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Hey Power Rangers fans! The Official Power Morphicon opened its registration this morning! If you haven’t registered yet, please click here and begin the process. A lot of fans are expressing dismay that they didn’t have an option to include the Power Morphicon Exclusive 6.5″ Legacy Power Rangers figure. While it hasn’t been showing up during the registration process, there is a way to add it.

After you’ve registered for your membership, you will be sent an E-mail regarding your registration. Open that E-mail, go back in to your registration profile on the site, edit the “Extra Items” tab, and you can then add as many Legacy 6.5″ figures that your membership allows. You will have to pay for them in advance.

While there has been no official announcement on what the Power Morphicon Legacy 6.5″ exclusive figure is, a report out our friends from Power Rangers NOW states that it is indeed the evil Lord Drakkon! However, some conflicting reports are out there as well (at one point the original registration site showed “Psycho Silver Ranger”). However, we did learn Bandai America will be offering a second exclusive through their booth at the convention. So stay tuned for more details!

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It’s never too early to start planning for the next Official Power Morphicon! The convention next year celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Power Rangers brand and is taking place in Anaheim, California. The dates of the convention are August 17th through the 19th of 2018 (a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Registration officially opens on Tuesday, August 1st but the registration details are now available for you to look at. Some interesting details are listed below, but you can find all the details by clicking here.

Platinum Ranger (limit of 250)
– All the T-Shirts, Hoodies, Convention Pins, Coins, and Mystery Items (TBD)
– Able to purchase 10 of the Power Morphicon Exclusive Legacy Power Rangers 6.5″ Figure (revealed August 1st 2017)
– Purchase 2 Breakfast tickets
– Access to all membership specific events
– Early entry to the convention
– Preferred seating

Gold Ranger – (limit of 500)
– Gold and Convention T-Shirt, Pins, Coins, and a single Mystery Item
– Able to purchase 6 of the Power Morphicon Exclusive Legacy Power Rangers 6.5′ Figure (revealed August 1st 2017)
– Purchase 2 Breakfast tickets
– Access to all Gold Ranger and below specific events
– Early entry to the convention
– Preferred seating

Red Ranger –
– Convention T-Shirt, Pin, and coin
– Able to purchase 3 of the Power Morphicon Exclusive Legacy Power Rangers 6.5″ Figure (revealed August 1st 2017)

Sounds exciting to us! We’re planning to be at the show and we hope to see you there. Be sure to check out the Official Power Morphicon site for all the details as they happen!

UPDATE! Realm, the official guest relations coordinator for Power Morphicon, has stated that none of this information is as of yet final (that includes pricing). We have removed the pricing from our front page post and are letting you know via this update that a lot of this information included may be changed prior to August 1st.

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I had the extreme pleasure of attending San Diego Comic Con 2017. This was my fourth year attending and covering the event for our network and every year by the time you go home you’re left dizzy from everything you’ve just experienced. As the sole representative of TokuNation.com my primary focus is to cover all things tokusatsu related, or in the case of American entertainment, that means Power Rangers.

San Diego Comic Con is the largest pop culture convention in the entire world. The number of attendees ranges upwards of 100,000 guests and anyone who has attended the convention will tell you that is no “generous number” … it’s a reality. And this year whispers are it was the largest convention ever. Literally every major entertainment company, regardless of whether or not they have their own convention earlier or later, brings their A game because this is the one time a year that the entire world is watching in anticipation for what you have to show.

This year the Power Rangers brand failed to not only to capture any of the magic or attention they might have acquired from their major motion picture release earlier this year, they failed to show up at all. Please click “Read More” for our in-depth analysis of why this wasn’t just one of the worst years for Power Rangers at San Diego Comic Con but why it may be the worst ever.

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Did you miss anything we’ve covered from San Diego Comic-Con 2017? We have you covered. Below you can find every SDCC 2017 story we’ve posted from our entire network. Over the course of the show, we’ve shared over 4,600 photos with our readers across all of our sites. Here is our round up of every news story during San Diego Comic-con 2017. Check out the stories below and enjoy!

