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“Fang! Joker!”

The incident known as Begins Night heralded the birth of Kamen Rider W’s first and most ferocious form. One so powerful that, for a time, Phillip & Shotaro purposefully avoided using it or they’d risk losing control entirely. Eventually mastered, this form was a force to be reckoned. And now, after nearly a decade stuck with the original figuarts release, Bandai has recreated this powerhouse form in S.H. Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider W Fang Joker! 

Fang Joker is yet another excellent release for the Kamen Rider W line. Another reuse of the excellent Seihou body type first introduced with W Cyclone Joker, Fang Joker is also another brilliant addition to your collection. Adding a little more ferocity to the base W body, Fang Joker also includes a plethora of hands as well as all 3 versions of the Saber he’s equipped with (Arm, Shoulder, & Maximum). If you’ve had any experience with Seihou releases for this series already, you know you’re in for a treat with this one.

We’ve attached the full 60 image gallery to this post, but you can also read our full review of S.H. Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider W Fang Joker! by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post. We’ll see you again soon with another brand new gallery!

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Aniki Cosplay, renowned for their incredible work creating various Power Rangers prop replicas through out the years, has just announced an official licensing deal with Saban Brands! You can check out Aniki’s Instagram post detailing the deal here. Official announcement:

We are pleased to announce that Aniki Cosplay (Aniki Kreasi Imaji Inc.) has signed a Licensing agreement with Saban Brands.
With this agreement, all of our POWER RANGERS Cosplay such as Helmets and Costumes are officially licensed.

With a 13 years experiences in making Power Rangers related Cosplays and Replica, we are committed to raise our service and qualities. Now that we have this agreement, we are expanding our production capabilities and staff in order to serve you better.
And as you might already know, all of our products are HANDMADE 100% and MADE TO ORDER only. Stay tuned for future updates with more exciting news (Stuntcast Green helmet, anyone? LOL)

Thanks for all your support Cosplayers, Collectors, Rangers Actors/Actress and many more. It’s because of your support that finally we can reach this phase. We are nothing without your support.

Here at TokuNation we were actually made aware of this licensing agreement in February, but out of respect for Aniki Cosplay chose not to report the news without first consulting Saban Brands. Having reached out to Saban Brands several times we were told that they would be back in touch with us. However, despite several follow ups on our end, there was never any further communication from Saban. But now we have the announcement straight from Aniki, so we’re happy to share the news with the fandom! Congratulations to Aniki Cosplay!

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Boom! Studios has just revealed a brand new Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers #25 Variant that will be available exclusively at Denver Comic-Con!

This exclusive variant cover features Lord Drakkon in his Evolution 1 form. A new form he achieved after having obtained a Samuraizer, and having absorbed the energy of the Power Rangers Samurai within. As Lord Drakkon continues to grow in power and absorb more pieces of the Morphin’ Grid, could we see his further evolution’s on future variant covers? We certainly hope so!

Denver Comic-Con will be held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, June 15th-17th. This exclusive MMPR #25 variant will be available there, at the Boom! Studios booth.

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With every twist and turn, Kamen Rider Build continues to earn it’s place as one of the great series the Kamen Rider franchise has produced. One of the most interesting things about the series has become it’s main antagonist, Evolt. Now, Kamen Rider Evol. As he continues to possess other people and gain new forms, episode 36 finally gave us a glimpse in silhouette of what is to be his ultimate evolution.

Today, we finally have our first look at the physical suit for this final form, Kamen Rider Evol Black Hole! This form has been previously glimpsed only in toy catalog scans back in February These new images come courtesy of @TokuParadox on twitter. Primarily a reuse of the his standard Evol Cobra Form, Black Hole swaps the torso’s primary colors for black & white and features the addition of the Evol Trigger to the Evol Driver. How soon could we see this ultimate evil realized? Likely just in time for Sento to finally gain his Genius form to stop him!

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The newest event on Tamahii Nations toy show circuit, Tamashii Comic-Con, is currently happening this weekend. While the show seems primarily geared towards some more mainstream non-toku properties like Stars Wars, Marvel, DC, and even the newly announced Harry Potter license, there are going to be a handful of new and upcoming releases relevant to us as well.

First up, Bandai Tamashii Nations has on display the 2nd release in their Pacific Rim Soul of Chogokin line, Crimson Typhoon! You may recall, we saw this figure first back at Toy Fair 2018. This is our first solid look at it since then, and it looks absolutely incredible. These new images come courtesy of Amiami Hobby News, and while the placard seen in them doesn’t confirm any release information, we can only assume that such info will drop in the near future.

We’ll keep you up to date with any other new reveals or upcoming releases that are at Tamashii Comic-Con through out the weekend.

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With images released at the same time as Gamera (1999), we also have our first set of official images for S.I.C. Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha from the Tamashii Pickup webpage!

Revealed for the first time last week, S.I.C. Amazon Alpha joins the long legacy of the S.I.C. toyline and even calls back to the original basis for the Amazon Alpha design. Originally based on a S.I.C. figure itself, the Pre-Amazon S.I.C. Hero Saga figure, this new figure captures the wild spirit and ferocity of Takeyama Jin.

S.I.C. Amazon Alpha will be released in October 2018, as a retail release, for 8640 yen.

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It’s that time of month again, for a release of Tamashii Picup images for upcoming products from Tamashii Nations! This week sees the release of preview images for two very different monsters.

S.H. Monsterarts Gamera (1999), as we reported on yesterday, is based on the creatures’ appearance in the third film of the Heisei trilogy, Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris. The biggest draw of this release of course being the new translucent orange arm from the climax of the film. Gamera (1999) will be released in October 2018, as a retail release, for 10,800 yen. 

 

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TRIGGER, FULL BURST!

As you may recall, we’ve previously reported that a Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider W Luna/Trigger and Heat/Metal figure will be coming our way, Bandai Tamashii has finally launched the pre-order page for the one of the aforementioned figures and as such we now have official images to go along with it. 

Along with his signature Trigger Magnum weapon, the Bat Shot and Spider Shock memory gadgets will be included with his accessory count, along with the usual array of alternate hand options.

S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider W Luna/Trigger will be released in October as a Tamashii Web exclusive release, he’ll retail for 6,480 yen before middleman fees and shipping.

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Although the S.H. MonsterArts line has remained a strictly Godzilla-affair for sometime now, it looks like everyone’s favourite child-friendly turtle will be joining the line once again with the announcement of S.H. MonsterArts Gamera [1999]!

Based on the monster’s appearance from the third film in the Heisei Gamera trilogy, Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris, Gamera [1999] is a remould of the original MonsterArts Gamera figure featuring a new spiked shell to match the movie suit. The magazine images confirm that the alternate flight parts from the previous release will be carried over, together with a brand new alternate translucent orange right arm – recreating the final scenes of the movie where Gamera defeats Iris with a fiery plasma fist.

S.H. MonsterArts Gamera [1999] will be a mass release item released in October 2018 for the price of 10800 yen. Be sure to check out the full-sized image and let us know your thoughts after the jump!

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“X, united!”

Seen only yesterday for the first time, Tamashii Nations has today released a full set of official images for S.H. Figuarts Ultraman X!

X has been a long demanded figure by fans, and it looks like Tamashii is pulling out all the stops to please them. A strikingly good likeness to the show suit, Ultraman X goes the extra mile by including actual usable Cyber Gomora Armor! This marks to return of full form changing gimmicks to the S.H. FIguarts line after a long hiatus and is indeed welcome to see.

S.H. Figuarts Ultraman X will be a retail release in October 2018 and retails for 7560 yen.