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under Power Rangers

Hey Power Rangers fans! Are you’re in the mood for hunting down some of your favorite Power Rangers Super Samurai figures during your Day After Thanksgiving / Black Friday shopping spree, we have the details on some of the merchandise specials! The good news is that there is some! The bad news is that it’s few and far between.

Target Power Rangers Black Friday[/u]

  • Power Rangers Basic 7″ Figures – $7.99 (all day Friday)

Toys’R’Us – 8pm Thanksgiving Night[/u]

  • Power Rangers 12″ Battlized Figures – $14.99

BigBadToyStore.com – Black Friday thru Monday[/u]

We will update this list if we find any more deals out there. If you happen to see a deal for Power Rangers or anything Tokusatsu related online for a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale, let us know!

under Super Sentai

The upcoming Go-Busters vs Gokaigers movie has had the plot revealed in the 178th issue of Figure-Oh Magazine. Why are the Gokaigers sporting new outfits and looking all bad-ass? Why is the Gokai Galleon black and sporting a Zangyack emblem? And just where is Ikari Gai, the Gokai Silver member of the Gokaigers?!

Click the title bar to be spoiled!

Go-Busters vs. Gokaigers releases in theaters on January 19th, 2013.

SOURCE: Henshin Justice

under Power Rangers

Hey Power Rangers Super Samurai fans! Can’t wait until Saturday morning to catch the latest episode of Power Rangers Super Samurai, “The Great Duel”? Well, great news! Our friends from Ranger Crew have you covered with some preview clips from the episode!

Click here and check it out!

And once the episode airs tomorrow on Nickelodeon, don’t forget to come back here to TokuNation and talk about it with your fellow Ranger fans! Click here to get started on the episode discussion!

Go Go Samurai!

under Power Rangers

If you’ve been following Power Rangers Super Samurai then you’ve undoubtedly seen last week’s episode, “Fight Fire With Fire”, which featured a shocking new character – Lauren Shiba, the new Red Samurai Ranger! In the coming weeks we will see if this new Ranger has indeed mastered the sealing power in order to stop Master Xandred once and for all!

Until then, check out this interview with Kimberly Crossman, the actress who plays Lauren Shiba, and learn more about her time on set with the Power Rangers Samurai!

Don’t forget to watch an ALL-NEW episode of Power Rangers Super Samurai on Nickelodeon tomorrow!

SOURCE: RangerCrew.com

under Conventions, Other Conventions, Power Rangers

Attention all Power Rangers fans living within driving distance of Lexington, Kentucky!

The 2013 Lexington Comic and Toy Convention will be held at the Lexington Convention Center on March 16th & 17th. For those of you who grew up and still love Power Rangers, there’s a plethora of guests from the series that will be there to sign autographs, answer questions, and just have a morphin’ good time!

  • Jason David Frank (MMPR Green & White, Zeo Red, Turbo Red, Dino Thunder Black)
  • David Yost (MMPR Blue)
  • Walter Jones (Original MMPR Black)
  • Catherine Sutherland (2nd MMPR Pink, Zeo Pink, Turbo Pink)
  • Karan Ashley (2nd MMPR Yellow)
  • Blake Foster (Turbo Blue)
  • Cerina Vincent (Lost Galaxy Yellow)
  • Paul Schrier (Bulk in MMPR, Zeo, Turbo, In Space, Lost Galaxy, Samurai)
  • Jason Narvy (Skull in MMPR, Zeo, Turbo, In Space)

For those of you who couldn’t make it to this year’s Power Morphicon this could be the next best thing! What are you waiting for? Check out all the details, and register, today!

Be sure to follow TokuNation.com as we plan to be in attendance! It’s morphin’ time!

under Kamen Rider

Does anyone remember when Saban Brands filed a trademark use for the term Power Rider, and rampant speculation began that Saban was going to adapt a Kamen Rider series in the United States?

Well, in short, nothing ever came of it.

The rumor mills thought that because of the crossover footage in Shinkenger (Power Rangers Samurai) with Kamen Rider Decade that Saban was planning to use that footage and then spin-off the appearance with Kamen Rider Decade as Power Rider.

Again, nothing ever came of it.

Thanks to our friends at Firestarter’s Blog we know that Saban Brands has once again filed for, and was granted, the use of the name Power Rider.

