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Numerous sources including Deadline, Variety, and cbr.com are now reporting that Legendary’s  upcoming Pacific Rim Uprising sequel has been delayed.

Initially set for release February 23 2018, Pacific Rim Uprising will now see a release date of March 23 2018.

To put this into perspective: Pacific Rim Uprising’s biggest hurdle that month would’ve been Marvel’s Black Panther, which would’ve been released February 9th. Unfortunately, this change now puts the Kaiju/mecha smack down right in between the 2018 Robin Hood movie and Ready Player One.

We’ll see how well this change bodes well for the movie. In the meantime, stay tuned and we’ll bring you more up to date info as it becomes available.

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Max Factory has a very left field announcement, with the recent reveal of a Figma Kuroko currently in the works.

Fans of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger might recognize this particular character as the servants working for the Shiba Clan, they help set the stage for the Shinkenger’s grand entrance and these look to stand perfectly with Bandai’s S.H.Figuarts Shinkenger releases.

However, don’t get your hopes up thinking that Max Factory will be picking up Sentai characters for release: while Kurokos are featured quite prominently in Shinkenger, they are in fact part of Japanese culture. Kurokos are stagehands in Japanese theatre, they dress in black and work behind the scenes to manipulate props and scenery akin to their role in the show. They are not exclusively a Shinkenger thing, so  DO NOT expect Max Factory or Goodsmile to release Super Sentai figures. 

None the less, the Figma Kuroko looks to be a good representation of the character, and will see a March 2018 release, retailing for 4,980 yen.

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RIDER….HENSHIN! 

In case you missed it, Bandai will be releasing S.H.Figuarts Takeshi Hongo in December, since the announcement, Bandai’s product page’s been updated with new info including price and a brand new accessory.

Like Retsu, S.H.Figuarts Takeshi Hongo will include an effect piece representing the moment where he transforms into Kamen Rider 1. In addition, Bandai’s finally announced the price: he’ll retail for 6,264 yen.

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After years of being confined to the pages of S.I.C Hero Saga, it seems that Bandai may actually be getting ready to release S.I.C Boss in some capacity.

S.I.C Boss was once again featured in the pages of a magazine, but this time the magazine mentioned a possible release date of March 2018 nothing has been 100% confirmed at the time of this posting, for all we know the date could be something else entirely so please take this with a grain of salt. If this turns out to be real, this would only be the second time an S.I.C Hero Saga design got released since Kamen Rider Garren King Form and Leangle Jack Form!

For those that are new and might not be familiar with the character: Boss was created for the Kamen Rider OOO portion of S.I.C Hero Saga: Kamen Rider OOZ which is meant to be a sequel to the OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let’s Go movie. He’s a Rider that utilizes six Core Medals to following Greeds to transform: Shocker Greed, Gel-Shocker Greed, Destron Greed, G.O.D. Greed, the Garanda Greed, and finally the Delza Greed, he was transformed by the Great Leader.

The original source can be found here.

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Ginga Tensei!

Announced at SDCC with coverage via Powerrangersnow, we just have confirmation that our friends over at Shout! Factory will be releasing Seijuu Sentai Gingaman on DVD with English subtitles. 

Gingaman began airing in 1998 and would later become the basis for Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Price and the exact release date wasn’t disclosed, but we can expect this to hit shelves early 2018.

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Everyone’s favorite boat-faced Kamen Rider: S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Snipe Simulation Gamer Level 50 was announced as the next entry of Bandai’s Kamen Rider Ex-Aid S.H.Figuarts releases, the pre orders began for this piece during the news bombshell that was SDCC and with that, we have pricing and release date.

S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Snipe Simulation Gamer Level 50 is a P-Bandai online shop exclusive slated for release in December with a price tag of 6,480 yen before shipping and middleman fees. 

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FUSION UP!

Joining along side Kamen Rider 1 and Takeshi Hongo for our December Tamashii Pick-Up, we have S.H.Figuarts Ultraman Orb Spacium Zeprion, first shown at Tamashii Nation Shanghai sometime ago.

Price for this piece is currently unknown, but the image gallery does show he’ll at least include one effect part.

under Kamen Rider

RIDER….HENSHIN!

After being teased in various magazines toy shows, the Granddaddy of all Kamen Riders is finally going to be released in the S.H.Figuarts line!

Coming in the December batch of Tamashii Pick-Ups, we have S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider 1 joined by his human identity: S.H.Figuarts Takeshi Hongo, rendered in a close likeness to actor Hiroshi Fujioka. Apparently, both will be mass retail releases with only Rider 1 having a known price of 6480 yen, the price on Takeshi Hongo and any included accessories are currently not known as of this writing.

under Super Sentai

EMERGENCY, DEKAMASTER!

Rounding out our trifecta of Morphers, P-Bandai’s just launched pre-orders for the Super Sentai Artisan Master Licence, the main changer belonging to none other than Deka Master himself.

The Super Sentai Artisan Master License will retail for the same price as the other two versions: 9,936 yen. Pre-Orders will end on September 22nd 2017 with a final shipping date sometime in December the same year.

In addition, Bandai put out a series of videos which demonstrate the various noises and sound effects of the standard Artisan SP License release, so if you’re on the fence still you can view the videos down below:

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In case you missed it, Bandai’s next entry in the Super Sentai Artisan line is, of course, going to be a modified version of the DX Won Tiger to accompany the Dairen’oh which sold out its pre orders already. Ahead of the pre-orders going up, Bandai has revealed the Super Sentai Artisan DX Won Tiger in all of its glory!

For now, all we have is this teaser image. Pricing and release date have yet to be announced as of this writing.