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Thanks to a posting on his Official Facebook Page, the legendary hero of your childhood, Jason David Frank, will be attending a number of shows for 2014! Among one of his stops is one of the fastest growing and popular shows – Denver Comic Con! Jason David Frank will join Walter Jones (the Mighty Morphin Black Ranger) and David Yost (the Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger) as the first tokusatsu related guests at the third annual Denver Comic Con June 13th-15th 2014.

For those who don’t remember off the top of your head who Jason David Frank is – he played the Mighty Morphin Green Ranger, Mighty Morphin White Ranger, Zeo Red Ranger, Turbo Red Ranger, Dino Thunder Black Ranger, and is set to reprise his Mighty Morphin Power Rangers roles in the 2014 series Power Rangers Super Megaforce in a special episode.

But now for some sad news – based on the scheduled date for Wizard World Chicago, it would appear that Jason David Frank will NOT be attending 2014’s Power Morphicon convention (the official Power Rangers convention). Power Morphicon takes place August 22nd-24th 2014, and Wizard World Chicago takes place August 21st-24th 2014. Jason is currently scheduled as a guest at Wizard World Chicago for their 2014 show and the dates conflict.

If you live in the middle United States and would like to experience a great show, be sure to register for Denver Comic Con as tickets are going fast. TokuNation will be in attendance at the show to bring you pictures and any news that comes up at the show.

There has been no official announcement from Denver Comic Con regarding Jason David Frank’s attendance, nor is there any update from Power Morphicon on whether or not the iconic Power Ranger is or is not attending the official convention. As soon as there is we will bring the news to you.

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At RoboToyFest in Pasadena, California some lucky folks were finally able to get some hands on experience with the Legacy Dragon Dagger! Here you can see some images of the completed box, a size comparison with the vintage Japanese dagger and a shot of a lucky fan weilding the dagger, finally showing us just how big this thing will be in hand.

Finally my friend Kim Chi Williams, the awesome person who took these images, took a video of the sound effects the dagger makes, which you can view by clicking this link:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=567474586668395

Stay tuned to Tokunation for more news about this beautiful item and many more coming in the future in the Legacy toyline

under Conventions, Power Rangers, San Diego Comic Con

Photo  & Content contributor Jmann is back with another awesome gallery and this time it’s a big one! The Super Samurai 5-pack is a 2013 SDCC exclusive that contains the entire team of rangers. But that’s not all, they’re all decked out with a sweet metallic paint scheme and have their full compliment of accessories!

This Power Rangers Super Samurai set contains not one but 4 Tamashii Web Exclusive figures, and a general retail release, in an exclusive paint scheme, with tons of accessories, all for a great price. Aside from Super Shinken Red the other 4 rangers all fetch hefty prices on the secondary market even today!

Check out Jmann’s full gallery by clicking here or clicking Discuss on the tokunation forums at the bottom of this article.

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If you haven’t heard of Denver Comic Con then it’s time you got yourself familiarized! The first show happened in 2012 and was met with great praise for being well-organized and a fun experience. Then in 2013, they were met with record number increases, so much that they had to turn people away from entering the show, as it was entirely sold out (we’re talking an increase from a few thousand to TENS of THOUSANDS with people getting in line for tickets at 1am)!

And now in 2014 they are finally dabbling in the genre of tokusatsu, announcing David Yost (the Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger) and Walter Jones (the original Mighty Morphin Black Ranger) as special guests. Both Yost and Jones are still relatively new to the convention circuits, only recently in the last year or so getting in to conventions.

Denver Comic Con will be held June 13th, 14th, and 15th at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver, Colorado. Tickets go on sale Cyber Monday (Monday, December 2nd).

Click here for more information on Denver Comic Con!

I will be at the show – will you?

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To all of our friends, fans, and followers in the northeast-ish United States – the Winter New Jersey Collectors Con will be held on March 9th, 2014 at the Holiday Inn Cherry Hill – New Jersey! Dealer registration is now open if you’d like to set up shop and sell some of your wares to fellow collectors!

If you’ve never been to a NJCC before, they are an awesome, smaller show dedicated to toy collectors from the 70’s to modern day items, and usually draw out a great number of collectible stores from the east coast. They often have popular comic artists attending and the occasional voice actor show up. On top of that, they always have great door prizes – the last show featured a TON of items given away that were exclusively released at San Diego Comic Con.

When: Sunday, March 9th
Where: Holiday Inn Cherry Hill – New Jersey
2175 West Marlton Pike (Rt. 70), Cherry Hill, NJ 08002

For those interested in being DEALERS at the show, please contact fran@njcc.co for pricing, details, and more.

