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We don’t often advertise podcasts or YouTube updates of people not associated with our site, but we’re making a special exception in this case. Our dear friends for many years, the folks at the Ranger Command Power Hour podcast, have released their 100th episode. In celebration of 100 episodes, they’ve done a crossover episode featuring appearances from nearly every single guest host they’ve had over the last 3 years.

We do play a special part in this episode – @TokuChris (TokuNation webmaster) wrote the script and has an appearance, along with @DenO_TokuNation (TokuNation Content Administrator) and @SoulInkChu (TokuNation Public Relations) representing our former podcast Talkin Toku.

Click here and listen to the episode coming in at an impressive 35 minutes. Congratulations to Ranger Command Power Hour for 100 episodes and for setting the standard of how professional, entertaining podcasts should be.

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The popular South Korean tokusatsu series, Legend Hero (or Legend Hero Three Kingdoms) recently concluded it’s English closed caption run on YouTube with the English translation of the 50th episode now available online. The series started off as incredibly popular with tokusatsu fans across the world but seemed to fade away during its tenure. With the full series now online, officially, with an English subtitle translation available, the show is beginning to gain some more momentum.

During the run of the series there was a segment of episodes that was seen as one of the more pivotal stories in the entire series. That story line ran through the 24th and 27th episodes. Two episodes ended up having to cut over 15 minutes when it aired on television – the 26th and 27th episodes. It was later released in a special screening as “Legend Hero EX” or “Legend Hero Three Kingdoms EX“.

Today, the official YouTube channel for Legend Hero released a trailer for Legend Hero EX with a “stay tuned next week” message. Check out the video below.

The clips shown lead one to believe that we are finally getting a release of the cut footage from Episodes 26 and 27. Linked to this news post is our special Legend Hero Full Series Info discussion thread. Be sure to check it out if you have interest in the series.

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Preorders have now opened for a special Blu-Ray release of Tsuburaya Productions 1993 Ultra-esque series, Denkou Choujin Gridman (better known to Western audiences by its adapted name, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad.)

This series features three intelligent inventors uniting with a secret digital policeman named Gridman to hunt down an electronic demon known as Khan Digifer.

The Blu-Ray set will contain 7 discs, covering all 39 episodes of this iconic tokusatsu series. Price is a steep 32900 Yen before shipping & handling. Release is currently scheduled for December 20, 2017!

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“Electroplate!”

It’s that time again friends! A few weeks back we took at the fantastic new Space Squad release of Gavan Type G. This figure was a long overdue renewal that helped set the stage for the original Metal Hero himself to also receive this treatment. In this case though S.H. Figuarts Space Sheriff Gavan came packaged in a massive set with his unique ride the Saibarian!

Gavan like Type G really needed this renewal treatment. The old Gavan body was a pretty poorly made figure with numerous documented QC issues. While these new releases haven’t been perfect on that front, I’m looking at you chrome finish, they are above and beyond functionally better figures than the old releases. Gavan comes armed with 3 versions of his iconic Laser Blade as well as 4 sets of hands and a Laser Scope head. But the biggest and best accessory is of course the Saibarian! This long overdue bike is a top notch figuarts vehicle. Functionality it can fully transform, it’s got several tamashii stage ports built in for action shots, and despite being plastic, it has some decent heft to it. It’s a shelf presence.

The entire gallery of 150 images is attached to this post but feel free to  “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post to read the full review and accessory breakdown as well! Next up on our gallery schedule is S.H. Figuarts Alien Metron from Ultraseven!

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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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After an exciting teaser earlier this year, the iconic Jaeger Gipsy Danger from fan-favorite monster/robot action movie Pacific Rim is officially joining the Soul of Chogokin action figure series!

Designated as release number GX-77 in the Soul of Chogokin lineup, Gipsy Danger is recreated in exquisite detail, featuring a variety of screen-accurate weapons (including the carrier ship used as an impromptu club at one memorable moment). An electronic feature is also included- lights are planted in Gipsy’s head, chest and plasma-cannon arms.

GX-77 Gipsy Danger is currently scheduled for release in February 2018! The price is a sound 27000 Yen (or roughly $243 USD at current exchange rate). This figure is now available for preorder at all major tokusatsu retailers!

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The first teaser for Pacific Rim: Uprising has been posted online!

This brief video gives fans a history of the iconic Jaeger Program that saved humanity during the Kaiju War of Pacific Rim and features new lead actor John Boyega encouraging fans to join the Program & save the world once again!

But that’s not all for Pacific Rim today- a new viral marketing campaign has been launched, via GoJaeger.com that will provide fans with new information about the film and its universe as we move close to its release.

Stay tuned to TokuNation for all Pacific Rim news!

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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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Don’t let the SDCC news & reveals be the only thing to whet your Toku appetite! Surprisingly, Amazon has just released some official images and release information for three upcoming releases from Pacific Rim Uprising! Joining the Robot Damashii line are the Gypsy Avenger, Bracer Phoenix & Titan Redeemer Jaegers!

These inaugural releases form Bandai’s freshly gotten Pacific Rim license are looking very sharp indeed. Thanks to their info dump we also having pricing and release details! According to the Amazon US listings, Gypsy Avenger will be released on February 23rd, 2018 for the very modest price of $23.99 and free shipping for Prime members. Bracer Phoenix will release on the same day for a bit more at $32.99 and free shipping for Prime members. And Titan Redeemer will also release that day, priced the same as Phoenix at $32.99

This early batch of pre-orders has actually beaten the Tamashii Nations website to the punch, they aren’t even listed there yer. So there are sure to be more official images coming. For now check out what we can see, and maybe take up that early pre-order.