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With Bandai America’s Power Rangers toyline winding down before Hasbro takes the brand in a new direction next year, one of the last releases the company has to offer has just been spotted at US retail.  The Gamestop Exclusive Legacy Armored Red Ranger was just spotted at retail by Mando Arriaga over at the Power Rangers Traders, Buyers, and Sellers facebook page!

As one of the tail end releases in the line, the Armored Red Ranger has made the packaging change the rest of the most recent Legacy product has like Psycho Red, Dino Thunder White etc.  So it’ll fit right in with your other end of the line purchases. As one of the last new Legacy 6.5″ releases to hit retail, will you be hunting this figure down yourself? Let us know in the thread linked below!

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As the current holiday shopping season ramps up in to top gear, a non-profit children’s safety organization known as W.A.T.C.H. (World Against Toys Causing Harm) has listed their Top 10 Unsafest Toys for the 2018 Holiday Season. Gracing the list this year at Number 4 is none other than Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel, specifically the Superstar Blade roleplay item. As W.A.T.C.H. states in their description of the item:

HAZARD: POTENTIAL FOR BLUNT FORCE AND EYE INJURIES!

W.A.T.C.H. OUT! Young children are encouraged to “power up” with this “Super Ninja Steel” spring-loaded plastic blade, with the potential to cause facial and other impact injuries.

The roleplay item’s functionality is a spring loaded mechanism that shoots out a few inches. The organization’s fears stem from the fact that the item is a sword (meant to be swung at people) and that the spring loaded feature could inadvertently cause facial injury to the wielder.

TokuNation.com advises parents and collectors alike to use common sense when handling a children’s toy and if you purchase the item for your child to be a parent and explain how to, and how not to, play with it. Check out the full press release by clicking here.

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Following up from some of their other mostly store exclusive cereals (like the Golden Girls one) Funko has now announced a new specialty line of “Saturday Morning” cereals for Designercon. This line-up of exclusives includes FunkO’s Red Ranger Cereal!

From the Funko Daily Blog: 

Funko is debuting Saturday Morning, an experiential booth that focuses on FunkO’s cereal, classic cartoons, and, most importantly, fun!

DesignerCon exclusive FunkO’s cereal will be available at the booth! The lineup includes Freddy Funko, Marvin the Martian, Skeletor, the Red Power Ranger, Rugrats, Hong Kong Phooey, the Amazing Carlos, and a very special collaboration with Be@rbrick! All DesignerCon exclusive FunkO’s cereal boxes are limited to 1000 pcs each except the Be@rbrick, which is limited to 3000 pcs.
Collecting never tasted so good!

This cereal will be limited to 1000 pieces sold exclusively at Designercon, and each box will include a new Pocket Pop of the MMPR Red Ranger.

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During Power Morphicon fans of the Power Rangers were treated to the Kickstarter campaign of Power Rangers Heroes of the Grid, an incredibly in depth and customizable board game created by Renegade Game Studios under license from Hasbro. The game was incredibly successful on Kickstarter raising over $700,000 when all was said and done. Fans who have backed the Kickstarter will get their packages sometime in July of 2019.

Thanks to @TokuReviews on Twitter, we can now share that video game and collectibles store Game Stop has a street date in their system for the base game – August 31st, 2019! If you didn’t or couldn’t support Heroes of the Grid via the Kickstarter you now have a timeframe of when you might be able to expect the game in stores.

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In a statement that seemed to surprise investors and shareholders during the recent investors and shareholders conference call, Hasbro officially recognized Power Rangers as an “Emerging Brand” and NOT as a “Franchise Brand” as many investors and shareholders had assumed prior to the call. What is the difference?

Hasbro considers “Franchise Brands” as the flagship brands that carry the weight so to speak for the company. You will find Transformers, My Little Pony, and Baby Alive in this position. They are the sales drivers of the entire company. Some of Hasbro‘s licensed properties, like Marvel and Star Wars, are considered “Partner Brands”, which they rank right below “Franchise Brands”. And way at the bottom of the list is “Emerging Brands”. An “Emerging Brand” are your G.I. Joe, Littlest Pet Shop, and other low-market brands that you don’t see much of. In short – an “Emerging Brand” is a brand not quite good enough (yet) to be a “Franchise Brand” in regards to overall sales and growth.

