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It’s that time of year once again for the comic & toy convention season to get under way! And getting the ball rolling on both fronts is the upcoming Lexington Comic & Toy Con, from March 13th-15th! What began in 2012 as a con that garnered over 1000 guests has flourished in the years since to it’s height now, attracting upwards of 20,000 guests from the around the midwest & southeast!

What’s even more impressive is how the guest list for this con has grown from featuring just a few of your favorite Power Rangers actors, to being one of the nations premiere selections of ranger actors! This year the convention staff have pulled out all the stops to offer the BIGGEST selection of Power Rangers, & Indeed Super Sentai actors, possible! Not to mention a few other fantastic bonuses for Ultraman fans! Check out the full guest list as it pertains to the tokusatsu fandom below, as maintained by our very own uchihabro77! 

Aside from this star studded guest list, LexCon is also an opportunity for fans to make real world connections. As I’ve done in years past I will of course be there repping for TokuNation.com & the Talkin Toku Podcast. But many other groups and personalities in the tokusatsu fandom will also be in attendance like trekkieb47 of Ranger Command Power Hour and RiderJetfire of Dans Toku Rants. If you’re going to be in attendance be sure to post in our Lexington Comic & Toy Con 2015 thread. We’ll see you there!

 

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It’s time for the second release in the Shuriken Sentai Ninninger Ninnin Action series – a gallery of the Ao Ninger figure!

Just like with the Aka Ninger figure, this figure is basically a Bandai of America style figure with the large muscles and the short height (it is 5″ now as opposed to the 6″-ish figures that Bandai Japan had released every year prior). This means it scales well with your Power Rangers figures, but not so much with any of your previous Bandai Japan figures.

Check out over 30 images of the Ao Ninger and post your thoughts in the discussion. Click here to go straight to the gallery, review, and discussion. It’s a pretty hot topic – a lot of collectors are unhappy with the direction that Bandai Japan has taken. What are YOUR thoughts on it? Sound off in discussion!

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Our gallery is now live for the first release in the Shuriken Sentai Ninninger Ninnin Action series – #01 Aka Ninger!

This year’s Ninnin Action line is a bit of a line-drawer in the sense that unlike previous years, Bandai Japan is now using the same 5″ figures that Bandai of America has been using the last few years – the super muscular bodies that cause havoc when trying to pose the figures accurately to their actions in the actual show. So how did they do in their first run? Are there any differences that we can tell between these figures and the Bandai of America 5″ figures that you can buy at retail right now? Are the accessories the same unpainted soft plastic that we get on this side of the Pacific Ocean?

Check out the full gallery and review by clicking here and find out. We’ll also let you know whether or not these are worth picking up. But at least now they match your Power Rangers figures, right?

under Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, Super Sentai

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Another new teaser for the upcoming film project Super Hero Taisen GP is now online!

Unlike previous teasers, this one focuses mostly on Shuriken Sentai Ninninger team and offers a quick look at Rider Robo– a giant Mecha controlled by the Kamen Riders and powerful enough to stand against ShurikenJin!

Super Hero Taisen GP premieres in theaters on March 21st!

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Several new official images of the next DX Otomo-nin releases have been posted online!

This gives us some close-up shots of DX Paonmaru and DX UFOmaru and lets us see how these new Mecha combine with DXShurikenJin!

DX Paonmaru will be released on March 14 while DX UFOmaru is scheduled for release on March 21. Both Otomo-nin are priced at 3024 Yen before shipping and handling.

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For now we only have a single image to base this assumption on, but it looks like the Super Hero Taisen GP film may be the second such film primarily about Kamen Riders, to feature Super Sentai!

A new magazine scan for the movie has surfaced showing what appears to be a Kamen Rider Drive Nin Shuriken! Thus implying that Shuriken Sentai Ninninger will indeed appear. On top of this is a silhouetted image of what looks like a new Shinobimaru style robo. One that could very well be the Tridoron given humanoid form!

Time will tell if this pans out but it looks like for now that we may have another special movie combo following in the footsteps of last years ToQ Oh Kyoryuzin featuring Den-Liner!

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With the recent premiere of a new sentai, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, the reviews of the initial waves of merchandise have begun rolling in. We posted our official gallery of this toy earlier in the week, but today our friend and frequent collaborator Baltmatrix has shared his video review of DX Shurikenjin with us!

Check out the above video to see Baltmatrix’s complete review of DX Shurikenjin and be sure to subscribe to his youtube page for future reviews. Balt and I will be teaming up in the coming months to gallery & review as many of the DX Ninninger toys as we can. Also be sure to check the link at the bottom of this post by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums”. This will take you to our extensive photo gallery of DX Shurikenjin featuring over 100 images of this set!

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Bandai Japan has opened an official page for the next Super Sentai Artisan release: a fully-articulate DX Shinobimaru!

The personal Mecha of Shuriken Sentai Ninningers’ Aka Ninger is brilliantly recreated with a superb level of articulation and vastly improved paint details. This release is still perfectly compatible with the DX Shurikenjin Mecha set, already released.

This Artisan item will be open for orders beginning February 27 and ending May 8 with a release scheduled for July 2015. Shinobi Maru will cost 5378 Yen before shipping, handling and related fees.

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A new image of the 39th Super Sentai Series’ sixth member has hit the Internet! This is our first up-close look at the golden cowboy StarNinger!

StarNinger is seen holding the Ninja Star Burger, a transformation device that doubles as a cell phone in the shape of a burger. The exact link between StarNinger and the other five Ninningers remains unknown at the time of writing.

A teaser for the recent Ninninger magazine scans hints that StarNinger will join the series starting in April 2015. This is much earlier than most other 6th Ranger introductions! Could there be more Ninjas coming in the future? Only time will tell!