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Our coverage of Toy Fair 2018 continues with a look at the offerings for Imaginext Power Rangers. Unfortunately there was not much to be seen from the folks at Imaginext. On display was a brand new repaint of the Megazord playset in a new color scheme – black and red – with no release information available. Shown with it was a Mighty Morphin Red Ranger with black highlights and a repainted Rita Repulsa figure in purple and blue. Two power coins and a purely red staff accompanied as accessories.

What is the future of Imaginext Power Rangers with the master toy license going to Hasbro? We’re not quite sure. Hasbro has it’s own preschool aged faction of toys under the PlaySkool banner. We’ll update you with any further information regarding the future of Imaginext Power Rangers.

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Thanks to our sister site ToyArk.com, we have an exclusive first look at Toy Fair 2018 Tamashii Nations Power Rangers display booth in New York City. On display is the Soul of Chogokin Megazord, the upcoming Soul of Chogokin Dragonzord, and a special surprise – S.H. Figuarts Mighty Morphin Red Ranger and S.H. Figuarts Mighty Morphin Green Ranger, both with brand new civilian head sculpts.

All these toys are considered part of the Power Rangers 25th Anniversary celebration. No release details yet for the new S.H. Figuarts Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Check out all the images by clicking the title of the story.

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We learned two days ago through sources at this year’s New York Toy Fair that the Power Rangers toy license was going to be up for grabs and would be leaving Bandai America after 25 years. We cannot 100% confirm this as fact but we have from multiple sources that the Power Rangers license is now part of Hasbro, or at the very least, will be soon.

Just a few minutes ago, Saban Brands announced that Bandai America will no longer be part of the Power Rangers franchise after April of 2019. Because of that announcement we’ve chosen to move forward with posting these rumors.

We will have more information on this as we move forward.

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Strap in folks, this one is big.

It was announced in a short press release that Bandai America is no longer going to be the partner for Saban Brands for the Power Rangers toy franchise. The press release is below.

After a successful 25-year partnership building the iconic action franchise, Power Rangers, Saban Brands and Bandai have mutually agreed not to renew their global Power Rangers master toy license agreement, effective April 2019. Bandai will continue to support Power Rangers, including the 2018 commemoration of the Power Rangers 25th anniversary and the current season, Super Ninja Steel. In addition, Bandai, through its partnership with Toei Company Ltd., will continue to exploit toy rights for the Super Sentai series, which has enjoyed over 40 years of success, in Japan and select other Asian territories.

We have more details and will announce them shortly.

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Interesting bit of news late tonight – a new logo for Power Rangers has been shared on the Saban Brands Vimeo page. The video shows the logo being used now for “Power Rangers” being transformed in to this new logo that is both similar to the movie logo but different.

As we were typing this story the video has been taken down. However, we do have a copy of the video and of course have copied the screen shot of the logo. Check it out!

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Revealed today exclusively through CBR.com, we have our first look at some of the variant covers for both BOOM! Studios Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #27 as well as Go Go Power Rangers #9, both in the midst of the Shattered Grid event.

The Shattered Grid event, which begins next month, features the return of the evil Lord Drakkon and causes the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to need to team up with their namesakes from the past and the future to defeat him once and for all.

For Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #27, the main cover is by Jamal Campbell with variant covers by Jordan Gibson and Carlos Villa. For Go Go Power Rangers #9, the main cover is by Dan Mora, with variant covers by Miguel Mercado, Audrey Mok, and Natacha Bustos. Check out the images by clicking the title of the story!

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This year’s Power Morphicon is only 6 months away! With the convention sneaking up on all the Power Rangers fans, it’s time to announce some of the guests coming to the show! Announced today via @bboyrealm on Twitter (guest relations for Power Morphicon), we can share the following guest announcements!

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
– Sabrina Lu (Scorpina)
– Carla Perez (Rita Repulsa actress)
– Romy Sharf (suit actress of Alpha 5)

Power Rangers Turbo
– Carol Hoyt (first-half series Divatox/Dimitria)
– Derek Stephen Prince (voice of Elgar)

Power Rangers In Space
– Christopher Khaymen Lee (Red Ranger)
– Selwyn Ward (Blue Ranger)
– Tracy Lynn Cruz (Yellow Ranger)
– Patrick David (Psycho Red Ranger)
– Melody Perkins (Astronema/Lost Galaxy Pink Ranger)

Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
– Cerina Vincent (Yellow Ranger)
– Melody Perkins (Pink Ranger/Astronema)

Power Rangers Time Force
– Jason Faunt (Red Ranger)
– Dan Southworth (Quantum Ranger)
– Kate Sheldon (Nadira)

Power Rangers Wild Force
– Ann Marie Crouch (Princess Shayla)

Power Rangers Dino Thunder
– Jeff Parazzo (White Ranger)

Power Rangers Ninja Storm
– Jorge Vargas Jr (Navy Thunder Ranger)

Power Rangers SPD
– Aly Purrott (Pink Ranger)

Power Rangers RPM
– Mike Ginn (Gold Ranger)

Power Rangers Dino Charge / Power Rangers Dino Supercharge
– Brennan Mejia (Red Ranger)

VR Troopers
– Mike Hollander

Unofficial Power/Rangers
– Adi Shankar (producer/creator)

That’s quite a big Tuesday morning list! If you haven’t already – head over to the official Power Morphicon website and get your tickets today! As the year’s biggest celebration of Power Rangers, it’s easy to say for the 25th anniversary this show is going to be off the hook!

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It has been announced today via a press release that Saban Brands has reached an agreement with Nickelodeon to keep our spandex heroes on the kid’s network for another two years past the finale of Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. The agreement should, if our assumptions are correct, carry the brand for the next series after Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel, which is heavily favored to be an adaptation of Uchu Sentai Kyuranger, which just finished airing in Japan.

While some fans will be skeptical at the continued partnership between Saban Brands and Nickelodeon – many fans blame the drop in the show’s quality on rumored Nickelodeon mandates – it at least guarantees that Power Rangers will live to see it’s 26th and 27th season.

What this means now, for the rest of us, is that a release of information on the 26th season of Power Rangers is imminent. Will we be flying through space with an Uchu Sentai Kyuranger adaptation? Or will we be calling upon animals, in some way shape or form, with an adaptation of Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger? Stay tuned!

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There’s a few constants in life – taxes, weather changes, and eventual death. But did you also know that something Kyoryuger related is also released on a yearly basis? For the fifth year in a row, and four years since the series premiered, we have something new from the fan-favorite Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger!

In partnership with Brave Frontier 2, which releases for mobile in Japan on February 22nd, the cast of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger has come together again with a special promotional episode titled “This is Brave! The Battle Frontier!”, numbered as 33.5.

You can check out the episode below! We expect it to be subtitled sometime soon.

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We’ve just seen the first look at the double agent Lupin-X and Patren-X and now we have our first look at his mecha – the X-Emperor! We also get a look at some new VS Mecha that will be joining the team. We have a construction crane that doubles as an arm; a stealth bomber that doubles as a shield; as well as the two core mecha that form the body for X-Emperor’s two forms – one for Lupinranger and one for Patranger.

Click the title of the story for the images. Thanks to @TheRealMattHunt and @SpecialForm12 for sharing the images.