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With the weight of declining retail sales this holiday season, reports are coming out from Bloomberg that Toys’R’Us, the only remaining national toy store, is considering closing up to 200 of its retail stores after the holiday season.

Toys’R’Us filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection in September as it was unable to pay the millions of dollars of debt that was coming due. However, due to its inability to pay toy manufacturers for the product on its shelves – specifically Hasbro and Mattel – the toy shopping season has dropped upwards of 15% compared to last year.

The exact number of potential store closings is only speculation, but the report from Bloomberg states from insiders that the company is projecting at least 100 stores and up to 200 stores total. This report comes on the heels of another report that stated Toys’R’Us won the ability in court to make sure their executives were paid $15 million dollars in bonuses for the 2017 fiscal year.

Our thoughts go out to the hard working employees who could be impacted by store closings. As to what could happen to upcoming Power Rangers Legacy items, which are exclusive to Toys’R’Us, is currently up in the air. We’ll keep you updated.

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It’s time for another Toku Toy Box prize package reveal! We recently revealed our Toku Toy Box Kamen Rider Prize Package and we’re here today to reveal the Power Rangers prize package! Special thanks to Josh, aka @KentuckyJam on Twitter, for donating one of our items to this year’s Toku Toy Box Power Rangers prize package. We have even MORE prizes to reveal, we’re just unable to do so at this time so stay tuned! Check out the video reveal below!

For details on how to enter for a chance to win any of our Toku Toy Box prize packages simply click here. Please be sure to like our video and subscribe to our YouTube channel as we have tons of cool things in store for all of 2018!

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GET IN GEAR!

The good people at Shout! Factory have opened a page revealing release details for Power Rangers RPM: The Complete Series!

This five-disc set containing all 32 episodes of the fan-favorite season is currently scheduled for release on March 27, 2018 at a very modest price point of $16.97 USD.

However, this release is slightly bittersweet- RPM is the LAST Power Rangers season covered by Shout! Factory’s current licensing agreement, so this will be the final Complete Series from Shout! to hit stores.

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“We’ll clear this with perfect co-op play!”

Toku Toy Box is bringing it back again with another new gallery from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid!  When Emu Hojo managed to create the Mighty Brothers XX Gashat no one was more surprised than him about what came next. Two riders from one person! One half cool and collected Emu, one half Genius Gamer M (or rather Parad), the Mighty Brothers were an incredible tag team that took on Kuroto Dan when no one else could. Now they take him on in toy form with the release of S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Double Action Gamer Level XX LR Set!

The Mighty Brothers are of course bringing back that excellent Ex-Aid/Mighty Action body type. We’ve seen it a few times and it’s always excellent. Each Brother is the perfect compliment to one another. The perfect foil to a Dangerous Zombie in your display, both are armed with Gashacon Key Slashers, multiple sets of hands, and a swap out part to recreate their signature pose. This set has all the charm, charisma, and slick colors to make the perfect addition to your collection!

We’ve attached the full 80 image gallery to this post but you can also check out our extensive review of the Mighty Brothers below by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post. We’ll be back next time with another new Ex-Aid gallery!

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Another reveal today from Kamen Rider Build – this time the S.H. Figuarts Machine Builder bike! For those not in the know, the Machine Builder is the bike for Kamen Rider Build. No release details as of yet but it would appear to be another Premium Bandai purchase. Stay tuned for more release details.

Thanks to @_Erasu on Twitter for the find.

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Thanks to @_Erasu on Twitter we have our first look at S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Cross-Z! The secondary rider from Kamen Rider Build looks absolutely gorgeous in these first look images. No release information available as of this moment but we will update as soon as there is.

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Proving once again why he’s become a character with incredible longevity and popularity among fans, Ultraman Belial returns to the collector market with his first new Tamashii Nations figure in over 6 years! Recently revealed at the Tamashii Nations 2017 event and now properly confirmed for release is S.H. Figuarts Ultraman Belial Atrocious! 

The last time we saw Belial it was in his Kaiser Belial form, in a toyline that no longer exists, Ultra-Act! Earlier this year we even took a look back at the original Ultra-Act Ultraman Belial. In the interim Ultra characters have officially been folded into S.H. Figuarts with several releases being the 2nd or 3rd outings for characters that already had Ultra-Acts. This time rather than re-doing Belial straight off the bat, Bandai have opted to give us his fantastic new form from Ultraman Geed with Atrocious. Could this signal new Belial & Kaiser Belial figures in the near future? Let’s hope so!

Belial Atrocious will be released as a Tamashii Web Exclusive in June 2018 for 6480 yen. Be sure to get in touch with you preferred middleman or web exclusive service to secure an order for this figure.

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Premium Bandai has uploaded a special preview video for the recently-revealed Complete Selection Modification Kamen Rider OOO Driver demonstrating all the sounds and features in this amazing new release.

But recreating the series’ Combos is just not enough! This CSM release contains 5 brand-new Kamen Rider OOO Combos based on unreleased Medals!

The new forms in question are:

*BiKaSo– made from the Shrimp, Crab & Scorpion Medals
*ShiKazeShi– a Combo of Deer, Gazelle & Cow Medals
*MuKaChiri– combining the Centipede, Bee & Ant Medals
*SeiShiRogin– a fusion of Walrus, Polar Bear & Penguin Medals
*SaRamiUo– created by the Shark, Whale & WolfFish Medals

This is an amazing deal for Kamen Rider OOO fans!

Currently the release of the Complete Selection Modification Kamen Rider OOO Driver is scheduled for June 2018! The price is a steep 37,800 Yen before shipping and handling. If you are interested, be sure to contact your preferred Premium Bandai retailer!

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Count the medals, 1,  2 and 3!

As you may recall, Bandai teased the release of a Complete Selection Modification OOO Driver just a few days ago. Ahead of the pre-orders going live, we have our first look at this piece thanks to some data mining from @_Erasu.

And when they call it a Complete Medal selection, they really do mean it: not only are they making all 9 Core Medals needed for OOO’s main Combos, along with a broken Taka medal, in addition to a faceplate for Kamen Rider Posiden(From Movie War Megamax), his Medals, and every Medal that was used over the course of OOO’s movie and Hyper Battle Video appearances.

At the moment, we don’t know when this bad boy will be released or for how much but stay tuned, and we’ll bring more info once the pre orders for this highly anticpated item goes live.

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Get ready for some army building goodness, Kamen Rider Build So Do’s next entry was just previewed with 3D renders of the Guardian robot foot soldiers that have been making the rounds.

For now, there’s no indication on how this figure will be released but we’ll bring you more info as it becomes available.