The placement of Power Rangers in “Emerging Brands” and not “Franchise Brands”, seeing as Power Rangers is one of the leading live action boys brands in the world, seemed to confuse investors and shareholders. The following exchange happened between one such member and CEO Brian Goldner on the live call:

Linda Bolton-Weiser (Analyst, D.A. Davidson)
Can I just ask about next year? I know you don’t wanna go into too much about next year, but when we think about Power Rangers, it sounds like you’re going to be recording that in “Emerging Brands”. That surprises me being that it could have a substantial revenue opportunity and you’re going to treat it as an important franchise. So, can you just talk about when we could first see revenue? Would that be in April or a very small revenue in the second quarter? Is there any way you can talk about the Power Rangers expectations for what you’re doing that next year?

Brian Goldner (Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Hasbro)
Sure. First, you’re already starting to see some of the Power Rangers licensing revenues come into the company. And we indicated that in our Entertainment & Licensing business. And then in terms of toys and games product sales, that really begins in Q2 next year. There’s a sell-off period for the prior product which is first quarter. We feel like putting Power Rangers in the “Emerging Brands” category is a good place to start. But you’re right. It certainly, in our estimation, is a “Franchise Brand” in the making. And we’re hoping and we’re certain that our great team that is working on the brand out of the west coast is very focused on ensuring the brand becomes a “Franchise Brand” in the future.

So, TLDR, what does this mean?

Because Hasbro doesn’t get to take full advantage of the property until the previous licensing agreement with Bandai runs out in April of 2019, Hasbro has decided to keep Power Rangers in the “Emerging Brands” portion of its portfolio. The revenue stream from the Power Rangers brand in terms of merchandise won’t even hit the books until Q2 reports come in and even then they will be low due to the trickle effect of product hitting retailers in waves. It may very well take a full calendar year for Power Rangers to work itself in to a “Franchise Brand” due to market saturation and post-Christmas inventories.

So don’t hit that panic button just yet. However, if Power Rangers fails to meet expectations from Q2 2019 to Q2 2020, we wouldn’t be surprised to see Hasbro leave it as an “Emerging Brand”. It will be interesting to see the direction Hasbro takes the brand out of the gate. Stay tuned!

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These days tabletop roleplaying games are all the craze in the tokustasu community. Recently, Sandy Pug Games introduced a Kickstarter campaign for their tabletop roleplaying game “Americana”, a tabletop game set in the 1950’s but with all your favorite fantasy races living normal everyday lives in 1950’s America. That Kickstarter campaign has already reached its funding goal so it will be released! But now, they’ve introduced one of their stretch goals – a tokusatsu themed expansion! Introducing Super Americana Magic Force Go!

“Americana Magic Force Go is a tokusatsu tabletop RPG setting, taking place in that same fantasy 1950s, but instead of investigating a murder, the party is a group of teenagers given the power of legendary mythical beasts, charged with battling the evil werewolf dictator Xueh, who intends to conquer the world and seize the minds of the Earth’s werewolf population from their massive battle station, hanging high above the Arctic.”

Americana Magic Force Go will be, if funded, a fully developed new setting with mechanics to match – mirroring classic tokusatsu shows and films with an awesome escalation mechanic, unique character generation mechanics and a fantastic enemy creation system to provide the meanest, most special foes for your team to combat!

As previously stated – the game is already 100% funded! This is a $10,000 stretch goal (as of the time of the post they are less than $2,300 away with 11 days to go). There are plenty of different tiers you can choose from with varying prices. If you are interested we encourage you to check out the project, the stretch goal, and to consider contributing!

Everyone at Sandy Pug Games is really excited to make this project a reality, and we’re really looking forward to the stories and worlds our fellow tokusatsu lovers make!

Click here to check out the Kickstarter and to make your pledge! Special thanks to Sandy Pub Games for reaching out and sharing this exciting project with us and the rest of the tokusatsu community! Check out Sandy Pub Games at the links below!

– Follow @SandyPugGames on Twitter
– Check out their items on DriveThruRPG.com

EDITOR’S NOTE: TokuNation.com normally does not endorse crowd-funding campaigns due to continued abuse from creators (the Power Rangers community has been taken for well over $100,000 over years in campaigns that became funded yet never delivered on promised content). However, an exception was made as Sandy Pub Games has items already released in the tabletop RPG community. As always, you pledge to projects at your own discretion and risk.

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Hasbro Inc., the toy company who recently purchased the entire intellectual property library from Saban Brands – including Power Rangers – may be looking at laying off a number of employees in different offices around the world (totaling a single percentage point of their workforce). Hasbro has two main offices in the United States – in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and also Burbank, California (though we have been told the Burbank office is newer and much smaller in comparison to the Pawtucket location, which serves as the main Hasbro headquarters).

