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Once again it’s the time of year that the community and our staff love most – time for all of us to celebrate our respective holidays & traditions with the friends and loved ones we hold dear. But it’s also time for TokuNation.com to celebrate itself. Our little community is hitting another milestone this year, our 8 year anniversary!! January 4th 2020, will officially mark 8 years since TokuNation first went public as part of the network of TFW2005.COM, ToyArk.com, HissTank.com and of course our newest sister site PWRRNGR.com, through both network owner Tony_Bacala and our founder and original Editor-In-Chief, TokuChris.

For 8 years now we’ve posted news, rumors, toy galleries, videos, and even dabbled in podcasts for a bit (never forget Talkin Toku!). As times have changed we’ve done our best to change with them, delivering you content in different ways, covering new and exciting topics, and trying to improve our social outreach. But he one true constant that’s been with us since our first year, that you can expect every year? The annual Toku Toy Box giveaway!

Like years’ past, TokuNation is hosting an annual holiday giveaway open to ALL registered users! You’ll recall that in years’ past giveaways, users could post in a selection of galleries within the contest period to automatically be entered into the drawing for several prizes. Like last years giveaway, not only will we be posting a number of eligible galleries throughout the month of December, but every gallery we’ve posted in 2019 also makes you eligible! If you’ve already posted in the 1 of the over 40 galleries we’ve produced this year, then you’re already entered. If not, you already have over 40 chances with more on the way this month! To show our appreciation to you, the community, we’ve assembled a number of individual prizes for our users, which we’ll be revealing through out the month.

Click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post to be taken to the OFFICIAL RULES for Toku Toy Box 2019! The first new gallery of the giveaway period will be posted later today, so be on the lookout! For now though, thank you. Thanks to all of you who continue to call this place your home for news, discussion, images, sales, friendships, artwork, videos, podcasts, and everything else in between. Happy Holidays from all of us, and best of luck in our giveaway! It’s our gift to you this, and every, holiday season!

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Between the animated Netflix series, a brand new movie announcement by director Hideaki Anno and the long awaiting release of the franchise back catalogue in the US by Mill Creek Entertainment, it’s already been a rollercoaster year for Ultraman – and it just keeps getting bigger!

Unveiling the news at this weekend’s Tokyo Comic Con, Tsuburaya Productions have announced they will be teaming up with none other than Marvel Comics to bring new Ultraman stories to comics and graphic novels in 2020.

Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski commented: “As one of the world’s most popular franchises, Ultraman has brought together some of the most passionate fandoms in pop culture today, and we can’t wait to bring his story to even more fans around the globe. Like Marvel, Ultraman captivated generations by telling spectacular stories grounded in the real world, and it continues to be a beloved classic through its television shows, movies, toys, games, comics, and more. We are so thrilled to introduce new chapters to the Ultraman Multiverse next year.”

Tsuburaya Production CEO Takayuki Tsukagoshi added: “We are delighted to announce the partnership with Marvel, one of the leading entertainment companies that has produced fascinating characters and stories loved by fans across the globe for over 80 years. We can’t be more excited to explore and create new stories for the Ultraman franchise with Marvel and bringing them to both Marvel and Ultraman fans all around the world.”

While there’s no proper confirmation on what this collaboration will entail just yet this is an extremely exciting prospect for Ultraman fans across the world. What are you hoping to see from Marvel and Tsuburaya next year? Sound off on this news after the jump!

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More Ultraman goodness is coming to North America thanks to our friends at Mill Creek Entertainment, with two recent announcements: the web series Ultraman Orb: The Origin Saga and The Return of Ultraman series.

Return of Ultraman will be released on February 25, 2020 with a suggested retail price tag of 49.89, a steel book option for this series will be available as well. Ultraman Orb: The Origin Saga will retail for $19.99 and will also include Ultra Fight Orb as well.

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Joining alongside Kamen Rider Den-O Sword Form, a new Ultraman was also added to Bandai’s lineup of S.H.Figuarts figures with the villainous Ultraman Tregear having recently been revealed.

S.H.Figuarts Ultraman Tregear is due out to ship in May 2020 for 7150 yen seemingly as a P-Bandai exclusive. Stay tuned, and we’ll be sure to notify you once pre-orders for this bad boy go live.

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Mill Creek Entertainment has recently been rocking the Tokusatsu world with their incredibly stylish Blu-Ray releases of Tsuburaya’s Ultraman library. With Ultra Q, Ultraman, & the impending releases (on November 19th) of Ultraman Orb & Ultraman Geed, Mill Creek has already made a huge chunk of media available officially to English speaking audiences.

While the Mill Creek Geed & Orb Blu-Ray sets include both the TV series and the related film for each, there’s also going to be a slightly cheaper option for collectors. Releasing exclusively at Walmart stores in the US, will be standalone Blu-Ray (with Digital) releases of the Ultraman Geed & Orb movies. Each will retail on it’s own for $12.98, whereas the Full TV series + movie sets retail for $39.98 each. Both Film Blu-Rays can ordered currently through the Walmart website here (Orb, Geed) and will be available in stores as well.

