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Sensei Richard Rabago, known to American Tokusatsu fans as Tao Chong in VR Troopers as well as Master Lee in the episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers titled “Plague of the Mantis” has passed away at the age of 68 years old.

Sensei Rabago was a distinguished martial artist well deserving of the title of “Master”.

You can read all about Sensei Richard Rabago by following this link to The Worldwide Dojo.

Our condolences to the friends, family, and students of Sensei Richard Rabago.

CREDIT: Worldwidedojo.com

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Hot on the heels of the widely publicized Megaupload shut down last week by the United States Government, FileSonic has recently put on their website the following message:

All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.

As we are all aware, those of us who do not use Torrents rely on such services like Megaupload and FileSonic for our Fan Subs. The conspiracy theories are running rampant – literally a DAY after major websites like Wikipedia and Google displayed their public protest of the contraversial SOPA and PIPA] bills in the Congress and Senate of the United States, Megaupload was shut down, and now days later, FileSonic basically makes their website worthless.

This makes the future of Fan Subs a little darker. What do you think of what’s going on? Discuss it all here (yes it’s political but we’re looking past that rule on our forums because this discussion effects everyone).

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Bandai and Tokusatsu/Super Sentai/Kamen Rider/Ultraman/whathaveyou, are pretty much inseparable, with Bandai Japan’s Collectors Division(Tamashii Nations) pumping out toy lines such as:

  • Ultra ACT
  • Super Imaginitive Chogokin(SIC)
  • Super Robot Chogokin(SRC)
  • SH Figuarts
  • SH MonsterArts
We know some of you love taking photographs of your Tamashii Nations toys, and this week on Facebook, Tamashii announced a photo contest; upload your best photos of Tamashii Nations toys to their Flickr page, for a shot at winning free toys! Here are the rules:

To celebrate 1000 followers on our Facebook, we’re holding a photo contest !

Just take photos of your favorite Tamashii products in action; the coolest entries will get a chance of winning some Tamashii products!

(Details of the prizes, will be announced later on)
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To Enter: Go to Flickr.com and sign up or sign in with google / facebook.

Then, upload your BEST 3 photos of Tamashii items to our Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/1828129@N21/

Note: Please name your file with the following format “your name-ProductName”

We will then post all your photos on the Bluefin Facebook page for all to see!

Rules:

1) Show us your creativity! A cool pose? A hilarious situation? Let’s see it!

2) Contestants must be reside in U.S./Canada

3) ONLY Tamashii products may be entered

(please see: http://tamashii.jp/ , for the list of Tamashii products)

4) Contest starts from December 7 to December 31, 2011.

5) Winners will be announced on the Bluefin Tamashii Nations Facebook in early January.

6) 1 person can post a maximum of 3 photos ONLY; each photo can feature any number of Tamashii products

7) Entries that are LATER than December 31 will not be accepted.

Best of luck!