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under Conventions, Godzilla, New York Comic Con, Power Rangers, Super Sentai

As NYCC 2014 continues our team on the ground continues to bring us live coverage and images of all items currently on display! After their stop at Bandai of America’s booth this morning for Power Rangers, Legacy, Dino Charge, & Super Megaforce items, they’ve made it to the Bluefin Tamashii Nations booth! Currently on display there are:

  • The ENTIRE line of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers S.H. Figuarts – Red, Armored Red, Blue, Black, Armored Black, Yellow, Pink, Green.
  • Figuarts Zero Red Ranger & Green Ranger
  • Super Robot Chogokin MMPR Megazord
  • S.H. Monsterarts Gamera, Mecha King Ghidorah, “Legendary” Godzilla

Be sure to check back as we keep you updated throughout the day with all items on display at New York Comic-Con 2014!

under Conventions, New York Comic Con

NYCC 2014 is under way and our team on the ground continues to bring us images of all items currently on display! Stopping by Bandai of America’s booth the team has snapped images of the currently displayed upcoming Power Rangers Dino Charge products including:

  • Dino Charge Megazord
  • Dino Charge Morpher/Gun
  • Dino Chargers

Check back with us through the day for more updates on your favorite upcoming Power Rangers products!

under Conventions, New York Comic Con

NYCC 2014 is under way and our team on the ground continues to bring us images of all items currently on display! Stopping by Bandai of America’s booth the team has snapped images of the currently displayed upcoming Power Rangers Super Megaforce products including:

  • NYCC 2014 Exclusive Legacy of Tommy Ranger Key Set
  • NYCC 2014 Exclusive Tokyo Vinyl Green Ranger
  • 5″ Super Megaforce Ranger Figures – Red, Blue, Green. Pink, Yellow, Prince Vekar
  • Deluxe Legendary Megazord , Q-Rex, & Turbo Falcon combined as Ultimate Legendary Megazord
  • Legendary Morpher 
  • Super Mega Cannon

Check back with us through the day for more updates on your favorite upcoming Power Rangers products!

under Conventions, New York Comic Con, Power Rangers

NYCC 2014 is under way and our team on the ground continues to bring us images of all items currently on display! Stopping by Bandai of America’s booth the team has snapped images of the currently displayed upcoming Power Rangers Legacy products including:

  • 5″ Legacy Original Movie Rangers – Red, White, Black, Pink, Blue, Yellow, & the villain from the classic film Ivan Ooze!
  • Legacy Titanus – all combined up as the Legacy Ultrazord!
  • Legacy Original Movie Edition White Ranger Morpher – As shown in our SDCC 2014 coverage the Morpher inlcudes both the Tiger & Falcon coins.
  • Legacy White Tigerzord
  • Legacy Saba Sword

Check back with us through the day for more updates on your favorite upcoming Power Rangers products!

under Ultraman

After a lenghty hiatus since the initial prototype was shown off, the long awaited Ultra-Act Ultraman Hikari will finally be released! Kazuya Serizawa, Hikari, hails from the series Ultraman Mebius. 

Though the original prototype of this figure looked quite nice, the final product looks fantastic. Hikari appears to include at least 1 alternate form of the Knight Brace to allow for his Knight Blade effect part to be used. He also includes his Knight Shot beam effect, an alternate color timer, and at least 2 sets of additional hands. Hikari will be released as a Tamashii Web Exclusive in April 2015 for 4536 yen.

Join our ongoing discussion of the entire Ultra-Act toyline here. And to check out Hikari’s official images, click “discuss on the TokuNation forums” at the bottom of this post.

under Kamen Rider

Let’s Watch Wednesdays approaches the end of everything with Kamen Rider Den-O!

The key to the past, present, & 2 futures lies with Airi Nogami, or more accurately, her unborn child! The child of Airi & Yuuto is the key to the Junction in time. Forgotten by time itself this child is too protected for even Kai to reach. Instead he’ll rampage an army of Imagin through time, even hijacking Den-Liner! One by one the Den-Liner crew will make their last stand as the battle for everything that will ever be comes to it’s conclusion! Tune in next week for the finale of the Kamen Rider Den-O TV Series!

Den-O Trivia #17
On the topic of actors again this week, let’s talk about our main hero Den-O/Ryutaro Nogami. The young Takeru Satoh made his debut in toku as the titular rider and played Den-O over the course of the entire 49 episode series as well as the first 3 movies. And although many tokusatsu alums tend to stick to their genre or return to it later, Satoh has done neither.

