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under Kamen Rider

RIDER….HENSHIN!

After being teased in various magazines toy shows, the Granddaddy of all Kamen Riders is finally going to be released in the S.H.Figuarts line!

Coming in the December batch of Tamashii Pick-Ups, we have S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider 1 joined by his human identity: S.H.Figuarts Takeshi Hongo, rendered in a close likeness to actor Hiroshi Fujioka. Apparently, both will be mass retail releases with only Rider 1 having a known price of 6480 yen, the price on Takeshi Hongo and any included accessories are currently not known as of this writing.

under General Tokusatsu News

After an exciting teaser earlier this year, the iconic Jaeger Gipsy Danger from fan-favorite monster/robot action movie Pacific Rim is officially joining the Soul of Chogokin action figure series!

Designated as release number GX-77 in the Soul of Chogokin lineup, Gipsy Danger is recreated in exquisite detail, featuring a variety of screen-accurate weapons (including the carrier ship used as an impromptu club at one memorable moment). An electronic feature is also included- lights are planted in Gipsy’s head, chest and plasma-cannon arms.

GX-77 Gipsy Danger is currently scheduled for release in February 2018! The price is a sound 27000 Yen (or roughly $243 USD at current exchange rate). This figure is now available for preorder at all major tokusatsu retailers!

under Garo

Another entry in the GARO universe is coming to theaters in 2018!

Officially titled Garo: Kami No Kiba this film will once again follow the adventures of Dogai Ryuga as the Golden Knight! Actor Wataru Kuriyama returns once again as Ryuga, finally concluding his character arc that began in 2013’s Garo: Yami o Terasu Mono.

But Kuriyama is not the only familiar face among this cast-

*Junya Ikeda (Gokai Silver) reprises his role as Makai Knight Takeru
*Tsunori Aoki (Kamen Rider Duke) returns to play the Makai Knight Aguri
*Masahiro Inoue (Kamen Rider Decade) once again portrays the villain Zinga

An all-star lineup for GARO & tokusatsu fans!

Franchise creator Keita Amemiya will direct this new film, but sadly no other release information is available at time of writing. Stay tuned to Tokunation as we keep you up to date on all GARO reveals!

under Power Rangers, San Diego Comic Con

One of the items on display at this year’s San Diego Comic Con was the upcoming EFX Collectibles Mighty Morphin Green Ranger helmet. We took a full gallery of this gorgeous item – check it out by clicking the title of the story.

under Power Rangers, San Diego Comic Con

Toy company Jada had the Metallicfigs Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on display at their booth at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. Check out our full gallery by clicking the title of the story.

under General Tokusatsu News

The first teaser for Pacific Rim: Uprising has been posted online!

This brief video gives fans a history of the iconic Jaeger Program that saved humanity during the Kaiju War of Pacific Rim and features new lead actor John Boyega encouraging fans to join the Program & save the world once again!

But that’s not all for Pacific Rim today- a new viral marketing campaign has been launched, via GoJaeger.com that will provide fans with new information about the film and its universe as we move close to its release.

Stay tuned to TokuNation for all Pacific Rim news!

under Conventions, San Diego Comic Con

As SDCC 2017 rages on and our news crew fights valiantly to bring us news & reveals, they’ve popped into the Power Rangers panel to snag us all the cool info this year! Here’s the highlights of what Kickback and the gang saw and heard at the panel

  • nWay showcase of Power Rangers Legacy Wars. Including character model turnarounds of characters Black Dragon, Lord Drakkon, Movie Putty, & Ninjor! And in the words of the panelists Lord Drakkon is “very key to the franchise going forward”.
  • Imagniext toyline overview. Jokes were made about a large scale Titanus playset for the Megazord to fit in “but that thing is huge”. Instead a smaller figure scale Megazord is coming. And a to scale Titanus WILL be made for this new smaller line. Thunder Megazord & Pirantis figures coming as well.
  • Pop Culture Shock releases we covered last night from their booth including the magnificent Lord Drakkon bust. Movie Red Ranger & Rita, TV Green Pink & Black rangers as well. Life Size White Ranger & Red Ranger Busts, Green Ranger 1/4 Statue.
  • Funko – SDCC exclusive Megazord Pop, Dragon Shield Red Ranger
  • Bandai – rundown of the SDCC exclusives, in person showing of the Legacy Power Sword, Legacy Movie Power Coins set, Legacy Movie Red Ranger Helmet. New action figure Legacy Zords, articulated figures with min-ranger pilots. Legacy Zeo Rangers, Dino Thunder White Ranger, In Space Silver, all 5 Psycho Rangers. Question asked about Drakkon & Black Dragon toys, “nothing to confirm at this time”. Legacy Zeonizer & Gold Ranger Power Staff confirmed!

If you’d like to see the entire panel, you can! Just check out this tweet!

Stay tuned to TokuNation here and on twitter (@Tokunation) as we continue our LIVE coverage from the SDCC 2017 show floor!

under General Tokusatsu News, San Diego Comic Con

Here’s something a bit different, and more akin to the third party offerings many Transformers fans have access to these days. 1000 Toys is a company largely known for their excellent 1/12 Scale TOA Heavy Industries Synthetic Humans, which you can order from our site sponsor BBTS using that link. Now they’re taking a stab in a different direction with some figures heavily inspired by Super Sentai & Kamen Rider!

These new Synthetic Human sublines, “Nextman Synth” & “Knight of Synth” share the same basic engineering as the Heavy Industries figures, with a little toku sensibility mixed in. The seemingly rider themed Nextman figures are named Cyclone, Fusion, & Future. Each retailing for $80 USD. Their pizza themed sentai-inspired heroes are also on display. These guys appear to be based on figures originally created by Youtube pairing Toy Pizza. You may also be familiar with the Mecha Zone Pizzanuats figures based on these designs. The green knight is Lime, red is Brick, blue is Teal, and the black one is Death Knight. Each of these is also $80 USD.

Stay tuned to TokuNation here and on twitter (@Tokunation) as we continue our LIVE coverage from the SDCC 2017 show floor!

under General Tokusatsu News

Don’t let the SDCC news & reveals be the only thing to whet your Toku appetite! Surprisingly, Amazon has just released some official images and release information for three upcoming releases from Pacific Rim Uprising! Joining the Robot Damashii line are the Gypsy Avenger, Bracer Phoenix & Titan Redeemer Jaegers!

These inaugural releases form Bandai’s freshly gotten Pacific Rim license are looking very sharp indeed. Thanks to their info dump we also having pricing and release details! According to the Amazon US listings, Gypsy Avenger will be released on February 23rd, 2018 for the very modest price of $23.99 and free shipping for Prime members. Bracer Phoenix will release on the same day for a bit more at $32.99 and free shipping for Prime members. And Titan Redeemer will also release that day, priced the same as Phoenix at $32.99

This early batch of pre-orders has actually beaten the Tamashii Nations website to the punch, they aren’t even listed there yer. So there are sure to be more official images coming. For now check out what we can see, and maybe take up that early pre-order.

under Power Rangers Movie, San Diego Comic Con

The folks from Weta Workshop were on hand for San Diego Comic Con 2017 and they brought with them the Power Rangers Movie Red Ranger suit! Check out a ton of up close, high resolution pictures that we snagged of this beautiful piece by clicking the title of the story.