Thanks to sister site ToyArk we’ve got our first official look at Pacific Rim Series 3 figures Coyote Tango & Cherno Alpha. NECA recently posted the first images of these fully painted figures to tease their upcoming February release. Check them out after the jump by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums”.
If you haven’t noticed since our site relaunch, our awesome photo team has stepped their game up to bring you some special galleries from your favorites tokusatsu. Periodically we’re going to be “rounding up” galleries during the month so everyone has a quick access point to any gallery that may not have been featured on our front page.
We want you to have easy access to these awesome toys and want our epic photo guys to get the credit they deserve. Follow these links to check out this months snazy new galleries:
S.H. Figuarts Libra Zodiarts Gallery by ryan
S.H. Figuarts Greeed Mezool Gallery by ryan
Mystic Knights “DX” Rohan Gallery by conundrum
Megaforce Ultra Red & Blue Zord Vehicles Gallery by conundrum
Minipla Datas Hyper & Mystic Brothers Gallery by Moonbasetom
After letting the community throw out some choices for our next segment, it looks like it’s finally time to vote on the 10 we’ve narrowed it down to! The candidates for the next Let’s Watch Wednesdays are:
Mahou Sentai Magiranger
Madan Senki Ryukendo
Kamen Rider Faiz
Garo (Season 1)
Kamen Rider Kuuga
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (live action)
Kamen Rider Agito
Power Rangers In Space
VR Troopers (season 1)
Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger
To cast your vote for the next Let’s Watch Wednesdays, click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” to head on over to our poll thread. This thread will remain open for voting until Tuesday January 21st at 12 Midnight EST. At that point if we have a clear winner then that’s the show we’ll be tuning in to for our next Let’s Watch Wednesdays!
It’s that time again folks! Kamen Rider Blade has ended and we’re sad to see it go, but now it’s time for us to pick up a new show for Let’s Watch Wednesdays!
As always Let’s Watch Wednesdays is intended to get the community together to check out some older tokusatsu they may not have seen before. We ask that each user make only 1 nomination. The 10 nominations with the most users behind them will be featured in a poll to decide the actual series for the segment next week. This nomination thread will be open from today January 15th through Sunday January 19th at 12 Midnight EST. So get your choices in before then.
There are a few other stipulations for nominating any new shows for LWW such as those series which are ineligible. So click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post to check them out and get started! We look forward to all of your suggestions!
In a time where subtitles seem to rule, it’s rare to see anything tokusatsu related dubbed, or at least, dubbed in a way that doesn’t make you cringe and cry out for pain killers. As some of you may already know, there’s an on-going Chinese tokusatsu titled Armor Hero of which the latest series Armor Hero XT is airing now. However, whether to gain exposure to their tokusatsu series or simply in a gesture of good will, the Armor Hero series (the first one) is being released, officially, with an English dub via an official YouTube channel.
Click here to check out the YouTube channel which is releasing full, dubbed episodes periodically. By going to www.ArmorHero.com, you are taken to the same YouTube channel where, as of the time of this news post, you can watch the first 9 episodes fully dubbed in English.
What do you think? Do you prefer sticking to subtitles? If this proves to be popular, is it a possible sign of things to come in the future, maybe from TOEI? Sound off!
It is with a sad and heavy heart that we pass along a message from our friends at JEFusion.com, that the site owner and founder, GekiDan, passed away last night. The announcement was made on their Facebook page this afternoon:
I have some extremely sad news. GekiDan. the founder of JEFusion. Passed Away Last Night. I will do my best to carry on with JEFusion. Turn it into what He always wanted it to be. I as well as everyone will gravely miss you Gekidan.
I, unfortunately, never got to speak much with GekiDan, but I can share that his website, JEFusion.com, was one of the inspirations for me to want to create a website like TokuNation. Regardless of anyone’s personal thoughts regarding JEFusion and how they handled posting news, GekiDan was a pioneer in bringing news, information, video streaming, and so much more from Japan to the whole rest of the world. Because of his dedication, JEFusion stands as the largest and most-viewed website for tokusatsu in the entire world.
Thank you, GekiDan, for everything you did in promoting this genre and helping open up the eyes of the world to the genre of tokusatsu. The staff here at TokuNation sends our sincerest condolences to the family, friends, and everyone who knew GekiDan. We have lost a truly important individual in this genre that we all love so much. May you rest in peace.
Photo & Content contributor conundrum is back yet again with a new gallery from Big Bad Beetleborgs! Today he takes a look at the 6″ Blue Stinger Beetleborg!
The figure is an import of the Blue Beet figure from Bandai of Japan’s Juukou B-Fighter toy line, released by Bandai of America in 1998.All in all, it is still a solid figure, even by today’s standards. The articulation for the most part is decent, but the fantastic metallic blue and chrome paint job the figure has more than makes up for it. The paint is a double-edged sword though as it is almost impossible to find a used Beetleborgs figure without any wear to the metallic paint or chrome.
No one knows if the B-Fighters/Beetleborgs will ever get the S.H. Figuarts treatment, but in the meantime, the figures from Bandai of America’s 6 inch line are an excellent placeholder in any collection.
Check out the full gallery by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” to see theentire gallery for this figure. And why not have a look at conundrum’s previous gallery of the 12″ Special Edition Blue Stinger Beetleborg as well to get your fix for the Big Bad Beetleborgs!
Did you know that 2013 actually marked the 15th anniversary of the very awesome Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog? Well Photo & Content contributor conundrum is certainly here to remind us with this gallery of the Mystic Knight of Fire, Rohan!
Mystic Knights was a rare breed of tokusatsu indeed. An American/Irish co-production created by Saban Entertainment based loosely on Irish myths and aimed at the same audience that watched such shows as Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and Masked Rider. The show itself only lasted a single 50 episode season as it’s second season budget was instead allocated to Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. The show however is still special for many fans because of it’s unique take on the genre and the toyline itself is really pretty great and still affordable to collect even now.
Check out conundrum’s full selection of images by clicking this link or “Discuss on the TokuNation forums” at the bottom of this post! We’ll be bringing you at least a couple more Mystic Knights galleries this month, and next up will be the Mystic Knight of Air, Deirdre!
Our resident lover of 90’s tokusatsu far and wide conundrum is with us once again to share yet another gallery from Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad!
Adapted from the Tsuburaya series Denkou Chojin Gridman this show had the honor of having some of the best DX transforming sets around. However there were also some smaller more affordable Samurizing sets released here in the US that while not as complex as their DX brothers, definitely get the job done. At the lower price point and looking as good as they do these sets are great alternatives even now to the more expensive DX’s.
The Synchro Samurizing Set contains Servo and the 3 vehicles Borr, Tracto, and Vitor that allow him to become Synchro. You’ll see it scales especially well with Gridman Ultra-Acts if you’re on a budget. Seet the full gallery of this figure by clicking this link or by clicking the “Discuss on the Tokunation Forums” link at the bottom of this post!
Since the end of Superhero Taisen Z, Toei has been strongly hinting at the return of Ishinomori’s other classic cyborg hero, Kikaider.
Recently, Kadokawa publishing (the group behind the recent Kikaider novelization) has confirmed that a new Kikaider movie will premiere next year. Exact details are still not confirmed.
Credit to Orends Range blog!