To this day Kamen Rider Den-O is Takeru Satoh’s only tokusatsu credit. After leaving the franchise in 2008 and having a string of jobs in the interim Satoh made an explosive debut again as another hero, this time ripped from the pages of manga. In 2012 he emerged as the titular hero in the first film of the Ruroni Kenshin live action trilogy! Satoh reprised this role for both sequels as well; The Great Kyoto Fire, & The End of A Legend.

under Power Rangers

Thanks to the always helpful nightmere10 on twitter and his PowerScoop blog, we finally know the names of the Dino Charge rangers!

Actress Camille Hyde (Dino Charge Pink) posted a now deleted photo to her instagram showing the names of the 5 rangers with the actors signatures on a poster. It looks like most of the names originally mentioned in the Dino Charge casting sides used through the casting process have made it into final production. Some of the names have been changed from their placeholders though.  The final team line-up is as follows:

  • Dino Charge Red – Tyler (played by Brennan Mejia)
  • Dino Charge Blue – Koda (played by Yoshi Sudarso)
  • Dino Charge Green – Riley (played by Michael Taber)
  • Dino Charge Black – Chase (played by James Davies)
  • Dino Chrage Pink – Shelby (played by Camille Hyde).

Seeing as 3 of the 5 names from the casting sides made their way into shooting some of the other information provided by the original casting sides could still make it into the show as well. Reports claim that Black/Chase will indeed ride a skateboard as the sides indicated. With the names of the initial 5 rangers now known, it’s only a matter of time before we start hearing some of the plot details for Power Rangers Dino Charge as well!

under Kamen Rider

Kamen Rider Drive’s first episode has finally aired and the first waves of the toy line have made their way into sp,e collector’s hands. Specifically mine! so today we’re taking a look at the very first figure in Drive’s Tire Koukan gimmick line! TK-01 Kamen Rider Drive (Type Speed) is the first in what appears to be a pretty long line of new gimmick figures. Having already revealed up to 8 regular releases and at least one SP release, Tire Koukan should have the same kind of awesome staying power that Arms Change did.

Following up from last years fantastically well received Arms Change line, Tire Koukan has a similar gimmick, literally swapping various themed tires onto Drive and other compatible figures by splitting the figure diagonally in half! This unique gimmick carries itself well to toy form and much like AC’s this new line of TK figures does not disappoint. Drive includes his standard Speed Tire & the Max Flare Tire for additional play. Though this figure is lite on the accessories it’s got plenty of playability and will be right at home with the rest of your riders!

Click “discuss on the TokuNation forums” at the bottom of this post to check out our full review of this figure as well as over 70 images! I’ve been personally sold on Kamen Rider Drive the show, and now the toy line. So expect more Drive galleries in the near future! Start your engine!

under Conventions, Power Morphicon, Power Rangers

Titanium Power!
Jungle beast, spirit unleashed!

TokuNation is back with another in our series of Titanium Powered galleries. But this time there’s a dose of something extra! With today’s gallery we take a look at the recently released Power Morphicon 2014 Exclusive Ranger Key Set! This set includes two of the most hotly demanded characters from Bandai’s Morphin’ Madness competition and in fact, these two went head to head in the final round. It’s Lightspeed Rescue’s Titanium Ranger & Jungle Fury’s Wolf Ranger!

 

This pair of keys was made to coincide with the Power Rangers Super Megaforce toyline and are entirely functional with the Legendary Morpher. When either key is used with the morpher the “Power Morphicon!” phrase is uttered and this special set is the only way to get either of these rangers in key form here in the US. Wolf Ranger, or rather his original counterpart Geki Violet, was released in the Gokaiger toyline some years back but the PMC exclusive is the only way to own an american version of the  key. Titanium Ranger however is a 100% original creation of the Power Rangers franchise! With no sentai counterpart he has never had a Ranger Key produced of him. So that makes this release truly special!

Check out a full 40 image gallery of this set after the jump by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post! Special thanks to site owner and admin Kickback for being awesome enough to pick this set up for me at PMC.

under Kamen Rider

After a whirlwind year of fruit warriors, plant aliens, dance battles, and evil corporations a new rider show is upon us. With Kamen Rider Gaim out the door it’s time today for Kamen Rider Drive!

Kamen Rider Drive premieres today October 4th (5th in Japan) at 7PM EST. TokuNation and some of it’s staff will be tuning in to today’s live stream of the 1st episode of Drive titled “Why Has My Time Stopped?” Todays episode will introduce us to our hero Shinnosuke Tomari/Drive, a rookie officer in the Tokyo Metro Police who fights against the evil Roymudo.

If you have the chance and are ready to see how this new rider shapes up before subs are available we invite you to join us in our live viewing by following this link to Taima.Tv. They play miscellaneous programs up until the Super Hero Time shows begin, but check back at 7PM Eastern Standard Time for Kamen Rider Drive.

To join in on our community discussion of this inaugural episode click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums at the bottom of this post. Get ready to drive the Kamen Rider!

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