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For fans living on the upper east coast of the United States, a great convention with roots from the 2005 Network is being held this upcoming Sunday, August 18th at the Holiday Inn Cherry Hill. NJCC is being put on by pop-culture toy collectors FOR toy collectors, celebrating the 80’s, 90’s, and everything since then.

Check out the list of door prizes being given out, including the MEGA DOOR PRIZE at the end of the show!

  • 9AM – TRANSFORMERS CONSTRUCT-A-BOTS BUNDLE
  • 10AM – MARVEL LEGENDS SDCC 2013 THUNDERBOLTS SET
  • 11AM – G.I. JOE vs TRANSFORMERS SDCC 2013 BOX SET
  • 12AM – MY LITTLE PONY SDCC EXCLUSIVE DJ PON-3
  • 1PM – BLACK SERIES BOBA FETT & HAN SOLO IN CARBONITE SDCC 2013 BOX SET
  • 2PM – MARVEL UNIVERSE DEADPOOL CORPS SDCC 2013 SET
  • 3PM – FORTRESS MAXIMUS ENCORE 23
  • 3:30PM – TRANFORMERS SDCC 2013 METROPLEX BOX SET (Mega Door Prize)
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Holiday Inn Cherry Hill – New Jersey
2175 West Marlton Pike (Rt. 70), Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
Sunday, August 18th, 2013

For more details and information, check out and “Like” their Facebook page! What a great opportunity to meet some fellow collectors and various dealers.

Hope to see you at the show!

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Thanks to our good friend Fury Diamond over at Rangercrew.com and Samuraicast we have a look at the Power Rangers Super Megaforce trailer that was screened at this year’s San Diego Comic Con!

This trailer features plenty of footage from the adapted Super Sentai series Gokaiger, but also shots of the Megaforce rangers and their transformation from the Megaforce to Super Megaforce costumes.

Check out the trailer below!

Thanks to Tokunation.com member TimeFire302 for sharing

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With the San Diego Comic Convention over, a few final details surrounding the various news and progress from Bandai have been cleared up thanks to our attending representatives.

Hopefully these answers should clear up some questions fans may have:


– Power Rangers Monopoly’s board graphic contains some Sentai Rangers that were not ever Power Rangers. This was accidental. The background behind the new images of classic Rangers is lifted straight from the Legendary War Sentai footage. Their existence should be considered a nod to Sentai and nothing more, said Saban Brands when the image was discovered.
– The decreased size of the Gokaiger toys for Super Megaforce was to keep them affordable and because here they are meant for kids. The keys are smaller so they would be cost effective, but the springs work as good if not better than the Gokaiger keys. There was no confirmation if US Rangers would receive keys or not because they are still in prototype stages at this time. The Legendary Megazord is smaller and less complex to be affordable for parents as a kids you and to incorporate the “build a zord” feature that Bandai states is a popular and successful feature for the toyline. It makes each zord playable with older zords. There was nothing they could say about Gokai Silver’s zord at this time.
– The Legendary Morpher (Mobirate) is planned to have electronic features but no details at this time as to what or if it’ll call out specific Rangers or seasons
– Saban Brands credits a lot of the resurgence of Power Rangers to the fan sites and wants us all to know it doesn’t go unnoticed or unappreciated.
– Bandai acknowledges a lack of preparedness for their SDCC product and plans to be more prepared at NYCC which will feature yet to be annouced exclusive(s)
– There are no plans for SDCC product to be released at retail at this time
– Legacy Dagger is due in 2014. There is no definite date set for Legacy Dragonzord as it is still in early stages (hence no product to show)
– While the entire fandom knows tons about Super Megaforce, no one is truly ready to talk about it except that there’s planned product to be released. Not even the cast would talk about it, instead choosing “I don’t know what you’re talking about” in a sly and over-exaggerated tone
– Through a mis-click in Bluefin Tamashii’s survey at SDCC, what we saw at the time was Power Rangers Zeo leading the “what team do you want to see as SH Figuarts” question. That was at one point on Sunday as 130,000 people walked through the convention halls, so do not take that as anything remotely definite. Just fun to know and speculate.

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At this year’s SDCC 2013, a number of planned and unplanned Power Rangers showed up and signed autographs. One that was planned and drew quite the crowd was Jason David Frank, or Tommy the Green Ranger and White Ranger in the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

He involved the crowd that gathered to take pictures with chants of “Dragonzord!” and “It’s morphin time!”. We were there to take some pictures. Check them out by clicking the title bar.

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Sunday was the final day of SDCC 2013 so there wasn’t much to do. We did run in to a very well done cosplay of the White Ranger from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Nothing major of note, but you can get an idea of what you run in to while walking the convention floor.

Check out the offerings from Papercutz, who teased us with their upcoming Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Graphic Novel.

NOTE: Bandai had a covered figure in the Godzilla case that said “Legendary Godzilla”. It was never pulled off and Bandai stated they could not show it at the show after all.