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A recent tradition to both inspire new readers and to promote your product is in the now annual Free Comic Book Day.  The next annual event is scheduled to be on May 3rd, 2014 and features a number of titles being offered up for free from your favorite comic book retailers.

For the first time ever, Power Rangers will be offered on Free Comic Book Day.  Thanks to Samurai Cast Blog we now know that Papercutz, who announced at San Diego Comic Con 2013 that they were doing a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers graphic novel due for release in June 2014.  This special Free Comic Book Day comic will be a tie-in to the first graphic novel release, and will feature the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the White Ranger.

It’s free – are you going to grab it when you pick up your comics that day?  And how well do you think Power Rangers can transition itself in to a paper media?  Discuss!

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Happy Thanksgiving! And to celebrate, here’s a video encode from our good friend Fury Diamond of RangerCrew.com! Check out the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers join forces with the Power Rangers Super Megaforce!

The video contains both the encodes from NBC as well as CBS. It’s important to note that CBS was obviously reading an out-dated fact sheet, naming the Power Rangers Samurai characters instead of the Power Rangers Megaforce characters.

Are you excited for Super Megaforce? Let us know! And be sure to check out all of Fury Diamond‘s stuff at his blog, SamuraiCast Blog!

Go Go Megaforce!

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If you haven’t heard of Denver Comic Con then it’s time you got yourself familiarized! The first show happened in 2012 and was met with great praise for being well-organized and a fun experience. Then in 2013, they were met with record number increases, so much that they had to turn people away from entering the show, as it was entirely sold out (we’re talking an increase from a few thousand to TENS of THOUSANDS with people getting in line for tickets at 1am)!

And now in 2014 they are finally dabbling in the genre of tokusatsu, announcing David Yost (the Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger) and Walter Jones (the original Mighty Morphin Black Ranger) as special guests. Both Yost and Jones are still relatively new to the convention circuits, only recently in the last year or so getting in to conventions.

Denver Comic Con will be held June 13th, 14th, and 15th at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver, Colorado. Tickets go on sale Cyber Monday (Monday, December 2nd).

Click here for more information on Denver Comic Con!

I will be at the show – will you?

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Those familiar with the TeenNick channel know they have a segment titled The 90’s Are All That in which they play classic shows/cartoons from the 1990’s. Coming THIS WEEKEND, TeenNick is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Power Rangers by hosting a three-day marathon for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers!

Featuring some of the classic and fan-favorite episodes from the first three seasons of Power Rangers, like the “Green With Evil” 5-part series, the first appearance of Lord Zedd in the “The Mutiny” mini-series, the debut of the White Ranger in the “White Light” 2-parter, even the 5-part “Ninja Quest”, all will be shown over this three-day event.

Show time begins TOMORROW at 12am EST/9PM PST till 4am EST/1am PST, and continues again Saturday and Sunday evenings. Again, all of this is on TeenNick. Be sure to check your local listings and sit down for an encore showing of some of the classic Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episodes that started it all.

Check out this video below, courtesy of our friends at RangerCrew.com!

Are you going to tune in? And what are some of YOUR favorite classic episodes of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers?

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As reported by Henshin Justice, an updated version of the Legacy Morpher was spotted at retail by Jan Hernandez of Youtube.

Owners of the Legacy Morpher will know that the Morpher will play the original Mighty Morphin theme song if an activation button is pressed and held but only if the button is held.

The SDCC version fixed this by making it so that the theme song plays just by pushing the button and now it looks like the Morphers you’ll be able to purchase at retail will have this retool! 

You can watch Jan Hernandez’s video in the link below:

Credit: Henshinjustice and Tokunation Member WhiteRanger for letting is know!

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Just now, Blufin Tamashii posted a photo showcasing then entire Zyuranger team in S.H. Figuarts form, or better known to us as the Mighty Morhpin Power Rangers! finally we get a look at the Blue, Black, and Yellow rangers, and it answers an important question, that yellow is a male buck body as was seen in zyuranger

stay tuned to tokunation for more SDCC news!

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Tokunation is at San Diego Comic-Con 2013! And when we said we’d be on the show floor before anyone else we meant it! Our show team is already at the convention center and news has just started coming in.