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One of the biggest reveals from San Diego Comic Con 2017 was the upcoming Legacy Golden Power Staff due out in stores sometime in Fall of 2018. The Golden Power Staff was the weapon for the sixth Power Ranger from Power Rangers Zeo, the Gold Ranger. The details of the item are below:

  • Has diecast metal
  • Features lights and sound
  • Interactive like in the show (the blade portion moves up and down, the staff opens up when the button is pressed)
  • Due in retail Fall 2018

Check out 13 high resolution images of the Legacy Golden Power Staff by clicking the title of the story.

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One of the items on display at this year’s San Diego Comic Con was the upcoming EFX Collectibles Mighty Morphin Green Ranger helmet. We took a full gallery of this gorgeous item – check it out by clicking the title of the story.

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Toy company Jada had the Metallicfigs Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on display at their booth at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. Check out our full gallery by clicking the title of the story.

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As SDCC 2017 rages on and our news crew fights valiantly to bring us news & reveals, they’ve popped into the Power Rangers panel to snag us all the cool info this year! Here’s the highlights of what Kickback and the gang saw and heard at the panel

  • nWay showcase of Power Rangers Legacy Wars. Including character model turnarounds of characters Black Dragon, Lord Drakkon, Movie Putty, & Ninjor! And in the words of the panelists Lord Drakkon is “very key to the franchise going forward”.
  • Imagniext toyline overview. Jokes were made about a large scale Titanus playset for the Megazord to fit in “but that thing is huge”. Instead a smaller figure scale Megazord is coming. And a to scale Titanus WILL be made for this new smaller line. Thunder Megazord & Pirantis figures coming as well.
  • Pop Culture Shock releases we covered last night from their booth including the magnificent Lord Drakkon bust. Movie Red Ranger & Rita, TV Green Pink & Black rangers as well. Life Size White Ranger & Red Ranger Busts, Green Ranger 1/4 Statue.
  • Funko – SDCC exclusive Megazord Pop, Dragon Shield Red Ranger
  • Bandai – rundown of the SDCC exclusives, in person showing of the Legacy Power Sword, Legacy Movie Power Coins set, Legacy Movie Red Ranger Helmet. New action figure Legacy Zords, articulated figures with min-ranger pilots. Legacy Zeo Rangers, Dino Thunder White Ranger, In Space Silver, all 5 Psycho Rangers. Question asked about Drakkon & Black Dragon toys, “nothing to confirm at this time”. Legacy Zeonizer & Gold Ranger Power Staff confirmed!

If you’d like to see the entire panel, you can! Just check out this tweet!

Stay tuned to TokuNation here and on twitter (@Tokunation) as we continue our LIVE coverage from the SDCC 2017 show floor!

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Here’s something a bit different, and more akin to the third party offerings many Transformers fans have access to these days. 1000 Toys is a company largely known for their excellent 1/12 Scale TOA Heavy Industries Synthetic Humans, which you can order from our site sponsor BBTS using that link. Now they’re taking a stab in a different direction with some figures heavily inspired by Super Sentai & Kamen Rider!

These new Synthetic Human sublines, “Nextman Synth” & “Knight of Synth” share the same basic engineering as the Heavy Industries figures, with a little toku sensibility mixed in. The seemingly rider themed Nextman figures are named Cyclone, Fusion, & Future. Each retailing for $80 USD. Their pizza themed sentai-inspired heroes are also on display. These guys appear to be based on figures originally created by Youtube pairing Toy Pizza. You may also be familiar with the Mecha Zone Pizzanuats figures based on these designs. The green knight is Lime, red is Brick, blue is Teal, and the black one is Death Knight. Each of these is also $80 USD.

Stay tuned to TokuNation here and on twitter (@Tokunation) as we continue our LIVE coverage from the SDCC 2017 show floor!

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The folks from Weta Workshop were on hand for San Diego Comic Con 2017 and they brought with them the Power Rangers Movie Red Ranger suit! Check out a ton of up close, high resolution pictures that we snagged of this beautiful piece by clicking the title of the story.