Thanks to Sci Fi Japan for breaking this bit of interesting news!

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The annual Tamashii Nations event is under way and as ever, there are a plethora of new items on display. Just as with every Tamashii event, an item being displayed does not necessarily indicate that it will be released however. A number of new items are currently listed as “Display Only” as well.

That being said, this year’s event has certainly provided a number of figures of interest:

Shinkocchou Seihou S.H. Figuarts:
– Den-O Sword Form
– Kuuga Growing, Dragon, Pegasus & Titan Forms
– OOO TaJaDor, SaGoZho, LaToraTah & ShaUTa Combos
– Dark Kiva
– OOO Ridevendor

Kamen Rider S.H. Figuarts:
Grand Zi-O
Build Genius Form
Ex-Aid Muteki
Ghost Mugen Damashii
Metal Build
Cross-Z Evol
Jin
Horobi
Vulcan Shooting Wolf
Valkyrie Rushing Cheetah
Rise Hopper

Ultraman S.H. Figuarts:
Ace
Joneus
Titus
Tregear
Grigio
Ultra Dark Killer

Tamashii Lab:
Ankh

That is a hefty grouping of new reveala. Once again, we know that not everything here will make it to production for some time, if at all. But it’s always pleasing to see just how much Tamashii pumps out for these events. As more new reveals, images, and information from the event surface we will update this story and the related thread.

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Model enthusiasts rejoice! Bandai is out in full force at the All Japan Model & Hobby Show 2019 with a plethora of new Figure-Rise Standard kits for us.

To start things off, Kamen Riders Gemm Action Gamer Level 2, Kuuga Mighty Form, and Kamen Rider Joker were shown off in full at the event along with a confirmation that the next Rider to join the ranks will be Kamen Rider Den-O Sword Form.

In addition, the finished sample for the Ultraman Tiga Suit from the Manga/Netflix Ultraman series was shown off in full with concept sketches for Evil Tiga in the background.

Among the aforementioned kits, we only have release information on Gemm and Joker: both model kits will be P-Bandai exclusives with the former retailing 3000 yen. We’ll be sure to update you once more information regarding these products become available.

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Mill Creek Entertainment is hyping up their Blu-Ray releases for both Ultra Q & Ultraman with some new preview pics! Posted up over on their twitter, are our first in hand looks at the Steelbook packaging for each series. Each series set in the Mill Creek collection will be numbered in order, making each new series a gorgeous addition to any toku collectors’ library of titles, and in my personal collection a nice uniform set of spines on a shelf! With the promise of many more series to come, like the recently announced Orb & Geed, these first two sets are bound to be big sellers with fans.

Both the Ultra Q & Ultraman Steelbook Blu-Ray sets will be released on October 15th. Currently, you can pre-order either set for the incredibly low price of $27.99 on Amazon.

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The good people at Mill Creek Entertainment have announced some of the first entries in their planned Western releases for the Ultraman franchise!

*First up is the 2016 anniversary series Ultraman Orb created to celebrate 50 years of Ultraman. Orb will be released in a Blu-Ray boxset containing the entire series AND the theatrical movie for $39.98 USD. Ultraman Orb is scheduled for release 0n November 19 2019!

*Next is 2017’s Ultraman Geed featuring the story of a young hero rebelling against his evil origins. Geed will receive a Blu-Ray boxset with all episodes & the tie-in movie, also scheduled for release on November 19 2019 and priced at $39.98 USD.

*Last but certainly not least is one from the archives- 1967’s UltraSeven! This legendary season of iconic giant monster/hero action will be released on December 10 2019– available in standard Blu-Ray set for $39.98 USD AND in aSteelBook special edition packaging release priced at $49.98 USD.

The success of these Ultra releases may make or break further Ultra collections so be sure to pick up your copy & guarantee a future for Ultraman media!

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Our friends at MillCreekEnt just announced more Ultraman series Blu-Rays will be coming stateside following the release of Ultra Q, Ultraman, and Ultra Seven in the coming months.

Joining alongside the aforementioned Ultra series we have Blu-Ray sets for Ultraman Geed and Ultraman Orb! Both will be released sometime November 2019 and will contain movies for both series.

In addition, more upcoming releases for 2020 were announced. That roadmap is as follows:

Spring 2020:

  • Return of Ultraman
  • Ultraman R/B Series+Movies
  • Ultra Fight Orb
  • Ultraman Ace

Summer 2020:

  •  Ultraman Taro
  • Ultraman Leo 
  • Ultraman X Series+Movies
  • Ultraman Zero Series+Movies

 

No further release info was given at the time of this writing, and it is unclear which of the aforementioned series will be receiving Steelbooks if any but we’ll be sure to update you as soon as more info becomes available.