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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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As always we have no one other than the intrepid Raz of the Razzle’s Dazzles’s blog to thank for bringing this piece of information to light. After being alerted to the possibility of this item Raz checked it out with Toys R Us and indeed a listing has been found for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Legacy Blade Blaster!

Though an actual time of release hasn’t been discovered for the Blade Blaster yet we do have some solicitation info for it:

Power Ranger Legacy Blade Blaster
$79.99
Assortment: 97375
TRU #: 387303

We’ll be sure to keep you updated as more information becomes available for this exciting release!

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Loyal Subjects has just dropped in to share some finalized official images and release info for their upcoming series of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Action Vinyls Wave 1!

This assortment contains 10 unique figures: Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, Yellow Ranger, Pink Ranger, Black Ranger, Green Ranger, White Ranger, Goldar, Rita Repulsa, & Lord Zedd. Wave 1 can also be purchased in 1 of 3 ways via their website:

  • Wave 1 Display Case- Includes 16 random blind boxed figures which will include doubles and the possibility of Chase Variants. Chase figures consist of one mystery Ranger and two other chase figures.
  • Wave 1 Bundle of 8- Includes 8 random blind boxed figures with the possibility of doubles and chase variants.
  • Wave 1 Blind Box Singles- Individual blind boxes selected at random. Still a chance of getting a chase figure.

So that’s 3 ways for you to collect these figures and they’re all available for pre-order at the Loyal Subjects website in the included links above!

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According to a brand new Entertainment Earth[/URL] listing, the Legacy Megazord will indeed be receiving a reissue in May 2015! Now with a low low retail price of $59.99!

This is great news for collectors who’ve been having to pay upwards of $200 or more for a Legacy Megazord on the aftermarket to complete their Legacy Ultrazords recently. With the recent news that Toys R Us has cancelled any further orders of older Legacy product, what exactly could this new pre-order mean? Will this reissue be exclusive to Entertainment Earth? We’ll update you as more information becomes available.

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Thanks to our friends over at Rangercrew we have yet another look at the forthcoming Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie figure range due for release sometime next year. Previously seen at New York Comic Con, these official Bandai press photos give us a better look at the accessories that will be included with each figure. However for reasons unknown the White Ranger movie figure is missing from this set of images.

Fans of the movie will be pleased to know that Red and Yellow Rangers will come with alternate heads for their Power Scope and Power Beam abilities, which were entirely unique to the film. With the Pink Ranger figure previously revealed to have the Pterodactyl Thunder Whip, hopefully this will mean the Blue Ranger will have his Stega Stinger grappling device. Meanwhile Ivan Ooze will come with an alternate hand holding the flute used to destroy the Command Centre near the beginning of the film.

We’ll bring you more news about these highly anticipated figures’ release as it comes, but in the meantime check out these new images after the jump!

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Today brings us the surprise of 3 new packs of Power Rangers Super Megaforce Ranger Keys hitting retail! Though we’re waiting for a group of other previously revealed, yet unseen packs, today brings happy news to many collectors of 3 new packs:

38310 MMPR C
Translucent MMPR Red
Regular MMPR Yellow
Translucent MMPR White

38311 MMPR D 
Translucent MMPR Blue
Regular MMPR Pink
Translucent MMPR Green

38312 Super Megaforce C
Translucent Super Megaforce Blue
Translucent Super Megaforce Pink
Translucent Super Megaforce Silver

Each set includes at least 2 new translucent versions of a previously released key and in the Super Megaforce C pack all 3 keys are. The two MMPR packs also FINALLY round out the two female members of the team at normal retail. Previously MMPR Pink & Yellow were only available in the SDCC Exclusive MMPR set. 

These 3 sets were found by twitter user @DaHoneyBooBoo at K-Mart. We also have a clear shot of all 3 packs together thanks to @InvisiblAnthony on twitter.