Will anything come of it this time?

A popular thought here at TokuNation was that Saban would adapt over the Kamen Rider Fourze series. While unpopular with adults, the series was popular with the younger demographic and the amount of sales generated from the roleplay gear, etc., more than proves that the merchandise sold very well. Take in to effect that the setting is high school with teenagers, and the overall easy-to-tie-in merchandise, it still seems like a no-brainer.

Speculate away, Tokusatsu fans!

SOURCE: Firestarter’s Blog, image courtesy cyclonejoker

under Power Rangers

The upcoming Power Rangers Megaforce Megabloks have started popping up online for pre-orders, first at Amazon.com and now also at BadAssToysForBadAssBoys.com! Check out images of the following sets:

  • Red Racer Hero
  • Dragon Mechazord
  • Shark Mechazord
  • Tiger Mechazord
  • Robo Knight Showdown
  • Gosei Great Megazord

Get your build on with Power Rangers Megaforce Megabloks due out in December 2012! Click the title for more images!

SOURCE: Samurai Cast Blog, BadAssToysForBadAssBoys.com

under Super Sentai

We don’t like to post up rumors when it comes to upcoming Super Sentai and Kamen Rider series because we like to wait until we have a more solid validation. In the history of reveals, very seldomly do the first details ever turn out to be accurate.

But for the sake of tradition, a possible Kyouryuger suit design surfaced a couple of days ago. The history of these designs usually retain some of the concept but the final version is more often than not a different look. The storyline for Kyouryuger is uknown – there are rumors that it involves everything from dinosaur hunters to dinosaur protectors to time traveling dinosaur rights activists.

The suit looks to mix elements from GoBuster, Dekaranger, and depending on whom you ask, some Zyuranger and Boukenger. Whether or not this is accurate or even comes to pass in a final design will not be known until probably December, which is when magazine reveals tend to happen.

What do you think?

Click here and join our massive rumor/speculation thread regarding Kyouryuger!

For fun, the folks at Henshin Grid have an on-going “first image” post from Timeranger to Kyouryuger. Check it out and compare this image with some of the images there. Henshin Grid’s look at reveals!

We’ll post any new concrete information as it comes available!

SOURCE: bluesparrow, Jefusion

under Power Rangers

Hey Power Rangers fans!

We wanted to drop you a line and let you know that today’s episode of Power Rangers Super Samurai titled “Fight Fire With Fire” is brand new, and after nearly two seasons worth of teasing, Jayden’s big secret is finally going to be revealed at the end of the episode!

Fans of the Super Sentai version known as Shinkenger already know what this secret is, so please don’t spoil it for our viewers who haven’t seen it or let themselves be spoiled by it.

Click here and join the episode discussion!

Go Go Samurai!

under Network News and Updates

From time to time we like to post news from our 2005 Network sites that we are a part of – TFW2005.COM, HissTank.com, ToyArk.com, and Thundercats.WS. That being said, there’s a major rumor circling the Internet today and we wanted to share it with everyone here … seeing as there’s some history in the world of Tokusatsu when someone mentions the House of Mouse, or Disney.

From MTV Geek News:

“OK folks, take this one with a grain of plastic for the time being. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve heard that Disney acquired Lucasfilm for roughly $4 billion last week and Marvel for around the same price a few years prior. Well, we have it on good authority that serious discussions are happening at the highest levels of both Disney and Hasbro to fold the largest toy and game company on the planet into the Mouse.

From what we’re told, these are still just discussions at this point, but serious enough that something could be announced at any time and create ripples throughout the entertainment industry. “

The company Hasbro Inc. is the owner of two major franchises that our 2005 Network covers – Transformers and G.I. Joe. Whereas when Disney purchased the Saban Entertainment library and got Power Rangers television rights out of it, Hasbro is the sole owner of Transformers, G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, and more. Not only that, Hasbro makes the toys for those said franchises (not to mention both Marvel and Star Wars). To sum it up, it would be like if Disney purchased TOEI, Bandai, and Saban Brands in one foul swoop.

Share your thoughts and your comments for our Transformers and G.I. Joe fans! Should they be excited about this possible development? Or should they fear that Disney is going to end the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, as well as G.I. Joe and COBRA, forever?

Discuss!