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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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After a brief teaser image earlier this week, we at last have a full reveal for the next Super Imaginative Chogokin release- Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha!

The SIC series is ideal to replicate the new design styles seen in fan-favorite streaming series Kamen Rider Amazons and Alpha has been recreated in exquisite detail.

SIC Amazon Alpha is currently scheduled for release in October 2018! The price for the standard release is a very modest 8640 Yen before shipping and handling! However, a second run will be released exclusively to Amazon Japan and include a special stand, for a mere 10800 Yen.

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SDCC is only two months away, and news of our first batch of exclusives for the event are finally beginning to trickle out.

Our first offering comes from Funko Pop whom just revealed a black and gold variant of their Alpha 5 Funko Pop vinyl figurine.

The SDCC 2018 Black and Gold Alpha 5 Funko Pop vinyl will be available at the BAIT Booth #5645 and in limited quantities of about 5,000 pieces.

This year, SDCC will be taking place on July 19th 2018. Be sure to check on us and we’ll bring you all the exciting news that will come out from that event and more.

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Bandai has finally confirmed that the wait S.H.Figuarts Ultraman X  is finally over. The character was unfortunately skipped over by Bandai when the now-defunct Ultra-Act line was transitioning into Figuarts.

For now, there’s no price or release date just a snazzy info showing this completed prototype in all of its glory. Stay tuned, and we’ll bring you info once it becomes available. 

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If you’ve been wondering how the designs of Kamen Rider Amazons would look stylized under the S.I.C aesthetic, well wonder no more! 

As you may have guessed from the title: Bandai just announced they’ll be tackling hyper-stylized designs from this fan-favorite series. Although no prototype or concept art exists for Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha, his counterpart: Amazon Omega was seen done up in this style back in December, but at the moment there doesn’t seem to be any indication on if Amazon Omega will actually see a release in some capacity. News of this comes courtesy of Bandai Tamashii’s official product page for Kamen Rider Amazons. 

Stay tuned, and we’ll of course update you as more information on this exciting news entry becomes available.