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In today’s Hasbro Strategic Decisions Conference, CEO of Hasbro Inc., Brian Goldner, spoke to the audience regarding the acquisition of the Power Rangers master toy license as well as the impending acquisition of the brand as a whole. Brian’s statement is quoted below:

“As I mentioned, we’ve now announced the acquisition of Power Rangers. This is really a great statement about where we believe we are in develping our brand blueprint. The fact that we can acquire Power Rangers brand and plug and play that right into our strategy where we activate it in entertainment, motion pictures in the future and then of course across toys and games and consumer products and do so globally. We felt the brand was very under leveraged and undervalued. We feel we can exploit it to a much greater extent and it was a great opportunity to acquire the brand.” – Brian Goldner, Hasbro Inc. CEO

This revelation will obviously come as great news for fans of the Power Rangers franchise who, last year, enjoyed their first major motion picture in 20 years. As many are well aware, the Power Rangers movie released at higher than expected numbers domestically, but overall failed to capture any audience globally, limping its way in to $142 million worldwide.

Stay tuned for more information as the Hasbro acquisition of Power Rangers continues!

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The good people at Boom! Studios have put up a few preview pages for a brand new entry in their fan-favorite Power Rangers comic series!

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Anniversary Special– created by Magdalene Visaggio, Joe Quinones & Sina Grace– will feature a series of standalone short stories set in the Power Rangers universe.

Small teaser pages for a number of stories have been released, including:

*A surprising teamup for Power Rangers Ninja Steel
*The return of an old friend in Power Rangers Mystic Force
*Reflections on team changes from within the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Sadly, the release details for this anniversary special have not been revealed at time of writing aside from a release date of June 27th, 2018. Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on all BOOM! Studios reveals!

under Kamen Rider

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It just wouldn’t be Super Hero  Time without Kamen Rider, and go alongside our previous Lupin Ranger VS PatRanger coverage , we have official photos for Kamen Rider Build’s batch of toy releases for June.

In this round, stock photography was released for the following products: the DX Evol Trigger(which will be released this weekend in Japan), the DX Genius Full Bottle, Bottle Change Series 13 Kamen Rider Build Genius Form, and finally Rider Hero Series Kamen Rider Build Genius Form.

under Super Sentai

A new month is almost upon us, and as such we have a plethora of new toy images to look at. Kicking us off is the June releases for Kaitou Sentai LupinRanger VS PatRanger featuring the exciting new Ranger on the block: Patren X and Lupin X!

In this round, Bandai has released photos for the following products: DX X Changer, the DX X Rod Sword, and of course sofubi vinyls of both Patren X and Lupin X to go alongside the latest magazine scans that were just released a few days ago.

Are you looking forward to the debut of this new Ranger or his toys? Make the jump and let us know what you think the discussion thread!

under Ultraman

Tsuburaya Productions have announced that the next instalment in the Ultra Series to receive high-definition treatment will be none other than 1987 animated joint production with Hanna-Barbera, Ultraman: The Adventure Begins (also known as Ultraman USA).

After the stunt pilot trio “the Flying Angels” are caught in a mysterious flash of light, they become the hosts of three alien warriors  from Nebula M78. With a base inside of Mount Rushmore and assistance from a trio of robots, this new Ultra Force defend the planet from escaped monsters from the alien planet Sorkin. They are Scott Masterson (Ultraman Scott), Chuck Gavin (Ultraman Chuck) and Beth O’Brien (Ultraman Beth).

As as featuring a brand new Blu-ray conversion, this is the first time that the film has been made available since its original VHS releases. The Blu-Ray will feature both the 75-minute Japanese and 78-minute English cuts of the film, however at the time of writing there is no confirmation that the latter also features English audio.

Ultraman: The Adventure Begins will be released on September 26th 2018, for the price of 7800 yen. Stay tuned to Tokunation for more information on this release as it comes!

under Kamen Rider

Well, it’s been quite the week for Banjou hasn’t it? Revealed via magazine scans and episode preview just last week, then making it’s debut in this past Saturday’s episode, then having images of a figuart prototype shown off, Cross-Z’s new base form has had a QUICK turnaround.

Now, S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Great Cross-Z has been confirmed for release! Thanks as always to @_Erasu for digging these images up from the depths of the Tamashii Nations site. These official images, the banner in particular, now confirm that the Cross-Z repaint will indeed see release. The logo emblazoned on the banner also confirms that it will be a Tamashii Web Exclusive. While we don’t have an exact release window or price yet, the listing itself should be live relatively soon. When that happens, we’ll be sure to let you know!

under Super Sentai

Via new pre-order listings over at Tokullectibles, we have our first look at full color official images of Super Minipla Muteki Shogun, Kakure Daishogun,  & Tsubasamaru!

You may recall we’ve been following the development of these figures quite closely. The last time we checked on it, gray prototype images of Tsubasamaru had been released. However now we have initial pre-orders and official images for all 3 releases from Ninja Sentai Kakuranger! 

Tokullectibles is currently using placeholder prices for both listings starting at $1.00, while the pages aren’t live for ordering yet as well. We’ll update when Japanese pages with official pricing go live as well.

under Super Sentai

Another round of magazine scans has begun circling the Internet, giving fans a few tidbits about the further adventures of Kaitou Sentai LupinRanger vs Keisatsu Sentai PatRanger!

This month’s star is the mysterious Ranger X! This newcomer is able to shift between forms- the silver Lupin X and the gold Patren X. However, the new Rangers’ true identity has not yet been revealed at this time- fans can only wonder who is behind the helmet. X is not allied with the LupinRangers OR the PatRangers but does fight the Gangler whenever they appear- he will help whichever team he feels needs it.

To activate his powers, X uses his unique henshin device- the X-Changer! This new Changer comes with a pair of special VS Vehicles based on trains- the X-Train Gold & X-Train Silver. To change forms, Ranger X merely rotates the cannon on the Changer.

Rounding out his arsenal, X has a signature weapon- the X Rod Sword which also has two unique modes- Sword Mode and Jitte Mode.

Finally, some interesting casting has been announced for the upcoming LupinRanger VS PatRanger summer movie: Comedian Naoki Tanaka will be playing the role of Herlock Sholmes– the only detective to ever catch legendary thief Arsene Lupin!

Definitely some exciting times ahead for Super Sentai fans! Stay tune to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on all Super Sentai reveals.

under Kamen Rider

The Kamen Rider Build series is currently blasting out exciting episode one after another and in the latest episode we saw yet another power up form for Kamen Rider Cross-Z – this one being the Great Cross-Z and Dragon Evol Bottle combination turning Ryuga Banjo in to Kamen Rider Great Cross-Z! And in honor of the debut of the new form, Premium Bandai has put up an order page for the DX Great Cross-Z Dragon and Dragon Evol Bottle!

This set will release in October 2018 for 3,024 yen. Contact your middle man today to get yourself this power up. Important note – the DX Great Cross-Z Dragon and Dragon Evol Bottle have some relevance to the upcoming Kamen Rider Build movie, as a new Rider is teased in the preview images for this set!

under Kamen Rider

Surprise! Revealed via magazine scans less than 24 hours ago to be Banjou’s next form in Kamen Rider Build, Bandai has done quite the turn around and revealed a figure of this new form as well!

S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Great Cross-Z! Gaining control over the Dragon Evol Bottle, Cross-Z gains this new form based on his original. While no release details are available yet, for now this is only a display prototype, we’ll be sure to update you when and if more information becomes available.