TFW2005HisstankTokuNationToyark
Tokunation › General Tokusatsu News › Page 41

under General Tokusatsu News

Masak-Online has posted new images of the NECA 18″ Knifehead prototype! One of the images is a digital color-mockup. Now your 18″ Gipsy Danger has a huge Kaiju to fight! More info:

The MOST Massive Pacific Rim figure you can imagine
Epic scale does not even do this justice ? Enormous in size, weight and detail!

Over 18″ tall! Over 2 feet wide!

Massive in every way, over 25 points of articulation including opening jaw and articulated fingers!!
This massive Kaiju can battle your 18″ Gipsy Danger and be the centerpiece of your figure collection
Knifehead also features LED lights to illuminate and glow!

Read on to check out the new images of this huge Kaiju figure!

under General Tokusatsu News

Thanks to our sister site The Toyark for the heads up on NECA‘s latest reveal, Battle Damaged Gipsy Danger from their 7″ Pacific Rim line! Remember that part in the movie when Mako decided to pull out a chain sword to avenger her family? This figure comes with 2 swords!

Also shown is a preview for Sideshow Collectibles‘ Slattern statue:

under General Tokusatsu News

A new pre-order at BigBadToyStore has revealed a new Pacific Rim 2 Pack, Gipsy Danger VS Knifehead! After the movie premiered, some of you have mentioned difficulty in finding the figures at Toys R Us. Both figures were in wave 1, so if you missed out, this set can aid in catching up. We aren’t sure if these will be repainted or come with additional accessories, so stay tuned!

Price is $35.99 and this set is scheduled for release in October.

under General Tokusatsu News

Thanks to our sister site the Toyark for the heads up that NECA will be releasing the 18″ Knifehead figure for its Pacific Rim toyline! This long awaited figure is the 2nd figure to come in the 18″ Pacific Rim series and the 1st Kaiju in this scale!

Confirmation comes our way via a preorder by AmiAmi. Read on to see the teaser image!

under General Tokusatsu News

Shout factory, the awesome company responsible for bringing classics like Power Rangers, Ultra Q, VR Troopers, Ultra Seven, Beetleborgs, and even the Japanese Transformers Trilogy to DVD needs our help! Right now they’re one volume away from finishing off all of our Big Bad Beetleborgs collections!

Season 1 volume 1 & 2 as well as Metallix Volume 1 have been released already. However the release of Metallix Part 2 is in jeopardy! Mr. Yellow has let us know that sales numbers need to climb for the previously released Beetleborgs sets before the final installment can actually happen. So Shout Factory is asking the collective tokusatsu community to help this final volume see the light of day!

If you haven’t picked up the previous releases yet, then head on over to the Shout website and get a dose of pure 90’s!
Big Bad Beetleborgs Season 1 Volume 1 on DVD
Big Bad Beetleborgs Season 1 Volume 2 on DVD
Beetleborgs Metallix: Season 2 Volume 1 on DVD

Let’s make that last volume happen!

under General Tokusatsu News

This past weekend, someone(BaronButcher) asked NECA on Twitter about figures of the Jaegers Cherno Alpha, Coyote Tango and Trespasser. NECA’s response?

planning series 3 now

In addition, Clay_Pruitt asked about an 18″ Striker Eureka and NECA replied:

Maybe. Looking at more 18″ currently

So there you have it. Judging from the comments here since Pacific Rim debuted, a lot of you want a 7″ Cherno Alpha. Would you like a 18″ Striker Eureka too? How about other Kaiju and Jaegers? Discuss!

under General Tokusatsu News

The good people at TV Shows On DVD have at last confirmed a release for the second half of DIC Entertainment’s tokusatsu project, “Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad.”

This second volume will be released on October 1st at the very reasonable price of 12.98 for the remaining 25 episodes!

under General Tokusatsu News

Sideshow Collectables has announced that a high end statue of the Kaiju Knifehead from Pacific Rim will see a release in April 2014. Every detail of the monster is recreated in exquisite detail, but the statue will cost a heavy 379.99$ US.

under General Tokusatsu News, Power Rangers

This story goes to show that Power Rangers is indeed a worldwide phenomenon!

JapanExpo is the largest Japanese pop-culture convention of its kind. It was held in Paris, France earlier this month. To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Power Rangers, over one-hundred individuals gathered for a “flash mob” of Power Rangers using “morphsuits” purchased from MorphSuits.com. They battled Puddies at Place du Trocadero, and invited fans to join in a choreographed battle.

Check out the pictures by clicking the title bar, and check out the video below!

Special thanks to Fury Diamond and his SamuraiCast blog for the news!

under General Tokusatsu News

NECA‘s 1st wave of Pacific Rim Action Figures arrived stateside last month and for those of you looking for more, have no fear! More are coming! MTV Geek has posted an exclusive interview with NECA, and they revealed new figures coming in future waves! Some interesting information was relayed…did you know that the upcoming 18 Inch Gipsy Danger is a nod to the old Shogun Warriors line from the 70’s?! Some Kaiju are huge and would be too expensive to feature in the line, so NECA decided to create figures of Kaiju that were close to their targeted pricepoint. Series 2 will feature:

  • Leatherback who they described as a “enormous, huge and heavy chunk of plastic”
  • Striker Eureka
  • Battle Damaged Gipsy Danger with chain sword accessories
The rest of the article can be read here!