A centerpiece of the Saban Brands display at this weeks’ Las Vegas Licensing Expo is the very first teaser trailer for the new series Power Rangers Beast Morphers!
Although the trailer has no sound, it does show a wide array of footage to be adapted from fan-favorite Super Sentai series Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters!
Power Rangers Beast Morphers will air on Nickeodeon in 2019! Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on this remarkable new series!
The annual Licensing Expo trade show is currently underway in Las Vegas, Nevada and Saban Brands has turned out for one last hurrah!
Centerpiece to the Saban display are the heroes of Power Rangers Beast Morphers! This setup features the Red, Blue and Yellow Beast Morpher suits along with some basic line art for the series’ Megazord (official name not yet confirmed at time of writing).
Perhaps the most interesting bit on display is artwork featuring the Beast Morphers’ supporting cast- the Beast Bots– who will assist this team of Power Rangers. Each Ranger will have their own Beast Bot partner- Red Jaguar, Blue Gorilla & Yellow Rabbit.
This should finally ease some fan concerns on adapting certain elements from Beast Morphers’ source material, Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.
Currently, Power Rangers Beast Morphers is set to air on Nickelodeon in 2019 but no further details are available just yet. Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on this remarkable new Power Rangers series!
Bandai teased that an S.H.Figuarts Ultraman X was finally coming our way. Not long after that teaser, we finally have our first look at this figure in the recent batch of magazine scans that are making the rounds online.
S.H.Figuarts Ultraman X is set to be released in October 2018 with a price tag of 7,560 yen. For those of you whom may be unfamiliar with the character: Ultraman X has the power to create weapons and armor based on monsters or past Ultramen, and it looks as though this gimmick will be well represented in the figure itself! S.H.Figuarts Ultraman X will include parts that will allow you to swap off into his Cyber Gomora armor form.
There doesn’t seem to be a P-Bandai banner on this page, so at the moment it appears that he will be a mass retail release. Only time will tell if Bandai plans on releasing the other armor forms in the future and in what capacity.
As you may recall, Bandai teased that the god of programming himself: Kuroto Dan would be getting an S.H.Figuarts release, and it seems that the time for his release is sooner than we might think.
Photos of S.H.Figuarts Kuroto Dan are now online, thanks to some data mining from @_Erasu via Twitter and it looks like there’ll be two flavors of God to choose from; a black suit version and a post-Continue version.
Both are looking to be November releases according to his Tweets each one will have their own assortment of heads but the Continue Pipe will be included in the grey-suited post-Continue version. Dan Kuroto marks the first civilian form Heisei Era Kamen Rider character to be produced and we’ll be sure to update you on how much these bad boys will cost once the pre-orders go live. A must-have for any fans of Kamen Rider Gemm or Kuroto Dan!
UPDATE:
Pre-Order links for both figures have now gone live. Shin Dan Kuroto will retail for7344 while Dan Kuroto Shin retails for 6264.
Click here for the pre-order link to S.H.Figuarts Shin Dan Kuroto
And here for S.H.Figuarts Dan Kuroto Shin
Following up Bluefin Tamashii’s other excellent exclusives for this year’s San Diego Comic Con, they are also teasing an exclusive 2-pack exclusive from Pacific Rim Uprising!
While Bluefin promises more information is coming soon, we can already see from the preview image of this set, that it features re-releases of the popular Robot Spirits Obsidian Fury & Gypsy Avenger. However this go around they appear to be repainted in far more accurate detail, calling back to the Premium Color repaints other Tamashii lines (like Dragonball) have received over the years.
We don’t have information on the pricing of this set yet, but it will most certainly be available at the Bluefin Brands booth as with their other exclusives, the SOC Black Megazord & Helmetless MMPR Figuarts.
Previously seen only on display at the Tamashii Nations Akiba Showroom, we can now confirm release information for a pair of upcoming Kamen Rider W S.H. Figuarts releases, Shinkocchou Seihou Luna/Trigger & Heat/Metal!
Both figures have now been confirmed for release thanks to multiple reports, we caught this information courtesy of Toy-People. Seihou Luna/Trigger will be released in October 2018 for 6480 yen, while Heat/Metal will be released the following month for the same price. Both of these figures will be sold as Tamashii Web Exclusives so be sure to contact your favorite middleman service to secure orders for these. We’ll update you as soon as full official images are available.
“Its Morphin Time!”
First seen at Toyfair 2018, we now have official confirmation that the previously seen S.H. Figuarts Helmetless MMRP Green & Red Rangers will be released at San Diego Comic Con 2018!
Confirmed by the Bluefin Brands Tamashii Webpage, they promise more info will is on the way. They, like the simultaneously revealed SOC Black Megazord, will be available at the Bluefin Brands Booth at SDCC 2018. We’ll confirm pricing once more info is available.
Surprise! No, this isn’t the recently teased SOC GX-81 release Tamashii Nations has been talking about on Twitter. This year’s con exclusive release is indeed a a Black repaint of the SOC GX-76 Megazord/Daizyujin
Taking a current from Transformers repaints of the same variety, rather than use the usual gold accents we see with Black Megazord & Daizyujin repaints, this one opts for teal accents. Nemesis Megazord am I right?
This release will be exclusively available at San Diego Comic Con 2018, at the Bluefin Brands booth.
After Godzilla made its triumphant return in Japan in 2016, fans have been eagerly awaiting what’s next for the King of the Monsters. Thanks to an interview with Toho executive Keiji Ota in the magazine Nikkei Style , it’s been revealed that the studio’s plans are now to create a shared Godzilla universe akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with a new film being released every 1-2 years. These plans are expected to move forwards after 2020.
However this announcement comes with some bad news for Shin Godzilla fans, as it confirms that any plans Toho may have had for a sequel are now defunct. In the interview Ota said that they are “instead of thinking of doing the obvious idea of making a Shin Godzilla 2, instead thinking about a world that can be used for a long time”.
This new release strategy bears obvious similarity to Legendary’s own “MonsterVerse” plans, which connects their own Godzilla film, Kong: Skull Island and the forthcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs King Kong movies. Of course its worth mentioning that even in Japan Godzilla is no stranger to a shared universe, with the Showa and Heisei eras showing particular continuity between its various films.
Are you excited for Toho’s future Godzilla plans? Let us know your thoughts after the jump!
Great news for fans of Bandai’s Power Rangers Legacy action figure series!
The latest wave of Legacy figures- containing Red & Blue Psycho Rangers (along with Dino Thunder White) has been released in Australia!
This wave was found by a Ranger fan named MMPRCollectorKane at an Australian Toys R Us!
While distribution for the Legacy line remains difficult to predict, this seems to suggest the Psycho Rangers will be making their way to stores across the world fairly soon!