Straight from Kickback himself we have confirmation that a set of the core 5 Kyoryu Sentai Zyurangers / Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers S.H.Figuarts are on display!! Bandai Tamashii and Bluefin have both begun releasing these figure in Japan and the US respectively. Dragon/Green Ranger & Tyranno/Red Ranger are only just seeing release with Pterra/Pink Ranger confirmed as a web exclusive in Japan this fall and a US retail release as well.

This is the first time the core 5 Zyurangers/Power Rangers have been shown on display together and confirms their future releases! Each of course includes their signature weapons. It’s currently unconfirmed however, due to a no photo policy for the night, whether or not the US release of Tiger/Yellow Ranger will include an alternate skirt accessory for MMPR fans. And for any users in attendance a friendly heads up that the US release for S.H. Figuarts Red & Green Rangers are being sold at the Bluefin booth, #3545!

Bandai is also on the show floor showcasing not only the plethora of upcoming Power Rangers products they offer but also Godzilla! A massive pallet of SDCC Green/White Legacy Morphers is also making the rounds before they go on sale tomorrow!

We’ll be updating you through out the week as more details emerge on all fronts! Stay tuned for ALL of your SDCC 2013 news as we continue we continue to bring you info straight from the show floor! Want TokuNation.com updates on the go? “Like” us on Facebook and follow us @tokunation on Twitter!!

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Over the course of the last 8 hours there have been more cast updates about the upcoming anniversary season of Power Rangers Super Megaforce. For starters, we’ll continue with the most famous of the franchise, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

David Yost, who played Billy the Blue Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, has tweeted that he chose not to go back to Power Rangers.

Megaforce=No 4 me. They lost me when the offer started “Dear Power Ranger” & had several grammatical errors. #donewithabusiverelationships

Through our good friend Fury Diamond of RangerCrew.com, we’ve also learned that Sally Martin, who played Tori the Blue Wind Ranger in Power Rangers Ninja Storm, as well as Melanie Vellajo, who played Madison the Blue Ranger in Power Rangers Mystic Force, did not receive invites to appear as a cameo. Fury Diamond confirms it in this tweet here.

And finally, Dan Ewing, Dillon the Black Ranger from Power Rangers RPM, let his fans know that he did not receive an invite either.

UPDATE: Not that this comes as any surprise, but Mr. Yellow was able to discover that none of the Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers were invited to attend. Check out the info by clicking here.

UPDATE #2: Caitlin Murphy, who played Ronny the Yellow Ranger in Power Rangers Operation Ovedrive, received an invite BEFORE the “mass E-mail” sent out by Saban Brands, but has never heard back from production.

We’ve updated our comprehensive list of actors returning and not returning for Super Megaforce. What are your thoughts on the latest developments for casting?

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Don’t forget that tomorrow, March 16h the Lexington Comic-Con 2013 begins! Festivities actually begin tonight with an awesome costume contest and late night mixer but the show will be open to VIP’s at 9AM tomorrow and to the general public at 10AM. This is only the second year of the convention but attendance is projected at over 6000! This year it’s double the length at 2 days and double the space at Lexington’s own Rupp Arena Convention Center.

And don’t forget that some of your favorite classic Power Rangers characters will be in attendance for both days of the show:

Jason David Frank (Tommy – MMPR and beyond)
David Yost (Billy – MMPR to Zeo)
Cerina Vincent (Maya – Lost Galaxy)
Catherine Sutherland (Kat – MMPR to Turbo)
Walter Jones (Zack – MMPR)
Jason Narvy (Skull – MMPR and beyond)
Paul Schrier (Bulk – MMPR and beyond)
Karan Ashley (Aisha – MMPR)
Blake Foster (Justin – Turbo)
Erin Cahill (Jen – Time Force)
Jason Faunt (Wes/Alex – Time Force)

If anyone would like to meet-up at the show just give us a shoutout in this thread. Yours truly will be there for part of tomorrow morning during VIP hours at or near the Comic Interlude booth. Stop on by anytime Sunday to see me as well.

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For our fellow Power Rangers fans in Germany, great news! On March 22nd for the cost of 59.99 Euro, you can have your very own complete boxed set series of the entire run of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers across 19 individual DVDs!

A quick glance at the extra features seem to mirror those from Shout Factory!’s release last year in the United States.

You can get a bit more information from the Amazon Germany product placement page, which can be found by clicking here.

Go Go Power Rangers! CREDIT: WhiteRanger from the TokuNation forums, and Power Rangers World Blog