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Our site sponsor BigBadToyStore.com has sent out their newsletter featuring new pre-orders and new arrivals for all of your various toy collecting needs! Slipping under the radar are some pre-orders for some of your favorite series – Kamen Rider Drive, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, and Power Rangers Dino Charge! There’s also more Kamen Rider Gaim available! Check out the listings below!

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The hosts of Talkin Toku decided to take part in the celebration of tacos in the annual TacoNation day by releasing a brand new episode of the official TokuNation.com podcast – Talkin Toku!

Join in the conversation of all the great taco debates – sour cream or no? Do you get guacamole on your tacos? What type of sauce do you get and which one is better? And finally, the greatest debate of them all … which you’ll have to listen to in order to hear it!

Sit back, relax, have a laugh or two at the expense of tacos as we attempt to talk toku but end up talking tacos!

Click to download the .MP3 of this episode!
(45.30MB in size, .MP3 format, 49:30 in length)

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Be sure to follow all of the Talkin Toku social media outlets so you can keep up with the hosts and our upcoming contests and give-aways!
Follow the show @TalkinToku on Twitter, and the hosts: Kickback at @rankal on Twitter, Den-O at @DenO_Tokunation on Twitter, and Sentai Tamashii at @SoulInkChu on Twitter! There’s also a Talkin Toku Facebook page! Give us a ”Like” at Facebook.com/TalkinToku

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Good news for fans wanting more Kaiju & Jaeger action!

A new comic book miniseries based on the 2013 fan-favorite film Pacific Rim has been announced!

Titled Tales From The Drift– this new series will be spread over four issues and explore new adventures in the Pacific Rim Universe. The story was developed by Pacific Rim’s screenwriter, Travis Beacham and will be adapted to comic book format by writer Joshua Fialkov and artist Marcos Marz.

Tales From The Drift will arrive in stores starting in November 2015!

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It’s time for another episode of our official podcast – Talkin Toku! Join your hosts Kickback/Chris, Den-O/Jordan, and Sentai Tamashii/Tom as they embark on the first episode in over a month. Since their last episode, babies have been born, conventions have come and gone, and your favorite shows like Power Rangers Dino Charge, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, and Kamen Rider Drive have all either premiered, continued, or had some interesting developments happen. And that’s where the hosts come in!

What are their initial thoughts on Shuriken Sentai Ninninger? Was it worth sitting through Ressha Sentai ToQGer to get to? And has Power Rangers Dino Charge lived up to the hype since the premiere? And just what the heck is going on with Kamen Rider Drive? They discuss it all – and in one of our favorite twists, the hosts share which show they have the least amount of problems with and knowing our hosts and the history they have with theses franchises, it’ll surprise you for sure.

There’s also toy talk – their thoughts on the DX Shurikenjin mecha from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger as well as Kickback’s thoughts on the roleplay items that he’s purchased. The hosts also discuss their thoughts on the Toys’R’Us listings for the Legacy Blade Blaster and Legacy VIP Dino Chargers Set, as well as what other Legacy items they’d like to see down the road (besides the obvious ones).

And finally – they go off topic and talk Hot Toys, various online stores, and the hobby they left that is slowly sucking them back in – Transformers. Come take a listen and leave your thoughts in the discussion thread by clicking here!

Click to download the .MP3 of this episode!
(64.50MB in size, .MP3 format, 01:10:32 in length)

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Be sure to follow all of the Talkin Toku social media outlets so you can keep up with the hosts and our upcoming contests and give-aways!
Follow the show @TalkinToku on Twitter, and the hosts: Kickback at @rankal on Twitter, Den-O at @DenO_Tokunation on Twitter, and Sentai Tamashii at @SoulInkChu on Twitter! There’s also a Talkin Toku Facebook page! Give us a ”Like” at Facebook.com/TalkinToku

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Fans voices have finally been heard! After nearly 2 years since the release of the first Beetleborgs Metallix DVD volume and much campaigning from fans, Shout! Factory have officially announced that the last 17 episodes of the series will be coming to DVD on May 5th 2015.

The DVD is currently available to preorder from Shout! Factory’s website (priced $24.98), with other preorders likely to open in due course. Excited to finally complete your Beetleborgs collection? Be sure to comment after the jump!

