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The Massive-verse, made up of Image Comics properties Radiant Black (Kyle Higgins), Rogue Sun (Ryan Parrott), Inferno Girl Red (Mat Groom), and The Dead Lucky (Melissa Flores), held their first panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con 2022.  The panel also featured Cherish Chen (Radiant Red mini-series).  Check out all the details below thanks to Comic Book Keepers (@CBKcast) on Twitter for the details and images!

  • The Empire (the deep space aliens we saw previously during a Radiant Pink teleport mishap) are about to strike back
  • Radiant Black #18 features the premiere of Radiant Yellow (Wendell) and will feature four stories in one – reading the comic in different ways – which go in line with his power of being able to see multiple outcomes to situations (in order to choose the best one)
  • The Catalyst War – a Massive-verse event – is coming soon…
  • Rogue Sun current story arc ends in Issue #6
  • Rogue Sun Issue #7 is a “Choose Your Own Adventure” issue
  • A new villain based on time debuts “Ornate”
  • Rogue Sun Issue #8 takes us back to High School (think “Go Go Power Rangers” comic) and features a new villain named “Hellbent”
  • Preview for Rogue Sun Issue #9 gives us the hint that Dylan is going to have a real rough time
  • Radiant Red concludes with Issue #6 and gets wild
  • Inferno Girl Red preview – 120 page graphic novel!
  • Introduction to The Dead Lucky, created by Melissa Flores
  • The Dead Lucky is Bibiana, a half-Latina half-Asian woman, of which The Dead Lucky represents both cultures in terms of how those cultures honor the dead
  • Radiant Pink series announced
  • Written by Meghan Camarena featuring artwork by Emma Kubert
  • Introduces Radiant Pink’s love interest Kelly, and their relationship is the heart of the series
  • Super Massive 2 was announced

The Massive-verse looks to become even MORE massive!

The creators of all the heroes in the Massive-verse have something in common – they’ve all worked on Power Rangers at some point in their careers!  These new heroes have some tokusatsu inspiration in them, one main trait being that these heroes all “transform” (whereas your traditional comic book superheroes just have their suits on under their regular clothes).  Now is a great time to catch up with the Massive-verse and all of their titles!

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While there is no official Hasbro Power Rangers presence at this year’s San Diego Comic Con 2022 (we’ll talk about that later!), there was a live Q&A with Russell Curry, Hunter Deno, and Chance Perez on Hasbro Pulse!

Check out the Q&A below.

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Hasbro has sent over official images of the Lightning Collection Metallic Mighty Morphin White Ranger Power Rangers figure.  This figure was announced during the BOOM! Studios panel at San Diego Comic Con and is available to pre-order exclusively at HasbroPulse.com.  Fans can complete the Metallic Armor Power Up set of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers figures in the Lightning Collection.

The item retails for $27.99 and is in stock, ready to ship at HasbroPulse.com.  Click here to order.

Check out all the images after the jump.

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Hasbro has sent over official images of the upcoming ZAP Dragonzord revealed during/after the BOOM! Studios panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.

The ZAP Dragonzord is advertised at 1/144 scale and combines with the soon-to-be released ZAP Dino Megazord.  The mech contains changeable hands, finger-missile accessories, features chrome detailing, and an all new original concept design styling.  The ZAP Dragonzord is available for pre-order for roughly $132 across various fan channels.

Order it at BigBadToyStore.com by clicking here.

Check out all the official images after the jump.

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Bandai affiliate FlameToys has showcased a new line of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers model kits at San Diego Comic Con 2022.  The core five Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are on display.  These are model kits that fans put together and are quite posable.  Check out the pictures!

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The Diamond Select Toys booth at San Diego Comic Con 2022 had a few of the upcoming Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Minimates figures on display.

  • Mighty Morphin Red Ranger (Jason)
  • Mighty Morphin Black Ranger (Zack)
  • Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger (Trini)
  • Mighty Morphin White Ranger (Tommy)
  • Mighty Morphin Dino Megazord
  • Mighty Morphin Dragonzord

These items are currently listed as “Coming Soon” with no hard release date.

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It’s Cowabunga Time!

