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Total Film has posted an exclusive look at new Pacific Rim Concept Art. The images are from the newest issue of Total Film(#204), which is out now. We’ve mirrored the images here. The rest of the concept art(along with an interview) is in the magazine itself. Here’s more info about the images:


You can see two of those exclusive pieces by Doug Williams right here. The first puts the overwhelming scale of the Jaegers into perspective, as a Russian collosus stands guard, dominating the skyline. The second features a freaky Skull Temple that’s fused with its derelict urban surroundings.

Click on the headline to check out the concept art from Pacific Rim!

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Thanks to our sister site The Toyark for the heads up that the Pacific Rim Movie Facebook page has posted the 1st images of the NECA Pacific Rim Toyline! These highly detailed figures will be on display at Toy Fair 2013, so stay tuned for our images and info!

In the meantime, check out the Pacific Rim Toys by clicking the headline.

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Kamen Rider or Super Sentai not your thing for heroes? Then good news everyone! It has just been announced that a new alternative tokusatsu will be produced by Bushiroad, the company responsible for the popular Cardfight Vanguard anime/CCG. The new show will be titled Fire Leon! Currently it looks like the show will begin airing this April and star pro-wrestler Kazuchika Okada.

However this show will not exclusively feature its’ titular character, Fire Leon. This show is meant to be a dream team-up of sorts for the various Local Heroes of Japan! All across Japan small towns and areas have their own locally produced toku heroes, characters who promote the area and bear appearances that honor their towns. Some even make it to local television and film! Fire Leon will feature cameos and guest appearances by Local Heroes from all across Japan!!

Much like Cardfight Vanguard, Fire Leon will have it’s own collectible card game also produced by Bushiroad. The CCG will also feature Japans’ various local heroes!

Credit: C-Net Japan,RisingSunToku

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Say hello to Gun Great Nations, he’s an original mech sporting the Tamashi Nations logo, set to appear in the up coming Battle Robot Damashi PSP game.

Battle Robot Damashi is a crossover video game meant to promote the Robot Damashi line, as such characters that had past toy releases will be featured in the game, and the list of series is as follows: 

[LEFT] Macross Frontier
Eureka Seven and Eureka Seven good night, sleep tight, young lovers
Code Geass Seasons 1 and 2, as well as Agito the Exiled
Star Drivers
Zegapain
Fafner Dead Aggressor: Heaven and Earth
Heroman
Lagrange-The Flower of Rine-ne
Full Metal Panic The Second Raid and Fumouffu
Heavy Metal L-Gaim
Aura Battle Dunbine
Densestu Kyojin Ideon
Armored Core V [/LEFT]

Gun Great Nations himself will be getting a Robot Damashi figure, reported to be bundled with copies of the video game. The figure it self can be broken down and used as weapons for other RD figures, a magazine scan shows the Arbalest from Full Metal Panic holding what looks to be a gun that shares many of his design cues.

Battle Robot Spirits will be releasing February 14th. You can see a teaser for the game in the youtube link below:

SOURCE: Tendou Toys News Blog

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While interviewing Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro, Indiewire let out that there is a sequel being worked on, in its early stages:

Indiewire: You’re in the very early stages of a “Pacific Rim” sequel. If you do that would you shoot it in native 3D?
Guillermo del Toro: Yes. Provided, at that point, that the technology is becoming easier and easier…

He then talked about 3D conversion:

Indiewire: Initially you didn’t want it to be converted…
Guillermo del Toro: Even then they were super respectful. By then we were already getting ILM shots. I was realizing that out of 100 shots, maybe 10% of the shots were risky. They said, “If we go 2D on those shots, we can do it.” Then I gave them my list of conditions. They spent twice of what they normally spend on [this process], because they gave me the chance to pay ILM to do every single shot in native 3D. They aren’t being converted. So all the big 3D effects shots are being done by ILM from the get go. Normally they give a movie a 14 to 16 week conversion time [for 3D]. I started the conversion back in September. So it’s six months for conversion. It’s very classy.

Also attached is a blueprint image of the Pacific Rim Strike Eureka, because it looks cool!

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Have you been keeping up with the Chinese pseudo-sentai Giant Savers (Jushen ZhanJiDui)? If you have then you know this show has actually been in production since roughly this time in 2010! So far there’s only been a handful of promo videos for it and some grainy looks at the mecha.

Well today, courtesy of Jefusions’ facebook page, we’ve been given our first look at the toy of the Giant Savers main mecha, Giant Braver! This single in box shot doesn’t give us a lot to go on but it certainly looks like it could be a great toy.

In addition to this a recent Taobao auction also gives us our first look at the 2 other mecha from the series. Assault Saver and Crack Saver!

Credit: Jefusion Facebook Page

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Not even 24 hours since the release of the awesome Pacific Rim trailer and the Internet already seems ablaze with excitement and anticipation! This incredible film of Kaiju emerging from a portal in the Pacific Ocean and the giant robot Jaegers built to defeat them, is currently set for a July 12, 2013 release but there’s already plenty to whet your appetite on the official site Pan Pacific Defense Corps such as schematics of multiple Jaegers and even a viral video complete with voiceover by Transformers alum David Kaye.

If you’ve been living under a rock, we here at TokuNation are happy to help out! Check out the trailer for yourself below!

Pacific Rim is directed by Guillermo del Toro and stars Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kituchi, Idris Elba and Ron Perlman and comes out in what may feel like the longest seven months ever! Stick with us here at TokuNation.com for more Pacific Rim news!

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Earlier this year we learned that Mill Creek would be distributing the Americanized tokusatsu “Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad” on DVD.

Thanks to TV Shows On DVD we now have some official details for this release!

Syber-Squad will be available in 3 Volumes, with the first release containing 28 episodes.

Volume One will be released on February 19, 2013 for the very reasonable price tag of 12.98 USD

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An obscure entry from the world of tokusatsu, Takara’s “Madan Senki Ryukendo” has been selected for the Disney XD network in Malaysia- where the series will be dubbed into English!

Ryukendo will begin airing in Malaysia on November 26th

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For those who don’t know, back in September, the movie, Karate-Robo Zaborgar (which is a remake of the old tokusatsu series Denjin Zaborger) was recently released on DVD and Blu-ray over here in the states, with the original release of this movie coming out in Japan in 2011

Well for those wanting to check out out, it is now availible for streaming on Netflix! So if you want some hilarious tokusatsu action to watch, go check it out!