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This was unexpected. The popular and more adult-oriented Kamen Rider special series, Kamen Rider Amazons, has now seen an official release in the United States via your Amazon Prime subscription. Titled “Amazon Riders“, the entire first season is available to watch RIGHT NOW with English subtitles. Amazon originally announced plans to bring Kamen Rider Amazons, originally available on Amazon Prime in Japan, to English speaking audiences all the way back in 2016 but failed to give any details on release.

Check out season one of Amazon Riders by clicking here

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The upcoming Shout! Factory complete series release of Mirai Sentai Timeranger is coming on July 31st, 2018. We now have our first look at the cover image! You can pre-order this item on Amazon.com.

Mirai Sentai Timeranger was adapted in to Power Rangers Time Force and is considered a fan-favorite series. This summer you can see the Super Sentai series that inspired the popular Power Rangers series.

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The crocodile rogue is getting a release in your favorite figure format. We have official images of the upcoming S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Rogue. As is standard at this point, the figure looks beautiful and we cannot wait to add it to our collections. Check out all the images by clicking the title of the story.

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The Power Rangers fan community was rocked last month when the mega-event known as Shattered Grid literally shattered our expectations. And that was just the first issue of BOOM! Studios‘ Power Rangers comic event. So what happens in the SECOND issue of the Shattered Grid event? Quite a bit actually! It’s time for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 026!

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are grieving over their tremendous loss from the previous issue. Unfortunately for our heroes there is no time to reflect – Lord Drakkon is on the move and this time he has the Power Rangers Samurai in his sights! But what can the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers do to help the Power Rangers Samurai? Find out in our full spoiler-filled review by clicking “Read More”!

Again – major spoilers ahead! Read at your own risk!

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Those of you who have followed TokuNation.com over the years are aware of our love not only for toys and collectibles but the desire to get to know more about what goes in to making them happen. That love allowed us the opportunity to get to know, on personal levels, some of the individuals at Bandai America who were working on the Power Rangers brand. One such individual was Gregory Mitchell, who first joined the Power Rangers team in 2013 and started making his mark on the property with Power Rangers Super Megaforce. He would finish his tenure with Bandai America as the Senior Director of Marketing for Power Rangers and oversee Power Rangers Dino Charge, Power Rangers Dino Supercharge, the Power Rangers Movie, and Power Rangers Ninja Steel.

Gregory Mitchell left Bandai America and Power Rangers in October of 2016 to join Alpha Group, a Chinese based company that was in the infant stages of growing their presence in the US markets and territories. Since joining the team, he has played a pivotal part in the acquisition of master toy licenses for various properties, including the multi-billion dollar global property that is Spongebob Squarepants. Fans of tokusatsu will recognize the name Alpha Group as the same company in China that produced the Armor Hero tokusatsu series.

He was kind enough to sit down with us for two hours and discuss a number of topics relating to the Power Rangers brand, both from his time there and from his position now looking at things as an outsider. In our exclusive interview, Gregory discusses how the process of a Super Sentai season becoming a Power Rangers season happens; the inside scoop on Legacy toys quality control issues; Legacy Shogun Megazord; an abandoned Super Sentai series that was planned before Lupinranger vs Patranger; and a handful of stories and favorite memories that you may have missed over the years.

The full interview is available in podcast form from Talkin Toku. You can listen to it in the player below or download it by clicking here.

The entire interview is also uploaded in to 9 total videos on our YouTube Channel. The first piece, a preview we released a couple of weeks ago, is shown here on the front page. All 8 follow up segments are included with this story and can be found by clicking “Read More”.

Again, please click “Read More” to see the other 8 YouTube videos!

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The biggest event in the Power Rangers franchise to date, and possibly the most talked about second to the movie last year, is the Shattered Grid crossover event. With the 29th issue of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, we can see via the latest cover that the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are joined by members of Power Rangers In Space, Power Rangers RPM, Power Rangers SPD, Power Rangers Dino Thunder, and Power Rangers Dino Charge! But will they be able to stop Lord Drakkon?

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Issue 29 releases this July in comic book stores and digital. Don’t miss it! Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is written by Kyle Higgins and drawn by Daniele Di Nicuolo.

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The momentous crossover of the ages, Shattered Grid, continues this July with Go Go Power Rangers by Ryan Parrott and Dan Mora! As always – the story is under wraps and you have to read the issue to discover what truly happens. But until then we have some AMAZING artwork via the covers that will be available for the book.

Check out a cover of the Ranger Slayer with Gravezord, an iconic scene from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with Trini and Billy, a stunning Black Ranger cover, and the continuation of classic movie covers redone with Power Rangers this time featuring the cult-classic Mallrats.

Go Go Power Rangers releases this July in comic book stores and digital.

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On this day 43 years ago, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger debuted in Japan as the very first Super Sentai team (though simply referred to as a “Sentai” team until 1994 when it officially became listed as “Super Sentai” with the current series). On April 5th 1975, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger aired in Japan marking the beginning of something no one could ever predict. Super Sentai managed to survive the brink of cancellation more than a few times to bring us some of the most memorable tokusatsu stories and characters for over four decades.

And of course – without Super Sentai there would be no Power Rangers. With the advent of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, using adapted footage from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, Power Rangers took the Japanese Super Sentai worldwide with an American spin on the stories that exists till this day (and celebrating it’s 25th Anniversary).

Please join our anniversary thread and share YOUR favorite Super Sentai series and characters and villains! It’s incredibly rare for properties and shows to last more than a handful of years. For Super Sentai to last 43 years is quite a feat worthy of celebration!

Story image courtesy Nobuharuudou on Deviant Art. Check out their work!

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If you haven’t had much luck finding the recently released Power Rangers Legacy figures then you have another option available. Today, GameStop.com put up Legacy Power Rangers Zeo Figures Pre-Orders for all six of the Zeo Rangers. We’ve already known that Zeo Yellow and Zeo Pink were exclusive to GameStop, but now we have pre-orders available online for these as well as the other four figures.

Click here to pre-order your Legacy Power Rangers Zeo figures.

These are being sold at $19.99 and have a release date of 07/29/2018, a couple of weeks earlier than the in-store availability pre-order. Specials thanks to @IamKneeGrow for the heads up!

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As you’re all well aware, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Issue 25 released yesterday and took the Power Rangers fandom by storm. The comic is currently sold out and – spoiler – something big happens in it. Thanks to @MisturYellow on Twitter, we now notice there’s a CHANGE to an upcoming cover for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Issue 27.

The original cover (shown in the image of this article) was easily one of the most popular covers revealed by BOOM! Studios previously as it features the Samurai Red Ranger Lauren as well as Dr.K in the Power Rangers RPM universe. But a change to the cover was spotted in a SyFy interview with the team behind the comic.

Click the title of the story to check out the new cover!