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under Kamen Rider

With the approach of Kamen Rider Drive right around the corner, more and more scans and information is coming out regarding the upcoming hero’s form changes, toys, accessories, and so much more. Thanks to a post on the Kamen Rider Facebook Fan Page and our friends from HeroTaku.com, we have some new Shift Cars (the devices used to change forms and access new abilities) to share with you.

The scans aren’t too great but check out the new reveals: Shift Wild, Shift Technique, Justice Hunter, Spin Mixer, Massive Monster, Dream Pegasus, Dimension Cab, Mad Doctor, Rumble Dump, Fire Braver, and Rolling Gravity! Kamen Rider Drive premieres on Sunday, October 5th in Japan, but thanks to the powers of time differences, it can be viewed online through various streaming sources on the western half of the world at 7pm EST on Saturday, October 4th.

Are you excited for Kamen Rider Drive and these new Shift Cars? Sound off!

under Power Rangers

When the going gets tough, the tough shout out “GO GO MEGAFORCE!”, and they never, NEVER let go of their weapons!

TokuNation.com is back with another gallery and review of the Power Rangers Super Megaforce 5″ Figures, and this time it’s none other than the current leader of the team, the Megaforce Red Ranger with thanks to Fury Diamond from RangerCrew for hooking me up with this figure.

This is the first time the Megaforce Red Ranger has been released in 5″ size but how does the figure hold up? Does the detailing on the molding of the accessories continue to shine as seen in previous galleries? Click here to see the gallery and review!.

And don’t forget to check out our previous galleries and reviews from this line – the MMPR Green Ranger and Zeo Red Ranger combined gallery/review, as well as the Lightspeed Rescue Red Ranger gallery and review! And stay tuned for two more galleries coming very soon – and a special gallery of the Titanium Ranger and celebrating his toy releases throughout the years!

under Power Rangers

When trouble rears its ugly head, you’d better make it a Lightspeed Rescue!

Continuing the galleries of the Power Rangers Super Megaforce 5″ Figures, we’re proud to bring you another legendary Red Ranger gallery. Having surged in popularity in recent years his figure is desired by many and found by few. That’s right – we’re talking about the Lightspeed Rescue Red Ranger, Carter Grayson.

Releasing in Wave 4 of the 5″ figure assortment, this figure is actually harder to find than you might expect – a lot of stores never got Wave 4 and if they did, you had one (at most maybe two) chances at grabbing the figure as he was packaged one per case.

To see all 32 images of this figure and to read the review, simply click here! And stay tuned to TokuNation.com for more upcoming Power Rangers Super Megaforce 5 Inch Figures – including an AWESOME looking gallery coming of the Titanium Ranger and the gallery everyone has been waiting for, the Zeo Gold Ranger!

A special thanks to Fury Diamond of RangerCrew.com for helping obtain this figure!

under Kamen Rider

Just because Kamen Rider Decade is years and years old now doesn’t mean we don’t still have some cards up our sleeve! We are very happy to present to you a review and a gallery from an older figure from the S.H. Figuarts line, which is none other than Kamen Rider Diend. Courtesy of our photo contributor ryan, we have 26 images to share with you of this character from one of the popular (and debated) Kamen Rider series!

But just like every figure out there this one has some flaws. What are they, and does ryan think this older figure compares at all to the newer body styles found in the S.H. Figuarts being released today? Click here for the full gallery and review, then share your thoughts on Kamen Rider Diend!

under Power Rangers

With the hiatus over and episodes coming out weekly, it’s time to return to the usual mid-week preview clips of upcoming episodes of Power Rangers Super Megaforce. The next episode, titled “Love Is In the Air”, features the villain Levira falling victim to a love portion, causing her to fall in love with the Green Super Megaforce Ranger Jake. The preview clip shows Noah, the Blue Super Megaforce Ranger, being ignored by the X-Borgs as they focus their attacks on Jake, who is to be captured and brought to Levira. Check out the clip, courtsey RangerCrew.com, below!

This episode of Power Rangers Super Megaforce airs THIS SATURDAY on Nickelodeon. Check your local listings for exact times and be sure to join us in the episode discussion on our forums!

under Power Rangers

We couldn’t think of a witty catch phrase for this gallery so we will go with the basic one that works – It’s Morphin Time!

TokuNation.com is proud to bring you a double-whammy of Power Rangers Super Megaforce 5 Inch Figures today with a two-in-one gallery featuring the Super Megaforce 5″ Red Zeo Ranger and Super Megaforce 5″ Mighty Morphin Green Ranger! These are both figures that a part of the released wave 4 assortment of figures that are proving to be harder and harder to find.

What are you waiting for? Click here to check out 60 high resolution images of these two popular figures! What did we think of these figures? What’s their quality like? Are they worth the hassel of trying to find? We answer those questions and more for both figures!

Special thanks to our friend Fury Diamond from RangerCrew.com for helping us acquire these figures.

under Power Rangers

As is customary around this time during a season, the first 10 episodes of Power Rangers Super Megaforce are now available on Netflix. This includes the most recently aired episode (at the time of this post), “The Perfect Storm”, which originally premiered (by accident) on Hulu Plus last week.

Don’t forget to tune in to a new episode of Power Rangers Super Megaforce this coming Saturday, only on Nickelodeon.

under Conventions, Power Rangers, San Diego Comic Con

Back at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, I contacted a good, old friend of mine from my days in the Transformers community from working for a decade at our sister site TFW2005.COM. His name is Marcelo Matere, and if you are, or were, a Transformers fan then you’ve seen his work – whether it be in comic books from both Dreamwave and IDW Publishing, to official box art work for Hasbro and their Transformers product. Knowing he has tremendous skill in drawing anything robotic in nature, I commissioned from him a Power Rangers piece – the Dragonzord fighting the original Megazord. Using nothing but pictures of toys for references, he hit the project out of the park! I wasn’t the only one who was impressed – even Bandai of America was impressed with his artwork.

In case you don’t remember the original story with the actual sketch – you can find it by clicking here.

We are incredibly pleased and proud to reveal the final version of this beautiful piece of artwork colored by comic book colorist Tom Chu, who has worked on various projects for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, and Archie Comics, as well as independent comics and official products for major toy companies. You may recognize his name from our very own Talkin Toku Podcast which he co-hosts, as well as being one of our administrators here at TokuNation.com under the name Sentai Tamashii, or even on Twitter as @SoulInkChu.

I think you will agree with us that this is one of the most impressive pieces of artwork for the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that we’ve ever seen. And we are beyond excited to share with you in future updates higher resolution versions of this image (minus our watermark) for use as wallpapers and other such things.

Please take a moment and follow these incredibly talented individuals and show their work some love. And, if you happen to want something awesome drawn for you or colored for you, please don’t be shy in asking them about their commission prices. I can personally guarantee that you won’t be disappointed in their work!!

MARCELO MATERE
– MarceloMatere.com
– Follow him @marcelomatere on Twitter!
– Follow him @marcelomatere on Instagram!
– Check out his Deviant Art page at MarceloMatere.DeviantArt.com

TOM CHU
– Follow him @SoulInkChu on Twitter
– Check out his Deviant Art page at ColorDojo.DeviantArt.com

under Godzilla, Kamen Rider, Super Sentai

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under Kamen Rider, Super Sentai

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