • 5 Inch Villain Stonedozer
  • 5 Inch Villain Basher
  • 12 Inch Red Ranger
  • 12 Inch Blue Ranger
  • 12 Inch Yellow Ranger

There’s a lot of images (in no certain order) but do enjoy!

under Super Sentai

Teased late last month we were expecting to see official images and details for this release on October 26th. But thanks to Figure Oh scans leaking a little earlier than expected we have our first look at two new upcoming Premium Bandai Products, The Super Sentai Artisan Aura Changer & Kiba Changer!

Thanks to an anonymous poster on 2chan the first image of this pair is currently making the rounds and WOW do they look great! We can almost hear the droves of Power Rangers fans out there who hope to see this item re purposed for the Magna Defenders morpher as the original DX toy was.

The Aura & Kiba Changers are headed for release in March 2017, presumably as a set for 10,584 yen. but we’ll have full release details and official images on October 26th.

under Kamen Rider

After yesterday’s official confirmation of release, Bandai has release full official images & release info for 2 versions of this upcoming release. S.H. Figuarts Super-1 & V-Machine set and the single release S.H. Figuarts V-Machine!

Both of these releases are slated for release in April 2017, as Tamashii Web Exclusives. The 2-pack of Super-1 & V-Machine features a re-release of the Super-1 figuart that appears mostly unchanged from it’s original single release. The single pack version of the V-Machine is fairly bare bones and only includes the usual wheel base pedestal.

The Super-1/V-Machine 2 pack retails for 11,664 yen while the single V-Machine will retail for 7560 yen. 

under Kamen Rider

After yesterday’s official confirmation of release, Bandai has release full official images & release info for S.H. Figuarts Hardboilder!

This new Hardboilder is actually the second release of this vehicle. An update from the original Figuarts Hardboilder, it seems to feature a more well defined sculpt and paint job. Specifically this release is meant to pair with the recently released Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider W.

S.H. Figuarts Hardboilder will be released in April 2017 as a Tamashii Web Exclusive for 5184 yen.

under Power Rangers

Dedicated fan site PowerRangersNOW! has received an extensive first look at the starting lineup of toys for Power Rangers Ninja Steel!

Specific items highlighted in this early look include:

*The Ninja Battle Morpher! This unique device has 3 configurations- Morpher, Claw or Sword.
*Special emphasis is given to this years’ collector gimmick- the Ninja Power Stars! A variety of Power Stars will be released with each Ninja Steel toy, with over 100 Power Stars planned for the line.
*The Ninja Steel teams’ primary weapon, the Ninja Blaster is also shown! This frog-shaped pistol is capable of firing Ninja Power Stars.
*A NEW weapon, unique to the Ninja Steel series has been revealed- the Sword Star Shooter!
*Another line of motorcycle-figures has been revealed- this time known as the Mega Morph Cycles! These vehicles can transform into Ninja Power Stars AND are able to combine with the Ninja Steel Megazord.
*Finally, the Ninja Steel Ranger Hero Sets are revealed! These roleplay packs contain a Ranger mask, sword, sash and another Ninja Power Star.

Prices are sadly not yet confirmed for these items at time of writing. However, their release is not far away- Ninja Steel toys are expected to be in-stores for Holiday Season 2016!

under Power Rangers

Bandai America impromptu spokesperson and friend of the site, Greg Mitchell, posted on his Instagram account today in-package pictures of the second wave of the Power Rangers Legacy 6.5″ figures! This wave contains the following figures:

  • Mighty Morphin Black Ranger
  • Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger
  • Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger
  • In Space Red Ranger
  • In Space Yellow Ranger

Jason Bischoff of Saban Brands followed up with a tweet stating that these figures should show up in stores anytime between Halloween and Thanksgiving, though they cannot guarantee it because of distribution/sell-thru and other determining factors.

Check out all the images by clicking the title of the story. Are you going to be adding these to your collection? Just two more waves until we get Zeo!