While we do not know how, or if, this will effect anything in regards to the production of Power Rangers, we cannot help but cringe at another blow to the toy industry as a whole. As you may remember – the bankruptcy at Toys’R’Us caused major toy companies like Hasbro and Mattel to lose out on millions and millions of dollars owed to them which they were forced to take as a loss. Part of those losses, and the communication of those losses, have also resulted in a class action lawsuit against Hasbro by some of its investors and shareholders claiming securities fraud. Hasbro has strongly denied the allegations in the class action lawsuit and also claims any “tough decisions coming up” are not in relation to the lawsuit.

Please check out the links below for more information including a brilliant recap by our sister site ToyArk.com.

Layoffs source – Providence Journal
Class action Lawsuit source – PRNewswire
Original story – ToyArk.com

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Recently, at Brand Licensing Europe, Licensing.org sat down with Casey Collins, Senior Vice President General Manager of Global Consumer Products at Hasbro, and discussed the future of the Power Rangers brand, and other brands, purchased by Hasbro from Saban Brands earlier this year. Here are some details!

  • Power Rangers Beast Morphers – 22 episode season in 2019 and in 2020 (44 total episodes over 2 years) will debut in February 2019
  • The vast majority of current license deals for the Power Rangers brand expire at the end of 2018 or 2019
  • Hasbro has been meeting with various companies regarding licensing for Power Rangers in Europe
  • A Power Rangers “live event” is in consideration for the future
  • New licensees will have a broader access to some categories previously limited by Saban Brands licensing deal with Bandai
  • “We want to work with best in-class partners and sometimes less is more”

Other bits of information worth noting is Hasbro is excited to own the Power Rangers entertainment side of things (the show) as it allows them to do more with the licensing with their partners. You will find Hasbro toys of Power Rangers in 2019 as well as back-to-school items, costumes, and party goods.

2019 is right around the corner and with it new and exciting Power Rangers products and entertainment. We can’t wait to see what is next!

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Our site sponsor BigBadToyStore.com has released their latest newsletter which included some brand new S.H. Figuarts pre-orders for the ever popular series Kamen Rider Build! On top of that, we still have pre-orders for all the reissue Power Rangers legacy figures, zords, and roleplay items.

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– Soul of Chogokin Titanus (HOT)
– S.H. Figuarts Mighty Morphin White Ranger with Tommy Head (HOT)
– Legacy Power Rangers 6.5″ Figures Wave 7 Set of 3 (HOT)
– Super Mini-Pla Power Rangers In Space Astro and Delta Megazords (HOT)
– Super Mini-Pla Power Rangers Ninja Megazord and Falconzord (HOT)
– Super Mini-Pla Power Rangers Shogun Megazord (HOT)
– Legacy Power Rangers Dragon Dagger Reissue (HOT)
– Legacy Power Rangers Green and White Ranger Morpher (HOT)

Available Now!
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– Soul of Chogokin Dragonzord
– Legacy Power Rangers Zeo Zeonizer Morpher
– Convention Exclusive S.H. Figuarts Mighty Morphin Green Ranger with Tommy Head
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– Convention Exclusive Soul of Chogokin Megazord Black Repaint
– Convention Exclusive S.H. Figuarts Mighty Morphin Armored Black Ranger
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It’s sexy time! That’s right Power Rangers fans – it’s time to power up your foreplay game in the bedroom and what better way to do it than to bring in everyones’ favorite Power Rangers series from 1993! Yandy.com has available (NOTE: link not safe for work), RIGHT NOW, sexy and sleek Mighty Morphin Power Rangers themed lingerie for you and/or your partner(s)! Yes, that’s right – Power Rangers lingerie.

Surprise your significant other(s) with the Red Ranger‘s white mesh panties, the Black Ranger‘s teasing teddy, the Pink Ranger‘s skirted lace panties, the Yellow Ranger‘s delicately trimmed and cut panties, the Blue Ranger‘s matching g-string, or the Green Ranger‘s boy shorts with a cheeky back cut!

In what can only be a massive oversight in licensing (is this even licensed?), the Green Ranger‘s sexy lingerie doesn’t come with a dragon shield. What a missed opportunity at turning the heart-wrenching and emotional loss of the Green Ranger‘s power in to a scene replayed in the bedroom time and time again.

The best part of all of this? The one-liners used to grab your attention. Rest in peace, Power Rangers In Space morph call – you will never be thought of the same. If this is your thing – go grab a pair and may the power protect you.