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As NYCC 2014 continues our team on the ground continues to bring us live coverage and images of all items currently on display! After their stop at Bandai of America’s booth this morning for Power Rangers, Legacy, Dino Charge, & Super Megaforce items, they’ve made it to the Bluefin Tamashii Nations booth! Currently on display there are:

  • The ENTIRE line of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers S.H. Figuarts – Red, Armored Red, Blue, Black, Armored Black, Yellow, Pink, Green.
  • Figuarts Zero Red Ranger & Green Ranger
  • Super Robot Chogokin MMPR Megazord
  • S.H. Monsterarts Gamera, Mecha King Ghidorah, “Legendary” Godzilla

Be sure to check back as we keep you updated throughout the day with all items on display at New York Comic-Con 2014!

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NYCC 2014 is under way and our team on the ground continues to bring us images of all items currently on display! Stopping by Bandai of America’s booth the team has snapped images of the currently displayed upcoming Power Rangers Legacy products including:

  • 5″ Legacy Original Movie Rangers – Red, White, Black, Pink, Blue, Yellow, & the villain from the classic film Ivan Ooze!
  • Legacy Titanus – all combined up as the Legacy Ultrazord!
  • Legacy Original Movie Edition White Ranger Morpher – As shown in our SDCC 2014 coverage the Morpher inlcudes both the Tiger & Falcon coins.
  • Legacy White Tigerzord
  • Legacy Saba Sword

Check back with us through the day for more updates on your favorite upcoming Power Rangers products!

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First revealed waaaaay back in June, we finally have images to confirm the upcoming Legacy Power Rangers figures from the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Movie!

Seen for the first time these figures are modeled on the original Power Rangers suits from the classic 1995 MMPR film. Though the movie came out at the height of Power Rangers popularity there are actually very few toys that represent the things seen in the film. The armored up designs the rangers sported are the most criminally over looked though. But rectifying their absence from a toyline for almost 20 years Bandai of America has created this new assortment of Legacy Power Rangers! The assortment will contain 6 figures 5 of which are rangers (Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, & Pink). The 6th figure which has yet to be seen is the awesome villain of the original film, Ivan Ooze!

Defying all the odds it seems the sure bet of a White Ranger has been skipped for this assortment but will no doubt be released at a later time. In any case it appears that these figures are based on the looks the rangers had in the early part of the film before losing their powers, as indicated by the origianl power coins on their chests. They appear to include their awesome personal weapons that were created for the film in lieu of their TV show counterparts as well, though only Pink Ranger is shown with hers.

For now enjoy several press images of these exciting figures courtesy of the awesome people at Rangercrew! 

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Back at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, I contacted a good, old friend of mine from my days in the Transformers community from working for a decade at our sister site TFW2005.COM. His name is Marcelo Matere, and if you are, or were, a Transformers fan then you’ve seen his work – whether it be in comic books from both Dreamwave and IDW Publishing, to official box art work for Hasbro and their Transformers product. Knowing he has tremendous skill in drawing anything robotic in nature, I commissioned from him a Power Rangers piece – the Dragonzord fighting the original Megazord. Using nothing but pictures of toys for references, he hit the project out of the park! I wasn’t the only one who was impressed – even Bandai of America was impressed with his artwork.

In case you don’t remember the original story with the actual sketch – you can find it by clicking here.

We are incredibly pleased and proud to reveal the final version of this beautiful piece of artwork colored by comic book colorist Tom Chu, who has worked on various projects for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, and Archie Comics, as well as independent comics and official products for major toy companies. You may recognize his name from our very own Talkin Toku Podcast which he co-hosts, as well as being one of our administrators here at TokuNation.com under the name Sentai Tamashii, or even on Twitter as @SoulInkChu.

I think you will agree with us that this is one of the most impressive pieces of artwork for the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that we’ve ever seen. And we are beyond excited to share with you in future updates higher resolution versions of this image (minus our watermark) for use as wallpapers and other such things.

Please take a moment and follow these incredibly talented individuals and show their work some love. And, if you happen to want something awesome drawn for you or colored for you, please don’t be shy in asking them about their commission prices. I can personally guarantee that you won’t be disappointed in their work!!

MARCELO MATERE
– MarceloMatere.com
– Follow him @marcelomatere on Twitter!
– Follow him @marcelomatere on Instagram!
– Check out his Deviant Art page at MarceloMatere.DeviantArt.com

TOM CHU
– Follow him @SoulInkChu on Twitter
– Check out his Deviant Art page at ColorDojo.DeviantArt.com