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A promo video for Shout Factory’s upcoming Power Rangers DVD boxset has been uploaded to Youtube. The video, from Entertainment Weekly, seems to suggest that the first three seasons of the show will be getting a separate 19-disc release, but has no info about price or release dates.

Check it out below, as it gives a taster of the extra features available on the set.

The 40-disc DVD boxset encompassing Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers to Power Rangers Lost Galaxy will be released via Time Life on August 6th, priced $219.95. We’ll keep you updated on any news about the 19-disc set as it comes.

However both sets have been said to be available this weekend at San Diego Comic Con!

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The Saban library of American tokusatsu continues its slow but steady progression to DVD!

*VR Troopers Volume 1 is available on AMAZON for 13.95 and will be released October 2nd

*Big Bad Beetleborgs Volume 1 is also available for the same price, 13.95 and will be released October 16th

under Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, Super Sentai, TokuNation Spotlights

Hope everyone had a safe and tasty happy SHINdependence day! However it is/was also a Wednesday so it’s another Let’s Watch Wednesday at Tokunation!
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[*]Let’s Watch Lightspeed Rescue 21-25
[*]Let’s Watch Dairanger 21-25
[*]Let’s Watch Kamen Rider Ryuki 21-25[/list]

Let the toku fireworks begin, click any of the above threads to join the discussions!

under Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, Super Sentai, TokuNation Spotlights

Welcome to another round of “Let’s Watch Wednesdays” where we here at Tokunation select a certain range of episodes to watch and discuss them! This is a way for new fans to check out a series and for previous fans to reminisce. This week we are watching episodes 16-20 per the following series:

Let’s Watch Lightspeed Rescue 16-20
Let’s Watch Kamen Rider Ryuki Episodes 16-20
Let’s Watch DaiRanger 16-20

Seeing how the White Ranger(Kiba Ranger) was originally in DaiRanger might be a very surprising experience….

Hit up the aforementioned threads to discuss!

under Conventions, Power Rangers, San Diego Comic Con

The good folks at Shout! Factory will be attending the annual San Diego Comic Convention next month, and they will be selling the Complete Series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” on DVD exclusively at the Con.


Get this 19-DVD box set Comic-Con Exclusive version only at the Shout! Factory booth! Featuring all 145 original episodes from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Seasons One, Two and Three, plus the ten-episode series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Alien Rangers. In-depth bonus content includes retrospective featurettes, brand-new interviews with members of the cast and the creative team and much more!

In addition Shout! will be working with Saban Brands for the official kickoff of Power Rangers’ 20th Anniversary!

Read the full story here!

under Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, Super Sentai, TokuNation Spotlights

Hey Tokusatsu fans! Are you enjoying our weekly feature of “Let’s Watch Wednesdays”? We hope so, as we’re having a blast catching up on older series as we await for new information on all the new stuff coming out soon (something about a Megaforce, a Wizard, a 20th Anniversary, you know, little stuff!).

Let’s Watch Wednesdays continues with Gosei Sentai Dairanger, Kamen Rider Ryuki, and Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue!

We want to watch the next 5 episodes of each series. What’s in store for the Dairangers? How in the world can Ryuki ever hope to handle anyone as strong as Zolda? And who is the Titanium Ranger?

– Let’s Watch 11-15 Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
– Let’s Watch 11-15 Kamen Rider Ryuki
– Let’s Watch 11-15 Gosei Sentai DaiRanger

Click the links above to discuss! See you in discussion!!

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A recent interview with Kidscreens’ Magazine has shed an interesting light on the upcoming Ranger season:


The next season of the series, Power Rangers Megaforce, is set to premiere in early 2013 with the return of many historic Rangers.”

What could this mean for the new season? And who could be coming back?

http://networkedblogs.com/ySExD

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We have even more details and some new images to share with you on the upcoming Power Rangers Megaforce! Before we continue, a huge special thanks to Fury Diamond of Samurai Cast Blog and RangerCrew for all the information and pictures he’s taken. Without his effort there’d still be a lot of questions waiting to be answered.

Click the title of the story to check out some more new images of Power Rangers Megaforce!