Stay tuned here as well as NewJerseyCollectorsCon.com for more updates on the show!

under Conventions, Garo, Godzilla, Kamen Rider, Other Conventions, Super Sentai

This time last week saw plenty of photos from the Tamashii Nation 2013[/URL] event in Japan, with certain figures such as the forthcoming Kamen Rider Gaim S.H. Figuarts only getting through with blurry images.

However Tamashii Nations[/URL] have now updated their website with their own official images from the event, so that some of these figures can be seen in all their glory! Most notable are the great shots of the Kamen Rider Black RX renewal, Kamen Rider Gaim and Kamen Rider Baron figures, however there’s plenty more including:

  • The S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Blade Riders
  • S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Kabuto Renewal Version
  • S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Agito Burning and Shining Forms
  • S.I.C. Rider-1 and Rider-2 new versions
  • Displays of the Super Sentai Reds and Kyoryuger Figuarts
  • The uncoloured prototype Gou from Shougeki Gouraigan
  • S.H. MonsterArts Kiryu, Gigan, Battra & Mothra
  • And more!

Check out the full selection of images by clicking here!

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Blurry though it may be we officially have our first look at color prototypes for S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Gaim, Kamen Rider Baron, and Gaim’s bike the Sakura Hurricane!

The image was taken at Tamashii Nations 2013 where the figures are out on full display. However as is often the case at theses events, certain sections of the show may not be photographed. These figures may or may not be under such an embargo but if and when new pictures surface we’ll have them for you here!

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The Tamashii Nation 2013 event has started in Japan and the internet is already swarming with pictures of displays and brand new products. Among some of the figures already seen at the event are:

  • SIC Kamen Rider 1 and 2
  • SIC Kamen Rider Skyrider
  • A huge display of Kamen Rider OOO SICs including upcoming release BuraKaWani & SagoZho
  • S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Chalice & Leangle
  • S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Agito Shining Form
  • S.H. Figuarts Road Sector & Acrobatter
  • A display of the currently released Super Sentai red figures
  • S.H. MonsterArts Final Wars Gigan
  • Makai Kadou Zen & Gai (Gold Version)
  • Makai Kado style prototype of Gou from ShouGeki GouRaiGan!
  • The new line of SHF/SIC/SRC/UA effect parts!
  • And upcoming Ultra-Acts Ultraman King, Leo & Astra Renewal, Zero& Ultimate Zero Renewals, and surprisingly Zero Strong Corona & Luna Miracle also based on the renewal body!

Pictures are still coming in, so stay tuned to Tokunation.com for more news from event!

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Next week, November 1-3, is when Tamashii Nations 2013 will be underway. And with it we can expect plenty of awesome pictures, new reveals, and some familiar faces. As a special preview and advertisement for the event the Akihabara showroom has some upcoming and currently released figures on display:

  • Showa Kamen Riders display featuring the January exclusive Nigo (Classic Colors)
  • S.I.C. Kamen Riders TheBee and Hopper Brothers
  • S.I.C. Uva Greed and previous release OOO Putotyra
  • SHF Ryuki Ride Shooter & Den-O Den Bird
  • Recently released Hurricane Red and the upcoming Hurricanger and Gouraiger 2-packs, and the upcoming Pterra Ranger & Mammoth Ranger
  • Makai Kado January exclusive Garo Ryuga (Full Shine)
  • Other recently releases are also scattered through out the displays

And of course the various other Bandai Tamashii collectors lines will also be in full show next week. From SRC, Robot Spirirts, Cloth Myth, and the DX Chogokin lines!

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under New York Comic Con

If you remember, our own administrator Sentai Tamashii was able to sit down and interview the folks with Bandai of America at this year’s NYCC. If you haven’t read the TWO interviews we got to do, you can find them here:

Click here for the initial interview!
Click here for the follow-up interview!

Friend to the site, board member, and Internet Personality Vangelus, also sat down with Greg Mitchell (marketing) from Bandai of America and talked about Power Rangers and other Bandai properties. In the interview, they “hypothetically” discuss the “third part of the original Megazord that combined with all three” and that they’re “looking in to it”. That would be Titanus the carrier-zord, who when combined with the Megazord and Dragonzord became the Ultrazord.

Check out Vangelus‘ interview with Bandai of America below!

Also be sure to check out his website Vangelus.ca for some amazing toy reviews and his weekly WTF@TFW2005 podcast about Transformers!