Ryan Parrott, soon to be the former writer of the Power Rangers comic from BOOM! Studios, will be returning with top-talent artist Dan Mora, for a sequel series to the original Mighty  Morphin Power Rangers / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book crossover.  Ryan Parrott has previously stated that doing the first book was a highlight for him so obviously a sequel is going to be even more amazing, more incredible, and hopefully full of more awesome Heroes in a Half Shell in Spandex!

Stay tuned for more details!

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WE NEED MEGAZORD POWER NOW! 

 

With San Diego Comic Con 2021 Special Edition currently underway, our friends at Flame Toys just unveiled the latest addition to their Furai Model Line of snap-together kits with a prototype of the original Megazord from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers seen https://twitter.com/FlameToysUS/status/1464623032014565378]on display at the show.

No other word was given on the release date as of this writing, but we’ll be sure to keep you updated to date as more info on this product is released to the public.

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On Saturday at the San Diego Comic Con 2021 Special Edition convention there was a panel with Team Kamen Rider of Bluefin Brands/Bandai-Namco and Shout! Factory/Shout! Factory TV/TokuSHOUTsu.  The panel concluded with the official North American premiere of Kamen Rider Zero-One: REALxTIME movie.  Attendees at the panel also received a swag-bag upon leaving.

We’ve recapped the panel and included some of the question and answers segment towards the end.

David and AJ from Team Kamen Rider, Ari from Shout! Factory on panel.

  • A brief overview of the history of Team Kamen Rider
  • All Heisei and Reiwa belts on display sent from TOEI
  • How can you support if you can’t purchase?
    • Share social media posts
    • Do surveys
    • Stream TokuSHOUTsu (for free)
  • New t-shirts on Amazon (soon)
    • Kamen Rider Gaim shirt
    • Kamen Rider Revice shirt
    • Kamen Rider 50th Anniversary shirt (logos)
  • Premium Bandai US
    • Kamen Rider V-Braclet
    • Kamen Rider Tamagotchi 50th Anniversary
  • Kamen Rider Manga & Comic Books coming 2022
    • Stonebot Comics (from South America)
    • Starting with Kuuga Manga (fully translated)
    • Then Kamen Rider Zero-One (original creation)
    • More details coming soon, approval for announcement only came 30 hours ago
  • TokuSHOUTsu
    • Kamen Rider Zero-One streaming begins January 1st 2022
    • More to come soon, especially outside the Big 3 (Kamen Rider/Sentai/Ultraman)
    • Kamen Rider Zero-One BluRay
      • Removed interlacing
      • Hard Subs
      • Original audio masters from Toei, so the sound is incredible
  • Some of the Q&A for Team Kamen Rider (TKR) & Shout! Factory (SF)/TokuSHOUTsu
    • American adaptation of Kamen Rider possible?
      • TKR:  “Do you want an adaptation or do you want an original creation?”
    • Can we get more series on BluRay?
      • SF:  “If Zero-One does well we can approach it.  We’ve talked about maybe a box set for the original series.  But we’re a small company so we need to see the return on what’s already being done.”
    • Is there anyway we can ask for specific seasons or series to be brought over?
      • SF:  “Use our social channels.  I can tell you I’ve gotten a ton of requests for Dragon Knight, followed by Metal Heroes.  But we talk to our own departments, and Toei, and come up with a plan after that.”
    • What about maybe dubbing a series?
      • SF:  “Yeah I’m sorry I really hate those.” – lol
    • What about action figures (not SH Figuarts)?
      • TKR:  Been working/fighting for those.  The same department that does RKF’s does DX Belts, so if the DX Belts do well it opens the door to potentially get the RKF’s out here.
    • Any plans to do these Kamen Rider movie releases in theaters via Fathom Events?  What about special episodes or movies for already-streaming properties, like Ryuki?
      • SF:  The plan for Heisei Generations FOREVER was actually to have it in theaters, and then the pandemic happened.  As the world gets back to normal it can be revisited.  As for the Ryuki special episode(s) or movies, if we were to do a physical release of the series, that is something we would then look to include, but currently no plans to stream it.
    • Fans from Mexico want Kamen Rider but don’t have access to watch it.  Is there any plans to expand?
      • SF:  Yes.  Been looking in to expanding in to new territories.  But we have a lot of properties and we can’t just drop in and go, we have to acquire the rights to those territories and Latin America is one area that I think we would want to move in to as Toei has a strong presence in a lot of those countries.  I wouldn’t expect anything in the next year, but definitely in the next few years, I would say there’s a really good chance.