 

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It’s that time of year once again for the comic & toy convention season to get under way! And getting the ball rolling on both fronts is the upcoming Lexington Comic & Toy Con, from March 13th-15th! What began in 2012 as a con that garnered over 1000 guests has flourished in the years since to it’s height now, attracting upwards of 20,000 guests from the around the midwest & southeast!

What’s even more impressive is how the guest list for this con has grown from featuring just a few of your favorite Power Rangers actors, to being one of the nations premiere selections of ranger actors! This year the convention staff have pulled out all the stops to offer the BIGGEST selection of Power Rangers, & Indeed Super Sentai actors, possible! Not to mention a few other fantastic bonuses for Ultraman fans! Check out the full guest list as it pertains to the tokusatsu fandom below, as maintained by our very own uchihabro77! 

Aside from this star studded guest list, LexCon is also an opportunity for fans to make real world connections. As I’ve done in years past I will of course be there repping for TokuNation.com & the Talkin Toku Podcast. But many other groups and personalities in the tokusatsu fandom will also be in attendance like trekkieb47 of Ranger Command Power Hour and RiderJetfire of Dans Toku Rants. If you’re going to be in attendance be sure to post in our Lexington Comic & Toy Con 2015 thread. We’ll see you there!

 

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After recently being teased in a Bandai Tamashii Nations blog entry, full release details for the S.H. Figuarts Hakaider Squad have been revealed! Made up of Red Hakaider, Blue Hakaider and Silver Hakaider, these three act as Gill Hakaider’s henchmen in the opening section of Kikaider 01.

As many expected the figures will be coming as part of a 3-pack, however the set will also be a ToeiHero.net exclusive. Each figure will come with their own unique weapon, along with presumably an array of additional hands.

Costing a total of 16,200 yen, preorders will be open until the 30th April with the set shipping out to collectors in September.

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Juukou!

We’re back! Did you miss us? After our New York Toy Fair coverage we thought it was time to give the citizens of TokuNation a treat. Today we’re taking a look at a brand new Tamashii Web Exclusive release familiar to both Western & Japanese tokusatsu fans alike. S.H. Figuarts Blue Beet from Juukou B-Fighter! And 90’s Saban Era fans will undoubtedly recognize this figure as the Blue Stinger Beetleborg from Big Bad Beetleborgs!

Blue Beet is one of the more intricately detailed Figuarts you’ll own for sure. An incredible representation of an elaborate suit, Blue beet really captures the presence of his on screen counterpart. Some articulation issues not withstanding, this figure nails the look. Not to mention a bevy of really well done accessories too. Blue Beet comes with the standard side arm of the B-Fighters the Input Magnum,  3 sets of extra hands, as well as his signature Stinger Blade. Of course it also includes parts necessary to transform it into the Stinger Drill too!

Honestly S.H. Figuarts Blue Beet is a fantastic figure. While I’m not impressed with the articulation given to him it’s certainly one of the better looking figuarts I own. I’m even more excited for the upcoming G-Stag, Reddle, & Black Beet than I was before. If you want to be as well then I suggest checking out our complete 80 image gallery of Blue Beet by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation forums” at the bottom of this post!

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1972’s classic tokusatsu franchise Kikaider has been getting a lot of love lately, and it looks like it’s potentially getting 3 more doses of it soon! With S.H. Figuarts Kikaider 01 & Gil Hakaider about to be released is it’s no surprise that Bandai has chosen today to tease the release of the S.H. Figuarts Hakaider Squad! 

The Hakaider Squad from Kikaider 01 is composed of 3 similar Hakaider model cyborgs, each with a different color designation; Red Blue & Silver. Created from the remains of other DARK scientists these 3 in addition to Gil Hakaider formed the Squad. In the 01 TV series each had their own unique monster form, as well as the ability to combine into one gigantic cyborg known as Gattaider.

With possibly 3 more Hakaider’s coming from Bandai (a 3-pack perhaps?) we wonder what next era in the Kikaider franchise Bandai will spotlight. We’ll keep you informed as more updates become available!

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In a surprise reveal, Max Factory makers of the Figma line announced that they’ve acquired the Pacific Rim license.

At the 2015 Wonder Fest event, they showed off a prototype of their 1/350th scale Gypsy Danger model kit with teasers for the other Jaegers in the works. 


At the moment, not much else about this release is known but we’ll bring you more up to date information as it becomes avalaible.