Now on to the good stuff!!

  • Power Rangers Megaforce will span two seasons, 20 episodes and 2 holiday specials each, for a grand total of 44 episodes
  • Power Rangers Megaforce will run through 2014
  • The MMPR White Ranger in the 20th Anniversary Poster is there simply for marketing purposes, nothing more
  • Goseiger adapted because Saban is “unable” to skip a season
  • ”Gokaiger fans will be very pleased when the time is right” – Fury Diamond upon his off-the-record conversation with Saban Brands
  • Power Rangers Megaforce to have an original story compared to Tensou Sentai Goseiger … for starters, the heroes are five teenage high school students. The show will still use Sentai footage, but the story will be “completely new and original”. Megaforce will surprise fans.
  • Placeholder name for Gosei Knight is currently Robo Knight
  • Robo Knight will appear earlier in Megaforce than Goseiger
  • “Megaforce Season 2 will be crazy.” – Saban Brands
  • Megaforce will be featured this year in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

There’s a lot of information there to digest. The important thing to take away is the incorrect information from yesterday – Goseiger was NOT selected because Gokaiger is too boy-focused and features unattractive themes like plundering/looting. Regarding some of the quotations from Saban Brands regarding Megaforce and Goseiger…

…need I remind everyone at the start of Power Rangers Samurai, the cast was on record stating “we are different characters than the Japanese series, it’s a different show entirely.” It turns out, Power Rangers Samurai is a direct episode-by-episode, line-by-line translation of Shinkenger.

Time will tell what we have in store for us. If the only change to the story is five high school teenagers compared to five angels, it’s going to be a long two years. Unless of course you thoroughly enjoyed Goseiger, in which case, you must be pretty excited! (we’re talking about you Sentai).

Enjoy!

under Power Rangers, Super Sentai

This report from the ongoing licensing expo gives some unusual insight into the selection of Megaforce:


You may be wondering why Power Rangers Megaforce used Goseiger rather than Gokaiger, which was an ideal season based on the successful execution of the anniversary concepts. I wasn’t able to get a solid answer for this question. They believed that Gokaiger’s pirate theme was more focused for boys (rather than boys and girls) and the concepts of stealing and plundering were too hardcore for a young audience.

Despite a grim outlook for the Legendary Pirates, an updated report suggests more to this Sentai selection than meets the eye:

They are unable to skip a season, which makes sense because Goseiger comes before Gokaiger. Gokaiger fans will be very pleased when the time is right. Unlike the Shinkenger adaptation, Power Rangers Megaforce has gone through an extensive creative process in hopes to deliver a great product for the anniversary.
http://blog.samuraicast.com/rangercrew-interview-with-saban-brands-about-power-rangers-megaforce/

What else could this mean for future adaptations, if any??? Stay tuned as we do our best to keep you informed! :)

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It’s been a busy couple of days at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. Yesterday we learned that Power Rangers Megaforce would be an adaption of Super Sentai Goseiger, which has sparked quite a bit of contraversy around the Power Rangers fan community – speculation and expectation had a majority of people thinking that the 35th Anniversary Super Sentai Gokaiger would be adapted for the 20th Anniversary of Power Rangers. The latter series involved a form of spandex heroes who had the ability to morph in to previous Rangers to battle an evil empire intent on taking over the Earth.

The folks at RangerCrew are in attendance at the Licensing Expo and had a chance to sit down and talk with Saban Brands about a number of things. We’ve summarized them below. Check out the RangerCrew link for their write-up.


[*]Power Rangers Megaforce to span 22 episodes including holiday specials
[*]Saban and Bandai to be in attendance at Power Morphicon, including the cast of Power Rangers Super Samurai
[*]Saban planning big 20th Anniversary celebration at San Diego Comic Con, including the teaser trailer for Power Rangers Megaforce
[*]Power Rangers to begin airing 1-2 episodes every Saturday this fall on 4Kids TV, which is in the process of being purchased by Saban Brands
[*]Saban plans to interact directly with longtime Internet forum fans of Power Rangers with a number of events to be announced later
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There are more updates to come, including more information on Power Rangers Megaforce! Stay tuned!

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