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Shattered Grid continues as the Ranger Slayer has arrived, threatening the future of the Power Rangers by destroying their past in service of Lord Drakkon! Issue #10 of Boom! Studios’ Go Go Power Rangers arrives on June 6th and we have a selection of preview images to whet your appetite.

Featuring flashback panels of the Ranger Slayer’s life before they served Lord Drakkon, the images naturally contain spoilers for those not fully up to date with this 25th anniversary Power Rangers event. But for those curious – be sure to check out the images and discuss after the jump!

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In today’s Hasbro Strategic Decisions Conference, CEO of Hasbro Inc., Brian Goldner, spoke to the audience regarding the acquisition of the Power Rangers master toy license as well as the impending acquisition of the brand as a whole. Brian’s statement is quoted below:

“As I mentioned, we’ve now announced the acquisition of Power Rangers. This is really a great statement about where we believe we are in develping our brand blueprint. The fact that we can acquire Power Rangers brand and plug and play that right into our strategy where we activate it in entertainment, motion pictures in the future and then of course across toys and games and consumer products and do so globally. We felt the brand was very under leveraged and undervalued. We feel we can exploit it to a much greater extent and it was a great opportunity to acquire the brand.” – Brian Goldner, Hasbro Inc. CEO

This revelation will obviously come as great news for fans of the Power Rangers franchise who, last year, enjoyed their first major motion picture in 20 years. As many are well aware, the Power Rangers movie released at higher than expected numbers domestically, but overall failed to capture any audience globally, limping its way in to $142 million worldwide.

Stay tuned for more information as the Hasbro acquisition of Power Rangers continues!

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The good people at Boom! Studios have put up a few preview pages for a brand new entry in their fan-favorite Power Rangers comic series!

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Anniversary Special– created by Magdalene Visaggio, Joe Quinones & Sina Grace– will feature a series of standalone short stories set in the Power Rangers universe.

Small teaser pages for a number of stories have been released, including:

*A surprising teamup for Power Rangers Ninja Steel
*The return of an old friend in Power Rangers Mystic Force
*Reflections on team changes from within the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Sadly, the release details for this anniversary special have not been revealed at time of writing aside from a release date of June 27th, 2018. Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on all BOOM! Studios reveals!

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Today marks the beginning of the end of an era.

A recent business report announced that Power Rangers production & development company Saban Brands in Century City, California will be closing on July 2, 2018 as a result of the planned Hasbro Inc purchase.

A total of 60 workers will be dismissed, with 51 of the jobs to be eliminated on the date of closure. At time of writing, it remains unknown if Hasbro will employ any of the dismissed employees.

Saban Brand’s parent company, Saban Capital Group– an entertainment investment firm- will remain in operation.

We here at TokuNation wish to extend our best wishes to the dismissed employees, and hope everyone is successful in transitioning to new careers. May The Power Protect You All.

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Aniki Cosplay, renowned for their incredible work creating various Power Rangers prop replicas through out the years, has just announced an official licensing deal with Saban Brands! You can check out Aniki’s Instagram post detailing the deal here. Official announcement:

We are pleased to announce that Aniki Cosplay (Aniki Kreasi Imaji Inc.) has signed a Licensing agreement with Saban Brands.
With this agreement, all of our POWER RANGERS Cosplay such as Helmets and Costumes are officially licensed.

With a 13 years experiences in making Power Rangers related Cosplays and Replica, we are committed to raise our service and qualities. Now that we have this agreement, we are expanding our production capabilities and staff in order to serve you better.
And as you might already know, all of our products are HANDMADE 100% and MADE TO ORDER only. Stay tuned for future updates with more exciting news (Stuntcast Green helmet, anyone? LOL)

Thanks for all your support Cosplayers, Collectors, Rangers Actors/Actress and many more. It’s because of your support that finally we can reach this phase. We are nothing without your support.

Here at TokuNation we were actually made aware of this licensing agreement in February, but out of respect for Aniki Cosplay chose not to report the news without first consulting Saban Brands. Having reached out to Saban Brands several times we were told that they would be back in touch with us. However, despite several follow ups on our end, there was never any further communication from Saban. But now we have the announcement straight from Aniki, so we’re happy to share the news with the fandom! Congratulations to Aniki Cosplay!

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Boom! Studios has just revealed a brand new Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers #25 Variant that will be available exclusively at Denver Comic-Con!

This exclusive variant cover features Lord Drakkon in his Evolution 1 form. A new form he achieved after having obtained a Samuraizer, and having absorbed the energy of the Power Rangers Samurai within. As Lord Drakkon continues to grow in power and absorb more pieces of the Morphin’ Grid, could we see his further evolution’s on future variant covers? We certainly hope so!

Denver Comic-Con will be held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, June 15th-17th. This exclusive MMPR #25 variant will be available there, at the Boom! Studios booth.

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A centerpiece of the Saban Brands display at this weeks’ Las Vegas Licensing Expo is the very first teaser trailer for the new series Power Rangers Beast Morphers!

Although the trailer has no sound, it does show a wide array of footage to be adapted from fan-favorite Super Sentai series Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters!

Power Rangers Beast Morphers will air on Nickeodeon in 2019! Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on this remarkable new series!

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The annual Licensing Expo trade show is currently underway in Las Vegas, Nevada and Saban Brands has turned out for one last hurrah!

Centerpiece to the Saban display are the heroes of Power Rangers Beast Morphers! This setup features the Red, Blue and Yellow Beast Morpher suits along with some basic line art for the series’ Megazord (official name not yet confirmed at time of writing).

Perhaps the most interesting bit on display is artwork featuring the Beast Morphers’ supporting cast- the Beast Bots– who will assist this team of Power Rangers. Each Ranger will have their own Beast Bot partner- Red Jaguar, Blue Gorilla & Yellow Rabbit.

This should finally ease some fan concerns on adapting certain elements from Beast Morphers’ source material, Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.

Currently, Power Rangers Beast Morphers is set to air on Nickelodeon in 2019 but no further details are available just yet. Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on this remarkable new Power Rangers series!

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“Its Morphin Time!”

First seen at Toyfair 2018, we now have official confirmation that the previously seen S.H. Figuarts Helmetless MMRP Green & Red Rangers will be released at San Diego Comic Con 2018!

Confirmed by the Bluefin Brands Tamashii Webpage, they promise more info will is on the way. They, like the simultaneously revealed SOC Black Megazord, will be available at the Bluefin Brands Booth at SDCC 2018. We’ll confirm pricing once more info is available.

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Surprise! No, this isn’t the recently teased SOC GX-81 release Tamashii Nations has been talking about on Twitter. This year’s con exclusive release is indeed a a Black repaint of the SOC GX-76 Megazord/Daizyujin

Taking a current from Transformers repaints of the same variety, rather than use the usual gold accents we see with Black Megazord & Daizyujin repaints, this one opts for teal accents. Nemesis Megazord am I right?

This release will be exclusively available at San Diego Comic Con 2018, at the Bluefin Brands booth.